..续本文上一页e mind, they produce suffering as if they were fires burning us; then we can believe on the basis of our own experience.

　　在三藏经典中，不论佛陀教导什么，当读到或听到时，我们必须要研究、思考，直到“看清楚”为止。

　　So what the Buddha taught in this connection appears in the Tipi.aka as follows. Having read or having heard something, we must investigate until we have seen clearly the fact being taught.

　　假如我们还没有“看清楚”，就势必会重新回到推论，如果这样，则不妨暂时放下，先相信和践行已“看清楚”的部份，那就足够了。不必害怕，逐渐地，我们就会愈来愈相信，且愈看愈清楚，这是佛陀所说非常盛行的噶拉玛经教法。

　　If still we don”t see it clearly, we must fall back on reasoning and then leave it for a while. So to start with, we shall believe and practise no more than we have seen clearly to be the case. Then gradually, we shall come to believe and see more and more clearly. This is a very popular teaching of the Buddha.

　　如果你需要对外国人演讲，请务必正确地解释“不要相信”这句话，假如你解释错误，就是冒犯了佛陀。不可相信三藏经典，不可相信他是导师，不可相信研究报告或传说，不可相信逻辑，隐藏其中的深义，我们必须去发现它。

　　If someone from another country asks you about it, do explain it properly. If you explain it wrongly, you may misrepresent the Buddha”s teaching. Not believing the Tipi.aka, not believing the teacher, not believing reports and rumours, not believing reasoning by way of logic — these have a hidden meaning. We must search for it.

　　立即相信就是迷信，佛陀曾如此坚定而明确地喝止，甚至纵使是如来所说的也不要相信，必须经过思考、试验，直到“看清楚”时，我们才可相信。立即相信就是迷信，“看清楚”后再相信才是正信，这是佛教徒的“相信”。不要愚蠢地相信人、经典、推测或推论，而是要相信亲自所“看清楚”的是什么，这就是佛教所说的正信，身为佛教徒的我们也要这样相信。

　　To believe straight away is foolishness. The Buddha condemned this firmly and definitely. He told us not to believe until we have put it to the test and have come to see it clearly. Then we may believe.To believe straight away is foolishness; to believe after having seen clearly is good sense.

　　That is the Buddhist policy on belief: not to believe stupidly, not relying only on people, text-books, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism. We Buddhists make it our policy.

　　[译注一]在噶拉玛经(Kalama Sutta)里佛陀说：“不可因为口口相传就信以为真；不可因为奉行传统就信以为真；不可因为轰动一时，流传广远就信以为真；不可因为引经据典就信以为真；不可因为合乎逻辑就信以为真；不可因为符合先入为主的观念就信以为真；不可因为说者的威信就信以为真；不可因为他是导师就信以为真。”

《佛陀教我们应该相信谁？Whom did the Buddha teach that we should believe

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