平常心 Normality - 禪定與覺悟 Jhana - Nyana

ADJUSTING VIEWS

第1篇：觀念矯正

1-1. DIVINE EYE - DIVINE EAR聖眼聖耳

Today, I will talk about the teachings of the Buddha. We have come here in order to develop awareness, concentration and wisdom.

The word develop means to do a lot or to make progress. The Buddha has the knowledge to be able to see everything as it is, therefore we should practice to be a bit like that.

今天我要談談佛陀的教導，我們來這兒是為了要培養覺性、禪定和智慧(覺-定-慧)。「培養」意味著要多練習以及要有進展。佛陀具足智慧所以能如其本來的看待一切事物，因而我們修行就應該是要學習佛陀那樣的智慧。

1-1-1. JHANA - NYANA 禪定與覺悟

Nyana translates as realizing, really seeing, truly understanding. But most people think that one needs to enter Jhana first, before one can have Nyana, the kind of jhana where one sits with eyes closed and unmoving, being able to fly and disappear and so on. But the Buddha doesn’t teach that because it doesn’t lead to realization and the overcoming of suffering. The Buddha only teaches Nyana and Jhana that give rise to the divine eye and the divine ear. May you all understand this matter properly for your own benefit.

Nyana翻譯為覺悟、真實看見及真實了解。很多人以為在得到覺悟之前必須先得到禪定——那種坐著不動、閉上眼睛，然後能飛天遁地或隱形不見等的禪定。但是，佛陀並沒有教這種禪定，因為這些不能趣向覺悟及滅苦。佛陀只教導能獲得聖眼及聖耳的覺悟及禪定之法。為了你們自己好，但願你們大家對這點能有正確的了解。

Entering Jhana means to have awareness that knows and sees physical sensations in the various postures and knows and sees the feelings and thoughts in the mind, for example love, like, anger, hate, jealousy, worry, irritation, drowsiness and sadness. So we can enter Jhana any moment, no matter what we’re doing. When we are aware in this way, delusion will not arise in the mind.And this mind without delusion will have the wisdom to view all things according to reality. This is called Nyana.

「得到禪定」的意思就是指「有了覺性」，也就是在一切行住坐臥當中能知道和看見身體的感受，以及能知道和看見內心的感受與念頭，例如情愛、歡喜、瞋恚、憤恨、妒忌、憂慮、苦惱、昏沈、悲傷等。由此可知，無論我們做什麼事，隨時隨地都可以得到禪定。當我們依這樣的禪定而有了覺性時，內心就不會再有迷惑。而這個沒有迷惑的心，就會有智慧如實地看待各種事物，這就是所謂的覺悟(Nyana)。

This kind of Nyana and Jhana lie within the reach of the Buddha and His disciples. If we make ourselves to have some too, it will be a shift in our minds. At least we will be one who has the eye that sees Dhamma, that is to say the divine eye and divine ear or to enter the very stream of Nibbana. Nibbana here, doesn’t mean the Nibbana that one has to wait for until after death. Even making merit, generosity and keeping precepts is the same ; it is not for obtaining heaven when one dies. Whoever thinks like this doesn’t understand yet and doesn’t have the divine eye and ear yet, it is one’s own assumption. As for one who has Nyana, he or she makes merit today and gets it today, he or she keeps precepts or practices meditation today and receives the results of it today, no need to wait for death. One must get it the moment one acts, speaks or thinks. The Buddha teaches not to attend to the past and the future but to consider only the present.

這樣的覺悟及禪定才是佛陀和他的弟子們所教導的內容，假若我們自己也能夠得到一些的話，我們的內心就會有所轉變，至少我們會得到「見法之眼」，也就是進入涅槃法流的聖眼及聖耳。這里所說的涅槃，並不是那種要等死了以後才能得到的涅槃。甚至其它像做功德、布施或持戒這些也都和涅槃一樣，都不是為了求死後可以生天的。有那種想法的人並沒有真正了解佛法，也沒有聖眼及聖耳，那些都只是他個人的假設和想法而已。而一個有Nyana覺悟了的人，他今天做功德今天就得到，今天持戒或禪修，今天就得到結果，通通都不須等到死後。一個人在他身行、口說、心思的當下就得到了，佛陀教導我們只要關注當下而不要回到過去或去到未來。