我們從『呼吸』開始。它看起來像是一個身體機能的概念,就在一呼一吸的吸進和呼出間。那是確實的。然而在更深層次中,呼吸與心理,包括雜染的心理素質緊密相連。當我們靜坐和觀察呼吸時,內心開始徘徊——對過去的記憶,對未來的構想——我們立即發現到呼吸已經失去了正常性:呼吸可能變得有點困難,有點急促。煩亂的心理一旦消失,呼吸又恢復了正常。這意味著呼吸與心理緊密相連,不僅與內心息息相關,而且還與雜染心息息相關。因此,我們在這裡(禪修中)進行實驗,以探索我們內心正在發生的事情。在更深的層次上,人們亦會發現內心也正在影響著身體。
We start with breath. It looks like a physical concept, the breath moving in and moving out. It is true. But on the deeper level the breath is strongly connected to mind, to mental impurities. While we’re meditating, and we’re observing the breath, the mind starts wandering—some memory of the past, some thoughts of the future—immediately what we notice is that the breath has lost its normality: it might be slightly hard, slightly fast. And as soon as that impurity is gone away it is normal again. That means the breath is strongly connected to the mind, and not only mind but mental impurities. So we are here to experiment, to explore what is happening within us. At a deeper level, one finds that mind is affecting the body at the sensation level.
~ excerpted from Superscience, An interview with S. N. Goenka on the techniques of Buddhist practice by Helen Tworkov, winter 2000
小語:
『禪修』並不是為了得到什麼超於常人的境界,而是單單純純的回到當下的自己,親身體驗和認識『身與心』的真實面貌及其相互連結。這是『非理論性』的體驗,絕不能按照別人的修行經歷去依樣畫葫蘆地仿製到自己的身心上;同樣的,你所經驗的身心狀態,他人也不能完全模仿與複製。正如古德所說:如人飲水,冷暖自知。
『禪修』,除了認識自己的身心外,還要更進一步從各種身心現象上去發現絕對的真理——無常性、無我性、空性和緣起性。一個真正透過禪修而深入體驗絕對真理者,並非透過語言文字去理解或思索『無常、無我』等等的理則,而是在自他、身心、生活乃至修行的各個層面中,法喜地發現真理的無處不在。即便是正在遭逢著種種逆境的考驗,也能平靜地把發生的一切,以極其平常的心態去看待與接納。
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