我向你里面的佛致敬，你或许没有觉知到它，你或许从来没有梦想过：你是一个佛。没有人能够是其他的东西，佛性就是你存在(being)的主要核心，它不是未来要发生的某件事，它已经发生了，它就是你从那里来的源头，它是来源，同时又是目标，我们的移动是从佛性而来，而我们的移动也是要朝向佛性。
佛性(Buddhahood)这个字包含一切，包含生命的整个循环，从开始到结束。
但是你睡得很熟，你不知道你是谁，并不是说你必须去变成一个佛，而只是你必须认出它。你必须回到你自己的源头，你必须看你自己的内在，勇敢地面对自己，你将会显出你的佛性。直到一个人真正去看他自己的那一天，整个存在就成道了。并不是一个人成道，一个人怎么能够成道？“一个人”这个观念就是不成道头脑的一部分。并不是“我”成道了，在一个人成道之前，这个我必须被丢弃，所以我怎么能够成道呢？这是荒谬的，我成道的那一天，整个存在就成道了，从那个片刻开始，我就从来没有看过不是佛的东西。在诸相里，有很多名称，有一千零一个难题，但是佛仍然在。
所以我向在你里面的佛致敬。
我感到无限高兴，有这么多佛聚集在此地，你的来到我这里就是要认出佛的开始，在你内心对我的尊敬，在你内心对我的爱，就是对你自己佛性的尊敬和爱。对我的信任并不是对某些外在于你的东西的信任，对我的信任是你的自我信任，藉着信任我，你将学会信任你自己，藉着接近我，你将会接近你自己，只要你能够认出来。钻石就在那里，只是你忘记了它，或是打从一开始，你就从来没有记住过它。
爱默生曾经说过一句很有名的话，他说：人是被毁灭了的神。我同意，也不同意。这个洞见有一些真理在里面，人并不如他所应该是的那样。虽然这个洞见有一些真理，但是有一点倒过来了：人并不是被毁灭了的神，人是尚在造就中的、尚未完成的神，人是一个含苞待放的神。花蕾有了，任何片刻它都有可能开花，只要一点努力，只要一点帮助，但那个帮助并不是使它存在的致因，它已经在那里，你的努力只是去将它显示给你，你的努力只是去显露那个其实已经存在，但是却被隐藏起来的东西。它是一项发现，但是那个真理已经在那里，那个真理是永恒的。
注意听这些经文，因为这些是伟大的佛学文献里最重要的经文，因此它们被称为“心经”，它是佛陀所传达的讯息的心脏部分。
但是我喜欢从起点开始，佛学唯有从这一点开始才会切题：让“你是一个佛”这个观念留存在你的心中。我知道，它或许会看起来是胆大妄为的，它或许会看起来是非常假设性的东西，所以你无法完全信任它，这种看法是自然的，我了解它，让它存在，但是作为一个种子。在那个事实的周围有很多事会开始发生，惟有环绕在那个事实的周围，你才能够去了解这些经文，它们是非常非常强而有力的——非常小，非常浓缩，就象种子一样，但是有了这泥土，这头脑的内景，认为你是一个佛，你是一个含苞待放的佛，你潜在地能够变成一个佛，没有欠缺什么东西，所有的东西都已经准备好了，只是东西必须按照正确的次序被放好，需要更多一点觉知，需要更多一点意识……宝藏就在那里，你必须带一盏小灯进入你的屋子里，一旦黑暗消失，你将不再是一个乞丐，你将是一个佛，你将是一个最高的统治者、一个国王，这整个王国都是你的，你一要求就有，你只要声明说要它就可以了。
但是如果你相信你是一个乞丐，你就不能够声明说要它，你甚至无法梦到你在声明。
你是一个乞丐，你是无知的。你是一个罪人这个观念长久以来在很多传教的讲坛被倡导出来，它已经变成在你里面一个很深的催眠，这个催眠必须被打破。为了要打破它，我用“我向在你里面的佛致敬”来作为开始。
对我来说，你们都是佛，所有你们要变成成道的努力都是荒谬的，如果你不接受这个基本事实……这个必须变成一个默默的了解：你就是佛！这才是正确的开始，否则你会误入歧途。从这个洞见开始，不必担心说我是一个佛会产生某种自我(ego)，不必担心，因为心经的整个过程会使你认清自我是唯一不存在的东西——“唯一”不存在的东西！其他每一样东西都是真实的。
有一些导师说：世界是幻象的，灵魂是存在的，“我”是真实的，其他一切都是幻象的，都是“马亚”(maya：幻象)。佛陀所说的刚好相反：他说只有“我”不是真实的，其他每一样东西都是真实的。比起其他的观点来讲，我比较同意佛陀所说的话。佛陀的洞见是非常透彻的，比其他看法都更透彻，没有人曾经进入到佛陀所达到的那些真实存在的领域、深度和高度。
但是你要从这个观念、从这个在你周遭的气氛、从这个洞见开始。让“我是一个佛”这个观念、这个气氛、这个洞见，发布给你身体的每一个细胞和你头脑的每一个思想，让它发布给你存在的每一个角落，而不必去担心“我”……我们会照顾这一点。
“我”和佛性无法一起存在，一旦佛性显露出来，“我”就消失了，就好象你把光带进来，黑暗就消失了一样。
I salute the Buddha within you. You may not be aware of it, you may not have ever dreamed about it -- that you are a Buddha, that nobody can be anything else, that buddhahood is the very essential core of your being, that it is not something to happen in the future, that it has happened already. It is the very source you come from; it is the source and the goal too. It is from buddhahood that we move, and it is to buddhahood that we move. This one word, buddhahood, contains all -- the full circle of life, from the alpha to the omega.
But you are fast asleep, you don't know who you are. Not that you have to become a Buddha, but only that you have to recognize it, that you have to return to your own source, that you have to look within yourself. A confrontation with yourself will reveal your buddhahood. The day one comes to see oneself, the whole existence becomes enlightened. It is not that a person becomes enlightened -- how can a person become enlightened? The very idea of being a person is part of the unenlightened mind. It is not that I have become enlightened; the 'I' has to be dropped before one can become enlightened, so how can I become enlightened? That is absurdity. The day I became enlightened the whole existence became enlightened. Since that moment I have not seen anything other than Buddhas -- in many forms, with many names, with a thousand and one problems, but Buddhas still.
So I salute the Buddha within you.
I am immensely glad that so many Buddhas have gathered here. The very fact of your coming here to me is the beginning of the recognition. The respect in your heart for me, the love in your heart for me, is respect and love for your own buddhahood. The trust in me is not trust in something extrinsic to you, the trust in me is self-trust. By trusting me you will learn to trust yourself. By coming close to me you will come close to yourself. Only a recognition has to be attained. The diamond is there -- you have forgotten about it, or you have never remembered it from the very beginning.
There is a very famous saying of Emerson: "Man is God in ruins." I agree and I disagree. The insight has some truth in it -- man is not as he should be. The insight is there but a little upside down. Man is not God in ruins, man is God in the making; man is a budding Buddha. The bud is there, it can bloom any moment: just a little effort, just a little help.... And the help is not going to cause it -- it is already there! Your effort is only going to reveal it to you, help to unfold what is there, hidden. It is a discovery, but the truth is already there. The truth is eternal.
Listen to these sutras because these are the most important sutras in the great Buddhist literature. Hence they are called The Heart Sutra; it is the very heart of the Buddhist message.
But I would like to begin from the very beginning. From this point only does Buddhism become relevant: let it be there in your heart that you are a Buddha. I know it may look presumptuous, it may look very hypothetical; you cannot trust it totally. That is natural, I understand it. Let it be there, but as a seed. Around that fact many things will start happening, and only around that fact will you be able to understand these sutras. They are immensely powerful -- very small, very condensed, seedlike. But with this soil, with this vision in the mind, that you are a Buddha, that you are a budding Buddha, that you are potentially capable of becoming one, that nothing is lacking, all is ready, things just have to be put in the right order, that a little more awareness is needed, a little more consciousness is needed.... The treasure is there; you have to bring a small lamp inside your house. Once the darkness disappears you will no longer be a beggar, you will be a Buddha; you will be a sovereign, an emperor. This whole kingdom is yours and it is just for the asking; you have just to claim it.
But you cannot claim if you believe that you are a beggar. You cannot claim it, you cannot even dream about claiming if you think that you are a beggar. This idea that you are a beggar, that you are ignorant, that you are a sinner, has been preached from so many pulpits down through the ages that it has become a deep hypnosis in you. This hypnosis has to be broken. To break it I start with: I salute the Buddha within you.
To me, you are Buddhas. All your efforts to become enlightened are ridiculous if you don't accept this basic fact. This has to become a tacit understanding, that you are it! This is the right beginning, otherwise you go astray. This is the right beginning! Start with this vision, and don't be worried that this may create some kind of ego -- that "I am a Buddha." Don't be worried, because the whole process of The Heart Sutra will make it clear to you that the ego is the only thing that doesn't exist -- the only thing that doesn't exist! Everything else is real.
There have been teachers who say the world is illusory and the soul is existential -- the 'I' is true and all else is illusory, maya. Buddha says just the reverse: he says only the 'I' is untrue and everything else is real. And I agree with Buddha more than with the other standpoint. Buddha's insight is very penetrating, the most penetrating. Nobody has ever penetrated into those realms, depths and heights of reality.
But start with the idea, with this climate around you, with this vision. Let it be declared to your every cell of the body and every thought of your mind; let it be declared to every nook and corner of your existence, that "I am a Buddha!" And don't be worried about the 'I'... we will take care of it.
'I' and buddhahood cannot exist together. Once the buddhahood becomes revealed the 'I' disappears, just like darkness disappears when you bring a light in.
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