〖高速公路〗

    错误的知见是认为我们就是“行”，我们是快乐和不快乐。像这样的了解是对事物的真实本性仍未完全清楚的了解。所谓的真理是：我们无法强迫所有事物听从我们的欲望，它们都必须遵循自然的法则。

    这有一个简单的譬喻：假设你坐在高速公路中央，有很多汽车和卡车急撞你而来，你不能生气地对车子喊道：“不准行驶到这里！不准行驶到这里！”这是高速公路，你不能这样告诉他们，所以你该怎么办呢？你必须下高速公路！高速公路是车子行驶的地方，假如你不准车子在那里，你就会痛苦。

    “行”也是一样的，我们说是它们扰乱我们，如同我们静坐时听到声音一样，我们认为：“噢！是那声音在干扰我。”假如我们认为是声音干扰了我们，我们将会因此而痛苦。如果我们再深入地观察，我们会了解，原来是我们出去干扰了那声音。声音其实只是声音。假如能这样理解，那么声音也只是声音。我们可以让它去！我们了解声音是一回事儿，和我们并不相干。这是真知真理，两边你皆看透了，所以才得果树平静。假如你只看到一边，痛苦！一旦看穿两边，便是遵循中道了。这是心的正确的修行，也就是我们所谓的“修正我们的知见”。

    同样地，一切“行”的本质是无常和死灭的，但是我们却要捉住它们，背负它们，贪著它们，我们希望它们是真实的，我们希望在不是真实的事物中发现真实！不管什么时候，若有人有这样的想法，并执著“行”就是他自己，他会痛若不堪，佛陀要我们好好思惟这个道理。

Freeway

Not having full, clear knowledge of the true nature of things, we will go on thinking that we are the sankharas or that we are happiness and unhappiness. The truth is that we can't force things to follow our desires. They follow the way of Nature. A simple comparison is this: Suppose you go and sit in the middle of a freeway with the cars and trucks speeding down toward you. You can't get angry at the cars, shouting, "Don't drive over here! Don't drive over here!" It's a freeway. You can't tell them that. So what can you do? You get off the road. The road is the place where cars run. If you don't want the cars to be there, you suffer. It's the same with sankharas. We say they disturb us, like when we sit in meditation and hear a sound. We think, "Oh, that sound's bothering me!" If we understand that the sound bothers us, then we suffer accordingly. If we investigate a little deeper, we will see that it's we who go out and disturb the sound. The sound is simply sound. If we understand it in this way, then there's nothing more to it. We leave the sound alone. We see that the sound is one thing and we are another. This is real knowledge of the truth. We see both sides, so we have peace. If we see only one side there is suffering. Once we see both sides, then we follow the Middle Way. This is the right practice of the mind. This is what we call straightening out our understanding. In the same way, impermanence and death are the nature of all sankharas, but we don't want it that way. We want the opposite to be true. We want to find truth within the things that aren't true. Whenever someone sees like this and clings to the sankharas as being himself, he suffers. The Buddha told us to contemplate this.