开天眼在科学上如何解释？
How to Scientifically Explain the Opening of the Divine Eye?
学员问：开天眼很不容易吧
Student:
Isn’t it very difficult to open the divine eye (clairvoyance)?
清凉月老师：
这个很简单的，在欲界定这个地方就可以得到开天眼的前像，你只要证到开天眼的前像的时候，你知道开天眼是最简单的，所有的神通中，只有开天眼是最容易的，那么在开悟之前，再入如来藏之前，开天眼是你必须具备的，即使你不想得，也是不可能的，他一定会得到的，所以这个不需要担心的。
Master Qinglianyue:
It’s actually very simple. In the state of meditative concentration within the Desire Realm (Kāma-dhātu Samādhi), one can attain the precursor image of opening the divine eye. Once you reach that precursor state, you’ll realize that opening the divine eye is the easiest among all supernormal abilities. Before attaining enlightenment and before entering the Tathāgatagarbha (Buddha-nature), opening the divine eye is something you must possess. Even if you don't seek it, it will naturally arise—so there’s no need to worry about it.
之所以现在你还觉得很难，那是因为你始终习惯于现在的这种思维状态，还没有达到另一种思维状态，这就像有的人说解决生死不容易，解决生死是特别容易，尤其是身体的生死。
The reason you still find it difficult is because you're stuck in your current mode of thinking and haven’t transitioned into another mode. It’s like how some people say transcending life and death is hard, but in fact, resolving the issue of life and death—especially physical death—is actually quite easy.
为什么不容易？那是因为，就像你用电脑一样的，我们的身体就像这个电脑，真正的你，就像坐在电脑前的你，身体就像这个电脑，你整天使用这个电脑啊，沉溺于这个电脑，结果不能自拔，家长喊也喊不回去，吃住都在那个网吧里面，天天要用这个电脑，习惯了。
Why does it seem hard? Because it’s like using a computer. Our body is like a computer, and the real you is the one sitting in front of it. You’ve been using this "computer" all day, addicted to it, unable to break free. Just like a kid immersed in an internet café, even parents can’t drag them away—they eat and sleep there. It's become a habit.
身体就是这样，你天天用这个身体，天天这样用啊，你一天不用就急，依赖了，形成一种依赖了，就像吸大烟一样上瘾了，然后你开始说我不依赖这个，我要摆脱这个身体，然后你就开始怎么练，就观身体的觉受，然后放下，就在那个念头的动处用功，觉得自己用这个身体了，身体的觉受来了，马上放弃。
That’s what your body is like. You use it every day, and once you stop using it even for a day, you get anxious—you’re addicted. Like opium addiction. Then you begin to say, “I don’t want to rely on this body anymore.” So you start practicing: observe the bodily sensations, and let them go. Practice where the thought arises—whenever you sense yourself using the body, and feel a bodily sensation coming up, you immediately let go.
或者观他的思维的变化，观的目的是什么，就是放弃。观吃饭啊，吃饭的慢动作，慢慢的观啊，慢慢的观啊，直到最后观到这个念头的动处，刚开始观慢动作的时候，他是专注这个过程的，观到高级阶段时候，他是专注念头的，他不是专注过程了。
Or observe the changes in your thoughts—the purpose of observing is to let go. Observe eating, for example—watch the slow motion of eating, observe slowly and mindfully. Eventually, you’ll reach the point where you observe the very initiation of thought. At first, you're focused on the process; in the advanced stages, you focus on the thought itself, no longer the process.
你现在要动这个手的时候，你首先要起念动，他在那个地方观那。他就天天在这个地方用功，在这个地方用功的目的是什么？那就是不使用这个身体，他根本的目的就是摆脱使用身体的习惯，也就是觉知到，他在培养那个觉知力，也就是说我随时觉知我在使用这个身体，我觉知我在用这个胳膊，我觉知到蚊虫叮咬了，然后就这样觉知觉知，他始终在这个地方用功，觉知自己在使用身体，
Now, when you want to move your hand, you first have to form the intention. He observes right at that point. He works on this every day. The purpose is to stop using the body—to break the habit of using the body. What he’s cultivating is awareness—the constant awareness that he is using the body, that he is moving his arm, that he is aware of a mosquito bite. And so he continues like this, maintaining awareness at all times that he is using the body.
那么既然你觉知在使用身体，那么就自然有一个不使用身体的这样的一个潜意识在形成，慢慢的这个潜意识形成形成，那么终于有一天就完全的摆脱这个身体，摆脱身体的束缚，
Once you are aware of using the body, then a subconscious state of "not using the body" begins to form. Gradually, as this subconscious awareness strengthens, one day you will fully transcend the body and be free from its limitations.
所有的四念处统统都是这样的，无非打破一种思维的习惯，打破一种思维的惯式，打破一种思维的依赖，非常非常简单的。
This is the principle behind all the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: to break a habitual way of thinking, a fixed pattern, a mental dependency. It’s really very simple.
所以你不知道那么多的法门他究竟在哪里用功，所有的法门都是在那个念头的起处用功的，统统都是在那个地方用功的，念头起处是玄牝，道家也是这样说，佛家也是在这个地方用功。
You may not know where the true practice lies within all these different Dharma methods. But they all work at the same point—the arising of thought. That’s where the work is done. The point of thought’s emergence is called the “Mysterious Pass”. Both Daoism and Buddhism focus their efforts at this exact location.
所以就是肉体的生死，身体的生死特别容易解决，只要这个做的好，那你就是很简单就会摆脱。
So the physical body’s life and death—resolving that is actually very easy. As long as you cultivate this well, liberation is simple.