看泰國阿姜曼尊者開示有感
剛開始研讀佛經的時候，被無明、無無明，跟無始無明搞得團團轉！
翻成白話就是，昏暗或黑暗裡面還有一個昏暗、黑暗，黑暗裡面還有「根本」的黑暗。哈！（玩笑級的）
浪費很多年的時間在這裡，我想說「無明」就是弄清楚自己外在的問題，跟內心，甚至是提高到意識等級的自我奮鬥！
沒有跟自己奮鬥過的人是不能理解佛經的！
不能理解佛經才會讓很多的「無始無明」這樣的名詞產生，我想說別鬧了，不要再拿「無始無明」糾纏自己！佛經越說越遠了！
Ignorance
While reading a talk by the renowned Thai
monk Ajahn Mun, one thing in particular struck me as significant.
He admits that when he first began reading
the Buddhist scriptures, he was utterly perplexed by the terms “ignorance,”
“non-ignorance,” and “beginningless ignorance.”
Another way of putting it would be to say
that there is darkness within darkness, and that within darkness there is
fundamental darkness. Ha!
Having wasted many years on this, I’d like
to say that confronting ignorance means clarifying one's internal and external
problems, and can even involve struggling with oneself on the level of
consciousness.
If you’ve never struggled with yourself,
then you won’t be able to understand the Buddhist scriptures!
When you don’t understand the scriptures,
you give rise to “beginningless ignorance,” and the like. Better to stop
struggling, and forget about beginningless ignorance, lest you get further
entangled in it. Otherwise, the more you discuss it, the further you will be
from understanding it!
Master Ban Ji
Translated by Ken Kraynak
