《每日提醒》放鬆了，修持才真正開始

✨ 【 放鬆了，修持才真的開始 】
Relaxation: Where Practice Truly Happens

無論是本尊法或任何的修持，放鬆能夠讓我們清淨。諸如大樂、喜心、平等捨、悲心等種種功德，都是在放鬆之中自然生起。

修持必須是放鬆的，不只是修持，每個人整個的生活，都應當在放鬆的狀態裡。這是最根本的要點。

修持裡的每一件事，都要帶著這份放鬆去做。持咒如此，觀身亦如此，就連本尊法也不例外，一切修行，無不在這個放鬆之中。這裡說的放鬆，是更深層的放鬆，是由內而外的安住。好比每次聽見聲音時，記得留意自己的心有沒有悄悄收緊。

要知道，事物不可能永遠處於清淨的條件中，我們必然會遇到混雜的條件，生活本來就是在種種混雜的條件裡運作。就算是自己親手種出來的食物，從土地裡長出來，也帶著各種積累的塵土。即便是剛從樹上摘下的新鮮果實，也需要清洗或擦拭。因此，這些條件生起的時候，你便去清淨它。這是生活的道理，也是修持的道理，兩者並無二致。

可是我們往往帶著緊張感去修持，帶著緊張做每一件事，於是修持從來不曾真正在我們身上發生。我們真正需要做的，是誠實地看清自己內在究竟發生了什麼，問題究竟在哪裡。佛陀在「苦諦」裡所指的，正是這件事：認識自己的弱點，認識自己的軟處，認識究竟是什麼在困擾著自己。

苦，不只是躺在病床上、摔斷骨頭那種苦，那固然也是苦的一部分，但更多時候，我們是以各種細微的方式，時時刻刻都在受苦。

這一點在運動場上再清楚不過。頂尖運動員真正在訓練的，是放鬆，是流動，是確保自己沒有多餘的情緒、沒有緊繃、沒有焦慮，把這一切都清掃乾淨。馬拉松跑者從來不是想把自己跑到精疲力竭，而是在那個過程裡，找到一條不再耗盡的路。

彈奏鋼琴的道理也是如此。緊張一進來，一切就僵住了。進步只發生在放鬆之中，心理的反應與身體的反應同時運作，同時觸鍵彈出每一個音符。放鬆落下，音符彈出；放鬆再落下，音符再彈出。當這兩件事合而為一，真正的成就才會發生。

我們必須運用這個放鬆的道理。無論走到哪裡，無論做什麼，都要好好運用它。放鬆了，修持才真正開始。
噶奇美多傑仁波切

In practice, at the sense of relaxation, there can be purification. There is bliss, joy, equanimity, compassion, and many other things. Everything you do, practice must be relaxed. Not only practice: your whole life must be relaxed. Relaxed: that is the point.
So in practice, everything you do must carry that same relaxation. When you chant, you must do that. When you check your body, you must do that. Even deity yoga, all practices are within this relaxation. Relax, at the deeper sense. The sound that you hear, make sure your heart is not tightening.

Because things cannot always be in a pure condition. Mixed conditions will come, because everything in life is mixed conditions. Even you pluck the fruit or the grain from the tree, it comes with accumulated dust and particles. So you need to purify make the conditions right. you need the water, care, extra effort, to rub things clean. Even you pluck the fruit fresh from the tree. You need to wash it, even you’re too lazy to wash it, you rub it. As conditions arise, you purify. This is the truth in life, and it is equally the truth in practice.

Therefore we practice with stress. We do everything with stress. And so practice never truly happens for us. Therefore we really need to know, what is exactly going on within us, what exactly is our problem. Therefore in that message, that is so-called truth of suffering, know your weakness, weak point , knowing what exactly you are bothered. This is what Buddha showing truth of suffering, Suffering is not only about just lying in a hospital or breaking your bones. It’s not, of course it’s one part of it, but We are struggling all the time.

If we look at this from an athletic perspective, it becomes very clear. Elite athletes: their real training is actually relaxation, Flow.
Making sure there is no unnecessary emotion, no tension, no anxiety, clearing all of these away. Even marathon runners are never trying to exhaust themselves. Through the exhaustion, they are finding the path that leads to no-exhaustion.

The same is true for playing the piano. The moment tension enters, everything seizes up.
Progress only happens through relaxation: mental response and physical response working together, while still catching every note. Relaxation drops, the note is caught; relaxation drops, the note is caught; when these two things come together, that is when something is truly achieved.
We must apply it,

Wherever we go, whatever we do, we must apply it, relaxation is where the practice happens.

-GarTul Chimi Dorjee Rinpoche