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致覺知者 The Insight Developing Teaching 序 Preface

致覺知者

The Insight Developing Teaching Of LuangPor Teean

隆波田的內觀發展技巧

by Luangpor Teean Juttasubho

隆波田‧吉塔蘇活 著

Tavivat Puntarigvivat 與 Bhikkhu Nirodho翻譯與編輯(由泰語至英語)

岩松校自英文版

「It is to one that feels that I teach Dhamma, not to one that does not feel.」

「我對修覺知行者教導正法,而非對無覺知者」 —The Awakened One —佛陀

追尋佛陀 追尋阿羅漢 追尋涅槃 不要追尋虛無之物 到你自己內心深處去尋找 時時刻刻保持覺知 你將會發現、看見

故事是這樣的:悉達多(Siddhartha)吃完了蘇伽塔(Sujata)供養的滿滿一碗食物後,站在河沿上,許下了誓願:「如果我能夠從有害的、虛妄的精神世界中解脫出來,成為一位覺者(fully Awakened),就讓這只碗逆流而上。」他把碗放在河里。碗逆著河流,漂到了水的源頭。

故事的寓意在于:導致覺悟的修行即是逆著念頭之流直至其源頭。在念頭的源頭,覺悟就會出現。

序

Luangpor Teean (CE 1911 – 1988) was one of the most remarkable teachers of Buddhist practice to appear in Asia in modern times. His teaching issued very directly from his own experience, intensely personal and original, and in translating the talks collected here from Thai into English we have attempted to achieve the highest fidelity to the original, preserving the talks』 style, rhythms, verve and profundity, together with their occasional peculiarities of expression.

隆波田(Luangpor Teean 1911–1988)是當代亞洲一位與眾不同的佛法實踐的導師。他的開示直接來源于他自己的有個性的、獨特的體驗。在將收集到的他的談話從泰語翻譯成英語的過程中,我們試圖最大限度地忠實于其原意,最大限度地保留談話的風格、節奏、神韻、深刻,以及表達的情景特徵。

我們目前最大的擔憂是能否將隆波田的泰語談話準確譯為英語,這就導致原文中出現許多專門術語。除了泰語的詞語roop(身)、nahm(心)、phra(出家人)外,所有的專門術語都給出它們的巴利語形式,並均在每章至少翻譯(圓括號內)一次(除了最後一章)。為了便于理解,還編輯了一個巴利語詞彙表(譯者注:略,詳見英文版)。

致謝(譯者注:略,詳見英文版)

Bhikkhu Nirodho Tavivat Puntarigvivat Thailand Bristol, Pennsylvania

1993年7月

原序

This book is not concerned with words, but with the practice at yourself: the fruit that is received, you receive it at yourself. This method is therefore the most direct and easiest. It is to watch the mind at the moment it thinks, to know the deception in the actual moment, and to resolve it there. It isn』t that knowing the thought we evaluate it, because doing so is delusion (anger and greed as well). When we can cut here, there is (sati-samadhi-panna) complete at this moment.

本書的主題不是文字,而是你自己的修行:自證自知。這是最直接的,也是最容易的方法。它就是當念頭生起時,就看見它,就識破它,並且就在它生起處解決它。

這並不是要知道念頭並對它加以評價。那樣的話還是無明(也是瞋和貪)。只要我們能夠在此處斬斷念頭,當下就是圓滿的覺–定–慧(sati-samadhi-panna)。

Practitioners who tried the practice, both Thai and non-Thai, especially Singaporeans, have given donations towards the printing of this book, which is being published for those who have never tried the practice. The practice described in this book is of such value to be priceless, just as the life of humans has no price and cannot be bought or sold.

曾經實踐過這個方法的人,包括泰國人和外國人,尤其是新加坡人,為那些從未嘗試過這種方法的人捐款出版了這本書。由于這本書中所記載的方法如同人的生命一樣乃是無價之寶,因而本書是不可以買賣的。

隆波田

1984年2月1日

開佛知見,示佛知見,使悟佛知見,入佛知見也。