..续本文上一页随之而来的感觉，直至呼气完结消失为止。所有这些都是在静默和正正在当下中进行。
You experience every part of each in-breath and out-breath, continuously for many hundred breaths in a row. This is why this stage is called ”FULL sustained attention on the breath” . You cannot reach this stage through force, through holding or gripping. You can only attain this degree of stillness by letting go of everything in the entire universe, except for this momentary experience of breath happening silently now. ”You” don”t reach this stage; the mind reaches this stage. The mind does the work itself The mind recognizes this stage to be a very peaceful and pleasant abiding, just being alone with the breath. This is where the ”doer”, the major part of one”s ego, starts to disappear.
你经验到吸气和呼气的每个部份，这样地连续几百个呼吸，这便是为何这阶段被称为「完全持续地注意著呼吸」了。你不能用力、用抓持或紧握等方法来达到这阶段。除了这种发生在当下的默然刹那呼吸体验之外，世界上所有其他东西你都一概放下，只有这样你才能证得这种层次的静止。不是「你」达到这阶段，是心达到这阶段，心自己做这份工作，心认知到这阶段是一处十分平静和愉悦的安住之处，那仅是独自跟呼吸一起。那位「作者」，即一个人自我的主要部份，便是在此时开始消失。
You will find that progress happens effortlessly at this stage of the meditation. You just have to get out of the way, let go, and watch it all happen. The mind will automatically incline, if you only let it, towards this very simple, peaceful and delicious unity of being alone with one thing, just being with the breath in each and every moment. This is the unity of mind, the unity in the moment, the unity in stillness.
你会发觉在此阶段里禅修的进展毫不费力，你只须让开条路，放下一切，只是观看著整个过程的出现。要是你不阻拦，心便会自动趣向这种非常简单、平静、快意、只有一个对象的收摄统一，在每个刹那中都只跟呼吸一起。这是心的收摄统一，在刹那中的收摄统一，在静止中的收摄统一。
The fourth stage is what I call the ”springboard” of meditation, because from here one can pe into the blissful states. When you simply maintain this unity of consciousness, by not interfering, the breath will begin to disappear. The breath appears to fade away as the mind focuses instead on what is at the centre of the experience of breath, which is the awesome peace, freedom and bliss.
第四阶段便是我所谓的禅修「跳板」，因为从这里你可以跳进充满妙乐的状态。当你只是维持著这种心识的收摄统一，不去干预，呼吸便会开始消失。由於心会转移去集中於处於呼吸体验中心的对象，即那种非凡的平静、自在和妙乐，因此呼吸显得似是渐渐地消失掉。
At this stage I use the term ”the beautiful breath”. Here the mind recognizes that this peaceful breath is extraordinarily beautiful. You are aware of this beautiful breath continuously, moment after moment, with no break in the chain of experience. You are aware only of the beautiful breath, without effort, and for a very long time.
在这阶段我用上「美妙呼吸」此词，因为心此时认知到这种平静的呼吸是出奇的美妙。你持续地觉知著这种美妙呼吸，刹那相续地经验著，如一条不断的长链一样，你只是觉知著这种美妙呼吸，不用费力而可持续至很长的时间。
Now you let the breath disappear and all that is left is ”the beautiful”. Disembodied beauty becomes the sole object of the mind. The mind is now taking the mind as its own object. You are now not aware at all of breath, body, thought, sound or the world outside. All that you are aware of is beauty, peace, bliss, light or whatever your perception will later call it. You are experiencing only beauty, with nothing being beautiful, continuously, effortlessly. You have long ago let go of chatter, let go of descriptions and assessments. Here, the mind is so still that you cannot say anything.
此时你任由呼吸消失，所剩下来的只是一种「美妙」，这种没有主体的美妙便成为心的唯一对象。心此时正在抓著它自己的对象，你完全觉知不到呼吸、身体、思想、声音，或外面的世界，你所觉知到的只是美妙、平静、妙乐、光，或你的想蕴其後认为那应是甚么的东西。你正在经验著纯粹的美妙，但没有东西作为美妙的主体，这样毫不费力地持续著。你在很久之前已放下了唠叨，放下了描述和评估，此时，心是那么的静止，你根本不能说些甚么话。
You are just experiencing the first flowering of bliss in the mind. That bliss will develop, grow, become very firm and strong. Thus you enter into those states of meditation called Jhana. But that is for Part 3 of this booklet!
你正是在经验著妙乐首次在心内成熟开花。这种妙乐会发展、生长，变得很稳固和强大。这样你便进入那些被称为「禅那」的禅定状态，而这将会是这本小著作下一部曲的内容。
PART 3
第三部
”Do absolutely nothing and see how smooth and beautiful and timeless the breath can appear”
绝不要有任何做作，只是看看呼吸可以是如何平稳、美妙和恒久。
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