放棄希望、期待與恐懼

We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. I cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing. This automatically brings a feeling of disappointment.

Disappointment is the best chariot to use on the path of the dharma. it does not confirm the existence of our ego and its dreams. However, if we are involved with spiritual materialism, if we regard spirituality as a part of our accumulation of learning and virtue, if spirituality becomes a way of building ourselves up, the of course the whole process of surrendering is completely distorted.

我們必須放棄希望與期待，同時也要放棄恐懼，而直接進入失望、處理失望、投入失望，讓它成為我們的生活之道。這件事做起來很難。失望是根本智性的好徴象，它無可比擬；它是那麼敏銳、精確、明顯和直接。我們若能敞開，便會突然發現自己的期望跟當前的現實情境是兩回事。這自然會令我們感到失望。

在佛法之道上，失望是最好用的車乘。它不確認「我」及「我」之美夢的存在。不過，如果我們涉入修道上的唯物主義，如果我們認為修道是積聚學問與善德的一部分，如果修道成為增強自我的一種方法，那麼整個歸服的過程當然就全被扭曲了。

From Trungpa Rinpoche, "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism." 摘自邱陽創巴仁波切《突破修道上的唯物》 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism。由繆樹廉翻譯，眾生文化出版。

也請參閱 YouTibe上兩段邱陽創巴仁波切講「修道上的唯物主義」之原聲錄音：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKp14KfsFQc