默照禪呢！第一個段落的前方便就是放鬆。 The first preparatory step of Silent Illumination Chan is relaxation.
把身心放鬆！ Relax your body and mind!
而且每一次都應該，上坐以後就從身心放鬆著手。 And every time you sit down, you should start by relaxing your body and mind.
全部都放鬆，然後照你的全身「只管打坐」，觀照你的全身，也就身體的全部的覺受。 Relax completely, and then 'just sit' while illuminating your whole body, observing all the sensations of your body.
感覺的覺。感覺並不是等於覺悟。 The 'feeling' of sensation. Feeling is not the same as enlightenment.
感覺呢？是同時在感覺自己的全身，但是不是檢查你的身體。 What is feeling? It is simultaneously feeling your entire body, but not examining your body.
不是一部分一部分的檢查，而是呢？知道整個身體，全部的身體是在打坐。 It's not inspecting part by part, but rather knowing that your entire body, your whole body, is sitting in meditation.
雖然身體上有一部分一部分的，若干部分沒有感覺，若干部分有感覺。 Even though some parts of your body might have no sensation, and some parts might have sensations.
但是呢？你是照顧著全身的。 However, you are attending to your entire body.
不管它有感覺沒有感覺的地方，你都是普遍的照「我在打坐」，「我知道我的全身正在打坐」這個「知」！ Regardless of whether there are sensations or not, you are universally illuminating, 'I am sitting in meditation,' 'I know my whole body is sitting in meditation' – this 'knowing'!
也就是呢？我曉得我在打坐。 That is to say, I know I am sitting in meditation.
這個是呢？我們已經講了「默照」的「照」是普遍的照，普照之中並無設限，是平等的了知。 This is what we've already discussed: the 'Illumination' (照) in Silent Illumination is universal illumination, with no limitations set within this universal illumination; it is an equal knowing.
所以「照」全身之中卻找不到對立的分別執取心。 Therefore, in illuminating the whole body, you will not find a mind that clings to distinctions or opposition.
這能夠達成一個目的，粗淺的目的可以達成身心統一。 This can achieve a purpose, a preliminary purpose: the unification of body and mind.
所謂身心統一啊是什麼意思？ What is meant by the unification of body and mind?
你覺受你自己的身體，身體會產生呢？柔、軟、暖、輕。 When you feel your own body, your body will produce sensations of gentleness, softness, warmth, and lightness.
柔、軟、暖、輕！ Gentle, soft, warm, light!
柔軟，柔和軟不大一樣啊！ Softness, 'gentle' and 'soft' are not quite the same!
柔是柔和，軟呢？是啊！不硬！ 'Gentle' is harmonious; 'soft' means, yes! Not hard!
不硬啊！身體沒有啊阻礙。 Not hard! Your body has no obstacles.
沒有阻礙那就身體沒有了！ When there are no obstacles, then the body seems to disappear!
柔是一種，身體感到非常的平順、柔順、柔和。 Gentleness is a feeling of great smoothness, pliability, and harmony in the body.
軟呢？又叫柔軟。 And softness? It's also called pliability.
軟是啊沒有阻礙，沒有僵硬。 Softness means no obstructions, no stiffness.
也就是沒有緊張的，不緊張! That means no tension, no tightness!
沒有緊張的地方，沒有阻礙。所以叫做軟。 No tense spots, no obstructions. That's why it's called soft.
然後呢？暖和的暖，你一種身體上有一種溫暖的感覺，舒暢、溫暖。 Then, the warmth of comfort, you'll experience a warm sensation in your body, comfortable and cozy.
然後就是輕！ And then comes lightness!
輕以後，你的心已經很安，輕接下就是安。 After lightness, your mind is already very peaceful; lightness leads to peace.
所以輕是什麼？是輕巧，沒有重量的感覺。 So what is lightness? It's nimbleness, a feeling of no weight.
你很可能會發覺到，或則是感覺到，漸漸漸漸你的身體負擔重量愈來愈少，愈來愈少。 You may very likely notice, or feel, that gradually, your body's burden of weight becomes less and less.
你到可能呢就是沒有感覺的時候，身體都沒有感覺，身體上任何一部分沒有感覺。 You might even reach a point where there is no sensation, no feeling in any part of your body.
沒有感覺並不等於死啊！ No sensation does not mean death!
沒有感覺還是相當的溫柔、溫和，而也就是這覺得「暖」啊！ No sensation is still quite gentle, warm, and it's precisely this feeling of 'warmth'!
溫暖，和「輕 」輕巧、輕鬆、沒有重量感。 Warmth, and 'lightness' — nimble, relaxed, without a sense of weight.
這個時候身體上沒有任何壓迫感，沒有任何的說，痛啊，癢啊，酸啊，麻呀，緊張啊！這些沒有了。 At this moment, there's no pressure on the body, no sensation of pain, itchiness, soreness, numbness, tension! These are gone.
這個時候你的身體，輕巧到比棉花還要輕，比絲棉還要輕。 At this time, your body is so light, lighter than cotton, lighter than silk floss.
就是沒有重量感，但是知道在。 There is no sense of weight, yet you know it is present.
知道在，因為沒有負擔，沒有重量，可是呢？是在啊等於是沒有在啊！ You know it's present because there's no burden, no weight, but then? Being present is almost like not being present!
這個時候叫做身心統一了！ This is when body and mind are unified!
這輕安，輕以後心負擔沒有了。 This is 'light-ease'; after lightness, the mind's burden is gone.
你心裡沒有，身體沒有負擔，心裡也沒有負擔，這個時候你會覺得心裡面很平安。 You have no mental burden, your body has no burden, your mind has no burden; at this time, you will feel very peaceful inside.
但心平安之後啊！這裡頭雜念就非常的少，沒有妄想，起的念頭也會非常少。 But after the mind is peaceful! There will be very few distracting thoughts, no delusions, and very few thoughts arising.
有念沒有念？有念。 Are there thoughts or no thoughts? There are thoughts.
這個時候因為身體對你來講已經不是一種阻礙、負擔，它的存在或不存在已經不是問題。 At this time, because your body is no longer an obstruction or a burden to you, its existence or non-existence is no longer an issue.
那你這個時候心放在哪裡去？ So where do you place your mind at this moment?
這個時候你可能覺得也沒有事，沒有事！能夠保持沒有事，明明朗朗。 At this point, you might feel that there's nothing to do, nothing to do! Being able to maintain a state of 'nothing to do,' bright and clear.
明和靜，明和靜，明就是明朗，就是「照」。 Brightness and stillness, brightness and stillness. 'Brightness' (明) means clear and luminous, which is 'Illumination' (照).
靜呢？安靜的靜。安靜的靜是什麼啊？是「默」。 And 'Stillness' (靜)? It's the stillness of quiet. What is the stillness of quiet? It is 'Silence' (默).
身體沒有負擔，可是心很明朗很安定。 The body has no burden, yet the mind is very clear and very stable.
這個時候不是「無際」不是啊！在休息。 This is not 'boundlessness,' it's not just resting.
「明」不是啊！糊糊塗塗的。 'Brightness' is not being muddled or confused.
明而靜，明，在非常明朗。靜是非常安靜。 Bright and still. Brightness, being very clear. Stillness, being very quiet.
這時候你很可能進入定境！ At this point, you are very likely to enter a state of Samadhi (meditative absorption)!
其實進入定境之後啊！你已經沒有時間與空間的感覺了。 In fact, after entering Samadhi, you will no longer have a sense of time and space.
如果你還有時間與空間的感覺，你並沒有入定。 If you still have a sense of time and space, you have not entered Samadhi.
所謂空間，也聽到聲音，也知道環境，那不是進入定。 In what's called 'space,' you still hear sounds, you are still aware of the environment—that is not entering Samadhi.
入定以後是空間與環境是沒有的，時間的感覺也不會存在的。 After entering Samadhi, space and environment are absent, and the sense of time will also not exist.
因此我們呢？默照禪也不是要你入定。 Therefore, for us, Silent Illumination Chan does not aim for you to enter Samadhi.
默照禪不讓你入定。 Silent Illumination Chan does not let you enter Samadhi.
要在「默」的時候還在「照」的功能，保持著不會啊！停止。 It requires maintaining the function of 'Illumination' (照) even while in 'Silence' (默), ensuring it doesn't stop.
所以要 「明」。 So, it must be 'Bright' (明).
這個時候你的心可能沒有辦法守住那個 「明和靜」！ At this point, your mind might not be able to maintain that 'Brightness and Stillness'!
那就要進一步啊！或則是用?我們叫進一步，其實還是叫統一心。 Then you need to take a step further! Or rather, we call it a step further, but it's actually still about unifying the mind.
從身心統一，而到自己的自我環境統一。 From body-mind unification to the unification of self and environment.
那就是觀整體的環境。 That means observing the entire environment.
這個 「觀照」是啊跟觀身體是相同的原則。 This 'observation and illumination' (觀照) follows the same principle as observing the body.
環境裡面有的鐘聲，有的鳥聲，有的雨聲，有的什麼？飛機聲，有的車聲，或則是呢？你也聞到隔壁的人的呼吸聲，以及呢？身體上的體味、味道。 In the environment, there might be the sound of bells, birds, rain, what else? Airplanes, cars, or perhaps you might even hear the breath of the person next to you, as well as body odor or scents.
或則是我們這個房間裡面呢？有什麼燒了香的香味，或則花的香味，或則是人在走動的聲音以及呢？走動的影子。 Or in this room, there might be the fragrance of burning incense, or the scent of flowers, or the sound of people walking and even their moving shadows.
凡是在環境裡面用眼睛用耳朵用身體用鼻孔能夠接觸到的任何一種狀況，一種景象，你都是平等的，平等的 「照」。 Whatever situation or sight you can perceive in the environment with your eyes, ears, body, or nostrils, you are equally, equally 'illuminating' (照).
這個 「照」請你們不要把它說我要找一點去 「照」它一下？不是的！ Regarding this 'illumination,' please don't think of it as 'I need to find something to illuminate for a moment'? No!
「默照」的照，是平等的 「照」。 The 'illumination' (照) of Silent Illumination is an equal 'illumination'.
不要選擇性的 「照」。 Do not 'illuminate' selectively.
環境裡面的任何東西啊！你就像觀照你身體的時候是相同。 Anything in the environment! You illuminate it the same way you observed your body.
觀身體呢?是觀一個局部一個局部還是觀整個身體啊？ When observing the body, are you observing one part at a time, or the entire body?
大家知道，觀整個身體的。 As you know, it's observing the entire body.
整個身體的若干部分你是沒有感覺的，若干部分有感覺的。 Some parts of your whole body you have no sensation of, some parts you do have sensation of.
但是你 「明」 「照」啊！是照全部。 But your 'Brightness' (明) and 'Illumination' (照)! It illuminates everything.
不管那有感覺沒有感覺，我是知道！ Regardless of whether there's sensation or not, I know!
「知」知道什麼？自己在打坐的身體。 'Know' what? The body that is sitting in meditation.
同樣的原則，我們現在講的內外統一，就是 「觀」觀什麼？觀境，不是觀身了！ Following the same principle, what we are now discussing as internal and external unification is 'observing'—observing what? Observing the environment, not observing the body anymore!
照境！這個境是什麼？環境。 Illuminating the environment! What is this 'environment'? The surroundings.
環境的境，懂嗎？環境。 The environment of your surroundings, do you understand? The environment.
請你不要去選擇，你的心是開放的，但不是散亂！ Please do not choose; your mind is open, but not scattered!
也請你不要去想像。 And please do not imagine.
選擇？吔！聽到鳥叫這個鳥的聲我很喜歡！你選擇它一下。不行！ Choosing? Oh! I hear a bird singing, I really like this bird's sound! You choose it. No, that won't work!
鳥叫不管牠叫兩聲一聲也好，一隻鳥或兩隻鳥也好，不管它。 Whether the bird sings two notes or one, whether it's one bird or two birds, it doesn't matter.
「知」鳥在叫，但是不選擇鳥的聲音。 'Know' that a bird is singing, but do not choose the sound of the bird.
有風聲呢？要不要選擇它？不選擇風的聲音。 What about the sound of wind? Do you choose it? Do not choose the sound of the wind.
雨聲呢？不選擇雨的聲音。 Rain sound? Do not choose the sound of rain.
水聲？任何一種聲音不選擇。 Water sound? Do not choose any sound.
眼睛如果睜開的話，我們地板上以及你面對的牆壁上，或則是啊你面對的任何一樣什麼東西。 If your eyes are open, anything on the floor, on the wall facing you, or anything else you are facing.
你不需要選擇它。你是啊 「知」全體的。 You don't need to choose it. You are 'knowing' the whole.
你說全體我不知道那麼多吔？沒有關係。 You might say, 'I don't know that much about the whole'? That's fine.
不是要你選擇，你知多少算多少啊！ You are not being asked to choose; know as much as you know!
你說不知道怎麼辦？阿彌陀佛，你不知道就是不知道啊！ You say, 'What if I don't know?' Amitabha, if you don't know, you just don't know!
沒有要你去想像啊！又不是要你去檢查環境哪！ You are not asked to imagine! Nor are you asked to inspect the environment!
你只是，說這是，這是我的責任呢！你這樣是說，我知，知我所知的環境就好。 You are simply saying, 'This is my responsibility!' In this way, you are saying, 'I know; knowing the environment as much as I know is enough.'
所以這個方法很省力！一點也不吃力的！ So this method is very effortless! Not strenuous at all!
你不是主動的去找東西檢查，你的焦距對著什麼！沒有喔！ You are not actively looking for things to examine, nor focusing on anything! No!
就是說，你，現在坐在這兒，因為身體覺照已經沒有。 It means, you, sitting here now, because body awareness is already absent.
那現在照環境哪！ So now, illuminate the environment!
這樣子，照，照，照，照到最後你很可能啊！很可能環境已經呢？聽到，知道，但是呢？不是跟你對立的。 Like this, illuminate, illuminate, illuminate, until eventually, it's very likely that the environment is heard, known, but it's not in opposition to you.
它就是你，你就是它。 It is you, and you are it.
不是啊你在 「照」它。 It's not that you are 'illuminating' it.
因為你 「照」的時候同時在 「默」，沒有受它影響。 Because when you are 'illuminating,' you are simultaneously in 'silence,' unaffected by it.
那這是您跟環境合一，合一是？ So this is your unification with the environment. What is unification?
為什麼會合一呢？我們有說過「四念處」觀身、受、心、法的時候都有一個特性！ Why does unification happen? We have mentioned that the 'Four Foundations of Mindfulness'—observing body, feelings, mind, and phenomena—all share a characteristic!
什麼特性呢？無常是它的特性，「無常」裡面有不斷的放下，而這個過程就是「無我」的。 What characteristic? Impermanence is their characteristic. Within 'impermanence,' there is continuous letting go, and this process is 'selflessness' (anatta).
「無我」那你還執著它做什麼呢？ If there is 'selflessness,' then why would you still cling to it?
這就沒有分別了！ Then there are no distinctions!
沒有分別，那就環境、你身體和心，不是就全部都合在一起了嗎？ With no distinctions, aren't the environment, your body, and your mind all merged together?
因此這時候您在「照」的時候您的心也不動。 Therefore, at this time, when you are 'illuminating,' your mind also does not move.
所以是「默」！不受它的影響。 So it is 'Silence' (默)! Unaffected by it.
那這「照」的時候呢？也是在「默」！ And when 'illuminating' (照)? It is also in 'Silence' (默)!
「默」就是不受影響。 'Silence' means being unaffected.
因此環境跟你啊！不是對立的，是跟你統一的 ; 就是，就是你，你就是環境，環境就是你。 Therefore, the environment and you! Are not in opposition, but unified with you; that is, it is you, you are the environment, the environment is you.
這個經驗會出現。 This experience will arise.
當你這個時候在身心合一的情況下，所有身心覺受乃至於念頭微細的起滅過程，你都知而明照它是無我的，同時它們這些現象也正在告訴你，它是無常無我的。 When you are in this state of body-mind unification, you clearly know and illuminate all bodily and mental sensations, and even the subtle arising and cessation of thoughts, as being without self (anatta), and at the same time, these phenomena are also telling you that they are impermanent and selfless.
你的心與境在相互增長了離染的意志，此時心境合一互照以無我為所緣，這種法喜讓雜念沒有出現的空間，也讓苦無法產生。 Your mind and the environment are mutually enhancing the will to be free from defilements; at this moment, mind and environment unify, illuminating each other with selflessness as the object of focus. This Dharma joy leaves no room for distracting thoughts and prevents suffering from arising.
那這就是我，我就是它。 Then this is me, and I am it.
這個經驗出現的時候，你的心胸廣大無限。 When this experience arises, your mind and heart become vast and boundless.
您們有沒有聽過「四無量心」大梵天王就是修的慈、悲、喜、捨四無量心的。 Have you heard of the 'Four Immeasurable Minds'? The Great Brahma King cultivates loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
這個時候所謂廣大無限不是想像中的。 At this point, what is called vast and boundless is not imaginary.
想像中的我們太空有多大？宇宙有多大？這種是你怎麼想像也是有限的。 In imagination, how big is space? How big is the universe? However you imagine it, it's still limited.
而是呢？不去設定範圍。 Instead? It's about not setting boundaries.
不設定範圍那就是無限。 Not setting boundaries means boundless.
不是定範圍，而是無限，無限的什麼？無限的明和靜！ Not defining a boundary, but boundless—boundless what? Boundless brightness and stillness!
「明和靜」。這個跟觀身的時候啊！達成同樣的效果。 'Brightness and Stillness.' This achieves the same effect as when observing the body.
「明和靜」！那你們一定會，呵！一定有人會問，是不是我們一定要這樣子做？ 'Brightness and Stillness'! Then you will surely, ah! Someone will surely ask, 'Do we absolutely have to do it this way?'
不一定！ Not necessarily!
如果你觀身，觀得很好，你一直觀 下去「明和靜」。 If you observe your body very well, you can continue to observe 'Brightness and Stillness.'
「明和靜」啊！保持著。保持著你的 「明和靜」。 'Brightness and Stillness'! Maintain it. Maintain your 'Brightness and Stillness'.
那就是「默照」了！那就不必一定要觀境。 That is Silent Illumination! Then there's no need to necessarily observe the environment.
要觀環境的境。 To observe the environment's surroundings.
因為你觀身，身體沒有了，心不知道放在那裡？對佛法還不很瞭解。 Because when you observe the body, the body seems to disappear, and you don't know where to put your mind? You might not yet fully understand the Dharma.
那這個時候怎麼辦？怎麼辦？觀什麼？ So what do you do then? What do you do? Observe what?
「觀」環境， 「照」環境。 Observe the environment, illuminate the environment.
那環境怎麼 「照」法？是原則跟觀照身體是相同的。 So how do you 'illuminate' the environment? The principle is the same as observing the body.
結果是什麼呢？是心胸無限大。 What is the result? Your mind and heart become infinitely vast.
無限大的什麼？ 「明和靜」！ Infinitely vast what? 'Brightness and Stillness'!
現在我要再告訴諸位，請你們不要想像著 「明」就是光明是電燈的光，不是！ Now I want to tell you all again, please do not imagine that 'Brightness' (明) means light, like the light from a lamp. No!
「明」是內心清清楚楚，這叫做 「明」。 'Brightness' (明) means the mind is crystal clear; this is called 'Brightness'.
不是噢！我看到光了！那是你的幻覺。 It's not, 'Oh! I see light!' That would be your hallucination.
如果你真的看到光，人家也看到你放光，可能！ If you genuinely see light, and others also see you radiating light, it's possible!
但是呢？你還是說，這是一種幻影，不是 「明」，不是修行得到的 「明」。 However? You would still say, this is an illusion, not 'Brightness,' not the 'Brightness' obtained through spiritual practice.
這一個 「明」是不是開悟的悟境智慧？不是！不是噢！ Is this 'Brightness' the wisdom of enlightenment? No! It is not!
這是在修行過程之中你的心產生呢？明朗清楚「明」的經驗出現。 This is the experience of your mind becoming clear and lucid—'Brightness'—arising during the process of practice.
這個 「明」不是什麼？不是開悟的悟境。 This 'Brightness' is not what? It is not the state of enlightenment.
好不好？很好！很好。 Is this good? Very good! Very good.
「明而靜」 「靜」的意思是什麼？安靜的靜，一種心啊非常的安靜。 'Bright and Still.' What is the meaning of 'Stillness' (靜)? The stillness of quiet, a mind that is extremely peaceful.
這個時間開示講到這裡為止。 This discourse concludes here for now.