平常心 Normality - 平靜之道 The Path of Peace

Part 2: Walking The Path 第2篇：行道

2-2. The Path of Peace 平靜之道

May you all listen well, this time, so that Sati/Panya springs up.

希望你們這次都好好地聽，引發出正念/智慧。

(Knowing Suffering 知道苦)

Something we have in common is that we don’t want suffering; we hate it. Then how does suffering arise? Suffering arises because we don’t know. Suffering doesn’t exist within us, and it doesn’t arise all the time. What really exists for sure is normality. By nature the mind of each person is in a state of normality.

我們都有一個共同點，也就是，我們都不想有苦，我們討厭它。那麼，苦是怎麼生起的呢？苦之所以生起，是因為我們不知道(它)，苦並不存在于我們身心之中，而且也不是時時刻都有。我們絕對真確存在的是平常心，每個人的心本來都是在平常(真如)的狀態中。

As we’re working, if we do it with delusion, it is called suffering. Most people have suffering while working because they don’t see suffering. People who go and see movies and shows do so because suffering leads them; this is due to our not watching minds. The moment we want to go and watch a movie, a thought flashes up that we want to watch a movie. We’re not thinking it all day long. When the thought comes up, we don’t see the thought. We only just know the thought, and we act, following the thought. This is called suffering. People who smoke are the same. Sometimes they don’t even think to smoke but simply follow their moods. They take a cigarette to smoke because they think it is happiness; but actually it is suffering that compels them to do it.

我們工作時如果帶著愚癡，這就是苦。大多數人工作時都有苦，因為他們沒看見苦。那些在看電影及表演的人也一樣，因為他們沒看見心，于是苦帶著他們團團轉。當我們想去看電影的當下，才有一個想去看電影的念頭出現，並不是整天都想著它。但是當念頭生起時，我們沒看見念頭，只是知道念頭(跟在念頭後面)，並隨之起舞，這就是苦。抽菸的人也一樣，有時他們根本不想抽菸，而只是隨著心情而抽，比如，他們拿起菸來抽，只因為他們感覺抽菸是快樂的事，但實際上，是苦在逼迫他們抽菸。[/color]

(Suffering Stinks 苦奇臭無比)

As to this word suffering, the Buddha sometimes calls it suffering, sometimes defilement, sometimes stench. When talking about suffering or defilements one notes that it has an ugly smell to it, according to Buddhism. Suffering is something dirty and it stinks; nobody wants it. As soon as the body dies, it starts to rot and stink. But we can still wash and clean it. Excrement is something that stinks, and we detest it. Nobody wants to touch or grab hold of it. But even with such stinking things, the Buddha said, they don’t stink all that much; they can still be touched and washed. But the stinking things to which the Buddha is referring are really stinky! They are greed, hatred and delusion, concealed in our minds, ready to bubble up. The Buddha condemns this emphatically. If anyone’s mind still has greed, hatred and delusion, the Buddha says that it stinks more than excrement.

「苦」這個字，佛陀有時稱它苦，有時稱它煩惱，有時稱它惡臭。在佛教里，說到這個苦或煩惱，我們說它有讓人厭惡的味道，意即苦是腐爛且發臭的，沒有人想要它。我們的身體一旦死亡，就會開始腐敗而發臭，但是，我們還是可以把它清洗乾淨；冀便是發臭的東西，而且我們厭惡它，沒有人想去碰觸或抓取它，但即便是這麼惡臭的東西，佛陀說：這些還不夠臭，糞便還是可以去碰，腐尸還是可以洗淨。佛陀所說的惡臭之物那才真的是奇臭無比！那些東西就是：藏在我們心里，隨時都會冒出來的貪、瞋、癡，佛陀特別強調這種惡臭。任何人如果心中還有貪、瞋、癡，佛陀說那樣的心比糞便還臭。

As soon as the mind thinks something in a flash, a person who doesn’t know, doesn’t see and doesn’t understand becomes deluded immediately. This arising is called by the Buddha a stain. The word “stain” means delusion. Even though we’ve never known, seen or watched our minds, we still say that we see. But in reality it is not seeing; it is only just knowing thought, and then we act according to the thought. When we say 『to see』, it should mean that we see defilements. That is, we see that either there is greed, hatred or delusion mixed up in thought, or there is not. To see like this, we have to practice Dhamma first.

當心突然想東想西時，沒有知道、看見、了解它的人立即就會迷惑，這樣起心動念佛陀稱之為染污，染污的意思是指迷惑。即使我們根本不曾知道、看見或看著我們的心，通常我們還是會說我們看見，但實際上那並不是看見，只是知道念頭，並隨之起舞。當我們說「看見」，意思是看見煩惱，也就是說，我們看見念頭中有還是沒有貪、瞋、癡。想要能像這樣看見，就必須先修習佛法。