No Ajahn Chah《086》

《086》我們的生命是種種元素的集合體。我們利用世俗(世相)來說明事物，但，我們卻反去執著世俗(世相)，然後認為它們是真實的事物。例如：人與事物的名字是被付予的，我們可以回到還未被付予名字之前的剛開始，然後叫男人「女人」，叫女人「男人」，有什麼差別嗎？可是，今天我們卻去執著名字和概念，所以我們才會有性別的斗爭和其他的戰爭。禪坐為的是看透所有這一切，然後，我們才可以達到無為，並安住于平靜，而非斗爭。

Our life is an assembly of elements. We use conventions to describe things, but we get attached to the conventions and take them to be something real. For example, people and things are given names. We could go back to the beginning, before names were given, and call men “women” and women “men” - what would be the difference? But now we cling to names and concepts, so we have the war of the sexes and other wars as well. Meditation is for seeing through all of this. Only then can we reach the unconditioned and be at peace, not at war.