倾听智者的声音 at 3:16 AM
倾听智者的声音 (一) 海涛 辑Listening to the Teachings of the Wise (I)
Compiled by Ven. Hai Tao
1.正见即明白因果，不执著事物为安稳、确定与永恒。
1. The Right view means a true understanding of the law of causality and a perception of the unstable, fickle, and impermanent nature of the phenomenal world.
2.修行应该避开纵欲与自虐两种极端。
2. Spiritual practitioners should shun the two extremes of indulgence and meaningless asceticism.
3.所有众生皆可证入法，那样的境界是完全清净的。
3. All sentient beings have the ability to realize and actualize the Dharma, a completely pure state of being.
4.对于真实法而言，其实不须学太多，只须贯彻一些简单的原则而已。
4. Just practice and master a few basic principles, instead of going for extensive learning- is the key to the access to the ultimate Dharma.
5.凡是错误与恶的，让我们尽量避开；凡是善的，让我们尽力去做。
5. Avoid the wrong and the evil as best as we can, and try our very best to do and be good
6.如果你认为还有比修行更重要的事须做，那么修行的时机永远不会到来。
6. If spiritual practice is not your first priority, then you’ll never have the time for it.
7.佛教对于行为要求先做到身业与口业的清净，这就是所谓的“戒”。
7. The so-called “precepts” mean the purification of our bodily and verbal actions, which is the first step in Buddhist practicing.
8.修行重点在不放逸。
8. Not being indolent is the essence of spiritual practice.
9.修行要有清楚的觉知，因为“觉知”在修行中有著决定性的意义。
9. Clear Awareness is crucial in our Dharma practice; try to have it if you can!
10.检视佛陀的一生，就知道他从来不走捷径，他已经做到了，我们却还遥遥无期。
10. If we examine Buddha Sakyamuni’s life, we will learn that he never cut corners. He strived hard and succeeded but it’s still a long way to go for us….
11.佛陀的话被称为“善语”，因为它善良、如法并充满意义，能引导人心到达实相。
11. Buddha’s words are called “Kind Advice” because they are virtuous, authentic, meaningful, and can lead us to the Absolute Reality.
12.善语非关高下，它只是佛陀的语言，目的是为了减少众生的烦恼与痛苦。
12. Kind Advice simply means the wisdom words of the Buddha, with the motivation to help all living beings in reducing their affliction and suffering – it has nothing to do with status or positions.
13.善语不会迎合众生的喜好。
13. Kind Advice do not compromise, it would not ingratiate itself to suit others.
14.如果我们希望所有事情都称心如意，那无异是缘木求鱼。
14. If we wish that all our wishes would come true, it’s akin to wring water from a stone.
15.闻法的目的是为了让心能够见法与证法，而不只是增长知识或记忆。
15. The purpose of listening to the Dharma is to allow our Mind to actualize and attain it, do not just to keep it in mind, or merely gaining some extra knowledge.
16.不要让知识停留在你的脑中或嘴边，让身、口、意三门都能如法运作。
16. Don’t let what you have learned active only in your head or on your tongue; let it function properly through your of body, speech, and mind.
17.法并不存在于语言中，语言是一条道路，为人们指出方向，引导心去认识与了解法。
17. Do not find Truth within the words. Words and language are merely pointers, from which we will know and understand the Truth if we follow the paths revealed accordingly
18.当你的心力增强时，困难的处境与问题就会减弱。
18. Enhance your mental strength, then the threats of your hardships and problems will be weakened.
19.跟著无常的现象走，你就是渴爱的弟子，而非佛弟子。
19. Having your nose led by Impermanence, you are then the follower of Strong Desire - not an authentic Buddhist!
20.以坚持与忍耐来承担困难。
20. Take on difficulties with persistence and patience.
倾听智者的声音 (二) 海涛 辑
Listening to the Teachings of the Wise (II)
Compiled by Ven. Hai Tao
1.事物原本自然，毋须增添或删减，但是我们却经常看不顺眼，认为它们不是太大就是太小。
1. Every phenomenon is primordially natural, without any need to add or delete anything. We complicate things by trying too hard to modify or interfere its natural-ness.
2.佛陀要求我们将念头安住在身、受、心、法上，没有什么事物需要造作或解决，只须如实观察即可。
2. Buddha asks us to have our thoughts abide peacefully in our body, feelings, mind and the Dharma, observing things like they are without any fabrication or mental projections.
3.当“我”与“我所”的想法生起时，自私与各种麻烦的问题就会接踵而来。
3. Selfishness and all sorts of troubles ensued from the dualistic concepts of “Subject” (the I) and “objects” (projected phenomena).
4.佛陀劝我们回过头来看这个身体，从其中看出法的实相，而不需要进行改变与破坏。
4. Buddha advised us to turn inwardly, to find the truth of the Dharma within this fleshly body, there’s no need to change or destroy anything.
5.心与身，皆是无常之“行”，不是我或我的。
5. The mind and the body are but composite phenomena; they are impermanent, hence without substantial Self and not ours.
6.那些看见“行”的人，皆很平静，他们了解身心皆非自我，只是变动不居的现象。
6. Those who perceive clearly the process of formation are blessed with serenity and peacefulness, because they’ve realized that the body and the mind are inherently empty of Self - they are merely fleeting and ever-changing phenomena.
7.事物只是存在与迁流变化而已，这就是“行”。
7. The transitory and fleeting nature of all phenomena is called “formation.”
8.一切功德皆源自见法，这亦是寂灭之所在。
8. All merits and virtues originate from realizing the Dharma, from which Nirvana dwells.
9.当你闻法时，不要只是听而已，要将它放在心里，并付诸实行。
9. While you listen to the Dharma, mere hearing is not as good as keeping the teachings in mind and then put them into practice.
10.修持戒与法的过程，虽然仍有贪著，但是只要清楚知道它们存在即可。
10. Although covetousness and attachment are still evident in the process of cultivation, we only need to be aware of them.
11.我们研究与修行的目的都是为了见法；当心见法时，我们就能熄灭苦。
11. We target our study and cultivation on realizing the Dharma, at the moment of which our suffering will cease.
12.佛陀教导我们，知道之后就应该赶快离开，而不是留下来陪那些痴者一起等待。
12. Buddha taught us that after we have learned, we need to move on instead of staying where we were with those ignorant ones.
13.当你进入并看见法时，果报自然会现前，毋须索求。
13. without asking, good karma will spontaneously arise when you realize and attain the Dharma.
14.一切修行都是为了让心见法与证法。
14. To realize and attain the Dharma is the sole aim of every spiritual practice
15.见法之后，即使你还有嗔恨的坏习惯，纵令它发作起来，能量也会减小。
15. After you have realized the Dharma, the remaining imprint of resentment erupts only occasionally, and its energy was weaken tremendously.
16.与其调整法来适应你，不如调整你自己去适应法。
16. Instead of adjusting the Dharma to suit you, just fine- tune yourself according to the Dharma.
17.无论修行何种法，包括布施、持戒、禅定或慈悲，佛陀说它们的目的只有一个，即追求寂灭。
17. Buddha said that whichever method one practices—giving, upholding the precepts, meditation, or compassion—achieving the state of nirvana is the only goal.
倾听智者的声音 (三) 海涛 辑
Listening to the Teachings of the Wise (III)
Compiled by Ven. Hai Tao
1.我们藉由闻法以增进善巧与喜悦，然后再藉著正思惟来造福自己与他人。
1. We gain joy and improve our skillful means through Listening, and then we benefit others and ourselves by means of the Proper Thought.
2.一颗大石头重吗？如果我们从上面走过去就不重，但是如果我们想要将它举起来，那就得另当别论了。
2. Is a huge stone heavy? It’s so light when we walk over it, but if we try to lift it, it’s quite another thing.
3.心如果建立在正确的基础上，则所行进的道路必然不会偏差，将一步一步把我们带往涅槃。
3. With a mind that is well-grounded, we are able to progress on a correct path which will step by step lead us to Nirvana.
4.不安源自于邪见，它让你起非份之想。
4. Uneasiness results from the wrong view, luring you into wondering thoughts.
5.当我们慢慢了解现象的本质，不再那么执著时，心便得以平静下来，因为我们不再渴望拥有。
5. When we realize the true nature of the all phenomena, we drop our attachments and we will have Peace within our mind. We have no more grasping.
6.积累功德的目的，不是为了让一只猫变成一只狗。
6. We do not accumulate merits and virtues to transform a cat into a dog.
7.我们所称的善巧或增上，超越世智辩聪的层次，它需要福慧双运才可得。
7. Both the skillful means or expedient methods we mentioned about are beyond the reach of the worldly intelligence; it is attained through the unification of two accumulation – the non-dual Merit and Wisdom.
8.智慧像闪电，渴爱则像河流。
8. Wisdom is like the flash of lightning, and Desire the river.
9.活在世间而不为世间所污染，清楚觉知这个世间，不要让心被渴爱所淹没。
9. Live in the world while not being defiled by its dust; keep your awareness, free your mind from being inundated by the river of Desire.
10.我们听到佛法说没有任何东西属于我们时，我们便开始害怕失去。
10. At the moment we heard the teaching that nothing is truly ours, we begin to suffer for fear of loss.
11.出生之后，事物便消逝，消逝之后，事物又再出生，一切因缘法皆如此生灭不已。
11. Everything keeps appearing and disappearing, vanishing and arising—Interdependent Origination is the essence of this process.
12.观世间空虚不实，死神就无法追踪你，他将看不到你。
12. Contemplate on the emptiness and non-substantiality of this mundane world, and Death shall not keep track of you because you are invisible!
13.法是一切事物，是眼睛所见到的色，耳朵所听到的声，这些都是法，因为法即现存的因缘。
13. Dharma is in everything—the form we see, the sound we hear—they are all Dharma. Dharma is none other than the existence of various causes and conditions.
14.觉知法的是心，觉知的人则是佛。佛陀教导法，他已经觉悟法，不过法并不会随著他的涅槃而消失。
14. It is the mind that perceives the Dharma, and the one who is able to perceive the Dharma is called the Buddha – the Awakened One. Buddha teaches Dharma because he has attained the Truth. Dharma, however, will continue to remain even after Buddha’s Parinirvana.
15.佛陀说：“阿难！善加修行，充实自己，你一定能在佛陀的教法中证果。凡是见到法的人即见到我，见到我的人即见到法。”
15. Buddha said, “Ananda, if you practice well and equip yourself skillfully, you will certainly be able to reach the stage of attainment through the Buddha’s teachings. To see the Dharma is to see me; to see me is to see the Dharma.”
16.我们在一切时中都应该遵守五戒，它们是查验一个人是否够格为人的标准。
16. We should always uphold the Five Precepts - because they are the pre-requisites of a human life with endowments.
倾听智者的声音 (四)︶ 海涛 辑
Listening to the Teachings of the Wise (IV)
Compiled by Ven. Hai Tao
1.只要具有正念正知，我们就可以修行。
1. Anyone who has mindfulness and Correct View is eligible to be a practitioner.
2.由观察呼吸，进而观生命无常，是念死的禅修。
2. Mindfulness of Death begins with the observation of our breath, following the meditation on impermanence.
3.将意力放在呼吸上，保持正念，智慧就会生起。
3. Put you focus on your breath, maintain your mindfulness, then let your wisdom rise naturally!
4.禅定是帮助我们超越痛苦的良方，藉由它我们可以明办是非；但是如果我们没有修行，就无法看清楚。
4. Meditation is a good remedy for suffering. Through it we are able to discern right from wrong, but without practice, we can’t perceive our reality as it is.
5.由于不了解自然的法则，因此才会希望事物稳定而持久。
5. Our wish that everything remains unchanged and everlasting is but an illusion, it results from our failure to realize the laws of nature.
6.走到终点时，每个人都得放下。无论名、闻、利、养，或一切苦乐经验，都无法从世间带走。
6. At the end pf our lives, every one of us will have to let go totally! We are unable to take even a pinch away from the world, be it name, fame, profit, benefits, or any painful or joyful sensations.
7.看看法，不要看太远，如果看太远，你将看不见。
7. Don’t look for the Dharma somewhere out there; you are going to miss it if you look too far away.
8.做好事，事情就会变好；做坏事，则只会带来痛苦。美好的行为让生命更美好，丑陋的行为则只会让生命更丑陋。
8. Good deeds bring in auspiciousness, and evil deeds suffering. Good conduct will make one’s life better, while misconduct uglier.
9.闻法之后，还需要觉悟。有大觉悟，就会有大成果；如果只有小觉悟，就只有小成果。
9. We need to realize the Truth after listening to the Dharma— great enlightenment brings great attainment, while the minor ones little attainments.
10.很少的正见，就会有很多的痛苦；如果具足正见，痛苦就会止息，内心将能获得平静。
10. With little Correct Views, we suffer a lot. But when we equip ourselves with sufficient Correct Views, then our suffering will cease. Peace is then the ultimate result.
11.佛陀要我们洞见生、老、病、死的实相，如实观察，这就是法。如果我们能如实观察，就可以名为修法。
11. Buddha wants us to perceive the reality of birth, old-age, illness and death; and to contemplate the reality as it truly is – this is Dharma. By being able to contemplate truthfully, we can then say that we are practicing the Dharma.
12.佛陀希望我们思惟戒与法，了解“他们和我们一样，我们也和他们一样”。如此，就会有了解与体谅，因为我们一样是生、老、病、死的亲戚。
12. Buddha advice us to ponder upon the meaning of precepts and the Dharma, knowing that “other people are just like us and we are like them, too.” With such realization, mutual understanding and empathy will come along; for we will realize that everyone one of us is subject to the process of birth, old-age, illness and death.
13.法就在我们的身边，如果我们能了解自己，执著与渴爱就会减少，这都是洞见的力量。
13. With powerful Insights, Dharma is with us—the more we perceive our true nature, the lesser our attachment and desire will be.
14.每天训练自己，当头碰到枕头时记得观察吸气与吐气，并且思惟：“真好－今夜我还能呼吸！”
14. Train yourself like this every day: when going to bed, remember to focus on your inhalation and exhalation, thinking, “How nice, I am still able to breathe tonight!”
15.我们精进修行就是在创造解脱的因，佛陀要我们思惟生、老、病、死，因为解脱之因就在这里。
15. We develop the causes of liberation by diligent practices. Buddha wants us to contemplate upon birth, old-age, illness and death - from which the causes of liberation derived.
