..续本文上一页学习过内观课程之后，每天要花费多少时间在禅修上呢？

　　Q: After learning Vipassana, how much time daily should we spend on meditation

　　答： 终究它会变成你全天的工作，你能够在每一个时刻都清楚地觉知。但刚开 始的时候，如果你在每天早晚各修习一个小时，对你是有帮助的。这是对心的训練，就如同你每天做身体的运动，使身体健康强壮一样；所以，你每天要做这个心的运动，让你的心保持健康又强壮。

　　A: Ultimately it will become a full-time job, and you will be aware every moment. But initially, if you practise for one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening, it will help you. It is a mental exercise. Just as you do physical exercise every day to keep your body healthy and strong, so you do this mental exercise every day to keep your mind healthy and strong.

　　问： 为什么这个世界的道德风气会一天天地败坏呢？

　　Q: What about corruption, which is increasing day by day

　　答： 人们己经忘了自然的法则。如果这些人开始观察在他们自身之内的实相， 那么他们就不可能过着糜爛败坏的生活。

　　A: People have forgotten the law of nature. If these very people start observing the truth within themselves, it will become impossible for them to live a corrupt life.

　　问： 我们可以结合兩种或多种的技巧來修行吗？

　　Q: Can we combine two or more techniques

　　答： 你可以依你喜欢，将许多不同的技巧结合起來修行，但是不要将其它方法 和内观混杂來修持。内观是一种独特的方法，如果你又加上其它的技巧，这对你 是没有什么帮助的，甚至可能会伤害到你。保持内观修法的纯净。其它的技巧有 可能只是停留在心的表层；而内观是一种深层的开刀手术，它是从内心的深层去 根除不净烦恼。假使你将内观混合了其它技巧，你是在玩游戏并且可能会对你造 成非常大的伤害。

　　A: You can combine as many techniques as you like, but don”t combine them with Vipassana. Vipassana is a unique technique and combining it with anything else will not help you. It may even harm you. Keep Vipassana pure. Other techniques only give a veneer to the surface of the mind. But Vipassana makes a deep surgical operation; it takes out complexes from the depth of the mind. If you combine it with another technique, you are playing a game which may be very harmful to you.

　　问： 经由修习内观是否能够引发拙火(kun　　Q: Can kuṇdalinī be awakened by the practice of Vipassana

　　答： 什么是拙火(kun　　A: What is kuṇḍalinī

　　 Kuṇḍalinī is the activation of nerve centres on the spinal chord. By the practice of Vipassana, every atom of the body gets activated. Kuṇḍalinī is just a small part of that. Practise Vipassana and you will easily understand the difference between the two.

　　问： 是否有可能经由书籍的指导來修持内观？

　　Q: Is it possible to practise Vipassana by taking guidance from a book

　　答： 不！绝对不要这么做，这太危险了。

　　A: No, never do that. That will be dangerous.

　　问： 可否參与政治，以便在印度建立正法，解决目前的问题。

　　Q: Kindly enter politics to establish Dharma in India and solve the present problems.

　　答： 我从报纸上看到一个說法：正法应远離政治。我是全然反对这个观点的； 政治必须充满正法。但问题是这个国家已经将法视为派别意識；其实，政治是要 超越派别意識而不是要脱離正法。如果政治合乎正法，这是最好的；整个国家将会变得纯净、快樂、和平。

　　A: I have read in the newspapers that politics should be kept away from Dharma. I am totally against this view. Politics must be full of Dharma. The trouble is that the country has taken Dharma to mean sectarianism. Politics must be free from sectarianism, not from Dharma. If there is Dharma in politics, it will be wonderful. The whole country will become so pure, so happy, so peaceful.

　　问： 我们如何能像悉达多．乔达摩一样成为觉悟的人呢？

　　Q: How can we become enlightened as Siddhārtha Gotama did

　　答： 每个人都能觉悟，觉悟并非是悉达多．乔达摩所独有的。他曾经說过：「在我之前，有许多人觉悟，而在我之后也会有许多人觉悟。」任何人在经验的层面 上，从无明当中解脱出來的，他就是一位觉悟者。任何一个人都可以修行，并且达到觉悟。

　　A: Everyone can become enlightened. Enlightenment is not the monopoly of Siddhārtha Gotama. He said: "Before me, so many people became enlightened, and after me also so many are going to become enlightened." Anyone who comes out of ignorance at the experiential level is an enlightened person. Any human being can practise this and become enlightened.

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