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〖高速公路〗

錯誤的知見是認為我們就是「行」，我們是快樂和不快樂。像這樣的了解是對事物的真實本性仍未完全清楚的了解。所謂的真理是：我們無法強迫所有事物聽從我們的欲望，它們都必須遵循自然的法則。

這有一個簡單的譬喻：假設你坐在高速公路中央，有很多汽車和卡車急撞你而來，你不能生氣地對車子喊道：「不准行駛到這里！不准行駛到這里！」這是高速公路，你不能這樣告訴他們，所以你該怎麼辦呢？你必須下高速公路！高速公路是車子行駛的地方，假如你不准車子在那里，你就會痛苦。

「行」也是一樣的，我們說是它們擾亂我們，如同我們靜坐時聽到聲音一樣，我們認為：「噢！是那聲音在干擾我。」假如我們認為是聲音干擾了我們，我們將會因此而痛苦。如果我們再深入地觀察，我們會了解，原來是我們出去干擾了那聲音。聲音其實只是聲音。假如能這樣理解，那麼聲音也只是聲音。我們可以讓它去！我們了解聲音是一回事兒，和我們並不相干。這是真知真理，兩邊你皆看透了，所以才得果樹平靜。假如你只看到一邊，痛苦！一旦看穿兩邊，便是遵循中道了。這是心的正確的修行，也就是我們所謂的「修正我們的知見」。

同樣地，一切「行」的本質是無常和死滅的，但是我們卻要捉住它們，背負它們，貪著它們，我們希望它們是真實的，我們希望在不是真實的事物中發現真實！不管什麼時候，若有人有這樣的想法，並執著「行」就是他自己，他會痛若不堪，佛陀要我們好好思惟這個道理。

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Not having full, clear knowledge of the true nature of things, we will go on thinking that we are the sankharas or that we are happiness and unhappiness. The truth is that we can’t force things to follow our desires. They follow the way of Nature. A simple comparison is this: Suppose you go and sit in the middle of a freeway with the cars and trucks speeding down toward you. You can’t get angry at the cars, shouting, “Don’t drive over here! Don’t drive over here!” It’s a freeway. You can’t tell them that. So what can you do? You get off the road. The road is the place where cars run. If you don’t want the cars to be there, you suffer. It’s the same with sankharas. We say they disturb us, like when we sit in meditation and hear a sound. We think, “Oh, that sound’s bothering me!” If we understand that the sound bothers us, then we suffer accordingly. If we investigate a little deeper, we will see that it’s we who go out and disturb the sound. The sound is simply sound. If we understand it in this way, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave the sound alone. We see that the sound is one thing and we are another. This is real knowledge of the truth. We see both sides, so we have peace. If we see only one side there is suffering. Once we see both sides, then we follow the Middle Way. This is the right practice of the mind. This is what we call straightening out our understanding. In the same way, impermanence and death are the nature of all sankharas, but we don’t want it that way. We want the opposite to be true. We want to find truth within the things that aren’t true. Whenever someone sees like this and clings to the sankharas as being himself, he suffers. The Buddha told us to contemplate this.