..续本文上一页 sensations. Look at the teaching on dependent origination. Sankhara, or “fabrication” is way down there, prior to the sensations you feel in terms of form, feeling, and so forth.
这些东西是你在禅定中可以操作一番的。这套教说正是在此处真正显其有用，因为它让你看见，你怎样专注身体，会直接影响你怎样辨识身体，以及你怎样实际地觉受到身体。我们以为觉受是原生的，是未加工的材料，是体验的基本构件，然而，先于这些觉受，你已经在作种种有意识的决定了。看一看十二因缘的教导。 Sankhāra——造作，早早先于你在色、受等方面的觉知，已经在那里了[3]。
So how are you going to fabricate the body
If there are feelings of tension in the body, sometimes that”s a sign of too much earth property, so you can think of the breath. This is one of the reasons we start with the breath. It”s the property that”s most easily manipulated—classicallyit”s called the kaya-sankhara, the factor that fashions the body. It”s also the property that most directly works through tension. Wherever there”s a sense of tension, focus on it and see if you can get a sense of gentle, healing motion going through it. The potential for motion is there, simply that the perception contributing to the tension has blocked it. So you can consciously decide that you”re going to perceive motion there. Give it a chance to happen, and the potential for motion, the potential for movement through that part of the nervous system, will get strengthened, will get aroused—which may be a better way of translating the word that I just translated as “provoked.” The breath-potential gets aroused. When your awareness of the breath is aroused or heightened, it can move through that sense of blockage.
因此，你打算怎样造作身？如果身内有紧绷感，有时那是地元素偏胜的征象，因此你可以观想气。这是我们禅修从观气[风，呼吸]出发的原因之一。它是最容易操纵的那个元素——经典上，它叫做 kāya-sankhāra——身造作[身行]，塑造身体的因素[4]。它也是最直接地消解张力的元素。哪里有紧绷感，你就定在那里，看是否能够使一种温和的、修复性的动性［气］穿过它。动性[气］的潜势是在那里的，只不过促成紧绷感的那个辨识把它给堵住了。因此，你可以有意识地决定，你打算在那里辨识动性[气]。给它一个发生的机会，那么动性［气］的潜势，穿过那部分经络系统的移动的潜势，将会被强化，将会被唤起 [aroused]——比起我刚才用的“激发” [provoked]，这个译法可能更好。气的潜势被唤起。当你对气的觉知被唤起或者说提升时，它就可以穿透那股堵塞感。
When you”re feeling giddy or manic, you can think of the earth property to settle things down. If there”s just too much frenetic energy in the body, you can think of your bones being made of iron, of your hands and feet weighing a ton. Wherever you have a sense of solidity in the body, focus on that and try to magnify it. You find that your choice of the image you”re using, your purpose in choosing it, will really affect the way you start sensing that part of the body. Then you can take that sensation and spread it out, connecting it with other sensations of solidity in the body. The potential for solidity is always there.
当你感到晕眩或狂躁时，可以观想地元素，使那些感觉平静下来。如果体内有太多躁乱的能量，你可以观想自己的骨胳由铁质构成，你的手脚有千斤重。凡是体内有坚硬感的地方，要专注那里，试着把它放大。你会发现，你所用的形象，你选择那个形象的目的，真的影响你怎样开始感受到那个部位。接着，你可以把那个感受，传播开去，与体内其它地方的坚硬感连接起来。坚硬性的潜势，一直是在那里的。
When you”re feeling depressed and weighed down, think of lighter sensations, of the breath giving a lift to the different parts of the body. When you”re hot, think of the water property. Focus on whatever sensations in the body are cooler than the others. Really keep your focus right there, and think “water, water” or “cool, cool.” You”ll find that other cool sensations in the body will appear to your awareness. The potential for them was waiting, simply that they needed the element of present intention to highlight them.
当你感觉抑郁、重压时，可以观想比较轻的觉受，可以观想气把身体各个部分提升一下。你感到热的时候，可以观想水元素。专注凡是体内比较清凉的地方。要把注意力真正定在那里，一边想“水，水”，或者“凉，凉”。你将发现体内的清凉感会对你的觉知显现出来。它们的潜势伺伏着，只是需要那个当下动机的成分把它们彰显出来。
When you”re feeling cold, focus in on warmth. There will be some part of the body that”s warmer than the others, so focus in on it. Think of the warmth staying there and spreading to other parts of the body where other warm sensations will get aroused.
当你感觉寒冷时，就专注暖热。身体一定有某个部位比其它部位更暖，因此就专注那里。观想那个热性呆在那里，并且传播到身体的其它部位，那里的热感将会给唤起。
You can do this at any stage in the concentration, although it”s most effective when the breath is sti…
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