必须推翻眼耳鼻舌的观点
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《The Right View》(125)
THE TWO TRUTHS — THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MADHYAMAKA
《二谛——开启中观门扉之钥匙》
IV. Why is the world of the relative truth illusory?
四、世俗谛为何如幻如梦
In terms of the relative truth, the primary task for us ordinary people is not to comprehend the nature of Buddhahood or to attain the same realization as the bodhisattvas. Those are really far beyond what we can handle at this point. Instead, our task should be to disprove the viewpoints formed on the basis of our sense consciousnesses. But can we? Yes, we can. The foundation of all our clinging is without logic and unstable, so it can be knocked down quite easily. There are many ways to do this, but we will only select a few for discussion here.
在世俗谛中，目前我们最主要的任务是什么呢？我们现在不是要去了解佛的境界，也不是要去证悟菩萨的境界，这些与我们还有一定的距离。现在我们真正需要的，是推翻自己眼、耳、鼻、舌的观点。我们能推翻吗？能。因为我们每一个执着的基础，都是没有任何理由的、不稳固的，所以很容易推翻。而推翻的方法也有很多，下面只讲其中的几种。
Although in the Abhidharma-kosha-shastra, it has pointed out the five aggregates, twelve sense bases (Ayatana) and eighteen elements (dhayus) of humans，people normally are only aware of the mental world and the physical world. Hence, our discussion will be conducted only from the perspective of these two and leave out the more complicated details.
虽然《俱舍论》中讲了人的五蕴、十二处、十八界，但一般人平常只能感觉到精神世界和物质世界。所以，在这里不讲复杂的内容，只就这两方面进行观察。
Discern the illusive nature of the physical world
(一)抉择外在的物质世界如幻如梦
Many people have this doubt in mind: The physical world is an objective reality. How can it be non-existent? But one should ask in return: Who knows that the existence of the physical world is an absolute fact? Is this idea self-taught, taught by others, or just felt like this way? The substantiality of the physical world is not instilled into us by our parents or teachers, but comes from our own sense experience. When do we start having this sensation? For instance, some people did not believe in Buddhism at first. After learning its doctrines from reading the scriptures, they think it makes sense and thus become Buddhists. Is it the same with our sense of a concrete physical world, that we initially did not feel this way but later on develop it after learning of some theories? No. We were born with this innate sense. The sense of “I，” being inborn, then gave rise to the sense of “my.” We never ask for evidence of this sense of “I” and “my”; we simply accept this view without question. So, it is just our own idea, for no good reason, that the physical world is substantial.
很多人都有这样的疑问，物质世界是一种客观实在，怎么能说它不存在呢？这里首先就要问一问，谁知道物质世界是实实在在的呢？这种观点是自学来的？或是他人教的？或只是自己的感觉？物质世界的实在性主要不是来自父母、老师等其他人的灌输，而是来自我们自己的感觉。我们从何时开始有这种感觉的呢？譬如说，有些人先不信佛，在看到一些佛经上的理论后，觉得很有道理，才开始信仰佛教。我们对物质实在性的感受是否也是如此，开始没有，在接触了一些理论后才产生的呢？不是。在我们刚刚出生时，就有这种先天性的感觉，那时就执着我的存在，继而就有了我所的存在。我们从未想过我及我所的存在有无证据，而是不假思索地接受了这种观点。所以说，是我们自己认为物质世界是实在的。
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