第二天 问答
Questions and Answers
问： 谁是神？
Q: Who is God
答： 实相是神，了解到实相你就会了解神。
A: Truth is God. Realize the truth and you will realize God.
问： 请解释催眠术与禅修有何不同？
Q: Please explain the difference between hypnotism and meditation.
答： 古印度真正禅修的技巧，与催眠术是完全不同的。其它有些技巧使用到催 眠术，但这是完全与法相违背的。法使你自立，催眠术绝不会使你自立，因此这 兩者是无法相提并論的。
A: The true meditation techniques of ancient India were totally against hypnotism. Some techniques did use hypnotism, but this is totally against Dharma. Dharma makes you self-dependent. Hypnotism will never make you self-dependent. Therefore these two do not go together.
问： 内观与逃避现实有何不同？
Q: How is Vipassana different from escapism
答： 内观是面对这个世界，内观是不允许逃避这个世界的。
A: Vipassana is to face the world. No escape is permitted in Vipassana.
问： 目前是否有任何解脱的圣者仍在这个世间呢？
Q: Are there any liberated people living presently
答： 是的。这是一条步向解脱的正道；你远離几分的不净烦恼，也就获得几分 的解脱，而有的人已经完全地净化自心。
A: Yes. It is a progressive path to liberation. As much as you are free from impurity, that much you are liberated. And there are people who have reached the stage where they are totally free from all impurities.
问： 建造寺庙、发心服务、义务教导的工作或在医院服务，哪一个比较好？
Q: Which is better: temple construction, service, teaching or hospital work
答： 所有这些社会服务都是重要的！这些工作都是好的。但是要以清净的心去 做。如果你以不清净的心來从事服务性的工作，來增长自我，对自己和他人是没 有多大益处的。以清净的爱心、慈悲心來做这些事，那么你将会发现，它开始帮助你，也开始给予他人真正的利益。
A: All these social services are important; there is nothing wrong with them. But do them with purity of mind. If you do them with an impure mind, generating ego, it does not help you and it does not help others. Do it with purity of mind, with love, with compassion and you will find that it has started helping you, and it has started giving real benefit to others also.
问： 我们应该过着道德的生活，但道德在今天的世界上已经堕落败坏了！
Q: We should lead a moral life, but morality is deteriorating in the whole world.
答： 当道德日渐败坏时，正法在此时的兴起就显得格外重要了。在黑暗籠罩的时候，就是该破晓的时候。太阳应该要升起了！
A: It is all the more important that Dharma should arise at this time, when morality is deteriorating! The time when there is darkness all around is the time when the day should break, the sun should rise.
问： 如果我们所做的负面行为是为了使他人受益，这样是否不好呢？
Q: If a negative act is committed for the good of others, is it bad
答： 当然这是不好的！当你一产生负面行为时，你就开始伤害你自己，这个时 候你是无法帮助其他人的。一位生病的人本身是无力去照顾另一位病人的。因 此，首先你必须使你自己健康起來，那么你会发现你已经开始在帮助别人了。
A: Certainly it is bad. A negative act starts harming you. When you have harmed yourself, you can never help anybody else. A lame person can never help another lame person. First you have to make yourself healthy, and then you will find that you have started helping others.
问： 我们要如何避免像抽烟、嚼槟榔等等不良的习惯呢？
Q: How can we avoid bad habits like smoking cigarettes and chewing pāna
答： 不仅是在抽烟或嚼槟榔––––还有许多其它形式的不良癖好也要避免。当你 修习内观时，将会了解到你上瘾的其实不是某种东西。看起來好像是你对香烟、 酒、毒品或槟榔上瘾，但其实是你对身体的某种感受上瘾。当你在抽烟、嚼槟榔 或吸毒时，在你身体上会产生某种感受；相同地，当你生起了忿怒或悲伤的习性 反应时，在你身体上也会生起某些感受––––你是对感受上瘾的。透过修习内观， 你可以脱離那种瘾，也远離对外界事物的执取。这是多么的自然、多么科学，只 要试着去做，你将会发现它是如何产生效果的
A: Not only smoking cigarettes or chewing pāna—there are so many different types of addictions. When you practise Vipassana, you will understand that your addiction is not actually to that particular substance. It seems as if you are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, drugs or pāna; but the real fact is that you are addicted to a particular sensation in the body. When you smoke a cigarette, there is a sensation in the body. When you chew pāna, there is a sensation in the body. When you take a drug, there is a sensation in the body. Similarly, when you are add…
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