你為什麼要修行？Why Do You Practice?

Why Do You Practice?

　　你為什麼要修行？

A group of travelers came to visit Achaan Chah with three elegant questions: Why do you practice? How do you practice? What is the result of your practice? They were sent as a delegation by a European religious organization to ask these questions to a series of great masters throughout Asia.

　　一群旅客來訪阿姜 查 時，問了三個問題：你為什麼要修行？你怎麼修行？你修行的結果是什麼？

Achaan Chah closed his eyes, waited, and then answered with three questions of his own: Why do you eat? How do you eat? How do you feel after you have eaten well? Then he laughed.

　　阿姜 查闔上雙眼，等了一會，然後提出三個問題做答覆：你為什麼要吃？你怎麼吃？你吃完以後的感覺如何？接著便哈哈大笑起來。

Later, he explained that we already understand and that teaching has to direct students back to their own inner wisdom, to their own natural Dharma. Therefore, he had reflected the search of these men throughout Asia back to the greater search within.

　　後來，他解釋說，我們已經明白教導了，而這些教導必須導引學生回到他們自己內在的智慧，以及他們自己的自然之「法」。因此，他將這些曾到亞洲四處探求的人，導引他們返回到偉大的內心之探求。