(１１)接下来，我们要思考的问题是：
“佛陀教我们应该相信谁？”
11) Now the next thing we shall examine is this:
11) “Whom did the Buddha teach that we should believe
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假如有人问你这个问题，那么你可在以噶拉玛经(Kalama Sutta)里找到佛陀所说的答案——要相信亲自所“看清楚”的是什么[译注一]。现在我们有必要了解“看清楚”的意义，“看清楚”意思是不需推论、不需思索、不需假设，如同我们将眼前的物体看清楚一样，只要这样做，就有效果了，这就是“看清楚”的定义，它不需要依靠任何理由或想像。
IF YOU ARE asked this, then answer with the Buddha”s advice from the Kālāma Sutta. We are to believe what we clearly see for ourselves to be the case. Now it is necessary to understand what is meant by the expression “seeing clearly”. It means seeing clearly without needing to use reasoning, without needing to speculate, without needing to make assumptions. We should see, as clearly as we see in the case of a present physical object, that, taking this and doing this, this effect is produced. This is the meaning of “seeing clearly”. There is no need to rely on reasoning or supposition.
佛教教导我们除非已亲自“看清楚”，否则不要相信任何人、任何事。
In Buddhism, we are taught not to believe anyone, not to believe anything, without having seen clearly for ourselves that the truth in question is so.
我们可以由下面的问题知道这个定义，为什么不要相信三藏经典(Tipitaka)、不要相信导师、不要相信研究报告或传说、不要相信常识、不要相信逻辑推理？这是帮助我们建立正见的原则，因为所有盲目的相信是迷信，例如我们翻开三藏经典，阅读了几页，没有经过思考，没有经过试验，没有经过任何评论，便相信它，那就是对三藏经典的迷信，这是佛陀所喝止的。
“相信导师”是指盲目地相信导师的每一句话，而没有经过思考、试验，亲自去“看清楚”，这就是所谓的“相信导师”。
We can see what is meant here from the following questions. Why are we warned not to believe the Tipi.aka (the Buddhist Canon)
not to believe a teacher
not to believe what is reported or rumoured
not to believe what has been reasoned out
not to believe what has been arrived at by means of logic
The principles are a help towards right understanding, because all blind credulity is foolishness.
Suppose we were to open the Tipi.aka and read some passage and then believe it without thinking, without testing it, without any critical examination. This would be foolish belief in the Tipi.aka, which the Buddha condemned. Believing what a teacher says without having used our eyes and ears, without criticizing, and without having seen for ourselves that what he says is really so, this is what is meant here by “believing a teacher”.
以此类推，“相信逻辑推理”是指学习使用前提，或熟练地运用前提作正确的推理，并且从这前提推论出结论。但这还是不够的，也不可倚赖这类的推论。
请听清楚这一点：以上的说法不是禁止我们去阅读三藏经典，去向导师求教，去听研究报告和传说，或去运用逻辑的推理。它的意思是：虽然我们会阅读、会听，但不要轻易接受以这些方式所提供的一切讯息，除非我们已深入地探讨、思惟它，而有所领悟，直到亲自“看清楚”它真的是如此为止。
It is the same with believing any report or rumour that happens to arise. “Believing in what has been arrived at by way of logic” means that, having learn how to reason correctly and being experienced in reasoning we come to the conclusion that a certain proposition must be logically so. But this is still not good enough; we are not to put our trust in this sort of reasoning.
But here we must be careful and take good note that this discourse does not forbid us to read the Tipi.aka. Nor does it forbid us to consult a teacher, to listen to reports and rumours, or to use logical reasoning. Rather it means that although we may have read, listened, and heard, we should not simply accept what is offered in these ways unless we have first thought it over, considered it carefully, fathomed it out, examined fully, and seen clearly for ourselves that it really is so.
举例来说，佛陀教导贪、瞋、痴是引起痛苦的原因，假如我们自己不熟悉贪、瞋、痴，就不能相信这个说法，如果我们相信，那就是迷信。但是当我们亲自体验贪、瞋、痴是怎么一回事——当它在心中生起，我们就会像被火烧灼一样痛苦，这就是所谓亲自“看清楚”的“相信”。
For instance, the Buddha taught that greed, anger, and delusion are the causes that give rise to suffering. If we ourselves are not yet acquainted with greed, anger, and delusion, then there is no way that we can believe this, there is no need to believe it, and to believe it would, in such a case, be foolish. But when we know ourselves what greed is like, what anger is like, and what delusion is like; and that whenever they arise in th…
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