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title: 學習唱誦 Learning to Chant
description: "A principal part of Achaan Chah's training is to help students learn to do whatever task is appropriate while keeping a "
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Learning to Chant

　　學習唱誦

A principal part of Achaan Chah's training is to help students learn to do whatever task is appropriate while keeping a balanced mind free from clinging. A Western psychiatrist who had ordained as a monk had to learn this lesson. He asked permission to stay at WatBa Pong for the three-month rains retreat in order to have a master under whom he could really practice meditation. Several days later, when Achaan Chah announced to the assembled monks that chanting of the sutras from 3:30 to 4:40 A.M. and from 5:00 to 6:00 P.M. was a mandatory part of the rains retreat, this newly ordained Western monk raised his hand and began to argue loudly that he had come to meditate, not to waste time chanting. Such a Western style argument with the teacher in public was a shock to many of the other monks.

　　阿姜 查的訓練中，有一主要的部份，是去幫助學生做任何適合的工作，同時又能保持心境平衡和遠離執著。有一位曾經是心理學家的西方僧侶在這方面受了教。他請求在巴蓬寺結夏安居三個月，以便有位師父能實際地教導他修禪。幾天後，就在阿姜 查向大眾宣布，從凌晨三點到清晨四點四十分和下午五點到六點的課誦，是夏安居必修的一部份時，這位新出家的西方比丘舉起手來，然後開始大聲地爭辯，他是來這兒禪坐，而不是來浪費時間做課誦的。這種在大眾面前與老師爭辯的西洋方式，對其他大多數的比丘而言，實在是個很大的震撼。

Achaan Chah explained calmly that real meditation had to do with attitude and awareness in any activity, not just with seeking silence in a forest cottage. He made a point of insisting that the psychiatrist would have to be prompt for every chanting session for the entire rains retreat if he wished to stay at WatBa Pong. The psychiatrist stayed and learned to chant beautifully.

　　阿姜 查很詳和地解釋，真正的禪坐跟態度及覺醒一切的活動有很大的關系，而不只于尋求在森林茅蓬里的寧靜。他堅持如果這位心理學家想留在巴蓬寺，就必須在整個夏安居中，準時參加每一堂課誦。後來，這位心理學家還是留下來了，而且學會了莊嚴的唱誦。