..续本文上一页leasant sensations. And when I get very unpleasant sensations, I again react with anger. And when I react with anger, again a very unpleasant flow starts. This very unpleasant flow happens, and again I react with anger. A vicious circle has started. For hours on end, I keep rolling in anger. At the apparent level, it appears that I am generating anger because someone has abused me. But this is just the apparent truth. The actual truth is that a biochemical reaction has started within myself, and I am reacting to that biochemical flow.
这些在我们国家已经觉悟的圣者，发现了脱離这个惡性循环的方法。我们如何从中解脱呢？就只是去观察这个已经开始的生化作用，观察这个已经开始的感受。每当我们生起了愤怒、激情、恐惧–––生起了任何一 种不净烦恼––––与那种不净烦恼相关的一种生化作用就会开始在身体 内生起。而当我们观察着它，仅仅是观察而对它没有任何的习性反应，我们就不会增长这个反应。而当这个增长的过程停止，这个反应就逐渐 地消除了，而我们也开始从中解脱。我们不压抑这种生化作用，也不将 心转向其它事物：我们面对如其本然的实相并且从中解脱，由习性反应 之中解脱出來。
The enlightened people of our country discovered the way to come out of this vicious circle. How can we come out of it
Just observe the biochemical reaction that has started. Observe the particular sensation that has started. Whenever we generate anger, passion, fear— any impurity—a biochemical reaction pertaining to that particular impurity will start in the body. And when we observe it, observe it without reacting to it, we don”t multiply the reaction. As the process of multiplication stops, the reaction slowly gets eradicated, and we start coming out of it. We have not suppressed it, we have not perted the mind to something else: we are facing the truth as it is and coming out of it, coming out of reaction.
这一切是如此地科学、理性，是如此地以成果为导向。这和你信仰的是 印度教、佛教、回教或基督教，没有关系。这是法则、自然的法则。这和是否改变你的宗教信仰，并没有关聯，一个人必须了解到这一点。很 多人有一个非常错误的印象，就是一旦一个人开始修习内观之后，一定 要成为一个宗教徒；其实，修习内观和你是不是一个宗教徒，是没有关系的。
It is so scientific, so rational, so result-oriented. It has nothing to do with Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam or Christianity. It is the law, the law of nature. No conversion is involved. One should understand this. There is a very wrong impression that by practising Vipassana one will become a Buddhist, or a Jain, or something else. Vipassana has nothing to do with that.
在几世纪之前，有位名叫伽利略的人，发现地球看起來是平的，但事实上却不是：它是圆的，并且它以自己为轴心自转着。有些人相信，也有一些人不相信。渐渐地每一个人开始相信它。当你开始相信关于地球的 这个事实时，你并没有改变自己的宗教信仰，你没有改变成回教徒、印 度教徒、基督教徒、犹太教徒或是佛教徒。
A few centuries ago, someone by the name of Galileo discovered that the flat looking-earth is not flat: it is round, and it rotates on its own axis. Some believed this, some didn”t believe it. Gradually everybody started believing it. When you start believing this truth, you don”t convert yourself to any religion. You don”t become Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew or Buddhist.
以前有位名叫牛顿的人发现了万有引力的定律，人们渐渐地接受它；但 他们并没有从一个宗教改变成另一个宗教。相同地，这些古印度的科学家们、觉悟的圣者们，发现了身与心是如何地运作：我们如何地习性反 应；我们是如何因为无明，不断地增长不净烦恼，因而增长痛苦；以及 我们可以如何地从中解脱出來。如果我们接受这个并实践它，就能从中 解脱出來。
Some time ago somebody by the name of Newton discovered that there is a law of gravity. People gradually accepted it, but they didn”t become converted from one religion to another religion. Similarly, scientists, the enlightened people of India, found out how this mind and matter works: how we react; how, because of our ignorance we keep multiplying our misery by multiplying our impurity, and how we can come out of it. If we accept this, and work on it, we can come out of it.
当然，改变还是有的，但这个改变是由痛苦转为快樂，由束缚转为解脱，由无明转为觉悟，不是从隸属一个组织化的宗教改变为另一个宗教。内观是我国一种非常好的方法，我们应该引以为荣。
Of course, conversion is involved, but the conversion is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to enlightenment, not from one organized religion to another organized religion. Vipassana is a w…
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