修学阶段 Stages of Practice

　　Part 2: Walking The Path 第2篇：行道

　　2-3. Stages of Practice 修学阶段

　　Determine to listen well, all lay-people and monastic friends. When you determine to pay attention, you'll be able to remember. It is called knowing through memory and comprehension. From that, we study or practice to realize and truly know, or we have knowledge coming from our own vision and experience.

　　所有在家众和出家道友们！要下决心好好地听！当你下决心要好好地听，才能记得住，这也就是所谓由见闻记忆及思惟理解而了知(即闻慧与思慧)。我们藉这些方便来学习或进一步修行而达到觉悟、如实真知，或开启依自家见地与体证而流露出来的智慧(即修慧)。

　　Most people don't yet know and understand from studying and practicing; they only know how to make merit, to be generous, to keep precepts and to do tranquility-meditation. But when it comes to more profound matters, that is to say, how to develop insight-meditation, there are really very few people who know and understand it. With Vipassana it is usually a specific case, a specific individual, who knows and teaches it. Because of this, people are lazy and don't want to practice. As far as practice goes, they only know tranquility-meditation, which they think is the same as doing Vipassana. This is because they still don't realize and really know. Their knowledge comes only through memory and comprehension. So, we make ourselves peaceful; but we don't understand clearly that there are two kinds of peace, namely peace under the influence of delusion and peace due to awareness and wisdom.

　　大多数人都还不知道或了解学习与修行的方向，他们只知道如何做功德、布施、持戒及修止禅，但谈到更深的层面，也就是说发展内观禅修这方面，真的就很少有人知道与了解。比如就毘婆舍那来说，这通常都是要到一个特定的场地，还要有一位能通达和教导的特定的人，基于这个原因，一般人由于堕性也就懒得修习。他们修行就只知道修止禅，并且认为那和修毘婆舍那是一样的，这都是因为他们还没修行而达到觉悟与如实真知，他们的智能只是由见闻记忆及思惟理解而来的智慧。也正因此，一般人修行就只是使自己平静，而并不清楚了解有两种的平静，意即：(1)带有迷惑的平静；和(2)由觉知与智慧而获得的平静。