A Summary of the Mālukyaputta Sutta

摩罗迦子经的总结

The following is a summary of what the Buddha taught to Mālukyaputta regarding meditation.

佛陀给摩罗迦子教导的禅修方法总结如下：

1. When you note with mindfulness what you see, hear, think, or know, remain conscious of just seeing, hearing, thinking, or knowing, and nothing more.
2. If you just see, hear, think, or know what you are seeing, hearing, thinking, or knowing, you will not get emotionally involved in those phenomena.
3. Since you have nothing whatever to do with them, you will find no foothold on the sense-objects that you perceive.
4. As you have no foothold on them, you are neither here nor there, nor anywhere, and because you exist nowhere it means that you have realised nibbāna where all suffering ceases.

1. 在你正念地注意所见、所闻、所觉、所知时，保持仅仅是在见、在闻、在觉、在知，再无其他(注：超出见和如所见，等)。
2. 如果你只是见、闻、觉、知你的所见、所闻、所觉、所知，你将会在情绪上不再缠缚于这些现象。
3. 因为你和它们没有了任何关系，你将会在你所感知的感官对象上找不到任何立足处。
4. 因为你于它们没有立足处，你不在这，不在那，不在任何地方，同时，因为你不存在于任何处，这意味着你已经证悟涅槃，一切苦都熄灭了。

When Mālukyaputta had had the benefit of the Buddha’s advice, he expressed his satisfaction in twenty-four stanzas. Saying, “Well said, Mālukyaputta!” the Buddha elaborated on them himself, one by one. I will now explain them all, one by one.

摩罗迦子得到了佛陀开示的受益，便用二十四条句子表达他的喜悦。“善说！摩罗迦子！”佛陀说道，然后又亲自逐一地把这些句子叙述了一遍。现在我来逐一地解释它们。