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title: 拔除我執即是自囚牢中釋放 Voidness is Not Prison
description: "[拔除我執即是自囚牢中釋放]"
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[拔除我執即是自囚牢中釋放]

Voidness is Not Prison

總結前面所談的各種囚牢，即是巴利文所謂的「自我」( atta)。 「自我」就是囚牢，每一種囚牢最後都可歸因于「自我」，因為執著自我，又產生「我所有」，這就是真正的囚牢，也是造成囚牢的罪魁禍首。所有的囚牢都歸結在自我，請務必拔除自我、愚痴，那麼所有的囚牢就會消失。如果你修習出入息念能真正有所成就，就可以徹底摧毀一切的囚牢。也就是說，摧毀「自我」則所有囚牢就會隨之毀滅，同時，再也不會建造任何的囚牢了。祝福大家都能成功地摧毀囚牢──「自我」。

May we tell you that this is the last one, the final prison. Escape from the prison of highest purity, break out of the purest prison, into the voidness free of soul and self. Not having any self, living free from self, voidness of self -- of any sense of self, void of all ideas and notions about self -- is true purity. Any purity which is truly eternal cannot be a prison in any respect, unless people misunderstand and cling to it as some self or soul, in which case it becomes a prison again. Let go unequivocally, be absolutely free of self -- that is real purity. It's no prison. Voidness is the purity which isn't a prison.

So it is that the real prison, the collection of all these prisons that we have mentioned, is the thing they call "atta" (in Pali), "self," or "soul." Oneself is the prison. This self here is the prison. Every kind of prison is included in, comes down to the words "oneself" or "myself." Clinging to self as self, and then as belonging to self, attaching to "I" and "mine," this is the true prison, the heart and soul of all prisons. All prisons are gathered in the word "atta." Tear out the foolishness that creates atta, along with atta itself, and all the prisons will be gone. If you practice anapanasati (mindfulness with breathing in and out) correctly until truly successful in it -- real, not imagined success -- you will destroy all the prisons completely. That is, destroy atta, then all the prisons are finished and we won't build any more of them ever again. May you all experience success in destroying the prisons, that is, atta or self.

專注觀呼吸的目的是要去除我執，唯有完全排除對自我的執著，才能究竟、徹底地止息苦。每一個宗教最終的目標皆是要得到救度，得救的利益是無可言喻的。因此，請大家務必精進地修習出入息念。若正確且成功地修習出入息念，就能從人類各種的囚牢中解脫出來。今天我已經盡了最大的努力，日後我也很樂意盡己所能幫助大家了解，並成功地修習出入息念，請容許我在此結束今天的演講吧！

The purpose of anapanasati is to remove all vestiges of upadana regarding self. The complete removal of attachment toward self is the final and perfect quenching of dukkha, which happens to be the meaning of liberation, of salvation. The highest goal of every religion is salvation, the value and benefits of which are beyond words. So please try. Anapanasati, when practiced correctly, leads to this liberation from atta. I have been trying my best and I am willing to do whatever I can to help everyone understand anapanasati and practice it successfully, in order that all of us can escape from all aspects of humanity's prison.

[注釋]

(注一) 泰文Saiyasatr 中 Saiya 意指「睡眠」，Satr 意指「科學」，被當成「學」(]ology)使用。合譯為「睡眠學」( sleepology)或「睡眠的科學」(sleepy science)。

【譯注一】 依泰本巴利藏第21冊， 62 頁。佛陀說：「就在這結合心、想的六尺之軀內學習。」