[神圣是囚牢]

Holy Things Are Prison

下面要谈的囚牢是我们处处可见的“神圣经典”。在缺少智慧的人群里，经典被严重地执持，被执持为“神圣的”，甚至可以取代上帝！此像只要拿起圣典，便可以实际得到救助一样，因而演变出许多种神圣物品：圣遗骸、圣水，以及所有神圣的事物。各位要特别留意所谓的“神圣”，在你尚未发现它之前，它就已经变成一座囚牢了。东西愈神圣，对人的禁锢愈厉害，对所谓的“神圣”，务必要特别小心！

The next prison is that of holy scriptures, which we can find everywhere. Among those people where there isn't much wisdom, these things are much clung to, and the more so as being "holy." They even become stand-ins or replacements for God. It's as if merely bringing in the holy books is the same as actually getting help. It leads to there being many kinds of holy objects: sacred relics, holy water, and all kinds of sacred things. Be most careful of this word "holy." It will become a prison before you know it. The more holy something is, the more greatly it imprisons. Watch out for so-called "sacredness" or "holiness."

大家应该知道，没有比“因缘法则”( the law of idappa-ccayata ) 更神圣的东西了，它是一切事物中最神圣的。除了因缘法则外，每一件神圣的事物之所以能神圣，都来自于人们自己的假设或捏造，即是由执著所产生的神圣，任何存有执著的神圣，就是囚牢。“因缘法则”不需要任何执著，本身就是神圣的。请勿掉入圣物的囚牢中，不要为自己制造圣物的囚牢！

You ought to know that there is nothing more sacred than the Law of Idappaccayata (the law of conditionality), the supreme holiness higher than all things. Everything else is holy by convention or by what people concoct themselves, which is holy through upadana. Wherever there is holiness through upadana, that holiness is a prison. The Law of Idappaccayata is sacred in itself, without needing any attachment. There's no need for upadana. It controls everything already and is truly holy all by itself. Please don't get caught in the prison of holy things. Don't make sacred things into a prison for yourself.