刚才查了一下,oldbei贴的那些片段,果然是南传佛教达摩难陀长老编著的书《佛教徒信仰的是什么》里的。
感谢未尝老师,俺找到中文版了。
不费力翻译了,俺来把没贴的部分贴全吧。这是本很长的书,俺翻译和补贴的只是章节:
About those researches of modern scientists who are now more inclined to assert that the so-called 'Soul' is no more than a bundle of sensations, emotions, sentiments, all relating to the physical experiences, Prof. James says that the term 'Soul' is a mere figure of speech to which no reality corresponds.
It is the same Anatta doctrine of the Buddha that was introduced in the Mahayana school of Buddhism as Sunyata or voidness. Although this concept was elaborated by a great Mahayana scholar, Nagarjuna, by giving various interpretations, there is no extraordinary concept in Sunyata far different from the Buddha's original doctrine of Anatta.
The belief in soul or Self and the Creator God, is so strongly rooted in the minds of many people that they cannot imagine why the Buddha did not accept these two issues which are indispensable to many religions. In fact some people got a shock or became nervous and tried to show their emotion when they heard that the Buddha rejected these two concepts. That is the main reason why to many unbiased scholars and psychologists Buddhism stands unique when compared to all the other religions. At the same time, some other scholars who appreciate the various other aspects of Buddhism thought that Buddhism would be enriched by deliberately re-interpreting the Buddha word 'Atta' in order to introduce the concept of Soul and Self into Buddhism. The Buddha was aware of this unsatisfactoriness of man and the conceptual upheaval regarding this belief.
All conditioned things are impermanent,
All conditioned things are Dukka -- Suffering,
All conditioned or unconditioned things
are soulless or selfless. (
Dhammapada 277, 278, 279)
There is a parable in our Buddhist texts with regard to the belief in an eternal soul. A man, who mistook a moving rope for a snake, became terrified by that fear in his mind. Upon discovery that it was only a piece of rope, his fear subsided and his mind became peaceful. The belief in an eternal soul is equated to the rope of that man's imagination.
现代科学家通过研究后,对所谓“灵魂”描述如下:「灵魂只不过是一些感知、感受的情绪,与生理的经验互相作用的关系。」詹姆斯教授说:「灵魂这名词,最多是代表语言的一种图象,并不反应任何事实。」佛陀的「无我论」在大乘佛教里,称为「空性」或「空义」。这观念是由大乘著名学者龙树(Nagarjuna)大士提出的。但是「空性」(Sunyata)并非有别于「无我」,也不见得比佛陀原始的教义「无我论」 来得高明。
相信灵魂、自我或造物者的存在,已成为一般的的想法。佛陀为何不接受这种多数宗教都认为绝对必要的说法?事实,当许多外道得知佛陀拒绝这种观念时,感到十分的惊讶。但是,很多对佛教存有偏见的学者或心理学家,在深入的研究和比较后,都与佛教站在同一立场。也有一些学者,他们固然非常欣赏佛教,可是却企图将灵魂或自我的观念推荐给佛教,曲解了「无我论」,以为这样就可以把佛教发扬光大。可是,佛陀早就觉察到,这种思想是一种邪见,对人性的提升一点帮助也没有。
一切行无常。
一切受是苦。
一切法无我。
《法句经》V227、228、229
在佛经里,有一则关于灵魂的寓言故事:「有如把一条动着的绳子当作是一条蛇,因此内心产生了不必要的恐惧,当他发现那是绳子时,那种恐惧就完全消失了。」相信不灭的灵魂,就好比那个人对绳子产生的错觉──其实,只不过是个人心中的想像罢了。
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