七處徵心 Seven Places the Mind is Sought.

七處徵心

    

大家好！

 

有讀者希望我講說《愣嚴經》七處徵心的解說。

 

我截圖兩個資料，一個是「七處徵心，」

一個是南傳佛法說：心與心所。

 

以前跟國外學者的交流，他們就問過我這個問題，

佛經的「心」到底是肉體的感官知覺，還是指精神心理，

佛教一直沒有交代清楚。

 

沒錯，我也覺得在部派佛教時期，

一直想把「心理、身體、修行」做三大結合，把《阿含經》沒有細細推敲的心的問題，加以解說。

 

這裡邊牽扯到一個關鍵，

比如說；

你在打坐中看到的自己跟在繁忙中看到自己是會完全不一樣的，

 

所以心與心所可能是修行者自己的課題，

佛法心的解說不管是肉體或精神是伴隨修行存在的。

 

我個人也是盡量閱讀其他的觀點，來補充這方面的不足。

 

平實而論在距今約2千年的時候，修行者會考慮到心理問題是非常了不起的，

只是那些文字對現代人來講過於陌生，

 

南傳佛法把心與心所的詞彙用的比北傳佛法還好，但是無貪，無欲教的比佛陀本身還苛刻，

 

佛陀還教少欲，可見後代人的佛法已經脫離人性。

 

楞嚴的「七處徵心，」

否認心的不管有形還是無形，

最後用「如來藏心」取代人們可以認知的心。

 

個人沒研究「如來藏心，」

所以不會講「七處徵心」。

只提供資料參考。

半寄

Seven Places the Mind is Sought.

 

Greetings, friends of NanZen!

 

Some readers asked me to explain the "Seven Places the Mind is Sought" from the ŚūraṅgamaSūtra. I’ve attached two references: one on "Seven Places the Mind is Sought" and another from Theravāda Buddhism on "Citta and Cetasikas" (mind and mental factors).

 

A long time ago, some foreign scholars asked me: what does "mind" in Buddhist texts really mean? Is it something physical, like our senses? Or something mental, like thoughts and feelings?Buddhist texts don’t really give a clear answer.

 

In my view, early Buddhist schools tried to bridge body, mind, and practice—elaborating on areas that were less precise in the Āgamas.

 

> For instance, the self you observe during meditation is completely different from the one you perceive in daily life. So, "mind and mental factors" are not fixed objects but experiential phenomena, unfolding uniquely through practice.

 

Whether physical or mental, the Buddhist idea of mind always exists in relation to practice.

I read different ideas to try to understand this better. Honestly, it's amazing that people 2,000 years ago were already thinking deeply about psychology. But their way of writing can feel really unfamiliar today.

 

Theravāda Buddhism explains the mind more clearly than Mahāyāna, but sometimes it asks for too much—teaching complete non-desire, while the Buddha only taught to "desire less."

 

The Śūraṅgama’s "Seven Places the Mind is Sought" ends by denying all conventional ideas of the mind—both physical and formless—and ultimately replaces it with the concept of "Tathāgatagarbha" (Buddha-nature).

 

Since I haven’t studied the Tathāgatagarbhadoctrine, I won’t comment further on it. Just sharing materials for your reference.

Master Banji