..续本文上一页eremonial hall or temple; and you get merit for this or that many eons. And you”ve probably heard that one-hundred years on earth equals one year in heaven. The angels throw one sesame seed in a pit that is one-hundred leagues wide and one-hundred leagues deep. When it is full, that”s one eon!
也许你们有些人曾听过或被教导：要你们去作功德。比如说，盖一间法堂或寺庙，你们可以因此而得到无量劫的功德。或许你也听过：地球一百年等于天上一年，以及一位天神每天丢一粒芝麻到一个将近五百公里宽和五百里深的坑洞里，当洞被填满的时候，就是一劫的时间！
Other than that, you”ve probably heard that to once put food into a monks bowl, you get rewarded
for six eons, sending a container with food to offer to monks, one gets rewarded for five eons, to send food for the midday meal, five eons. These things are puzzles, but some people don”t understand. If you want to understand, you have to practice, to develop awareness, by turning the hand up and down, feeling it.
除了那些之外，你们可能也听说：只要在出家人的钵里供养食物，你就能得到六大劫不思议的福报；而用东西装好食物供养僧侣，则能得到五大劫的果报；或者供养午斋的食物有五大劫福报；这些都是让人陷入迷惑的说法，但是有些人不了解而深信不疑。如果你想要了解真相，就必须练习培养觉知，手掌像这样翻上或翻下，并觉知它。
Before, we would do things without Sati, not feeling anything at all. Comparable to an abyss or pit that is empty, nothing in it, just like in that puzzle. But when training in awareness, catching the movement in all postures – for example, blinking the eyes, sitting and lying down – we are aware, feeling it, knowing it. When doing this, Sati increases, just like the sesame seeds that fall in the pit or abyss that is one-hundred leagues wide and one-hundred leagues deep. The aim of this comparison is that we train a lot in awareness that we do it a lot in order to get results, to make Sati full, so that we are not negligent or deluded.
以前，我们常常会在做事时没有正念，一点都没有觉知，这就像前述惑乱人心的说法里，那个空无一物的深渊或坑洞。但是当我们开始练习培养觉知，把捉住任何姿势的动作，比如眨眼、坐下和躺卧—我们都觉知它、感觉它、知道它。这样练习，正念就会增加，这就像丢入那个长宽深各五百公里的坑洞里的芝麻粒一样。这个比喻是说，只要我们努力精进地练习培养觉知，让正念达到圆满，那么我们就不会再失念或迷惑了。
When we have developed the four foundations of awareness, as described earlier, we will have the ability to really contemplate, ponder and understand the various problems in our minds.
当我们修学了前面说过的四种培养觉知的念处之后，我们就会有能力真正去观照、思惟并了解心中的各种问题了。
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Developing Awareness In The Right Way Will Yield Results Within Three Years. It says in the scriptures that whoever develops the four SATIPATTHANA in the right way and as continuous as links in a chain, will receive one of the following two results: at most, within seven years, medium within months or as fast as one-to-fifteen days to become one; an Arahant or two; an Anagami (i.e. one who is nearly fully
enlightened) in this very life.
正确培养觉性，三年便能证果。经典上说：任何正确修学四种念住并达到正念持续如炼的人，他这一生中只需最多七年、中等的七个月之内或最快一至十五天之内，便会得下列两种成果之一：1. 成为阿罗汉；2. 成为阿那含Anagami(接近完全觉悟者)。
As for the way of developing awareness that I”m talking about, if you really do it, knowledge and understanding will arise, and suffering will diminish, at most within three years, medium within one year, or as fast as one-to-ninety days. We will know, see and understand, and our life from then onwards will have happiness and no suffering. To practice like this, we don”t have to spend money; we can do it an hour a day, or 5 minutes. Even hearing about it often makes the defilements gradually diminish.
至于我所介绍培养觉性的方式，假若你真地去修它，便能生起智慧与理解，而苦会减少。至多三年内、中等的一年内或最快一至九十天，就会知道、看到与了解。而且从此，我们的生命就能快乐而无苦。像这样的练习，不需要花钱，可以一天练习个一小时或五分钟。甚至听闻这方面的教导，也能使我们的烦恼逐渐减少。
Greed, hatred and delusion are evil; they are suffering. To get angry once is evil and is suffering one time. Evil and darkness are the same. Darkness means not seeing, not knowing, not understanding. Merit and knowledge are the same. When we understand, we are at ease, we don”t have suffering and we don”t doubt. If the mind is dark, there is suffering and doubt. For example, doubt that we”re going to be reborn like this and like that after death. But some people, including myself, who have made …
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