我們一定要調整自己的發心 We Have To Tune Our Motivation

宗薩仁波切開示中英文對照版

本系列開示是仁波切2011年在尼泊爾閉關期間講授，視頻共分20期。

 「Shakyamuni Buddha said that um everything, all phenomena, is circum circumstantial and the circumstance depends on motivation. 釋迦牟尼佛說諸法皆是因緣而起，而因緣境況則取決于發心(動機)。 So, first of all, I can’t stressed enough that we have to tune our motivation. 所以，首先，我必須反復強調，我們一定要調整自己的發心。 Ah to begin with, me, as the expounder of this teaching, I must tune my own motivation. 從我自己開始，作為這次課程的講授者，我必須調整自己的發心。 As someone who is uttering these words and, as someone who is giving you the information. (whispers, inaudible) 身為這些教法的傳遞者，提供這些訊息的人 Um my motivation as a teacher or as a medium expressing this te… these teachings should be solely, if possible, based on the bodhicitta. 作為老師或是傳播這些教法的媒介，我的發心，如果可能的話，應當是完全基于菩提心。 At least it must come from a good heart of benefiting others. 至少，應當是出于為了利益他人的善心。 As a teacher I shouldn’t be expounding these teachings in order to generate disciples, um fame, material possessions. 作為老師，我不應當為了廣納門徒而闡述這些教法，或是為了名聲、物質財產等動機。 I should not be giving you these teachings even for the sake of impressing you for a moment. 我甚至不應該僅僅是為了給你們留下深刻印象，而講授這些教法. And this is what I must remind myself again and again during these few days as I give you ah the teachings of the parting from the four desire. 這是我在傳授遠離四種貪執的這幾天里，應當一再提醒自己的。

If there’s any sign of me going astray ah you can kindly give me some indication. (laughter) 假如我有任何跑題的跡象，你們可以給我一些善意的提醒。(笑聲) Ah as a listener to this teaching, motivation also is very important. (你們)作為此教法的聽聞者，發心也非常重要。 Depending on what kind of motivation you have, you will also receive or interpret the teachings accordingly. 你對教法的領受或是解讀也將相應地取決于你自己的發心。 If you’re here to listen to the teaching to increase your knowledge; 如果你是為了豐富知識而來此聽聞教導， for instance, if you’re trying to finish a thesis on mahayana studies 例如，你正在試圖完成一篇有關大乘佛法的研究論文， or doing a PhD on attachments or parting from the attachments then that’s one type of motivation. 或正在做關于」貪執或遠離貪執」的博士研究課題，這也算是一種發心， Therefore, you will also um hear accordingly. 那麼，你將會據此來聽聞。 If you are here because you think that probably some of these mahayana teachings might act as a therapeutic help then, 假如你在這里，是因為你認為某些大乘教法可能會有些治療性質的幫助， of course, you will also hear accordingly um, according to that kind of desire. 當然，你也自然會相應地依據那種願望來聽聞。 This is quite e…essential even though when we whenever we talk about tuning the motivation we kind of assume ourself that we do have the right motivation or intention. 這相當重要，雖然當我們無論何時談到調整發心時，我們都或多或少假定自己確實具有正確的發心或意圖。 This is something that you might like to pay some attention because it is the motivation or intention that also generates different kinds of expectation. 這是你可能需要稍微留心一下的，因為(不同的)動機或目的也會形成不同的期望。 For instance, if you are going through some kind of a trauma in your life, 舉例來說，假如你正經歷生活中的某種痛苦， let’s say you are suffering insomnia and, because of that, you are wanting some kind of ah escape. 比如說你正在飽受失眠之苦，這使得你想要某種逃避， You want to numb your emotions. 你想要麻痺你的情感， And then you come here to receive these teachings, 然後你來這里接受這些教法， probably its not going to help your insomnia. 這大概對你的失眠不會有什麼幫助， Probably it might not even help your depression. 甚至可能對你的沮喪都不會有所幫助。 And then this might disappoint you and then all your effort that you have dedicated for coming here may be a waste and you may be utterly disappointed. 接著，這可能會讓你感到失望，于是你為了來這里所做的一切努力，可能變成一種浪費，你可能會徹底失望。 But, at the same time, if you have a motivation of really wishing to understand the infinite, vast and infinite mahayana path and gradually, at least, begin practicing this mahayana path and then apply it. 但與此同時, 如果你的發心是為了真正了解廣大無邊的大乘之道，並且逐漸，或者至少開始修行這個大乘之道，然後實際運用它， Then that’s another d… another case. 那又是另一回事了。 To put it into nutshell, I’m… I’m telling you these thing…these things because uh probably its my own imagination but I have a small reason here.

簡而言之，我說這些是因為 —— 這可能是我自己的想象 —— 不過我有個小小的理由 Buddhism recently has gained some um good ratings in the medias, looks like. 近來佛教似乎在媒體上很受好評。 Its con… buddhism is always associated with non-violence. 佛教總是與非暴力聯系在一起， Buddhism is kind of associated with happiness. 佛教與快樂有點關系， If you have a title 「Happiness」 in…on your book and something to do with Buddhism it’s almost guaranteed to be a best-seller. (laughter) 如果你的書名中有「快樂」而且和佛教有關，這本書幾乎保證會暢銷。(笑聲)

So, buddhism, non-violence, happiness are kind of becoming synonymous. 所以，佛教、非暴力、快樂幾乎變成同義詞了。

While this is, of course, as a buddhist this is kind of good thing. 當然，對于佛教徒來說，這是件好事， It feels good when you are associated with something good, you know. 你知道的，當你與好東西聯系在一起時，總是感覺不錯， Especially in this kind of time where religious fanaticism is so strong. 特別是在這個宗教狂熱主義如此盛行的時候。 At the moment we buddhists are kind of going through the honeymoon period of enjoying this reputation. 目前我們佛教徒正在經歷享受這個聲譽的蜜月期， But this worries me because Buddhism is not to the purpose of Buddhism is not to make you happy and this is very important for un…us [22:17] to understand. 但是這讓我擔憂，因為佛教的目的不是為了要讓你快樂。我們應該要了解這一點，這非常重要。

Purpose of the ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to go beyond happiness, to achieve enlightenment. That’s the most important. 佛教的究竟目的是為了要超越快樂、要達到證悟。 那才是最重要的。 Because happiness is very relative. 快樂是非常相對的。 Watching uh World Wrestling Federation 24 hours can be happiness for some people. 對某些人來說，二十四小時觀看世界摔角聯盟(WWF)比賽可以就是快樂。 So, practicing buddhism purely for happiness therefore is not really the ultimate aim. 所以，純粹是為了快樂而學佛，這並不是究竟的目標。

And this point is very much made by Manjushri or Sachen Kunga Nyingpo or Jetsun Trakpa Gyaltsen in this text which will be discussed, which we’ll be discussing. 文殊菩薩，或是薩千?貢嘎?寧波，或是傑尊?札巴?蔣稱，在我們將要討論的這個文本里，對于這點說的很清楚。 [23:27](softly: ok, too fast? oh, don’t worry about names) (laughter) (仁波切對翻譯說：ok,，講太快了？哦，別擔心那些名字。)(笑聲) So, this is why I’m stressing this. 所以，這就是為什麼我再三強調這一點。

Uh it’s kind of disheartening to see Buddhism, or anything to do with Buddhism, in the section of self-help and relaxation, aromatherapy. (laughter) 看到佛教或是有關佛教的書被放在「自我成長」、「心靈放松」、「香熏療法」等區域中讓人有點沮喪。(笑聲) And this is k…for me is a little bit difficult to say because blatantly you can’t go against anything to do with peace and loving and smiling and all of that. Because its in…politically incorrect to go in…against. 對我而言，說這些有點困難，因為你不能公開反對任何有關和平、愛、微笑等等之類的東西，因為反對這些是政治上不正確的(譯注：意指冒犯大眾)。

For health we go we enroll ourselves into health clubs for health and vanity reasons I guess. We enroll ourself to health clubs. We push iron, pull iron, I don’t know, run. 我們可能為了身體健康或是虛榮的原因而加入健身會所，把(舉重器)鐵塊推上、拉下和跑步等等， For s…mental health, ultimately for the mental health, if you come to just for a healthy mind. Of course, it depends on, depending on motivation for a healthy mind。Strong mind, controlled mind so that you will be a good manager, so that you’ll be a good leader. And you you see all these kinds of books these days. Buddhism. Management. Buddhism. 如果最終是為了心理健康，假如你來這里就是為了要有一個健康的心靈， 當然，這取決于你想要有個健康心靈的動機。一個強壯的心，能掌控的心，以便能成為一個好的經理人，或是好的領導者。近來你可以看到所有這類的書籍，佛教的，管理的。

For this kind of purpose, with this kind of purpose, if you come to buddhism, I cannot say you will be disappointed entirely. 假如你來親近佛教是為了這種目的，我不能說你會徹底失望， I’m sure it will give you, to a certain extent, some answer 我相信，在某種程度上，你會得到一些答案， but, ultimately, buddhism is not designed for that. 但是究竟上，佛教不是為此設計的。 Ultimately, buddhism is not designed to be a successful manager. 究竟上，佛教不是為了要成就一個成功的經理人而設計； In fact, ultimately, buddhism is to really ruin your career of management. (laughter) 事實上，佛教最終是要毀滅你的管理生涯。(笑聲)

If management and leadership is so important, 要是管理和領導能力如此重要， Siddhartha would have never left Kapilavastu because he had the greatest opportunity to manage the whole country. 悉達多就永遠不會離開迦毗羅衛，因為他有最好的機會去管理整個國家。 So, I’m telling you these things because we have to have a certain m…certain we have to really you know, 我說這些是因為，我們真的必須有正確的發心， its easy to say I, you know, we have the right motivation but we should really contemplate on this. 你知道，這個說來容易，但是我們真的應該好好思維它。 Are we here are we here for are we here to listen to these teachings for the enlightenment? 我們在這里聽聞這些教法，是否真的是為了證悟？ We all like to say 「yes」 or in anyway its safer to say this way anyway, you know, among the buddhists. [28:17] 我們都想說「是的」，或者身處在佛教徒之中，這麼說總是比較安全。 But, even that statement that 「I’m here to learn the path of enlightenment. 但是，即使是聲稱「我在這里是為了學習通往證悟之道」 ah I’m here to listen to the teachings so that I will achieve enlightenment.」 「我在這里聽聞教法，是為了能夠獲得證悟」， Even that, even the, even the fact that do you really want to achieve enlightenment. That is something that you should contemplate. 甚至于你是不是真的想要證悟，那都是你應當仔細思維的。 I must confess I, for one, I’m not that, I’m not all the time attracted to enlightenment. 我必須坦承，我自己就不是；我並不是總是想要證悟。 Really. I’m much more attracted to the samsaric success, the gain, the, I don’t know, the influence, the game that we play. 真的，我更熱衷于輪迴的成功，獲得，影響力，我們玩弄的游戲； I, you know, I I’m very much for this. 你知道，我很喜歡這些。 Enlightenment as a romantic notion, the golden color, the light, the omniscience, you know, all of that is fine. 證悟做為一個浪漫的想法，金色、光芒、遍知一切等等，這些都不錯。 And especially when I’m tormented suddenly with a certain problems then, of course, I think about enlightenment.(laughter) 特別是當我突然被某個問題困擾的時候，當然我會想到證悟。(笑聲) When I’m up in the air and when my plane gets, go through turbulence, then I think about enlightenment. (laughter) 當我在天上，突然飛機受到氣流影響時，我會想到證悟；(笑聲) As soon as I’m in the…on the ground and surrounded by friends, families, attention, gain, don’t think about enlightenment.

但是當我一落地，被親朋好友、關注、利得所包圍，我就不會去想證悟。 And not only that, sometimes I contemplate and if you really contemplate, enlightenment is a state where you have amazing qualities, supposedly amazing qualities. 不止是這樣，有時候我想，假如你認真思維，證悟是一個境界，你具備不可思議的功德的境界——所謂不可思議的功德。 And from the emotional point of view all these amazing qualities that enlightenment supposed to have such as omniscience, 從情緒化的觀點來看，證悟理應具備的所有的這些不可思議的功德，比如全知， you should really think: do you really want to be omniscient? 你真的應該想想：你真想要變得無所不知嗎？ Because, if you do have omniscience, there will be no surprise. 因為，假如你真能遍知一切，那就毫無驚喜可言了。 You cannot read one good detective novel. (laughter) 你不能讀一本好的偵探小說(笑聲)， You already know the end. 因為你已經知道結局。

You can’t you can’t enjoy anything. You can’t enjoy uh a new food. 你無法享受任何東西。你不能享受新的食物， You can’t taste a new drink because you already know. 你不能品嘗新的飲料，因為你已經知道它們是怎麼回事。 You don’t you you can’t, you know like gossip around, 你不能到處閒聊， you can’t chat uh chat around because you already know the answer. 你不能四處聊天閒談，因為你已經知道答案了。 So, from the emotional point of view, 所以，從情緒化的觀點來看， enlightenment is, from our deluded emotional point of view, 從我們染污的情緒化的觀點來看, enlightenment is really, utterly such a boring place where you have no excitement, 證悟真的是個絕對無聊的境地，在那里沒有興奮刺激， no excitement at all. 一點都沒有。 Why what why do we need this? 我們為什麼需要證悟？ So, this way its quite important to really uh tune our motivation. Uh [??? inaudible 32:20] 所以，我們用這種方式來檢視、調整自己的發心，這相當重要。 So, I will I shall remind you th…about motivation every now and then hopefully, hopefully every time I we begin the teaching 因此，我會不時提醒你們發心，希望每次我們開始講課時(都能提醒要正確發心)。 I mean to myself mainly and then to you also. 我主要是指提醒我自己，然後也提醒你們。 Now I studied under the amazing guidance of Khenpo Appey Rinpoche almost 5 years. 我曾在堪布阿貝仁波切令人驚嘆的指導下學習了將近五年， I mainly studied buddhist philosophy. 主要是學習佛教哲學。