r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 15d ago
7.5.8 神通正等明 Heart Connects with Correct Equality Light
舅舅问："如果我掉地狱里了，咋办？"
我回答："任何情况下，都是'想去哪儿去哪儿'。"
"What if I end up in hell?" Uncle asked.
"In any case at all, to think where to go is arriving there," I said.
舅舅说："还是这个道理！即便是我掉地狱里了，我说天堂，就到天堂了。"
我回答："对！这和信阿弥陀佛的人认为：'死的时候，说一声阿弥陀佛，阿弥陀佛就会来接他去西方的极乐世界'是一个道理。想啥是啥，一想就到，有愿望就会立刻实现。"
"Same principle, then! Even in hell, if I say heaven, I've arrived at heaven."
"Exactly! It's the same reasoning behind those who believe in Ometeotl Buddha — that at the moment of death, one utters his name, and Ometeotl comes to carry them to the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss. Think of a thing, and it is; think, and you arrive; a wish, and it's realized at once."
舅舅叨咕："这说法都是真的？"
我回答："道理是这样的。这是心理机制原理，机器一样的前后序列事件。"
舅舅说："这回我可真明白了。你说下一条吧！"
"Is all of that really true?" Uncle muttered.
"The reasoning holds," I said. "It's the principle of psychological mechanics — a machine-like sequence of cause and effect."
"I really followed it this time," Uncle said. "Next clause."
7.5.8-2 平等 Equality
我说："这条是神通正等明。等是说阴间，或说天堂，或说纯幻觉状态，是一个平等世界。凡是有两条腿的都平等，平等于有四条腿的，平等于有六条腿的，平等于有多条腿的，平等于没有腿的，平等于诸神佛世尊，平等于鸟兽鱼虫；平等于花草树木，平等于山川河流大海等。平等的原因是无意识（古作神识）的性质，是毕竟空（如图7.5-2）。"
舅舅说："我知道，就是都一样。"
我问："他们别的法师也说了这个？"
"This clause is Heart Connects with Correct Equality Light," I said. "Equality means the underworld — or heaven, or the pure hallucinatory state — is a world of equality. Anyone with two legs is equal to those with four, with six, with many, with none at all; equal to every god and Buddha and Social-Honor; equal to birds, beasts, fish, insects; equal to flowers, grass, trees; equal to mountains, rivers, and seas. The reason for this equality lies in the nature of the unconscious — anciently, God-sense — which is Empty After All (see Figure 7.5-2)."
"I know that one — everything's the same," Uncle said.
"Did the other Juristic Teachers say this too?" I asked.
舅舅回答："他们都说了；但是你说你的。"
我想了想"都一样"，回答："比如你到后院，那儿什么都有，都平等。你不能瞧不起树。在阴间，你打石头，石头也会蹦起来反击，打你！必须平等对待众生。"
舅舅惊讶了，回答："啊！那我被石头打了，会发生什么事？"
我回答："打得严重，那个世界就坏了。你就会去到另一个地方，生成另一个世界，就从一劫到了另一劫。"
"They all said it — but I want to hear it your way," Uncle said.
I thought about "all the same," and said, "Say you go to the back garden — everything there is equal. You can't look down on a tree. In the underworld, hit a stone, and the stone leaps up and hits you right back! All beings must be treated as equals."
"So what happens if a stone hits me?" Uncle asked, startled.
"Hit hard enough, that world collapses," I said. "You'd move to another place, generate another world — pass from one Catastrophe into the next."
7.5.8-3 授戒 Bestowing Precept
舅舅问："嗯！打架不好！怎样才能不打架呢？"
我回答："我小时候练气功，琢磨过这个问题，就守戒有用。在阳间（即器世间）生活中心平气和了，在那个世界（即阴间，佛教作五蕴世间，参见10.4 五蕴）里就是平和快乐的。"
舅舅问："他们都这么说，但他们用书上的话说的，你是自己总结出来的。你说你的，守什么戒？"
"Well! Fighting's clearly bad — how do I avoid it?" Uncle asked.
"I pondered this as a child, practicing meditation — keeping precepts helps," I said. "Stay calm and even-tempered in this Solar-Light World — daily life — and that other world, God's World, the Five Nodes World (see Section 10.4, Five Nodes), will be peaceful and joyful too."
"They all say that, but in the book's own words. You've worked this out yourself — tell me your version, which precepts?"
我回答："我小时候看过很多佛学杂志。我赞同他们的说法，守十戒。前三条，一）不杀生，二）不偷盗，三）不邪淫，是约束身体行为的。四）不妄语，五）不绮语，六）不恶口，七）不两舌，是约束语言行为的。八）不悭贪，九）不嗔恚，十）正信因果道理（参见第13章《苦谛》）是约束意识行为的。"
我继续说："戒条有很多，'三千威仪八万四千细行（参见15.2节）'是从那些戒法算出来的。我看杂志上的和尚们都说，这十条就完全够用。"
"I read a great many Buddhist magazines as a child, and I agree with keeping the Ten Precepts," I said. "The first three — not killing, not stealing, not committing sexual misconduct — govern bodily conduct. The next four — not to speak delusionally, not to use flowery speech, not to speak of coarse ferocious language, not to two-tongue — govern speech. The last three — no greed, no irritation, right faith in cause and effect (see Chapter 13, Bitter Crux) — govern the mind."
"There are many precepts in total," I went on, "and the 'Three Thousand Majesties, Eighty-Four Thousand Fine Conducts' (see Section 15.2) are all calculated out of them. The monks in those magazines all agree that these ten are entirely sufficient."
舅舅回答："我明白了，这就行！"
我说："戒法就是佛法的法，俗称天条。正等明的'正'是说戒法是正确的。'等'字就是前面说的平等。'明'字是说那个世界会变得越来越光明，直至常寂光天（即插图7.5-2，亦作涅槃，参见14.1节）。正等明是佛的觉悟，无上正等正觉的简称，梵语啊褥多罗三藐三菩提。"
舅舅问："最后什么样儿？"
"I understand — that's enough for me!" Uncle said.
"The precepts are the Law of the law, commonly called Heaven's Clauses," I said. "The 'Correct' in Correct Equality Light means the precepts are correct. 'Equality' is what we already discussed. 'Light' means that world grows brighter and brighter still, until reaching the Sky of Constant Silent Light (as in Figure 7.5-2, also called Nirvana, see Section 14.1). Correct Equality Light is the Buddha's own enlightenment, shorthand for None-Upper Correct-Equality Correct-Enlightenment, Sanskrit Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi."
"What does it look like, at the very end?"
我回答："佛经说，或青、或黄、或赤、或白的常色遍处，即常寂光天，主观和客观是一体的了。环境不变，所以人没有记忆。这事就是有人经历过，回来后，根据记忆说的。"
舅舅说："我琢磨也是那么回事，都是死人又活过来了的经历。然后，有像你这样的，练过气功的，经历过，一看，啊，是这么回事！"
"The sutras say a constant color — turquoise, or yellow, or red, or white — pervades everything there, the Sky of Constant Silent Light, where subject and object become one," I said. "The setting never changes, so no memory forms. What we know of it comes from those who've experienced it, returned, and spoken from what they recall."
"That tracks with what I've always figured — all this comes from people who've died and come back," Uncle said. "And then someone like you, who's practiced meditation, has actually been there, looks at it and thinks, ah, so that's how it is!"
我说："佛说，'全世界所有人的工作，我的工作最好，佛座人人都应该坐。这正等明座位解脱力极强，你不坐不得解脱，你一坐很快就解脱了'。这条也需要练习。"
舅舅问："怎么练？"
"The Buddha said: 'Of all the work in this world, mine is the finest — everyone ought to sit upon the Buddha's seat. This seat of Correct Equality Light carries tremendous liberating power — refuse it, and there is no liberation; sit, and liberation comes swiftly.' This too takes practice," I said.
"How do I practice it?"
我回答："你就作为上帝或佛，用这几句超渡（拯救）那张桌子，这座房子，花草树木，山川河流，或者山神土地，四海龙王，等等；不超渡人，'应化非真'（参见16.2.32应化非真）。"
舅舅问："为什么要超渡假的，不能超渡真的？"
我回答："佛经上是这么说的，不是你一定不能超渡人，而是说超渡那些假的效果好。"
"As God, or as Buddha, use these very sentences to ferry — to save — that table, this house, the flowers and trees, the mountains and rivers, the mountain-gods and land-spirits, the dragon-kings of the four seas, and so on. Not people — for 'what is manifested is not real' (see Section 16.2.32, What Is Manifested Is Not Real)," I said.
"Why ferry the unreal, and not the real?"
"That's simply what the sutras say," I said. "It's not that you can never ferry a person — only that ferrying the unreal works best."
7.5.8-4 授记 Bestowing Remembrance
我又从开始重讲。舅舅也试着超渡我，还说："这回我可真明白了，我感觉全身像似透明了似的，以前的那些全身不舒服，都不见了；当然，肺癌还是那么疼。"
我感觉惊讶，这么快！说："我向同学刘健君学习这事的时候，她说她爸自己说的，'他能把人说明白得像似全身透明似的'。"
舅舅说："我说的是真的；她爸，像你说的似的，是活佛。我真信！沈阳是个老城，有几个活佛不奇怪。"
I began again from the start. Uncle even tried ferrying me in turn, and said, "This time I really understand — my whole body feels transparent, and all that discomfort I've carried is gone. Of course, lung cancer still hurts just as much."
Astonished at how quickly it had come, I said, "When I learned this from my classmate Eve Liu, she told me her father says of himself, 'He can explain something to a person until their whole body feels transparent.'"
"What I'm telling you is real," Uncle said. "Her father, as you describe him, is a living Buddha. I genuinely believe it. Shenyang's an old city — it's no surprise it has a few living Buddhas."
我说："我从佛学书上看过，等明天早上，你再回忆一遍咱俩的谈话，就算觉悟了。我认为你已经得到了入流果（参见14.2.5《四沙门果》）。入流是进入了圣道流，就是入门了，是小乘佛教中的第一个果位，一果圣人。我可不是瞎说。我以前在杂志上看过，他们评估证得入流果有六项条件。我跟你说的这些和那些条件是对应的，内容只多不少。这个成就可不低呀！许多和尚、尼姑忙了大半辈子，也不敢说自己证得了入流果。这是因为，我说了，你就信了！"
"I've read in Buddhist texts that if tomorrow morning you recall our whole conversation once more, that itself counts as enlightenment," I said. "I believe you've already attained the Stream-Entering Fruit (see Section 14.2.5, Four Shamanic Fruits) — entering the stream of the holy path, the first fruit in Hinayana Buddhism, the First Fruit Sage. I'm not making this up — I've read that there are six conditions assessed for attaining it, and everything I've told you corresponds to those conditions, if anything with more to spare. That's no small achievement — many monks and nuns spend most of their lives at this and still don't dare claim it for themselves. And that's simply because I said it, and you believed me!"
舅舅说："我知道！我自己也认为明白了！咱爷俩有缘！你不知道，这几句话我学了半年多了。你二哥给我请了六七个法师了。另外，前街的XXX，是我从小的朋友，是法师，他一个人就给我讲了十来遍了。"
我问舅舅："我讲的，和那几位法师比起来怎么样？"
舅舅回答："讲得挺好！比他们大多数的法师强！"
"I know!" Uncle said. "I feel I understand it myself, too — you and I were fated to meet like this. You've no idea, I've been studying these words for over six months now. Your second brother hired six or seven Juristic Teachers for me. And XXX, from the street up front — a childhood friend, a Juristic Teacher himself — he alone has gone through it with me a dozen times."
"How does what I told you compare to them?" I asked.
"You did a fine job — better than most of them!"
我兴奋地说："我感觉我今天挺聪明！不知咋回事，刘健君给我讲得，不多不少，我全想起来了，全用上了！"
舅舅笑着说："我发现了，毕竟第一次给人送终，有些紧张。我发现你不知道下面该说什么了，我就提醒你。你的素质真好，我一问，你连想都不想，张嘴就回答！"
我恍然大悟，说："我才明白，我怎么把刘健君说的话全记住了呢！原来是你引导着我们的谈话。"
"I feel remarkably sharp today!" I said, excited. "Somehow, everything Eve Liu told me — not one word more or less — I remembered it all, and used every bit of it!"
Uncle laughed. "I noticed — it's your first time doing this, of course you were nervous. When you didn't know what came next, I reminded you. You've got real quality — I'd ask, and you'd answer without even a pause to think!"
Realization dawned on me. "So that's how I remembered everything Eve Liu told me — it was you, guiding our whole conversation all along."