玻璃杯 Drinking Glass

〖玻璃杯〗

我如何找到正見呢？我就簡單地以手中正握著的杯子回答你們。它對我們而言似乎是清潔實用的，可用來飲水，更可以長時間的保存。所謂的正見是要將它看做是破的玻璃，彷彿已經碎裂了。不久以後，它將破碎。如果你在使用它時，心存這種見解——它只是元素所組合而成的杯子的形狀，終歸破滅。那麼不論它發生什麼事，你都不會有任何煩惱。同樣的道理，身體就像這杯子，它也將破碎、死亡，你們必須了解這個道理。但是，了解這個道理並不表示你應該結束自己的生命，就像不應該因此去打碎這杯子或丟掉它一樣。杯子是個可以使用直到它自然破損的東西。同樣地，身體有如一輛車子，利用它直到它回歸自然。你們該做的是去了解一切事物的本然。這種正見可以使你們無系縛地生存于整個變動的世界中。

Drinking Glass

How can you find right understanding? I can answer you simply by using this glass of water I am holding. It appears to us as clean and useful, something to drink from and keep for a long time. Right understanding is to see this as broken glass, as if it has already been shattered. Sooner or later, it will be shattered. If you keep this understanding while you are using it - that all it is is a combination of elements which come together in this form and then break apart - then no matter what happens to the glass, you will have no problem. The body is like the glass. It is also going to break apart and die. You have to understand that. Yet when you do, it doesn’t mean you should go and kill yourself, just as you shouldn’t take the glass and break it or throw it away. The glass is something to use until it falls apart in its own natural way. In the same way, the body is a vehicle to use until goes its own way. Your task is to see what the natural way of things is. This understanding can make you free in all the changing circumstances of the entire world.