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title: 善是囚牢 Goodness Is Prison
description: "接下來是一個非常重要的囚牢，一個能引發各種問題的囚牢，這個囚牢即是所謂的「善」。每個人都好樂善，並且相互教導要行善，許多人因而崇拜所謂的善，但只要有執著摻雜其中，善就變成了囚牢。如果有善意、善行而不執著，善就不是囚牢；如果產生執著，善就會變"
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[善是囚牢]

Goodness Is Prison

接下來是一個非常重要的囚牢，一個能引發各種問題的囚牢，這個囚牢即是所謂的「善」。每個人都好樂善，並且相互教導要行善，許多人因而崇拜所謂的善，但只要有執著摻雜其中，善就變成了囚牢。如果有善意、善行而不執著，善就不是囚牢；如果產生執著，善就會變成囚牢。就好比說，人們狂熱于善、迷醉于善、迷失于善，直到善變成了一個問題。因此務必要相當地小心，不要讓善變成一座囚牢。然而，現今每個人都被拘禁在善的囚牢中，而且是盲目地被束縛著，我們一點也幫不上忙。

A further prison is one that is very important, one that causes all sorts of problems. This prison is what they call "goodness." Everyone likes the "good" and they all teach each other to do good. Then they worship what they call "good." But as soon as there is upadana mixed in with what they call good, that good becomes a prison. You ought to have good, have goodness, without having upadana. Then good won't be prison. If there's upadana it becomes prison. Like we say, they go crazy about good, they get drunk on good, they get lost in good, until it turns into a problem. So be extremely careful not to make goodness into a prison. But there's nothing we can do to help now, everyone is caught in the prison of goodness -- blindly, obliviously, trapped in the prison of good.

如果你是基督徒，請深入思索聖經創世紀中的一段經文，上面記載著上帝禁止亞當、夏娃去吃能使人辨別善惡的果實。不要去吃果實，否則它將導致你懂得如何分辨善和惡，如此一來，對于善和惡便會產生執著，于是善與惡就成了囚牢。這段教義非常微妙深奧而且極富睿智，但似乎沒有人真正了解它。人們對這段教義不了解且不關心注意，因此無法成為一個真正的基督徒，如果是合格的基督徒，就不會對善惡加以執著。不管是善是惡，都不要把它變成囚牢，別被善的囚牢給拘禁起來！

If you are a Christian, we request that you think and ponder much about the teaching in the book of Genesis, where God forbids Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Don't go and eat it, or it will lead to knowing how to discriminate between good and evil. Then it attaches with upadana toward that good and evil. And then good and evil become prisons. This teaching is very profound and good, most intelligent and wise, but nobody seems to understand it. People don't show much interest in it and thus can't be correct Christians. If they were proper Christians they would not cling with upadana to good and evil. We must not make either good or evil into prisons. This means not getting caught in the prison of goodness.

人們因吞噬那枚果實，便開始分別善和惡，進而陷入所有的善惡法中，被它系縛，從此以後，問題便不斷產生。因此它被稱為「原罪」( original sin )，有時也稱為「永久的罪」( perpetual sin)，它變成了最初的囚牢或永恆的囚牢。請務必保持警覺，小心不要被這最初的囚牢或永恆的囚牢逮到，千萬不要讓自己陷入這囚牢中！

We swallowed that fruit and came to know good and evil, then got caught and stuck in all the good and evil. We have had continual problems ever since, that's how it came to be called "original sin," or sometimes "perpetual sin." It became the original prison, a perpetual prison. Please beware: be careful not to get caught in this original prison, this perpetual prison. Don't ever let yourself get caught in this prison.

人們一旦執著善，便為善所系縛，就會向著至高無上的善前進，那時，無上的善也會變成無上的囚牢。如果是這樣，那麼上帝將變成至高無上的囚牢。但願大家能了解囚牢就是這般地由執著建造起來的。

With being imprisoned in goodness, or the good, as soon as one gets caught it carries on further all the way to the highest good, to supreme goodness. Then the supreme goodness will become that supreme prison. If it develops this way, then God will become the supreme prison. May you understand and remember that upadana builds prisons in this way.