Normality平常心

　　Luangpor Teean(隆波田) 著

　　三摩地学会?菩璋 译

　　Part 2: Walking The Path 第2篇：行道

　　2-1. Taking a Shortcut 直取快捷方式

　　Today the monks, novices and laypeople are meeting here in order to study the method to develop meditation. We’re not interested in anything else because we’ve done it already. For example, making merit, being generous, upholding precepts and doing tranquility-meditation. As for insight- meditation, we’ve heard about it, but we don’t yet understand, or we’ve only practiced it a little bit. Therefore, before we start practicing insight-meditation, we have to rely on listening and reading from scriptures before we understand what tranquility- meditation is and what insight-meditation is.

　　今天，比丘、沙弥和在家众为了要修学禅修的方法而聚在这里，我们对其他方法都不感兴趣，因为那些我们早已经学过了。例如：作功德、布施、持戒和修止禅。至于观禅，我们也有听过，但是我们还没真正了解，或者只是练过一点点而已。因此，在我们开始练习观禅之前，我们必须先听闻及阅读经典，才能明白什么是止禅？什么是观禅？