..续本文上一页这里我看到没有外在的因缘可以让我们受苦。是我们自己对事物的错误认知，而这误知带来痛苦的火焰，燃烧我们的心。

　　I understood clearly that nothing dies. The citta certainly doesn”t die; in fact, it becomes more pronounced. The more fully we investigate the four elements, breaking them down into their original properties, the more distinctly pronounced the citta appears. So where is death to be found

　　 And what is it that dies

　　 The four elements—earth, water, wind and fire—they don”t die. As for the citta, how can it die

　　 It becomes more conspicuous, more aware and more insightful. This essential knowing nature never dies, so why is it so afraid of death

　　 Because it deceives itself. For eons and eons it has fooled itself into believing in death when actually nothing ever dies.

　　我清楚明白到没有任何东西死亡。心肯定不会死，事实上，它变得更明显，我们越全面地观察四大，把它们分解成它们原来的属性，心就越发凸显出来。所以哪里可以找到死亡？还有，到底是什么死去呢？四大——地、水、风和火——它们不会死。至于心，它怎么会死呢？它变得更显著、觉知和有洞察力，这知道的根本特性绝不会死亡，所以，为什么那么害怕死亡？因为它自己欺骗自己。无量劫以来它不断地愚弄自己相信死亡，实际上根本没有东西死去。

　　So when pain arises in the body we must realize that it is merely feeling, and nothing else. Don”t define it in personal terms and assume that it is something happening to you. Pains have afflicted your body since the day you were born. The pain that you experienced at the moment you emerged from your mother”s womb was excruciating. Only by surviving such torment are human beings born. Pain has been there from the very beginning and it”s not about to reverse course or alter its character. Bodily pain always exhibits the same basic characteristics: having arisen, it remains briefly and then ceases. Arising, remaining briefly, ceasing—that”s all there is to it.

　　所以当疼痛从身体中生起，我们应该理解它只是感受，别无其他。不要用自我的观点诠释它，假设那是发生在你身上的事。从出生那天疼痛就折磨你的身体了，你从母亲的子宫出来时的疼痛是那么尖锐，只有通过这煎熬人类才生下来。疼痛从开始就在那里，它不会回过来改变其特性的。身体的疼痛永远显现同样的性质：生起了，短暂停留然后灭去，生起、短暂停留、灭去——就只是这些。

　　Investigate painful feelings arising in the body so as to see them clearly for what they are. The body itself is merely a physical form, the physical reality you have known since birth. But when you believe that you are your body, and your body hurts, then you are in pain. Being equated, body, pain and the awareness that perceives them then converge into one: your painful body. Physical pain arises due to some bodily malfunction. It arises dependent on some aspect of the body, but it is not itself a physical phenomenon. Awareness of both body and feelings is dependent on the citta—the one who knows them. But when the one who”s aware of them knows them falsely, then concern about the physical cause of the pain and its apparent intensity cause emotional pain to arise. Pain not only hurts but it indicates that there is something wrong with you—your body. Unless you can separate out these three distinct realities, physical pain will always cause emotional distress.

　　观察身体所产生的疼痛感，以便可以看清楚它们是什么。身体本身只是物质，自从我们出生就知道的物质真实。可是当你相信你是你的身体，你的身体一受伤害，你就会疼痛。身体、疼痛和认知它们的觉知被等同起来时，它们就会合成一体。生理的疼痛由于身体的机能不调而产生，它因身体的某些情况而产生，但它本身不是物质现象。要觉知身体和感受得依靠知道它们的心。但是对它们的认知不正确的话，就担心生理的毛病和疼痛的剧烈，会带来内心苦受的生起。疼痛不但会带来伤害，而且还显示你——你的身体有问题。除非你分开这三个明显的真实，否则生理的疼痛必然会带来心理的苦。

　　The body is merely a physical phenomenon. We can believe whatever we like about it, but that will not alter fundamental principles of truth. Physical existence is one such fundamental truth. Four elemental properties—earth, water, wind and fire—gather together in a certain configuration to form what is called a “person”. This physical presence may be identified as a man or a woman and be given a specific name and social status, but essentially it is just the rupa khandha—a physical heap. Lumped together, all the constituent parts form a human body, a distinct physical reality. And each separate part is an integral part of that one fundamental reality. The four elements join together in many different ways. In the human body we speak of the skin, the flesh, the tendons, th…

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