..续本文上一页reed, hatred and delusion in all its forms.
When we”re mindful, there”s no attachment to ideas and memories of self, and creativity is spontaneous. There”s no one who loves or is loved; there”s no personal being that is created. In this way, we find the real expression of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity that is always fresh, always kind, patient and ever-forgiving of oneself and others.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes
1. vipaka: just as kamma is the ”cause” or action, vipaka is the ”effect” or reaction/result.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REALISING THE MIND
And gladness springs up within him on hisrealising that, and joy arises to him thusgladdened, and so rejoicing, all his framebecomes at ease, and being thus at ease he isfilled with a sense of peace, and in thatpeace his heart is stayed.
Digha Nikaya II -73
IN GIVING TALKS ON MEDITATION, one is really saying the same things over and over. But it”s necessary to do so, because we keep forgetting over and over, and have to keep being reminded. Remember: what we remember we forget; if you have nothing to remember, you have nothing to forget. So, in meditation we are moving towards where there is nothing to remember and nothing to forget. Which doesn”t mean ”nothing”, but a centring: a realisation of ultimate reality, of that which is not conditioned.
Realisation is not gaining, is it
You don”t ”gain” realisation. You realise something which you have all the time, yet which you never notice. Meditation is not a gaining process, either. We are not here to make ourselves into Buddhas, or bodhisattvas or arahants or anything else, nor to try to just condition our minds into being Buddhist. You might think you just have to have a religious brainwash, throw away all your Christian habits and simply train yourself to think like a Buddhist – wear the robe, try to look like a Buddha image, use all these Pali words and call ourselves ”Buddhists”. Another costume, isn”t it
Another act, another role to play. So the purpose of our meditation is not to become ”Buddhists” either.
Realisation ... is what
Think, the word ”real”: realising, recognising, knowing, direct knowledge of ultimate truth.... Now what do we mean by ultimate truth
We can say, ”Ultimate Truth”, ”Dharma” – we can use the Pali word ”Dhamma” or the Sanskrit word ”Dharma”; we can say, ”The Absolute”; we can say ”God”. Whatever word one happens to be conditioned with is the word which one prefers. ”Ultimate Truth” might sound a bit intellectual or not have the pull on the heartstrings that ”God” has, but we”re not quibbling about terminology any more. We don”t care exactly what word we use. We”re not here trying to find the perfect word to describe something which doesn”t need any description, which cannot really be described but can only be realised. We just do the best we can with whatever language we happen to have, because the point is not to decide which terminology is the most accurate but to get beyond the term to the actual realisation! Of ”Ultimate Reality” or ”God” or ”The Absolute” or whatever!
On the level of religious symbolism and convention we can spend our time quibbling about the ”Buddhist view”, ”Buddhist Dhamma”, ”Christian God”. . . get caught up in all kinds of interesting little differences and comparisons. For what
For something one hasn”t realised yet, like the blind men describing the elephant [See Note 1]. It”s not that we need to have the perfect word or the most accurate description ... but to have the intention to get to the reality – to have that one-pointed intention, that sincerity, that kind of earnestness that takes you to the realisation of truth, Dhamma.
So, i…
《Cittaviveka》全文未完，请进入下页继续阅读…