世俗谛与胜义谛只是硬币的两面
中英文连载
《The Right View》(122)
THE TWO TRUTHS — THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MADHYAMAKA
二谛——开启中观门扉之钥匙
What did the Buddha mean by “worldly people argue with me”？The Buddha had said this from the perspective of the ultimate truth. Why would worldly people argue with the Buddha? As the state of the ultimate truth expounded by the Buddha has surpassed what people’s five consciousnesses can normally comprehend，they cannot help arguing with him.
前面佛所说的“但世人与我争论”又是什么意思呢？是佛从宣说胜义谛的角度而言的。世人为什么会与佛争论呢？因为，佛所讲的胜义谛境界已经超越了世人眼、耳、鼻、舌、身识的范围，他们无法理解，所以会与佛争论。
All things exist on two levels，namely，the relative truth and the ultimate truth. Let us take the example of a house. If observed from the point of view of the five consciousnesses, a house does exist in terms of the relative truth, serving its purpose in daily life. What is a house in terms of the ultimate truth? This we need to examine carefully. Our eyes may see a house, but does it truly exist? In fact, our eyes only see the appearance of a house, a phenomenon, but cannot distinguish whether this phenomenon is real or false.
在每一个物质上，都存在世俗谛和胜义谛这两个层面。比如说：一幢房子也存在这两个层面。怎样存在呢？若从眼、耳、鼻、舌的角度观察，在世俗谛中确实存在一幢房子，它可以在日常生活中起到作用，这是从世俗谛角度讲的。那么，房子胜义谛的一面是什么呢？我们要观察，眼睛明明看见这里有一幢房子，但是它是否真实存在呢？其实，我们的眼睛只是看到这种现象，却没有能力辨别其真假。
For example, when there is something wrong with the eyes, one may see a snowy mountain as being yellow or blue. From the analysis of the mind consciousness, one knows that white should be the real color while yellow or blue is an illusion. And the evidence on which the mind consciousness bases its analysis comes from the correlated eye consciousness: Over the years, I have seen the snow white mountain. But now, all of a sudden, it becomes yellow. This must be a problem with my eyes，not due to any change of the mountain. It is through this kind of inference that one positively identifies the color of the snowy mountain as being white, not yellow.
比如某人患眼疾时，会将雪山看成黄色或蓝色，这时他知道白色是真实的，黄色或蓝色是虚幻的，这是他第六意识的分析结果，而意识分析所依靠的证据仍是源于与其相互观待的眼识：许多年来，我看见雪山一直是白色的，现在突然变成黄色，由此可以推知，肯定是我眼睛生了病，而非雪山发生了变化。他经过这样的推理而认为雪山的颜色不是黄色，应该是白色。
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