面对各种境界的考验，如何保持正念

在坐船的时候，我自然而然地会想一个课题，就是这个轮船如果现在沉没了,我现在葬身海底，我怎么样面对？如果我已经在水里了，被物体强制地带到水里，甚至鼻子不能呼吸了，呼吸的时候水会呛到肺里去，怎么办？

Whenever I am on a ship, these questions naturally cross my mind: What would I do if the ship were to sink? What would I do if I were taken deep beneath the sea and it was impossible to breathe? 

怎么样保持着正念，在生死的面前，靠什么了生脱死，也就是这两个悬崖，你有一个桥可以超越这个悬崖，没有桥你怎么超越悬崖。中有就叫生死险峡，你靠什么超越？

How could I manage to maintain mindfulness when facing death? How could I overcome life and death in this case?

When facing bardo, the transitory state between death and a new existence, an abyss between cliffs over which there is no bridge, how can we transcend it?

大善知识就是能指导你明心见性的，能带着你超越生死的，但这是很难，非常不容易的。首先你的心能够安住，不恐惧，要训练得方寸不乱，处变不惊，得宠时也很安定，侮辱来的时候，也像安住虚空一样，没有一个我和我所被攻击到，这是很重要的。

A holy master is the one who can lead you to the realisation of Buddhahood and the transcendence of life and death, but this is very difficult. First and foremost, you need to train your mind so that you are able to remain calm, to feel no panic regardless of what kind of accident has happened, to remain serene whether you have been honoured or humiliated. Your heart should be like a void, with no attachment to the self or external objects. This is very important.