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一切就是那么

简单性香禅师

[1979年12月29日佛法开示节录]

让我们觉得宽心一点，那就是很久以前，赵州禅师用了很长的时间来了解自己。他十七岁出家，二十岁开始学习佛经，历时十年。虽然他不断的读了又读，还是不了解心，不了解佛。之后，他成为禅僧，坐禅三十年。他不停的坐了又坐――“什么是

佛？什么是心？”――非常努力修行，直到五十七岁，他还是不了解。一天，他问师父南泉禅师一系列有关正道的问题。最后，南泉说：“道，不依靠了解或不了解。无念的道，有如虚空般清明。你为何要强分对错呢？”听到这句话，赵州的心打开了！那时他五十七岁。接下来的二十年，他游方各地，寻找中国各地的禅师印证禅锋。最后，在八十岁时，他在一座佛寺定居，如果有人到来，他便给与教导。赵州就是用了那么多时间，才开始教导。但是，他并没有时间的观念。他只是勇往直前，一日复一日，做他需要做的、让他更坚强的事。

另一位著名的人物惠能，在很年轻的时候，听到几句金刚经的经文，便完全了解自

己，从未有任何修行。但他的业很重。许多人想杀害他，因为他没有经过训练，没有接受教育，便获得著名的禅宗五祖传法，成为六祖。所以，他必须跑到树林里，跟猎人一起生活十六年。最后，经过了那一段时间后，他走出树林，出家为僧，开始教

导。就如崇山禅师常说的，证得开悟很容易，保持开悟就很难了。赵州了解这一点，惠能也了解这一点。

普罗维登斯禅修中心成立一年半后，还只是一个很小的禅院，我们跟着崇山禅师，尽最大努力禅修，每一个月都有勇猛精进禅修。一个周末，两位年轻人

来跟我们一起禅修。一位坐得很直，姿势很端正，让我们觉得很惭愧。那时，我们并没有什么姿势可言，我常常打瞌睡。但是这个人却一动不动――坐得非常稳。另一位没有坐下，他的膝盖不好，他只是站。

小参时，我听到禅师笑着对他说，他坐得很好，他已经了解。我

从未听见禅师如此说过，觉得很嫉妒，心想：“他了解了什么？

(提起禅杖，在空中

很慢的划一圈，然后

把禅杖垂直敲在桌子

上。)

非常非常慢。

(禅杖在空中很快的

划一圈，然后敲打桌

子。)

非常非常快。

普罗维登斯禅修中心写了一首歌，主题是时间。我觉得那是恰当的，因为我们今晚聚在这里的唯一原因，是人们认为有时间存在――来去、新旧，认为一些人的禅修进度比另一些人快。对许多禅修者来说，那真是一个左右为难的状况――把自己跟其他禅学生比较，跟我们的禅师比较，跟其他禅师比较――然后心里想：“我修得如何？要再过多久，我才能觉得比较好、比较强，能把内心的光辉照耀在别人身上？”不幸的是，我们内心的光辉有时太暗了，所以许多人继续留

在这里，希望充足电以后，可以在任何时候帮助任何人。

有一件事或许能>> pg 2.

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MITA (P) No. 195/10/2004



Every-thing

is That

SimpleZen Master

Seong Hyang

(Holds the Zen stick and very

slowly traces a circle in the air, then

strikes the Zen stick vertically on

the table.)

Very very slow.

(Quickly traces a circle in the air

with the Zen stick and strikes it on

the table.)

Very very fast.

The Providence Zen Center has written

a song, and the main theme of the song is

time. I think that is appropriate since the

only reason we’re here tonight is that people

think there’s time—coming and going, old

and new. There’s the idea that some people’s

practice is faster than other people’s practice.

That’s really a great dilemma for many of us

who practice—comparing ourselves to other

Zen students, to our Zen Master, and to other

Zen Masters—and thinking, “How well am I

doing? How much longer will it take me to feel

better and be strong, to go out and make this

mind light shine to other people?” Sometimes,

unfortunately, our mind light gets a little dim,

so most of us keep staying here and trying to

recharge our batteries enough so we can go out

anytime and help anybody.

One thing that might make us all feel alittle better is that long ago, Zen Master Jo Ju

took a very long time to understand himself.

He became a monk when he was seventeen

and started studying the sutras when he was

twenty for ten years. He didn’t understand

mind, didn’t understand Buddha, even though

为什么他从未告诉我，我了解了一些东西？”禅师出来说：“这个人证得初悟。”我们在这里一年半了，没有人证得任何东西。就这个周末，这个人耀眼夺目。另一个人说：“禅师，我有话跟你说，但必须是单独的。”然后，他们出到停车场去，坐进我的车子里――什么地方不好去，竟然去我的车子。禅师回来笑着说：“这个人也了解了！”

因此，我讨厌禅师，我讨厌这两个人。我想了很多：“这一年半以来，我做了什么？为什么我没有获得那样的关注？”第二天，我带他们到市区搭巴士。他们在讨论，开始比较各自所体悟的空性。我立刻了解那是错误的。我至少从禅师那里学到这一点。两三分钟后，他们开始辩论谁的空性体悟最深刻。所以，再次说明，证得开悟很容易，保持开悟很困难。我已经看到他们的心在动摇，他们的问题产生了。

这些年来，我常想到赵州、惠能，以及那两位在周末来到禅修中心的年轻人。我想：“我修得如何？我如何运用我的时间？”新年到了，让人认真思考，你到底要做什么，要如何自我

提升。这个星期，禅修中心发生了一件有趣的事。我们正在决定，咖啡应该是公共的还是个人的。有的人认为应该是个人的，有的人认为应该是公共的。最后，有人问禅师他怎么想。他很简单的说应该是个人的，因为它对你的修行没有帮助。那是唯一的

原因。它给你不属于你的能量，你会依赖它，会成为坏习惯。所以，在禅修中心，它不应该是公共的。

一切就是那么简单。咖啡是个人的，这是很简单的。我们尽力使自己坚强，以便帮助其他人，这也是很简单的。事实上，赵州用了六十年才完全了解，惠能也用了许多年才成为导师。我希望大家都能领悟，我们是赵州，我们是惠能，我们是来到禅修中心的那两个人，我们都有相同的清明心。总有一天，我们都需要提起禅杖，运用它，给与其他人正确的教导。

刚才，这根禅杖在空中。一次，它很慢的划了一圈;一次，它很快的划了一圈。

你想要哪一个？

喝！欢迎参加新年庆祝活动。

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he had read and read and read. Then he became

a Zen monk and sat Zen for thirty years. He

sat and sat and sat—“What is Buddha? What

is Mind?” —very hard training, until he was

57 years old. Still he didn’t understand. One

day, he asked his teacher Zen Master Nam

Cheon a series of questions regarding the True

Way. Finally, Nam Cheon said, “The TrueWay is not dependent on understanding or not

understanding. The True Way of no thinking

is like space, clear and void. So why do you

make right and wrong?” Upon hearing this,

Jo Ju’s mind exploded—KHHH!! He was 57

years old. For twenty more years Jo Ju walked

around and around, having Dharma combat

with all the Zen Masters he could nd in China.

Then nally, at the age of eighty, he settled

down and went to stay in one monastery, and

if people came, he’d give them teaching. So

that’s the time it took Jo Ju to start teaching.

But he actually had no idea of time. He onlywent straight ahead, day by day, and did what

he knew he had to do to become strong.

At a very young age, another famous

man named Hui Neng heard just a very few

lines from the Diamond Sutra and completely

understood himself with no practice at all. But

he had a lot of karma. People were trying to kill

him because he got transmission from a very

famous Zen Master, the Fifth Patriarch, and

became the Sixth Patriarch with no training,

no education. So he had to go away in the

forest for sixteen years and live with hunters.Finally, after that length of time, he came out

and became a monk before he began teaching.

So, as Soen Sa Nim has said many times, it’s

very easy to attain Enlightenment, but it’s very

hard to keep it. Jo Ju understood that and Hui

Neng understood that. >> pg. 3

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Excerpt of a formal

Dharma talk given on

December 29, 1979



认识师父[编者的话：其实，一直都很想访问师父。总觉得虽然经常在禅林见到师父，但却对他的认识不多。因为

师父很低调，对自己的事不会挂在嘴边说。这次，我们也是在劝说下，师父才答应接受我们的访问。至于大家是否会因此而更认识师父，那就因人而异了。]

问:师父，请您谈谈您的学佛及出家因缘。

答：追求真理，服务众生。

问：师父在决定出家时，希望自己在佛教界做出哪一方面的贡献？而师父现在出家多年，又认为自己在佛教界扮演着怎么样的角色呢？

答：惭愧。。。无贡献。

问：师父曾到过许多国家跟不同的法师参学。您是怎样认识崇山禅师，而决定把他的教导带回新加坡的呢？

答：在韩国认识崇山禅师大概是有缘吧！他的教导很适合现代人，简单、清楚而适用。如，原点（宇宙的本体）、实相（真理）、运作（时时清楚你的正确处境、运作与关系），生活在慈悲与智慧中，帮助一些需要帮忙的人。

问：大光禅师曾说过，菩萨道就如一只小鸟用额嘴含水去扑灭森林大火。您的看法如何？

答：不要执著语言与名相，这只是个比喻。

问：师父这么多年的辛勤教学，请问您教学的精华是什么？

答：只是去做，吃饭的时候只是吃饭、睡觉的时候只是睡觉。。。

问：观音禅林有许多不同的活动，如诵

经、佛理讲座、佛曲班、禅修班等。为什么需要这么多不同的活动，而不单教禅法？

答：佛说一切法，为度一切众（心）。若无一切心，何来一切法？

问：师父对禅林未来几年有什么展望？答：金刚经云：三心不可得。

问：禅林这几年会员逐年增加，我们也看到越来越多青年人对禅法有兴趣。师父对禅林的会员有什么忠告吗？

答：是什么！问：谢谢师父！

About a year and a half after the Providence Zen Center rst began,

it was still a small temple, and we’d been practicing with Soen Sa Nim

as hard as we could. We had Yong Maeng Jong Jins every month, and

two young men came to practice with us one weekend. Well, one of

them sat. He sat up very straight with the correct posture, and he put

us all to shame. We didn’t have much form then, and I just slumped

and fell asleep, but this guy didn’t move—very, very strong sitting. The

other man never sat down; he always stood up. He had bad knees or something. He’d stand.

During the interviews, I heard Soen Sa Nim laughing, telling this

guy how wonderful he was, and that he understood. I’d never heard

him say that before, and I became very jealous, thinking, “What

did he understand? How come he has never told me I understood

anything?” Soen Sa Nim came out and said, “This man attained First

Enlightenment.” Now here we had been there for a year and a half and

nobody had attained anything. Then, in one weekend, this guy was

shining. The other guy said, “Soen Sa Nim, I want to talk to you. It’s got

to be private.” So they go out and sit in my car in the parking lot—of all

places, my car. And Soen Sa Nim came back beaming and said, “This

man also understands!”So I hated Soen Sa Nim. And I hated these two guys. I did a lot of

thinking: “What have I been doing here in a year and a half? And why

didn’t I get that attention?” The next day, I took them downtown to the

bus station to take a bus somewhere. They were talking with each other,

and they started comparing their emptiness experiences which I knew

right away was a mistake. I’d learned that much with Soen Sa Nim.

And after about two or three minutes they were arguing with each other

about who had had the deepest emptiness experience. So, once again,

Enlightenment is very easy to attain but very hard to keep. Already I

saw that their minds were moving; they were having a problem.

Through the years I’ve had a lot of thought about Jo Ju, about Hui

Neng, and about these two young men that came to the Zen Center oneday, and thought, “What am I doing? How am I using my time?” This

New Year comes and it really makes you wonder what you are going

to do, how you are going to improve yourself. Something interesting

happened this week at the Zen Center. We were trying to decide whether

we should make coffee public or private. Some of us thought it should

be private, and some of us thought it should be public. Finally one of

us asked Soen Sa Nim what he thought, and he said very simply that

it should be private, because it doesn’t help your practice. That’s the

only reason. It gives you energy that isn’t your own, and you can get

dependent on it, and it can become a bad habit. So it shouldn’t be public

in a Zen Center.

Everything is that simple. It’s very simple that coffee should be private; it’s very simple that we try to do as much as we can to make

ourselves strong so that we can go out and help other people. And

the truth of the matter is that it took Jo Ju sixty years to completely

understand that; it took Hui Neng many, many years to become a teacher.

And I hope that all of us realize that we are Jo Ju, we are Hui Neng, we

are these two young men that came to the Zen Center, that we all have

that same clear mind. Some day we will all have to pick up the stick and

do something with it to give people correct teaching.

Before, this stick went up in the air. One time, very slowly, it

completed the circle, and one time very quickly completed the circle.

Which one do you want?

KATZ!

Welcome to the New Year’s celebration.

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秘

密

花园

你的秘密花园

在哪里?

这

是一个新的专栏。在这里，我们希望通过电

影、书籍、故事等轻松的方式，传达禅的教导。

这个专栏的名字《秘密花园》，是一部电影的片名。故事主人翁是十岁的小女孩玛丽，她的父母是有钱的贵族，但他们每天都在寻欢作乐，从不关心玛丽。因此玛丽变得很任性，很顽强的抗拒一切，无论发生什么事都不会哭。在一次地震中，玛丽失去了父母，她很震惊，却没哭。之后，她住到叔叔家去。叔叔也是贵族，有一座很大的屋子，但因为妻子去世而变得非常消沉。他不但没照顾玛丽，连他的儿子柯林，也没有照顾。柯林从小被宠坏，他老是觉得自己生了重病，每天都躺在床上等佣人服侍，连走路的力气都没有。

玛丽受不了屋子里死气沉沉的生活，便跑到屋外玩耍。在一只知更鸟的引导下，她来到了一座秘密花园。这座花园本是叔叔为他的妻子盖的，自从妻子去世后，就被锁了起来，被忽略以至荒芜。玛丽在一位淳朴善良的小孩狄耿的帮助下，重新整理花园。他们除草、播种、浇水、施肥。春天到了，花园里开满了许多美丽的花朵。每一次去到花园，玛丽都觉得非常开心。玛丽和狄耿，把坐在轮椅上的柯林，推到花园去玩。柯林第一次尝到生活的喜悦。当他看到盛开的花朵时，更是勇敢的重新学习走路！

一天，当叔叔回到家时，发现柯林竟然不在房里，他非常担心。在佣人的建议下，他跑到秘密花园

去寻找。当他看见柯林在美丽的花丛中高兴的跑着、跳着，他的消沉，顿时烟消云散！然而，玛丽害怕叔叔会再次锁起花园，难过得哭了！叔叔安慰玛丽说：“你把我们的生命带了回来，这是我以为没有人做得到的事。我不会再把花园锁上了。”

最后，玛丽说：“咒语破除了。叔叔学会笑，而我学会哭。现在，秘密花园开启了，它苏醒了，充满了生气。如果你正确的观察，你会发现，整个世界就是一座花园。”

每个人都有一座秘密花园，只要开启了秘密花园，你就会体验到生活的充实、喜悦。

你找到了你的秘密花园吗?

The Secret Garden

Where is Your

Secret Garden?

This is a new column. Here, we hope to share the

teaching of Zen in a lighter mood through movies,

books, and stories.

The name of this column, “The Secret Garden”, is the

title of a movie. The movie’s main character is a ten-year-

old girl called Mary. Her parents were wealthy land-lords

who indulged in parties and enjoyment, and completely

neglected her. So, she became very stubborn, strongly

resisting everything, and never cried no matter what

happened. In an earth-quake, Mary lost both her parents.

She was shocked, but she didn’t cry. Later, she moved to

live with her uncle, who was also a wealthy nobleman and

owned a very big house. But, the uncle was very depressed

after his wife died. He did not take care of Mary, and not

even his son Colin. Colin was a spoilt child who always felt

that he was serious ill. He was bedridden, always relyingon the maids to serve him, and he did not even have the

strength to walk.

Mary could not stand the stiing atmosphere in the

house, and ventured out of the house. Under the guidance

of a robin, she stumbled upon a secret garden. The garden

was built by her uncle for his wife. Since the death of

his wife, the garden has been locked up, neglected and

ruined. Mary, with the help of a kind country boy Dickon,

began to tidy the garden. They removed weeds, planted

seeds, watered, and nurtured the garden. Spring came, the

garden blossomed with many beautiful owers. Mary was

very delighted every time she visited the garden. She and

Dickon put Colin on a wheelchair and pushed him to the

garden. That was the rst time Colin experienced the joy

of living. When he saw the beautiful owers, he picked up

courage and learned to walk again!

One day, when the uncle returned home, he could not

nd Colin in his room and was very concerned. Under

the suggestion of a maid, the uncle went to search in the

garden. When he saw Colin running and jumping happily

among the owers, his depression was completely swept

away! However, Mary, afraid that her uncle would again

lock up the garden, felt sad and cried! “You have brought

us back to life,” her uncle consoled her, “you’ve done

something that I thought nobody can. I will never lock upthe garden again.”

Finally, Mary said, “The spell has broken. My uncle

learned to laugh, and I learned to cry. Now, the secret

garden is opened. It is awake and alive. If you look the

right way, you’ll nd that the whole world is a garden.”

Everybody has a secret garden. If you open it, you’ll

experience the richness and joy of your life.

Have you found your secret garden?

Nature Walk @ Bt Timah Nature Reserve

Sunday, December 4, 2005

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