默灯神父的祈祷 The Merton Prayer

我主我神，

我不知道在去向何处。

我看不到眼前的道路。

我无法确知这路的终点。

对自己也不真正地了解。

我以为正在跟随你的旨意，

但这并不意味着事实上我就在跟随你。

然而我相信，

我想要讨你喜悦的渴望，

事实上就真让你喜悦。

我也希望，我有如此的渴望

在我所做的一切事情上。

我希望自己永远不做

任何一件脱离这份渴望的事情。

而我知道，只要我这样做，

你就会引领我走在正路，

即使我可能对这路一无所知。

如此而行，我就可始终信靠你，

即使我看似是走迷了路，

即使我落入死亡的幽谷。

我将不至害怕，

因为你一直与我同在，

而你永远不会留下我

去独自面对险阻。

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

译注：Thomas Merton通常被译为默顿，牟顿，梅顿，此处译为默灯神父，这是遵照他生前好友、《禅的黄金时代》作者吴经熊先生为其建议的中文名字。此文是默灯神父最广为流传的祈祷文，原文只是一段话，译文重新做了句读安排。有声版请见：https://onbeing.org/blog/thomas-mertons-prayer-that-anyone-can-pray/

容懂试译于2017.10.16