杂染之虫的唯一解药是什么？

    慈心是正见或正确理解的结果。为何这样说呢？实际上，你不必刻意培养慈心。慈心是当你能够正确看待事物后的自然结果。那么，我们如何才能正确的看待事物呢？

    当我们发现，心里总是时常出现贪、嗔或痴时，我们会因此灰心沮丧。我们不喜欢我们发现的这些。同样，我们也在其他人身上看到这些杂染(贪嗔痴)。我们厌恶正在发生的这些。生活忽然变的如此悲惨。

           

          

    事实上，当我们发觉这些“实相”时，我们应该高兴和喜悦。这正是佛陀指出的真相。然而，我们却不喜欢我们看到的真相。为何如此呢？佛陀为我们指出的是“实相”。这个“实相”，是可以在每一个人的心中找到的。

    杂染，是实相。不是概念，也不是想象。当我们确确实实的知道它(杂染)是“实相”，'实相'就不会让我们受苦。事实上，我们应该高兴，因为我们以前从未这样看待过杂染。以前我们在无明之中，追逐(贪爱)快乐，逃避(嗔恨)不快乐，还以为，这样做是很“自然而然”。

    而我们的'自然而然'，实际上，是无知，是无明。我们根本不知道为何要那样做。我们只是在追随(听从)杂染。我们认为那样做是对的。我们始终都在抓取和排斥。直到有一天我们醒过来，发现：想要和不想要、喜欢和不喜欢，抓取和排斥，实际上都只是'杂染'。不是我，不是我的。

    举一个形象的例子：就好像一个人，总是感到急躁。他不知道为何自己总会这样。很小的事，都会惹的他烦躁，并且觉得很不舒服。尽管他也尽力不去烦躁，但还是无法避免的烦躁。有一天，他通过他的医生了解到，他的烦躁是因为身体的某种失衡引起的。通过进一步的诊断，医生发现某种寄生虫在影响着他的器官。直到这时，他才明白，急躁，其实并不是他的本性。不是他的。那只是寄生虫进入体内所引发的表现。

    同样的，伟大的医生，佛陀，指出:杂染，就像这些'寄生虫'。它们不是我、我个人、或者我的。是因为它们在污染着心，我们才会变得生气和贪婪。能找到它们，是多么令人喜悦。否则我们的生活就将愚痴的任它们摆布。当它们出现时，我们可以用觉知和正见，去觉察它们。觉知＋正见是佛陀给予我们的良药。

           

          

      以这样的方式去知道，才是正确的理解。当我们觉知到这些杂染时，我们何必灰心沮丧呢？我们不能像去除那些寄生虫那样直接去除它们(杂染)，因为当我们不喜欢它们(杂染)时，这个态度本身就是'虫'啊。我们反而让它们越来越多了。这就是为何我们一定要正确的看待它们(杂染)。这是佛陀给予我们的最好的礼物，让我们终于能看到它的终结。

    只有当我们了解到，他人是因为杂染之虫而受苦时，我们才能有慈心。每个人，都有无明。因为不知道应该去看医生，他们只能白白受苦。有一天他们会明白的。有一天，他们会从那个疾病解脱。在那之前，他们将不可避免的承受痛苦和压力。他们还没有找到解药。

    现在你已经发现了解药，你应该感到喜悦。但你并不开心。为什么呢？

    1.因为我们很少服用解药；

    2. 因为我们想要立刻见效；

    3. 因为我们也没有看到，这些虫是因为我们的无知而产生的另一些自然现象而已。

    

    由于所有的这些无明，我们再次坠入了这些'虫子'的暴政。这就是为何我们必须去做'禅修者的三项工作'，它们与以上三点相反，它们(三项工作)是我们的解药。

    每一次看到杂染，如果带着正见和觉知，都是一次喜悦。这是唯一的解药，我们终于能够正确的看待它们了，所以喜悦。每一次看到，就是一次治疗。如果我们并不觉得喜悦，毫无疑问，是因为我们没有正确的服用这副药。

 

           

          

    禅修者：那么，可否这样说:禅修，并不是去'杀虫'，而是，'正确的看待虫子，与虫子和谐共存？'

    

   老师：当我们把重心放在解药上，而不是放在杂染问题上时，才是有正确理解或正见的。当我们试图把矛头对准杂染时，就是错见了。杂染本身，并不是问题。杂染之所以存在，是因为它们是另一种实相。

   当我们我们理解了问题、问题的原因、问题的终结和解决问题的正确方法。也就是，四圣谛(苦、集、灭、道)，正确的禅修才真正开始了。

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原文：

'Compassion is a resultant of Right View or Right Understanding. Why is it so? In fact, one need not try to develop compassion. It is an effect when one look at things the right way. So how do we look at things the right way?'

 

'When we notice greed, aversion or delusion frequently in our minds, we get dejected by their existence. We don’t like what we noticed. We also see these defilements happening in other people. We detest what is taking place. Life suddenly becomes miserable. '

 

           

          

'In truth, when we notice these realities, we shall be happy and joyful. It is the Truth which the Buddha pointed out. Yet, we don’t like what we noticed. Why is it so? The Buddha is pointing to us a Reality. A reality found in every individual mind.'

 

'Defilements are realities. It is not a concept or an imagination. How can realities make us suffer if we know them exactly as 'realities'. In fact, we shall be happy because we have never seen defilements in these way before. Before, we are ignorant (delusion)of it. We chase (greed) after happiness. We avoid (aversion) unhappiness. We thought these happenings are 'natural'.'

 

'Our 'natural' is actually a blindness. An ignorance. A kind of not knowing why we are doing that. We simply follow the defilements. We think it is the right thing to do. We are always in the pull and push factor. But one day we wakeup to realize actually the wanting and not wanting, the like and dislike, the pull and push factor is actually “defilements'. Not me, not mine, not 'I'. '

 

'A good example to illustrate this will be like a person irritating all the time. He just doesn’t know why he is such. He gets irritated at little things and just feel so uncomfortable. He cannot avoid being irritated even though he tries not to. One day he found out thru his physician that his irritation is due to a certain imbalance in his body. On later diagnosis the physician found a certain worm affecting his organs. Only then did he realize that actually the irritation is not his nature. It is not him. Not his. It is just intrusion of this foreign organism into the body. '

 

In the same way, defilements being pointed out by the Great Physician, the Buddha, is like those 'foreign intrusion'. They are not I, me or mine. Because of them defiling the minds, we get angry and greedy. To finally found them out is a joy, otherwise we will be living our lives at their mercy, ignorantly. We can use awareness and right view to notice them when they are present. Awareness+ right view is our medicine given by the Buddha. We can finally see to its end.'

           

          

'It is in this way of knowing that there is Right Understanding. Why should we be dejected knowing them? We cannot just get rid of them like those worms. Because when we dont like them, this attitude is the 'worms' itself. We only grow them more. That is why we must look at them correctly. This is the best gift the Buddha has givenus.'

 

'We can only be compassionate when we see others suffering because of the worms of defilements. Everyone is not alone in this ignorance. Every being have it. But out of ignorance of not seeing the Physician, they suffer in vain. One day they will understand. One day they will be release from that illness. Until then suffering and stress is their experience, unavoidable. They have not found the remedy yet.'

 

'You have found the remedy. In fact, you shall be happy. Yet, we are not. Why? 

1. Because we seldom apply the remedy.

2. We wanted immediate result.

3. We also didn't see those worms are just another nature that cannot be otherwise due to our not knowing. 

Due to all these ignorance, we fall back into the tyranny of those 'worms “again. That is why we must have the Three-Yogi-Job. They are the opposite of the above three. They are our medicine.'

'Each noticing the defilements, if come with Right View and Awareness is a joy. A joy that finally we are able to see them correctly as this is the only medicine to addressing them. Each seeing IS A REMEDY. If we are not happy surely we have taken the remedy wrongly.'

           

          

'Right Understanding or Right View is when we give preference to the remedy instead of the problem. Wrong View is when we try targetting on the defilements. The defilements are not the problem.They exist because they are another realities.'

'Right Meditation begins when we understand the problem, the cause of the problem, the end of the problem and the right way out if it. Namely the Four Noble Truth.

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