平常心 Normality - 修學階段 Stages of Practice

Part 2: Walking The Path 第2篇：行道

2-3. Stages of Practice 修學階段

Determine to listen well, all lay-people and monastic friends. When you determine to pay attention, you’ll be able to remember. It is called knowing through memory and comprehension. From that, we study or practice to realize and truly know, or we have knowledge coming from our own vision and experience.

所有在家眾和出家道友們！要下決心好好地聽！當你下決心要好好地聽，才能記得住，這也就是所謂由見聞記憶及思惟理解而了知(即聞慧與思慧)。我們藉這些方便來學習或進一步修行而達到覺悟、如實真知，或開啟依自家見地與體證而流露出來的智慧(即修慧)。

Most people don’t yet know and understand from studying and practicing; they only know how to make merit, to be generous, to keep precepts and to do tranquility-meditation. But when it comes to more profound matters, that is to say, how to develop insight-meditation, there are really very few people who know and understand it. With Vipassana it is usually a specific case, a specific individual, who knows and teaches it. Because of this, people are lazy and don’t want to practice. As far as practice goes, they only know tranquility-meditation, which they think is the same as doing Vipassana. This is because they still don’t realize and really know. Their knowledge comes only through memory and comprehension. So, we make ourselves peaceful; but we don’t understand clearly that there are two kinds of peace, namely peace under the influence of delusion and peace due to awareness and wisdom.

大多數人都還不知道或了解學習與修行的方向，他們只知道如何做功德、布施、持戒及修止禪，但談到更深的層面，也就是說發展內觀禪修這方面，真的就很少有人知道與了解。比如就毘婆舍那來說，這通常都是要到一個特定的場地，還要有一位能通達和教導的特定的人，基于這個原因，一般人由于墮性也就懶得修習。他們修行就只知道修止禪，並且認為那和修毘婆舍那是一樣的，這都是因為他們還沒修行而達到覺悟與如實真知，他們的智能只是由見聞記憶及思惟理解而來的智慧。也正因此，一般人修行就只是使自己平靜，而並不清楚了解有兩種的平靜，意即：(1)帶有迷惑的平靜；和(2)由覺知與智慧而獲得的平靜。