
时间:12/20/2025 12/21/2025
地点:星湖禅修中心
主讲:龙示林
打坐参禅
为什么越修行越显烦恼
许多禅修者都会经历这样的困惑:修行越久,烦恼似乎不但没有减少,反而变得更明显——杂念更多、情绪更强烈、内心更敏感。表面看似退步,其实是心越来越清明,开始看见从前被忽略的烦恼根源。这不是修行出问题,而是修行真正开始的象征。
一、烦恼为什么在修行中变得显著:觉知增强带来的自然现象
1. 心静下来后,更容易看见念头
原本被噪音掩盖的烦恼,如今暴露无遗。
2. 觉知变强,问题显得更大
不是烦恼变多,而是看得更清楚。
3. 修行使深层心理内容浮现
旧伤、恐惧、执着开始浮出地表。
二、修行前的烦恼被麻痹,修行后烦恼被照亮
1. 平时被分心、工作、娱乐麻醉
烦恼在忙碌中被压住。
2. 静坐剥去这些麻醉
心开始直接面对真实状态。
3. 照见烦恼,意味着修行开始起效
这正是转化的第一步。
三、烦恼显现是“清洗过程”:杂质被逼出
1. 心越静,潜意识越打开
深层烦恼自然上升。
2. 像清水搅动池底淤泥
短暂混浊,其实是池水变清的前兆。
3. 烦恼被看见,才能被松动
觉知本身就是净化。
四、修行越深,越能感知细微的烦恼
1. 初学者只能看到明显的烦恼
如愤怒、焦虑、欲望等。
2. 进阶时能看到更微细的动机
如比较心、期待心、自我感。
3. 最深层能看到“造作”和“我执”的根源
能量更细,烦恼观更准。
五、烦恼显现的真正意义:突破的契机
1. 每一个被看见的烦恼都在松动
觉知让烦恼失去力量。
2. 照见烦恼=智慧增长
智慧不是读书来的,而是看到本心得来的。
3. 烦恼是成道的材料
《楞严经》言:“烦恼即菩提。”
六、如何面对修行中显现的烦恼:三不原则
1. 不压抑
压制会让烦恼更加固化。
2. 不认同
不要说“这是我的问题”,而是“烦恼正在生起”。
3. 不跟随
烦恼只是现象,不必继续思考它。
七、修行越深越显烦恼:说明修得对方向
1. 心力增强,感知更敏锐
自然看到更细微的杂染。
2. 真正的改变来自面对,而非逃避
愿意照见烦恼的人,才有可能转化它。
3. 烦恼显现表示“正好在清理”
像发烧是免疫系统在运作一样。
总结
“越修行越显烦恼”不是退步,也不是失败,而是觉知提升、心更敏感、深层结构被照亮的自然现象。只有看见烦恼,才能松开烦恼;只有面对烦恼,才能转化烦恼。当你愿意陪伴这些烦恼,而不再逃避时——修行的力量正在真正发生。
Date: 12/20/2025 12/21/2025
Location: Star Lake Meditation Center
Teacher: Shilin Long
Sitting Meditation
Why More Meditation Seems to Bring More Disturbances
Many practitioners experience confusion: the more they meditate, the more noticeable their disturbances become—more thoughts, more emotions, more discomfort. This is not failure but a sign that awareness is deepening, revealing layers previously hidden. Meditation does not create new disturbances; it exposes what was always there.
1. Why Disturbances Become More Obvious: Increased Awareness
1. A quieter mind reveals subtle thoughts
Noise drops, so deeper patterns emerge.
2. Greater clarity magnifies what was unnoticed
Not more problems—more awareness.
3. Deep meditation exposes subconscious layers
Old wounds, fears, and tensions come to the surface.
2. Before Meditation, Disturbances Are Numbed; Meditation Reveals Them
1. Daily busyness numbs emotional discomfort
Work, entertainment, and distractions bury disturbances.
2. Silence removes the numbing effect
The mind must finally face its true condition.
3. Seeing a disturbance is the first step of transformation
Awareness begins the healing process.
3. Disturbances Are “Cleansing”: Impurities Rising Up
1. A still mind opens the subconscious
Hidden emotions float upward.
2. Like stirring a muddy pond
It becomes cloudy first, then clearer.
3. What is seen can be released
Awareness dissolves tension.
4. The Deeper You Meditate, the Finer the Disturbances You Notice
1. Beginners see only coarse disturbances
Anger, anxiety, restlessness.
2. Intermediate practitioners see subtle motivations
Comparison, expectation, ego-sensitivity.
3. Advanced practitioners see the root of self-making
Subtle contraction and clinging.
5. The Real Meaning of Emerging Disturbances: Opportunity for Breakthrough
1. Every disturbance seen loses power
Awareness is purification.
2. Insight grows with each observation
Wisdom is born from seeing.
3. Disturbances become material for awakening
As scriptures say: “Afflictions are the gateway to wisdom.”
6. How to Work With Disturbances: Three Key Principles
1. Do not suppress
Suppression strengthens emotional knots.
2. Do not identify
Not “my problem” but “a disturbance arising.”
3. Do not chase
Let it arise and pass without adding stories.
7. Seeing More Disturbances Means Meditation Is Working
1. A stronger mind perceives finer details
Increased sensitivity reflects progress.
2. Real transformation requires facing, not avoiding
Courage to see is the foundation of freedom.
3. Disturbances emerging signal deeper cleansing
Like fever signaling the immune system awakening.
Conclusion
Experiencing more disturbances during meditation is not regression—it is progress.It means awareness is sharpening, emotional residue is surfacing, and deeper transformation is occurring.Only what is seen can be released;only what is faced can be transcended.When you no longer escape disturbances but meet them with awareness,your practice is truly beginning to work.