第八辑 把心带回家 Volume 8: Bringing the Mind Home
禅修真正的妙处不在任何的方法，而在于它持续鲜活的当下经验，以及它的喜悦、清明、安详，
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace...
在禅修当中我们会感到清明、安详和喜悦，而不是昏迷，而不是散乱。
During meditation, we experience clarity, peace, and joy, instead of drowsiness and distraction.
最重要的是在它的毫无执著之上。
...and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
对这些觉受我们没有执著，心中保持一种觉照。虽然你很清明，但是你不是沉迷在清明中；虽然你安详，但是你也不是沉迷在安详中，而是一种有保持的觉醒。
We are not attached to these experiences; instead, we maintain a state of mindful awareness. Even though you experience clarity, you are not immersed in clarity; even though you experience peace, you are not immersed in peace either. Instead, you stay mindful.
对自己执著的减少，是你自己变得更自由的征兆。当你愈经验到这种自由时，你会愈清楚我执，希望（贪求）和恐惧将渐渐消失，而且你也将更接近无限丰富的“无我智慧”。
The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes (desires) and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom that realizes egolessness."
你的心对我执越来越松动，我执偶尔还是有，但是执著开始出现间隙——原来那个我执是念念相续、没有间隙、强烈的执著，现在我执虽然有、但是它出现间隙了、一下一下地出来。
Your attachment to the ego is gradually loosening. Although ego still occasionally appears, your attachment starts to have gaps. Previously, your ego-grasping was constant, without gaps, and strong. Now, although your ego-grasping is still there, it is no longer constant, but rather has gaps in between.
我执虽然在，但是它不像原来那么执著、那么坚固、那么无法超越。
Although your ego-grasping is still there, it's not as strong and insurmountable as before.
现在只要一作意，那种无我的智慧就出来了——稍稍一作意，就可以体会到无我的经验；甚至有些时候一作意可以在无我的境界里停留一小会儿；
Now, with just a little effort, the wisdom of egolessness can arise — once you make a slight mental effort, you can experience the egoless state. Sometimes, you can even abide in the egoless state for a little while.
但是我执又会现前，你再作意，慢慢地就“接近无限丰富的无我智慧”。
However, the ego-grasping will reemerge, and then you can meditate again. Gradually, you will "come to the infinitely generous wisdom that realizes egolessness."
当你生活在那种智慧之家时，再也找不到我和你、此和彼、内和外的藩篱，最后将回到你真正的家——不二的境界。
When you live in that wisdom home, you'll no longer find a barrier between "I" and "you," "this" and "that," "inside" and "outside"; you'll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.
当你无我的时候，你的心就会把五蕴和外界的一切色法，其他众生的五蕴都没有对立的概念了。
When you are in an egoless state, your mind has no sense of opposition toward all external phenomena and the five aggregates, including the five aggregates of other sentient beings.
原来有我，就有我所，我和我所是对立的；现在无我了，也没有我所了，那就没有对立——不对立，就“不二”了。
Previously, you were bound by the notion of 'I', followed with the notion of 'mine', leading to a strong sense of opposition. Now that you are egoless, the notions of 'I' and 'mine' are gone, thus the opposition is gone — non-opposition is non-duality.
“二”就是对立的，对立的就是“二”——内外、你我、彼此，我们总还是这样很强烈地执著你我。
'Duality' means opposition — inside and outside, you and me, this and that. We are strongly attached to the notions of 'you' and 'I'.
虽然我们天天讲无我的智慧，但是生活当中你我还是非常强烈地执著。你稍不作意，它就开始执著我、你、我所，非常坚固。
Despite talking about the wisdom of egolessness every day, in daily life, we are still strongly attached to the notions of 'you' and 'I'. With just a slight lack of mindfulness, you may start to firmly cling to 'you', 'I', and 'mine'.
所以从轮回的善人道超越到解脱道是非常难的，这个过程真的很不容易——善人道到解脱道太难了。
Therefore, it's very difficult to transcend from one who practices virtue to one who pursues liberation. This process is really hard.
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