眼門心路過程 The Stream of Eye-consciousness

The Stream of Eye-consciousness

眼門心路過程

Seeing means contact between the visible object and the eye-base, which causes eye-consciousness (cakkhuviññāna). This is usually rendered in plain Burmese as 『myin-thi』 - seeing-knowing, suggesting perception by the eye. Let me begin by explaining the sequence of a thought-process that operates when a visible object presents itself to the eye-base through the eye-door. Several thought moments occur in sequence during each thought-process. First, when the eye-base receives the image of the visible object, life-continuum consciousness (bhavanga) wakes up and initiates the process of seeing in three thought-moments. Thisexciteseye-door-adverting consciousness (cakkhudvārāvajjana), which turns towards the visible object. The image that falls on the eye-base is cognised by eye-consciousness (cakkhuviññāna), which at first remains unperturbed by defilements. It is followed immediately by receiving consciousness (sampaticchana), which receives or accepts the image. After that investigation (santīrana) takes over and investigates the object, so that determining (votthapana)can decide who is who, and what is what. Until now, latent defilement, which has been lying in wait for the opportunity to rear its head, has been unable to operate, but as soon as determining consciousness has decided that the object is agreeable or disagreeable, liking or disliking develop when the process of impulsion (javana) is brought into play. Impulsion normally runs its full course of seven thought-moments. At this stage action can be adjudged as moral or immoral, and defilements of greed, anger, or delusion now shows their true colours. Finally the two thought moments of registering (tadārammana)occur. This is a description of the thought-process of the mind on seeing an object. It is called 『vīthi,』 the path or course that consciousness takes in establishing itself.

「看到」意味著視覺對象和眼根的接觸，這導致生起眼識(cakkhuviññāna)。它用緬甸文通常寫作『myin-thi』 –看到-知道，表示經由眼的感知。讓我開始解釋，一個視覺對象通過眼門把自己呈現給眼根的時候，一個運作的心路過程的序列。每個心路過程中有幾個心識剎那順次出現。首先，眼根接收到視覺對象的圖像後，有分心(bhavanga)被喚醒，並在三個心識剎那後開始看的過程。這就激發眼門轉向心(cakkhudvārāvajjana)生起，轉向視覺對象。落入眼根的圖像由眼識(cakkhuviññāna)來認知，最初眼識心路還不受煩惱侵擾。緊接著的是領受心(sampaticchana)，接收和領受圖像。然後，推度心(santīrana)接管並推度對象，如此，(接下來)的確定心(votthapana)就能確定誰是誰，和什麼是什麼。直到現在，一直在睡眠等待抬頭機會的潛伏煩惱，還無法運作，但是，一旦確定心已經確定該對象是可意的或者不可意的，在速行(javana)過程開始運作時，黏著或排斥便生起。速行通常運行七個心識剎那的全過程。到這個階段，業就能判斷為善或不善，貪、嗔、癡的煩惱此時展現出它們的本色。最後，兩個心識剎那的彼所緣(tadārammana)生起。這就是看到一個對象時，心的認知過程的描述。它稱為『vīthi』，路或過程。心就是通過路建立起自己的。