堅不可摧的存在

當我們乘坐飛機、翱翔於雲層之上時，我們了解到，即使是雲層之下陰霾雨霏，而太陽卻總在明亮地照耀著。同樣地，當我們不再堅持我們的身份地位、我們的「自我」時，我們會開始看到，自我不存在其實是一種有力、真實、堅不可摧的存在。我們明白，如同太陽，它是永續的，不增不減。這種存在境界被稱為「金剛本性」。

摘譯自邱陽創巴仁波切(Chögyam Trungpa)所著《佛陀之心》(The Heart of the Buddha)。

An Indestructible State of Being

When we fly in an airplane above the clouds, we realize that the sun is always shining even when it is cloudy and rainy below. In the same way, when we cease to hold on to our identity, our ego, we begin to see that the nonexistence of ego is a powerful, real, and indestructible state of being. We realize that, like the sun, it is a continuous situation which does not wax or wane. That state of being is called vajra nature.

By Chögyam Trungpa, from “Sacred Outlook,” in The Heart of the Buddha, page 137. To sign up for quotes of the week from the Ocean of Dharma, visit here.