平常心 Normality - 正確培養覺性，三年便能證果 Developing Awareness In The Right Way Will Yield Results Within Three Years

Part 2: Walking The Path 第2篇：行道

2-1. Taking a Shortcut 直取快捷方式

2-1-4. Developing Awareness In The Right Way Will Yield Results Within Three Years正確培養覺性，三年便能證果

It says in the scriptures that whoever develops the four SATIPATTHANA in the right way and as continuous as links in a chain, will receive one of the following two results: at most, within seven years, medium within months or as fast as one-tofifteen days to become one; an Arahant or two; an Anagami (i.e. one who is nearly fully enlightened) in this very life.

經典上說：任何正確修學四種念住並且達到正念持續如煉的人，他這一生中只需最多七年、中等的七個月之內或最快1至15天之內，便會得下列兩種成果之一：1. 成為阿羅漢；2. 成為阿那含Anagami(接近完全覺悟者)。

As for the way of developing awareness that I’m talking about, if you really do it, knowledge and understanding will arise, and suffering will diminish, at most within three years, medium within one year, or as fast as one-to-ninety days. We will know, see and understand, and our life from then onwards will have happiness and no suffering. To practice like this, we don’t have to spend money; we can do it an hour a day, or 5 minutes. Even hearing about it often makes the defilements gradually diminish.

至于我所介紹培養覺性的方式，假若你真地去修它，便能生起智慧與理解，而苦會減少。至多3年內、中等的一年內或最快1至9天，我們就會知道、看到與了解。且從此以後，我們的生命就能快樂而無苦。像這樣的練習，不需要花錢，可以一天練習個一小時或五分鍾。甚至聽聞這方面的教導，也能使我們的煩惱逐漸減少。

Greed, hatred and delusion are evil; they are suffering. To get angry once is evil and is suffering one time. Evil and darkness are the same. Darkness means not seeing, not knowing, not understanding. Merit and knowledge are the same. When we understand, we are at ease, we don’t have suffering and we don’t doubt. If the mind is dark, there is suffering and doubt. For example, doubt that we’re going to be reborn like this and like that after death. But some people, including myself, who have made merit, been generous, kept precepts and practiced tranquility-meditation, still doubt about merit and demerit, about falling into hell or going up to heaven after death. They don’t understand at that time. The Buddha teaches that heaven is in the heart, hell is in the mind; and Nibbana also is in the mind. Our grandparents use to tell us this, be we didn’t reflect on it, so we didn’t understand it.

貪、瞋、痴是惡的，它們是苦。生一次氣就造一次惡，也受一次苦。惡和黑暗是相同的，黑暗意思是沒看見、不知道和不了解；功德和知解是相同的，當我們知解，便能自在、沒有苦、不疑惑；假若心是黑暗的，就有苦、有疑惑，舉例來說，疑惑我們死後是會再投生為此或投生為彼。但是有些人，包括我在內，曾經做功德、布施、持戒和修習止禪，但還是對有功德或無功德以及死後下地獄或上天堂感到疑惑，他們到死的時候都還不能了解。佛陀教導我們：天堂在心中，地獄在心中，涅槃也是在心中。我們的祖父母們曾告訴我們這些，但我們沒有予以深思，所以我們不了解真義。

(We Have To Practice And Know For Ourselves我們必須修行而且自己親知)

Studying from scriptures is good, but it cannot solve suffering. Teachers teach that we should let go of greed, hatred and delusion; but they themselves can’t let go of it. Teaching others is easy, but teaching oneself is hard. But this method of mine is not difficult. You don’t have to study or learn anything. Being able to read and write or not is of no importance. Everyone can practice; men as well as women ordained or not ordained. We can all practice.

從經典中學習佛法是好的，但那樣不能解脫苦惱。有些導師教導我們放下貪、瞋、癡，但他們自己卻放不下，因此，教導別人容易，而教導自己很難。但是我教的這個方法不難，你不須研究或學習任何東西，能不能讀書寫字也不重要；任何人都可以修習，不管男人、女人、出家人或在家人，所有人都可以修習。

There is only one Dhamma, not many kinds. To say that the Dhamma of a person who keeps five precepts is one thing, that the Dhamma of a person who keeps eight precepts is another thing, the Dhamma of an ordained person is another thing, the Dhamma of a lay-person is another thing, the Dhamma of a person who practices insight-meditation yet another thing. That is a different matter. That is not what I’m talking about. I say that there is only one Dhamma. Dhamma is to finish Lobha, Dosa & Moha. Doing this is what virtue and Dhamma are. It says in the scriptures that virtue is the means to eliminate course defilements, concentration is the means to eliminate medium defilements, and wisdom is the means to eliminate subtle defilements. But can we really eliminate them? No. Why not? Because we don’t do it properly.

「法」只有一個，沒有很多種。一般人說，持五戒者的法是一種，持八戒者的法是另一種，出家眾的法是一種，在家眾的法是另一種，修止禪者的法是一種，修內觀禪者的法是另一種；他們認為這些法是不同的。那不是我所謂的「法」。我說的是只有一個「法」，「法」就是去斷除貪、瞋、癡，這麼做才是所謂的戒律與「法」。經典中說：「戒是斷除粗重煩惱的工具，定是斷除中等煩惱的工具，而慧是斷除微細煩惱的工具。」我們都有修學戒定慧，但是！我們真的能斷除它們嗎？不行！為何不行？因為我們沒有正確如法地修行。

The word defilement stands for greed, hatred and delusion but most of us understand it only as materialistic, that having money, a big house and a smart car is defilement. But in reality, those things are not defilements, they are just things that come from being diligent and knowing how to work, and from knowing how to save and accumulate things. But the defilements that I’m talking about are greed, hatred, delusion and sorrow. These defilements are not afraid of anyone, not of rich people, not of influential people, not even of monks ordained for a long time, with a title, are they afraid. They enter into everyone’s mind.

所謂「煩惱」是指貪、瞋、癡，但我們大多數人所謂的煩惱僅是外在物質方面的；比如，有些人認為錢、大房子及精美房車是煩惱。但實際上，這些東西不是煩惱，它們是由勤勉、熟知工作技能以及熟知節省及積累財物而來的產物。我所謂的煩惱是指內心的貪、瞋、痴及憂悲苦惱。這些煩惱不怕任何人，不怕有錢財的人、有權勢的人，甚至出家已久且有德號的僧伽。它們能滲入每一個人的心中。

On speaking in another way, we could say that the defilements slap everyone’s face. A wealthy person, on being told off a bit, is displeased. This shows that the defilements slap him or her in the face. Or when someone praises him or her, satisfaction arises. This is the defilements slapping his or her face. These defilements are not afraid of anyone at all. They are only afraid of those who are disciples of the Buddha, they are afraid of those who develop the four foundations of awareness in the right way; they are ashamed, they don’t dare to come close, because that person has the eye to see the Dhamma, the wisdom to see clearly.

換個方式來講，我們可以說煩惱在每個人臉上打了一巴掌，有錢人稍微被責備就不高興了，這就等于煩惱在他臉上打了一巴掌；或是當人們讚美時，他就感到高興，這樣也等于煩惱在他臉上打了一巴掌。這些煩惱完全不怕任何人，它們只怕佛陀的弟子，只怕那些正確如法修學四念住培養覺性的人，它們羞愧甚至不敢靠近那些具有見法眼以及如實知見之智慧者。

Of the lay-people who have come here today, some people are still young, only twenty-to-thirty years old. If you develop awareness in the right way, within two or three years you will go beyond suffering; and during the remaining part of your life, you will just have happiness. Even older people fifty or sixty years old, are the same. Until you die your life will only have happiness. And when you die, you die without suffering. If you still have another nine or ten years to live, it will be nine or ten years without suffering, with only happiness and coolness of mind.

今天來這里的在家眾們，有些人還年輕，只有20～30歲左右，如果你們花個2～3年，正確如法的培養覺性，那麼，你將能超越苦惱，而且在你往後的人生中，將會只有樂而無苦；即使是50～60歲左右的老人家也一樣，在你余生當中將會只有樂而無苦，而且當你命終時，你會死得安然無苦。如果你還有9～10年可活，那也必然是9～10年無苦的人生，只有著快樂與平靜的心。

This is the heartwood, the essence of Buddhism! The word Buddha means the one who knows, the awakened one, one who is joyful with Dhamma.

這是佛法的心要與精義！所謂的「佛」是指一個明了的人、覺悟的人以及法喜的人。

I have shared some of my reflections and understanding. It is a shortcut to practicing Vipassana. It is instantaneous. Having listened, please practice with every breath, no matter where you are, whatever work you are engaged in. You can practice while washing clothes, doing the dishes, sweeping up, or working in the field. Vipassana is wisdom, it is life, it is virtue, it is the Dhamma, it is everything. It is the real life, it is the real Dhamma. May you understand it like this.

我曾經與人分享我的某些感想和理解，這是一個練習毘婆舍那禪修的快捷方式，是立即可修的。當你聽了之後，不管你在那兒或做什麼工作，請隨著每一呼吸來練習，比如，在洗衣、做菜、打掃或在田里工作時，你都可以練習。毘婆奢那是智慧、是生命、是戒律、是法、是一切，它是真實的生命、是真正的法，希望你們能這樣理解它。