Trust Your Heart

　　信赖你的心

In the practice of Dharma, there are many methods; if you know their point, they will not lead you astray. However, if you are a practitioner who does not properly respect virtue and a collected mind, you will not succeed, because you are bypassing the Path followed by the great forest masters of the past. Do not disregard these basics. If you wish to practice, you should establish virtue, concentration, and wisdom in your mind and aspire to the Three Gems-Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Stop all activity, be an honest person, and go to it. Although various things deceive you time after time, if you are aware of them, you will eventually be able to drop them. The same old person comes telling the same old lies; if you know it, you need not believe him. But it takes a long time before you know; our habits are ever striving to deceive.

　　在佛法的修行中，有许多法门，如果你能掌握它们的主旨，就不致使你偏离正轨。不管怎么说，如果你是一个不尊重德行和收摄心的修行人，你必定无法成功，因为你已偏离过去伟大森林禅师所遵循的“道”。不要忽视这些基础，如果你想要修行，就应在心中建立成戒、定和慧，并深信佛、法、僧三宝。停止所有(内心)的活动，做一个诚实的人，然後继续做下去。虽然种种不同的事物再三地欺骗你，如果你觉知它们的话，终究还是能把它们抛掉的。同样的老人再来告诉你同样的老谎言时，如果你知道，就不需再相信他;但这是需要很长的时间你才能明白的，因为我们的习气永远设法要欺骗我们。

When I had been practicing for only two or three years, I still could not trust myself. But after I had experienced much, I learned to trust my own heart. When you have this deep understanding, whatever occurs, you can let it occur, and all things will pass on and be quelled. You will reach a point where the heart tells itself what to do; it is constantly prodding, constantly mindful. Your only concern need be to continue contemplating.

　　当我只有二、三年的修行经验时，我仍然无法信任自己。可是，在我经历许多之後，我学到要信任自己的心。当你有了这种深刻的了解之後，不论什么发生，你都能处之泰然，使这一切都能平缓而过，你将达到一个心会告诉自己该怎么做的境地。心不断地观照、不断地保持正念。你唯一需要关心的，就是继续地思惟(观)。