时间：08/23/2025 08/24/2025
地点：星湖禅修中心
主讲：龙示林
打坐参禅
习气与妄想的形成机制
“习气”与“妄想”是禅修中必须理解的根本课题。习气是长期反复行为与情绪的积累，而妄想则是念头不断生起、扩散、变化的过程。了解习气和妄想的形成机制，能帮助修行者明白为何心会散乱、执着、痛苦，并找到觉醒与解脱的关键入口。
一、什么是习气：心的自动运行程序
1. 习气是一种反复形成的心理模式
长期行为、情绪反应反复出现，最终成为自动化的习惯。
2. 习气来源于经验的积累
经历越多、情绪越强，习气越深刻。
3. 习气让心在无意识中行动
未觉察的心会依照旧有习性自动反应，而非自由决定。
二、习气的形成机制：重复导致固化
1. 重复行为强化神经路径
越常做的行为越容易被大脑记录、固化。
2. 强烈情绪加速习气形成
愤怒、恐惧、快乐等情绪越强烈，习气形成越快速。
3. 环境与关系不断强化旧习
生活环境、家庭、社会文化不断塑造并加深行为模式。
三、妄想的本质：念头自动生起的心理现象
1. 妄想不是错误，只是心的自然活动
心具有想象、预测、回忆的本能。
2. 妄想源自外境与记忆的刺激
看到、听到、想到任何东西，都可能引发念头。
3. 妄想不断串联而形成故事
一个念头接着另一个，如不停演绎的内心小剧场。
四、妄想的形成机制：因缘触发，心自动运作
1. 外境刺激触发念头
声音、图像、话语都可能启动心的反应。
2. 记忆和情绪让念头延续
念头会被自身的经验与情绪推动，越想越多。
3. 习气加速妄想扩散
心最常习惯的模式，会主导念头的方向与内容。
五、习气与妄想的相互强化：循环愈转愈深
1. 习气决定妄想的方向
习惯愤怒者遇事易怒；习惯焦虑者多忧虑。
2. 妄想会让习气更深
妄想越多，内在模式越固化。
3. 习气与妄想构成恶性循环
旧习→妄想→强化习→更多妄想。
六、为什么习气与妄想让心痛苦：脱离当下与真实
1. 心不断被拉离当下
妄想让心陷入过去与未来，错失当下。
2. 习气让人重复痛苦模式
即使知道行为不对仍会重复。
3. 妄想构成痛苦的虚假叙事
把无常的念头当成“我”或真相。
七、觉悟的关键：看见习气、觉知妄想
1. 覆盖习气的方法是觉察
看见习气的启动就是改变的开始。
2. 妄想被觉知时力量会减弱
念头一被看到，就失去牵引力。
3. 觉察让心回到真实
从自动运作到主动觉知，心自然趋向清明。
总结
习气由重复形成，妄想由因缘触发，两者互相强化，构成心散乱与痛苦的关键机制。
修行不是消灭念头，而是看清念头的来源；不是强压习气，而是觉察习气的模式。
当习气被照见、妄想被觉知，心便从束缚中解放，步入清净与智慧之道。
Date: 08/23/2025 08/24/2025
Location: Star Lake Meditation Center
Teacher: Shilin Long
Sitting Meditation
The Mechanism Behind Habits and Delusive Thoughts
In meditation and Buddhist psychology, “habit tendencies” and “delusive thoughts” are essential concepts. Habit tendencies are deeply ingrained behavioral and emotional patterns, while delusive thoughts are the mind’s continuous chain of spontaneous mental activity. Understanding how these arise helps practitioners transform distraction, attachment, and suffering into wisdom.
1. What Are Habit Tendencies: The Mind’s Automatic Programs
1. Repeated behaviors form psychological patterns
Long-term repetition solidifies tendencies.
2. Habits arise from accumulated experiences
Strong emotional experiences deepen them quickly.
3. Habitual tendencies influence actions unconsciously
The unawakened mind reacts automatically instead of choosing freely.
2. How Habit Tendencies Form: Repetition Creates Conditioning
1. Repeated actions strengthen neural pathways
The more something is done, the stronger the habit becomes.
2. Strong emotions accelerate habit formation
Fear, anger, and joy imprint strongly in the mind.
3. Environment reinforces habitual reactions
Family, culture, and daily surroundings shape behavior continuously.
3. What Are Delusive Thoughts: Natural but Misleading Mental Activity
1. Not a mistake but a natural function of the mind
The mind imagines, remembers, predicts.
2. Triggered by external stimuli and internal memory
Anything seen, heard, or remembered can generate thoughts.
3. Thoughts link together and form inner stories
One thought leads to another, creating long chains.
4. How Delusive Thoughts Form: Conditions Trigger Automatic Activity
1. External stimuli activate the mind
Sound, sight, or memory sparks mental reactions.
2. Emotions and past experiences prolong thoughts
Thoughts continue because they are fed by emotional energy.
3. Habit tendencies determine the direction of thoughts
Worriers think anxious thoughts; angry people think harsh thoughts.
5. How Habit and Thought Reinforce Each Other
1. Habits shape the content of thoughts
Reactions follow familiar patterns.
2. Thoughts strengthen habits
Repeated thinking reinforces internal patterns.
3. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle
Habit → thought → stronger habit → more thoughts.
6. Why This Causes Suffering: Separation From Reality
1. The mind leaves the present moment
Thoughts pull attention toward past or future.
2. Habit patterns perpetuate suffering
Even when unhelpful, they repeat automatically.
3. Thoughts create painful stories
Temporary mental events are mistaken as truth or identity.
7. The Key to Liberation: Seeing Habits and Recognizing Thoughts
1. Awareness disrupts habitual cycles
Seeing the pattern weakens its grip.
2. Recognized thoughts lose power
When seen clearly, they no longer control behavior.
3. Awareness returns the mind to reality
From automatic reaction to conscious presence.
Conclusion
Habit tendencies are formed through repetition; delusive thoughts arise through conditions.
Together they reinforce distraction and suffering.
Real practice does not suppress thoughts but understands their origin;
does not eliminate habits but brings awareness to them.
When habits and thoughts are clearly seen, the mind becomes free, clear, and open to wisdom.
