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title: 樹苗 Seedling
description: "禪坐中，你們必須一直維持正念，如同種植一棵樹苗。如果我們將樹苗種在一個地方，三天後將它移植到另外一個地方，過了三天又將它再移植一次，最後，它將在毫無成長和結果的情況下死去。"
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〖樹苗〗

禪坐中，你們必須一直維持正念，如同種植一棵樹苗。如果我們將樹苗種在一個地方，三天後將它移植到另外一個地方，過了三天又將它再移植一次，最後，它將在毫無成長和結果的情況下死去。

禪坐也是如此，假使你只做了七天的禪坐就走了，後來的七個月你一直在任意染污自己的心，事後在回來做禁語和獨處的七天禪坐，這就跟那棵樹苗沒有兩樣了。你的禪坐功夫終將無法成長，最後，將在沒有產生任何真實的果實之情況下死去。

Seedling

In meditation, you must continuously be attentive, just like when planting a seedling. If you plant a seedling in one place, then after three days you pull it up and plant it in another place, and after three more days, pull it up again and plant it somewhere else, it will just die and not grow up and bear any fruit. Meditation is the same. If you do a seven-day meditation retreat and after leaving it, for seven months you go around "soiling" the mind, and then come back and do another seven-day retreat where you don't speak and you keep to yourself, it's like the tree. Your meditation practice won't be able to grow and it will die with out producing any real results.