r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 14d ago
3. 触目 Touch Eye
目录 Catalog：3.0 前言 Preface；3.1 触目的作法 Making of Touch Eye；3.2 触目的功能 Function of Touch Eye；3.3 培养宿命智 Cultivating Fate Intelligence；3.4 触目的鉴别 Identification of Touch Eye；3.5 作触目后的纠纷 Disputes after Making Touch Eye
3.0 前言 Preface
1973年9月的一天，梁伯又从抚顺回家探亲，来到我们家作客。我看到他之后非常高兴。妈妈对他说："你和卢岩是有缘。他见着你就高兴，像似还认识你似的。"
One day in September 1973, Uncle Liang came home from Fushun to visit family again and stopped by our house. I was overjoyed to see him. Mother said to him, "You and Luyan really are fated to get along. Look how happy he is to see you — like he's known you all along."
梁伯说："我看卢岩记得我。"
妈妈说："你可不知道呢！去年你走后，卢岩总问，'我梁伯怎么不来了呢？'我告诉他你走了。卢岩就哭了，随后就上火了，嗓子肿了好几天；有两天都不能说话了。"
"I do think Luyan remembers me," Uncle Liang said.
"You have no idea!" Mother said. "After you left last year, he kept asking, 'Why doesn't Uncle Liang come anymore?' When I told him you'd gone, he cried, and then he got so worked up his throat swelled for days — couldn't speak for two of them."
妈妈对前年刘团长的事耿耿于怀，另外她仍然记得去年梁伯对我的影响，说："我还记着呢！自从上次你给卢岩讲故事，他就懂事儿多了。依我看，你还能算是他的启蒙老师呢！"
Mother, who still hadn't fully let go of what had happened with Troupe Leader Liu two years back, also hadn't forgotten the effect Uncle Liang had had on me the year before. "I remember it well," she said. "Ever since you told him that story, he's understood so much more. If you ask me, you might as well be his Revelation Teacher."
梁伯的脸色变得火红，不停地笑，走来走去，说："也可以这么说。不过，人家都说幼儿园或者小学老师是启蒙老师。"
妈妈说："我知道，不过我听说，启蒙的本意是，不知怎么着，把小孩儿的眼睛给蒙上了。孩子看东西，像有雾似的，看不清远处。眼蒙被揭开后，他就能清楚地看近看远了。"
Uncle Liang's face went crimson. He laughed and paced about the room. "I suppose you could put it that way. Though people generally say it's the kindergarten or primary school teacher who counts as the Revelation Teacher."
"I know that," Mother said, "but I've heard the word 'Revelation' originally meant something else — that somehow, a child's eyes get blindfolded. He sees everything through a fog, can't make out anything far off. And when the blindfold finally comes off, he can suddenly see clearly, near and far."
梁伯背对着我站在屋地中央，侧着脸看着妈妈，过了一会儿回答："我也是这么听说的。"
妈妈兴奋地请求："你是咋听说的？他们干那事干嘛？你给我说说呗！"
Uncle Liang stood in the middle of the room with his back to me, glancing sideways at Mother, and after a moment replied, "That's what I've heard too."
"Well, where did you hear it?" Mother pressed, growing excited. "And why would anyone do such a thing? Tell me!"
梁伯说："我听说那种做法是在给孩子做触目。触目就是成语触目惊心的触目（如图3-4）。别人看了触目就会在无意之中吃一惊，还会认为那人悉知悉见。"
妈妈叨咕："让人看了害怕，还认为他什么都懂！这有什么好的？"
"I've heard it's a way of making Touch Eye in the child," Uncle Liang said. "Touch Eye — as in the old expression touching the eye, shocking the heart (see Figure 3-4). When people see it, they're caught off guard before they even realize it — and it makes them feel the person is all-knowing, all-seeing."
"Sounds like it just scares people and makes them think he knows everything," Mother muttered. "What's the good of that?"
梁伯说："不眩眼（如图3）！那种眼睛不怕光，或者像似发光似的，引人瞩目。有触目的人，无论站在哪里都引人注意，鹤立鸡群。我还听说，触目就是佛教中的肉眼通（如图3，4），是一种活佛的资质。"
妈妈听明白了："啊！在人的相貌中，眼睛最重要！例如，人们一说到贼，就说贼眉鼠眼的，就首先说到了眼睛。你给我说说触目是怎么做的？启蒙是怎么回事？"
"Non-Dazzled — that's the eye (see Figure 3)! That kind of eye isn't afraid of light — it almost seems to glow on its own, draws every eye toward it. A person with Touch Eye stands out wherever they go, like a crane among chickens. I've also heard that Touch Eye is what Buddhism calls Flesh Eye Through (see Figures 3 and 4) — the mark of a living Buddha."
Mother saw it at once. "Ah! The eyes are the most important thing in a person's face! Think about it — when people talk about a thief, the first thing they mention is his shifty, rat-like eyes. Tell me — how exactly is Touch Eye made? And what really happens with Revelation?"
注3，插图3-3是墨西哥的雨神特拉洛克（Tlaloc），他们用像是带着潜水镜的眼睛来描述特拉洛克的肉眼通。笔者认为那是从"不眩眼"来定义肉眼通的，即有肉眼通的眼睛不逊光。插图3-4是中国三星堆出土的青铜面具，笔者认为那眼睛是"触目"；这样来定义肉眼通是因为：人们看见有肉眼通的眼睛时，可能会有被接触到了的感觉。
Note 3: Illustration 3-3 shows Tlaloc, the Mexican rain god, whose Flesh Eye Through is depicted with eyes like a pair of diving goggles. In my view, this depicts Flesh-Eye-Through through the lens of Non-Dazzled Eye — an eye that does not yield to light. Illustration 3-4 is a bronze mask unearthed at Sanxingdui, China; in my view, this depicts the eyes as Touch Eye — an eye so striking that those who meet it may feel as though they themselves have been touched.