阿晃翻译的诗歌
教诲
恶魔往往以贫穷对人们恐吓，
致使他们宰杀耐心的驴骡。
【古兰经】教诲道：恶魔的本性
是使人忍受不住极度贫穷。
穷困使人不择手段，以窃为生，
丧失理智，没有耐性，不积阴功。
最后能使人肠胃大大膨胀—
肠胃生出七套，却丧失了信仰。
成为一张空白的纸
2011-07-10 00:26:03
Rumi:
The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials
are what does not exist.
绝对者工作无。
工厂，材料
都不存在。
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
试着成为一张空白的纸。
成为地上的一个点那里什么也不生长，
那里可以种植某种东西，
一个种子，可能，来自绝对者
贪婪
2011-07-02 00:04:15
Sarmad:
A man who is lost in lust and greed
Is sick in soul and always in need;
A hungry eye is never sated.
Whoever I looked I saw this greed.
迷失在情欲和贪婪当中的人
他的灵魂病了而总是在需索；
饥饿的眼睛永不满足。
不管我看的是谁我都看到这贪婪。
人在哪里？
2011-05-12 05:54:33
Rumi：
The Master roamed the streets
With lamp in hand, crying:
‘I’m tired of devil and beast!
I demand a man!’
真主在街上四处流浪
手里拿着灯，哭喊着：
「我已厌倦了魔鬼与野兽！
我需要一个人！」
我进入了未知
2011-03-18 23:46:44
John of the Cross：
I came into the unknown
and stayed there unknowing
rising beyond all science.
我进入了未知
且留在那里保持无知
远远超过所有的科学。
I did not know the door
but when I found the way,
unknowing where I was,
I learned enormous things,
but what I felt I cannot say,
for I remained unknowing,
rising beyond all science.
我不知道门在哪里
但当我找到了路，
无知于我在哪里，
我领悟了庞大的东西，
但我无法言说我所感觉到的，
因为我继续留在无知的状态，
远远超过所有的科学。
It was the perfect realm
of holiness and peace.
In deepest solitude
I found the narrow way:
a secret giving such release
that I was stunned and stammering,
rising beyond all science.
那是神圣与宁静
的完美领域。
在最深的孤独中
我发现了窄路：
一个秘密给予如此地解放
使得我目瞪口呆而口吃，
远远超过所有的科学。
片刻即永恒
2011-03-18 02:03:40
无门慧开（1183-1260）：
One instant is eternity;
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees.
片刻即永恒；
永恒即当下。
当你透过这片刻观看，
你就是透过那见者观看。
漆黑的夜晚
2011-03-17 03:12:20
Dark Night -- John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)
On a darkened night,
Anxious, by love inflamed,
-- O happy chance! --
Unnoticed, I took flight,
My house at last at peace and quiet.
一个漆黑的夜晚，
渴望，由爱点燃，
--幸福的机缘啊！--
悄悄地，我逃亡，
我的屋子终于平静下来。
Safe, disguised by the night,
By the secret ladder I took flight,
-- O happy chance! --
Cloaked by darkness, I scaled the height,
My house at last at peace and quiet.
平安，由黑夜伪装，
经由隐密的梯子我逃亡，
--幸福的机缘啊！--
披着黑暗，我攀登到高点，
我的屋子终于平静下来。
On that blessed night,
In secret, and seen by none,
None in sight,
I saw with no other guide or light,
But the one burning in my heart bright.
在那有福的夜晚，
秘密地，无人知晓，
看不到半个人，
除了心中炙热明亮的那一个之外，
没有其他向导或光。
This guide, this light,
Brighter than the midday sun,
Led me to the waiting One
I knew so well -- my delight!
To a place with none in sight.
这向导，这光，
比正午的太阳还要明亮，
带我到正在等我的那一个
我所熟知的--我的欢愉。
O night! O guide!
O night more loving than the dawn!
O night that joined
The lover with the Beloved;
Transformed, the lover into the Beloved drawn!
夜晚啊！向导啊！
比黎明更可爱的夜晚啊！
结合交欢的夜晚
爱人与至爱；
转化，爱人进入至爱的牵引。
你真的就是你自己
2011-02-28 22:29:56
Having crossed the river --Kabir
Having crossed the river,
where will you go, O friend ?
过河之后，
你要去哪里，噢，朋友？
There's no road to tread,
No traveler ahead,
Neither a beginning, nor an end.
那里没有路可走，
前头没有旅人，
没有起点，也没有终点。
There's no water, no boat, no boatman, no cord;
No earth is there, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford.
没有水，没有船，没有船夫，没有绳索；
那里没有陆地，没有天空，没有岸边，没有可涉水的浅滩。
You have forgotten the Self within,
Your search in the void will be in vain;
In a moment the life will ebb
And in this body you won't remain.
你忘记了里面的真我，
你在空无中的探索将一无所获；
转眼生命就衰退了
你将不再留在这个身体里。
Be ever conscious of this, O friend,
You've to immerse within your Self;
Kabir says, salvation you won't then need,
For what you are, you would be indeed.
朋友啊，时时刻刻都要意识到这点，
你必须投身于你的真我；
卡比尔说：那时你不需要拯救，
因为你真的就是你自己。
沈思（冥想）带来智慧...
2011-02-20 00:00:19
佛陀：
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
沈思（冥想）带来智慧；缺乏沈思使人留在无知。弄清楚什么东西带你前进以及什么东西扯你后腿，然后选择通往智慧的路。
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
沈思。生活清净。保持安静。熟练你的工作。像月亮一样，走出乌云！闪耀。
什么都不要相信
2011-02-08 01:31:11
佛陀：
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
除非经由你自己的理性及你自己的常识所同意，什么都不要相信，不管是在哪里读到的，或是谁说的，不管我是否说过。
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葛吉夫则说：什么都别相信，除非经过自己亲身的验证。
透过我们的想法，我们塑造了世界...
2011-02-06 00:00:23
佛陀：
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
我们就是我们所想的。我们随着我们的想法的升起而存在。透过我们的想法，我们塑造了世界。
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
我们由自己的想法形塑；我们变成自己所想的。当心智纯净时，喜悦像影子一样跟随永不离开。
保持警觉
2011-01-28 00:35:27
佛陀：
If a man hold himself dear, let him guard himself carefully, keeping vigil like a watchman in the night.
如果有人珍惜自己，就让他谨慎守卫自己，像守夜人一样随时保持警觉。
Men who do not seek virtue perish like old herons in a lake without fish. They lie like worn-out bows, sighing after the past.
不寻求美德的人会像老苍鹭一样死在没有鱼的湖里。他们像坏掉的弓一样躺在那里叹息往事。
舌头像一把锋利的刀…
2011-01-27 00:05:11
佛陀：
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
舌头像一把锋利的刀…杀人不见血。
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
心智是一切，你想什么你就变成什么。
Those who view their deaths correctly cease their quarrels at once.
能够正确看待自己的死亡的人立即停止争吵。
懒惰是通向死亡的捷径
2011-01-25 00:02:25
佛陀：
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
懒惰是通向死亡的捷径，勤奋则是生命之道；愚蠢的人懒惰，智者勤奋。
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
有三个东西隐藏不久：太阳，月亮，以及真理。
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
再也没有比怀疑的习惯更可怕的了。怀疑使人分裂，它是瓦解友谊以及破坏人际关系的毒药。它是激怒与伤人的荆棘；它是杀人的利刃。
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
在真理的道路上人所能犯的错误只有两种：没有走完全程，以及没有启程。
别与世界为友
2011-01-20 00:00:43
佛陀：
Be not a friend of the world.
Look on the world as a bubble, as a mirage; the king of death does not see him who thus looks down on the world.
别与世界为友。
看待世界如泡影，如海市蜃楼；冥王看不见那看轻世界的人。
Fools are immersed in the world but the discerning do not cling to it.
愚蠢的人深陷世界无法自拔，悟道的人则毫不依恋。
This world is dark, few only can see here; few only can escape like birds from the net.
这世界黑暗无光，这里只有少数人能看得见；只有少数人能像鸟一样逃离巢穴。
我们的一切是我们所思所想的结果
2011-01-14 00:15:06
佛陀：
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
我们的一切是我们所思所想的结果。
如果一个人的言行依据邪恶的想法，痛苦将跟随他。
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
一个人的言行如果依据的是一种纯净的思想，快乐就会跟着他，就像影子一样永远不离开他。
独行
2011-01-07 00:24:40
Kabir：
Vast herds of lions are unheard of.
So are long columns of swans.
Rubies do not come in heaps.
The ascetic walks along the road alone.
Forests do not exist composed solely of sandalwood.
Some oceans contain no pearls.
A spiritual person is rare in this world.
没听过有一大群狮子在一起的。
也没听过有一纵队的天鹅。
宝石不会成堆出现。
修行者在道上独行。
单单檀木无法组成一座森林。
有些海洋里没有珍珠。
在这世上少有灵性的人。
内在的声音
2011-01-05 00:01:09
A certain bird sits in this tree. The delight of life is where it dances.
Nobody knows where the bird is, nor what all this music means.
It makes a nest where the branches make the most darkness.
It appears at dusk and disappears at dawn, and it never gives one hint of what all this means.
有一只鸟坐在这棵树里面。生活愉悦之处就是它跳舞的地方。
无人知道这只鸟在哪里，也没人知道这音乐意味着什么。
它在这棵树枝最绵密的地方筑巢。
它在黄昏时出现而在黎明时消失，它从未给予任何线索来指示这一切究竟意味什么。
Nobody talks to me about this singing bird.
It has no color, nor is it free of color. It has no shape, no form, no boundaries.
It sits in the shadow thrown by love.
It lives in what cannot be reached, where time doesn’t end, where dying things don’t exist. And no one pays any attention to its coming or going.
没有人来对我提及这只唱歌的鸟。
它没有颜色，它也不是没有颜色，它所在之处的时间没有结束，在那里没有会死的东西。没有任何人注意到它的来或去。
Kabir says: You, brother, you seeker, this whole thing is a great mystery.
Tell all the wise men it would be a good thing to know where this bird spends the night.
卡比尔说：你啊，兄弟，你是个探寻者，这整件事极为神秘。
告诉所有的聪明人，去了解这只鸟在哪里过夜是一件非常好的事。
心的知识
2010-12-09 00:01:35
Knowledge of the Heart --Rumi
The knowledge of people of the heart
Carries them high;
The knowledge of worshippers of the flesh
Is like a burden on them.
When knowledge tempers the heart,
It is a helper.
When knowledge caters to the flesh,
It becomes a destroyer.
人心的知识
将人带往高处；
肉体崇拜者的知识
就像背在他们身上的重担。
当知识调和了心，
它是个助手。
当知识迎合了肉体，
它就变成一个破坏者。
God has said ‘as an ass bearing a load of books’*
Is he whose knowledge has not come from Him.
Beware! Carry not this burden
To satisfy the flesh, instead gain true knowledge.
Mount the steed of true knowledge
And let this burden of false knowledge fall from you.
Unless you drink from this cup of Godly love
You will not be free from lust,
Which will weigh you down.
神曾经说过：「像一匹背着一堆书的驴子」
他的知识就不是从祂那儿来的。
小心！不要背负这重担
来满足肉体，要去获取真知识。
骑上真知识的战马
让这假知识的重担从你身上滑落。
除非你从这神爱之杯饮用
否则你将摆脱不了情欲的束缚，
它会把你重重压下去。
真知识
2010-12-10 00:00:36
True Knowledge -- Sanai Ghaznavi (d. AD 1131;AH 525)
None can know Him of himself;
His nature can only be known by Him.
Reason ran after Him, but did not make it;
Weakness hastened on the path and found Him.
It was His mercy that said, ‘Know me,’
Or else no reason or intellect could know Him.
How can our mere senses His truth perceive?
How can a nut rest on a sliding dome?
Reason can take you to His door
But only His grace can take you beyond.
By reason alone one cannot get there;
Like others before you, do not commit that folly.
His grace is our guide on this path;
His works are guide and witness to Him.
O you who are incompetent to know yourself
How can you ever know God?
Since you know not this first step
How will you know Him as He is?
没有人能靠他自己认识祂；
祂的本性只能透过祂来认识。
理性追踪他追踪祂，但一无所得；
促使人上路并找到祂的人的柔弱。
那是祂的慈悲说：「来认识我，」
否则没有任何理性或理智能够认识祂。
光凭我们的感官怎能觉知祂的真理？
一粒果仁怎能驻留在滑动的硬壳盖下面？
理性能带你到祂的门口
但只有祂的慈悲能带你到彼岸。
单靠理性无法到达那儿；
就像在你之前的其他人，不会那么愚蠢。
祂的慈悲是我们在这道上的向导；
对祂而言祂的工作就是引导和目击。
你这没有能力认识自己的人啊
你怎么可能认识神呢？
既然你不知道这第一步
你怎会知道他的本来面貌？
Gurdjieff:
“All mechanical habits, tastes and weaknesses fight against self-remembering in man”
「人里面所有机械性的习惯、嗜好和软弱，都在对抗记得自己。」
说白了，我们目前所有的生活；所有的理智与情感以及身体的活动，全都是机械性（无意识）的，也全都在反对并阻扰有意识的记得自己。这也是为什么自古以来，很少有人能够清醒或成道。
Gurdjieff:
The worse the conditions of life, the greater the possibility for productive work, provided you work consciously.
生活环境越糟，有效的工作的可能性越大，给予你有意识地工作。
这和我们一般的反应刚好相反；当我们遇到糟糕的情况时，只会一心一意想要逃离，而不会利用处在困境中所带来的「摩擦和不舒服」来提醒自己处在当下。
不要浪费时间在吸引你却不值得付出注意力的事情...
2009-09-27 00:00:50
Gurdjieff:
“Do not be overcurious nor waste time on things that attract your attention but are not worth it. Time is precious and should not be wasted on things which have no direct relation to your aim.”
葛吉夫：
「不要过份好奇，也不要浪费时间在吸引你却不值得付出注意力的事情。时间宝贵，不应该浪费在和目标没有直接关系的事情上面。」
看起来有点奇怪，但事实真相就是这样：值得付出注意力的目标只有一个，「处在当下。」不过，大部分的人可能都像我一样，需要「浪费」很多时间之后才能逐渐领悟这点。
能夠處在當下人才能「做」
2009-09-26 00:01:16
Gurdjieff, “In order to do it is necessary to be.”
葛吉夫：「為了做，必需存在。」
蘇格拉底則認為：「做即存在。」
也就是說，能夠存在（處在當下）的人才能做。
人的现状和处境
2009-09-24 00:00:10
“A modern man lives in sleep, in sleep he is born and in sleep he dies.” --Gurdjieff
「现代人活在睡觉中，在睡觉中他诞生，在睡觉中他死亡。」
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
with eyes wide open; standing, moving,
and yet so fast asleep. –Shakespeare
这是一种奇异的休眠，是睡着的
眼睛却大张；身体站着，嘴巴讲着，全身动着，
但却睡得那么熟。
藉助第四道来认识自己的过程中，我发现，观察注意力的流向最能帮助我分辨自己是处在认同还是分开注意力的状态；分开注意力就是记得自己就是当下。
下面的描述是某位禅师观察自己的转变；从认同转变到分开注意力：（忘了出处也忘了是谁说的）
I have been gazing at the scenery of mountain and sky. I realize I am all of a sudden part of the landscape.
我一直凝视着山与天空的景色，突然间我发现我是风景中的一部份。
前面是我在看风景，是在一种认同的没有分开注意力状态。后来的转变就是分开注意力：我看到我在看风景。
能剧大师世阿弥也有相同的观察（大意）：当我在舞台上演出时，我将自己一分为二；前面的「我」负责所有的说唱与身体动作的表演，后面的「我」什么也不做，只是观看。
人不可能去学他自认为已经知道的事
2009-09-25 00:01:34
Gurdjieff:
“For most people, even for educated and thinking people, the chief obstacle in the way of acquiring self-consciousness consists in the fact that they think they possess it.”
Epictetus said, “It is impossible for a man to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
葛吉夫：
「对大多数的人，甚至是有教养与擅长思考的人，在获得自我意识的道路上，主要的障碍在于他们认为他们拥有自我意识。」
艾匹克提塔斯（Epictetus）则说：「人不可能去学他自认为已经知道的事。」
「自我意识」就是「记得自己」也是所谓的「第三种意识状态」和「分开注意力」；亦即，同时注意（觉察）自己与周遭的环境。佛教禅宗说的「当下」也是它，回教的「阿拉」或「真主」或「真神」指的也是它……。
不要被外面的事物影响
2009-10-04 00:02:16
Gurdjieff:
Do not be affected by externals. In themselves they are harmless; it is we who allow ourselves to be hurt by them.
葛吉夫：
不要被外面的事物影响，它们本身是无害的；是我们自己允许被它们伤害的。
什么是「当下」？
2009-10-30 00:01:18
Presence is not a point of view. It is not a thought or an emotion. It is not a palpable energy or an ‘I’. It is an invisible, independent, and wordless state of pure consciousness.
当下不是一种观点。它不是一个观念或一种情感。它既非一种可感觉得到的能量或一个「我」。它是一种看不见的、独立的、无言的纯意识状态。
This state is so simple and unobtrusive that we may at first fail to see its significance. We may even fail to see it at all because presence usually emerges for just a second or two before it disappears again—before it is swept away by imagination.
这种状态是如此单纯而不夸耀，以致于我们可能一开始看不出它的重要性。我们甚至根本看不到它，因为当下通常只会出现一两秒，然后在想象赶走它之前就再度消失。
We are so accustomed to and comfortable with imagination—with the steady stream of ‘I’s from our four lower centers—that wordless presence is a foreign experience. We have to be taught how to recognize this state, how to allow it, and most importantly, how to sustain it.
我们是如此习惯且安于想象 — 来自四个低等中心的川流不息的群「我」 — 使得无言的当下变成一种不相干的经验。我们必须被教导如何辨认这种状态，如何让它出现，以及更重要的，如何维持它。
In comparison to the many ‘I’s, presence appears intangible. It seems to be nothing, to not exist. And yet the reverse is true. Wordless presence is the most real thing of all and can become permanent, whereas the many ‘I’s are superficial and fleeting. As the ‘I’s keep displacing each other in a repetitive cycle of imagination, presence can remain poised in a state of divided attention. With conscious awareness, it observes our ‘I’s and our surroundings without analysis, comment, or conclusion.
如果和群「我」相比，当下看似不可捉摸。它似乎什么都不是，并不存在。然而事实刚好相反。无言的当下是最真实的事物，而且可以变得持久，反之，群「我」既肤浅又短暂。由于群「我」在想象的反复循环中轮替，当下则在分开注意力的状态中泰然自若。透过有意识的觉知，它只是观察我们的群「我」和周遭环境，而不分析、不评判也不作结论。
The weakness of presence is that it can at any moment be mesmerized by and lured into the stream of imagination. Unless we know about this, and unless we are prepared in advance with work ‘I’s, presence can stay immersed in imagination for hours, days, weeks, and even months at a time—to the point that we spend virtually all our life in the second state of consciousness.
当下的弱点在于它随时可能被想象之河迷惑而被诱入其中。除非我们知道这点，除非我们预先以工作的群「我」做好防备，否则当下就会淹没在想象当中，每一次都好几个小时、几天、几周、甚至几个月 — 直到我们实际上整个一生都活在第二意识状态的地步。
The appeal and pull of imagination are incredibly convincing and strong. To repeatedly break away from imagination and establish ourselves in wordless presence, we need great sincerity and determination. Above all, we need to understand that this simple state is the hidden meaning and purpose of life on earth—as objective schools have always taught.
想象的诉求和牵引是那么地强而有力。要不断挣脱想象以及在无言当下中安置自己，我们需要极大的诚意和决心。最重要的，我们需要了解这单纯的状态是地球生命的隐藏意义和目的 — 如同客观学校一贯的教导。
随时随地都看见当下
2009-10-25 00:00:25
Whitman(1819-1892)：
I see something of God in each hour of twenty-four, and each moment then,
in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from God dropped in the street, and everyone is signed by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
惠特曼：
一天24小时我都看见有关神的东西，每一刻
在男人和女人的脸上我都看见神，映在镜子里的我的脸上也一样；
我发现来自神的信函落在街道上，每一个人也都被签上神的名字，
我让他们留在所在之处，因为我知道其他人都会如期成为不朽。
「神」就是「当下」；随时随地都看见无念当下。
我们对清醒的渴望有多强烈？
2009-11-05 00:01:10
This is Jami’s(1414-1492) story about the song power of the ache for freedom.
这是贾米的一则故事，关于渴望自由的歌声的力量。
A sufi was on the path of clarity. Every day he walked the desert, and every night he walked and slept in the emptiness of God’s custody.
有位苏非在他觉醒的旅途上，白天他走在沙漠里，晚上他夜行并睡在神保护的天空下。
One night he came upon a merchant’s tent and felt the need for conversation.
He lifted the tent flap and saw a black slave in chains, unable to move, but shining with intelligence like the moon.
有一天晚上他遇到一顶商人的帐棚而感觉到有交谈的需要。他掀开营账的门帘看见一个被链子捆绑的黑奴，无法动弹，但闪现出的智慧像月亮一样。
“Help me,” the slave whispered. “My master will not refuse a guest. Ask him to set me free.”
「帮帮我，」奴隶耳语着说：「我的主人不会拒绝一位 客人，请求他放我自由。」
The merchant welcomed the sufi to his tent and brought food.
“I cannot accept your generosity until you release this poor man.”
商人欢迎苏非进入他的帐棚并准备了食物。
「在你释放这个可怜人之前我无法接受你的慷慨。」
“I will. But first listen to what I have suffered because of him! I used to have many purebred camels, beautiful animals with humps like mountains, swift as the wind over steep and flat, powerful as rhinoceri, tall and dignified as elephants. Their crossing and recrossing this desolation were the source of my existence, their bells my most wished-for sound. As they traveled, this camel driver sang songs. The camels heard and carried their loads with courage and discipline. This time, though, when we unloaded them, they fled in every direction, vanished in the desert, all but the one still tied outside my tent.”
「我会的。但请先听听这个人所带给我的痛苦！我原本拥有许多纯种的骆驼，美丽的动物，有着像山丘一样的驼峰，高大威严如大象。牠们在这荒漠上来来回回是我存在的来源，牠们的铃声是我最想望的声音。当牠们行进时，这个赶骆驼的人唱着歌，背着重担的骆驼听着歌声变得非常听话而勇往直前。可是这回，当我们卸下重担之后，牠们逃向四面八方，消失在沙漠里，除了还绑在帐棚外面那匹之外全都不见了。」
The sufi said, “Let me hear the camel driver’s song.”
苏非说：「让我听听赶骆驼的人的歌吧。」
The master gestured, and the slave began. The visitor sat politely watching the tethered animal, but as longing deepened in the song, the night walker tore his clothes and fell on the ground, while the last camel snapped its rope and escaped into the darkness.
主人打了手势，奴隶便开始唱歌。访客礼貌地坐着并看着拴着绳子的骆驼，但当歌声里的渴望加深之后，这位夜行者撕裂他的衣服而跌落在地上，在这时候，最后一匹骆驼咬断牠的绳子而逃进黑暗当中。
我们对当下（内在自由）的渴望如果能像故事中黑奴对自由的渴望一样强烈…
只有无念当下才能使想象变少
2009-11-15 00:00:47
Rumi:
No matter how fast you run,
Your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it’s in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
不管你跑得有多快，
你的影子总是跟着你。
有时它还会跑到前面呢！
只有头上正午的太阳才能使你的影子变小。
(只有无念当下才能使想象变少。)
灵魂就是意识
2009-11-29 00:00:48
SOUL AND THE OLD WOMAN --Rumi
What is the soul? Consciousness.
The more awareness, the deeper the soul,
and when such essence overflows,
you feel a sacredness around.
灵魂是什么？意识。
觉察越多，灵魂便越深邃，
且当这种本质洋溢，
你就会感觉到周遭有一股庄严。
（好像是第一次读到这么直接的叙述：灵魂就是意识。「意识」透过人的「觉察」而出现，所以接着说「觉察越多，灵魂便越深邃。」如何让觉察更多？当下当下再当下…。）
It's so simple to tell one who puts on a robe
and pretends to be dervish from the real thing.
We know the taste of pure water.
Words can sound like a poem but not have any juice,
no flavor to relish.
要断定一个穿上袍子冒充托钵僧非常容易，
因为我们知道纯水的味道。
有些话听起来像诗，但没有任何汁液，
尝起来平淡无味。
How long do you look at pictures on a bathhouse wall?
Soul is what draws you away from those pictures
to talk with the old woman
who sits outside by the door in the sun.
She's half blind, but she had what soul loves to flow into.
She's kind; she weeps.
She makes quick personal decisions, and laugh so easily.
公共浴室墙上的画你看多久了？（不解；可能有什么不知道的典故。）
灵魂把你从那些画拉开
来与老女人交谈
她就坐在外面门边太阳底下。
她已经半瞎，但她有着灵魂喜欢流进去的特质。
她和善；她哭泣。
她不会犹豫不决，她很容易就笑开。
（”in the sun”直译「在太阳里面」显得很奇怪，但把「太阳」解读为「当下」就不奇怪了。）
习惯使心智丧失判断力
2009-11-25 00:00:26
HABITS THAT BLIND THE PSYCHE --by Rumi
习惯使心智丧失判断力
Are you so full of light you can recklessly court unconsciousness?
“Look for shade on a bright day,” they say,
not on a cloudy night when everything is already obscure.
你真的有多余的光使你能不顾一切去奉承无意识？
「在一个明亮的白昼寻找阴影，」他们说，
不在一个多云的夜晚每件事物都已模糊不清。
Habits that blind the psyche throw dust in the eyes of our guides.
Toying with fermented drink, for instance.
No need to honor a pretty thief.
Keep his hands tied, or he will tie yours.
习惯使心智失去判断力，它对我们向导的双眼抛掷尘土。
例如，用发酵的饮料玩弄。
不需要尊敬一个狡猾的小偷。
绑好他的手，否则他会绑你的。
The real wine is your compassion.
The taste of that keeps the caravan pointed home.
Be reasonable!
Don’t give morning energy to what clearly hurts you!
真正的酒是你的同情心，
它的味道让商队保持在家的方向上。
要理性！
不要把早晨的能量给予那个明显在伤害你的家伙！
驴子与我
2009-12-08 00:00:18
Pay attention to the inner one who commands you!
There is a rational soul leading your donkey
through the mountain wilderness.
要留意在内心支配你的那一个！
有一个理性的灵魂领着你的驴子
穿越山野。
When the donkey pulls away and takes off on its own,
that clear one chases, calling,
“This place is full of wolves
who would love to gnaw your bones
and suck the sweet marrow.”
当驴子脱身而自行离开时，
清晰的那个追喊着：
「这地方到处都是狼
牠们想要啃你的骨头
吸吮甜美的骨髓。」
This sovereign self in you is not a donkey,
but more like a stallion,
and Muhammad is the stable keeper speaking quietly,
Ta’alaw, in Arabic, Come, come. I am your trainer.
在你里面的这个至高的自我不是一只驴子，
却更像是一匹种马，
穆罕默德则是马夫小声说着：
（阿拉伯文）「来，来，我是你的驯马师。」
清醒、死亡与再生（1）
2009-12-03 00:01:24
清醒、死亡与再生（1）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
A man may be born but in order to be born he must first die. In order to die, he must first awake.
When a man awake, he can die. When he dies, he can be born.
--“In Search of the Miraculous” by Ouspensky
一个人有可能再生，但为了再生他必须先死。而为了死亡，他必须先清醒。
当一个人清醒了，他就能死。当他死了，他就能再生。
（这里说的是肉体死亡之前的死亡与再生。）
清醒、死亡与再生（2）
2009-12-04 00:00:31
清醒、死亡与再生（2）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
To awaken means to realize one’s nothingness, that is to realize one’s complete and absolute mechanicalness and one’s complete and absolute helplessness…When he begins to know himself a man sees that he has nothing that is his own, that is, that all that he has regarded as his own, his views, thoughts, convictions, tastes, habits, even faults and vices, all these are not his own, but have been either formed through imitation or borrowed from somewhere ready-made. In feeling this a man may feel his nothingness. And in feeling his nothingness a man should see himself as he really is, not for a second, not for a moment, but constantly, never forget it.
清醒意指了解自己的一无是处，也就是了解自己的完完全全的机械性以及完完全全的无能为力…当他开始认识他自己他就会看见没有一样东西是他自己的，也就是说，所有他认为是自己的东西：他的见解、想法、深信的东西、品味、习惯、甚至毛病与缺点全部都不是他自己的，而是透过模仿或借用别处现成的东西而形成的。在感觉到这个之后人才可能感觉到他的一无是处；而且在感觉到他的一无是处当中他应该如实地去看他自己，不是只有一秒钟，不是只有片刻，而是不停地，时时刻刻都记得自己一无是处，永不忘记。
清醒、死亡与再生（3）
2009-12-05 00:04:36
清醒、死亡与再生（3）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
It is impossible to awaken completely all at once. One must first begin to awaken for short moments.
But one must die all at once and forever after having made a certain effort, having surmounted a certain obstacle, having taken a certain decision from which there is no going back. This would be difficult, even impossible, for a man, were it not for the slow and gradual awakening which precedes it.
要立即完全清醒是不可能的，人首先必须从片刻的清醒开始。
但人必须在做了某种努力、克服了某些障碍、做了某种义无反顾的决定之后彻底死去。这对一个人来说势必非常困难，甚至是不可能的事，它不像之前的清醒那样缓慢而渐进的。
2009-12-06 00:06:57
清醒、死亡与再生（4）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
当人开始认识自己一点他就会看见自己里面有许多令他感到恐怖的东西，只要他还没有对自己感觉到恐怖他就对自己一无所知。
The continual consciousness of his nothingness and of his helplessness will eventually give a man the courage to ‘die,’ that is, to die, not merely mentally or in his consciousness, but to die in fact and to renounce actually and forever those aspects of himself which are either unnecessary from the point of view of his inner growth or which hinder it.
持续不断的意识到自己的一无是处与无能为力最后将给人去「死」的勇气，也就是，彻底死亡，不只是理智上或在他意识中，而是实实在在地死，永远切除那些多余的或阻碍他内在成长的东西。
当话语带有谎言的气息
2009-12-16 00:00:31
WHEN WORDS ARE TINGED WITH LYING --Rumi
当话语带有谎言的气息
Muhammad gave this indication of how to know what’s real.
“When you feel a peaceful joy, you’re near the truth.
Unquiet and off center, jealous or greedy,
what you do seems pretentious and those around you insincere.
Speak the clearest truth you know, and let the dis-ease heal.”
如何分辨真假，穆罕默德做了如下的指示：
「当你感觉到一种平静的喜悦，你就接近真理了。
不安及偏离中心，嫉妒或贪婪，
你所做的事显得造作，在你周遭的人都很虚伪。
说出你所知道的最清楚的真话，让不-安（疾病）得以治疗。」
If words are tinged with lying, they’re like water dripping into a oil lamp.
The wick won’t light, and the pleasure and rest of your love room will diminish.
如果话语带有谎言的气息，它们就像水滴进一盏油灯。
灯芯点不着，喜乐以及你爱的空间将变小。
流动的河
2009-12-15 00:00:19
MOVING RIVER 流动的河 --by Rumi`
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When actions come from another section, the feeling disappears.
Don’t let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures.
Reach for the rope of God. And what is that?
当你从你的灵魂出发来做各种事情时，你感觉到一条河在你里面流动，一种喜乐。
当你的行动源自别的部分时这感觉就消失了。
别让别人来带领你，他们可能是瞎子，或更糟，秃鹰。
伸手去抓上帝的绳子。这又是什么东西？
Putting aside self-will. Because of willfulness people sit in jail,
the trapped bird’s wings are tied, fish sizzle in the skillet.
The anger of police is willfulness.
You’ve seen a magistrate inflict visible punishment.
Now see the invisible. If you could leave your selfishness,
you would see how you’ve been torturing your soul.
把顽固放一边。因为顽固的人坐在监狱里，
被捕的鸟翅膀都被绑死，鱼在浅锅里嗞嗞响。
警察的怒火固执不化。
你见过地方官员当众惩处。
现在看看不可见的世界。如果你能够放掉你的自私，
你就会看见你如何折磨你的灵魂。
We are born and live inside black water in a well.
How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?
Don’t insist on going where you think you want to go.
Ask the way to the spring.
Your living pieces will form a harmony.
我们诞生并活在一口井里的黑水里。
我们如何能知道阳光下的旷野是什么样子？
别坚持要去你以为你想去的地方。
问一下通往源泉的路径。
你的活着的各个部分将形成一种和谐。
There is a moving palace that floats in the air with balconies and clear water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent.
有一座移动的宫殿飘浮在空中，上面有阳台以及清水流过，到处都是无限，却都包含在一顶帐棚底下。
不要睡觉！
2010-03-06 00:01:33
From Rumi：
O seeker,
Listen to your heart’s yearning—
Don’t sleep!
探寻者啊，
倾听你心之所向
不要睡觉！
You have spent a thousand nights in the cradle of sleep—
I ask for one night.
For the sake of the Friend,
Don’t sleep!
The Loving Witness never sleeps by night,
Follow His ways:
Give yourself to Him—
Don’t sleep!
你已经在摇篮里睡了一千个夜晚—
我只要求一个晚上。
为了朋友
不要睡觉！
爱的见证人从不在晚上睡觉，
跟随祂的路：
把你自己交给祂—
不要睡觉！
Beware of the woeful night,
When you cry out in agony: “O God”—
Don’t sleep!
That night when Death comes to welcome you—
By the dread of that night, O weary one,
Don’t sleep!
Even stones will cry when bound by the weight of those chains.
You are not a stone.
Remember those chains—
Don’t sleep!
小心悲惨的夜晚，
当你痛苦哀嚎：「神啊」—
不要睡觉！
那天晚上当死亡前来欢迎你—
那是多可怖的夜晚，精疲力尽的你啊，
不要睡觉！
被那么重的锁炼捆绑，就算是石头也会哀嚎。
你不是一颗石头。
不要忘记那些锁炼—
不要睡觉！
Though the night tempts you like a beautiful maiden,
do not drink from her cup.
Fear the morning after—
Don’t sleep!
虽然夜晚像一个美丽的女人诱惑你，
也不要饮用她的杯子。
小心宿罪的后果—
不要睡觉！
God says, “My dear ones will stay up with me at night.”
If you hear these words,
Don’t sleep!
神说：「晚上我的爱人会陪我不睡。」
如果你听到这些话语，
不要睡觉！
Fear that horrible night when no refuge can be found.
Store up your provisions tonight! Beware!
Don’t sleep!
当找不到避难所时要小心那可怕的夜晚。
今晚就要储存你的粮食！小心警觉！
不要睡觉！
The saints find their treasure when the world is asleep;
For the sake of ever-giving love,
Don’t sleep!
圣人在世界入睡时寻找他们的珍宝；
为了永远不断付出的爱，
不要睡觉！
When your spirit is old and worn
He will give you a new one,
Then you will become the pure spirit of all.
O hopeful one,
Don’t sleep!
当你的精神衰老疲倦
祂会给你一副新的，
然后你将焕然一新。
怀抱希望的你啊，
不要睡觉！
I have told you again and again—
go to that inner silence!
But still you do not hear me.
我已经一而再再而三告诉过你—
到那内在寂静的地方去！
但你依旧听不到我。
Give me one night
And I will give you a thousand in return—
Don’t sleep!
给我一个晚上
我会还给你一千个—
不要睡觉！
Epictetus:
Evil does not naturally dwell in the world, in events, or in people. Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life.
存在这世界上、在事件当中、或在人里面的邪恶并不是自然就有的。邪恶是一种来自健忘、懒惰、或精神涣散的副产品：当我们在生活中忘记自己的真正目标时它就出现了。
When we remember that our aim is spiritual progress, we return to striving to be our best selves. This is how happiness is won.
当我们想起我们的目标是精神上的发展时，我们回到为作最好的自己而奋斗。这就是赢得快乐的方式。
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这是我读或听过有关邪恶的最佳观点之一。
你是当刻之子 --Rumi语录
2010-04-12 00:00:31
Rumi：
Be careful not to regret the past. Be a Sufi, don't talk of the past. You are the son of the moment, you are young, you have vanquished time. This short present moment must not be wasted.
小心，不要为过去感到后悔。要做一个苏非，不要谈论过去。你是当刻之子，你不会老，你已经征服时间，眼前这短暂的当下片刻可千万不要浪费。
向不计较得失的人学习 --Rumi诗选
2010-05-21 00:00:31
Rumi：
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.
向那不计较得失的人学习，
他不求更富有，也不怕损失，
甚至他自己的个性
他也都毫无兴趣：他是自由的。
淹没在自己话语中的人
2010-10-13 00:00:50
Ibn 'Arabi：
Of a man drowned in his words,
burned alive in sorrow.
Nothing can save him now.
一个淹没在自己话语中的人，
在哀伤中活活烧死。
这时没有任何东西能够拯救他。
人只有处在当下时才知道自己在当下
2010-10-09 00:01:18
Ibn 'Arabi(1165 - 1240)：
When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
当至爱出现时，
我是用哪一种眼睛看祂？
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
用祂的眼睛，不是用我的，
因为看得见祂的只有祂自己。
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人只有处在高等意识时才看到自己处在高等意识；人只有处在当下时才知道自己在当下。
真正的爱人
2010-10-22 00:01:38
Baba Sheikh Farid
True lovers are those
who love with all their hearts.
Those who think of another,
speak of another
are called false lovers.
真正的爱人是那些
以全部的心去爱的人。
那些想着别人，
说着别人的人
都被认为是假的爱人。
摆脱二元性
2010-11-28 00:00:39
Umar Ibn al-Farid
All of me free
from the dual quality of sensation,
I, one with my essence.
全部的我都摆脱
感官的二元性，
我，具有我的本质的那个。
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尽管各民族有各种不同的智慧与宗教，却都不约而同指出必须摆脱人内在的二元性，有些甚至直接了当说「二元性就是邪恶」。这里的「本质」似乎也是无念当下。
恶魔往往以贫穷对人们恐吓，
致使他们宰杀耐心的驴骡。
【古兰经】教诲道：恶魔的本性
是使人忍受不住极度贫穷。
穷困使人不择手段，以窃为生，
丧失理智，没有耐性，不积阴功。
最后能使人肠胃大大膨胀—
肠胃生出七套，却丧失了信仰。
成为一张空白的纸
2011-07-10 00:26:03
Rumi:
The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials
are what does not exist.
绝对者工作无。
工厂，材料
都不存在。
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
试着成为一张空白的纸。
成为地上的一个点那里什么也不生长，
那里可以种植某种东西，
一个种子，可能，来自绝对者
贪婪
2011-07-02 00:04:15
Sarmad:
A man who is lost in lust and greed
Is sick in soul and always in need;
A hungry eye is never sated.
Whoever I looked I saw this greed.
迷失在情欲和贪婪当中的人
他的灵魂病了而总是在需索；
饥饿的眼睛永不满足。
不管我看的是谁我都看到这贪婪。
人在哪里？
2011-05-12 05:54:33
Rumi：
The Master roamed the streets
With lamp in hand, crying:
‘I’m tired of devil and beast!
I demand a man!’
真主在街上四处流浪
手里拿着灯，哭喊着：
「我已厌倦了魔鬼与野兽！
我需要一个人！」
我进入了未知
2011-03-18 23:46:44
John of the Cross：
I came into the unknown
and stayed there unknowing
rising beyond all science.
我进入了未知
且留在那里保持无知
远远超过所有的科学。
I did not know the door
but when I found the way,
unknowing where I was,
I learned enormous things,
but what I felt I cannot say,
for I remained unknowing,
rising beyond all science.
我不知道门在哪里
但当我找到了路，
无知于我在哪里，
我领悟了庞大的东西，
但我无法言说我所感觉到的，
因为我继续留在无知的状态，
远远超过所有的科学。
It was the perfect realm
of holiness and peace.
In deepest solitude
I found the narrow way:
a secret giving such release
that I was stunned and stammering,
rising beyond all science.
那是神圣与宁静
的完美领域。
在最深的孤独中
我发现了窄路：
一个秘密给予如此地解放
使得我目瞪口呆而口吃，
远远超过所有的科学。
片刻即永恒
2011-03-18 02:03:40
无门慧开（1183-1260）：
One instant is eternity;
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees.
片刻即永恒；
永恒即当下。
当你透过这片刻观看，
你就是透过那见者观看。
漆黑的夜晚
2011-03-17 03:12:20
Dark Night -- John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)
On a darkened night,
Anxious, by love inflamed,
-- O happy chance! --
Unnoticed, I took flight,
My house at last at peace and quiet.
一个漆黑的夜晚，
渴望，由爱点燃，
--幸福的机缘啊！--
悄悄地，我逃亡，
我的屋子终于平静下来。
Safe, disguised by the night,
By the secret ladder I took flight,
-- O happy chance! --
Cloaked by darkness, I scaled the height,
My house at last at peace and quiet.
平安，由黑夜伪装，
经由隐密的梯子我逃亡，
--幸福的机缘啊！--
披着黑暗，我攀登到高点，
我的屋子终于平静下来。
On that blessed night,
In secret, and seen by none,
None in sight,
I saw with no other guide or light,
But the one burning in my heart bright.
在那有福的夜晚，
秘密地，无人知晓，
看不到半个人，
除了心中炙热明亮的那一个之外，
没有其他向导或光。
This guide, this light,
Brighter than the midday sun,
Led me to the waiting One
I knew so well -- my delight!
To a place with none in sight.
这向导，这光，
比正午的太阳还要明亮，
带我到正在等我的那一个
我所熟知的--我的欢愉。
O night! O guide!
O night more loving than the dawn!
O night that joined
The lover with the Beloved;
Transformed, the lover into the Beloved drawn!
夜晚啊！向导啊！
比黎明更可爱的夜晚啊！
结合交欢的夜晚
爱人与至爱；
转化，爱人进入至爱的牵引。
你真的就是你自己
2011-02-28 22:29:56
Having crossed the river --Kabir
Having crossed the river,
where will you go, O friend ?
过河之后，
你要去哪里，噢，朋友？
There's no road to tread,
No traveler ahead,
Neither a beginning, nor an end.
那里没有路可走，
前头没有旅人，
没有起点，也没有终点。
There's no water, no boat, no boatman, no cord;
No earth is there, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford.
没有水，没有船，没有船夫，没有绳索；
那里没有陆地，没有天空，没有岸边，没有可涉水的浅滩。
You have forgotten the Self within,
Your search in the void will be in vain;
In a moment the life will ebb
And in this body you won't remain.
你忘记了里面的真我，
你在空无中的探索将一无所获；
转眼生命就衰退了
你将不再留在这个身体里。
Be ever conscious of this, O friend,
You've to immerse within your Self;
Kabir says, salvation you won't then need,
For what you are, you would be indeed.
朋友啊，时时刻刻都要意识到这点，
你必须投身于你的真我；
卡比尔说：那时你不需要拯救，
因为你真的就是你自己。
沈思（冥想）带来智慧...
2011-02-20 00:00:19
佛陀：
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
沈思（冥想）带来智慧；缺乏沈思使人留在无知。弄清楚什么东西带你前进以及什么东西扯你后腿，然后选择通往智慧的路。
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
沈思。生活清净。保持安静。熟练你的工作。像月亮一样，走出乌云！闪耀。
什么都不要相信
2011-02-08 01:31:11
佛陀：
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
除非经由你自己的理性及你自己的常识所同意，什么都不要相信，不管是在哪里读到的，或是谁说的，不管我是否说过。
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葛吉夫则说：什么都别相信，除非经过自己亲身的验证。
透过我们的想法，我们塑造了世界...
2011-02-06 00:00:23
佛陀：
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
我们就是我们所想的。我们随着我们的想法的升起而存在。透过我们的想法，我们塑造了世界。
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
我们由自己的想法形塑；我们变成自己所想的。当心智纯净时，喜悦像影子一样跟随永不离开。
保持警觉
2011-01-28 00:35:27
佛陀：
If a man hold himself dear, let him guard himself carefully, keeping vigil like a watchman in the night.
如果有人珍惜自己，就让他谨慎守卫自己，像守夜人一样随时保持警觉。
Men who do not seek virtue perish like old herons in a lake without fish. They lie like worn-out bows, sighing after the past.
不寻求美德的人会像老苍鹭一样死在没有鱼的湖里。他们像坏掉的弓一样躺在那里叹息往事。
舌头像一把锋利的刀…
2011-01-27 00:05:11
佛陀：
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
舌头像一把锋利的刀…杀人不见血。
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
心智是一切，你想什么你就变成什么。
Those who view their deaths correctly cease their quarrels at once.
能够正确看待自己的死亡的人立即停止争吵。
懒惰是通向死亡的捷径
2011-01-25 00:02:25
佛陀：
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
懒惰是通向死亡的捷径，勤奋则是生命之道；愚蠢的人懒惰，智者勤奋。
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
有三个东西隐藏不久：太阳，月亮，以及真理。
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
再也没有比怀疑的习惯更可怕的了。怀疑使人分裂，它是瓦解友谊以及破坏人际关系的毒药。它是激怒与伤人的荆棘；它是杀人的利刃。
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
在真理的道路上人所能犯的错误只有两种：没有走完全程，以及没有启程。
别与世界为友
2011-01-20 00:00:43
佛陀：
Be not a friend of the world.
Look on the world as a bubble, as a mirage; the king of death does not see him who thus looks down on the world.
别与世界为友。
看待世界如泡影，如海市蜃楼；冥王看不见那看轻世界的人。
Fools are immersed in the world but the discerning do not cling to it.
愚蠢的人深陷世界无法自拔，悟道的人则毫不依恋。
This world is dark, few only can see here; few only can escape like birds from the net.
这世界黑暗无光，这里只有少数人能看得见；只有少数人能像鸟一样逃离巢穴。
我们的一切是我们所思所想的结果
2011-01-14 00:15:06
佛陀：
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
我们的一切是我们所思所想的结果。
如果一个人的言行依据邪恶的想法，痛苦将跟随他。
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
一个人的言行如果依据的是一种纯净的思想，快乐就会跟着他，就像影子一样永远不离开他。
独行
2011-01-07 00:24:40
Kabir：
Vast herds of lions are unheard of.
So are long columns of swans.
Rubies do not come in heaps.
The ascetic walks along the road alone.
Forests do not exist composed solely of sandalwood.
Some oceans contain no pearls.
A spiritual person is rare in this world.
没听过有一大群狮子在一起的。
也没听过有一纵队的天鹅。
宝石不会成堆出现。
修行者在道上独行。
单单檀木无法组成一座森林。
有些海洋里没有珍珠。
在这世上少有灵性的人。
内在的声音
2011-01-05 00:01:09
A certain bird sits in this tree. The delight of life is where it dances.
Nobody knows where the bird is, nor what all this music means.
It makes a nest where the branches make the most darkness.
It appears at dusk and disappears at dawn, and it never gives one hint of what all this means.
有一只鸟坐在这棵树里面。生活愉悦之处就是它跳舞的地方。
无人知道这只鸟在哪里，也没人知道这音乐意味着什么。
它在这棵树枝最绵密的地方筑巢。
它在黄昏时出现而在黎明时消失，它从未给予任何线索来指示这一切究竟意味什么。
Nobody talks to me about this singing bird.
It has no color, nor is it free of color. It has no shape, no form, no boundaries.
It sits in the shadow thrown by love.
It lives in what cannot be reached, where time doesn’t end, where dying things don’t exist. And no one pays any attention to its coming or going.
没有人来对我提及这只唱歌的鸟。
它没有颜色，它也不是没有颜色，它所在之处的时间没有结束，在那里没有会死的东西。没有任何人注意到它的来或去。
Kabir says: You, brother, you seeker, this whole thing is a great mystery.
Tell all the wise men it would be a good thing to know where this bird spends the night.
卡比尔说：你啊，兄弟，你是个探寻者，这整件事极为神秘。
告诉所有的聪明人，去了解这只鸟在哪里过夜是一件非常好的事。
心的知识
2010-12-09 00:01:35
Knowledge of the Heart --Rumi
The knowledge of people of the heart
Carries them high;
The knowledge of worshippers of the flesh
Is like a burden on them.
When knowledge tempers the heart,
It is a helper.
When knowledge caters to the flesh,
It becomes a destroyer.
人心的知识
将人带往高处；
肉体崇拜者的知识
就像背在他们身上的重担。
当知识调和了心，
它是个助手。
当知识迎合了肉体，
它就变成一个破坏者。
God has said ‘as an ass bearing a load of books’*
Is he whose knowledge has not come from Him.
Beware! Carry not this burden
To satisfy the flesh, instead gain true knowledge.
Mount the steed of true knowledge
And let this burden of false knowledge fall from you.
Unless you drink from this cup of Godly love
You will not be free from lust,
Which will weigh you down.
神曾经说过：「像一匹背着一堆书的驴子」
他的知识就不是从祂那儿来的。
小心！不要背负这重担
来满足肉体，要去获取真知识。
骑上真知识的战马
让这假知识的重担从你身上滑落。
除非你从这神爱之杯饮用
否则你将摆脱不了情欲的束缚，
它会把你重重压下去。
真知识
2010-12-10 00:00:36
True Knowledge -- Sanai Ghaznavi (d. AD 1131;AH 525)
None can know Him of himself;
His nature can only be known by Him.
Reason ran after Him, but did not make it;
Weakness hastened on the path and found Him.
It was His mercy that said, ‘Know me,’
Or else no reason or intellect could know Him.
How can our mere senses His truth perceive?
How can a nut rest on a sliding dome?
Reason can take you to His door
But only His grace can take you beyond.
By reason alone one cannot get there;
Like others before you, do not commit that folly.
His grace is our guide on this path;
His works are guide and witness to Him.
O you who are incompetent to know yourself
How can you ever know God?
Since you know not this first step
How will you know Him as He is?
没有人能靠他自己认识祂；
祂的本性只能透过祂来认识。
理性追踪他追踪祂，但一无所得；
促使人上路并找到祂的人的柔弱。
那是祂的慈悲说：「来认识我，」
否则没有任何理性或理智能够认识祂。
光凭我们的感官怎能觉知祂的真理？
一粒果仁怎能驻留在滑动的硬壳盖下面？
理性能带你到祂的门口
但只有祂的慈悲能带你到彼岸。
单靠理性无法到达那儿；
就像在你之前的其他人，不会那么愚蠢。
祂的慈悲是我们在这道上的向导；
对祂而言祂的工作就是引导和目击。
你这没有能力认识自己的人啊
你怎么可能认识神呢？
既然你不知道这第一步
你怎会知道他的本来面貌？
Gurdjieff:
“All mechanical habits, tastes and weaknesses fight against self-remembering in man”
「人里面所有机械性的习惯、嗜好和软弱，都在对抗记得自己。」
说白了，我们目前所有的生活；所有的理智与情感以及身体的活动，全都是机械性（无意识）的，也全都在反对并阻扰有意识的记得自己。这也是为什么自古以来，很少有人能够清醒或成道。
Gurdjieff:
The worse the conditions of life, the greater the possibility for productive work, provided you work consciously.
生活环境越糟，有效的工作的可能性越大，给予你有意识地工作。
这和我们一般的反应刚好相反；当我们遇到糟糕的情况时，只会一心一意想要逃离，而不会利用处在困境中所带来的「摩擦和不舒服」来提醒自己处在当下。
不要浪费时间在吸引你却不值得付出注意力的事情...
2009-09-27 00:00:50
Gurdjieff:
“Do not be overcurious nor waste time on things that attract your attention but are not worth it. Time is precious and should not be wasted on things which have no direct relation to your aim.”
葛吉夫：
「不要过份好奇，也不要浪费时间在吸引你却不值得付出注意力的事情。时间宝贵，不应该浪费在和目标没有直接关系的事情上面。」
看起来有点奇怪，但事实真相就是这样：值得付出注意力的目标只有一个，「处在当下。」不过，大部分的人可能都像我一样，需要「浪费」很多时间之后才能逐渐领悟这点。
能夠處在當下人才能「做」
2009-09-26 00:01:16
Gurdjieff, “In order to do it is necessary to be.”
葛吉夫：「為了做，必需存在。」
蘇格拉底則認為：「做即存在。」
也就是說，能夠存在（處在當下）的人才能做。
人的现状和处境
2009-09-24 00:00:10
“A modern man lives in sleep, in sleep he is born and in sleep he dies.” --Gurdjieff
「现代人活在睡觉中，在睡觉中他诞生，在睡觉中他死亡。」
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
with eyes wide open; standing, moving,
and yet so fast asleep. –Shakespeare
这是一种奇异的休眠，是睡着的
眼睛却大张；身体站着，嘴巴讲着，全身动着，
但却睡得那么熟。
藉助第四道来认识自己的过程中，我发现，观察注意力的流向最能帮助我分辨自己是处在认同还是分开注意力的状态；分开注意力就是记得自己就是当下。
下面的描述是某位禅师观察自己的转变；从认同转变到分开注意力：（忘了出处也忘了是谁说的）
I have been gazing at the scenery of mountain and sky. I realize I am all of a sudden part of the landscape.
我一直凝视着山与天空的景色，突然间我发现我是风景中的一部份。
前面是我在看风景，是在一种认同的没有分开注意力状态。后来的转变就是分开注意力：我看到我在看风景。
能剧大师世阿弥也有相同的观察（大意）：当我在舞台上演出时，我将自己一分为二；前面的「我」负责所有的说唱与身体动作的表演，后面的「我」什么也不做，只是观看。
人不可能去学他自认为已经知道的事
2009-09-25 00:01:34
Gurdjieff:
“For most people, even for educated and thinking people, the chief obstacle in the way of acquiring self-consciousness consists in the fact that they think they possess it.”
Epictetus said, “It is impossible for a man to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
葛吉夫：
「对大多数的人，甚至是有教养与擅长思考的人，在获得自我意识的道路上，主要的障碍在于他们认为他们拥有自我意识。」
艾匹克提塔斯（Epictetus）则说：「人不可能去学他自认为已经知道的事。」
「自我意识」就是「记得自己」也是所谓的「第三种意识状态」和「分开注意力」；亦即，同时注意（觉察）自己与周遭的环境。佛教禅宗说的「当下」也是它，回教的「阿拉」或「真主」或「真神」指的也是它……。
不要被外面的事物影响
2009-10-04 00:02:16
Gurdjieff:
Do not be affected by externals. In themselves they are harmless; it is we who allow ourselves to be hurt by them.
葛吉夫：
不要被外面的事物影响，它们本身是无害的；是我们自己允许被它们伤害的。
什么是「当下」？
2009-10-30 00:01:18
Presence is not a point of view. It is not a thought or an emotion. It is not a palpable energy or an ‘I’. It is an invisible, independent, and wordless state of pure consciousness.
当下不是一种观点。它不是一个观念或一种情感。它既非一种可感觉得到的能量或一个「我」。它是一种看不见的、独立的、无言的纯意识状态。
This state is so simple and unobtrusive that we may at first fail to see its significance. We may even fail to see it at all because presence usually emerges for just a second or two before it disappears again—before it is swept away by imagination.
这种状态是如此单纯而不夸耀，以致于我们可能一开始看不出它的重要性。我们甚至根本看不到它，因为当下通常只会出现一两秒，然后在想象赶走它之前就再度消失。
We are so accustomed to and comfortable with imagination—with the steady stream of ‘I’s from our four lower centers—that wordless presence is a foreign experience. We have to be taught how to recognize this state, how to allow it, and most importantly, how to sustain it.
我们是如此习惯且安于想象 — 来自四个低等中心的川流不息的群「我」 — 使得无言的当下变成一种不相干的经验。我们必须被教导如何辨认这种状态，如何让它出现，以及更重要的，如何维持它。
In comparison to the many ‘I’s, presence appears intangible. It seems to be nothing, to not exist. And yet the reverse is true. Wordless presence is the most real thing of all and can become permanent, whereas the many ‘I’s are superficial and fleeting. As the ‘I’s keep displacing each other in a repetitive cycle of imagination, presence can remain poised in a state of divided attention. With conscious awareness, it observes our ‘I’s and our surroundings without analysis, comment, or conclusion.
如果和群「我」相比，当下看似不可捉摸。它似乎什么都不是，并不存在。然而事实刚好相反。无言的当下是最真实的事物，而且可以变得持久，反之，群「我」既肤浅又短暂。由于群「我」在想象的反复循环中轮替，当下则在分开注意力的状态中泰然自若。透过有意识的觉知，它只是观察我们的群「我」和周遭环境，而不分析、不评判也不作结论。
The weakness of presence is that it can at any moment be mesmerized by and lured into the stream of imagination. Unless we know about this, and unless we are prepared in advance with work ‘I’s, presence can stay immersed in imagination for hours, days, weeks, and even months at a time—to the point that we spend virtually all our life in the second state of consciousness.
当下的弱点在于它随时可能被想象之河迷惑而被诱入其中。除非我们知道这点，除非我们预先以工作的群「我」做好防备，否则当下就会淹没在想象当中，每一次都好几个小时、几天、几周、甚至几个月 — 直到我们实际上整个一生都活在第二意识状态的地步。
The appeal and pull of imagination are incredibly convincing and strong. To repeatedly break away from imagination and establish ourselves in wordless presence, we need great sincerity and determination. Above all, we need to understand that this simple state is the hidden meaning and purpose of life on earth—as objective schools have always taught.
想象的诉求和牵引是那么地强而有力。要不断挣脱想象以及在无言当下中安置自己，我们需要极大的诚意和决心。最重要的，我们需要了解这单纯的状态是地球生命的隐藏意义和目的 — 如同客观学校一贯的教导。
随时随地都看见当下
2009-10-25 00:00:25
Whitman(1819-1892)：
I see something of God in each hour of twenty-four, and each moment then,
in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from God dropped in the street, and everyone is signed by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
惠特曼：
一天24小时我都看见有关神的东西，每一刻
在男人和女人的脸上我都看见神，映在镜子里的我的脸上也一样；
我发现来自神的信函落在街道上，每一个人也都被签上神的名字，
我让他们留在所在之处，因为我知道其他人都会如期成为不朽。
「神」就是「当下」；随时随地都看见无念当下。
我们对清醒的渴望有多强烈？
2009-11-05 00:01:10
This is Jami’s(1414-1492) story about the song power of the ache for freedom.
这是贾米的一则故事，关于渴望自由的歌声的力量。
A sufi was on the path of clarity. Every day he walked the desert, and every night he walked and slept in the emptiness of God’s custody.
有位苏非在他觉醒的旅途上，白天他走在沙漠里，晚上他夜行并睡在神保护的天空下。
One night he came upon a merchant’s tent and felt the need for conversation.
He lifted the tent flap and saw a black slave in chains, unable to move, but shining with intelligence like the moon.
有一天晚上他遇到一顶商人的帐棚而感觉到有交谈的需要。他掀开营账的门帘看见一个被链子捆绑的黑奴，无法动弹，但闪现出的智慧像月亮一样。
“Help me,” the slave whispered. “My master will not refuse a guest. Ask him to set me free.”
「帮帮我，」奴隶耳语着说：「我的主人不会拒绝一位 客人，请求他放我自由。」
The merchant welcomed the sufi to his tent and brought food.
“I cannot accept your generosity until you release this poor man.”
商人欢迎苏非进入他的帐棚并准备了食物。
「在你释放这个可怜人之前我无法接受你的慷慨。」
“I will. But first listen to what I have suffered because of him! I used to have many purebred camels, beautiful animals with humps like mountains, swift as the wind over steep and flat, powerful as rhinoceri, tall and dignified as elephants. Their crossing and recrossing this desolation were the source of my existence, their bells my most wished-for sound. As they traveled, this camel driver sang songs. The camels heard and carried their loads with courage and discipline. This time, though, when we unloaded them, they fled in every direction, vanished in the desert, all but the one still tied outside my tent.”
「我会的。但请先听听这个人所带给我的痛苦！我原本拥有许多纯种的骆驼，美丽的动物，有着像山丘一样的驼峰，高大威严如大象。牠们在这荒漠上来来回回是我存在的来源，牠们的铃声是我最想望的声音。当牠们行进时，这个赶骆驼的人唱着歌，背着重担的骆驼听着歌声变得非常听话而勇往直前。可是这回，当我们卸下重担之后，牠们逃向四面八方，消失在沙漠里，除了还绑在帐棚外面那匹之外全都不见了。」
The sufi said, “Let me hear the camel driver’s song.”
苏非说：「让我听听赶骆驼的人的歌吧。」
The master gestured, and the slave began. The visitor sat politely watching the tethered animal, but as longing deepened in the song, the night walker tore his clothes and fell on the ground, while the last camel snapped its rope and escaped into the darkness.
主人打了手势，奴隶便开始唱歌。访客礼貌地坐着并看着拴着绳子的骆驼，但当歌声里的渴望加深之后，这位夜行者撕裂他的衣服而跌落在地上，在这时候，最后一匹骆驼咬断牠的绳子而逃进黑暗当中。
我们对当下（内在自由）的渴望如果能像故事中黑奴对自由的渴望一样强烈…
只有无念当下才能使想象变少
2009-11-15 00:00:47
Rumi:
No matter how fast you run,
Your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it’s in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
不管你跑得有多快，
你的影子总是跟着你。
有时它还会跑到前面呢！
只有头上正午的太阳才能使你的影子变小。
(只有无念当下才能使想象变少。)
灵魂就是意识
2009-11-29 00:00:48
SOUL AND THE OLD WOMAN --Rumi
What is the soul? Consciousness.
The more awareness, the deeper the soul,
and when such essence overflows,
you feel a sacredness around.
灵魂是什么？意识。
觉察越多，灵魂便越深邃，
且当这种本质洋溢，
你就会感觉到周遭有一股庄严。
（好像是第一次读到这么直接的叙述：灵魂就是意识。「意识」透过人的「觉察」而出现，所以接着说「觉察越多，灵魂便越深邃。」如何让觉察更多？当下当下再当下…。）
It's so simple to tell one who puts on a robe
and pretends to be dervish from the real thing.
We know the taste of pure water.
Words can sound like a poem but not have any juice,
no flavor to relish.
要断定一个穿上袍子冒充托钵僧非常容易，
因为我们知道纯水的味道。
有些话听起来像诗，但没有任何汁液，
尝起来平淡无味。
How long do you look at pictures on a bathhouse wall?
Soul is what draws you away from those pictures
to talk with the old woman
who sits outside by the door in the sun.
She's half blind, but she had what soul loves to flow into.
She's kind; she weeps.
She makes quick personal decisions, and laugh so easily.
公共浴室墙上的画你看多久了？（不解；可能有什么不知道的典故。）
灵魂把你从那些画拉开
来与老女人交谈
她就坐在外面门边太阳底下。
她已经半瞎，但她有着灵魂喜欢流进去的特质。
她和善；她哭泣。
她不会犹豫不决，她很容易就笑开。
（”in the sun”直译「在太阳里面」显得很奇怪，但把「太阳」解读为「当下」就不奇怪了。）
习惯使心智丧失判断力
2009-11-25 00:00:26
HABITS THAT BLIND THE PSYCHE --by Rumi
习惯使心智丧失判断力
Are you so full of light you can recklessly court unconsciousness?
“Look for shade on a bright day,” they say,
not on a cloudy night when everything is already obscure.
你真的有多余的光使你能不顾一切去奉承无意识？
「在一个明亮的白昼寻找阴影，」他们说，
不在一个多云的夜晚每件事物都已模糊不清。
Habits that blind the psyche throw dust in the eyes of our guides.
Toying with fermented drink, for instance.
No need to honor a pretty thief.
Keep his hands tied, or he will tie yours.
习惯使心智失去判断力，它对我们向导的双眼抛掷尘土。
例如，用发酵的饮料玩弄。
不需要尊敬一个狡猾的小偷。
绑好他的手，否则他会绑你的。
The real wine is your compassion.
The taste of that keeps the caravan pointed home.
Be reasonable!
Don’t give morning energy to what clearly hurts you!
真正的酒是你的同情心，
它的味道让商队保持在家的方向上。
要理性！
不要把早晨的能量给予那个明显在伤害你的家伙！
驴子与我
2009-12-08 00:00:18
Pay attention to the inner one who commands you!
There is a rational soul leading your donkey
through the mountain wilderness.
要留意在内心支配你的那一个！
有一个理性的灵魂领着你的驴子
穿越山野。
When the donkey pulls away and takes off on its own,
that clear one chases, calling,
“This place is full of wolves
who would love to gnaw your bones
and suck the sweet marrow.”
当驴子脱身而自行离开时，
清晰的那个追喊着：
「这地方到处都是狼
牠们想要啃你的骨头
吸吮甜美的骨髓。」
This sovereign self in you is not a donkey,
but more like a stallion,
and Muhammad is the stable keeper speaking quietly,
Ta’alaw, in Arabic, Come, come. I am your trainer.
在你里面的这个至高的自我不是一只驴子，
却更像是一匹种马，
穆罕默德则是马夫小声说着：
（阿拉伯文）「来，来，我是你的驯马师。」
清醒、死亡与再生（1）
2009-12-03 00:01:24
清醒、死亡与再生（1）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
A man may be born but in order to be born he must first die. In order to die, he must first awake.
When a man awake, he can die. When he dies, he can be born.
--“In Search of the Miraculous” by Ouspensky
一个人有可能再生，但为了再生他必须先死。而为了死亡，他必须先清醒。
当一个人清醒了，他就能死。当他死了，他就能再生。
（这里说的是肉体死亡之前的死亡与再生。）
清醒、死亡与再生（2）
2009-12-04 00:00:31
清醒、死亡与再生（2）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
To awaken means to realize one’s nothingness, that is to realize one’s complete and absolute mechanicalness and one’s complete and absolute helplessness…When he begins to know himself a man sees that he has nothing that is his own, that is, that all that he has regarded as his own, his views, thoughts, convictions, tastes, habits, even faults and vices, all these are not his own, but have been either formed through imitation or borrowed from somewhere ready-made. In feeling this a man may feel his nothingness. And in feeling his nothingness a man should see himself as he really is, not for a second, not for a moment, but constantly, never forget it.
清醒意指了解自己的一无是处，也就是了解自己的完完全全的机械性以及完完全全的无能为力…当他开始认识他自己他就会看见没有一样东西是他自己的，也就是说，所有他认为是自己的东西：他的见解、想法、深信的东西、品味、习惯、甚至毛病与缺点全部都不是他自己的，而是透过模仿或借用别处现成的东西而形成的。在感觉到这个之后人才可能感觉到他的一无是处；而且在感觉到他的一无是处当中他应该如实地去看他自己，不是只有一秒钟，不是只有片刻，而是不停地，时时刻刻都记得自己一无是处，永不忘记。
清醒、死亡与再生（3）
2009-12-05 00:04:36
清醒、死亡与再生（3）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
It is impossible to awaken completely all at once. One must first begin to awaken for short moments.
But one must die all at once and forever after having made a certain effort, having surmounted a certain obstacle, having taken a certain decision from which there is no going back. This would be difficult, even impossible, for a man, were it not for the slow and gradual awakening which precedes it.
要立即完全清醒是不可能的，人首先必须从片刻的清醒开始。
但人必须在做了某种努力、克服了某些障碍、做了某种义无反顾的决定之后彻底死去。这对一个人来说势必非常困难，甚至是不可能的事，它不像之前的清醒那样缓慢而渐进的。
2009-12-06 00:06:57
清醒、死亡与再生（4）--《探索奇迹》-邬斯宾斯基
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
当人开始认识自己一点他就会看见自己里面有许多令他感到恐怖的东西，只要他还没有对自己感觉到恐怖他就对自己一无所知。
The continual consciousness of his nothingness and of his helplessness will eventually give a man the courage to ‘die,’ that is, to die, not merely mentally or in his consciousness, but to die in fact and to renounce actually and forever those aspects of himself which are either unnecessary from the point of view of his inner growth or which hinder it.
持续不断的意识到自己的一无是处与无能为力最后将给人去「死」的勇气，也就是，彻底死亡，不只是理智上或在他意识中，而是实实在在地死，永远切除那些多余的或阻碍他内在成长的东西。
当话语带有谎言的气息
2009-12-16 00:00:31
WHEN WORDS ARE TINGED WITH LYING --Rumi
当话语带有谎言的气息
Muhammad gave this indication of how to know what’s real.
“When you feel a peaceful joy, you’re near the truth.
Unquiet and off center, jealous or greedy,
what you do seems pretentious and those around you insincere.
Speak the clearest truth you know, and let the dis-ease heal.”
如何分辨真假，穆罕默德做了如下的指示：
「当你感觉到一种平静的喜悦，你就接近真理了。
不安及偏离中心，嫉妒或贪婪，
你所做的事显得造作，在你周遭的人都很虚伪。
说出你所知道的最清楚的真话，让不-安（疾病）得以治疗。」
If words are tinged with lying, they’re like water dripping into a oil lamp.
The wick won’t light, and the pleasure and rest of your love room will diminish.
如果话语带有谎言的气息，它们就像水滴进一盏油灯。
灯芯点不着，喜乐以及你爱的空间将变小。
流动的河
2009-12-15 00:00:19
MOVING RIVER 流动的河 --by Rumi`
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When actions come from another section, the feeling disappears.
Don’t let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures.
Reach for the rope of God. And what is that?
当你从你的灵魂出发来做各种事情时，你感觉到一条河在你里面流动，一种喜乐。
当你的行动源自别的部分时这感觉就消失了。
别让别人来带领你，他们可能是瞎子，或更糟，秃鹰。
伸手去抓上帝的绳子。这又是什么东西？
Putting aside self-will. Because of willfulness people sit in jail,
the trapped bird’s wings are tied, fish sizzle in the skillet.
The anger of police is willfulness.
You’ve seen a magistrate inflict visible punishment.
Now see the invisible. If you could leave your selfishness,
you would see how you’ve been torturing your soul.
把顽固放一边。因为顽固的人坐在监狱里，
被捕的鸟翅膀都被绑死，鱼在浅锅里嗞嗞响。
警察的怒火固执不化。
你见过地方官员当众惩处。
现在看看不可见的世界。如果你能够放掉你的自私，
你就会看见你如何折磨你的灵魂。
We are born and live inside black water in a well.
How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?
Don’t insist on going where you think you want to go.
Ask the way to the spring.
Your living pieces will form a harmony.
我们诞生并活在一口井里的黑水里。
我们如何能知道阳光下的旷野是什么样子？
别坚持要去你以为你想去的地方。
问一下通往源泉的路径。
你的活着的各个部分将形成一种和谐。
There is a moving palace that floats in the air with balconies and clear water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent.
有一座移动的宫殿飘浮在空中，上面有阳台以及清水流过，到处都是无限，却都包含在一顶帐棚底下。
不要睡觉！
2010-03-06 00:01:33
From Rumi：
O seeker,
Listen to your heart’s yearning—
Don’t sleep!
探寻者啊，
倾听你心之所向
不要睡觉！
You have spent a thousand nights in the cradle of sleep—
I ask for one night.
For the sake of the Friend,
Don’t sleep!
The Loving Witness never sleeps by night,
Follow His ways:
Give yourself to Him—
Don’t sleep!
你已经在摇篮里睡了一千个夜晚—
我只要求一个晚上。
为了朋友
不要睡觉！
爱的见证人从不在晚上睡觉，
跟随祂的路：
把你自己交给祂—
不要睡觉！
Beware of the woeful night,
When you cry out in agony: “O God”—
Don’t sleep!
That night when Death comes to welcome you—
By the dread of that night, O weary one,
Don’t sleep!
Even stones will cry when bound by the weight of those chains.
You are not a stone.
Remember those chains—
Don’t sleep!
小心悲惨的夜晚，
当你痛苦哀嚎：「神啊」—
不要睡觉！
那天晚上当死亡前来欢迎你—
那是多可怖的夜晚，精疲力尽的你啊，
不要睡觉！
被那么重的锁炼捆绑，就算是石头也会哀嚎。
你不是一颗石头。
不要忘记那些锁炼—
不要睡觉！
Though the night tempts you like a beautiful maiden,
do not drink from her cup.
Fear the morning after—
Don’t sleep!
虽然夜晚像一个美丽的女人诱惑你，
也不要饮用她的杯子。
小心宿罪的后果—
不要睡觉！
God says, “My dear ones will stay up with me at night.”
If you hear these words,
Don’t sleep!
神说：「晚上我的爱人会陪我不睡。」
如果你听到这些话语，
不要睡觉！
Fear that horrible night when no refuge can be found.
Store up your provisions tonight! Beware!
Don’t sleep!
当找不到避难所时要小心那可怕的夜晚。
今晚就要储存你的粮食！小心警觉！
不要睡觉！
The saints find their treasure when the world is asleep;
For the sake of ever-giving love,
Don’t sleep!
圣人在世界入睡时寻找他们的珍宝；
为了永远不断付出的爱，
不要睡觉！
When your spirit is old and worn
He will give you a new one,
Then you will become the pure spirit of all.
O hopeful one,
Don’t sleep!
当你的精神衰老疲倦
祂会给你一副新的，
然后你将焕然一新。
怀抱希望的你啊，
不要睡觉！
I have told you again and again—
go to that inner silence!
But still you do not hear me.
我已经一而再再而三告诉过你—
到那内在寂静的地方去！
但你依旧听不到我。
Give me one night
And I will give you a thousand in return—
Don’t sleep!
给我一个晚上
我会还给你一千个—
不要睡觉！
Epictetus:
Evil does not naturally dwell in the world, in events, or in people. Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life.
存在这世界上、在事件当中、或在人里面的邪恶并不是自然就有的。邪恶是一种来自健忘、懒惰、或精神涣散的副产品：当我们在生活中忘记自己的真正目标时它就出现了。
When we remember that our aim is spiritual progress, we return to striving to be our best selves. This is how happiness is won.
当我们想起我们的目标是精神上的发展时，我们回到为作最好的自己而奋斗。这就是赢得快乐的方式。
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这是我读或听过有关邪恶的最佳观点之一。
你是当刻之子 --Rumi语录
2010-04-12 00:00:31
Rumi：
Be careful not to regret the past. Be a Sufi, don't talk of the past. You are the son of the moment, you are young, you have vanquished time. This short present moment must not be wasted.
小心，不要为过去感到后悔。要做一个苏非，不要谈论过去。你是当刻之子，你不会老，你已经征服时间，眼前这短暂的当下片刻可千万不要浪费。
向不计较得失的人学习 --Rumi诗选
2010-05-21 00:00:31
Rumi：
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.
向那不计较得失的人学习，
他不求更富有，也不怕损失，
甚至他自己的个性
他也都毫无兴趣：他是自由的。
淹没在自己话语中的人
2010-10-13 00:00:50
Ibn 'Arabi：
Of a man drowned in his words,
burned alive in sorrow.
Nothing can save him now.
一个淹没在自己话语中的人，
在哀伤中活活烧死。
这时没有任何东西能够拯救他。
人只有处在当下时才知道自己在当下
2010-10-09 00:01:18
Ibn 'Arabi(1165 - 1240)：
When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
当至爱出现时，
我是用哪一种眼睛看祂？
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
用祂的眼睛，不是用我的，
因为看得见祂的只有祂自己。
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人只有处在高等意识时才看到自己处在高等意识；人只有处在当下时才知道自己在当下。
真正的爱人
2010-10-22 00:01:38
Baba Sheikh Farid
True lovers are those
who love with all their hearts.
Those who think of another,
speak of another
are called false lovers.
真正的爱人是那些
以全部的心去爱的人。
那些想着别人，
说着别人的人
都被认为是假的爱人。
摆脱二元性
2010-11-28 00:00:39
Umar Ibn al-Farid
All of me free
from the dual quality of sensation,
I, one with my essence.
全部的我都摆脱
感官的二元性，
我，具有我的本质的那个。
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尽管各民族有各种不同的智慧与宗教，却都不约而同指出必须摆脱人内在的二元性，有些甚至直接了当说「二元性就是邪恶」。这里的「本质」似乎也是无念当下。
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