你的感知绝对真实吗？

According to the Buddha, the life that ordinary people live is real to them. Hence, ordinary people can only do what is right; they must not do what is wrong such as stealing, cheating, lying, taking life, etc. However, this reality is just relative reality, not absolute reality.

佛陀说过：对我们这样的普通人来说，现实生活都是真实的。所以，在普通人的境界中，就只能做该做的，而不能做不该做的，诸如偷盗、欺骗、妄语、杀生等等。但这个所谓的真实，只是相对的真理，而不是绝对的真理。

As an example, if we put a cobblestone on a table and examine it with our eyes, we only see a still object. From the standpoint of our eyes, there is motion in water and the clouds; there is no motion in a physical structure and a cobblestone. However, placed under a microscope, the situation is completely different. This apparent contradiction arises because the eye and microscope perceive things from a different level. The microscope is a sophisticated instrument which can see more clearly than the eye; accordingly we should conclude the finding under the microscope is more accurate. Nonetheless, in everyday life, we consider the stillness of objects we perceive with the eye to be true. In this relative reality, that which is perceived with the eye is relative truth; that which is perceived through the microscope is ultimate truth.

举一个例子，如果拿一个鹅卵石放在桌子上，然后用我们的肉眼专注地去看，就只能看到一个一动不动的静止之物。从肉眼的角度来说，水是动的，云是动的，建筑物和鹅卵石是静止不动的。但以显微镜来看，就完全是另外一回事。为何会有矛盾的结论呢？因为肉眼与显微镜所观察的层次不一样。显微镜比肉眼更先进，能观察得更清晰，所以最终的结果，应该以显微镜的结论为准。但在现实生活当中，却可以承认肉眼所见的相对静止。这两个相对真实的结论，就叫做胜义谛和世俗谛。

We should never rely too much on our senses because they are imperfect. The eye can only see the most superficial layer of the earth; we see light, but only a minute part of the spectrum. We hear sounds, but only ordinary sounds; we cannot distinguish between sound waves of higher or lower frequencies. Hence, we cannot conclude our sensory perceptions are absolutely real.

我们不要过度地相信自己的感官，感官是有漏洞的。眼睛只能看到这个世界最表面的层次——可见光，这只是光谱中的极少部分；耳朵只能听到最普通的声音，频率更高或更低的声波，我们都没有办法辨析……所以我们不能认为自己感知到的是绝对真理。

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