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title: 道場是囚牢 Sacred Institutions Are Prisons
description: "接下來，我們應當談談那些莊嚴神聖、聲名遠播、普受讚揚的道場、學會、學院等，它們的名氣令人們只要登記為會員，就搖身一變和道場一樣響叮當。這種情形處處可見，人們一登記為該道場的一份子，便開始認為：「我們比別人優秀」、「我們是明智的一群，其他人都"
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[道場是囚牢]

Sacred Institutions Are Prisons

接下來，我們應當談談那些莊嚴神聖、聲名遠播、普受讚揚的道場、學會、學院等，它們的名氣令人們只要登記為會員，就搖身一變和道場一樣響叮當。這種情形處處可見，人們一登記為該道場的一份子，便開始認為：「我們比別人優秀」、「我們是明智的一群，其他人都是愚癡的。」他們不經任何思索評論，便執持這些觀念。如此一來，這些道場就變成囚牢了。因此懇請各位，千萬不要認為解脫自在園是個聖地，否則它會變成你的囚牢。應該自由思考、仔細檢核，然後精確地評估，只了解及相信真正有益的事，而不要陷落任何一個聞名的道場所形成的囚牢中。

We should continue with those institutions or establishments which are holy and sacred, or are famous and celebrated; or those that are rumored to be so elite and prestigious that anyone who becomes a member of one is prestigious, too. There are a number of such places and institutions around. As soon as someone registers as a member of that association or this organization, that institute or this establishment, they start to get ideas and feelings about it. They feel that "we're better than them" or "we're the ones who are right and the rest are stupid." They grasp and cling without the least bit of consideration or critical thinking. In this way, that institution, even that church -- we can't avoid saying so -- becomes a prison. So we beg of you, don't think that Suan Mokkh is some holy or miraculous institution, otherwise Suan Mokkh will become a prison. Please don't turn Suan Mokkh into your prison. You ought to think freely, examine carefully, evaluate critically. Understand and believe only what is genuinely beneficial. Don't get imprisoned in any of those prestigious or famous institutions.