2. 悲悶禪修短語
oMay I recognize [my] stress and suffering
願我認識到 [我的] 壓力和痛苦
oMay I not react to stress and suffering
願我不對壓力和痛苦做出反應
oMay I not do or say anything to harm myself and others
願我可以不作或說任何傷害自己和他人的話
oMay I be free of pain and sorrow
願我遠離痛苦和悲傷
oMay I be calm and peaceful
願我平靜與祥和
3. 老、病、死
oTerry Badger III: Baseball phenom 棒球天才, 13, 七年班、
dies by suicide 死於自殺
oMarch 6: 媽媽去學校接他回家、留他自己一人在家。他
錄了一段影片。
o“I get picked on every (single) day and I hate my life. You
can thank (同學名字) for this.”
我每天都被取笑,我討厭我的生命。你們可以多謝(他的
同學) 。還叫他:「肥仔」。父母不想回去住在家裡。
o在小學,他已經給欺負。上了中學也繼續給欺負、跟校
長開會但沒用。
4. 老、病、死
o2022年6月29日:Harrison Gilks of Fredericton, Canada, 18歲,
癌症晚期。抖音網紅人。有30萬追隨者
o2023年3月30日。過世。
oNov. 2020 rhabdomyosarcoma cancer 患著横纹肌肉瘤
oBucket list: Over the past few months, he was able to enjoy
helicopter rides, meet Montreal Canadiens hockey stars, watch a
Los Angeles Rams football game and bask in the heat in Mexico.
o遺願清單:過去幾個月、 他能夠享受乘坐直升機的樂趣、
認識蒙特利爾加拿大人隊的曲棍球球員、 觀看洛杉磯的足球
比賽、和在墨西哥曬太陽。
oThe best thing you guys can do, I guess, [is] pray for me.
我想,你們能做的最好的事情就是為我祈禱
5. 老、病、死
oNeil Diamond (1941-), 82歲, 是美國歌手兼作家、音樂
人及演員。
oParkinson’s Disease 帕金森氏症
o症狀: 肢體僵硬、動作遲緩、姿態不穩。病因:遺傳因素。
o目前尚未發展出能完全治癒帕金森氏症的方法,但有一
些藥物、手術和跨領域整合治療能緩解症狀。
oI don't like it. But ... this is me; this is what I have to accept.
我不喜歡它。 但是……這就是我; 這是我必須接受的。
oThis is the hand that God’s given me, and I have to make the
best of it. 這是上帝給我的手,我必須充分利用它。
14. • Seeing the true nature of suffering 看透痛苦的真實本質
• Bear witness to suffering, without fear見證痛苦,無所畏懼
• Learn to live with sympathy for all living beings, without
except
學對所有眾生有同情心,無一例外
• Means experiencing a trembling of the heart in response to a
being’s pain
悲悶心的意思: 看到一個人//動物的痛苦而感到自己的心
顫抖
15. Developing True Compassion
發展真正的悲悶心
• The first step: recognize and acknowledge that pain and
sorrow exist.
第一步: 認識並承認痛苦和悲傷的存在。
• The second step: opening to pain and establishing an
appropriate relationship to it.
第二步: 對痛苦敞開心扉並與之建立適當的關係。
16. 第一步
• We have our ups and downs, pain and loss;
我們生活中有起起落落、痛苦和失落;
we don’t get what we want.
我們沒有得到我們想要的。
• We all experience this pattern
我們都經歷過這種模式
• Yet we are brought up thinking that suffering is wrong or to
be avoided.
然而,我們從小就認為痛苦是錯誤的或應該避免的。
17. • We create a society that accommodates our need to deny pain
我們創造了一個滿足我們否認痛苦需求的社會
• We use material consumption and painkillers to avoid
suffering
我們用物質消耗和止痛藥來逃避痛苦
• We take people who are different, people who are in trouble,
people who are old, people who are dying, and put them in
institutions.
我們把與眾不同的人、陷入困境的人、年老的人、垂死
的人,送進機構。
18. • These are forms of suffering we all share,
這些是我們共同的痛苦形式,
but there is so much humiliation and bitterness about getting
or growing old or dying that we feel we have to hide our
pain.
但是,關於變老或死亡的羞辱和痛苦是如此之多,以至
於我們覺得我們必須隱藏自己的痛苦。
• We grew up in a dysfunctional family but don’t talk about it.
我們在一個功能失調的家庭中長大,但不要談論它。
The pain is denied. 痛苦被否認。
• We create a tremendous disparity between inner reality and
the circumstance of the external world.
我們在內心現實和外部世界的環境之間製造了巨大的差
異。
19. Hindu epic: Mahabharata
印度教史詩《摩訶婆羅多》
• What is the most wondrous thing in the entire world?
世界上最奇妙的事情是什麼?
• The most wondrous thing in the entire world is that all
around us people can be dying and we don’t believe it can
happen to us.
世界上最奇妙的事情是我們周圍的人都可能死去,而我
們不相信它會發生在我們身上。
20. • When we deny our experience, 當我們否認我們的經驗時,
we are moving away from reality to something fabricated.
我們正在遠離現實,轉向虛構的事物。
• This will harm us
這會傷害我們
• The truth may be difficult, but it will never hurt us.
真相可能很難,但它永遠不會傷害我們。
21. • When we say, “there is suffering in this world.”
當我們說,“這個世界上有痛苦”。
• Everything is in front of us: no games, no denial.
一切都在我們面前:沒有遊戲,沒有拒絕。
• To acknowledge the truth of suffering allows us to feel our
unity with others.
承認苦難的真相讓我們感受到我們與他人的團結。
22. • The goal of our spiritual practice is to be able to understand,
我們修行的目標是能夠理解,
to be able to look without illusion at what is natural in this
life, 能夠不帶幻想地看待今生的自然,
at what is actually happening for others and for ourselves.
了解他人和我們自己實際發生的事情。
• This willingness to see what is true is the first step in
developing true compassion.
這種願意看清真相的意願是培養真正慈悲心的第一步。