1982年的一天，妈妈给我讲她从半张旧报纸上看来的一则新闻报道，谈的是科学家为科学献身精神。

One day in 1982, my mom was telling me about a news story she had gotten from a half-piece old newspapers talking about scientists dedicating their lives to science.

沈阳某部队和中国医科大学合作，进行着一项真人医学实验。说是一个古代的故事中，对主人公前半生的个人生活经历、病症、病理、治疗等方面的描述都很详细。现代的医生却不能对他的病确诊，原因是没有相关病例。可是，故事里的事是人为造成的，现实生活中百年不遇。为了研究古人是如何诊病的，他们决定，根据那个故事重新设计个医学实验，在现实生活中造一病例给现代的医生们参考，还附带研究灵魂转世。实验主要是观察人的行为，可能持续六七十年，实验的期限是由被实验的人能活多长时间决定的。

A military unit in Shenyang cooperated with China Medical University to conduct a real-life medical experiment. It was said that an ancient story contained a detailed description of the main character's personal life experiences, illnesses, pathologies, and treatments in the first half of his life. Modern doctors, however, could not make a definitive diagnosis of his illness because there were no relevant cases. However, what happened in the story was man-made and not encountered in real life for a hundred years. In order to study how the ancients diagnosed the disease, they decided to redesign a medical experiment based on the story and create a real-life case for the modern doctors to refer to, also to study the reincarnation of souls. The experiment is mainly to observe human behavior, may last for sixty or seventy years; the duration of the experiment is determined by how long the person being experimented on can live.

从社会中选出一组男孩儿和一组女孩儿。男孩儿组是秘密的，他们各自在自己家里的自然环境中长大。研究人员密密地从事研究工作，观察。女孩儿组中也有男孩儿，是公开的集中培训。他们长大后，再从男孩组和女孩组各选出一人，进行下一阶段的实验。

A group of boys and a group of girls are selected from the community. The group of boys is kept secret, they are each brought up in the natural environment of their own homes. The researchers work on the study in close quarters and observe. There are boys in the girls' group as well, and it is an open and centralized training. When they grow up, one person from each of the boy and girl groups is then selected for the next phase of the experiment.

报纸说，国家为了这项实验研究，还建立了相关的法律，和一种秘密警察来维护这项实验的工作。这种警察可以指挥个体公民，让谁怎么说，谁就怎么说；让谁干什么，谁就干什么。比如说，男孩儿组的男孩儿不知道他们自己是实验对象，如果他身边的人知道了这事，不能装作不知道，秘密警察就可以迁走知情人。说是，若不然，这个实验完成不了。实验发起人还说：“实验中所有的事必须都是真的，假的肯定不行。在这个实验当中，谁犯法，谁坐牢；谁敢透露消息，乱说话，至少坐牢十年。”

The newspapers say that the State has also established laws for this experimental research, and a kind of secret police to defend the work of this experiment. This police could direct individual citizens to say whatever they were told to say, and to do whatever they were told to do. For example, if the boys in the boys' group did not know that they themselves were subjects of the experiment, and if someone close to him knew about it, he could not pretend that he did not know, the secret police could relocate the knower. It was said that if not, this experiment could not be completed. The experiment initiator also said: “everything in the experiment must be true, and falsehood is definitely not an option. Whoever breaks the law in this experiment will go to jail; whoever dares to reveal information and talk nonsense will go to jail for at least ten years.”

实验的第一个阶段已经顺利地完成了。这时要进行下一个阶段的实验，主要涉及三个人物，一位父亲，他的女儿和另外一个男孩儿。说是一旦实验开始，那位父亲就会因此实验生病，最终会病死，不会看到自己实验的全部结果。实验中，发起者和他的女儿自愿为科研献身。他女儿发誓，自愿作为实验的对象，参加女孩儿组的培训；她父亲过世后，她会继续这个实验。她还发誓将来会学医，照顾那个男孩儿一辈子。到那时，他们都已经长大成人了。

The first phase of the experiment had been successfully completed. It was time for the next phase of the experiment, which involved three main characters, a father, his daughter, and another boy. It was said that once the experiment began, that father would become ill from the experiment and would eventually die of the disease, would not see the full results of his experiment. During the experiment, the initiator and his daughter volunteered to give their lives for scientific research. His daughter vowed to volunteer as a subject for the experiment and to participate in the training of the girls' group; she would continue the experiment after her father passed away. She also vowed to study medicine in the future and take care of the boy for the rest of his life. By then, they were both adults.

报纸还说，那个男孩儿也会因为这个实验生病，甚至病重而死。说是，从坏的方面考虑，那个男孩即便不病死，也会全身是病。也有可能，这个男孩儿不生病。实验的发起者还说：这个实验到最后，公事公办，私情私了，谁也不许到法庭打官司。

The newspaper also said that the boy would also get sick, even very sick, and die because of this experiment. It said that, on the bad side, the boy would be sick all over, if not sick and die. It is also possible that the boy will not get sick. The initiator of the experiment also said: “at the end of the experiment, public affairs will be publicly done, private affairs should be privately to solve, no one should go to court to fight the case.”

我和妈妈谈论他们得了什么病的时候，我记得妈妈说：那位父亲和那个被最终选中的男孩儿都会因为这个实验生病，人不同，他们的病不会相同；但他们的病因都是一系列实验中的事件，从这个方面来说，他们得了相同的病（注1）。

When my mother and I were talking about what illness they got, I remember my mother saying that both that father and the boy who was ultimately chosen would get sick from the experiment, that people are different, so their illnesses wouldn't be the same; but the causes of their illnesses were a series of events in the experiment, in this respect to say that they got the same illnesses (note 1).

注4.5-1，2014年，我在写回忆录时注意到了“俩人患了相同的病”的说法，就构成了发起人和被选中的男孩儿有共同的{烦恼}。而男孩儿从实验的一系列事件中学到了多种知识。根据佛教的异生性，“异生性就是{烦恼}和{所知}”（异生性参见11.4.4.2-4节）；就这样发起人把自己的{所知}和{烦恼}传给了被选中的男孩儿。所以发起人成为了那男孩儿的教父，而那男孩儿就成为了发起人的教子，或称作灵魂转世。

Note 4.5-1, In 2014, when I was writing my memoirs, I noted that the statement "both suffered from the same disease" constituted a common {annoyance} shared by the initiator and the chosen boy. And the boy learns a variety of things from the series of events of the experiment. According to Buddhist Variation Nature, "{variation nature} is {annoyance} and {know}" (for Variation Nature see section 11.4.4.2-4); and in this way the initiator passes on his {annoyance} and {know} to the chosen boy. So, the initiator becomes the godfather of the chosen boy, and the boy becomes the initiator's godson, or what is called the reincarnation of the soul.

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