垃圾坑 Garbage Pit

〖垃圾坑〗

如果你的心平靜而專一，它就是個很有用的重要工具，但如果你禪坐只是為了得到禪定的喜悅，那是在浪費時間。修行是去坐下讓你的心平靜而專一，而後用來觀察身與心的本質，用來更清楚地看清它們，否則，只是讓心平靜，那麼心在那段時間里也許是安詳無雜染的，但這就好像拿一塊石頭蓋住惡臭的垃圾坑一樣，當石頭移開時，卻仍舊充滿著難聞的垃圾。你們必須善用禪定，不要只為短暫的快樂，而要正確地觀察身心的本然，這才是真正使你解脫之道。

Garbage Pit

If your mind becomes quiet and concentrated, it is an important tool to use. But if you’re sitting just to get concentrated so you can feel happy and pleasant, they you’re wasting your time. The practice is to sit and let your mind become still and concentrated, and then use that quiet concentration to examine the nature of the mind and body. If you make the mind simply quiet with no investigation, however, then for that time it’s peaceful and there is no defilement, but that is like taking a stone and covering up a smelly garbage pit. When you take the stone away, it’s still full of smelly garbage. You must use your concentration, not to attain temporary bliss, but to accurately examine the nature of the mind and body. This is what actually frees you.