 文：Burt Harding 翻译：千江水月（首帆） Experiencing The Futility Of The Human 体验人的无用 One of my Skype clients from Miami, deeply depressed over the death of her lover and loss in her family, was on the verge of committing suicide when she e-mailed me. Spiritual knowledge was not her experience, as she was primarily a career woman. 我的一位来自迈阿密的Skype客户，对她情人的死亡及她家里的损失深感郁闷，当她发电子邮件给我时，正处于自杀的边缘。灵性知识不属于她的经验范围，因为基本上她是个职业妇女。 When I asked about her depression, she told me her story and I listened for about 10 minutes. When it was over I asked her about what depression was to her and she related information she read from psychology books. 当我问到她的抑郁症时，她告诉我她的故事，我听了约10分钟。在她的陈述结束时，我问她，抑郁症对她来说是怎样的，她还把从心理学书中读到的信息关连起来。 After listening to her for yet another ten minutes or so I asked her how she felt in her depression. 在又继续听了她十分钟左右的陈述后，我问她在抑郁症中有怎样的感受。 Her reply was what I was waiting to hear; she said emphatically, “I feel totally helpless!” 她的回答是我正等着听到的；她强调：「我感到完全的无助！」 Then I asked her, “This means that there’s nothing you can do. You cannot fix it nor overcome it, right?” 然后我问她：「这意味着你没有什么可以做的。你不能解决它，也不能克服它，对吧？」 She agreed. 她同意。 “Then do absolutely nothing about it, not even wish it to go away. Helplessness is a state often reached by the human mind and any attempt to resist it can lead to emotional dysfunction.” 「那么绝对什么也不要做，甚至不要希望它消失。无助是人类的头脑常常达到的一种状态，而任何抵制它的企图，可能会导致情绪功能障碍。」 She looked at me puzzled, “So what can I do?” 她困惑地看着我说：「那我该怎么办？」 I pointed out how the human mind is forever hoping to control even itself. I also knew from her expression that further explanations would be useless and so I asked her to relax and enter the alpha state of mind through my suggestions as she relaxed in her chair. 我指出，人类的头脑永远希望控制，甚至控制它本身。我也从她的表情中知道，进一步的解释将是无用的，所以当她在她的椅子上放松时，通过我的建议，我要求她放松身心并进入阿尔法（α）状态。 When the hour was over, I gave her the homework of “feeling” this helplessness as if she was an unbiased observer of it. I made it clear not to think about it but feel it as it actually is. 当咨询钟点结束的时候，我给了她一个「感觉」这个无助的作业，彷佛她是一个公正的观察家。我明确表示不要思虑它，只要实际如是地感觉它。 Apparently, she did as suggested, because after two days, I received an e-mail from her that literally screamed with joy. She announced that her depression was gone totally and she had more energy than she ever had, even prior to her depression. 显然，她的确按照建议做了，因为在两天之后，我收到一封电子邮件，她透过文字带着喜乐尖叫着。她宣告她的抑郁症已经完全消失，她比以前更有精力，甚至更胜于她陷入抑郁症之前。 Two days later still she confirmed her energy as stable with an accompanying article of her state. Finally, she made up her mind that she’d go on a speaking tour regarding this “miracle healing.” 两天后，她还确认她的能量与符合她的状态的一篇相关文章一样稳定。最后，她决定，她会参加关于这个“奇迹治愈”的演讲。 Eckhart Tolle, who is the author of the bestselling book The Power of Now, was also on the verge of quitting life after prolonged depression. 畅销书《当下的力量》的作者艾克哈特．托勒，在长期沮丧后也曾处于放弃生命的边缘。 He finally screamed, “I can’t live with myself anymore.” 最后他尖叫着说：「我不能再和自己一起生活了！」 At this point he realized, “Are there two of me – myself and I?” 在这个节骨眼上，他意识到：「有两个我 （自己和我）吗？」 It was this recognition of the futility of the human ego that made the birds sing the next day. He sat in quiet stillness after this experience, enjoying the bliss of Being. After a few years he wrote the bestselling book. 正是这种对人类自我无用性的认识，使得 鸟儿在第二天唱歌。在这次经历之后，他在安定的寂静里坐着，享受着存在的无上幸福。几年后，他写了畅销书。 Why does the direct experience of helplessness bring a breakthrough? Actually, it is the state of recognizing the futility of the human ego that brings the great consciousness shift. 为什么无助的直接经验带来了突破性的进展？事实上，这是因为认识到人类自我的无用性所带来的极大意识转变的状态。 When we create enough space in meeting the helplessness without doing anything, then we automatically enter pure Being. It is this total allowing that shifts our human helplessness into the true state of Being. 当我们什么都不做，创造足够的空间来迎接无助时，那么我们会自动进入纯粹的存在。正是这样全然的允许，才能使我们人类的无助转而成为存在的真实状态。 The moment we see the “me” as a helpless and unreal part of us, then it falls away and what is left is our true nature. The recognition that your “me” is the very problem that caused all the emotional suffering, and yet in itself, is helpless to do anything or fix or attain anything, is itself the greatest gift. 当我们看到「我」是我们无助和虚幻的一部分之时，接着它就会消失，剩下的就是我们的真实本性。承认你的「我」是造成所有情绪痛苦的真正问题，然而本质上，虽然它没有能力做任何事情、解决或达成任何事情，但它本身就是最大的礼物。 You are seen as wholeness, without expectations or demands. Confusion and resistance dissolve in the light of openness and nothing will be left. 你被视为整体，没有期望或要求。混乱和抗拒在开放的光明中消融，什么也不会留下。 Paradoxically, it is when you are left utterly empty with nothing to hold on to that a breakthrough happens. Out of that nothingness emerges the indescribable fullness and wonder of simple Being. 矛盾的是，当你处于全然的空，没有什么可以坚持的，一个突破性的进展就发生了。在那个空之外，出现了纯粹存在的难以形容的完满和奇迹。 After this breakthrough, it doesn’t mean that there won’t be any fear arising. It simply means that there will be no more “me” to identify with it. Therefore, you are totally free to be who you are. 在这个突破性的进展之后，并不意味着不再升起任何恐惧。这只是意味着不会有更多的「我」来认同它。因此，你完全可以自由地成为你自己。 The greatest richness is not wealth, success or accomplishment but the death of the “me” that will leave one free from bondage. 最大的富足不是财富、成功或成就，而是「我」的死亡，那将使一个人免于束缚。 The profound simplicity of this seeing of the obvious is always one step too near for the mind and “understanding” to ever approach. 这显而易见又意味深长的简明易懂之事，对头脑来说近在咫尺，「理解」却总是不能企及。 Herein lies the invitation to give the deductive analytical and conditioned mind a rest and simply breathe in these words in this book with the effortlessness and resonance from which they arose. 就在这里邀请，让善于演绎分析和受制约的头脑休息，并在这本书中的这些话语里简单地呼吸，伴随着这些话语产生的轻松自如和共鸣。 The human ego is incessantly seeking the Being and yet it is this very seeking that blocks the seeing. Why? Because seeking makes it seem like something you can attain, and attainment gives one the belief that it is not the case at the moment. 人类的自我不断探寻存在，但也正是这样的寻求而阻碍了看见。为什么？因为探寻使它看起来像是你可以获得的东西，而探寻的成就给予一个目前情况并非如此的信念。 You are already a human being and there’s nothing to attain, to accomplish nor fix, but simply see the truth of this moment as it is. 你已经是一个人类，没有什么可以获得、完成或修复的，而只是如其所是地看见这一刻的真相。 |
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