【慧灯中英文连载】《Are You Ready for Happiness?》(83)证悟空性必须修加行

However, we cannot simply count on reason or theory to gain certainty in this view; we need to let the mind rest and examine it during meditation. Free the mind from discursive thoughts; neither review the past nor invite the future. The past no longer exists, the future has yet to come; if there is a mind, it can only be the mind at the present moment. Let us then check to see if the present mind exists. If we have been diligent in our practice of the preliminaries, we would know, in the instant we examine the mind, that the mind at this very moment is none other than clarity and emptiness. In Beacon of Certainty, the original face of suffering is said to be pure like the sky above the high plateau in Tibet, just emptiness. The great sage Atisha also said in his commentaries on the Middle Way that the nature of mind is clear and unobstructed like the autumn sky. What is perceived as suffering has long since dissolved into clouds of smoke; there are no traces of it left.

不是仅仅通过逻辑或者理论来推断、说服自己，而是让心静下来，用闭关入座的方式去观察自心。心里不要有任何杂念，不追究过去，也不迎接未来。本来过去的心就已经消失不复存在；未来的心尚未诞生，如果有一颗心，那只会是当下这一瞬间的心。那去看看它是否存在呢？如果之前的加行修得好，就能在观察的同时立即明白，当下的心就是光明、空性。虚幻的痛苦表相背后的本来面目，也像《定解宝灯论》中所讲的一样，如同藏地高原清澈、纯净的虚空，一切都是空性。阿底峡尊者在中观论著里面也讲过：心的本性，就像秋日晴空。秋天的虚空，是如此的碧蓝通彻、一无所有。在这一瞬间，所谓的痛苦早已化为烟云，荡然无存、无影无踪。

It is not difficult to realize emptiness. Unfortunately, because we do not practice the preliminaries, have not developed renunciation or bodhicitta, and have neither accumulated merit nor repented our wrongdoing, we only experience dullness or anxiety during meditation.

本身证悟是非常容易的，可惜我们没有修加行，没有出离心、菩提心，没有积累资粮、忏悔罪业，所以静下来就只有昏沉、困倦。

If our realization is not stable, our mind will return to mundane concerns and experience anxiety and suffering again. Until we have subdued the mind, it will traverse back and forth between illusion and reality, between relative truth and ultimate truth.

证悟境界不稳固的人，在没有寻找心的本性的时候，又会回到世俗当中，内心的烦躁与痛苦仍会产生。就这样在梦幻与现实，胜义谛和世俗谛当中穿越，直到境界稳固为止。

If we wish to eradicate our suffering immediately, we must practice the preliminaries. We cannot bypass the preliminaries and think we can take up a different practice to achieve the same result.

如果你迫切希望能尽快进入这种状态，让所有痛苦一下子消失，就要好好修加行。妄图不修加行，而通过其他方式直接进入这种状态，是永远不可能的。