家庭 Family

〖家庭〗

如果你想尋找佛法，它不在森林里、山里或洞穴中，而是在心里。法有它自己的語言，那就是「經驗的語言」。概念與經驗之間有極大的差異。就以一杯熱水里，都會有相同的經驗——熱，我們可以用不同語言的文字來表達。同樣地，任何人只要深入地洞察內心，不論什麼文化、地域或語言也會有相同的經驗。如果在你們心中，賞到了真理的滋味、法的滋味，你們會像一個大家庭一樣，猶如父母、兄弟、姐妹，因為你們已賞到了與所有人都一致的「心的本質」。

Family

If you want to find Dhamma, it has nothing to do with the forest with mountains or the caves. It’s only in the heart, and has its own language of experience. There is a great difference between concepts and direct experience. With a glass of hot water, whoever puts his finger into it will have the same experience - hot - which can be expressed in as many different words as there are different languages. Similarly, whoever looks deeply into the heart will have the same experience, no matter what his nationality, culture, or language may be. If in your heart you come to that taste of truth, of Dhamma, then you become like one big family - like mother and father, sisters and brothers - because you’ve tasted that essence of the heart which is the same for all.