5/21/2024「同心共善」善心法師網上禪修班 (粵語)

1. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
永久改變你的生活的指南
• 善心今攝
• May 21, 2024

2. 四無量心練習
慈心：願我身體健康。願我懂得照顧自己身體。
悲心：願我接受和懂得面對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力。
願我對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力不作出任何反應。
願我不作和說出任何傷害自己和他人的話。願我懂得愛惜自己。
o想起一位朋友，關注此人生活中的特定收穫或快樂來源。用以
下的短語來欣喜。
• 願你的幸福和好運不要離開你。願你的好運持續下去。
• 願我接受事物原本的樣子。願我讓人們成為他們本來的樣子。
• 願我不為一切事件的來去所驚動 。願我學會看透一切現象的
生起與滅去。願我開放、平衡、平和。

3. 法友： 無期徒刑
51歲，1993年入監獄

4. • I just want to say that I normally do not venture outside of my faith group for
any reason,
我只想說，我通常不會出於任何原因冒險離開我的信仰團體
(宗教)，
• but ever since I participated in the Developing Healthy Sensual Desire
Workshop you gave last October,
但自從我參加了你去年十月舉辦的「發展健康的感官慾望研討
會」以來，
• I have developed a greater openness regarding my adolescence trauma and its
connection to my offense.
我對我的青春期創傷及其與我的罪行的聯繫有了更大的開放性。

5. • For years, I have searched for an outlet for my desire to learn about myself
and heal to no avail.
多年來，我一直在尋找一個出口來滿足我瞭解自己和治癒的願
望，但無濟於事。(31年)
• I believe I have found the answer to my search.
我相信我已經找到了搜索的答案。
• I want to thank you for the books, materials, effort and concern that you have
given to us.
我要感謝你們為我們提供的書籍、材料、努力和關心。
• We are forever in debt to you. 我們永遠虧欠你。

6. • I truly believe that your work is unique, ideal and life changing.
我真的相信你的工作是獨一無二的、理想的和改變生命的。
• Please continue to assist our community in whatever way that you deem
necessary.
請繼續以您認為必要的任何方式協助我們的社區。
• In closing, thank you once again for reaching out to us in this, for planting
seeds of hope in our hearts.
最後，再次感謝你們在這方面向我們伸出援手，在我們心中播
下希望的種子。

7. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
上星期：第六章：人類革命
• 當我們的思想、言語和行為與我們最積極的意圖保持一
致時，奇跡就會發生。
• 我們從一個一瘸(ke4)一拐(gwaai2)、支離破碎的自我變成了一
個翱翔、統一的自我。
• 我們變得醫治和完整，內在和外在。
• 我學會了如何通過打磨我的生活的精神實踐來治癒自己。
• 通過學習《法華經》的智慧，我成為了我靈魂的醫生。
• Beyond Music project: 一本佛教和基督教祈禱文集，以促
進不同文化之間的和平與理解。

8. 第七章
超越歌唱
• By honoring each other’s ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds,
通過尊重彼此的種族、宗教和文化背景，
• we become stronger and happier, brightening the cosmic masterpiece of
artwork that is our world.
我們變得更強大、更快樂，照亮了我們的世界這個宇宙藝術作
品。
• Rather than emphasize differences, we should be looking for similarities.
與其強調差異，不如尋找相似之處。
• Our differences are ultimately superficial, and the best thing to do is celebrate
them.
我們的差異最終是膚淺的，最好的辦法就是慶祝它們 (差異)。

9. • The religious faith that we are born into is largely determined by the region
where we live and the ethnic background of our family.
我們出生的宗教信仰很大程度上取決於我們居住的地區和我們
家庭的種族背景。
• In my case, I was born to an African American family in the southern region
of the United States.
就我而言，我出生在美國南部地區的一個美國黑人家庭。
• Like most families of our description, we embraced the Baptist religious
tradition.
像我們描述的大多數家庭一樣，我們接受了浸信會的宗教傳統。
• Although I went from Baptist to Buddhist, I’ve honored my family’s heritage
and cherish the similarities between these two paths.
雖然我從浸信會變成了佛教徒，但我尊重我家族的遺產，並珍
惜這兩條道路之間的相似之處。

10. • Baptist teachings encouraged me to work toward attaining admission into a
heavenly paradise,
浸信會的教義鼓勵我努力進入天堂，
• while Buddhism inspires me to attain the enduring and enlightened life
condition of Buddhahood.
而佛教則激勵我達到佛性的持久和開悟的生活狀態(當下，現
在生活)。
• Although the goals of these two spiritual paths may sound somewhat different,
both focus on creating a state of indestructible, eternal happiness.
雖然這兩條精神道路的目標聽起來有些不同，但都專注於創造
一種堅不可摧的永恆幸福狀態。
• To me, that is an important similarity.
對我來說，這是一個重要的相似之處。

11. • I’ve met people from all over the world, from many cultures and faiths,
我遇到了來自世界各地的人，來自不同的文化和信仰，
• and I believe that all religious traditions share the same basic aspirations at
their core—
我相信所有宗教傳統的核心都具有相同的基本願望——
• to experience everlasting joy by aligning with the positive forces of the
universe.
通過與宇宙的積極力量保持一致來體驗永恆的快樂。
• We may describe this ultimate reality as Jehovah, God, Allah, Jesus, Hashem,
Dao, Brahma, the Creator, the Mystic Law, the Universe, the Force, Buddha
nature, Christ consciousness, or any number of other expressions.
我們可以將這個終極現實描述為耶和華、上帝、安拉、耶穌、
哈希姆、道、梵天、造物主、神秘法則、宇宙、原力、佛性、
基督意識或任何其他表達方式。

12. 呼吸

13. • When I joined the Beyond project, 當我加入 Beyond 專案時，
• I made an effort to familiarize myself with diverse faith traditions,
我努力讓自己熟悉不同的信仰 (宗教) 傳統，
• as well as learn about the history of exchanges between those spiritual
traditions.
以及了解這些心靈傳統之間交流的歷史。
• For example, before recording the album Buddhist and Christian Prayers,
例如，在錄製專輯《佛教和基督教祈禱》之前，
• I had not been aware of any particular contact between the Buddhists and
Christians of olden times.
我沒有意識到古代佛教徒和基督徒之間有任何特別的接觸。

14. • So, I was pleasantly surprised to discover a rich history of interfaith
dialogue.
因此，我驚喜地發現宗教間對話的豐富歷史。
• I learned that when Jesuit missionaries first arrived in Japan in the
sixteenth century and observed Buddhist ways of thinking and living,
我瞭解到，當 耶穌會 傳教士在16世紀第一次到達日本並
觀察佛教的思維方式和生活方式時，
• they sent back word to Europe that it appeared the Japanese Buddhists
had developed an Asian form of Christianity.
他們向歐洲傳回消息，說日本佛教徒似乎已經發展出一
種亞洲形式的基督教。

15. • At the same time, Japanese Buddhists recorded that upon listening to
the first European missionaries,
與此同時，日本佛教徒在聽了第一批歐洲傳教士的講話
後記載，
• they didn’t find much about Christian belief to be objectionable; they
saw common ground.
他們沒有發現基督教信仰有什麼令人反感的;他們看到了
共同點。

16. • For decades, Christian missionaries in Japan lived harmoniously
among the largely Buddhist population,
幾十年來，日本的基督教傳教士在以佛教徒為主的人口
中和睦相處，
• until tensions erupted that were rooted in political concerns of the
ruling Tokugawa Shogunate (日語：江戸幕府).
直到緊張局勢爆發，其根源在於執政幕府的政治擔憂。
• It was politics, not religion, that caused discord among the people.
是政治，而不是宗教，導致了人民之間的不和。
• This lesson transcends time and is something I wish more of us in
today’s world would know and understand.
這一課超越了時間，我希望當今世界的更多人能夠知道
和理解。

17. • Some two thousand years before the Jesuits landed in Japan,
在耶穌會士登陸日本之前大約兩千年，
• the great Buddhist King Ashoka of India sent out emissaries to distant
lands to teach Buddhist ideals of compassion and peace.
偉大的印度佛教國王阿育王派遣使者到遙遠的國度傳授
佛教的慈悲與和平理想。
• In the 3rd century B.C.E. (before the Common Era), these envoys
recorded in travel logs that among the places they visited were cities in
Greece and Egypt, including Alexandria.
在西元前3世紀（西元前），這些使節在旅行日誌中記載，
他們訪問的地方包括希臘和埃及的城市，包括亞歷山大
港。

18. • One hundred years before the Buddhist expeditions from India,
在佛教遠征印度前一百年，
• Alexander the Great opened up avenues of cultural exchange with
Indian regions as well.
亞歷山大大帝也開闢了與印度地區進行文化交流的途徑。
• Knowing this, it’s easy for me to imagine that Buddhist philosophy
must have traveled westward,
知道了這一點，我很容易想像佛教哲學一定是向西傳播
的，
• including to the region where Jesus lived.
包括耶穌居住的地區。

19. • Later, Thomas the Apostle explored India and sent tales of
Bodhisattvas and Shakyamuni’s life to the West.
後來，使徒湯瑪斯探索了印度，並將菩薩和釋迦牟尼的
生平故事傳到了西方。
• Some of these details made their way into early Christian teachings and
evolved into what is now known as the scripture of Saints Barlaam and
Josaphat,
其中一些細節進入了早期的基督教教義，並演變成現在
被稱為聖巴拉姆和約薩法特的經文，
• whose names come from the Sanskrit words for “illustrious
Bodhisattva.”
他的名字來自梵語，意為「傑出的菩薩」。

20. • When my kidneys failed several years ago and I was having dialysis
treatments,
幾年前，當我的腎臟衰竭，我正在接受透析治療時，
• one of my favorite books to read during treatment was Dante’s The
Divine Comedy.
在治療期間，我最喜歡讀的書之一是但丁的《神曲》。
• To me, the nine circles of hell Dante describes in the Inferno sound like
the ancient Buddhist depictions of hellish life conditions,
對我來說，但丁在《地獄》中描述的地獄九圈聽起來像
是古代佛教對地獄生活狀況的描述，
• and the cause-and-effect relationship between life and life after death.
以及生與死後生的因果關係。

21. • Recently, I discovered I’m not alone in that view,
最近，我發現我並不孤單，
• as modern scholars believe Dante took inspiration from old Buddhist
descriptions of infernos and icy places of torment,
正如現代學者所認為的那樣，但丁從古老的佛教對地獄
和冰冷的折磨場所的描述中汲取了靈感，
• and then incorporated them into his work.
然後將它們融入到他的作品中。
• The desire to seek the essence of the universe has always overflowed
the banks of any one cultural or spiritual stream.
尋求宇宙本質的慾望總是充斥著任何一種文化或精神流
派的河岸。

22. • With the Beyond project, our vision was to include as many
international faith traditions as possible.
通過Beyond專案，我們的願景是盡可能多地納入國際信
仰傳統。
• We began with Buddhism and Christianity—the two faiths closest to
our personal experiences.
我們從佛教和基督教開始，這是最接近我們個人經歷的
兩種信仰。
• Subsequent albums have continued to expand that vision by including
the Hindu traditions of India,
隨後的專輯繼續擴大這一視野，包括印度的印度教傳統，
• as well as traditions from Jewish and Arab cultures.
以及猶太和阿拉伯文化的傳統。

23. • I wanted to make my spiritual message for the album as universal and
inclusive as possible.
我想讓我在這張專輯中傳達的精神信息盡可能具有普遍
性和包容性。
• I just wasn’t sure how to go about crafting it.
我只是不確定如何製作它。
• I had dabbled in writing songs about Buddhist concepts in the late
1970s, but I hadn’t finished them.
我在1970年代後期涉足寫過關於佛教概念的歌曲，但我
還沒有完成它們。

24. 呼吸

25. • Later, when I met with Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda,
後來，當我遇到佛教哲學家池田大作時，
• he spoke encouragingly to me about the potential of music to cross
cultural boundaries and to inspire a “never give up” spirit in people’s
lives.
他鼓勵我談到音樂跨越文化界限的潛力，並在人們的生
活中激發“永不放棄”的精神。
• I’ve always believed that music is more than notes on a page;
我一直認為，音樂不僅僅是頁面上的音符;
• it’s a language, something I tried to convey to my band when I said to
them,
這是一種語言，當我對我的樂隊說時，我試圖向他們傳
達的東西，

26. • “When you express music from your heart,
「當你發自內心地表達音樂時，
• when you merge it with your soul, the people who hear your artistry
will be moved by it so much more.”
當你將它與你的靈魂融合在一起時，聽到你的藝術的人
會被它所感動。」
• How could we bring that intention to Beyond?
我們怎樣才能把這種意圖帶到Beyond？
• Since I was on my way to the US for my tour,
由於我正在前往美國巡迴演出的路上，
• I decided to make a quick stop in Carlsbad, California, to ask author
Deepak Chopra for advice.
我決定在加利福尼亞州的卡爾斯巴德短暫停留，向作家
迪派克·喬普拉（Deepak Chopra）尋求建議。

27. • As I hoped, he was gracious and supportive, and when our visit ended,
正如我所希望的那樣，他很親切和支持，當我們的訪問
結束時，
• he gave me a collection of spiritual books to read,
他給了我一本屬靈的書讓我讀，
• assuring me that the right words would come to me at the right time.
向我保證，正確的話語會在正確的時間出現在我面前。

28. • As I started reading, I searched for words and phrases that resonated
with me and wrote them on large sheets of paper.
當我開始閱讀時，我搜索與我產生共鳴的單詞和短語，
並將它們寫在大紙上。
• Then, I took all the papers and spread them across my floor.
然後，我把所有的檔都鋪在我的地板上。
• Sitting among these inspirational words, I was basking in a literary
garden of positivity.
坐在這些鼓舞人心的文字中，我沐浴在積極的文學花園
中。
• At first, I remained perfectly still and let the wise words around me
enter my consciousness through osmosis.
起初，我保持完全靜止，讓周圍的智慧話語通過滲透進
入我的意識。

29. • Maya Angelou, a hero to many of us, believed that “words are things.”
Maya Angelou, 我們許多人的英雄，相信 “文字就是事
物。”
• Words, she felt, hold energy and power. I agree.
她覺得，言語蘊含著能量和力量。我同意。
• Words are one of the three types of action (thoughts, words, and deeds)
that create karma and affect the condition of our lives.
言語是造成業力並影響我們生活狀況的三種行為（思想、
言語和行為）之一。
• With this in mind, I chose my words carefully.
考慮到這一點，我仔細選擇了我的話。

30. • I started by arranging the sheets I’d gathered into groupings.
我首先將收集到的表格分組。
• Sorting them to select my favorites and putting them into just the right
order was a playful process.
對它們進行排序以選擇我的最愛並將它們按正確的順序
排列是一個有趣的過程。
• Regula joined me, and we had such a good time that by the end we
were giggling like schoolgirls.
Regula 加入了我的行列，我們玩得很開心，到最後我們
像女學生一樣咯咯地笑。
• She suggested that I pin my final selections to the wall and think about
them during my daily walks.
她建議我把最後的選擇釘在牆上，在每天散步時想想它
們。

31. • Soon, I realized that I wanted to condense the message even further,
很快，我意識到我想進一步濃縮資訊，
• to the simplest nonsectarian terms.
用最簡單的非宗派術語來說。
• It was important to me that as many people as possible be able to
understand the meaning.
對我來說，讓盡可能多的人能夠理解其中的含義是很重
要的。
• I wanted to reach anyone who might be struggling in life,
我想接觸任何可能在生活中掙扎的人，
• anyone who needed inspiration to develop peace and happiness within
themselves.
任何需要靈感來發展自己內心的和平與幸福的人。

32. • Eventually, I found the precise words I wished to express.
最終，我找到了我想表達的確切詞語。
• As I recorded them, I was amazed to see that the sound engineers and
others in the studio were moved to tears by what I said.
當我錄製它們時，我驚訝地看到錄音室裡的音響工程師
和其他人被我說的話感動得流下了眼淚。
• For the Buddhist and Christian Prayers album, I recorded the beginning
of gongyo (日文：勤行）*,
在《佛教和基督教祈禱》專輯中，我錄製了《gongyo》
(日文：勤行）的開頭，
• *a selection from the Lotus Sutra that is part of my daily Buddhist
prayer routine.
選自《法華經》，是常佛教祈禱程式的一部分。

33. 呼吸

34. • Nothing lasts forever. 沒有什麼是永恆的。
• No one lives forever. 沒有人會永遠活著。
• The flower fades and dies. 花凋謝並死亡。
• Winter passes and spring comes. 冬天過去了，春天來了。
• Embrace the cycle of life; that is the greatest love.
擁抱生命的循環;那是最偉大的愛。
• Go beyond fear. Go beyond fear. Beyond fear takes
超越恐懼。超越恐懼。超越恐懼
• you into the place where love grows, where you refuse
你進入愛成長的地方，你拒絕的地方
• to follow the impulses of fear, anger, and revenge.
追隨恐懼、憤怒和復讎的衝動。

35. • Beyond means to feel yourself.
超越 [所有]方法感受自己。
• Start every day singing like the birds. Singing
開始每天像鳥兒一樣唱歌。唱歌
• takes you beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond…
帶你超越，超越，超越，超越......
• We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training,
我們需要反覆的訓練，真正的訓練，
• to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and
放下我們的舊思維習慣，找到和
• sustain a new way of seeing.
維持一種新的觀看方式。

36. • Go beyond the rights and the wrongs. 超越對與錯。
• Prayer clears the head and brings back peace
祈禱使頭腦清醒，恢復平安
• to the soul. Go beyond to feel the oneness of unity.
到靈魂。超越感受合一的合一。
• Sing! Singing takes you beyond, beyond, beyond,
唱！歌唱帶你超越，超越，超越，
• beyond… 超越。。。
• We are all the same, all the same. Looking to find
我們都是一樣的，都是一樣的。尋找
• our way back to the source. To the one, to the only one.
我們回到源頭。給一個，給唯一的一個。

37. • Go beyond revenge. The greatest moment in our lives
超越復讎。我們生命中最偉大的時刻
• is when we allow ourselves to teach one another.
就是我們允許自己互相教導的時候。
• Go beyond to feel the oneness of unity. Singing.
超越感受合一的合一。歌唱。
• Singing takes you beyond, beyond, beyond,
歌唱帶你超越，超越，超越，
• beyond… 超越。。。
我的看法：超越種種分別心我們可以達到非世俗的心態
/狀況。

38. • Take the journey. 踏上旅程。
• Take the journey inside of you. 踏上你內心的旅程。
• To become quiet to hear the beyond. 變得安靜，聆聽遠方的聲音。
• To become patient to receive the beyond. 要有耐心地接受超越。
• To become open to invite the beyond in. 變得開放，邀請超越者進入。
• Be grateful. Be grateful to allow the beyond.
心存感激。心存感激，允許超越。
• Be in the present moment, to live in the beyond.
活在當下，活在超越。

39. • Start every day singing like the birds. Singing
開始每天像鳥兒一樣唱歌。歌唱
• takes you beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond…
帶你超越，超越，超越，超越...
• What does love have to do with it?
愛與它有什麼關係？
• Love grows when you trust.
當你信任時，愛就會增長。
• When you trust, love heals and renews.
當你信任時，愛會治癒和更新。

40. • Love inspires and empowers us to do great things.
愛激勵並賦予我們力量去做偉大的事情。
• And makes us a better person to love. Love makes us
讓我們成為一個更好的人去愛。愛造就我們
• feel safe and brings us closer to God.
感到安全，讓我們更接近上帝。
• When you go beyond, that’s where you find true love.
當你超越時，那就是你找到真愛的地方。
• Keep singing. Singing takes you beyond, beyond,
繼續唱歌。歌唱帶你超越，超越，
• beyond, beyond…超越，超越……

41. 呼吸

42. 願以此功德
普及於一切
我等與眾生
皆共成佛道