Q40: Venerable Sir, can you describe how we are supposed to realize egolessness in an ultimate sense? .

问40：尊者，您能描述一下我们应该怎样在究竟意义上证知无我吗？

Some believe that realization of egolessness takes place if or when you lose your sense of body shape or form by visualizing physical body as particles. Actually, it is not the realization of egolessness that you merely lose the sense of solidity or form of the body by practicing whatever way. It is because you are clearly experiencing the knowing mind and identifying it with “I” or ego. This is similar to the celestial beings called arupa brahama, who have no physical body but still mistake their mind for “I” or ego. So the mere loss of sense of solid form cannot mean realization of egolessness. Only when you observe mind and body the moment they take place and see them arising and passing away on their own accord without subject to anyone’s authority, do you realize the egolessness in an ultimate sense.

有的人认为，当你观身体为微粒而失去了身体的形体感的时候，证悟无我就发生了。实际上，不管你修什么方法，仅仅是失去身体的固态感或形体感不是证知无我。这是因为你清晰地经历能知之心并认它为“我”或“自我”。这类似于无色界的梵天众，他们没有形体，但仍然误以为他们的心是“我”或“自我”。所以仅仅是失去固体形态感并不意味着证知无我。只有当你观照身心发生的刹那，见到它们依其自身因缘生起灭去而没有任何主宰，这才是在究竟意义上证悟无我。