遣障时的观想

Seeing hundreds of westerners clapping their hands every day during the averting practice known as dokpa, while performing a Netik Phurba Drupchen in Lerab Ling, Rinpoche, always attentive that practices are accomplished properly, thought it could be useful to explain why dokpa practice involves hand clapping, and what we should meditate on at that time.

在法国 列绕林 举行内滴金刚橛大修法会期间，仁波切见到数百名西方人每天修持遣障法时拍掌。他一向关注大家是否如法修持，于是觉得有必要解释一下，为什么遣障法要拍掌，以及此时我们应如何观修。

We’re now doing dokpa, the averting practice, so all the yogis and yoginis gathered here clap their hands with their eyes wide open and their mouth gaping­—clap, clap! They must probably be also maintaining the visualization. But I believe that if you ask most people why they’re clapping their hands, they won’t be able to answer.

我们现在正在修遣障法，因此聚集在这里的所有男女瑜伽士都睁大眼睛、张开嘴巴拍掌——啪！啪！他们大概也在保持观想吧。不过，我相信，如果你问多数人为什么拍掌，他们都答不上来。

This situation actually makes me laugh a little bit. When the Chinese were first in Tibet, an official from the PRC asked an old Tibetan woman how it was for her under the PRC—did she like it?

这种情形其实让我有点想笑。中国人刚到西藏的时候，一位中华人民共和国的干部问一位西藏老太太，在中华人民共和国治下她过得怎么样，喜不喜欢？

“I do”, she said. “But the new traditions are very difficult to learn.”

「喜欢，」她说，「不过，新规矩很难学。」

“What do you mean, ‘new traditions’?”

「你说的『新规矩』是什么意思？」

“When one of you officials comes, then we need to constantly do the dokpa as you arrive. It really hurts my hands.” That’s what she said. That’s what makes me laugh.

「你们干部一来，我们就得在你们到来的时候不停地做遣障。我的手实在疼得厉害。」她就是这样说的。这就是让我发笑的事。

When you clap your hands during the dokpa, there’s a few different approaches or ways of visualizing.

在遣障时拍掌，有几种不同的方法或观想方式。

In one approach, you visualize yourself as the yidam deity, and the five fingers of your right hand are the five male buddhas, and the five fingers of your left hand the five female buddhas. So when you clap your two hands, the five male and female buddhas enter into union. The natural radiance of great bliss that is experienced in their union is the five wisdoms. The counterpart of the five wisdoms are the five poisons. These negative emotions are present in our minds in the form of a huge number of thoughts. We do the dokpa to dissolve all of them in the expanse of wisdom.

其中一种方式，是观想自己为本尊，右手五指是五佛父，左手五指是五佛母。这样一来，两手相拍时，五佛父与五佛母便进入双运。他们双运所体验的大乐，其自然光辉就是五智。与五智相对应的是五毒。这些烦恼以大量念头的形式存在于我们心中。我们修遣障，就是要让它们全部消融于智慧界中。

There’s also the approach in which the right hand is skilful means and the left hand is wisdom. When you bring your hands together, skilful means and wisdom are united, and at that time the natural radiance of emptiness becomes manifest. When the natural radiance of emptiness is actualized, all thoughts vanish. When two hands clap, they produce the sound “clap!” When “clap!” dies off, all thoughts vanish.

还有一种方式，右手是方便，左手是智慧。当你双手合拢，方便与智慧便结合为一，此时空性的自然光辉就会显现。当空性的自然光辉现前时，一切念头便消失了。两手相拍，就发出「啪」的一声。「啪」声消逝时，一切念头也随之消失。

One tradition explains the right hand to be the earth and the left to be the sky. When the sky claps on the earth, all three realms of existence of samsara disappear.

有一种传承解释，右手为大地，左手为天空。天空拍击大地时，轮回的整个三有都消失了。

Another teaches that the right hand is the sky and the left the earth, both marked with a ten spoked wheel of meteoric iron. All enemies, curses, gods and demons, and all the deities who support and protect them, who live on the earth, are squashed like an egg when the earth and the sky, the two hands marked with meteoric wheels, clap together, and they are eliminated.

另一种传承教导，右手为天空，左手为大地，两手都标有一个陨铁制成的十辐轮。当标有陨铁轮的双手——大地与天空——拍合时，住在大地上的一切怨敌、诅咒、神魔，以及支持、保护他们的一切神祇，都像鸡蛋一样被压碎、消灭。

When, in this way, the targets of practice are reduced to dust, it’s their bodies that are reduced to dust. An enemy must have a body­—without a form there can’t be an enemy. They of course also have a consciousness. Through dokpa, their consciousness is sent to the pure field of Akanishtha. It’s through realization that we can send it there—through resting in meditation and actualizing the view.

以这种方式，修法的对象被化为微尘时，化为微尘的是他们的身体。怨敌必须有身体，没有形体就不可能有怨敌。当然，他们也有心识。通过遣障，他们的心识被送往色究竟天净土。我们是凭借证悟，凭借安住禅定并使见地现前，才能将它送到那里。

In one tradition the right hand is the sun and the left hand is the moon, but the meditation is the same.

在一种传承中，右手是太阳，左手是月亮，不过观修是一样的。

In any case whichever tradition you choose to follow, you need to actualize the visualization when you clap your hands. If you don’t do that and you’re just clapping your hands, the only result will be sore hands!

无论如何，不管你选择遵循哪一种传承，拍掌时都必须令观想实际现前。如果不这样做，只是在拍手，那么唯一的结果就是手疼！