〖烹饪〗

    首先我们要训练我们的身和口远离秽恶，这就是功德。有些人认为要有功德必须整天整夜地背诵巴利文的经句，但事实上，只要使你的身、口清争无瑕疵，就是功德了。这并不难解，就像在烹调食物，我们放一点点这个，放一点点那个，直到恰到好处、美味可口为止。一旦调配出美味的食物时，就不需再添加任何的东西，因为正确的佐料都已经加了。同样的道理，确定我们的身行和言语没有缺失，这样就可以带给我们“美味”和恰到好处的功德。

Cooking

At first, we train the body and speech to be free of unwholesomeness. This is virtue. Some people think that to have virtue you must memorize Pali phrases and chant all day and night, but really all you have to do is make your body and speech blameless, and that's virtue. It's not so difficult to understand. It's just like cooking food - put in a little bit of this and a little bit of that until it's just right and it's delicious. And once it's delicious, you don't have to put anything else into it. The right ingredients have already been added. In the same way, taking care that our actions and speech are proper will give us delicious virtue, virtue that is just right.