无目标之旅学习指南 · 第7讲：金刚上师

(Please Note: This is Chapter Six in the book Journey without Goal.) Body of talk: 39 min. Questions: 35 min. Overall: 75 min. Date: July 29, 1974

（请注意：本讲对应《无目标之旅》一书第六章。）讲授：39分钟。提问：35分钟。总时长：75分钟。日期：1974年7月29日

A discussion on the ground of the working relationship between student and teacher in tantra: How to be a Vajrayana student, the nature of the vajra world, and relating with a Vajrayana teacher, the vajra master, as the only means to connect the two.

本讲讨论密续中师生实际互动关系的基础：如何做一名金刚乘学生，金刚世界的性质，以及与金刚乘老师——金刚上师——建立关系，而这是连接前两者的唯一途径。

A good Vajrayana student should be in a constant state of panic in order to relate with the vajra master properly. The proper approach is like riding on the razor’s edge.

一位好的金刚乘学生应当始终处于恐慌状态，才能恰当地与金刚上师建立关系。恰当的做法，就像骑在剃刀的刃口上。

• In Hinayana, the teacher is a sage or mentor who gives us instruction. In the Mahayana, he or she is a spiritual friend who guides us on the path. In Vajrayana the relationship with the vajra master is powerful and somewhat dangerous.

• 在小乘中，老师是给予我们指导的智者或导师。在大乘中，老师是引导我们行道的善知识。在金刚乘中，与金刚上师的关系既强有力，也有些危险。

• If our direction is completely wrong, the teacher has the power to cancel our relationship to the vajra world. Essentially, this is the power to destroy, if there is no genuine continuity to be continued/supported.

• 如果我们的方向完全错了，老师有能力取消我们与金刚世界的联系。实质上，如果已经没有真正的连续性可以延续或支持，这就是摧毁的力量。

• Knowing this, the student should be in a state of panic. Such panic overcomes self-smugness and sharpens the clarity of our perception. Panic is the source of openness and the source of questions, the source of open heart and open ground.

• 知道这一点，学生就应当处于恐慌状态。这种恐慌克服了自鸣得意，使我们的感知更加清明敏锐。恐慌是开放的源泉，是提问的源泉，也是敞开的心与开放的基础的源泉。

• This is like riding on a razor blade. Either we could do so easily, like a child riding down on a banister, or we could be cut in half.

• 这就像骑在剃刀片上。我们可能像孩子沿着楼梯扶手滑下来那样，轻松地做到；也可能被劈成两半。

• Traditionally it is said that it is better not to get into tantra, but if we must, then we should take it seriously. We could develop vajra indestructibility by following the path, or, if we pervert the path, we could find ourselves burnt up like a little piece of charcoal.

• 传统上说，最好不要进入密续，但如果非进入不可，就应当认真对待。沿着这条道路走，我们可以培养出金刚般的坚不可摧；如果把道路扭曲了，也可能发现自己被烧得像一小块木炭。

• The teacher also carries a heavy responsibility. A teacher who does not properly respect the law and the tradition of tantracan be punished as well.

• 老师也承担着沉重的责任。未能恰当尊重密续法则与传统的老师，同样可能受到惩罚。

• Why is there such a heavy price and such an emphasis on this secret? It is because practicing tantra is working with extremely powerful energy. If we don’t do it properly, it’s like grasping a live wire with our bare hands. We could get a huge, even fatal, shock.

• 为什么代价如此沉重，又为什么如此强调这个秘密？因为修持密续就是与极其强大的能量打交道。如果做得不当，就像徒手抓住一根带电的电线。我们可能遭到巨大的、甚至致命的电击。

The point of tantra is to reintroduce us to the energy and power of the world. It is not that we wake up into a magical world, but rather that developing a tantric sensitivity exposes us to a different state of being.

密续的要点，是让我们重新接触世界的能量与力量。并不是我们醒来后进入了一个神奇的世界，而是培养出密续的敏锐感受力，使我们接触到一种不同的存在状态。

• The tantric world is this visual, auditory, sensory world, which we haven’t explored properly. We lost the freshness and curiosity of childhood and instead have become somewhat numb.

• 密续世界就是这个视觉、听觉与感官的世界，而我们还没有好好探索过它。我们失去了童年的新鲜感和好奇心，反而变得有些麻木。

• So tantra is re-viewing and rediscovering the world. There is a mutual process of opening between the practitioner and the world.

• 因此，密续就是重新审视、重新发现世界。行者与世界之间，有一个彼此开放的过程。

• There is a naked sort of electricity that we discover. It is like having no skin; experience is so immediate and real. Our suit of armor is punctured from both inside and out. There’s no time to insulate ourselves.

• 我们发现了一种裸露的电力。就像没有皮肤一样，经验如此直接、真实。我们的盔甲同时从内外被穿破，根本没有时间把自己绝缘保护起来。

The third element in this process is the teacher, who introduces us to the possibility of such a true world. It is essential to have the guidance and involvement of a vajra master capable of transmitting the vajra spiritual energy to us.

这一过程中的第三个要素是老师，老师让我们认识到这样一个真实世界的可能性。必须有金刚上师的引导和参与，而这位上师须能够把金刚的精神能量传授给我们。

• The vajra master conducts himself according to the tradition. The process of working with the student is a very definite and deliberate process. The vajra master touches us, smells us, looks at us, and listens to our heartbeat. That process, which is done according to tradition, is known as abhisheka or empowerment.

• 金刚上师依照传统行事。与学生互动是一个非常明确而有意识的过程。金刚上师触摸我们，闻我们身上的气味，看着我们，听我们的心跳。这个依照传统进行的过程，称为灌顶，也就是赋予力量。

• Abhisheka is sometimes translated as “initiation,” but there is no tribe into which we are initiated. Rather, the vajra master empowers us and we receive that power, so empowerment is a better translation.

• Abhisheka 有时被译为“入门仪式”，但并没有一个部族让我们加入。其实，金刚上师赋予我们力量，我们接受这股力量，所以“赋予力量”是更好的译法。

• It is absolutely necessary to have a living teacher who transmits tantra as a living experience.

• 绝对有必要有一位活着的老师，将密续作为活生生的经验传授。

• Dharma cannot be transmitted from the sun or the moon and stars. It can only be transmitted properly from human to human.

• 佛法无法由太阳、月亮或星辰来传授。只有人与人之间，才能恰当地传授佛法。

• It is extremely difficult to find a true tantric situation and to meet a true tantric teacher. However, it is worthwhile.

• 要找到真正的密续环境，遇见真正的密续老师，极其困难。不过，这是值得的。

1) What did you mean when you said that the vajra master has the ability to destroy the student. Did you mean that literally?

1) 您说金刚上师有能力摧毁学生，这是什么意思？您是按字面意思说的吗？

2) Your description of the tantric world sounds like an experience I had at nine years old, when I was ill. Can you tell me if this was the same kind of experience?

2) 您对密续世界的描述，听起来很像我九岁生病时的一次经验。您能告诉我，这是否是同一类经验吗？

3) If the vajra master commands the universe and is beyond karma, how can he be punished or burnt up?

3) 如果金刚上师能支配宇宙，而且超越了业，他怎么还会受到惩罚或被烧尽？

4) Our discussion group leader mentioned vajra hell. What is that?

4) 我们讨论小组的组长提到了金刚地狱。那是什么？

5) Is the vajra master a magician?

5) 金刚上师是神通者吗？

6) Wouldn’t the state of nakedness and rawness you described come about as a result of many forms of Buddhist and other practice traditions?

6) 您描述的那种赤裸、未经修饰的状态，难道不会由许多种佛教修持及其他修持传统产生吗？

7) What is the relationship of Buddhist tantra to Kundalini?

7) 佛教密续与昆达里尼有什么关系？

8) Is the power of the vajra master the same as one-pointedness? Is there a distinction between energy and power in tantra?

8) 金刚上师的力量与专一是一样的吗？在密续中，能量与力量之间有区别吗？