戒律的目的是在幹嘛？
What’s the point of the religious taboo(commandment)?
首先我在這談的是戒律，不是法律。
First of all, I am not talking the law but the discipline.
事實上，只是靠著忍耐心中及肉體的慾望，就算照做也沒發生什麼特別的事呀！沒照作好像也沒有怎樣呀？
那麼，到底為何要有戒律的存在呢？戒律的存在絕非在於消除慾望，相反的戒律可能甚至增加慾望。如果今天社會規定大家絕對不可以把耳朵露出來，那麼晚上在網上搜尋"耳朵"圖片的人應該會成長數千倍吧！？
In fact, just by enduring the physical desire wants and needs, it seems nothing really special happens. And if you disobey the religious discipline, nothing really disastrous would happen either.
So what’s the point of having the religious discipline? The purpose of the religious taboos is definitely not to eliminate desires. On the contrary, religious taboos can only increase desires. If the rule says “nobody can expose his/her ears in public!”, the online search for “ear images” will probably explode !!
根據日本哲學作者"飲茶" 戒律是為了讓慾望清清楚楚的浮上心頭，戒律像一面白色的墻，把我們的慾望的影子投射在這白牆上。換句話說，這面[不可以XX]的白牆，可以讓我們投射出「想要XX」的影子，戒律不是用來消除慾望，而是在讓我們觀察，察覺慾望！
According to the Japanese philosopher “DrinkTea”, the purpose of the religious taboo is like a white wall which allows us to project our shadow of desires onto the wall. In other words, the “you can not do XX” wall is allowing us to project the shadow of “I want to do XX”. The point of the religious taboo is not for us to eliminate desires but to observe and be aware of the desires !
因此，只要能夠達成目標，戒律內容再離譜，也沒有關係。
有一位大師，召集弟子說，「今後不可以吃花生，它是惡魔的果實，吃了靈魂會受汙染哦！一輩子都要遵守｣
弟子認真相信師父，也決定好好遵守。一開始覺得要遵守根本簡單得可以，但人類這種動物一旦碰到禁止XX的規定，那個XX會變得好有吸引力。弟子努力要把花 生的影像趕走，越是想趕走，否定，越是揮而不去。否定的力量越強，印象愈深。對於花生的慾望，已膨脹到無限大。「我沒吃呀！只是含在嘴裡而已呀！｣遭到壓 抑而無從消解的慾望越來越嚴重，到了一個心神錯亂的地步。師父看到時機成熟，有一天便買了一大堆花生，宣布大家可以開始吃花生啦！來來來大家一起吃！
A Zen master all of sudden announced to his disciples that “no one is allowed to eat peanuts anymore, it’s devil’s food. You must follow it for the rest of your lives!” The disciples tried hard to follow master’s rule, however the harder they try to not to think about peanuts, the more peanuts image is magnifying in their minds” No Peanuts! No Peanuts !! Peanuts ! Peanuts! The harder they are trying to get rid of the desire of peanuts and the stronger the desires. All they can think about is the peanuts ! Finally, the master brought a huge bag of the peanuts and announced “Now we can eat the Peanuts !!. Everybody come to eat some !”
咬著牙忍耐欲望的弟子幾乎昏了過去，但在大家猛啃花生的同時，一名弟子流淚下跪，他悟出了終極真理：
到底怎麼樣做才對？不是大吃花生，不是不吃花生，也不是適量吃花生，打從一開始，這事根本不是一個問題。真正的問題在於，花生只是一種豆類，但自己的心智 卻賦予了花生的「價值』。到頭來，創造出這種價值的，是自己；因為這價值受苦的，也是自己。好像自設障礙物，自己去撞它，還大喊好痛好痛一樣，自導自演， 何等荒謬！
這荒謬的事，正是這世上的所有「不幸」的真實身份及本質。
While everyone is shocked and chewing down the lovely peanuts, one disciple got down to his knees with tears. He realized the ultimate truth:
So what is the deal? The point is not to eat lots of peanuts, not to abstain from eating peanuts nor eating proper amount of peanuts! The point to the matter is “The Peanuts is not an issue to begin with !!” Peanut is just peanut, but the mind has created a “value “. We created the value to suffer ourselves. It’s like we have created these obstacles and hit ourselves with these obstacles At the same time, we are crying, complaining and laminating about these obstacles. How ridiculous is that ??!!
This ridiculous phenomenon is the true identity and essence of all the suffering.
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