我慢 Self-centeredness

南禪朋友好！

 我慢

通常在講解我們必須對別人的處境理解時，會用「同理心」的角度出發。

佛典（佛經加論師論典）常常會運用邏輯思維來辯證一個觀念，會應用到那如果不是你的處境或經歷過的事情，我們能理解、同理嗎？

 

我本身大概年紀大了，也感受到很多事不是一個人的經驗或是讀過多少書就能理解的，進而，對事物的看法都盡量謹慎，忌諱自己站在主觀意識去說事情，有時自己的事都說不清了，更何況是別人的，想到這裡佛經的「我慢」修持ㄧ併上來！

 

而學過佛典（佛經加論師論典）邏輯辯證的人，會很清楚「同

理心」這個詞是有很大程度侷限的，因為你只能同理你曾經有

過的經驗，那未曾有過的經驗呢?

半寄

 Self-centeredness

 

When explaining something to someone, it’s necessary to understand

 where they are coming from, which is a function of empathy.

The Buddhist scriptures and commentaries often use logic and

 reasoning to analyze a doctrine or point of view, but such an

 explanation will be difficult to understand if makes reference to

 things which are not part of our personal experience.

 

By virtue of my age, I’ve found that many things remain not well-

comprehended, even with more personal experience or reading more

 books. As a result, I’m very careful not to explain things based on a

 purely subjective point of view. Sometimes it’s hard to explain even

 matters pertaining to myself, so it’s no wonder that it can be even

 harder to explain things pertaining to others. This is related to what’s

 called “self-centeredness” in the Buddhist scriptures.

 Now, anyone with some knowledge of how the scriptures and

 commentaries use logic and reasoning to analyze a doctrine or point

 of view will know that our capacity for empathy is very limited,

 since you can only relate to something you have previously

 experienced; it’s very hard to relate to something you’ve never been

 through.

  Master Ban Ji

 Translated by Ken Kraynak