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答： 这就是内观要教导你的。观察你的忿怒，你就会从中解脱。而要观察你的 忿怒，你要先学习如何观察你的呼吸以及如何观察你身体上的感受。
A: This is what Vipassana will teach you. Observe your anger, and you will come out of it. And to observe anger, you learn how to observe your respiration, and how to observe your sensations.
问： 对于繁忙于事业的人而言，他们的时间很少，如何能修习内观呢？
Q: How can professionals, who have less time, practise meditation
答： 内观对于这些人而言显得更为重要！在家人忙于生活，因为他们生活中有 很多的责任，必须面对生活之中种种的变化；因此，他们当然就非常需要内观禅 修。因为生活中的起伏不定，使得他们心亂；如果他们修习内观，那么他们就能 以较好的心态來面对生活，可以作出对自己非常有帮助的––––良好、正确的决定。内观对于忙于事业者、主管人员、以及所有担负着责任义务的人们，都是有 相当大的裨益的。
A: Meditation is all the more important for professionals! Those who are householders, who have responsibilities in life, need Vipassana much more, because they have to face situations in life where there are so many vicissitudes. They become agitated because of these vicissitudes. If they learn Vipassana, they can face life much better. They can make good decisions, right decisions, correct decisions, which will be very helpful to them. For professionals, executives, and other people with responsibilities, Vipassana is a great boon.
问： 你相信輪回吗？
Q: Do you believe in rebirth
答： 我的相信与否对你是没有帮助的。不断地禅修吧！你就会达到看清你自己 的过去及未來的这种阶段；到那时候才相信吧。不要因为是你的老师說的就相信，否则你将只是盲目地依附在老师的权威之下，而这是有违正法的。
A: My believing or not believing will not help you. Meditate, and you will reach a stage where you can see your past, and you can see your future. Then only believe. Don”t believe something just because your guru says so. Otherwise you will be under the clutches of a guru, which is against Dharma.
问： 什么是心？它在哪里？
Q: What is mind
Where it is
答： 经由修习内观，你将会了解的。你将会探究你的身、你的心以及它们兩者之间的相互作用。
A: This is what you will understand by practising Vipassana. You will make an analytical study of your mind, an analytical study of your matter, and the interaction between the two.
问： 我们如何使他人平静安详呢？
Q: How can we make others peaceful
答： 先让你自己平静安详吧！这样你才能使他人平静安详。
A: Make yourself peaceful! Only then you can make others peaceful.
问： 我同意内观会有助于我，但它如何解决社会问题呢？
Q: I agree that this meditation will help me, but how does it solve the problems of society
答： 社会毕竟只是结合一群个人的团体。我们都想要解决社会问题，但是却不去解决个人问题；我们想要世界和平却毫不致力于个人的和平，这怎么可能呢？ 如果每一个人都体验到安详与和谐，那么我们就会发现，整个社会也会开始弥漫着安详与和谐。
A: Society is, after all, nothing but a group of inpiduals. We want to solve the problems of society, yet we don”t solve the problems of the inpidual. We want peace in the world, yet we do nothing for the peace of the inpidual. How is this possible
If each inpidual experiences peace and harmony, then we will find that the whole society starts experiencing peace and harmony.
问： 即使我尝试了，我的愤怒还是压不下來，怎么办？
Q: I can”t suppress my anger, even if I try.
答： 不要压抑它；就只是观察它！如果你压抑，问题就会发生。你愈试着压抑 忿怒，它就会进入你内心的更深处；那么忿怒的情结会逐渐地增强，使你很难从中解脱出來。就只是观察你的忿怒，不要压抑，也不要纵容它；就只是观察。
A: Don”t suppress it: observe it! If you suppress it, problems will come. The more you try to suppress the anger, the more it goes to the deeper level of your mind. The complexes become stronger and stronger, and it is so difficult to come out of them. Just observe your anger. No suppression, no expression. Just observe.
问： 忿怒生起时，要同时观察吗？而观察是在忿怒生起之后的一种思惟过程吗？
Q: Are anger and observation simultaneous, or is observation a process arising after thought
答： 不是的！所谓的观察不是指思惟。当忿怒生起时，就要同时去观察。
A: No, it is not a thought. You observe simultaneously, as the anger arises.
问： 如果有人故意造成我们的生活痛苦，我们要如何容忍这些呢？
Q: If someone is purposely making our life miserable—how to tolerate this
答： 首先，不要想去改变别人，要试着改变你自己。虽然某些人想要让你痛苦， 但是你变得痛苦的原因却是因为你对此有了习性反应。如果你学会了观察你的习性…
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