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title: 阿姜查的茅蓬 Achaan Chahs Cottage
description: "Achaan Chah's Cottage"
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Achaan Chah's Cottage

　　阿姜 查的茅蓬

Achaan Chah says he does not dream any more. He sleeps only a few hours a night, upstairs in a small one-room cottage. Underneath this cottage, which is on wooden pillars in Thai fashion, is an open floor where he receives visitors.

　　阿姜 查說，他已不再做夢，他一個晚上只睡幾個小時──在一個小小的茅蓬頂層。阿姜 查的茅蓬底層，是泰國式的木柱圍繞開放空間，供他接待訪客。

Often these visitors bring him gifts, not just food or robes but also exquisite ancient statues and carefully made folk art depicting Buddhist themes. One Western monk, a collector and appreciator of Asian art, was excited by the possibility of seeing such lovely objects when he was assigned to help with the daily cleaning of Achaan Chah's cottage. He went upstairs, unlocked the door, and found only a bare bed and a mosquito net. He discovered that Achaan Chah gives these gifts away as fast as he gets them. He does not cling to anything.

　　通常，這些訪客會送他禮物，除了食物及袈裟外，還有精美而古老的雕像，以及精心制作的佛教民族藝術品。有一位喜好收藏和欣賞亞洲藝術的西方僧侶，當他被分派到幫忙打掃阿姜 查的茅蓬時，對能有機會看到這些他所珍愛的東西，感到非常與奮。他上了頂樓，打開了門，只看到一張空床和一頂蚊帳。他發覺，阿姜 查在得到禮物後，就立刻送出去了。他並不執著任何事物。