..续本文上一页can purify the surface of the mind to some extent by intellectualizing, or by devotional or emotional beliefs. But to take out the impurities from the deepest level of the mind, we have to work—and work in the way that nature wants us to work. The law of nature says that whenever we generate any impurity, the source of the impurity lies at the deepest level of our mind. And the deepest level of our mind is constantly in contact with body sensations.

　　无論白天、夜晚，你是睡着的或是醒着的，你心的最深层面(即所谓的「潜意識或无意識」)其实从來不是无意識的；它一直感觉得到身体的感受。 当愉悦的感受生起了，它会以贪爱來反应––––ra-ga，ra-ga。当不愉悦的感受 生起，它就以瞋恨來反应––––dves　　Day and night, whether you are asleep or awake, the deepest level of your mind (the so-called "unconscious") is never unconscious: it is always feeling sensations on the body. Whenever there is a pleasant sensation, it will react with craving—rāga, rāga. Whenever there is an unpleasant sensation, it will react with aversion—dveśha, dveśha. Craving, aversion, craving, aversion: this has become the behaviour pattern of the mind deep inside. Twenty-four hours a day, day and night, every moment there are sensations in the body deep inside, and at the deepest level the mind keeps reacting. It has become a slave of its own behaviour pattern. Unless we break that slavery, how can we come out of our misery

　　 We will be just deluding ourselves by trying to purify the surface of the mind, while we forget the deep root. As long as the roots are impure, the mind can never become pure.

　　内观是印度的一种修行方法。即使在梨俱吠陀中(R　　Vipassana is a technique of India. Laudable references to Vipassana are given in the Ṛg Veda. The most ancient literature of this country is full of words of praise for Vipassana:

　　Yo viśvābhih vipaśyati bhuvanah

　　sañca paśyati sa na pārśadati dviśah.

　　一个人若是完美无误地修习内观––––sañca paśyati, sa na pārśadati dviśah––––去除所有的瞋恨和愤怒；心变得清净了。

　　One who practises Vipassana in a perfect way—sañca paśyati, sa na pārśadati dviśah—comes out of all aversion and anger; the mind becomes pure.

　　但是你必须自己練习内观。假如你只是不断地背诵梨俱吠陀(R　　But one has to practise it oneself. If you just keep reciting this verse of the Ṛg Veda, how is this going to help

　　 Suppose you keep reciting: "The cake is very sweet; the cake is very sweet." How can you taste the sweetness of the cake unless you put it in your mouth

　　 The practice of Dharma is more important than merely accepting Dharma at the intellectual, emotional or devotional level. And this practice is Vipassana.

　　古时候，印度到处都有内观。那时有一位來自缅甸的旅行者，在他行遍了整个国家后，他发现每个家庭成员都在練习内观。他拜访过不同的家庭， 富有的、贫穷的，他发现不仅仅只是丈夫、妻子、小孩，甚至連仆人们也都 每天早晚的修习内观。到处都在谈論内观，因为人们正从練习内观当中获益。时光迁移，很不幸地，现在这个国家变成陷入在仪式、仪禮、宗教典禮形式上，而忘掉了这个对「法」的科学性的了解。

　　In ancient days, Vipassana was everywhere in India. A traveller came from Burma then. Travelling the whole country, he found that in every household people were practising Vipassana. He visited different households, rich and poor, and found that not only the husband, wife and children, but even the servants were practising Vipassana every m…

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