是誰病了？Who Is Sick?

Who Is Sick?

　　是誰病了？

Late in the spring of 1979, Achaan Chah visited the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts. He taught there for ten days and each afternoon would go for a walk around the grounds. Seeing all the students out on the lawns doing slow walking meditation, he remarked that the meditation center looked like a mental hospital for the diseases of the worldly mind. All afternoon as he wandered past students, he would call out to them, “Get well soon. I hope you get well soon.”

　　一九七九年春季末，阿姜 查訪問在麻塞諸塞州的巴瑞市的一座禪修中心，他在那里教導了十天，每天下午他都會到廣場四周走走。看著學生們在草坪上緩慢的經行，他便說這禪坐中心看起來好像一間一般心理疾病的精袖病院。整個下午，在他經過學生時，他都大聲地向學生喊道：「早日康復，我祝你們能早日康復。」

Because people react differently, we must pick suitable practices. Body practices are especially suitable for persons with excessive lust or for forest monks.

　　因為每個人反應都不同，所以我們必須擷取適合自己的修行方法。觀身的修行方法特別適合淫欲重的人，或森林僧所使用。

In the body meditations, look at the body. See its parts, its real constituents. Start with the head, hair, body hair, nails, teeth, skin, see it everywhere. Separate them from the other body parts. Mentally peel off the skin, and see the inside. Do you want it? Seeing the true nature of the body can cut off the first three fetters:

　　觀身的禪修法是去觀照身體──觀察它的每一個部位，及它的構成元素(蘊)。從頭開始，到頭髮、毛髮、指甲、牙齒、皮膚……等等，觀照每一個部位。觀想把皮剝下來，看看身體的里面，你會想要嗎？看見身體的本質之後，便能去掉最初的三種障礙：

Own-body view, sense of self. We will see that it is neither us nor ours, that nothing in this world is ours.

　　一、身見和我見──我們會了解，這個身體並不是我們，也不是我們的。這世上沒有任何事物是我們的。

Skeptical doubt. Knowing things as they are puts an end to doubt.

　　二、疑──了知事物的本然，疑便消失了。

Attachment to a path based on rites and ritual. While still in doubt, we may think, “Perhaps this way is not so good.” But once we see clearly what the body is-that it, like all things, is impermanent, unsatisfactory, and empty of self-this uncertainty is cleared up.

　　三、戒禁取──當我們還有疑惑時，會想：「這方法或許不好。」不過，一旦我們了解身體的本然──也就是，一切事物都是無我的，這樣必能消除疑惑。

When meditating on the body, you need not contemplate all its thirty-two parts. If you concentrate on one and see it as it is-impermanent, unsatisfactory, empty, unclean-you will see that your body and the bodies of others are like this. If there are thirty-two ice cubes, you need only touch one to know the coldness of all.

 　　觀身時，並不須要一一觀照身體所有的三十二部份。如果你專注于一部份，而且能徹見它的本然──無常、苦、空、不淨──你就會了解到你的身體與他人的身體都是一樣的。如果有三十二塊冰塊，你只要摸到一塊就知道所有的冰塊的冷度。

When we develop the meditation on the impurity of the body, we are also developing the meditation on death. Indeed, when we develop one of the Dharmas, we develop them all. If we understand the fact of our own death, we can become very sensitive to all life in the world. We will naturally avoid wrongdoing and want to spend our days wisely, feeling a common bond with all beings.

　　當我們在增長觀身的不淨時，同時也是在觀死亡。事實上，我們增長一法，也是在增長所有的法。如果我們了解自己死亡的真相，便會對世上所有的生命都非常敏感。從此，我們自然會去避免造惡，也會想要明智地生活，並感受到與眾生合為一體的感覺。