尊圣的第十七世大宝法王开示：禅修能够彻底转变我们的生命，塑造我们迈向未来的道路。
在提到“禅修”一词时，很多人认为它是训练自心变得非常专注，或者是教导我们如何放松，但实际上禅修的意义远远超过于此。禅修是一种将某个内容深化为感觉经验的过程，让它成为我们感受的对境，让我们能够实际将它运用于自身。禅修能够彻底转变我们的生命，塑造我们迈向未来的道路。
When we say the word ‘meditation’, many think that it has to do with learning to sharply focus our minds or with teaching ourselves to relax. But actually it means a lot more. It is the process of bringing something into deeply felt experience so that it becomes an object of feeling, something we can actually apply to how we are. Meditation will change our entire life and shape our path into the future.
因此，我们的修持不能止于正式上座禅修的地方，它必须超越这个封闭的空间，进入我们日常生活和工作的地方，它必须能够在我们遭遇困难时帮助我们。修持能够赋予我们面对生命挑战的勇气。
Our spiritual practice, therefore, cannot be limited to our place of formal meditation. It must go beyond this enclosure and come out into our daily lives and work places; it must come to our aid when we are faced with problems. Practice generates the courage to deal with the challenges of our life.
最重要的修持便是慈悲的培养。慈悲的修持没有时间的限制，因为慈悲总是有需求，慈悲在任何情况下都适用。慈悲的修持在于缩减修持的人与所修的法之间的距离。只要这两者之间还存在很大的距离，这便代表我们的禅修仍然不是太成功。我们必须逐步缩小这个距离，让禅修的人与所禅修的慈悲没有分别，两者之间的距离完全消失，禅修者完全成为慈悲的本质。
The most important form of spiritual practice is the cultivation of love and compassion. There is no time restriction on the practice of love and compassion, for they are always needed and always applicable. The practice of love and compassion consists of closing the gap between the practitioner and the practice. As long as there is a great distance between the two, meditation has not been very successful. We need to steadily close the gap so there is no difference between the person meditating and the love and compassion they are cultivating. In the end, this distance completely disappears so that the practitioner becomes the very nature of love and compassion.
–法王噶玛巴在曼哈顿：心意相连，创造慈悲的世界
–The Gyalwang Karmapa’s Teaching on Joining Heart and Mind, New York, April 14th, 2015
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