問3：尊者，我相信您修行中進步神速，觀智一個接一個地生起，是嗎？
Q3: Venerable Sir, I believe you made very fast progress in your practice arousing one insight knowledge after another. Didn』t you?
問3：尊者，我相信您修行中進步神速，觀智一個接一個地生起，是嗎？
No, I didn』t. I could not appreciate the practice three or four weeks after I had started because I did not yet exercise enough effort. Some of the yogis here, however, even though the practice is new to them, manage to develop enough concentration and mindfulness after a week or so, to see impermanence, suffering, and insubstantiality to some extent. For me, I could not make any remarkable progress in the practice even after a month or so, let alone four or five days. I was then still at zero progress in my practice. This is because my faith in the practice was not strong enough, and I did not make enough effort. At this point, skeptical doubt called Vicikiccha, usually hinders the insight knowledge and Magga- Phala from takingplace. So it is very important to do away with such doubt. But, I was wasting my time by mistaking the skeptical doubt for productive analysis.
不是。開始三、四周我並不很認同這種修法，因為我沒有足夠用功。然而這里的有些禪修者雖然剛學這種禪修方法，就在一周左右的時間里致力培育出了足夠的定力和正念，在一定程度上見到了無常、苦、無我。而我在一個月左右時間里禪修都沒有明顯的進步，更別說四、五天了。我那時禪修的進展仍然是零，這是因為我的信心不夠，所以沒有付出足夠的精進。這種情況通常是疑蓋阻礙了觀智和道果的生起。所以祛除這種疑蓋是很重要的。我確實在浪費時間，誤以為這種懷疑是有效的分析。
I thought it was only a conventional or conceptual way of practice and not in the ultimate sense that one observes objects such as going, bending, stretching, etc. The Venerable Sayadawji taught me in that way as a basic training. Perhaps, later he would teach me how to distinguish between mind and body, etc. Later on, while continuing with this practice I spontaneously realized: 「Wow! This is not just a basic training, but noting physical and mental behaviors, like going, bending, stretching, etc., are also intermediate advanced instructions, too. These are all I need to observe. Nothing else.」
我想，觀察走、彎曲、伸展等只是世俗諦的或者概念性的修法，而不是究竟意義上的修法，尊敬的尊者這樣教我只是一種基礎訓練，也許後面他會教我如何分辨名色等等。後來，當繼續這樣用功的時候我一下自發地認識到：「啊！這不只是基礎訓練，觀照身心的行為如行走、彎曲、伸展等等也是高階的指導。這些是我所需要觀照的全部，而不是別的。」