[size=+1]Part 2: Knowledge from Developing Awareness 第 2 部份: 培養覺知而生起的智慧
[size=+0]You should practise the developing of awareness until you have more and more awareness (sati), more and more steadiness of mind (samadhi); the knowledge that liberates (panna) will arise. You will know the truth within yourself, not outside.
[size=+0]你應該持續練習培養覺知,等到你的覺知(sati正念)越來越強大, 心越來越安穩(samadhi正定),那麼,解脫的智慧(panna般若)將會次第生起,而最後你會自己親知、親証真理,不從人得,不假外求。依隆波田的教導,練習動中禪而生起的智慧有四個層次(記憶而知、思惟而知、通達而知、親証真知),可以大分為兩個階段,說明如下:
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First, you know yourself to be rupa-nama: the mind feeling / knowing the body's movements. undefined
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You know action of the body and action of the mind. Action of the body is, for example, standing, walking, sitting, lying. Action of the mind is, for example, thought and feeling.undefined
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You know disease of the body, disease of the mind. Disease of the body is headache, stomachache, and so on. Disease of the mind is thought, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and so on.undefined
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After knowing rupa-nama, you know and understand dukkha, anicca, anatta (the three universal characteristics of being). Dukkha is with the body, which is a kind of lump of dukkha. Dukkha means the unbearability of non-movement or unchangingness. Anicca means unstable. Anatta means uncontrollable. It's like that all the time.undefined
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Now you come to know supposing (sammuti). Know all kinds of supposing completely; for example, you know that money is just a kind of metal or paper that's supposed to be valuable. The knowing is awareness, steadiness of mind, knowledge that liberates. Sacca means truth. If it's true by supposing (sammuti), you know it. If it's true by touching with the mind (paramattha), you know it. Ghosts, deities, hell, heaven, demerit, merit are true by supposing and true by touching with the mind (samrnuti-paramattha).undefined
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Then you know religion; religion does not mean temples, but means a refuge. Buddha means one who has awakened from delusion, who has liberating knowledge. So Buddhism means a fertile refuge, with awareness and liberating knowledge, that exists in each person who is aware of him or herself, who has the mind steady, and who has liberating knowledge. Or one who has a clean, illuminated and calm mind.undefined
[size=+0]If you only study, but never practise the developing of awareness, that is only to memorize, not to see clearly or to see really. When you know, see and understand supposing completely, you don't attach to supposing anymore. The knowledge that arises from developing awareness is truth or insight.
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[size=+1](一) 第一階段:此階段是練習『知道身體的動作』。
[size=+0]當你能『感知或知道身體的動作』而覺知越來越強大時,你會生起智慧了知下列次第的事物(所緣、對象)。
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[size=+0]1. 首先,你會知道自己只是『色-名』 (rupa-nama)。(中譯註:隆波田對於『色-名』或『名-色』有不同於傳統的說法,其實也不能說不同於傳統,他只是借用現有的傳統名相來詮釋他自己獨特的體悟,佛陀也是如此不是嗎?請勿泥執名相而要體會隆波田在名相背後所要表達的真義。隆波田所謂的『色-名』是『色與名』(即身與心)的意思,而所謂『知道色-名』意思就是說你會知道:自己只是色與名(身與心)緣起的一個現象而己,其中並沒有一個我。)
[size=+0]2. 接著你會知道身體的動作及心的動作。身體的動作就如行、住、坐、臥;心的動作就如思想、情緒、感受等。
[size=+0]3. 你也會知道身體的疾病以及心理的疾病,身病就是指頭痛、胃痛…等等,心病就是指滿意、不滿意的念頭…等等。
[size=+0]4. 當知道色-名之後,你會知道並了解苦、無常、無我 (一切存有的三個普遍持性)。苦(Dukkha)是就身體而言,且不是指特定一種苦,而是指一堆苦的集合體。所謂苦(Dukka)是指對「事物的不可改變」不堪忍受之苦(比如「生老病死」你能奈之何呢);無常(Anicca) 意指一切事物都變化不定。無我(Anatta)是指一切事物都不能自主。世間萬法都有這三種特性,而且必然如是、3恒常如此。
[size=+0]5. 接著,你會知道世俗諦(Summuti世間法的真諦),所有世間法你都能完全了知。舉例來說,你會知道錢僅僅是一種金屬或一張紙,只不過是大家認定它有價值而已(中譯註:你不會再跟著大家假戲真作而只會逢場作戲),這種了悟便是覺知、正定及解脫智慧(覺定慧)。Sacca 是真理、真諦的意思。如果就世俗分別而言是真諦(samrnuti世俗諦),你會了知此世俗真諦;如果就自心親証而言是真諦(Paramattha第一義諦,或稱勝義諦),你也會了知此第一義真諦(中譯註:亦即你會了知一切萬法的世俗諦乃至第一義諦)。鬼、神、地獄、天堂、罪報、功德等等一切萬法有可由分別而知的世俗真諦,也有唯自心親証乃知的第一義真諦。
[size=+0]6. 然後你會知道什麼是佛陀?什麼是宗教?「佛陀」是指具足解脫智慧而轉迷為覺的人;「宗教」不是指寺廟或教堂,而是一個庇護所。兩個合起來你就會知道:「佛教(佛陀的宗教)」是指一個有豐足的覺知與解脫智慧的庇護所,而且這個庇護所不在外面,就在一個能覺知自己、內心安定又具足解脫智慧者的內在,或者說存在於一個具足清淨、光明與寂靜之心者的內在。
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[size=+0]如果你只是研究而沒有實際去練習培養覺知,那只是用腦子記一堆知識而已,而不是用心清楚見到或真正見到。當你完全地知道、見到並了解了世間法,你就不會再迷信執著世間法了。從培養覺知而生起的智慧是一種真見或洞見。
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Next you know nama-rupa: the mind knowing the arising of thought. Keep on developing the awareness. When thought arises, you should see it, know it and understand it, but don't "stare" at it, and don't stop developing the awareness. When you see it, thought will become shorter and shorter. undefined
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At this point, you know vatthu-paramattha-akara. Vatthu means the object that exists. Paramattha means seeing it, being it right now in front of you, touching with the mind. Akara means changingness. Knowing vatthu-paramattha-akara means you are touching the changing object with the mind.undefined
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When you clearly comprehend it, then you see, know, understand, and touch anger, delusion and greed, because they are vatthu-paramattha-akara. After knowing this, the mind will be very cheerful, and can see feeling, perception, conceiving and knowing that do not suffer: this is the pure life. There will arise rapture (Piti). The mind changes from one stage to another. When knowing arises, the not-knowing disappears immediately. continue the practice; do not attach to rapture. When knowing arises, awareness (sati) will be reduced, not full like the previous stage. When knowing arises, it is never forgotten from then on.undefined
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Continue the practice, and know the movement more and more: the liberating knowledge will occur by itself. You will know, see and understand defilement, craving, attachment, and action; seeing clearly and understanding really, defilement, craving, attachment, and action will reduce or fade away. When liberating knowledge arises, you will have confidence in your own knowledge. When you know this point, rapture will occur again. Be careful and don't attach to it.undefined
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Continue the practice and you will know and understand sila (moral conduct), silakkhandha, samadhikkhandha, pannakkhandha. The knowledge arises that sila means normality of body, speech, and mind: neutrality; khandha means container of, category. Silakkhandha means container of normality of body, speech, and mind. Samadhikkhandha means container of the steady mind. Pannakkhandha means container of the liberating knowledge. Sila (normality) occurs when crude defilement comes to an end. Crude defilements are anger, delusion, greed, defilement, craving, attachment, and action. That is why we say that sila keeps us normal, so we don't have to separately keep ethical precepts. Samadhi is the tool to get rid of median defilement: attaching to samatha calmness is kiimiisava (under the control of attachment), bhaviisava (under the control of being or suffering), avijjiisava (under the control of notknowing). Panna is the tool to get rid of subtle defilement: the not-knowing.undefined
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After knowing and understanding sila, silakkhandha, samadhikkhandha, pannakkhandha, you will know and understand that there are two kinds of calmness.
(1) Concentration (samatha calmness) is calmness without liberating knowledge.
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Insight (vipassana calmness) is calmness that you clearly know, really know, clearly see and really see. Because of the developing of awareness, calmness will arise by itself, because it is already there. You do not have to create it. It's the calmness of freedom from anger, delusion, greed. When anything happens to you, the awareness will come immediately. Because the awareness, the steady mind, the liberating knowledge are already there, that's why anger, delusion, greed cannot come. If you don't develop awareness, and don't make this thing occur, you will not have it, even though it is already there.undefined
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After that, you will know and understand merit and demerit. If there really is a hell, you'll know into which level you will fall for any bad action: bodily action, verbal action, mental action, and for any bad bodily, verbal and mental actions together. For good action, you will know how it is meritorious. If here really is a heaven, you'll know to which level you will go for any good action: bodily action, verbal action, mental action, and for any good bodily, verbal and mental actions together.undefined
[size=+0]When you come to the end of the object of this method of developing awareness, you will come to the end of dukkha (unbearability, suffering). You will know, you will see, you will understand, and you will have no doubt anymore. The mind will change for the last time. There will be only a clean, illuminated and calm mind, a mind with equanimity. That person will dwell the rest of their life with total awareness and knowledge that liberates, because the not-knowing is not there anymore. But one still has feeling, perception, conceiving and knowing that do not suffer. One clearly knows, really knows, clearly sees and really sees the truth as it is.
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[size=+0][size=+1](二)第二階段:此階段是練習『知道念頭的生起』。
[size=+0]你要繼續培養覺知,當念頭生起時,你應當見到它、知道它並了解它,但不要專注它,也不要停止培養覺知。當你能見到它時,念頭就會慢慢變得越來越短了。當你能『感知或知道念頭的生起』而覺知越來越強大時,你會生起智慧了知下列次第的事物(所緣、對象)。
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[size=+0]1. 你會知道『名-色』(nama-rupa)。(中譯註:隆波田所謂的『名-色』是「心之色」的意思,簡單說就是心中的念頭、感受、知覺、意志等,隆波田認為這些心內之物也是一種所緣的對象事物,亦即與一般外在事物一樣也是一種「色」,故特稱之為『名-色』。而所謂『知道名-色』意思就是說你會知道:心並不是自我,只是一些念頭、感受、知覺、思惟而己。)
[size=+0]2. 到這裡,你會知道『境-觸-流轉(Vatthu-Paramattha-Akara)』。境(Vatthu)指一切存在或生起之事物;觸(Paramattha)意思是見到它、現前當下如其本來以及自心親証;流轉(Akara)意思是流轉變化。所謂『知道境-觸-流轉』,意思就是說你自心親証一切流轉變化的事物。
[size=+0]3. 當你清楚地了解了這回事,你就能見到、知道、了解並真正觸及貪、瞋、痴,因為它們就是『境-觸-流轉』而已。而當你覺悟這些之後,你心裡會非常高興,而且能見到離苦的受蘊,想蘊,行蘊及識蘊:這就是清淨的生命。這時內心會生起喜悅(piti),你的心會從一個層次提升到另一層次,因為當你親知親見時,不知(即無明)就會當下消失,但是你要繼續修行;不要執著那種喜悅。另外,當你親知親見時,就不用再那麼用力作意地去覺知了,因此覺知(sati)就會減弱而不會再像之前那麼強猛。但是親知親見不同於覺知,一旦你親知親見,從此以後就永遠不會再迷失了。
[size=+0]4. 要繼續練習,而且要越來越覺知動作,那麼解脫智慧自然會生起。你將會知道、見到並了解煩惱、貪欲、執著和業行;而當你清楚地見到並真正的了解,那麼煩惱、貪欲、執著和業行就會減少甚或消除。當解脫智慧生起,你會對自心的智慧有絕對的信心。注意!當你知道到這一層次,喜悅會再次生起,你要小心!不要執著它。
[size=+0]5. 再繼續練習,你會知道並了解戒(sila)、戒器(silakkhandha戒蘊)、定器、(samadhikkhandha定蘊)、慧器(pannakkhandha慧蘊)。你會知道「戒(sila)」是指身口意的平常心,亦即中道心;器k(handha)是指裝放某一類相同事物的容器。戒器就是指各種身口意平常心的容器。定器是指正定的容器。慧器(Pannakkhandha)是指解脫智慧的容器。
煩惱可分為粗中細三種,粗煩惱就是貪瞋痴等煩惱以及貪欲、執著和業行等。除盡粗煩惱,『戒(平常心)』自然就會生起,這也就是為什麼我們說“『戒(平常心)』能使我們正常而且不必一一持守各別『戒相、戒條』”的原因。定(Samadhi)是除去中煩惱的工具,中煩惱有三種:亦即貪著奢摩他(止)靜定的欲漏(還被貪著所繫縛)、有漏(還被存有或苦所繫縛)及無明漏(還被不知或無明所繫縛)。智慧則是除去最後細煩惱的工具,細煩惱就是指不知(即無明)。
[size=+0]6. 在知道並了解戒、戒器、定器、慧器之後,你將知道並了解二種靜定:
[size=+0](1) 專注的靜定(奢摩他定):這種定是不具足解脫智慧的定。
[size=+0](2) 內觀的靜定(毗缽舍那定):這種定是你清楚知道、真正知道以及清楚見到、真正見到而現起的靜定。藉由培養覺知,這種靜定會自然生起,因為這種定是當下現成的,它本來就在那兒,不是你怎麼修而修出或修成它,而是修除貪、瞋、痴等染污覆蓋,它自然就會顯露出來的。有了這種靜定,覺知當下也會現起,因為覺知、靜定的心及解脫智慧(即覺定慧)三個都是當下現成,早就在那兒的,所以有了這種定,當你面臨任何情境時,貪、瞋、痴自然就不會生起了。不過雖然這種定是當下現成的,但是如果你不培養覺知,讓它顯現出來,那麼即使它當下現成,你也不能得到這種定。
[size=+0]7. 然後,你將知道並了解功德與罪報。如果真的有個地獄,你會清楚知道:由於你某種身口意的各別惡業以及三者共作的惡業,因此自己將會墮入何種地獄。至於善業,你也會知道它們為什麼會帶來功德福報(不是佛菩薩給你的,是你種下的善因善緣成就的),而且如果真的有個天堂,你會清楚知道:由於你某種身口意的各別善業以及三者共作的善業,因此自己將會去到哪個天堂。
[size=+0]當你練習培養覺知而通達最後一個所緣對象時,就會達到苦滅(苦指不堪忍),你將會真正知道、真正見到、真正了解(中譯註:這是隆波田所說四種智慧的最後一種),且心中不會再有疑惑。你內心會有最後一次脫胎換骨的改變,煩惱盡除,而唯存一顆純然清淨、光明、寂靜的心,炯脫根塵,靈光獨耀。
[size=+0]達到這個境界的人,他的餘生就能安住在圓滿的覺知和解脫智慧當中,因為不知(無明)已不復存在了。但是他還是會有感受、知覺、思惟和認知(受、想、行、識),而且這些都不再有苦。這樣的人他清楚知道、真正知道以及清楚見到、真正見到了如實的真理。