Chapter 8: Who You Are Is Not Your Mind

3 Who You Are Is Not Your Mind: You Are Not Your Thoughts
你是谁不是你的心灵：你不是你的感想

As revealed to God’s Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on October 29, 2009 in Boulder, CO
2009年10月29日，在科罗拉多州博尔德(Boulder, CO)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

You are not your mind. You are not your intellect. Who you are is not your thoughts. You are not your beliefs. You are not your memories. You are not your conflicts. You are not those things that you identify with.

你不是你的心灵。你不是你的智力。你是谁，不是你的感想。你不是你的信仰。你不是你的记忆。你不是你的冲突。你不是那些你所认同的想法。

The mystery of who you are exists beyond the reach and the realm of the intellect and beyond the reality of the body. But you are inhabiting this body now. And the intellect is there to help you to navigate this world and to participate here. It is a marvelous vehicle of communication. It is exquisite, profound and capable of doing marvelous things if it is cultivated correctly. But for all students of Knowledge in all traditions, it is necessary to realize the difference between your real nature, your deeper nature, and the makeup of your mind and your system of beliefs, however organized or disorganized they might be.

你是谁的神秘存在于智力的范围和领域之外，也存在于身体的现实之外。但你现在正居住在这个身体里。智力的存在是为了帮助你浏览这个世界并参与其中。它是一种奇妙的交流工具。它是精致的、深刻的，如果培养得当，能够做出了不起的事情。但是对于所有传统的内识学生来说，有必要认识到你的真实本性、你更深层面的自然与你的心灵和信仰体系的构成之间的区别，无论它们是有组织的还是无组织的。

That you live at the surface of the mind and do not know of its depths, its mystery and its true power and abilities—this must be a recognition, or you will think that spirituality is a belief or a system of beliefs. You will think that spiritual practice is about reinforcing ideas, reinforcing beliefs, and, of course, this is tremendously manipulated by government and religious institutions—the manipulation of belief because most people are not yet aware that who they are is not their minds, and so they think that what they think is what they are, and it represents their reality.

你生活在心灵的表面，不知道它的深度、它的神秘、它的真正力量和能力——这必须是一种认识，否则你会认为精神性是一种信仰或信仰体系。你会认为精神上的实践是为了强化想法，强化信仰，当然，这被政府和宗教机构极大地操纵了——对信仰的操纵，因为大多数人还没有察觉到他们是谁不是他们的心灵，所以他们认为他们所想的就是他们是谁，它代表了他们的现实。

Once you are able to break this assumption and this fixation, a whole door begins to open to your inner life, where you will soon experience that you have a greater nature, a deeper nature beyond your thoughts and ideas. Sit still for twenty or thirty minutes, and this will become very apparent to you.

一旦你能够打破这种假设和这种固着，一整扇门就开始向你的内在生命打开，在这里你很快就会体验到你有一个更大的本性，一个超越你的感想和想法的更深层的本性。静坐二十或三十分钟，这对你来说将变得非常明显。

It is like the noise on the street—your surface mind—it is crashing and banging and moving and colliding. It is judging, it is comparing, it is fantasizing, it is remembering, it is projecting blame, it is projecting its will. It is doing all this. But if you were to step back from it, to close the doors, to close the windows and go into the inner sanctuary of your home, the sounds of the street would recede and eventually disappear completely.

它就像街上的噪音——你表面的心灵——它在碰撞、敲打、移动和相撞。它在判断，它在比较，它在幻想，它在回忆，它在投射责备，它在投射它的意志。它正在做这一切。但是，如果你从它这里退后一步，关上门，关上窗，进入你家里的内部避难所，街上的声音就会退去，最终完全消失。

It is like this in your mind. Once you sink below the surface of your mind, you will find there is a greater reality there that you know nothing about, a reality with many levels, and that you have deeper associations here and deeper relationships.

在你的心灵中也是如此。一旦你沉入你心灵的表面之下，你会发现这里有一个你一无所知的更大的现实，一个有许多层级的现实，你在这里有更深的关联和更深的关系。

You have relationships with your Spiritual Family, who are not in the world. You have relationships with your Spiritual Family who are living in other worlds. You have a relationship with your Teachers, those Unseen Presences who watch over your development and who send you thoughts from time to time to assist you in opening yourself to the reality of your real life. And, of course, you have the power of Knowledge, the deeper Mind within you, the Mind that God created, not the mind that culture and the world created.

你与你的精神家庭有关系，他们不在这个世界上。你与生活在其他世界的精神家庭有关系。你与你的老师有关系，那些看不见的存在，他们观察着你的发展，并不时地给你发送感想，帮助你打开自己的真实生命的现实。当然，你还有内识的力量，你内心深处的心智，它是上帝创造的心智，而不是文化和世界创造的心智。

This deeper Mind is entirely different from your intellect and has great power and certainty. It is not governed by fear and desire. It is not driven by compulsion and anxiety. It does not need to assert itself and to defend itself and to overwhelm others to seek power and recognition in the world. It is only here to serve a greater purpose, which it alone is aware of within yourself.

这个更深层的心智与你的智力完全不同，具有强大的力量和确定性。它不被恐惧和欲望所支配。它不被强迫和焦虑所驱动。它不需要宣称自己，不需要为自己辩护，不需要压倒他人来寻求世界上的力量和认可。它在这里只是为了服务于一个更伟大的目的，只有它自己察觉到了这一点。

Once you break your attachment to the surface of your mind and recognize that that is only a part that you play in the world—like a part an actor would play on a stage—then you can begin to see and feel and experience the deeper current of your life. This opens you in life to experience relationships that represent this deeper current, this deeper recognition, this greater purpose together.

一旦你打破对心灵表面的依恋，认识到这只是你在世界中扮演的一个角色，就像演员在舞台上扮演的角色一样，那么你就可以开始看到、感受和经历你生命中更深层的水流。这将使你在生命中经历到代表这种更深层水流的关系，这种更深层的认识，这种共同的更伟大的目的。

This lessens the impact of fear. This lessens the impact of desire and compulsion. This breaks your fascination with your own fantasies. This breaks the chains of identification that keep you enslaved to a set of ideas and activities that have nothing to do with who you really are and why you are really in the world.

这就减少了恐惧的影响。这减少了欲望和强迫的影响。这打破了你对自己的幻想的迷恋。这打破了使你被一套想法和活动所奴役的识别链，这些想法和活动与你真正是谁以及你为什么真正在这个世界上无关。

Anyone who has any spiritual depth, no matter what their tradition or period of history, has broken this fixation and identification with the surface of the mind. They know there are greater truths to be experienced that ideas alone cannot contain, that theories and philosophies and systems of thinking cannot fully represent.

任何在精神上有深度的人，无论他们的传统或历史时期如何，都打破了这种对心灵表面的固定和认同。他们知道有更伟大的真理需要经历，而这些真理仅靠想法是无法包含的，理论、哲学和思维体系无法完全代表。

They see the limits of science. They see the limits of the intellect. They see the limits of theology and philosophy. They recognize that there is a mystery to their lives and that they have the opportunity to experience this mystery and to express it to others. That is a great turning point, you see.

他们看到了科学的局限。他们看到了智力的局限性。他们看到了神学和哲学的局限。他们认识到，他们的生活有一种神秘感，他们有机会经历这种神秘感，并将其表达给他人。这是一个伟大的转折点，你看。

But when you look out into the world, people are totally caught up. They cannot leave the street and seek the sanctuary within themselves. They are so caught up, always stimulating their mind—getting new thoughts, new beliefs and exercising their old beliefs and reinforcing their old beliefs and finding other people in relationship who can help them reinforce their beliefs. It is all an avoidance of fear—the emptiness, the fear of loss, the fear of not finding, the fear of losing, the fear of confusion, the fear of chaos, the fear of your own mortality, the fear of death and annihilation.

但是当你看向世界时，人们完全被困住了。他们不能离开街道，寻求自己内心的圣地。他们是如此陷于其中，总是刺激他们的心灵——获得新的感想、新的信仰，锻炼他们的旧信仰，强化他们的旧信仰，在关系中寻找其他可以帮助他们强化信仰的人。这都是对恐惧的回避——空虚、对损失的恐惧、对找不到的恐惧、对失去的恐惧、对混乱的恐惧、对自己死亡的恐惧、对死亡和湮灭的恐惧。

All this constant activity to reinforce one’s identity is simply running away. It is running away from the reality that lives within you at this moment, which alone holds the greater purpose and meaning of your life. It is running away from yourself. It is running away from your own fear and uncertainty, constantly driven and caught up. It is not an accident this is happening. It is not merely circumstances.

所有这些不断强化自己身份的活动，只是在逃避。它是在逃避此刻生活在你内心的现实，只有它拥有你生命的更伟大的目的和意义。它是在逃避自己。它是在逃避你自己的恐惧和不确定性，不断地被驱赶和追赶。这件事的发生不是偶然的。它不仅仅是环境的问题。

People cannot sit still for five minutes. They cannot blame their circumstances for this. The time they spend in front of the mirror in the bathroom every day could be spent sitting quietly, practicing inner listening, opening up to the landscape of the mind and the great well of silence within oneself that brings peace and insight and power to the individual.

人们无法静坐5分钟。他们不能因此而责怪他们的环境。他们每天花在浴室镜子前的时间可以用来静坐，练习内心的聆听，向心灵的风景和自己内心的沉默之井开放，给个人带来和平和洞察力和力量。

People are so caught up in their intellect, they cannot seem to find a way out of it, as if they are surrounded by barbed wire and they cannot find a way out. But sitting still and following your breath, or repeating a sound or a word, is enough if you stay with it, if you continue your practice and are not disappointed or frustrated that at first you find out just how much your mind is dominating you, and what a slave you are to your thinking and your beliefs and your memories and your fears and the projections of your fear.

人们被自己的智力所困，似乎找不到出路，就像被铁丝网包围，找不到出路。但是，静坐和跟随你的呼吸，或者重复一个声音或一个词，就足够了，如果你坚持下去，如果你继续练习，并且不会因为一开始你发现你的心灵在多大程度上支配着你而感到失望或沮丧，你是你的思维、你的信仰、你的记忆、你的恐惧和你的恐惧投射的奴隶。

Rich or poor, this is the bondage under which humanity struggles and suffers. Go to the richest places in the world and people are still slaves to the mind, slaves to their needs and their desires, their compulsions and their anxieties. Even if they are living in splendor, they act like servants—toiling away, unaware of what oppresses them, unable to see a way out.

无论贫富，这都是人类挣扎和痛苦的束缚。去世界上最富有的地方，人们仍然是心灵的奴隶，是他们的需要和欲望、他们的强迫和焦虑的奴隶。即使他们生活在富丽堂皇的地方，他们的行为也像仆人一样——劳作，不知道什么在压迫他们，看不到出路。

Religion, then, becomes governed by the mind, by the intellect. It becomes a ritual, a belief, a social requirement, social validation. It loses its primacy, its intimacy, its fervency, its mystery and its grace.

那么，宗教就变成了由心灵和智力所支配。它变成了一种仪式、一种信仰、一种社会要求、社会验证。它失去了它的首要性，它的亲密性，它的热诚，它的神秘性和它的恩典。

Now you must go to the church or the mosque or the temple because you are expected to. And you are afraid of what might happen if you do not. And you ask God for things to help you, to save you, to give you what you want, to protect your loved ones.

现在你必须去教堂、清真寺或庙宇，因为你被期望去。你害怕如果你不去可能会发生什么。你请求上帝帮助你，拯救你，给你你想要的东西，保护你的亲人。

Some requests are genuine and some are not. But do you seek an experience of union with the Divine? Do you seek to experience what lies beneath the surface of your mind? Do you seek to know your spiritual reality and nature, which exists beyond theological expectations and speculation?

有些请求是真诚的，有些则不是。但你是否寻求与上帝结合的经历？你是否寻求经历隐藏在你心灵表面之下的东西？你是否寻求知道你的精神现实和本性，它的存在超越了神学的期望和猜测？

You are totally caught up in the manifestation of life, but what about its mystery? Its purpose? Its meaning? These things can only be found beneath the surface.

你完全陷入了生活的表现中，但它的神秘性呢？它的目的？它的意义？这些东西只能在表面之下找到。

You may create wonderful explanations, fantastic theories of belief, extraordinarily complex ideologies, but the mind cannot grasp the power of Spirit, or the reality or the wisdom of Spirit, which is the power and the wisdom of Knowledge within you. But to begin to engage in this deeper exploration and to build the skills, the patience and the determination you will need to proceed, you must begin to take the Steps to Knowledge—to learn how to focus your mind and to slip past its allurements and its fixations.

你可以创造美妙的解释、奇妙的信仰理论、异常复杂的意识形态，但心灵无法掌握精神的力量，或精神的现实或智慧，也就是你内心内识的力量和智慧。但是，要开始参与这种更深层面的探索，并建立你继续前进所需的技能、耐心和决心，你必须开始开展通往内识的阶梯，学习如何集中你的心灵，并滑过它的诱惑和它的固定。

God has given you the purest spiritual practices you can find in practicing stillness and inner listening. And the practices are given in Steps to Knowledge. They do not require fantastic beliefs. They do not require idols of worship. They do not require heroic figures, saints and saviors and avatars. You can practice them in the next moment. You can practice them this evening or tomorrow morning.

上帝已经给了你最纯净的精神上的实践，你可以在练习静止和内在聆听中找到。这些练习在《内识的进阶》中已经给出。它们不需要奇妙的信仰。它们不需要崇拜的偶像。它们不需要英雄人物、圣人、救世主和化身。你可以在接下来的时间里练习它们。你可以在今天晚上或明天早上练习它们。

You practice because you want to know the deeper reality of your life. And you know there is something there because you have always known there is something there. It is not a matter of belief.

你练习是因为你想知道你生命中更深层的现实。你知道那里有东西，因为你一直都知道那里有内识。它不是一个信仰的问题。

Beliefs change. Beliefs are manipulated. Beliefs are reinforced, and then beliefs fall apart. The reason that people constantly have to reaffirm belief is that belief is inherently unstable because it does not have a deeper foundation. And until belief has a deeper foundation, it will be unstable and unreliable and can become very self-deceptive.

信仰会改变。信仰是被操纵的。信仰被强化，然后信仰就会崩溃。人们之所以要不断地重申信仰，是因为信仰本身是不稳定的，因为它没有一个更深的基础。而在信仰拥有更深的基础之前，它将是不稳定的，不可靠的，而且会变得非常自欺欺人。

In meditation, you learn to step back from your mind and to find the calmness and the peace that allows your mind to open and your senses to become clear and sharp. Out of this comes a greater discernment and discretion in life.

在冥想中，你要学会从你的心灵中退后一步，找到平静和安宁，使你的心灵得以打开，你的感官变得清晰和敏锐。由此，在生命中有了更大的辨别力和谨慎。

You cease to talk so much and begin to listen more. You step away from constant stimulation so that you can stay with your own experience. You begin to value your experience more than your ideas, realizing your experience is far more true and far more reliable. You listen to others differently. You relate to others differently. You begin to experience the depth of nature as not merely scenery but as life force. You begin to experience the mental environment of your life, the environment of thought and influence, and new worlds begin to open for you.

你不再说那么多，而是开始更多地倾听。你远离不断的刺激，以便你能与自己的经历保持一致。你开始重视你的体验而不是你的想法，认识到你的经历更真实，更可靠。你以不同的方式倾听他人。你以不同的方式与他人发生关系。你开始经历大自然的深度，不仅仅是风景，而是生命力。你开始经历你生活的心理环境，感想和影响的环境，新的世界开始为你打开。

God cannot really do anything for you until you begin this path of liberation. You will not be liberated completely. That is not a realistic goal. But once you have begun to differentiate between your deeper experience and your intellect, then doors will begin to open for you.

在你开始这条解放之路之前，上帝无法真正为你做任何事情。你不会完全获得解放。那不是一个现实的目标。但是一旦你开始区分你更深层的经历和你的智力，那么门将开始为你打开。

Your life will begin to make sense. And you will begin to experience the deeper current of your life, which has always been flowing, in contrast to your plans and your goals and so much of how your life has been spent in the past.

你的生命将开始变得有意义。你将开始经历你生命中更深层的水流，它一直在流动，与你的计划和目标以及过去你的生活如何度过形成对比。

Say to yourself: “I am not my mind. I am not my intellect.” These are thoughts, too, but they give reference to a greater reality within you, which is not about thoughts. Here you do not denigrate the intellect, but you realize that it must be governed by a greater Spirit within you, and that your greater Spirit is governed by the Source of all spirituality.

对自己说。”我不是我的心灵。我不是我的智力”。这些也是感想，但它们提到了你内在的一个更大的现实，它不是关于感想。在这里，你并不诋毁智力，但你认识到它必须被你内在的一个更大的精神所管理，而你更大的精神是由所有精神性的来源所管理的。

Here the intellect is valued, so you want to cultivate it. You do not want to pollute it with ugly and violent things. You do not want to denigrate it with self-destructive, self-demeaning behavior. You want it to be clear and powerful. You want it to serve you rather than you serving it.

在这里，智力是有价值的，所以你想培养它。你不想用丑陋和暴力的东西污染它。你不想用自我毁灭、自我贬低的行为来诋毁它。你希望它是清晰和强大的。你希望它为你服务，而不是你为它服务。

This is a great correction in your relationship with yourself, which is fundamentally your relationship with your mind and with your body. For you only have one Self, so your relationship with your Self is your relationship with the deeper reality within you. But from this reality, you have a relationship with your mind and your body, which must be wisely and compassionately governed and managed and directed, rather than left to direct themselves.

这是对你与你自己关系的巨大修正，从根本上说，这是你与你的心灵和身体的关系。因为你只有一个本我，所以你与本我的关系就是你与你内心深处的现实的关系。但是，从这个现实出发，你与你的心灵和身体有一种关系，必须明智地、富有同情心地治理和管理、引导它们，而不是让它们自己去引导。

Your body is a wonderful vehicle. Without it, you could not communicate to people here. They could not hear you. They could not see you. They would not notice your presence, even if you were standing next to them. If you did not have a mind, you could not reach their mind. You would be invisible. They would not even know you were there. So the mind is a precious thing. The body is a precious thing, so mistreated in the world, so abused in the world, tragically.

你的身体是一个奇妙的载体。没有它，你就无法与这里的人交流。他们无法听到你。他们无法看到你。他们不会注意到你的存在，即使你站在他们旁边。如果你没有心灵，你就无法到达他们的心灵。你将是隐形的。他们甚至不会知道你在那里。所以心灵是一件珍贵的东西。身体是一件珍贵的东西，在这个世界上如此被虐待，在这个世界上如此被糟蹋，这很悲惨。

But for you, you must find a way now to build a real relationship with your greater Self, your deeper nature, because this holds the key to your life and your future. And the closer you become to this, the more difficult it will be for you to make a mistake and to throw your life away.

但是对你来说，你现在必须找到一种方法，与你的大我、你的更深层本性建立一种真正的关系，因为这掌握着你的生命和你的未来的关键。你越是接近这一点，你就越难犯错，越难抛弃你的生命。

Do not think that you are not throwing your life away, or that you are right where you need to be and that you are already guided and governed, for that is hardly the case. If you are honest with yourself, you will certainly have to admit this.

不要认为你没有丢掉你的生命，或者你在你需要的地方，你已经被引导和管理了，因为这几乎不是事实。如果你对自己诚实，你肯定会不得不承认这一点。

It is a great journey before you. And God has given you a way, a way to rediscover the power and the presence of Knowledge and its immense importance for your life and for your future. It is the most trustworthy thing there is.

它是摆在你面前的一段伟大的旅程。而上帝已经给了你一条道路，一条重新发现内识的力量和存在以及它对你的生命和你的未来的巨大重要性的道路。它是最值得信赖的关系。

As the world becomes more turbulent and chaotic in facing the Great Waves of change, you will need this strength and this guidance and this self-confidence. You will need to find this in others and support this in others, for it will be the strength of Knowledge and the strength of genuine relationships that will protect you and guide you and lead you to your greater accomplishments in life.

随着世界在面对变革的巨浪时变得更加动荡和混乱，你将需要这种力量、这种指导和这种自信。你将需要在别人身上找到这种力量，并在别人身上支持这种力量，因为正是内识的力量和真正关系的力量将保护你，引导你，并带领你在生命中取得更大成就。

The intellect does not know of these things. It can only speculate and hope and believe. But the certainty of your greater life is already held within you, like a secret cargo that you yourself cannot open. It must be called out of you, but to be called out of you, you must be ready. You must prepare. You must liberate yourself from the surface of your mind sufficiently that you can travel beneath it whenever it is necessary.

智力并不知道这些事情。它只能猜测、希望和相信。但你更大的生命的确定性已经在你内心，就像你自己无法打开的秘密货物。它必须从你身上被召唤出来，但要从你身上被召唤出来，你必须做好准备。你必须准备好。你必须把自己从心灵的表面解放出来，使你能够在必要的时候深入心灵表面之下进行旅行。

In this way, you become a medium between your Ancient Home and the world, between your physical reality and your spiritual reality. You become a vehicle for grace and power and contribution. This is your heart’s desire. This is what you were created to do.

通过这种方式，你成为你的古老家园和世界之间的媒介，成为你的物质现实和你的精神现实之间的媒介。你成为恩典、力量和贡献的载体。这是你的心愿。这就是你被创造出来的目的。

You were not created to live a miserable and chaotic life in a harsh and difficult world. That is not your true destiny. It may be your current reality, but it is not your true destiny. But ideas alone cannot assure you of this. You must experience it more deeply within yourself and in your true relationships with others.

你被创造出来不是为了在一个严酷和困难的世界上过着悲惨和混乱的生命。那不是你真实的天命。它可能是你目前的现实，但它不是你真实的天命。但仅凭想法无法向你保证这一点。你必须在你自己内部以及与他人的真实关系中更深入地经历它。

Listen to these words. Listen to the Power and the Presence that is with these words. Hear them deeply. Do not dispute them. Do not use your mind as a kind of fence or barrier. Do not use your mind to hide. Do not use your mind to take issue with what is there to serve you most profoundly.

倾听这些话语。倾听这些话语中的力量和存在。深入聆听它们。不要质疑它们。不要用你的心灵作为一种栅栏或障碍。不要用你的心灵来隐藏。不要用你的心灵去质疑那些为你提供最深刻服务的关系。

God has a plan for your life. You cannot figure it out with your intellect because it was not created by your intellect, and it far surpasses your intellect. That is why your religious beliefs can never be absolute unless you are foolish and arrogant. The Mystery will always exceed them and confuse them and liberate you from them.

上帝对你的生命有一个计划。你不能用你的智力来计算它，因为它不是由你的智力创造的，它远远超过了你的智力。这就是为什么你的宗教信仰永远不可能是绝对的，除非你是愚蠢的和傲慢的。神秘的内识总是会超过它们，迷惑它们，把你从它们那里解放出来。

Let this be your understanding.

让这成为你的理解。