解脫心 A Heart Released 十、最初的心意本性是光明清淨的，但因墮落而黑暗

§10. The primal mind is radiant and clear by nature, but is darkened because of corruptions.

十、最初的心意本性是光明清淨的，但因墮落而黑暗

pabhassaramidam bhikkhave cittam tanca kho agantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilittham:

　　‘Monks, this mind is originally radiant and clear, but because passing corruptions and defilements come and obscure it, it doesn’t show its radiance.’ This has been compared to a tree in the poem that runs,

比丘，這心意本來是光明而清淨的，但是因為經過墮落，而煩惱遮蔽，它才不見光輝。』這就好比詩偈中所說的一棵樹，

A tall tree with 6,000 branches: Big chameleons swarm it each day by the hundreds, Small chameleons, each day by the thousands. If the owner doesn’t watch out, They’ll bring along more and more of their friends every day.

　　一棵大樹有六○○○根樹枝： 　　幾百只大蜥蜴日日簇擁其上， 　　幾千只小蜥蜴群居其中， 　　主人如果不予留意， 　　它們日日將會帶來更多的朋友。

This can be explained as follows: The tall tree with 6,000 branches — if we cut off the three zeroes, this leaves us with six, which stands for the six sense doors, the entry way for the chameleons, i.e., things that are counterfeit, not things that are genuine. Defilements aren’t genuine. They are simply things that come drifting in through the sense doors by the hundreds and thousands. Not only that, defilements that haven’t yet arisen will arise more and more every day as long as we don’t find a means for rectifying the nature of the mind.

　　這可以解釋如下：一棵大樹有六○○○根樹枝—如果我們去掉三個○，就剩下六，它就代表六根門，變色蜥蜴的入口，亦即偽裝的事物，而非真實的事物。煩惱是不真實的，它們就是那些成千上萬地穿過根門流入(心中)的事物了。不僅如此，只要我們尚未找出矯正心性的方法來，未生的煩惱就會日日增長，愈來愈多。

The mind is something more radiant than anything else can be, but because counterfeits — passing defilements — come and obscure it, it loses its radiance, like the sun when obscured by clouds. Don’t go thinking that the sun goes after the clouds. Instead, the clouds come drifting along and obscure the sun.

　　心意比其它任何事物更為光輝，但是因為經由煩惱的偽裝和遮蔽，就失掉了它的光輝，就像太陽被浮云遮蔽了一般，不要認為太陽走到浮云後面去了，而是浮云飄來遮蔽了太陽。

So meditators, when they know in this manner, should do away with these counterfeits by analyzing them shrewdly, as explained in the strategies of clear insight, § 9. When they develop the mind to the stage of the primal mind, this will mean that all counterfeits are destroyed, or rather, counterfeit things won’t be able to reach into the primal mind, because the bridge making the connection will have been destroyed. Even though the mind may then still have to come into contact with the preoccupations of the world, its contact will be like that of a bead of water rolling over a lotus leaf.

　　所以禪思者，當他們知道了這回事，就應該以敏銳的分析來對付這些偽裝，就如第節中所說的清淨內明的策略。當他們開發心意到達最初心意的階段，這就是說所有的偽裝都被摧毀了，或寧可說是偽裝的事物不能進入最初的心意，因為用來銜接的橋梁已經被摧毀了。即使心意或許仍必須要與世間事接觸，它的接觸就像水珠仔滾過荷葉一般。