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提問者：您認為針對一些文化上的議題，例如女性或同性戀者，是否有必要採用新的注釋？
Q: Do you think it’s important to adopt new commentaries to address some cultural like people like about woman or like gay people?

Rinpoche: Definitely. It’s like this. Our, in Buddha’s teaching it has variety, Buddha’s teaching is not one. And I told you, we have a saying Buddha told different variety 84,000 methods that you can tame emotions, why Buddha told 84,000? Because we have different 84,000 of emotions to tame, so that’s why that’s the answer you can have. Buddha’s teaching is variety, but sometimes you can say, some commentaries they say about female and female and female a lot, some commentaries actually like way of bodhisattva, for example, you know, they talked about female and female bad quality, because majority practitioners are men.
絕對是，就像這樣，佛陀的教法具有多樣性，而非單一，就像我講過的，我們說佛陀宣說八萬四千種調伏煩惱的不同法門，為什麼佛陀要傳授八萬四千種法門呢? 因為我們有八萬四千種煩惱要調伏，因而這就是答案。佛陀的教法是多樣化的，但有時候你會說，某些論釋講到女性如何如何，有些像是《入菩薩行論》便講到女性的不善功德，那是因為［那時］多數的修行者是男性。

I told them, say that female practitioner are there, and they should put “male” the word, or “some female like female”, then they can keep that way, “some male like male”, put the male there, so it depends actually talking about where you get the desire, you should think about this desire has the quality, not because want to put woman down, you know, so that’s why it has a point behind "the Way of Bodhisattvas". So they talk about how you can put desire down, you should practice to that level, so definitely I am going to say is that the example of "the Way of Bodhisattvas" I don’t think need to change the word but teacher should say what I taught, because actually what I taught is what he means in "the Way of Bodhisattvas", not I am creating new word actually, so like that.
我告訴他們說，如果有女性修行者，［對象］就要用「男性」這個字眼；如果有女性愛女性的情況，便不用更改文字；若是男性愛男性，則［對象］就是男性。因此這是取決於你的慾望對象是誰？你應該想想慾望的特質，而非認為論師要貶低女性。所以這就是《入菩薩行論》背後的意義。教法是談論該如何減低慾望，該如何修持以達到那個程度。所以我舉《入菩薩行論》的例子是要明確地告訴大家：不需要更改文字，但是老師們應該要像我說的方式來解釋，因為我所說的就是《入行論》的真正含意，而不是我創造新的文字，就是這樣。

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~ 普賢法譯小組 Emilia, Raye, Hueymei 翻譯、聽打和校對，Serena 完稿於2018.12.7，感恩佛陀教法的多樣性和當代上師的適時講述！