《你可以不怕死》（一行禅师著，胡因梦译）Part 4
Nothing Is Born, Nothing Dies
没有任何事物被创生，没有任何事物被毁灭
A French scientist, whose name is Lavosier, declared, "Rien ne se cree, rien ne se perd." "Nothing is born, nothing dies." Although he did not practice as a Buddhist but as a scientist, he found the same truth the Buddha discovered.
一位名叫拉瓦锡（Lavoisier）［2］的法国科学家曾经声明：“没有任何事物被创造出来，没有任何事物被毁灭。”（Rien ne se crée，rien ne se perd.）虽然他并不是佛教修行人而是一位科学家，他发现的真理与佛陀发现的真理却是相通的。
Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation.
我们真正的本性是不生不灭的，只有洞察到我们真正的本性，才能转化对不存在和灭绝的恐惧。
The Buddha said that when conditions are sufficient something manifests and we say it exists. When one or two conditions fail and the thing does not manifest in the same way, we then say it does not exist. According to the Buddha, to qualify something as existing or not existing is wrong. In reality, there is no such thing as totally existing or totally not existing.
佛陀说，当条件充足时，事物就会示现出来，于是我们就说它是存在的。依照佛陀的看法，判定某个东西存在不存在，其实是一种错误的想法。事实上，没有任何一个东西是完全存在或完全不存在的。
We can see this very easily with television and radio. We may be in a room that has no television or radio. And while we are in that room, we may think that television programs and radio programs do not exist in that room. But all of us know that the space in the room is full of signals. The signals of these programs are filling the air everywhere. We need only one more condition, a radio or television set, and may forms, colors and sounds will appear.
观察一下电视机和收音机，我们很容易就明白这个道理了。我们也许正在一个没有电视机或收音机的房间里，待在这个房间里，我们很可能会认为电视节目或广播节目都不存在。但是我们要知道，房间里其实充满着各种讯号，那些节目的讯号充满了整个大气。我们只要再多一个条件，譬如一台收音机或电视机，那么各式各样的影像、色彩及声响就会出现。
It would have been wrong to say that the signals do not exist because we did not have a radio or television to receive and manifest them. They only seemed not to exist because the causes and conditions were not enough to make the television program manifest. So at that moment, in that room, they do not exist. Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it doesn't exist. It is only our notion of being and non-being that makes us think something exists or doesn't exist. Notions of being and non-being cannot be applied to reality.
如果没有一台可以收讯和显像的电视机或收音机，便说这些讯号不存在，这样的想法是错误的。它们看起来好像不存在，是因为让电视节目显现出来的条件不足，所以我们待在那个房间里的那段时间，才会说它们是不存在的。若是未觉知到某个事物，就说它不存在，这样的想法是不正确的。只有一件事会真的令我们产生困惑迷茫，那就是对存在与不存在下论断。对存在与不存在下论断，会使我们深信某个东西是存在的，或者某个东西不存在。对存在与不存在的论断，完全无法适用于实相
2009年3月13日星期五
"Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me."
《你可以不怕死》（一行禅师著，胡因梦译）Part 3
I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tenderly, very sweet... wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine along but a living continuation of my mother and father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. These feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.
我推开门走到屋外，整片山坡都沐浴在月光里。这片山坡种满了茶树，我的小茅屋就在寺庙后方的半山腰。在一排排的茶树间漫步，我发现母亲仍然与我同在。她便是抚慰着我的那一抹月光，如同以往那般温柔和蔼……真是奇妙啊！每当我的脚接触大地时，我便深刻地感知母亲仍然与我同在。我发现这副身体不是我一个人的，它也是我母亲、我父亲、我的祖父母、我的曾祖父母以及列祖列宗的延续。我看见属于“我”的这双脚，其实是“我们”的脚。我和母亲在这片湿地上共同留下了足印。
From that moment on the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time.
打从那一刻起，丧母的想法就不再生起了。我只需要看看自己的手掌，感觉一下拂面的轻风以及脚下的大地，便能忆起母亲是永远与我同在的，任何时刻我都能感觉到她。
When you lost a loved one, you suffer. but if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death. There is manifestation and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation. You have to be very keen and very alert in order to recognize the new manifestation of just one person. But with practice and with effort you can do it.
一旦失去心爱的人，你一定会痛苦，但如果懂得深观，你就会体认到，她或他的本性是不生不灭的。现象会生起，现象也会熄灭，为的是让另一个现象能够生起。你必须十分敏锐、十分警觉，才会发现一个人的新貌。只要精进地修持，你就能办得到。
So, taking the hand of someone who knows the practice, together do walking meditation. Pay attention to all the leaves, the flowers, the birds and the dewdrops. If you can stop and look deeply, you will be able to recognize your beloved one manifesting again and again in different forms. You will again embrace the joy of life.
因此，和某位懂得如此修持的人手携着手一同行禅。留意每一片叶子、每一朵小花、每一只鸟儿和露珠。若是能静止下来，深观万物，你会发现心爱的人不断地以各种形式变现出新貌，那时你就会再度感受到活着的喜悦了。
I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tenderly, very sweet... wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine along but a living continuation of my mother and father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. These feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.
我推开门走到屋外，整片山坡都沐浴在月光里。这片山坡种满了茶树，我的小茅屋就在寺庙后方的半山腰。在一排排的茶树间漫步，我发现母亲仍然与我同在。她便是抚慰着我的那一抹月光，如同以往那般温柔和蔼……真是奇妙啊！每当我的脚接触大地时，我便深刻地感知母亲仍然与我同在。我发现这副身体不是我一个人的，它也是我母亲、我父亲、我的祖父母、我的曾祖父母以及列祖列宗的延续。我看见属于“我”的这双脚，其实是“我们”的脚。我和母亲在这片湿地上共同留下了足印。
From that moment on the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time.
打从那一刻起，丧母的想法就不再生起了。我只需要看看自己的手掌，感觉一下拂面的轻风以及脚下的大地，便能忆起母亲是永远与我同在的，任何时刻我都能感觉到她。
When you lost a loved one, you suffer. but if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death. There is manifestation and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation. You have to be very keen and very alert in order to recognize the new manifestation of just one person. But with practice and with effort you can do it.
一旦失去心爱的人，你一定会痛苦，但如果懂得深观，你就会体认到，她或他的本性是不生不灭的。现象会生起，现象也会熄灭，为的是让另一个现象能够生起。你必须十分敏锐、十分警觉，才会发现一个人的新貌。只要精进地修持，你就能办得到。
So, taking the hand of someone who knows the practice, together do walking meditation. Pay attention to all the leaves, the flowers, the birds and the dewdrops. If you can stop and look deeply, you will be able to recognize your beloved one manifesting again and again in different forms. You will again embrace the joy of life.
因此，和某位懂得如此修持的人手携着手一同行禅。留意每一片叶子、每一朵小花、每一只鸟儿和露珠。若是能静止下来，深观万物，你会发现心爱的人不断地以各种形式变现出新貌，那时你就会再度感受到活着的喜悦了。
2009年3月10日星期二
"When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear."
No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh,
《你可以不怕死》（一行禅师著，胡因梦译） Part 2
Becoming Nothing
害怕死亡时一切将化为乌有
Our greatest fear is that when we die we will become nothing. Many of us believe that our entire existence is only a life span beginning the moment we are born or conceived and ending the moment we die. We believe that we are born from nothing and when we die we become nothing. And so we are filled with fear of annihilation.
我们最怕死亡来临时一切将化为乌有。许多人都相信我们的整个生命只有一世：诞生的那一刻是开始，死亡的那一刻便是结尾。我们认为自己是无中生有的，而死亡来临时我们也将化为乌有。因此我们对灭绝充满了畏怖。
The Buddha has a very different understanding of our existence. It is the understanding that birth and death are notions. They are not real. The fact that we think they are true makes a powerful illusion that causes our suffering. The Buddha taught that there is no birth; there is no death; there is no coming; there is no going; there is no same; there is no different; there is no permanent self; there is no annihilation. We only think there is. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. We can enjoy life and appreciate it in a new way.
佛陀对我们的存在却有着截然不同的体认。他认为生与死都只是一种概念，它们并不是真实的。就因为我们当真了，所以才制造出强而有力的幻觉，进而导致了我们的苦难。佛陀的真理是不生，不灭；无来，无去；无同，无异；无永恒不灭的自我，亦无自我的灭绝。灭绝只是我们的一种概念罢了。一旦体认到自己是无法被摧毁的，我们就从恐惧之中解脱了。那是一份巨大的解放感。我们终于能焕然一新地享受和欣赏人生了。
Finding a Lost Loved One
找到失去的至爱
The same thing happens when we lost any of our beloved ones. When conditions are not right to support life, they withdraw. When I lost my mother I suffered a lot. When we are only seven or eight years old it is difficult to think that one day we will lose our mother. Eventually we grow up and we all lose our mothers, but if you know how to practice, when the time comes for the separation you will not suffer too much. You will very quickly realize that your mother is always alive within you.
失去任何一个心爱的人，也是同样的情况。如果维持生命的条件不合，他们就会隐退。母亲过世的时候，我非常痛苦。一个七八岁的孩子是很难想象有一天会失去母亲的。成年之后我们都会面临丧母这件事，但是如果你懂得修行，别离的日子来临时，你就不会那么痛苦了。你很快会体认到，母亲是永远活在你体内的。
The day my mother died, I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died. When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.
母亲过世的那一天，我在日记里写道：“一件非常不幸的事已经来到我的生命里。”母亲过世之后，我痛苦了一年多，但是某一天的深夜我梦见了她。当时我睡在越南高地上的一间小茅屋里，那是我隐居的地方。梦里我看见自己和母亲坐在一块儿，我们谈得很开心。她看起来既年轻，又漂亮，长发是垂下来的。坐在她身边和她说话是多么快活的一件事，就像她从未亡故一般。醒来时约莫凌晨两点，我强烈地感觉到我从未失去过母亲。母亲仍然与我同在，这份感觉十分清晰。我突然领悟到，丧母只是我的一种概念罢了。那一刻我才明白，母亲是永远活在我体内的。
《你可以不怕死》（一行禅师著，胡因梦译） Part 2
Becoming Nothing
害怕死亡时一切将化为乌有
Our greatest fear is that when we die we will become nothing. Many of us believe that our entire existence is only a life span beginning the moment we are born or conceived and ending the moment we die. We believe that we are born from nothing and when we die we become nothing. And so we are filled with fear of annihilation.
我们最怕死亡来临时一切将化为乌有。许多人都相信我们的整个生命只有一世：诞生的那一刻是开始，死亡的那一刻便是结尾。我们认为自己是无中生有的，而死亡来临时我们也将化为乌有。因此我们对灭绝充满了畏怖。
The Buddha has a very different understanding of our existence. It is the understanding that birth and death are notions. They are not real. The fact that we think they are true makes a powerful illusion that causes our suffering. The Buddha taught that there is no birth; there is no death; there is no coming; there is no going; there is no same; there is no different; there is no permanent self; there is no annihilation. We only think there is. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. We can enjoy life and appreciate it in a new way.
佛陀对我们的存在却有着截然不同的体认。他认为生与死都只是一种概念，它们并不是真实的。就因为我们当真了，所以才制造出强而有力的幻觉，进而导致了我们的苦难。佛陀的真理是不生，不灭；无来，无去；无同，无异；无永恒不灭的自我，亦无自我的灭绝。灭绝只是我们的一种概念罢了。一旦体认到自己是无法被摧毁的，我们就从恐惧之中解脱了。那是一份巨大的解放感。我们终于能焕然一新地享受和欣赏人生了。
Finding a Lost Loved One
找到失去的至爱
The same thing happens when we lost any of our beloved ones. When conditions are not right to support life, they withdraw. When I lost my mother I suffered a lot. When we are only seven or eight years old it is difficult to think that one day we will lose our mother. Eventually we grow up and we all lose our mothers, but if you know how to practice, when the time comes for the separation you will not suffer too much. You will very quickly realize that your mother is always alive within you.
失去任何一个心爱的人，也是同样的情况。如果维持生命的条件不合，他们就会隐退。母亲过世的时候，我非常痛苦。一个七八岁的孩子是很难想象有一天会失去母亲的。成年之后我们都会面临丧母这件事，但是如果你懂得修行，别离的日子来临时，你就不会那么痛苦了。你很快会体认到，母亲是永远活在你体内的。
The day my mother died, I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died. When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.
母亲过世的那一天，我在日记里写道：“一件非常不幸的事已经来到我的生命里。”母亲过世之后，我痛苦了一年多，但是某一天的深夜我梦见了她。当时我睡在越南高地上的一间小茅屋里，那是我隐居的地方。梦里我看见自己和母亲坐在一块儿，我们谈得很开心。她看起来既年轻，又漂亮，长发是垂下来的。坐在她身边和她说话是多么快活的一件事，就像她从未亡故一般。醒来时约莫凌晨两点，我强烈地感觉到我从未失去过母亲。母亲仍然与我同在，这份感觉十分清晰。我突然领悟到，丧母只是我的一种概念罢了。那一刻我才明白，母亲是永远活在我体内的。
No Death, No Fear ---- "When conditions are sufficient things manifest."
《你可以不怕死》（一行禅师著，胡因梦译）Part 1
In my hermitage in France there is a bush of japonica, Japanese quince. The bush usually blossoms in the spring, but one winter it had been quite warm and the flower buds had come early. During the night a cold snap arrived and brought with it frost. The next day while doing walking meditation, I noticed that all the buds on the bush had died. I recognized this and thought, This New Year we will not have enough flowers to decorate the altar of the Buddha.
在我法国的隐居处，有一丛山茶花，属于日本榅桲类植物。它开花的时节通常在春天，某一年的冬季气候特别和暖，所以花开得早。深夜里一股冷风来袭，还夹带着霜冻。第二天行禅时，我发现那丛山茶上的幼蕾都死了。看着这幅景象，我心里想着，“今年我们布置佛坛的花可能不够了。”
A few weeks later the weather became warm again. As I walked in my garden I saw new buds on the japonica manifesting another generation of flowers. I asked the japonica flowers: "Are you the same as the flowers that died in the frost or are you different flowers?" The flowers replied to me: "Thay, we are not the same and we are not different When conditions are sufficient we manifest and when conditions are not we go into hiding. It's as simple as that."
几星期之后，天气转暖了。我在花园里漫步，看见那丛山茶又生出了新一代的花蕾。我问它们：“你们和那些在霜冻里死亡的花是相同的，还是不同的？”花儿们答道：“我们既不相同，也不相左。条件如果足够，我们就展露出来；条件不足，我们就藏起来。事情就是这么简单。”
This is what the Buddha taught. When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
这便是佛陀的教法之一。当条件充足时，事物自然显现出来。条件如果不够，事物就会隐退。它们静待着适合它们显现的时刻。
Before giving birth to me, my mother was pregnant with another baby. She had a miscarriage, and that person wasn't born. When I was young I used to ask the question: was that my brother or was that me? Who was trying to manifest at that time? If a baby has been lost it means that conditions were not enough for him to manifest and the child has decided to withdraw in order to wait for better conditions. "I had better withdraw; I will come back again soon, my dearest." We have to respect his or her will. If you see the world with eyes like this, you will suffer much less. Was it my brother that my mother lost? Or maybe I was about to come out but instead I said, "It isn't time yet," so I withdrew.
在生我之前，母亲曾怀过另一个孩子，后来流产，所以那个人未曾降生。年少时我经常有一个疑问：那个想示现（Manifestation）［1］于人间的，是哥哥还是我？母亲失去了一个儿子，这意味着他示现出来的条件不够充分，于是他决定隐退，静待更好的因缘。“我还是退回去吧，最亲爱的母亲，不久我就会回来的。”我们必须尊重他或她的意愿。能够以这样的见地来看待世界，你就不会那么痛苦了。母亲失去的真的是我哥哥吗？或许当初想出生的是我，不过后来我说“时候未到”，于是我又缩回去了。
In my hermitage in France there is a bush of japonica, Japanese quince. The bush usually blossoms in the spring, but one winter it had been quite warm and the flower buds had come early. During the night a cold snap arrived and brought with it frost. The next day while doing walking meditation, I noticed that all the buds on the bush had died. I recognized this and thought, This New Year we will not have enough flowers to decorate the altar of the Buddha.
在我法国的隐居处，有一丛山茶花，属于日本榅桲类植物。它开花的时节通常在春天，某一年的冬季气候特别和暖，所以花开得早。深夜里一股冷风来袭，还夹带着霜冻。第二天行禅时，我发现那丛山茶上的幼蕾都死了。看着这幅景象，我心里想着，“今年我们布置佛坛的花可能不够了。”
A few weeks later the weather became warm again. As I walked in my garden I saw new buds on the japonica manifesting another generation of flowers. I asked the japonica flowers: "Are you the same as the flowers that died in the frost or are you different flowers?" The flowers replied to me: "Thay, we are not the same and we are not different When conditions are sufficient we manifest and when conditions are not we go into hiding. It's as simple as that."
几星期之后，天气转暖了。我在花园里漫步，看见那丛山茶又生出了新一代的花蕾。我问它们：“你们和那些在霜冻里死亡的花是相同的，还是不同的？”花儿们答道：“我们既不相同，也不相左。条件如果足够，我们就展露出来；条件不足，我们就藏起来。事情就是这么简单。”
This is what the Buddha taught. When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
这便是佛陀的教法之一。当条件充足时，事物自然显现出来。条件如果不够，事物就会隐退。它们静待着适合它们显现的时刻。
Before giving birth to me, my mother was pregnant with another baby. She had a miscarriage, and that person wasn't born. When I was young I used to ask the question: was that my brother or was that me? Who was trying to manifest at that time? If a baby has been lost it means that conditions were not enough for him to manifest and the child has decided to withdraw in order to wait for better conditions. "I had better withdraw; I will come back again soon, my dearest." We have to respect his or her will. If you see the world with eyes like this, you will suffer much less. Was it my brother that my mother lost? Or maybe I was about to come out but instead I said, "It isn't time yet," so I withdrew.
在生我之前，母亲曾怀过另一个孩子，后来流产，所以那个人未曾降生。年少时我经常有一个疑问：那个想示现（Manifestation）［1］于人间的，是哥哥还是我？母亲失去了一个儿子，这意味着他示现出来的条件不够充分，于是他决定隐退，静待更好的因缘。“我还是退回去吧，最亲爱的母亲，不久我就会回来的。”我们必须尊重他或她的意愿。能够以这样的见地来看待世界，你就不会那么痛苦了。母亲失去的真的是我哥哥吗？或许当初想出生的是我，不过后来我说“时候未到”，于是我又缩回去了。
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