
时间:08/30/2025 08/31/2025
地点:星河禅修中心
主讲:黄云全
打坐参禅
如何不执着禅境
禅修过程会出现轻安、喜乐、明光、无我、空性、身体消融等各种境界。这些境界本身并无好坏,但若心对其贪著、期待或依赖,就会形成新的束缚。修行的成熟不在于追求境界,而在于超越境界、看见其无常、不住于相。
一、为什么我们会执着禅境?
1.把境界误认为“成就”
轻安、光亮或空性体验容易让人误以为自己“进步了”,因此自然生起执取。
2.这些境界让人感觉愉悦
喜、乐、宁静等感受具有强烈吸引力,心容易想再次抓住。
3.自我想要证明存在价值
当“我修到这个境界”这种念头出现,自我便悄悄复活。
4.对未知的恐惧
心倾向停留在已体验过的境界,而不敢继续放下向更深处前行。
二、禅境为何不可执著?
1.所有境界皆无常
来得快,也去得快,抓得越紧,失去得越快。
2.境界不是觉醒,觉醒不依赖境界
觉醒在于当下的明觉,不是某个短暂的体验。
3.执著境界会阻碍进一步修行
一旦停下来享受“已经够好了”,心便不再前行。
4.境界本身仍属于“相”
无论多么美妙,都只是经验,不是实相。
三、如何在境界出现时不执著?
1.认识它们的本质:来去如风
轻安、光亮、空性……
它们都是心的自然现象,不必肯定、不必否定。
2.不评价、不解释、不命名
一旦命名为“这就是定境”、“这就是空”,执著便悄悄出现。
3.回到觉知,不停留在对象
无论出现什么境界,觉知依然是主人,境界只是客人。
4.允许它生起,也允许它离开
不拉住、不赶走,自然是最高的智慧。
5.告诉自己:境界不是目的
目的在于自由、智慧与无住。
四、如何让心从境界中抽离?
1.观察“想留住它”的念头
执著不是境界,而是“我想要”的心理。
2.转向体验背后的觉知本身
境界在变化,但觉知从未变化。
3.让呼吸成为稳定的依靠
当心被境界吸住,回到呼吸能让心重新落地。
4.保持“无住”的态度
不住于境界、经验、念头、感受——心自然自由。
总结
禅境是旅程的风景,不是终点。不执著的关键不是拒绝境界,而是看见它们无常、无我、不可得。当心不抓取、不排斥、不断回到当下的觉知时,禅境自然来去,而智慧自然增长。
Date: 08/30/2025 08/31/2025
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Sitting Meditation
How Not to Cling to Meditative States
During meditation, states such as joy, lightness, clarity, spaciousness, and even non-self may arise.These states are not problems themselves.Clinging to them is.True maturity in practice comes from seeing through these states, allowing them to arise and pass without attachment.
1.Why Do We Cling to Meditative States?
1.Mistaking states for achievement
Pleasant or profound experiences may feel like “progress,” inviting attachment.
2.The mind enjoys pleasant sensations
Lightness and bliss naturally create desire for repetition.
3.Ego uses states to reinforce itself
“I reached this level” becomes a subtle form of selfing.
4.Fear of the unknown
We cling to the familiar instead of allowing deeper letting go.
2.Why Should We Avoid Clinging to States?
1.All states are impermanent
They arise quickly and fade just as quickly.
2.Awakening does not depend on states
Awakening rests in awareness, not in transient experiences.
3.Clinging stops deeper growth
When we hold onto a state, we stop moving inward.
4.States are still phenomena
No matter how refined, they are appearances—not the truth itself.
3.How to Avoid Attachment When States Arise
1.Know their nature: passing like wind
No need to affirm or deny them.
2.Do not label or interpret
Naming creates identity and attachment.
3.Return to awareness, not the state
Awareness is the host; states are temporary guests.
4.Allow arising and passing naturally
Letting be is the highest wisdom.
5.Remember: states are not the goal
Freedom and insight are.
4.How to Step Out of Clinging
1.Observe the desire to keep the state
Attachment lies in craving, not in the state itself.
2.Shift attention to awareness behind experience
States change; awareness does not.
3.Use breathing as an anchor
This grounds the mind when it becomes absorbed in states.
4.Cultivate the attitude of non-abiding
Not abiding in states, thoughts, or sensations brings true freedom.
Conclusion
Meditative states are scenery, not the destination.Clinging ends when we see their impermanent, empty, and non-self nature.By staying with awareness rather than its changing contents,states naturally come and go — and wisdom naturally deepens.