..续本文上一页at our minds. Watching the mind is turning on the light by using the switch. When we do this often, awareness will become nimble and quick; awareness will intercept greed, hatred and delusion and prevent it from arising. Awareness and concentration are together. As for wisdom, it means knowing and seeing clearly. In Pali, it says NATTHI PANYA SAMA ABHA, meaning there is nothing as bright as wisdom. And SATI
TESAM NIVARANAM, meaning awareness is that which prevents the stream of defilements. There isn”t anything that is fast enough to hold back this stream, other than Sati. It is this awareness and wisdom that come and contact, know, see and stop it, not letting us become deluded. This is because Sati-Samadhi-Panya is opposite to Lobha-Dosa-Moha. If we don”t see, know and understand, there is full greed, hatred and delusion. It is comparable to nighttime, when it”s dark. As soon as we light a candle there is light and the darkness disappears, because darkness is afraid of light; as soon as the candle
goes out, the darkness immediately comes back.
如果你不了解天堂，你就不能去到那里，举例来说，房子里有电，我们都希望能有灯光，可是，我们却只是抓着灯泡，这样灯是不会亮的。当我们明白必须打开开关，灯才会亮，然后我们去打开开关，灯泡就发出光亮了。对治贪瞋痴的方法也类似这个道理，我们不必搞清楚贪瞋痴在哪里，只需要回来看我们的心，贪瞋痴自自然然就会灭除。
佛陀由于对治清净了自己的心，而宣称他觉悟了，所以我们也必须看自己的心，观心就是打开开关－真正开灯的方法。如果我们经常这么做，觉知就会变得敏锐快捷，可以截断贪瞋痴，不再让它生起。但是，觉知和禅定是一体的，至于智慧，意思是清楚地知道和见到。在巴利文里说：「NATTHI PANYA SAMA ABHA。」意思就是说，没有任何东西像智慧一样光明。又说：「SATI TESAM NIVARANAM。」意思是，觉知可以防杜烦恼之流，除了正念，没有任何东西的速度，快到能够阻断这股泛流。只有这觉知和智慧才能跟随它、赶上它，并且知道、看到和阻断它，而不让我们陷入迷惑。这是因为觉－定－慧(Sati-Samadhi-Panya)是贪瞋痴的反面。如果我们没有觉知，没有看到、知道和了解，就会充满了贪瞋痴，就好比夜晚，充满黑暗；明暗是相对的，只要我们点燃蜡烛，有了灯光，黑暗就消失了，黑暗害怕光明；一旦蜡烛熄灭，黑暗又立即回来了。
C. Peace As Result 寂静为果
That I”m giving some reflections and explaining this shortcut-method of practice is in order for you all to take it and practice with it, so that you get quick results and don”t have to waste time. This method can
be used in daily life; there is no need to stop working in order to practice. Some people have practiced a bit already, and some people have only just heard it. Some people who have never heard it might feel displeased. If that”s how you feel, then discard that feeling first, the knowledge that you have learned
before. put it down for now and test out what I”m saying; try it out and you will know what the results that arise are like. I dare to guarantee that this method is at least eighty percent right according to what the Buddha teaches. According to just my own personal feeling, it is one-hundred percent right, because having practiced it, I know that it alleviates greed, hatred and delusion. When those things diminish, peace arises instead.
我之所以要给大家一些观念及解释这个快捷方式的修法，是希望你们能接受它并依之修学，让你们快速得到成果而不浪费时间。这个方法可用于日常生活中，没有必要为了修学而停止工作。有些人已经修学过一点，有些人可能才刚听说而已，而也有些人可能从来没听说过，而且感觉不喜欢，如果你是这样的感觉，那么请你先放下那种感觉，以及你以前学到的知识，请现在就放下，然后试试我说的方法，去体验看看，你会明白结果是怎么回事。我敢保证，这方法至少有八成是直接传承于佛陀的教导。就我个人的感觉来说，这是百分之百正确的方法，因为我已经练习过了，我知道它可以减少贪瞋痴。当这些东西消灭了，反之，寂静安祥就会生起。
D. Full Awareness As Result 圆觉为果
I”d like to give another example: Take a glass. We can see that there is air in the glass. When we pour water into it, the air goes out and the water is in it instead. Then, when we pour the water out, the air
goes back in and replaces the water. This compares with our turning up the hand, we know, we have awareness, Sati comes to replace not-knowing, delusion. Not-knowing goes out of our minds. Do it often. Catch the feeling often, in all postures. Sati will increase; and delusion, not-knowing will decrease just as
the water replaces air in the glass.
我再举个例子：就以杯子为例吧！我们可以见到杯子里有空气，当我们把水倒下去，空气会跑出来，而水会进到里头去。当我们把水倒出来，空气就会回到里头而取代了水。这就好比我们在翻掌时，如果我们知道、有觉知，那么正念就会取代不知与妄念，不知会被赶出我们的心。你们要经常这样练习，在任何姿势中，随时抓住那个感觉(即觉知动作)，这样你的正念就会增长，而不知与妄念就会减少，就像杯子里的水取代了空气一样。
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