The Miracle of Mindfulness｜一行禅师《正念的奇迹》

洗碗时，就应该只是洗碗；也就是说，洗碗时，应该对“正在洗碗”这个事实保持全然的觉照。

While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes.

乍看之下，可能有点傻——干嘛要这么强调这样简单的事呢？但这正是关键所在。

At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on asimple thing? But that's precisely the point.

“我正站在这里洗这些碗盘”这件事实，是个不可思议的真实。

The fact that I am standing there and washing these bowls is a wondrous reality.

当下的我，正是完完整整的我自己，随着我的呼吸，觉知到我的存在，觉察到我的思想和动作。

I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

我不会像个被浪花左拍右击的瓶子一样，毫无觉知地被抛来抛去。

There's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

当你在一条通往村落的小径上行走时，你就可以修习正念。

When you are walking along a path leading into a village, you can practice mindfulness.

走在这条四周都是绿地的泥路上，如果你练习正念，你就能真正体验这条小径，这条引你往村落去的小径。

Walking along a dirt path, surrounded by patches of green grass, if you practice mindfulness you will experience that path, the path leading into the village.

你得一直敏于觉察着：“我正走在这条通往村落的小径上。”

You practice by keeping this one thought alive: "I'm walking along the path leading into the village."‍

不管天气是晴是雨，不管路径是干是湿，你都要一直保持这个思维，但是别只是机械式地重复它。

Whether it's sunny or rainy, whether the path is dry or wet, you keep that one thought, but not just repeating it like a machine, over and over again.

“机械性的思考”跟“正念”是对立的。

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness.

如果我们真的抱持正念走这条通往村落的小径，我们会觉得每一步都是无上的惊奇，喜悦之情将令心灵如花朵般绽放，让我们进入实相的世界。

If we're really engaged in mindfulness while walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

我喜欢独自漫步在乡村小径上，道路两旁尽是稻谷和野草。

I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides. 

我在正念中踏出每一步，感知自己正走在这不可思议的大地上。

Putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth.

在这样的时刻，存在本身就是个惊人的奇迹。

In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.

一般说来，人们认为在水上或空中行走才叫“奇迹”，但是我觉得真正的奇迹并非在水上或空中行走，而是在大地上行走。

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

每一天，我们都身处于自己甚至都没认知到的奇迹中：蔚蓝的天空、雪白的云朵、碧绿的树叶、孩子充满好奇的黑色眼眸——那也是我们自己的双眼。

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white louds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child-our own two eyes.

所有一切，尽是奇迹。

All is a miracle.

——节选自《一行禅师：正念的奇迹》

——An extract from 《The Miracle of Mindfulness 》

by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh