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title: 解脫心 A Heart Released 十一、做為一個禪思者的自我訓練，必須保持其特質
description: "§11. One's self-training as a meditator has to be in keeping with one's temperament."
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§11. One's self-training as a meditator has to be in keeping with one's temperament.

十一、做為一個禪思者的自我訓練，必須保持其特質

A famous horse-trainer once approached the Lord Buddha and asked him how he trained his disciples. The Buddha responded by asking the trainer how he trained horses. The trainer replied that there were four kinds of horses: (1) those easy to tame, (2) those of an intermediate sort, (3) those genuinely hard to tame, and (4) those that couldn't be tamed at all, and had to be killed. The Buddha replied, 'So it is with me.' (1) Those easy to tame, i.e., those whose minds gather easily, should eat enough food to nourish the body. (2) Those of an intermediate sort, i.e., those whose minds have some trouble settling down, should not be allowed to eat much — only a little food. (3) Those genuinely hard to tame, i.e., those who really have trouble getting their minds to settle down, shouldn't eat at all, but they have to be attannu They have to know their own strength and exactly how much they will be able to endure. (4) As for those who couldn't be tamed and had to be killed — i.e., those termed padaparama who couldn't subdue their minds at all — the Buddha would withdraw the bridge. In other words, he wouldn't teach them, which was tantamount to killing them.

　　一個著名的馴馬師曾經去見佛陀，並問他如何調教他的弟子們，佛陀反問他如何調教他的馬匹。那個馴馬師回答說有四種馬：容易馴服的馬，普通的馬，真正難馴的馬，畢竟無法馴服的馬，只得殺掉它。佛陀回答說：『我也是如此。』那些容易馴服的，也就是那些心意容易集中的，就可以吃足夠的食物來滋養身體。普通的，也就是那些心意存在著某些煩惱的，就不容許吃太多，只能吃一點點。那些真正難馴的，也就是那些心意充塞著煩惱的，就全然不能吃東西，但它們必須有自知之明，它們必須知道自己的體力，還有它們到底能忍受多久。至于那些無法馴服而要殺掉的，也就是那些被稱為padaparama '文句戲論者』，全然不能克制自己心意的—佛陀就會撤除溝通的橋梁。換言之，他不會教導他們，那就等于殺了他們。