從眼門到意門 From Eye-door to Mind-door

From Eye-door to Mind-door

從眼門到意門

It is no easy matter to stop short at just seeing. A beginner will not be able to catch the thought moments that make up the process of seeing. Being unable to stay with the phenomenon instantaneously as it arises, he or she has to consider the object appearing in the mind』s eye as if really wanting to know it. Whatever passes through the mind-door usually needs to be identified, but the beginner finds it difficult to adjust eye-consciousness to the object seen in his efforts to identify it, so has to rely on mind-consciousness to do some thinking regarding the visible object. The thought process relating to mind-consciousness is as follows.

停于僅僅是見到，這並不是件容易的事情。初學者沒有能力抓住構成看的過程的心識剎那。由于無法在現象生起的時刻即時地貼緊它，如果真的需要了解它的話，只能考慮出現在心的眼睛中的對象。凡是通過意門的現象通常需要被識別，但是初學者發現，努力調整眼識朝向所見對象去識別它，這是困難的，所以不得不依賴意識去做關于視覺對象的一些事情。意門心路過程在下面介紹。

First mind-door adverting arises, prompting seven thought moments of impulsion that report the findings to two moments of registering. Thus there are ten thought moments in this part of the process. However, if the sense-object creates only a weak impression, impulsion vibrates for less than seven moments, and mind consciousness may be cut off after only five or six impulsions. When eye-consciousness has done its job, mind-consciousness takes over, but it is still unable to distinguish the visible object as male or female. At this stage knowledge is still at the stage of ultimate realities(paramattha), as with the preceding eye-consciousness.

第一個意門轉向生起，促生七個心識剎那的速行，速行把結果報告給兩個心識剎那的彼所緣。因此(心路)過程的這部分共有十個心識剎那。然而，如果感官對象只造成微弱的印象，速行震盪就少于七個剎那，意識可能在只五個或六個剎那後就被切斷了。眼識完成它的工作後，意識接管，但是它依然無法區別視覺對象是男性還是女性。在這個階段，認知依然是處于究竟法(paramattha)的層面，如同前述的眼識。

However, note one difference here: whereas eye-consciousness cognises the visible object of the present moment, mind-consciousness cognises it as it recedes into the past. Mind-consciousness has to recall the past image as previously seen by eye-consciousness. Even so, the image is still an ultimate reality. It is, therefore, extremely difficult for the beginner to note the visible object as it passes to the first thought process of mind consciousness.

不過，注意這里的一個區別：儘管眼識認知當前剎那的視覺對象，意識認知後退到過去的對象。意識必須回憶先前由眼識看到的過去的映像。但即使如此，該映像依然是究竟層面的。因此，初學者要在視覺對象經過第一個意門心路過程時注意到它，依然非常困難。