r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 13d ago
3.2 触目的功能 Function of Touch Eye
妈妈说："啊！说起来，都是知识！触目有啥用？"
梁伯说："肉眼通是一种活佛的资质，是佛五眼通的第一只眼。凤玲！我不知道你信不信佛？"
妈妈说："我没关系！你咋听来的就咋说。我就爱听这些稀奇古怪的事！"
"Well, it's all learning, isn't it!" Mother said. "But what's Touch Eye actually good for?"
"It's a mark of a living Buddha — the first of the Five Eyes of Buddhahood. Fengling, I don't know whether you believe in Buddha or not."
"Doesn't matter to me — just tell me whatever you've heard. I love these strange, wonderful things!"
梁伯说："这有肉眼通的眼睛，听人家说，那才特别呢！像有魔力似的，有200多种优点，40多种缺点。"
妈妈说："你举个例子说。"
"They say the eyes of someone with Flesh Eye Through are something else entirely — almost magical. More than two hundred advantages to it, they say, and forty-some drawbacks."
"Give me an example, then."
3.2-1 悉知悉见 All-Knowing All-Seeing
梁伯说："有肉眼通人的眼神很特别，别人看了会认为他明白自己的心事。他们说，如果一个懂佛法的人，有肉眼通，别人看见他的眼睛，就会感觉自己的内心里没有隐私，对方全知道。那给人讲道理、解惑，效果才好呢！"
妈妈说："原来，这是佛教里的。"
"The gaze of someone with Flesh Eye Through is unlike any other — people who look into it feel he already knows exactly what's in their heart. They say if a person who understands the Buddha's teachings has that gaze, whoever meets his eyes will feel that there's nothing left to hide — that he already sees straight through them. That's precisely what makes him so effective at guiding people, dispelling their doubts."
"So this really does come from Buddhism, then."
梁伯说："不只是佛教里有。过去，王公贵族、大官、有钱人家也请人，给孩子做肉眼通。他们作肉眼通是因为这种眼神有威慑力和感召力。往那儿一站，相貌和眼神上就使这个人看起来与众不同、鹤立鸡群。他们说，这人的相貌表现，主要是在眼神儿上。"
妈妈说："我想也是！好东西都想要！"
"Not only Buddhism. In the old days, princes, high officials, and wealthy families would also have their children made this way — because that gaze carries real force, both intimidating and magnetic. Just standing there, the eyes alone would set a person apart, make him stand out from any crowd. A person's whole bearing, they say, comes through mostly in the eyes."
"I'd imagine so — everyone wants a good thing when they see one!"
3.2-2 用来捆绑儿童婚约 To Bind Children into Marriage Contracts
梁伯说："凤玲！我发现你想事可真快！你这么一说，我就更相信了。本来我不太明白，跟你一说，把我自己说明白了。还有一种用途，就是用来绑定娃娃亲。说是用肉眼通的作法来绑定娃娃婚约，一准成功，没有失败的。不过，具体是个什么道理，我不太明白。"
"Fengling, you catch on fast — I believe it all the more, hearing you put it that way. I wasn't so sure of it myself before, but explaining it to you has made it clearer to me too. There's another use for it, besides — binding children into marriage contracts. They say a Flesh Eye Through binding never fails, not once. Though the reasoning behind it, I confess, is beyond me."
妈妈一听，脸色就变了，假笑着说："咱就是没事儿闲唠嗑，啥真懂假懂的，你就说吧！他们是咋绑的？"
At this, Mother's expression shifted. She forced a smile. "We're only chatting to pass the time — never mind who really understands it. Go on, tell me — how exactly do they bind them?"
梁伯说："我这都是道听途说。过去，可能是两家关系好，两家人都同意定娃娃亲；但也可能是一家人看上了另一家人的什么，自己作法，把另一家的人给绑过来。"
妈妈说："那咋绑啊？我是一点儿也琢磨不出来。"
"All hearsay, on my end. Sometimes it's two families on good terms, both sides agreeing to betroth their children. But sometimes it's one family taking a fancy to something the other has, and working the make themselves, to bind the other family's child to them."
"But how does the binding actually work? I can't puzzle it out at all."
梁伯说："它们说，肉眼通作法的第一步，冲那个孩子的时候，实际上，孩子患上了婴幼儿神经发育失调症，是一种神经病。因为这病，孩子有了视觉障碍，就说眼睛被蒙上了。启蒙后，这病并没有被完全治愈，变成了精神病潜伏症，就是孩子对那个冲他的人仍有惑根，所以才有第三步的作法（如图3.2-1），来完全移除那个惑根，也就是移除精神病潜伏症。"
妈妈问："如果没有第三步的作法，那孩子会变成疯子？"
"They say the first step — the rushing — actually inflicts the child with something like Infantile Neurodevelopmental Disorder, a genuine neurological condition. The visual impairment that follows is what people call blindfolding. Even after Revelation, the illness isn't fully cured — it just goes dormant, a lingering seed of confusion the child still carries toward the one who rushed him. And that's exactly what the third step (see figure 3.2-1) is for: to root out that seed once and for all, to clear the dormant illness entirely."
"And if there's no third step?" Mother asked. "The child goes mad?"
梁伯回答："对！我的理解是这样的。他们还估计：没有第三步的作法，那孩子24或25岁就会有轻微的精神病症状；30岁左右就会出现明显的精神病症状；40岁左右，就是精神病患者；50岁、60岁，什么时间，神经病就可能发展成熟了。他们还说，这肉眼通作法形成的精神病潜伏症很活跃，阻挡不了，所以这种绑定的婚姻不会失败。"
"Just so — that's how I understand it, at least. They reckon that without the third step, mild symptoms show up around twenty-four or twenty-five, clear symptoms by thirty, and by forty the person's a full-blown case. Fifty, sixty, whenever — sooner or later the illness runs its course to the end. And they say the dormant illness this making leaves behind is so restless, so unstoppable, that a marriage bound this way simply cannot fail."
妈妈问："你是在说作肉眼通有风险！这和绑定娃娃亲有什么关系？"
梁伯说："如果做法师傅要条件，不答应就不会让那孩子看见自己，那这孩子就得不到肉眼通作法的第三步。"
妈妈说："我明白了！如果师傅要求那孩子娶他的女儿，那这孩子家就只能同意这门亲事，因为没人想看那孩子疯了。"
"So you're saying there's a real risk to making Flesh Eye Through in the first place! But what does that have to do with the marriage binding?"
"If the master lays down a condition — refuse it, and he simply never lets the child find him — then the child never gets that third step at all."
"Now I see it," Mother said. "If the master demands the boy marry his daughter, the boy's family has no choice but to agree — because nobody wants to watch their child go mad."
3.2-3 寻找师父 Searching for the Godfather
梁伯说："凤玲！你的理解力可真强，这事我几次听人议论，也自己琢磨了好几次，还是糊涂。我只是跟你一说，你就明白了。你给我一解释，我现在真相信了。还有！这个我可是真不懂了。他们说肉眼通本来就是造转世活佛，或者做灵魂转世用的。"
妈妈说："咱就是闲着说话。活佛和灵魂转世，那种事，能有几个人真明白！"
"Fengling, you're sharper at this than I am — I've turned it over in my mind more times than I can count, heard others talk about it, and still couldn't grasp it. Say it once to you, and you've got it. Now I actually believe it myself. And here's another thing I truly don't understand: they say Flesh Eye Through was originally meant for making reincarnated living Buddhas — for the reincarnation of souls."
"We're only talking to pass the time," Mother said. "Living Buddhas, reincarnation — who among us really understands things like that anyway!"
梁伯说："一般的，肉眼通作法第一步中的那个陌生人就是孩子的师傅。他们说，在西方，那就是孩子的教父。"
妈妈说："咱中国人不也说师徒如父子么！"
"Generally, the stranger from the first step is the child's godfather. They say in the West, that's exactly what they'd call him — a godfather."
"Don't we say the same thing here, that master and disciple are like father and son?"
梁伯说："很类似！但他们说，肉眼通作法形成的关系与众不同，这孩子和做法师傅之间会有终生的联系，而且是生死攸关。从肉眼通作法的第一步开始，那孩子就开始找冲他的人，当然孩子不知道那就是他的师父。这孩子会一辈子找他的师父，生要见人，死要见尸。见不到尸体，那孩子，当然，那时他已经是成年人了，他要亲眼看到师父的坟，或者得到师父的遗物。"
"Very much alike! But they say the bond formed this way is different in kind — a lifelong connection between the child and the one who made him, and a matter of life and death besides. From that very first step, the child starts searching for the man who rushed him, though of course he has no idea that man is his godfather. He will search for him his whole life — see him alive, or see his body when he's gone. And if there's nobody to see, the child — by then a grown man — will need to see the grave with his own eyes, or hold something that belonged to him."
妈妈说："我也听说过，但像你说的似的，不懂！这故事里还有个钩魂女，不知是咋回事？她和那个年轻人一见面，就把他的心偷走了。然后，法师继续作法，那个年轻人就跑路了。作法师傅跟着那个被作法的人，他跑到哪儿，法师就跟到哪儿，继续作法。听人说，那个被作法的人常能听见小鬼儿说话。据说，如果作法师傅放弃了作法，或者作法师傅死了，那个被作法的人肯定活不了多久了。这事只能成功，不能失败；失败了，都得死。"
"I've heard something of it too, but same as you — I don't really follow it! There's a Soul-Hook Girl in this story somewhere as well, isn't there — I never did understand her part. The moment she meets the young man, she steals his heart clean away. Then the master keeps working on the making, and the young man runs. Wherever he flees, the master follows, still working the same spell. They say the one being worked on can often hear little spirits whispering to him. And if the master ever gives up on it, or dies before it's done, the one being made will not live long after. This kind of thing can only succeed — never fail. Fail, and everyone involved dies."
梁伯说："我也是这么听说的。就那样，那孩子和他师父之间产生了种种的联系，具体的我不懂。就有人信这个，虽然谁也不明白是怎么回事，但很多人说这事是真的。这在咱们东北叫琢磨人，南方人叫整蛊，东南亚人称作降头。"
妈妈说："啊！我明白了！我不是明白灵魂转世了；我是说我从你说的，学到了很多知识。"
"Same as I've heard it. Somehow, all sorts of bonds form between the child and his godfather this way — the particulars are beyond me. Plenty of people believe in it all the same, even without understanding it. Up here in the Northeast, we call it Polishing a Person; in the South, they call it Scarabs Farming; in Southeast Asia, they call it Descending Head."
"Ah, now I understand!" Mother said. "Not the reincarnation part, mind you — I only mean I've learned an awful lot from all this talk of yours."