购物时也可以作荟供

At the end of his stay at Dharma Mati, Berlin, OT Rinpoche shared the following parting advice, inspired by his earlier visit to the glittering KaDeWe department store in the centre of town. OT Rinpoche recalled something that Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö had written in his diary about the time he recited the tsok prayer while circumambulating the Golden Temple in Amritsar, one of the many stops on his pilgrimage of India.

在德国柏林 法慧 的停留即将结束时，乌金督佳仁波切分享了以下临别忠告，起因是他先前去过市中心华丽的 西方 百货商店。仁波切忆起宗萨钦哲确吉罗卓日记中的一件事：他在印度朝圣期间，曾在其中一站阿姆利则的金庙绕行时念诵荟供祈祷文。

There’s something I noticed while reading Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö’s personal diaries. In 1958, he embarked upon a pilgrimage in India, visiting many different holy sites. At one point he went to Amritsar which was very difficult to reach as the road was so narrow. Nonetheless, he visited the Golden Temple and other places in the surrounding area. There’s a circumambulation path around the Golden Temple which he circled many times. Alongside the path were lines of shops selling all kinds of different foodstuffs, beautifully arranged: laddu (Indian sweets), roti (bread), biscuits, fruits and so on. He wrote that “As I passed by the shops, I started to recite ‘Tsokdzé döyön...’^[1] , considering everything that I saw as a tsok offering, and spending the whole day offering tsok.” “It was really good”, he added in the journal. 

我在读宗萨钦哲确吉罗卓的个人日记时，注意到一件事。1958年，他在印度朝圣，走访了许多不同圣地。有一次，他去了阿姆利则。由于道路很窄，前往那里十分困难。尽管如此，他仍然参访了金庙和周边其他地方。金庙周围有一条转绕道，他绕行了许多圈。路旁一排排店铺出售各种食品，陈列得很漂亮：拉杜（印度甜食）、罗蒂（面饼）、饼干、水果等等。他写道：「经过那些店铺时，我开始念诵『Tsokdzé döyön……』^[1]，将眼前所见的一切都视为荟供供品，整天都在作荟供。」他还在日记中补充：「实在很好。」

The other day we went to the food hall of that fancy department store called KaDeWe. You can do exactly the same thing when you’re there—as you walk around, recite the short tsok prayer and consider everything that you see as an offering. I think you can do that. It seems no one else has mentioned practising in this way before, but Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö has written this in his journal. You don’t necessarily need to recite a self-visualization to visualize yourself as the deity. We’re supposed to maintain the view of ourselves as the deity all the time anyway. In the Tsokdzé döyön prayer itself, no specific deity is mentioned. It encompasses all deities—all the lamas, yidams, khandros and dharmapalas, as well as all the dakas and dakinis of the 24 sacred places and 32 sacred lands. They’re all there.

前几天，我们去了那家叫 西方 的高级百货商店的食品区。你们在那里也完全可以照样做：一边走，一边念诵简短的荟供祈祷文，把所见的一切都视为供品。我想，你们是可以这样做的。以前似乎没有别人提到过这种修持方式，但蒋扬钦哲确吉罗卓在日记中写过。要观想自己为本尊，并不一定非得念诵一段自生观想的仪轨。反正我们本来就应始终保持自己即是本尊的见解。「Tsokdzé döyön」祈祷文本身没有提到某一特定本尊；它涵盖所有尊众——一切上师、本尊、空行母与护法，以及二十四圣境、三十二圣地的一切勇父空行母，全都包括在内。

Everything you see in that department store is beautifully displayed, really well arranged. You don’t need to do anything.

那家百货商店里，你所见的一切都展示得很漂亮，摆放得非常好。你什么都不用做。

If you were to ask, “Am I allowed to do this?” Well, we have it on excellent authority—Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö himself. According to what he says, you don’t necessarily have to prepare a little offering in front of you in order to do the tsok practice. It’s like the Karmapa said—you don’t have to cut flowers in order to offer them. Actually, he said it’s far better if you plant flowers and consider that as an offering instead. I think that’s a very good comment. 

如果你问：「我可以这样做吗？」我们有极可靠的依据，那就是宗萨钦哲确吉罗卓本人。依他所说，为了修荟供，你不一定非得在面前准备一点供品。就像噶玛巴所说的，你不必把花剪下来才能供养。事实上，他说种花并将其视为供养，要好得多。我觉得他说得非常好。

It's like the shops that Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö wrote about around the Golden Temple. Of course, they arranged all those foods so they could sell them, but they did it really beautifully. Much better, in fact, than the way we make our tsok offerings! You know how we do it—we just throw everything together and it looks a real mess. But there, they took great care to arrange everything very nicely.

这就像钦哲确吉罗卓写到的金庙周围那些商店。当然，他们摆出那些食物是为了出售，但摆得实在很美。其实比我们摆荟供供品还好得多！你们知道我们是怎么做的：我们把所有东西往一起一扔，看起来一团糟。可在那里，他们非常用心，将一切都摆放得十分漂亮。

You all know the Tsokdzé döyön prayer… but don’t go around the shop doing all the mudras! People will think you’re crazy. That tradition of performing mudras with the prayer actually came later from Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, so it’s okay not to do the mudras. All the elderly practitioners in Lerab Ling seem to love to practice that way [OTR imitates the way they form the mudras in a very exaggerated way]. I don’t know how high their realization is, but they all look like they’re really advanced practitioners, the way they gaze far off into the sky [laughter].

你们都知道「Tsokdzé döyön」祈祷文……不过，可不要在商店里一路结着各种手印走来走去！别人会觉得你疯了。配合祈祷文结手印的传统，其实后来才由多钦哲益西多杰传出，所以不结手印也没关系。列绕林 所有年长的修行人似乎都喜欢那样修［乌金督佳仁波切非常夸张地模仿他们结手印的样子］。我不知道他们的证悟有多高，不过，看着他们目光远远投向天空的样子，他们全都像是修行非常高深的人［众笑］。