当然重要的是要了解自己，知道如何清晰地思考，没有偏见，没有先入为主，没有恐惧，因此无所畏惧地行动，-这意味着品质。
但是知道它和实际理解它是完全不同的。理解的过程带来了改变。
So in order to bring about a fundamental change in the ways of one's thinking one must begin with self-knowledge, knowledge of oneself, of the ways of one's own thinking, not with so-called knowledge about God.
因此，为了在一个人的思维方式上带来根本性的改变，一个人必须从自我认识、对自己的认识、对自己的思维方式的认识开始，而不是从所谓的关于上帝的知识开始。
Knowledge about God is all unreal, false, unless you know yourself.
关于上帝的知识都是不真实的、虚假的，除非你了解自己。
So the religious person is the man who begins with the understanding of himself, not with the leading of a particular life in accordance with some tradition or some book.
因此，有宗教的人是从了解自己开始的人，而不是根据某些传统或某些书籍引导特定生活的人。
Surely it is essential to know yourself, to know how to think clearly, without bias, without prejudice, without fear, and therefore to act without fear, - which means character.
当然重要的是要了解自己，知道如何清晰地思考，没有偏见，没有先入为主，没有恐惧，因此无所畏惧地行动，-这意味着品质。
Character is not for the person who merely obeys the law - either the law of society or his own law - but for the person who thinks clearly and whose thought is produced through self-knowledge.
品质不是给只遵守法律的人——无论是社会的法律还是他自己的法律——而是给思想清晰、思想通过自知产生的人。
Self-knowledge is the knowledge of why you are angry, why you are ambitious, ruthless, sexual, and all the other things which are to be discovered.
自知是知道你为什么生气，为什么你有野心、无情、性感，以及所有其他有待发现的事情。
You have to know about yourself, and the knowing is quite different from merely bringing about a change in the known.
你必须了解自己，而了解与仅仅带来已知的改变是截然不同的。
I can know why I am angry; we can all know.
我知道我为什么生气；我们都知道。
It is fairly easy, if you know the A B C of psychology, to know why you are greedy, ambitious, rude, cruel, brutal.
如果你了解心理学的 A B C，那么知道你为什么贪婪、野心勃勃、粗鲁、残忍、野蛮是相当容易的。
But knowing about it and actually understanding it are entirely different.
但是知道它和实际理解它是完全不同的。
The very process of understanding brings about a change.
理解的过程带来了改变。
Because when you understand yourself there is clarity of thinking, and in that clarity there is character.
因为当你了解自己时，思维就会清晰，而在这种清晰中，就会有品质。
Character is not produced by following an ideal and sticking to that ideal; that is merely obstinacy.
品质不是遵循理想并坚持理想而产生的；那只是顽固。
Character implies clarity, and there is no clarity so long as you do not know yourself; and you cannot know yourself if you are not fully aware of yourself.
品质意味着清晰，不了解自己就没有清晰；如果你不完全觉知自己，你就无法了解自己。
And in understanding oneself, as we have said, there must be no acceptance or justification of what you are, no excuses, no saying: 'I am like this because of my environment', or 'I know I am conditioned because I live in a little province and so my mind is provincial', and so on.
在了解自己的过程中，正如我们所说的，不能接受或解释自己是什么，不能找借口，不能说：“我之所以这样，是因为我的环境”，或“我知道我受到限制，因为我住在一个小地方，所以我的心是狭小的”，等等。
Talk 1, Poona, 07 September 1958
谈话1，普纳，1958年9月7日
