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Understanding Meditation and Mindfulness
这就是冥想。请耐心听我说。
你做不到，对吧？你无法让它停下来。 为什么？
因为你脑海里的那个声音 并不是你。
你无法选择它做什么。
是的， 你可以轻轻地引导它朝向某些
事物，但维持不了多久。
一般来说， 你脑海里的声音就是你的心智，
而你并不是
你的心智。 你是那个能觉察到自己
心智的存在。
如果你现在还不相信我， 那我们再做一个测试。
预测一下你的下一个念头。
你做不到。 你无法预测你的下一个念头。
你无法选择自己的念头。
你的念头只是在你的 觉知中生起，而这正是
瑜伽修行者所领悟的。 他们领悟到，心智
无论我们怎么做都不会停止。 事实上，这正是我们受苦的原因，
因为我们如此强烈地认同 脑海里的那个声音。
它从不闭嘴。有时说得好， 有时很中立，
有时很糟糕，
而它糟糕时，我们也感觉糟糕。 但如果我们不必
听那个声音呢？如果 它能继续喋喋不休，
而我们可以只是
注意到它，却不相信它呢？ 那不就是自由吗？
那就是冥想。 它始于一种叫作
dharana的东西，意为专注。 比如，我们可以使用一个真言。
所以我们会持续专注于 那个真言，每当我们的
思绪将注意力带走时， 我们就放下它们，把注意力
拉回
真言上。当 这变得毫不费力时，
我们便进入一种叫作
dhyana的状态。 那意味着毫不费力的专注。
那时我们可以重复真言， 也可以完全
沉浸于我们的专注点，不受 干扰。
持续生起的念头。
如果我们能正确做到这一点，
它就会开启通往彻底解脱的门， 即三摩地。
那时我们不再相信 自己根本就是心智的幻觉。
听起来不错。
嗯。
也许我们该重新思考冥想。
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Original transcript (English)
This is meditation. Bear with me. You can't, can you? You can't stop it. Why not? Because that voice in your head is not you. You don't get to choose what it does. Yes, you can gently nudge it towards certain
things, but not for long. Generally speaking, the voice in your head is your mind, and you are not your mind. You are the thing that's aware of your mind.
If you don't believe me now, let's do one more test. Predict your next thought. You can't. You can't predict your next thought. You don't choose your thoughts. Your thoughts just arise in your awareness, and this is
what the yogis realized. They realized that the mind doesn't stop no matter what we do. In fact, it's the reason that we suffer, because we identify so strongly with that voice in our head. It never shuts up. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's neutral, sometimes it's bad,
and when it's bad, we feel bad. But what if we didn't have to listen to that voice? What if it could keep nattering on and we could just notice it without believing it? Wouldn't that be freedom? That is what meditation is. It starts with something called
dharana. That means concentration. We might use a mantra, for example. So we would keep concentrating on that mantra, and every time our thoughts take our attention away, we let them go and bring our attention back to the mantra. And when that becomes effortless,
we enter a state called dhyana. That means effortless concentration. That's when we can repeat the mantra or we can just be totally absorbed in our point of focus without being distracted by the thoughts that continue to arise.
And if we can do that properly, it opens the door to total liberation, samadhi. That is when we no longer fall for the illusion that we are the mind at all. Sounds pretty good. Hmm.
Maybe we should rethink meditation.
