看到究竟法 Seeing Abstract Reality

Seeing Abstract Reality

看到究竟法

When the thought moments of eye-consciousness, eye-door adverting, receiving, investigating, determining, impulsion, and registering have all played their part in the process of seeing, the abstract reality of the form and shape of the sense-object (or sense impression) become manifest. Until now the subject who sees has not paid attention to concepts like masculinity or femininity. At this point, unwholesome impulsion may perhaps occur, but as it is weak it is unable to produce a strong reaction, so any result of unwholesome impulsion will not be too bad. Therefore, at this initial stage when the reaction has not yet gathered momentum, you can note the object just as you see it. Next you will experience the abstract reality of both the subject that sees as well as the object that is seen. The subject is, of course, mind (nāma) and the object is matter (rūpa). So you have now come face to face with nāmarūpa as ultimate realities (paramattha). Still, you have not considered whether the object you are looking at is a man or a woman, which means you have not yet gained conceptual knowledge of the object seen. So at this stage, although you see something, you can leave it as it is, as you have not started thinking. This agrees with the statement, 「When you see, just see it.」

這些心識剎那的眼門轉向、眼識、領受、推度、確定、速行、和彼所緣，在看的過程中各自完成它們的職能後，究竟的色法和感官對象的形狀(注1)(或感官印象)就顯現出來了。直到現在，看的觀察者還沒有投入注意力到類似男性或女性這些概念上。在這個時候，不善速行或許會出現，但是因為它是虛弱的，它無法產生強大的反應。所以任何不善速行的果報將不會太糟糕。因此，在這個反應尚未聚集起力量的初始階段，你能做到僅僅如同你所看到的去注意該對象。然後，你將體驗到看的觀察者和被看的對象兩者的究竟層面。觀察者，當然地，是名法(nāma)，而對象是色法(rūpa)。所以現在你正面對面地直逼究竟的名色法(nāmarūpa)。到此時你尚未考慮你正在看的對象是男人還是女人，這意味著你尚未得到所看對象的概念認識。所以在這個階段，雖然你看到某物，但你能夠保持依據該物自身去看它，因為你還沒開始思維。這和經句「看的時候，只是看」一致。

(譯注1. 此句英文原文是：the abstract reality of the form and shape of the sense-object (or sense impressions) becomes manifest。本人對此處「shape、形狀」有疑問，按照本人理解，此階段還不會有「形狀」出現。英文經常使用兩個並列短語的形式，兩個短語間起到互相解釋的作用。由此，本人認為，「形狀」和「印象」兩詞同義，並不是指一般人理解的「外形、形狀, 形態」這個意思。)