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title: 平常心 Normality - 教內之法門 Things Inside of Buddhism
description: "2-1-1-2. Things Inside of Buddhism 教內之法門"
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2-1-1-2. Things Inside of Buddhism 教內之法門

So the prince gave up those methods and started to eat fruit. Because of this, the five disciples avoided and eventually left him; so he practiced by himself. Having eaten some rice offered by Miss Sujata, his body recovered strength. He reflected on the various methods that he had been practicing but which were not capable of shaking off the defilements. He still had troubles and suffering. So the prince turned around and looked at his mind, and was at last, successful. He attained Anuttara Sammasambodhi Nyana and became the fully Enlightened Buddha. He was able to conquer all the defilements and to extinguish suffering, leaving only coolness. His body was back to normal and His mind was free of suffering at last. He lived with and enjoyed the happiness of awareness and wisdom. Having attained this, the Buddha shrank back from teaching, reflecting that this practice was profound, and it would be hard to understand. So it can be taken that mind development is something difficult to do and that this is what Buddhist teaching is about. As for making merit, being generous, keeping precepts, and doing tranquility– meditation, it is not the teaching of the Buddha but a teaching of teachers at large.

于是太子放棄了那種苦行的方法而開始進食水果。因為這樣，那五個弟子最後離他而去，所以，他開始獨自修學。在吃了Sujata供養的一些飯食之後，他恢復了體力。他反省以前修學過的各種方法，但是那些方法依然無法除去煩惱。他還是有煩惱痛苦。于是太子反過來觀照他自己的心，而因此終于成功了，他得到了無上圓滿正覺的智慧(Anuttara Sammasambodhi Nyana) ，而成為完全覺悟的佛陀，他征服了所有煩惱並且止熄了諸苦，唯存一片清涼自在。他的身體回復正常而他的心終于解脫了苦惱，他的生活充滿覺知與智慧的喜樂。在得到這種成就之後，佛陀卻退縮不想教導眾生，他沈思：這種修行非常深奧，一般人很難理解。因此可以這麼說，「修心」是非常困難的事，而這也才是佛陀所教導的內容。至于作功德、布施、持戒及修止禪…等等，這些都不是佛陀所教導的，而是其他一般老師所教導的。