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title: 觀照觸，涅槃近前 Meditating on Contact Brings Nibbāna Near
description: "「Na so rajjati phassesu, phassam phussa patissato;Virattacitto vedeti, tañca nājjhossa titthati.」"
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Meditating on Contact Brings Nibbāna Near

觀照觸，涅槃近前

「Na so rajjati phassesu, phassam phussa patissato;
Virattacitto vedeti, tañca nājjhossa titthati.」

「Passion remains undeveloped in him who recollects with mindfulness the contact that he has felt. Thus freed from lust, he refuses to imbibe it.」

「他憶持正念地觸所觸之觸，染著便不會生起。因此從貪著解脫，他不會黏著于觸。」

While meditating on standing, you may feel tired or stiff, painful or itchy. When these unpleasant sensations appear you must concentrate on the source of discomfort and note the nature of the tiredness, pain, etc. As you are contemplating on feelings, this is vedanānupassanā. When you note heat, you are contemplating the element of heat (tejo), and when you touch a hard or rough surface you are noting the earth element (pathavī). At times you may feel that the element of motion merges with the element of heat. You should note this also. You should note every physical action: bending or stretching your arms or legs, tilting your head backwards or forwards, opening or shutting your eyes, or blinking. As you dress, wash, or take a shower, there may be many kinds of movements. Even when you urinate or evacuate your bowels, you must not forget to note the manifestation of the element of motion. With practice, you may even be able to note speaking when you speak.

在觀照站立時，你可能會感覺疲累、僵硬、疼痛、或瘙癢。當這些不可意的感覺出現後，你必須專注于不舒服的部位，並注意疲累、疼痛等現象的本質。觀照感受時，這是受隨觀(vedanānupassanā)。在注意熱時，是在觀照熱的元素(tejo，火大)，在注意堅硬或粗糙的表面時，是在觀照地元素(pathavī，地大)。有時可能感受到運動的元素和熱的元素混合在一起，你也應該注意它們。應當注意每一種身體動作：彎曲或伸展手臂或腿、向後向前傾斜頭部、張開或閤上眼睛、或眨眼。穿衣、洗涮、或沐浴時，可能有很多種動作。甚至在大小便時，也不要忘記注意運動的元素的表現。經過練習，你甚至可能有能力在說話時注意說話。

Our injunction to note the rising and falling of the abdomen is helpful for beginners in meditation. If one likes, one may take up noting the respiration, but in our experience those who began by noting the respiration ended up with contemplating the abdominal movements, and realised the Dhamma. We instruct meditators who have developed their concentration to extend the practice to noting everything occurring at the six sense-doors. When lust is abandoned through this practice of mindfulness, you will have no desire to grasp at tactile sensation, or to indulge in it.

我們要求注意腹部的上升和下降，這有助于初學者開展禪修。如果某人喜歡，他可以練習注意呼吸，但是據我們的經驗，以注意呼吸為開始的這些人會以觀照腹部運動為結束，然後了知法。我們教導已經開發了定力的禪修者擴展練習為注意出現在六門的每個現象。通過這種正念的練習斷除了貪愛後，你將不會再有欲念去抓取或放縱于身觸。

「Yathāssa phusato phassam, sevato cāpi vedanam;
Khīyati nopacīyati, evam so caratī sato.」

「On touching a contact, a meditator just touches it and just feels that he touches it, without conceptualising it. With this, suffering ceases. One who practises in this way is said to be near to nibbāna.」

「觸到所觸之觸時，禪修者只是觸觸，只是感受觸觸，沒有構想觸的概念。如此，苦熄滅。用這種方式禪修的人，我說，他傾近于涅槃。」

What has been discussed before regarding the other senses applies in this case too.

前面討論的關于其他感官的內容同樣適用這個情況。