..续本文上一页有开悟？这皆因往昔没有修行，只顾去看电影、看电视、开舞会、吃喝玩乐，不曾研究过经典。
The Sixth Patriarch was an illiterate woodcutter who chopped wood in the mountains every day, but he was enlightened as soon as he heard this sentence. Because the Sixth Patriarch had cultivated diligently for many lives in many past eons, he became enlightened as soon as he heard the Vajra Sutra. Why is it that after listening for so long, we still haven”t become enlightened
It”s because we didn”t cultivate in the past; we only wanted to watch movies, watch TV, hold parties, and eat, drink, and be merry, and we never studied any sutras.
《金刚经》又说：「无我相、无人相、无众生相、无寿者相。」在坐禅时是不是无我相？无人相？无众生相？无寿者相？若没有，就要想办法扫四相，且要空三心，过去心、现在心、未来心，三心了不可得，又怎么会有四相呢？
The Vajra Sutra also says, "Be free of the mark of self, the mark of others, the mark of living beings, and the mark of a life span." When sitting in Chan, can you be free of the mark of self, the mark of others, the mark of living beings, and the mark of a life span
If not, then you must find a way to sweep away the four marks and empty the three minds of past, present and future. If the three minds cannot be obtained, how could the four marks exist
《金刚经》又说：
一切有为法。如梦幻泡影。
如露亦如电。应作如是观。
若以色见我。以音声求我。
是人行邪道。不能见如来。
That Sutra also says,
All conditioned dharmas
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles and shadows,
Like dew and like lightning.
You should contemplate them thus.
If one sees me in forms,
If one seeks me in sounds,
He practices a deviant way,
And cannot see the Tathagata.
我们坐禅时，不要被音声所转，不要随色相而转。有人修行很久，有境界了，但执着境界，这是错误的。应该「听而不闻，视而不见」，不闻不见，才叫不被境界所转。
When we sit in Chan, we should not be distracted by sights and sounds. Some people may experience states after long cultivation, but if they get attached to the states, they are making a mistake. You should "listen without hearing, and look without seeing." If we don”t hear and we don”t see, that”s truly not being distracted by states.
一九八二年十二月十八日开示于
万佛圣城
A talk given at noon on December 18, 1982,
at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
《禅七诲语 Chan Session Instructions》全文阅读结束。