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头脑一刻不停地以思考来喂养自己，不仅如此，它还在不断地寻求身份的认同，寻求“我”的感觉。于是，自我就诞生了，并且它还不停地重新创造着它自己。 The mind is incessantly looking not only for food for thought; it is looking for food for its identity, its sense of self. This is how the ego comes into existence and continuously re-creates itself. § 当你想到或谈到你自己时，当你说“我”时，通常你指的是“我和我的故事”。这个“我”是关于你喜欢什么、不喜欢什么、你害怕什么、渴望什么，这个“我”从来不会长时间感到满足。这是一种头脑制造出来的关于你是谁的感觉，它被过去所限制，同时它不断在未来寻求满足。 你是否看见这个“我”是转瞬即逝的，它只是一种临时存在的形式，就像水面的波纹一样？ 是谁看着这一切？是谁觉知到你身体与心理的不断变化的特质？是我。是那个更深的“我”，这个“我”与过去和未来无关。 When you think or speak about yourself, when you say, “I,” what you usually refer to is “me and my story.” This is the “I” of your likes and dislikes, fears and desires, the “I” that is never satisfied for long. It is a mind-made sense of who you are, conditioned by the past and seeking to find its fulfillment in the future. Can you see that this “I” is fleeting, a temporary formation, like a wave pattern on the surface of the water? Who is it that sees this? Who is it that is aware of the fleetingness of your physical and psychological form? I am. This is the deeper “I” that has nothing to do with past and future. § 每天，你那充满问题的生活情境占用了你绝大多数的注意力，它带给你无尽的恐惧和欲望，除了这些之外，还剩下什么呢？一条短划线而已，也就一两英寸长，刻在你的墓碑上，在你的出生日期和死亡日期之间。 对于自我来说，这真是一个令人沮丧的念头。但是对于真正的你，这是解脱。 What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash–one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. To the egoic self, this is a depressing thought. To you, it is liberating. § 当你的注意力完全被念头吸引，这意味着你认同了头脑里的声音。然后念头加强了“我”的感觉。 这就是自我，头脑制造的“我”。这个由思想创造出来的“我”总是感到缺失和不安全。所以恐惧和匮乏是这个“我”的主要情绪和驱动力。 一旦你意识到在你的脑袋里有一个声音，它总是假装是你，从来都不停止说话，那你就正在从对持续思考的无意识认同之中苏醒。当你留意那个声音，你会发现你并不是那个声音 – 那个思考者 – 而是能够觉知到声音的那个。 发现你自己是那声音背后的意识，就是自由。 When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, the mind-made “me.” That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That’s why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces. When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice–the thinker–but the one who is aware of it. Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom. |
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