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title: 師父是囚牢 Teachers Are Prison
description: "現在要談的囚牢叫「師父」( ajahn )，尤其是指聲名遠播的師父。 在緬甸有某某「薩耶多」( Sayadaw )，在斯里蘭卡有某某「阿姜」( Ajahn )，在西藏有某某「喇嘛」( Lama )，而在中國有某某「大師」( Master )"
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[師父是囚牢]

Teachers Are Prison

現在要談的囚牢叫「師父」( ajahn )，尤其是指聲名遠播的師父。 在緬甸有某某「薩耶多」( Sayadaw )，在斯里蘭卡有某某「阿姜」( Ajahn )，在西藏有某某「喇嘛」( Lama )，而在中國有某某「大師」( Master )，不管是全國性、區域性或地方性，每個地方都有家喻戶曉的大師。人們執持自己的師父是唯一如法的師父，唯有自己的師父才是正確的，而其他師父則完全錯誤。他們拒絕去聽聞其他師父的教法，對自己師父所開示的法，絲毫不加思索和判斷，因此他們身陷于「師父之囚」中。他們把師父變成一座囚牢，然後身陷其中。這是一個真正荒謬可笑的執著，不管大師也好，一般師父也好，身陷其中的執著是一樣的，都是不斷從師父那邊築起一座座的囚牢。請千萬不要陷入這種囚牢中！

Now we come to the prison called "ajahn" (teacher, master, guru), the famous teachers whose names reverberate afar. In Burma there's "Sayadaw This," in Sri Lanka there's "Bhante That," in Tibet there's "Lama So- and -so," in China there's "Master Whoever." Every place has its famous teacher whose name is bouncing around. Whether national, regional, provincial, or local, every place has got its Big Guru. Then people cling and attach to their teachers as being the only teacher who is correct; their teacher is right and all other teachers are completely wrong. They refuse to listen to other people's teachers. And they don't think about or examine the teachings of their own Ajahns. They get caught in the "Teacher Prison." They turn the teacher into a prison, then get caught in it. It's an attachment which is truly ridiculous. Whether a big teacher or a small teacher, it's upadana just the same. They keep building prisons out of their teachers and gurus. Please don't get caught in even this prison.