Mindfulness is awareness of change. It is observing the passing flow of
experience. It is watching things as they are changing. It is seeing the
birth, growth, and maturity of all phenomena. It is watching phenomena decay
and die. Mindfulness is watching things moment by moment, continuously. It is
observing all phenomena--physical, mental or emotional--whatever is presently
taking place in the mind. One just sits back and watches the show. Mindfulness
is the observance of the basic nature of each passing phenomenon. It is
watching the thing arising and passing away. It is seeing how that thing makes
us feel and how we react to it. It is observing how it affects others. In
Mindfulness, one is an unbiased observer whose sole job is to keep track of
the constantly passing show of the universe within. Please note that last
point. In Mindfulness, one watches the universe within. The meditator who is
developing Mindfulness is not concerned with the external universe. It is
there, but in meditation, one's field of study is one's own experience, one's
thoughts, one's feelings, and one's perceptions. In meditation, one is one's
own laboratory. The universe within has an enormous fund of information
containing the reflection of the external world and much more. An examination
of this material leads to total freedom.

正念是「覺知當下變化」，它觀察經驗的流程與事物的變化，它看見所有現象的產成、
住、壞、空；生、住、異、滅的過程。正念是時時刻刻不間斷的觀察事物，它觀察現前
於心境上，不論生理、心理或感情上的變化。就好像端坐看戲一樣。正念就是觀察每個
現像當下瞬逝的本質。視其生、視其滅。看它帶給我們甚麼感覺，我們如何回應；看它
如何影響他人。對一意修持正念的行者來說，惟一工作，就是不帶任成見地持續直觀內
在宇宙的表演。注意！是內在的宇宙。禪修者開展正念不是為了關心外在世界，而是為
了研究自身內證的經驗、思想、感覺和認知。禪修就是要把自己當作實驗室。內在宇宙
包涵了足以回應外在世界的龐大資訊。檢視這些資訊可以導向全然的自由。

                                                            ∼待續∼