信賴你的心 Trust Your Heart

Trust Your Heart

　　信賴你的心

In the practice of Dharma, there are many methods; if you know their point, they will not lead you astray. However, if you are a practitioner who does not properly respect virtue and a collected mind, you will not succeed, because you are bypassing the Path followed by the great forest masters of the past. Do not disregard these basics. If you wish to practice, you should establish virtue, concentration, and wisdom in your mind and aspire to the Three Gems-Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Stop all activity, be an honest person, and go to it. Although various things deceive you time after time, if you are aware of them, you will eventually be able to drop them. The same old person comes telling the same old lies; if you know it, you need not believe him. But it takes a long time before you know; our habits are ever striving to deceive.

　　在佛法的修行中，有許多法門，如果你能掌握它們的主旨，就不致使你偏離正軌。不管怎麼說，如果你是一個不尊重德行和收攝心的修行人，你必定無法成功，因為你已偏離過去偉大森林禪師所遵循的「道」。不要忽視這些基礎，如果你想要修行，就應在心中建立成戒、定和慧，並深信佛、法、僧三寶。停止所有(內心)的活動，做一個誠實的人，然後繼續做下去。雖然種種不同的事物再三地欺騙你，如果你覺知它們的話，終究還是能把它們拋掉的。同樣的老人再來告訴你同樣的老謊言時，如果你知道，就不需再相信他;但這是需要很長的時間你才能明白的，因為我們的習氣永遠設法要欺騙我們。

When I had been practicing for only two or three years, I still could not trust myself. But after I had experienced much, I learned to trust my own heart. When you have this deep understanding, whatever occurs, you can let it occur, and all things will pass on and be quelled. You will reach a point where the heart tells itself what to do; it is constantly prodding, constantly mindful. Your only concern need be to continue contemplating.

　　當我只有二、三年的修行經驗時，我仍然無法信任自己。可是，在我經歷許多之後，我學到要信任自己的心。當你有了這種深刻的了解之後，不論什麼發生，你都能處之泰然，使這一切都能平緩而過，你將達到一個心會告訴自己該怎麼做的境地。心不斷地觀照、不斷地保持正念。你唯一需要關心的，就是繼續地思惟(觀)。