〖渔夫〗

    我们的禅定(静虑)的修行可以使我们开解。举个例子来说吧：譬如有个正在收网的渔夫，网中有条大鱼，你能推想他收网时的心情是如何吗？如果他深怕大鱼跑掉，就会迫不及待地硬扯那网子，在他觉察之前，鱼儿已经因为他操之过急而让它跑掉了。

    古时候，他们会这样教我们：你们应该慢慢地来，小小心心地收网，以免让鱼儿脱逃。我们修行也正是如此，慢慢地靠修持来摸索出自己的道路，小心地收网以免遗漏了。有时，我们会遇到不喜欢修行的时候，也许我们不想了解，也不想知道，但是我们却要继续修行下去，继续为修行摸索下去，这就是修行。如果喜欢修行，就去修行；不喜欢修行，也一样要修行，就是要持之以恒。

    我们若是精进修行，那么，信心就会给我们的修行带来力量。不过，在此阶段，我们仍然没有智慧，纵使我们非常精进，也无法从修行中得到多少益处。这种情况会持续一段很长的时间，因而使我们生起一种永远无法寻到正道的感觉，也或许觉得自己达不到平静，或觉得自己没有具备足够的条件来修行，乃至认为“道”是件不可能的事。於是我们便放弃了！

    说到这点，我们必须非常、非常地小心，我们要以很大的耐心和毅力，犹如网起大鱼一样——逐渐与它探索出自己的方法，然后小心地把鱼网收回，扯那网子才不会太困难，所以我们继续不断地收网。经过一段时间以后，鱼儿累得不能再挣扎时，我们就能轻而易举地捕获它了。这些都是修行通常会发生的事，不过我们只须慢慢地修持和小心谨慎地将修行聚集在一起。我们就是用这种方式来禅修的。

Fisherman

Our practice of contemplation will lead us to understanding. Let us take the example of a fisherman pulling in his net with a big fish in it. How do you think he feels when pulling it in again? If he's afraid that the fish will escape, he'll rush and start to struggle with the net, grabbing and tugging at it. In this way, before he knows it, the big fish will have escaped. The fisherman mustn't try to hard. In the old days, they taught that we should do it gradually, carefully gathering it in without losing it. This is how it is in our practice. We gradually feel our way with it, carefully gathering it in without losing it. Sometimes it happens that we don't feel like practicing. Maybe we don't want to look, or maybe we don't want to know, but we keep on with it. We continue feeling for it. This is the practice. If we feel like doing it, we do it. If we don't feel like doing it, we do it just the same. We just keep on doing it. If we are enthusiastic about our practice, the power of our faith will give us the energy needed to practice, but we will still be without wisdom. Being energetic alone won't make us benefit much from our practice. On the contrary, after practicing energetically for long time, the feeling that we are not going to find the Way may arise. We may feel that we cannot find peace, or that we're not sufficiently equipped to do the practice. Or maybe we feel that this Way just isn't possible anymore. So we give up! At this point, we must be very, very careful. We must use patience and endurance. It's just like pulling in the big fish - we gradually feel our way with it, we carefully pull it in. The struggle won't be too difficult, so continue to pull it in without stopping. Eventually, after some time, the fish becomes tired and stops fighting and we're able to catch it easily. Usually this is how it happens. We practice gradually and carefully, gathering it together. It's in this manner that we do our contemplation.