必须建立的见地有哪些？
【中英文连载】
《The Right view》(118)
《THE TWO TRUTHS — THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MADHYAMAKA》
《二谛——开启中观门扉之钥匙》
What we should do is to set out on the path by way of learning and contemplating the teachings of the Buddha. Otherwise, how is one supposed to practice, knowing neither the theories nor the methods? Merely keeping the mind calm and thoughtless is not what practice is about. We all know that many animals regularly go into hibernation for months on end or even longer. Would anyone call this a form of practice? Or, would they thus be enlightened? I think not. So, just keeping the mind blank is not so important. What we really need is forming the correct view, which can only come from learning and contemplating the teachings. This is why the process of learning the Dharma has occupied such a critical position on the path to liberation.
我们必须通过闻思来给修行开绿灯。没有闻思，对理论和修法都一无所知，修什么呢？只是静下心来，不起任何杂念，这就是修行吗？这不是修行。众所周知，很多动物都会冬眠，而且时间长达几个月甚至更长，但这是不是修行呢？它能否由此而证悟获得解脱呢？不可能的。所以，只是心里没有杂念，也不算什么。我们真正需要的是正知正见，而正知正见来源于闻思，所以，闻思是必须的。
What we need to know and think about is this: The right view of emptiness is the mighty sword needed to cut the root of samsara. Lacking this and relying only on the power of renunciation, bodhicitta, the six paramitas and so forth cannot stop cyclic rebirth completely. You may feel that sometimes we emphasize the importance of renunciation as if nothing else matters, next we praise bodhicitta as the saving grace of all evil, and still at other times we make realization of emptiness the sole solution to all problems. The fact is that one should be equally mindful of all three. It is the actual practice that one should proceed in due order, starting with generation of renunciation to finally attaining realization of emptiness. As each has its own merit and functions, only by combining all three can one reach the final destination of liberation; not one is dispensable.
闻思什么呢？要彻底断除生老病死的根本，就必须要有空性的见解；如果没有空性见解，仅靠修出离心、修菩提心、修忍辱等，都无法彻底解决问题。你们也许有这种感觉：有些时候说出离心很好，听起来好象什么都不如出离心；有些时候又说菩提心很好，只要有菩提心就足够了；有些时候又说空性很好，只要证悟空性就可解决一切问题。其实，这三个都需要，只是要有先后的顺序，最后都必须具备。出离心、菩提心和空性，各有各的优点，各有各的作用，三者结合，才能让人走上真正的解脱道，缺少一个都不行。
未完待续