親愛的,請您放鬆身心,跟隨我的引導。
My dear, Please relax and follow my guidance.
我們總是想要維持自我,
We always wish to maintain a self,
然而自我卻從來沒真實存在過!
Yet, the self has never truly existed!
無常是個生活在世間不變的事實,這是被告知的!
Impermanence is an unchanging truth of living in this world,This is what we are told.
當佛陀指出這個事實,並告知我們的身心世界是個無常的事實時,我們才知道原來是這樣子的!
When the Buddha pointed out this truth,and we were told that our mind-body world is impermanent,only then did we realize, 'Ah, so this is how it is!'
這不是我們不夠聰明,而是已經長時間被自己的憶念和環境迷惑了,
It's not that we are not intelligent enough,but rather, for a long time, we have been deluded by our own thoughts and environment,
自然穩固地習慣性的屏蔽了這個隨時都可以見到的事實。
naturally and habitually shielding ourselves from this ever-present truth.
這就是我們的所知障,由這裡障礙住自己。
This is our cognitive barrier, or "knowledge hindrance",where we hinder ourselves.
世間的原理必需有這種不變的分別煩惱,生命才能生生不息,
The principle of this world requires such unchanging discriminative afflictions,so that life can continue ceaselessly.
這就是生命運行的機制,
This is the mechanism by which life operates,
我們創造了它,於是各種苦的逼迫,
we created it.Consequently, various forms of suffering compel us,
一場生生死死的夢境來孽待自己。
a dream of life and death, tormenting ourselves.
其實原理就這麽簡單,自我努力的困住自我!
In truth, the principle is this simple:the self diligently traps the self!
這是生命的本源。
This is the very origin of life.
所幸的是,透過各種的理解及實際,以及我們被告知,
Fortunately,through various understandings and practices,and what we are told,
從無常的觀察中,
from the observation of impermanence,
當沒有真實的我,沒有這種真實不變的、狹隘的和預先假設的分別、想像、煩惱,
when there is no true self,no truly unchanging, narrow, or pre-assumed distinctions, imaginations, or afflictions,
已經被確立,
this fact has been established.
並且在一切無常改變中,逐漸的我們開始知道被欺騙了!
And amidst all the impermanent changes,gradually, we begin to realize that we have been deceived!
被自我迷惑住了!
Deluded by the self!
而它形成密不透風的網絡,
And it forms an airtight network,
使我們自己的視野淺薄,看不見世俗見地以外的世界,
making our own vision shallow,unable to see the world beyond conventional views.
於是當我們被告知時,透過觀察的確沒有不變的事物,
So when we are informed,and through observation, there truly is nothing unchanging,
於是我們從自我假設的標準和 存在感中 出離開來,
we then step out from our self-assumed standards and sense of existence,
不再繼續被自己的無知所設限,而迷惑在身心世界的自我感覺中。
no longer limited by our own ignorance,and no longer deluded by the self-feelings of the mind-body world.
我們不再作夢了!
We are no longer dreaming!