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title: 撿起芒果 Picking Up Mangoes
description: "當你有了智慧，在接觸到感官的對象時，不論是好壞，快樂或痛苦，就像我們站在樹下收集果實一般。有人爬到芒果樹上為我們搖芒果，我們只須在芒果之中挑選好的與爛的，而不必浪費力氣，因為我們不須爬到樹上去。"
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Picking Up Mangoes

　　撿起芒果

　　當你有了智慧，在接觸到感官的對象時，不論是好壞，快樂或痛苦，就像我們站在樹下收集果實一般。有人爬到芒果樹上為我們搖芒果，我們只須在芒果之中挑選好的與爛的，而不必浪費力氣，因為我們不須爬到樹上去。

When you have wisdom, contact with sense objects, whether good or bad, pleasant or painful, is like standing at the bottom of a mango tree and collecting the fruit while another person climbs up and shakes it down for us. We get to choose between the good and rotten mangoes, and we do not waste our strength because we do not have to climb up the tree.

　　這是什麼意思呢?所有的感官對象(外塵)正帶給我們知識，我們不須去添加什麼世俗的八風──得與失、譽與毀、稱與譏、樂與苦──它們是自己來的。如果你的內心已經增加了平靜和智慧，你就能夠好好享有撿拾和挑選的喜悅。

　　他人所稱的好或壞、這里或是那里、快樂或是痛苦，都使你大為獲益，因為已經有人爬到樹上去搖芒果，你沒有什麼好擔心害怕的。

What does this mean? All the sense objects that come to us are bringing us knowledge. We do not need to embellish them. The eight worldly winds gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, pain and pleasure-come of their own. If your heart has developed tranquility and wisdom, you can enjoy picking and choosing. What others may call good or bad, here or there, happiness or suffering, is all to your profit, because someone else has climbed up to shake the mangoes down, and you have nothing to fear.

　　那八風就好像從你頭上掉下來的芒果，運用你的專注(定)和平靜去觀照、去采集，知道哪些水果是好的、哪些是壞的，就叫做智慧、內觀。不必去使它生起或創造它。如果有了智慧，內觀就會自然地生起。雖然我稱之為智慧，但其實是不須要給它名字的。

The eight worldly winds are like mangoes falling down to you. Use your concentration and tranquility to contemplate, to collect. Knowing which fruits are good and which are rotten is called wisdom, vipassana. You do not make it up or create it. If there is wisdom, insight arises naturally. Although I call it wisdom, you do not have to give it a name.