..续本文上一页realization of Nirvāna.
这个念念不离呼吸的修习法，是最简单、最容易的一种。其目的在发展注意力，以达到非常高的禅定境界。此外，集中注意力(定力)，对于任何深刻的了解、深透的内观，以洞察万物的本性包括体证涅槃，都是不可或缺的。
Apart from all this, this exercise on breathing gives you immediate results. It is good for your physical health, for relaxation, sound sleep, and for efficiency in your daily work. It makes you calm and tranquil. Even at moments when you are nervous or excited, if you practice this for a couple of minutes, you will see for yourself that you become immediately quiet and at peace. You feel as if you have awakened after a good rest.
除了这些，呼吸的练习更有立竿见影的效验。它对你健康上大有裨益；能增进你的安眠，松弛紧张的身心，增进日常工作的效率。它能使你宁静安详。即令在你精神紧张或兴奋的时候，如果练习几分钟的数息，你就会马上觉得安静平定了下来，好像在一段休息之后刚刚觉醒一般。
Another very important, practical, and useful form of ”meditation” (mental development) is to be aware and mindful of whatever you do, physically or verbally, during the daily routine of work in your life, private, public or professional. Whether you walk, stand, sit, lie down, or sleep, whether you stretch or bend your limbs, whether you look around, whether you put on your clothes, whether you talk or keep silence, whether you eat or drink, even whether you answer the calls of nature- in these and other activities, you should be fully aware and mindful of the act you perform at the moment. That is to say, that you should live in the present moment, in the present action. This does not mean that you should not think of the past or the future at all. On the contrary, you think of them in relation to the present moment, the present action, when and where it is relevant.
另一种非常重要、实用而有益的修习方法(心智的发展)是：不论在做什么事情的时候，动手也好，日常起居也好，从事公私工作也好，要时刻念兹在兹了了分明于你的每一举动。你或卧或立或坐或行，或安眠，或曲臂伸腿，回顾前瞻，穿衣吃饭，言谈静默，大小便利，凡此一切以及其他种种活动，你必须时时刻刻了了分明于你所作的每一动作。也就是说，你必须生活在当前的瞬间中、现在的行为中。这并不是说你不应想到过去未来。相反的，你在与眼前的时刻行为有关的方面，一样可以想到过去未来。
People do not generally live in their actions, in the present moment. They live in the past or in the future. Though they seem to be doing something now, here, they live somewhere else in their thoughts, in their imaginary problems and worries, usually in the memories of the past or in desires and speculations about the future. Therefore they do not live in, nor do they enjoy, what they do at the moment. So they are unhappy and disconnected with the present moment, with the work at hand, and naturally they cannot give themselves fully to what they appear to be doing.
一般的人，并不生活在他们眼前的生活中，他们都生活在过去或未来里。虽然看外表他们似乎是在此时此地做著些什么，实际上，他们是生活在他们思想中的另一世界里，生活在虚构的问题与苦闷里。通常他们是活在过去的记忆中，或对未来的欲望与悬揣之中。因此，他们并不生活在他们目前在做的工作里，也不乐于这工作。所以，他们就对现况不满、不开心，而自然而然的不能对当前像是在做的工作，献出全部的身心了。
Sometimes you see a man in a restaurant reading while eating a very common sight. He gives you the impression of being a very busy man, with no time even for eating. You wonder whether he eats or reads. One may say that he does both. In fact, he does neither, he enjoys neither. He is strained, and disturbed in mind, and he does not enjoy what he does at the moment, does not live his life in the present moment, but unconsciously and foolishly tries to escape from life. (This does not mean, however, that one should not talk with a friend while having lunch or dinner.)
有时你在餐馆里，看见有人一边吃饭一边阅读，这是一种很常见的事。他给你的印象是一个大忙人，连吃东西都没有时间。你不知道他到底是在吃东西，还是在阅读。你也许可以说他正两事一起做，而实际上，他那样也没做，也那样都做得没味道。他的心神不宁而紧张，不乐意做目前正在做的事，不生活在眼前的瞬间，却不知不觉地、愚蠢地想要逃避人生。(这意思却不是说在吃饭的时候不可以和朋友谈天)。
You cannot escape life however you may try. As long as you live, whether in a town or in a cave, you have to face it and live it. Real life is the present moment-not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives in the real life, and he is happiest.
不论你想什么办法，你都无法逃避人生。只要你活著，不管是在村镇里，还是在岩窟里，你必须面对人生而生活。真正的生活，是眼前的瞬间，不是已经死掉而消逝了的过去回忆，也不是尚未出生的未来梦想。一个生活在眼前的瞬间中的人，所过的才是真正的人生，而他也是最快乐的人。
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