..续本文上一页them. They”re not pretty but we imagine them to be so. They”re not substantial but we imagine them to be so.

　　(身体就是禅修的主题)

　　人们确实迷恋头发、指甲、牙齿、皮肤这些东西，佛陀以身体的这些部分作为禅修的主题，教导我们要觉知它们。

　　Hair, nails, teeth, skin... people are really hooked on these things. The Buddha established these things as the basic themes for meditation, he taught us to know these things.

　　身体是短暂、不圆满与无主的，既非「我」，也非「我的」。我们一生下来就被骗了，它们其实是污秽的。假设一星期不洗澡，还会有人敢靠近我们吗

　　我们闻起来臭死了!当许多人一起辛勤工作，都汗如雨下时，那味道是很可怕的。回家用香皂和清水刷洗身体后，香皂的香气取代了它，味道就比较好闻了。擦香皂似乎会让身体变香，但事实上，它的臭味仍然存在，只是暂时被压抑住而已。当香皂味消失后，身体的味道就回来了。

　　They are Transient, Imperfect and Ownerless; they are not "me" or "them." We are born with and deluded by these things, but really they are foul. Suppose we didn”t bathe for a week, could we bear to be close to each other

　　 We”d really smell bad. When people sweat a lot, such as when a lot of people are working hard together, the smell is awful. We go back home and rub ourselves down with soap and water and the smell abates somewhat, the fragrance of the soap replaces it. Rubbing soap on the body may make it seem fragrant, but actually the bad smell of the body is still there, temporarily suppressed. When the smell of the soap is gone the smell of the body comes back again.

　　(真正皈依处即在自己的心)

　　现在，我们普遍认为身体是漂亮、可爱、长寿而强壮，且永不衰老、生病或死亡。我们受到身体的迷惑，因此忽略真实的皈依处——心，就在自己身体里面。

　　我们现在坐在这讲堂里，或许很大，但不可能是真实的皈依处。我们可能认为讲堂是我们的，但它不是，鸽子、壁虎和蜥蜴也在此寻求庇护，我们和其他生物一起住在这里，这只是个暂时的栖身之所，我们迟早得离开它。人们将这些栖身之所，误认为真实的皈依处。

　　Now we tend to think these bodies are pretty, delightful, long lasting and strong. We tend to think that we will never age, get sick or die. We are charmed and fooled by the body, and so we are ignorant of the true refuge within ourselves. The true place of refuge is the mind. The mind is our true refuge. This hall here may be pretty big but it can”t be a true refuge. Pigeons take shelter here, geckos take shelter here, lizards take shelter here...We may think the hall belongs to us but it doesn”t. We live here together with everything else. This is only a temporary shelter, soon we must leave it. People take these shelters for refuge.

　　因此，佛陀说寻找你的皈依处，意思是寻找你的真心。这颗心非常重要，人们通常都不注意重要的事物，反而花时间在不重要的事物上。例如当整理家务时，他们会弯下身来擦地板、清洗碗盘等，但从不曾注意过自己的心。这颗心可能发臭了，他们可能很生气，板著一张臭脸在洗盘子。他们未看到自己的心不太干净，这就是我所说的「把暂时的栖身之所当成皈依处」。他们美化房子和住家，但从未想到要美化自己的心；他们没有检视痛苦。

　　So the Buddha said to find your refuge. That means to find your real heart. This heart is very important. People don”t usually look at important things, they spend most of their time looking at unimportant things. For example, when they do the house cleaning they may be bent on cleaning up the house, washing the dishes and so on, but they fail to notice their own hearts. Their heart may be rotten, they may be feeling angry, washing the dishes with a sour expression on their face. That their own hearts are not very clean they fail to see. This is what I call "taking a temporary shelter for a refuge." They beautify house and home but they don”t think of beautifying their own hearts. They don”t examine suffering. The heart is the important thing.

　　佛陀教导我们，在自己的内心寻找皈依处——「当自皈依」。还有谁能成为你的皈依处呢

　　你可能想依赖其他的事物，但它们是不可靠的；只有当你真正在心里找到皈依时，才能真正依赖其他的事物。

　　The Buddha taught to find a refuge within your own heart: Attahi attano natho -- "Make yourself a refuge unto yourself." Who else can be your refuge

　　 The true refuge is the heart, nothing else. You may try to depend on other things but they aren”t a sure thing. You can only really depend on other things if you already have a refuge within yourself. You must have your own refuge first before you can depend on anything else, be it a teacher, family, friends or relatives.

　　(我是谁？我为何出生？)

　　因此，你们所有的人，无论在家与出家，今天来到这里，请仔细思考这个教导。反问自己：「我是谁

　　我为何在这里

　　我为何出生

　　」有些人并不知道。他们想要快乐，但痛苦却从不曾停止，无论贫富、老少都同样痛苦。一切都是苦。为什么

　　因为他们没有智慧，穷人因贫困而不快乐，富人则因拥有太多而不快乐。

　　So all of you, both laypeople and hom…

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