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首先，你的呼吸必须要清澈、通

顺，以便让你坐得舒服。渐渐的，

你就可以开始参公案。对初学者而

言，有时候心十分散乱。因此，你

必须把心安住在此刻的呼吸上，不

久你就能感到很平静。然而，仅仅平静是不够的，你还需要更进一步

了解“我是什么？”那就是公案。

透过静坐可以使得你身心平静，但

在日常生活中，我们一直在劳动

作务，很少有机会通过呼吸观照自

己。因此，你应该把日常生活所面

对的问题当成一个公案来修持。

我们在日常生活当中，每天可能会

出现一些问题，有时你必须在很短的时间内与处境合而为一，你的

反应要很快，不需思考。例如有一

次当我在日本时，有一位长期住在

日本的孟加拉籍出家人驾车带我到

富士山。他驾驶的速度非常快。有

一次当他在转弯的时候，车子突然

失控，同时另一辆车正迎面而来。

我不假思索立即控制驾驶盘。那一

刻，你不需要思考，正确的反应

“啵”一瞬间显现。正确的运作才

能避免灾难。这种情况有时候会发

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•继闻法师

“禅林洗尘”专栏

生，至于几时发生，没有人说得清

楚。如果你认真用功修行，那么你

就可以时时刻刻保持正念，清楚你

的正确处境。当灾难发生的时候，

你必须很清明，不然你便会遭殃。

正确修行的第一步，就是把心安住在你的呼吸，用功的方法即是慢慢

吸、慢慢呼，你的心就会渐渐清

明，你本有的智慧自然也会显现。

然后提起“我是谁？”一直参究下

去——“我是什么？”

公案就是让你切断所有思维，让你

和处境合而为一，那就是智慧。

公案是非常好的修行方法，我们这

里有指导公案修持。有时有些知识份子，如教授会问：“《心经》提

到‘无眼耳鼻舌身意’？我明明有

眼睛、有耳朵，你却说没有。”如

果你有修行，你就会了解什么是“

无眼耳鼻舌身意”，也就是不要执

着你的眼睛以及它所产生的概念。

我们的眼睛要看好看的事物，耳朵

要听好听的音乐。倘若我告诉你，

禅修不能满足你感官上的欲望，不

能让你得到任何你想要的东西，你

必然会觉得：“呵，我不喜欢这种

修行！”你明白了吧？人类就是这

样。所以正确的修行就是清清楚楚

你的一吸一呼，你的心将更清明，

真理就呈现在你眼前。

其实真理并没有离我们很远。当你

有许多妄想、思维、审查的时候，

真理就离开你很遥远。所以，此刻

你坐在蒲团上，现前一念是什么？

你正坐在蒲团上，提起公案，参究

到底我是什么？参到一念不生，此

刻你了解你的正确处境、然后只是

去做，建立正确的人际关系。坐禅

的时候，大家一起坐禅，诵经的时

候只是一起发声诵经，当下没有我

喜欢，或不喜欢。当你持之以恒的

努力后，你就可以改变你的业力。

人类执着我、我所，因此造了很多

业。我们能放下自己的概念、意见、环境、条件等，跟大家一起行

动多快乐，何乐而不为？



一年一度的卫塞佳节，观音禅林如同往年

一样，假武吉巴督第31街大牌372广场（武

吉甘柏地铁站对面），为期五天 (14/5至

18/5) 盛况庆祝。一系列卫塞庆典活动包

括：佛理讲座、顶礼梁皇宝忏、浴佛、传

灯、三步一拜、儿童T恤彩绘工作坊、素食义卖、三皈五戒仪式、卫塞晚宴及斋僧

大会（百位僧人诵经祈福），纪念佛陀诞

生、成道与涅槃三大圣日。欢迎各界人士

踊跃参与，共沾法益。

今年的“三步一拜与传灯”有别于往年，

观音禅林发起“三千行人心手相连，三

步一拜祈福大会”。有感当今世界灾难

频密，近日“311日本大地震海啸”之严

重，适逢卫塞节之际，我们呼吁三千人，乃至更多的善心人士，一起来共襄盛举。

凝聚大众慈悲虔诚，忏悔感恩的力量，为

自己、家人、社会、日本，乃至全世界祈

福。这场别开生面的“三步一拜与传灯”

活动，将定于5月16日（星期二）傍晚六时

三十分，假武吉甘柏体育场举行。大会敦

请洪茂诚先生BBM莅临主持典礼。

空云法师

Venerable Kong Yun

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观音禅林至诚邀请大家一起来共结善缘，共度

一个清净庄严，法悦充满的卫塞庆典。这是一

个老少咸宜的活动，当天，您可以选择三步一

拜或者手持莲花灯。

世间无常、国土危脆。希望大家把握当下，广植福德因缘。且看日本罹难的灾民，在海啸侵

袭时，想要逃命，大水却来得仓促；想要牢牢

握紧，稳稳站着，却又敌不过大水威力的冲

击。今天身在平安国度的我们，这是福报，应

该感恩，好好珍惜，并发挥其作用，为自己，

为别人尽一份心。只要自己有力量帮助他人，

就要尽心尽力给予帮助与关爱。

逢此盛会，欢迎十方善信踊跃召集亲朋好友，

同来步佛足迹，发扬佛陀“无缘大慈，同体大悲”的精神。学习对亲人的慈爱，进一步扩张

到周遭每一个人，心胸如此宽大，生活必然会

越来越自在。当越多的生命踏上同样的道路，

社会也因此更和谐清净，天灾人祸必然也能越

来越少！

2010 卫塞节三步一拜于武吉甘柏体育馆



禅林提供义诊已有数年，其间为有需要的佛友带来中医医疗与咨询服务。上个月，禅林有幸增添了一位西医生，为佛友增添西医医疗与咨询。

郭医师在观音禅林提供中医义诊服务多年。郭医师是新加坡注册中医师。除了从事医疗工作外，他目前也在观音禅林及大巴窑中华医院提供义诊。他有十六年的丰富医疗经验，所提供的服务包括针灸和内科。

李世裕医生在2008年毕业于新加坡国立大学医学系，主修病理学。目前在一家医院工作。在禅林，他提供医疗咨询及一般病症的治疗。

义诊时间：中医服务：星期五晚上八点至九点半，星期日上午十点半至下午一点。西医服务：星期五晚上八点至九点半

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FreeMedicalConsultation

It has been quite some time since KYCL provides free chinese medical services. It has helped many Dharma

friends over the years and we are now very fortunate to have another doctor to provide western medical services.

Dr Guo is a registered TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) physician in Singapore. Besides his full time job

in a clinic, he is also a volunteer physician for KYCL and Toa Payoh Chinese hospital. He brings with him 16

years of rich experience, providing acupuncture and medical consultation and treatment at KYCL.

Dr Lee is currently working at a hospital in Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore

in 2008 majoring in Pathology. At KYCL, he provides general medical consultation and treatment of minor

illnesses.

Consultations are available during the following timings:

Chinese medical services: Every Friday 8:00pm to 9:30pm and every Sunday 10:30am to 1pm.

Western medical services: Every Friday 8:00pm to 9:30pm



Completely enveloped in and succoured by the whole

universe, you are like the mountains, like the seas, like

the great sky which knows no limits. This great, big

boundlessness is your own mind, ‘Big Mind’. To awak -

en to this Big Mind, just do whatever it is you are doing

right this moment with your whole heart. If you do withall your might, this world will, without fail, reveal itself

to you. This hard little lump of ‘self’ will dissolve, and

you will inevitably awaken to Big Mind.

‘Joyful Mind’ is the mind that cannot help but feel grati-

tude. It is not that you feel thankful because you are

supposed to feel thankful, but rather that you cannot

help but feel thankful. You feel so much gratitude that it

spills over as joy.

And then from that boundless joy, kindness arises, kind-

ness which is born from thoroughly exhausting all of one’s small self and merging to become one with others.

This is ‘Parental Mind’.

When Big Mind, Joyful Mind and Parental Mind come

together as one body, just this in itself is Bodhisattva

Mind.

Isn’t this, indeed, the very basis of all education of our

children? Shakyamuni Buddha and the patriarchs use

the same fundamentals in their teachings. Each child

begins with mastering the Big Mind. If this heart is en-

Big MindJoyful Mind

Parental MindHarada Tangen Roshi

couraged to spring forth, the child will naturally

become cheerful, and problems will take care of

themselves. The child will grow up to be someone

who is sensitive to the pain of others. Sensitivity to

others, joyousness which naturally ows — these

are gradually cultivated.

No matter how much you study, how many books

you read or how much theory you learn, this kind of

knowledge can only be an aid, but never the driv-

ing force, toward peace of mind. In fact, if one is

not careful, theoretical exercise can even be an ob-

stacle. The important thing is to let go of mind and

body and take refuge in truth itself. It is a matter of

permitting yourself, all you can, to recognize truth,

to sincerely live in here and now — which IS your

life.

If you see only the differences between yourself

and others, you feel easily irritated, overly sensi-

tive. If you’re out to take care of just your own little

self, guard your own little castle, protect your own

separate existence in whatever way you can, it’ll all

eventually just go under anyway, won’t it? So go

back to the starting point, return to your true home,

the home which is the same for every single being

in this world.

I want to see you awaken to your true self.



suffering of the world. We read the news; we see the suffering of our friends and family; we even see the suffer-

ing inside our selves. 2,500 years ago Buddha vowed to save all beings from suffering. 2,000 years ago Jesus

came to save humans from sin. How are they doing these days?

Actually, how they are doing is how we are doing. Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous German philosopher, said,

“If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” This is also one of the essential insights of

the Buddha, everything is emptiness—ourselves, the world… everything, even our suffering. Zen Master Seung

Sahn once said that if someone really understood this world they would cut their hair immediately and go to the

mountain. But this is just the rst step. Our big job is to save all beings from suffering. That’s the job of Jesus,

Buddha, and you and me. So, I hope we can together only go straight, practice hard, get enlightenment and help

save our world from suffering. That’s our great vow and true Vesak Day.

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During a workshop at the Whole World is

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of our practice. Kong-ans are like receiving

a gift. There’s the package: it’s beautifully

wrapped, there’s a ribbon, wrapping paper,

a beautiful box, and when you open the box

there’s tissue paper. But what you really

want is the gift inside, which is our true self.

The very heart of the gift is to ask, “what is

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This book by Zen Master Wu Kwang (Richard Shrobe), said Zen

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禅林新大厦从动工至今不知不觉已过了一年

了。大厦已完成了八层楼的建筑结构，接下来将着重内部建设。新大厦的内部设计将直接地影响我们在禅林活动的感觉与气氛，因此更加马虎不得。包括门、窗、灯饰、漆、竹板、地砖、等等，我们都需要细心谨慎地做决定，并在开销与实用之间取得平衡。师父最近也亲自跑了一趟韩国订购大殿的三尊佛像，也从中国订购了禅堂的木雕菩提达摩像。所有的建筑活

动非常地紧凑，一切都在快速地进展。

我们在赶着完成新大厦的当儿，必须不断地提

醒自己不可着急，要按部就班。我们定时评估现有的人力和财力，来决定大厦的进展。必要时，我们或许需要分阶段完成我们的计划。

禅林新大厦预计今年底竣工，这也将是关键的一年。我们会在今年继续紧锣密鼓地为新大厦筹募最后一段工程的款项。我们呼吁佛友们继续不间断地支持我们，护持道场，并积极地参与接下来一系列的筹募活动，包括来临的卫塞庆典，筹款晚宴等。希望在大家的一起行动下，新大厦能顺利地如期完工。

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A year has passed since the construction of the new Zen Centre

began in 2010. To date, 8 storeys of the building structure have

been completed, and the next phase will focus on the construction

of the interior. As the interior design of the new building directly

inuences the atmosphere of our activities in it, we will have to pay

more attention to this aspect. From the doors to the lights, to each

tile, we have to be meticulous and prudent in making decisions, to

balance cost with practicality. Recently, Venerable Chi Boon, made

a trip to Korea to order three Buddha statues for the Buddha hall. He

also went to China to order a wooden sculpture of Bodhidharma for

the Zen hall. Building activities are tightly packed, and everything is

progressing rapidly.

While putting our best efforts to complete the new building, we

have to constantly remind ourselves not to be hasty, and to do things

systematically. We have to review our human and monetary resources

regularly to pace the progress of the new building construction. Where

necessary, we may need to complete our plan in phases.

The new Zen centre is estimated to complete at the end of this year,

so this is the crucial year. We will continue to raise funds this year for

the nal phase of the construction. Hence, we sincerely call upon all

Dharma friends to give your continuous support to KYCL and the newZen Centre, as well as to actively participate in the series of upcoming

fundraising , including Vesak celebration, fundraising dinner and so

on. With our together-action, may the construction project complete

successfully on time.

禅林新大厦进展New Zen Centre

Building Progress

Level 1 & 2

一，二楼

Level 3 & 4

三，四楼

Level 5

五楼（禅堂）Level 6

六楼（法堂）

Level 7

七楼（行政办公室）Level 8

八楼（寮房）

Sky Garden 顶楼



双月刊/ 第六十三期赠阅

精神领导：崇山禅师

住持：释继闻法师

主编：廖伟权

出版：观音禅林

印刷：谦泰印刷出版有限公司

Bi-monthly Issue / Issue No. 63

Spiritual Leader : Zen Master Seung Sahn

Abbot : Ven. Chi BoonEditor : Leow Wee Kheng

Printer : Qiantai Printing &

Publishing Pte. Ltd.

(T) 6743 0478

Publisher : Kwan Yin Chan Lin

[email protected]://www.kyclzen.org

Kwan Yin Chan Lin203C Lavender Street, Singapore 338763(T) +65 6392 0265 (F) +65 6392 4256

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禅修应把内观自心当作每天的功课。

一切事皆由最初的捻头萌发，

观察最初的念头 ——

这就是禅修。

PracticeMake self-reection our daily homework.

All things arise from an initial thought.Perceive the thought ——

This is Zen practice.

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