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So now we can go into the question of what is death. All this is necessary to find out what is meditation, you understand? To be free of hurts, wounds, psychologically, to be free of fear, to understand the whole movement of pleasure, the nature and the structure of thought, and the thought that has created the division, the 'me' and the thing which he has observed is not 'me' - all the divisions. To understand all this and lay the foundation, then one can really meditate, otherwise you live in illusions, some kind of fanciful day dreaming. Or you go to Japan, or Burma, I don't know if you can go to Burma nowadays, Japan and learn Zen meditation. It is all such nonsense. Because unless you put your house in order, the house that is burning, that is being destroyed, unless you put your house, that is yourself, in order, to sit under a tree in a cross-legged Lotus position, or whatever position you take, is utterly meaningless. You can delude yourself, you can have illusions galore. So that is why it is important and to understand and be free of anxiety, fear, attachment, and whether it is possible to find out the ending of sorrow.
那么现在我们可以进入死亡是什么的问题。我们需要所有这些来帮助弄清冥想是什么，你明白吗？摆脱伤害，创伤，心理上的，摆脱恐惧，了解欢愉的整个运作过程，思想的性质和结构，是思想制造了分别，'我'和他观察到的不是'我'的东西 -所有的分别。理解了这一切，奠定了基础，你就可以真正地冥想了，否则，你就生活在幻想中，生活在某些奇异的白日梦里。或者你去日本，或者缅甸，我不知道你现在是否可以去缅甸，日本，学习禅坐冥想。这都是些无稽之谈。因为除非你整理你的房子，房子正在燃烧，正在被破坏，除非你把你的房子，也就是你自己，整理得井然有序，否则，以跨腿莲花的姿势坐在树下，或者不管你采取何种姿势，都是毫无意义的。你可以欺骗自己，你可以有很多幻想。所以这就是为什么这点很重要，去理解并摆脱焦虑，恐惧，依赖，以及发现是否有可能终结悲伤。
（摘自BROCKWOOD PARK 3RD PUBLIC TALK 2ND SEPTEMBER 1978
布洛克伍德公园第三次公众讲话1978年9月2日）