The New Message on Freedom

As received by Marshall Vian Summers on February 3, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado
2008年2月3日，在科罗拉多州博尔德(Boulder, Colorado)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

Everyone wants freedom—the freedom to survive, the freedom to be secure, the freedom to meet the basic needs of life: food, water, clothing and shelter. Everyone wants the freedom to pursue their goals and interests. Everyone wants the freedom to establish meaningful relationships with others.

每个人都想要自由——生存的自由、安全的自由、满足基本生命需求的自由：食物、水、衣服和住所。每个人都想要追求他们的目标和兴趣的自由。每个人都想要与他人建立有意义的关系的自由。

Whatever form the desire for freedom takes, it is universal, both within this world and within the Greater Community of worlds in the universe around you.

无论对自由的渴望以何种形式呈现，它都是普遍的，无论是在这个世界，还是在你们周围宇宙的大社区之中。

Beyond meeting certain basic requirements of life, freedom represents a deeper need of the soul. This deeper need expresses itself through a person’s understanding, through their ideas and associations, but the pure impulse comes from deeper within them, beyond the realm of the intellect or intellectual understanding.

除了满足特定的基本生命需求外，自由还代表着灵魂更深层次的需求。这种更深层次的需求通过人的理解、想法和联想来表达，但纯粹的冲动来自他们内心的更深层次，超越了智力或智力理解上的范围。

While everyone wants freedom and everyone needs freedom, very few people in the world today understand what freedom is and what freedom is really for. Certainly, everyone wants freedom from things. They want freedom from deprivation. They want freedom from harm. They want freedom from the challenges and difficulties of living in the physical reality. They want freedom from oppression. They want freedom from illness. They want freedom from so many things. The lists will go on and on and on. And at a very basic level, people want freedom for things, to meet the basic requirements of life and so forth.

虽然每个人都想要自由，每个人都需要自由，但当今世界上很少有人理解自由是什么以及自由的真正目的。当然，每个人都想摆脱物质。他们想摆脱剥夺。他们想摆脱伤害。他们想摆脱在物质现实中生活的挑战和困难。他们想摆脱压迫。他们想摆脱疾病。他们想摆脱很多事物。清单可以一直列下去。从一个非常基本的层面上讲，人们想要物质自由，满足生命的基本需求等等。

But what freedom is really for, once these requirements have been met, once a certain degree of stability and security has been established—which today has not been established for so many people—yet once this is established, then the desire for freedom continues.

但自由的真正目的在于，一旦这些要求得到满足，一旦建立了一定程度的稳定和安全——今天对于许多人来说，这还没有建立——然而，一旦建立了，对自由的渴望就会持续下去。

It is not satisfied when you have enough to eat and drink, when you have a shelter and adequate clothing. Even when you have meaningful and supportive relationships, even when you have adequate employment, even when you have met all of the basic needs that remain unfulfilled for so many people in the world today, the yearning for freedom continues. The desire for freedom continues. It has not been satisfied fully.

当你有足够的食物和水，当你有一个栖身之所和足够的衣服时，这种渴望仍未得到满足。即使你拥有有意义的、相互支持的人际关系，即使你有足够的工作，即使你已经满足了当今世界上许多人尚未满足的所有基本需求，对自由的向往仍在继续。对自由的渴望仍在继续。它还没有得到充分满足。

Even if you acquired wealth and comfort and seeming insulation from the great difficulties of life, the yearning for freedom continues. It is like a deep thirst that can only be quenched by something very unique, by something very special, by something that goes beyond what people clamor for, what they desire and what they attempt to gain for themselves. So everyone wants freedom, but they do not know what it is for.

即使你获得了财富和舒适，似乎可以与生命中的巨大困难相隔绝，对自由的渴望仍然会继续。它就像一种深深的渴望，只有非常独特、非常特别的内识才能将其满足——一种超越人们所要求、所渴望和所试图为他们自己获得的事物。因此，每个人都想要自由，但他们不知道自由是为了什么。

Ultimately, freedom has to do with why you are in the world and what brought you into the world. You are not here by accident. You did not simply wash up on the shore one day. You are not simply just a product of the mechanisms of nature.

归根结底，自由与你为何来到这个世界以及是什么将你带到这个世界有关。你来到这里并非偶然。你不是在某一天被冲上海岸的。你并非仅仅是自然机制的产物。

You have come here for a greater purpose. You have come here to do something unique and special. You were sent into the world to make a contribution to the world, to the quality of life. Ultimately, your freedom is about this.

你来到这里是为了一个更伟大的目的。你来到这里是为了做一些独特而特别的事情。你被派到这个世界上，是为了对世界、对生命质量做出贡献。最终，你的自由就是为了这个目的。

Should you acquire everything that most people think they want for themselves, far beyond meeting your basic needs and requirements, the yearning for this freedom will continue. And for people who have attained wealth and seeming security, often depression sets in because they have satisfied the desires of the mind, but their need is still unmet. The deeper need of the soul remains unfulfilled. Their greater purpose and calling for coming into the world has not really been answered. They are seeking freedom for something, but they have not found it yet.

如果你获得了大多数人认为他们想要的一切，远远超出了满足基本需求和要求，那么对这种自由的渴望就会持续下去。而对于那些已经获得财富和看似安全的人来说，抑郁往往是因为他们已经满足了心灵的欲望，但他们的需求仍未得到满足。灵魂更深层次的需求仍未得到满足。他们来到这个世界的更伟大目的和召唤还没有得到真正的回应。他们在寻求某种自由，但他们还没有找到它。

This need functions at a deeper level, beyond the desires, fears and aspirations of your mind. It represents the need of the soul to fulfill its mission and to find those people who are critical to the experience, and discovery and expression of this mission.

这种需求在更深层次的层面上运作，超越了你心灵中的欲望、恐惧和抱负。它代表着灵魂完成它使命的需求，需要找到那些对体验、发现和表达这个使命至关重要的人。

So few people in the world today have found their mission. In fact, so few people have even met the basic requirements of life. So few people even know that they have a mission in life, though there is a fleeting awareness of this in the minds of many.

当今世界，很少有人能找到他们的使命。事实上，很少有人能够满足生命的基本要求。甚至很少有人知道他们在生命中肩负着的使命，尽管在许多人的心灵中，这种觉知稍纵即逝。

You seek freedom relentlessly because you are here for a mission, and if the mission has not been recognized, if even the need for the mission has not been recognized, then you will feel the desire for freedom without knowing what it means, what it is for or how it can be satisfied. This is freedom for something very fundamental.

你之所以不懈地追求自由，是因为你在这里是为了完成一项使命，如果这个使命没有被认识到，如果甚至这个使命的必要性没有被认识到，那么你就会感受到对自由的渴望，但却不知道它意味着什么、为了什么，也不知道如何才能满足这种渴望。这种自由是为了某些非常基本的东西。

The desire for freedom from things will certainly continue, for the world is a hazardous place and anything can happen to you. It is unpredictable. And so, there will continue to be the desire for freedom from things—from loss and deprivation, from loneliness and isolation, from poverty, from illness and from death itself.

人们渴望摆脱物质束缚，这种渴望肯定会持续下去，因为世界是一个危险的地方，任何事情都可能发生在你身上。这是不可预测的。因此，人们渴望摆脱物质束缚，摆脱损失和匮乏、摆脱孤独和孤立、摆脱贫困、摆脱疾病和死亡本身。

But the real impulse for freedom is the freedom for something. For this is something else, speaking to a deeper part of you, representing a deeper part of you, not simply a mechanism for establishing yourself in the world and securing your position. This is something else. If you have not felt it yet, it is because you have not gone deep enough within yourself. You are still functioning at the surface of your mind, at the level of thoughts and desires, fears and beliefs.

但真正推动自由的动力是为了某种事物的自由。因为这代表了内识，它与你更深层次的部分讲话，代表着你更深层次的部分，而不仅仅是一个帮助你在世界上立足、确保你位置的机制。这是内识。如果你还没有感受到它，那是因为你还没有深入到你自己内心的更深处。你仍然停留在心灵的表面、在思想和欲望、恐惧和信仰的层面上运作。

Of course, many people are trapped at the surface with all of its terrors and great attractions. But that is only the surface of your mind and only the surface of your life. For your life is about something more profound, more substantial and more permanent.

当然，许多人被困在表面，被各种恐惧和诱惑所困。但这只是你心灵的表面，也只是你生命的表面。因为你的生命是关于更深刻、更实质、更永恒的内识。

People are busy constantly. They are preoccupied constantly. They live in a noisy world around people who are preoccupied constantly. So many people have not had the opportunity or taken the risk of listening more deeply within themselves.

人们总是忙碌。他们总是心不在焉。他们生活在一个嘈杂的世界里，周围的人总是心事重重。因此，许多人都没有机会或冒险去更深入地倾听他们自己的内心。

Here it takes great disappointment or the loss of things that are desired to sometimes break the fixation of life on the surface, to take you down deeper within yourself where there is a deeper current of your life—a current that is not guided and determined by the world, a current that is not conditioned or dictated by your immediate circumstances, a deeper direction, like the deeper currents in the ocean that are not affected by the winds of the world, the deeper currents that are moving water all over the planet. They are not affected by the daily weather.

在这里，需要巨大的失望或失去想要的东西，才能有时打破对表面生命固着的执着，把你带入你自己内心深处的更深层次，在那里，存在着你生命的一种更深层次的潮流——一种不受世界引导和决定的潮流，一种不受你当前境遇制约或支配的潮流，一种更深层次的方向，就像海洋中不受世界风向影响的更深层次的潮流，一股在地球上到处流动的更深层次的潮流。它们不受日常天气的影响。

As is the case with you, there is a deeper current in your life. You cannot understand it intellectually, but you can feel it and begin to recognize there is something within you that is more profound and more mysterious than the catalog of your thoughts and beliefs, your desires and your fears.

正如你的情况一样，你的生命中有一股更深层次的潮流。你无法从智力上理解它，但你可以感受到它，并开始认识到你内心深处的内识比你的思想和信仰、你的欲望和你的恐惧更深刻、更神秘。

Once you begin to discover this, you have begun the first stages of a long and profound and fundamental journey in life. Until you feel this deepening, you are just sort of fooling around at the surface. You are just standing around the temple. You have not entered in. You are listening to the world and not to a deeper voice within yourself.

一旦你开始发现这一点，你就开始了漫长而深刻的、根本性的生命旅程的第一阶段。在你感受到这种深化之前，你只是在表面上胡闹。你只是站在寺庙的周围。你还没有进入其中。你只是在倾听世界，而不是倾听你自己内心深处的一种更深层次的声音。

Until you make connection to this deeper current of your life that represents a deeper Knowledge—a deeper Mind within you, a Mind that has been created by God to guide you, protect you and enable you to fulfill your mission in the world—until you can begin to experience this and recognize it and follow it, then you will be a slave to the forces in the world and to your own fears or ambitions.

除非你与你生命中的这个更深层次的潮流建立联接，它代表着一种更深层次的内识——你内心深处的一种更深层次的心灵，一个由上帝创造来指引你、保护你并让你能够实现你在世界上的使命的心灵——除非你能够开始体验它、认出它并遵循它，否则你就会成为世界上各种力量和你自己的恐惧或野心的奴隶。

There is no freedom here. Even if you live in a country that gives you certain political freedoms, even if you live in the freest country, you are not free. You are captive. Your mind is dominated by the preoccupations of the world, by the mental environment in which you live and by all the forces within that mental environment that determine what you will think, what you will choose, how you will behave, what you will do to seek approval, what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is not good, what is appropriate and what is not appropriate.

这里没有自由。即使你生活的国家给予你一定的政治自由，即使你生活在最自由的国家，你也不自由。你是被囚禁的。你的心灵被这个世界、你所生活的心理环境以及心理环境中的所有力量所支配，这些力量决定了你会想什么、你会选择什么、你会如何表现、你会做什么来寻求认同、什么是对的、什么是错的、什么是好的、什么是不好的、什么是合适的、什么是不合适的。

All of this will be conditioned into you and though you may think you are free and you may validate or accentuate your individuality, your thoughts are not free. Your emotions are not free. Your ideas are not free. Your motivations are often not your own.

所有这些都会成为你的条件，尽管你可能认为你是自由的，你可能会确认或强调你的个体性，但你的思想并不自由。你的情感并不自由。你的想法并不自由。你的动机往往不是你自己的。

You are a slave to other forces. You are a slave to your need for approval from others, your desire for relationships and romance, your quest for meaningful work, your need for validation from others and your fear of others. You will be herded along like you are part of a herd of cattle, not knowing what you are doing, why you are there or what it means, just going along, living each day, just going along, staying preoccupied, trying to stay happily stimulated, but always afraid of the shadows—afraid even of yourself; afraid of your deeper feelings; afraid of your deeper awareness; afraid of the mystery of your life; afraid of the world and the innumerable things that could deprive you, harm you or destroy you; afraid of the future and afraid of the past—running now, trying to seek something that you do not even understand, running from yourself, unable to be quiet in the moment, unable to settle down and unable to face things.

你是其他力量的奴隶。你需要他人的认可，你渴望人际关系和浪漫，你追求有意义的工作，你需要他人的肯定，你害怕他人，而你正是这些力量的奴隶。你会像牛群中的一员一样被驱赶着，不知道你在做什么，不知道你为什么在这里，也不知道这意味着什么，只是随波逐流，过着每一天，漫无目的地活着，保持忙碌，试图保持快乐的刺激，但总是害怕阴影——甚至害怕你自己；害怕你更深层次的感受；害怕你更深层次的觉知；害怕你生命的神秘；害怕这个世界和无数可能剥夺你、伤害你或毁灭你的事情；害怕未来，害怕过去——奔跑在当下，试图寻找一些你甚至不理解的事物，逃避你自己，无法安静地待在当下，无法安定下来，无法面对事情。

Is this not a condition of everyone around you? And when you meet someone who is not governed by these forces, are they not exceptional? Do they not stand out from everyone else, in contrast to everyone else?

这难道不是你身边每个人的状况吗？而当你遇到不受这些力量支配的人时，他们难道不是出类拔萃的吗？与其他人相比，他们难道不是与众不同吗？

How few people are self-aware at this deeper level, who are standing apart from the great rush of human ambition, from the great rush of people seeking wealth and personal advantage. And, of course, those are the lucky ones. Everyone else is struggling to survive, struggling to meet their basic requirements, holding on, hanging on.

在这个更深层次的层面上，很少有人有自我察觉，他们与人类的野心大潮、与追求财富和个人利益的大潮格格不入。当然，这些人是幸运的。其他人都在为生存而挣扎，为满足他们的基本需求而挣扎，进行坚持，努力活着。

Goaded by the fear of poverty and deprivation, people are driven to seek endless amounts of wealth and reassurance for themselves. This is pervasive in the world. This is the condition of the human family. This is the state of the union for the human family.

在贫困和匮乏的恐惧驱使下，人们被迫为他们自己寻求无尽的财富和安慰。这种现象在世界上无处不在。这就是人类大家庭的现状。这就是人类大家庭的共同境况。

All of the addictions, all of the depression, all of the poor mental and physical health you see around you is a product of this desperation and this disassociation that people have with themselves and with the greater purpose that has brought them into the world.

你在周围看到的所有成瘾、所有抑郁、所有糟糕的身心健康，都是这种绝望的产物，是人们与他们自己、与把他们带到这个世界上的更伟大的目的相脱离的产物。

There must be a fundamental shift in your understanding of freedom. Said most simply, your freedom here is to find your purpose and to fulfill it. All of the other freedoms that you seek—the freedom for stability, the freedom for certainty, the freedom to find out the truth about your life, the freedom to think, the freedom to feel, the freedom to know, the freedom to express yourself, the freedom to go where you need to go, the freedom to become educated —even the freedom to survive is for this greater purpose.

你对自由的理解必须发生根本性的转变。最简单地说，你在这里的自由就是找到你的目的并实现它。你所追求的所有其他自由——稳定的自由、确定性的自由、找出你生命真理的自由、思考的自由、感受的自由、知道的自由、表达你自己的自由、去你需要去的地方的自由、接受教育的自由——甚至生存的自由，都是为了这个更伟大的目的。

If you take the desire for freedom to its full expression, if you take it down to its absolute foundation, it is about this. To finally come to this realization after you have tasted the pleasures and the sorrows of this world, after you have tried to fulfill yourself with people, places, activities, holidays, hobbies, sports and every other form of distraction that may be available to you, when you finally come to yourself, whether it be from a great disappointment or a sudden realization or a lucid moment in your hectic life, when you finally come to this, you will realize there is a greater need within you and that it cannot be fulfilled by all the desperate attempts at happiness that everyone around you is attempting and committing themselves to.

如果你充分表达了对自由的渴望，如果你把它归结为绝对的基础，它就是关于这一点的。在你尝尽了这个世界的快乐和悲伤之后，在你试图用人、地方、活动、假期、爱好、运动和所有其他可能让你分心的方式满足你自己之后，当你最终回到你自己身边时，无论是因为一次巨大的失望，还是突然的领悟，还是你忙碌生命中的一个清醒时刻，当你最终意识到这一点时，你会意识到你内心有一个更伟大的需求，而这种需求是你周围所有人都在尝试和致力于实现的幸福所无法满足的。

Your understanding of freedom must change if you are to experience it and to express it and to know its deeper and real meaning. This does not mean that wanting other things is wrong. You need certain things in life, of course. You need meaningful companionship, of course. You need stability and security. You need certain things, certain needs that have not been met for so many people. Do not get fixated here. The emphasis is on finding the thread of truth in your life.

如果你要体验自由、表达自由、知道自由更深层次的意义和真正的意义，那么你必须改变对自由的理解。这并不意味着想要其他东西是错误的。当然，你需要生命中的特定东西。当然，你需要有意义的陪伴。你需要稳定和安全。你需要特定的东西，特定的需求，而这些需求对于许多人来说都尚未得到满足。不要执着于此。重点在于找到你生命中的真理线索。

God has placed a deeper Mind within you, the Mind of Knowledge, for God knows you would never find your purpose in the world without this deeper Knowledge. You would become lost in the world, captivated by the world, overwhelmed by the world and by the influences in the physical and the mental environments. These would shape your life, your thoughts, your feelings, your interests, your aspirations—everything.

上帝在你的内心深处放置了一个更深层次的心灵，即内识的心灵，因为上帝知道，如果没有这个更深层次的内识，你将永远找不到你在这个世界上的目的。你会迷失在这个世界中，被这个世界所吸引，被这个世界以及物理环境和心理环境的影响所淹没。这些将会塑造你的生命、你的思想、你的感受、你的兴趣、你的抱负——一切。

You would have no sense of where you are going, why you are here or what you are doing. You would have no certainty about your life, and you would have no fulfillment for the deeper need of the soul within you—lost now in the world, as if you were lost in some distant wilderness.

你将不知道你要去哪里，不知道你为什么在这里，也不知道你在做什么。你将对你的生命没有确定性，也无法满足内心深处灵魂的更深层次的需求——现在你迷失在这个世界，就像迷失在某个遥远的荒野中一样。

God knows that you would not take the right actions, that you would not become a person of real integrity, that you would not even meet the expectations that God has sent into the world through the great Messengers. You could not do this without Knowledge. And that is why when the Separation began, when the great disassociation began, at the beginning of time, Knowledge was created.

上帝知道，你不会采取正确的行动，你不会成为一个真正完整性的人，你甚至不会满足上帝通过伟大信使带给世界的期望。没有内识，你就无法做到这一点。这就是为什么当分离开始的时候，当伟大的分离开始的时候，在时间之初，内识就被创造了。

Though you may think you are a human being, though you may think you are a member of your family and culture, though you may believe fervently in your identity in the world, you are still part of God. The Separation, though apparent and seemingly real, has not fully occurred. And it is because of this that there is hope for your life, there is promise for your life, there is meaning for your life and there is purpose for your life.

尽管你可能认为你是一个人类存在，尽管你可能认为你是你的家庭和文化的一员，尽管你可能热切地相信你在这个世界上的身份，但你依然是上帝的一部分。分离虽然显而易见且看似真实，但并未完全发生。正因为如此，你的生命才有希望，你的生命才有承诺，你的生命才有意义，你的生命才有目的。

You may think whatever you like, take whatever position you want, protect your ideas, protect your goals, hide from the world, hide from God, hide from yourself and run around like a crazy person all day, but you are still connected to God. You have still come into the world for a purpose and a mission. You cannot change this, you see, because you cannot change the truth. And there is a truth that goes beyond your perspective and your position. There is a truth that is more profound and fundamental than just your version or your interpretation.

你可以随心所欲地思考，可以采取任何你想要的立场，可以保护你的想法，可以保护你的目标，可以躲避世界，可以躲避上帝，可以躲避你自己，可以整天像疯子一样四处奔波，但你仍然与上帝相连。你仍然是为了一个目的和一个使命来到这个世界的。你看，你无法改变这一点，因为你无法改变真理。有一个真理超越了你的观点和立场。有一个真理比你的版本或你的解释更深刻、更根本。

It is like having a great mountain rising out of the plains. Well, everywhere you look at the mountain, it looks slightly different, depending on where you are looking. If you are up close, if you are far away, if you are to the north, the south, the east or the west—it all looks different, you see. But it is the same mountain. It has not changed with your perspective.

它就像平原上耸立着一座大山。好吧，无论你从哪里看这座山，它看起来都略有不同，这取决于你在哪里看。如果你在近处，如果你在远处，如果你在北面、南面、东面或西面——你看，它看起来都不一样。但它是同一座山。它不会随着你的视角而改变。

You may debate with others about the appearance of the mountain. You are looking from the north and they are looking from the south. Oh, the mountain looks so very different. You argue about its features and its manifestations. To someone up close, it is huge and monumental. To someone at a distance, it is just something out on the horizon. The experience is different. The perspectives are different. But the mountain has not changed. It has not adapted itself to people’s perspective or people’s position around it.

你可能会和他人争论这座山的外观。你从北面看，他们从南面看。哦，这座山看起来太不一样了。你们争论它的特征和表现。对近处的人来说，它是巨大而宏伟的。对远处的人来说，它只是地平线上某个模糊的存在。体验不同。视角不同。但这座山并没有改变。它并没有因为人们的视角或人们在它周围的位置而调整它自己。

This, then, is like the truth about your life. You can take any position. It looks different from different perspectives. You may turn away and look the other way: “Why, I see no mountain now” for your back is to it.

因此，这就像是你生命的真理。你可以采取任何立场。从不同的角度看，它看起来是不同的。你可以转过身去，看向另一边：“为什么，我现在看不到山了”，因为你背对着它。

You may say it is important. You may say it is unimportant. You may say it is real. You may say it is not real. You may say it is part of your religion or not part of your religion. But there is the mountain, a great fact of life.

你可以说它很重要。你可以说它不重要。你可以说它是真实的。你可以说它是不真实的。你可以说它是你宗教的一部分，也可以说它不是你宗教的一部分。但是，山就在那里，它是生命中的一个伟大事实。

There is the purpose within you—the great mountain within you waiting to be discovered, waiting to be climbed, waiting for you to take the journey to it and learn how to journey up it and live at its higher altitudes.

在你的内心深处有一个目的——你内心深处的大山，等待着你去发现，等待着你去攀登，等待着你踏上通往它的旅程，学习如何攀登这座山，在更高的海拔上生活。

Here you begin to realize that who you are is not your mind and that your mind and your body are vehicles of expression in life. They do not constitute your real identity. And this is a very profound discovery. This is a profound step towards freedom.

在这里，你开始意识到，你是谁并不取决于你的心灵，你的心灵和你的身体只是你生命中表达的载体。它们并不构成你的真实身份。这是一个非常深刻的发现。这是迈向自由的重要一步。

If you think you are your mind, if you identify with your thoughts, then you are completely at the mercy of the mental environment. You may think you are creating your reality, but you are really living in the reality that everyone else is creating.

如果你认为你就是你的心灵，如果你认同你的思想，那么你就完全受制于心理环境。你可能认为你正在创造你的现实，但你实际上生活在其他人正在创造的现实中。

If you think you are your body, you will feel weak and helpless and vulnerable. You will be a slave to fulfilling its needs and its pleasures. You will always live in fear and terror over its injury and ultimate demise. There is no freedom. There is no peace. There is no fulfillment here.

如果你认为你就是你的身体，你就会感到软弱、无助和脆弱。你将成为满足身体需求和享乐的奴隶。你将永远生活在对身体受伤和最终死亡的恐惧之中。这里没有自由。没有和平。没有满足感。

The mountain within you was created by God. Your purpose, your real purpose, was created by God. You were sent into the world by your Spiritual Family, those assembled to help you, those you are connected to already.

你内心深处的这座山是上帝创造的。你的目的，你真正的目的，也是上帝创造的。你是被你的精神家庭派到这个世界上的，那些聚集在一起帮助你的存在，那些你已经与之相连的存在。

So at some point, hopefully, you get serious about your life. Instead of fooling around at the surface, instead of desperately trying to fulfill yourself with temporary things—with the pleasures and comforts and escapes—you begin to see there is a deeper current, a deeper need and a deeper reality within you.

因此，在某个时刻，希望你能够认真对待你的生命。你不再停留在表面上，而是停止那些无谓的玩乐，不再拼命地试图通过暂时的事物——那些享乐、安逸和逃避——来满足你自己。你开始看到你内心深处有一种更深层次的潮流、一种更深层次的需求和一种更深层次的现实。

You see this in others. And you begin to see it everywhere. You realize your thoughts are only approximations and that your beliefs, even if they are helpful to you in making this discovery, are only temporary things. And their only value is to bring you to this mountain and enable you to begin the ascent.

你在他人身上看到了这一点。然后，你开始在每个地方都看到它。你意识到，你的思想不过是近似的产物，而你的信仰，即使它们在帮助你做出这个发现时有所助益，仍然只是暂时的东西。它们的唯一价值，是带你来到这座山，并使你能够开始攀登。

If your ideas and beliefs are bringing you closer to the discovery and the experience of your real purpose in the world, then they are helpful. If they are not, then they are not helpful.

如果你的想法和信念让你更接近于发现和体验你在这个世界上的真正目的，那么它们就是有帮助的。如果没有，那么它们就是无益的。

There are no neutral thoughts. There are no neutral beliefs. There are no neutral positions. Whatever you are doing today is either helping you or hindering you in this great discovery.

不存在中立的思想。不存在中立的信念。不存在中立的立场。无论你今天在做什么，在这个伟大的发现过程中，要么是在帮助你，要么是在阻碍你。

There are no neutral relationships. The people you associate with are either helping you or hindering you in this great discovery. Even if they are wonderful, loving people, they are either hindering you or helping you in this great discovery.

不存在中立的关系。你交往的人要么帮助你，要么阻碍你实现这个伟大的发现。即使他们是了不起的、有爱心的人，他们要么阻碍你，要么帮助你实现这个伟大发现。

For God knows you cannot make this discovery alone. You will need relationships that are associated with your higher purpose. You will need to be with people who are making the same discovery themselves. You will need this reinforcement. You will need this companionship. You will need this to begin to have faith in the greater purpose that has brought you here, in the greater reality that lives within you. You will need relationships to bear witness to this.

因为上帝知道，你不可能独自完成这个发现。你将需要与你的更高宗旨相关的关系。你需要与那些正在进行同样探索的人在一起。你将需要这种强化。你将需要这种陪伴。你需要这些，才能开始把你带到这里的更伟大的目的、对生活在你内心深处的更伟大的现实充满信仰。你将需要关系来见证这一点。

You need to be free to find these relationships. You need to be free to experience this purpose. You need to be free to express this purpose. You need to be free to change your life and your focus, your values and your priorities in order to respond to this greater purpose. You need to be free from your own fixed ideas, even your own fixed ideas about religion and God, meaning and purpose. Even this can hold you back.

你需要自由去寻找这些关系。你需要自由去体验这个目的。你需要自由去表达这个目的。你需要自由去改变你的生命和你的关注点、你的价值观和你的优先事项，以便回应这个更伟大的目的。你需要摆脱你自己的固定想法，甚至从你自己关于宗教和上帝、意义和目的的固有想法中解放出来。即使这些也可能会束缚你。

At the bottom of the mountain, there are many believers. But those who are beginning the journey up the mountain, who are learning to experience and to express a greater purpose in life, they are not mere believers anymore.

在山脚下，有许多信徒。但是，那些正在开始上山的人，那些正在学习体验和表达更伟大生命目的的人，他们已经不再是单纯的信徒了。

They are finding something more profound than their beliefs. They are having to change their beliefs. Their beliefs now are like the spectacles they wear to help them see. And over time the prescription for those spectacles changes.

他们发现了比他们的信仰更深刻的内识。他们必须改变他们的信仰。他们现在的信仰就像他们戴的眼镜，帮助他们看清事物。随着时间的推移，眼镜的度数也会发生改变。

But the believers at the bottom of the mountain cannot change their beliefs. They think their beliefs are the truth. They think their ideas are who they are. They think they understand the Mind of God and the meaning of life. They have it all figured out. It is in the book, somewhere. It is what they have been taught. They are believers.

但山下的信徒却无法改变他们的信仰。他们认为他们的信仰就是真理。他们认为他们的想法就是他们自己。他们认为他们理解上帝的心灵和生命的意义。他们把一切都想明白了。它就在书中的某个地方。这就是他们所受的教育。他们是信徒。

They are not free. They think their belief sets them free and that the truth sets them free, but the real truth that sets them free is beyond their beliefs.

他们并不自由。他们认为信仰使他们自由，真理使他们自由，但真正能让他们自由的真理却在他们的信仰之外。

God is not a product of your beliefs. Beliefs have to do with perspective, and one’s range of experience with one’s conditioning and the degree to which one has begun to respond to the deeper movement of their life and to the deeper current of their life.

上帝不是你信仰的产物。信仰与视角有关，与一个人的经验范围、一个人的条件以及一个人开始对其生命中更深层次的运动和生命中更深层次的潮流做出回应的程度有关。

This is not about belief. The truth is beyond belief. You must have confidence in a Greater Power in your life and not simply in your ideas or even the ideas of your culture. Old ideas may be no more true than new ideas. They just have more agreement, more solidity.

内识与信仰无关。真理是超越信仰的。你必须对你生命中的更伟大的力量充满信心，而不仅仅是对你的想法，甚至你的文化的想法。旧的想法可能并不比新的想法更真实。它们只是有更多的共识、更多的稳固性。

The real meaning of your freedom at every step, in whatever avenue you are looking at it has to do with enabling you to find and fulfill a greater purpose. From the position of your real Being this is obvious, of course, what else could it be?

无论你走到哪一步，无论你走到哪条道路，你自由的真正意义都在于让你找到并实现更伟大的目的。从你真正存在的立场来看，这当然是显而易见的，还能是什么呢？

But from the position of your thinking and your beliefs, it seems incredible or perhaps unreal or inconceivable, or you think of it in terms of what your beliefs dictate—oh yes, you must become a righteous person. You must fulfill your duties. But that is your interpretation of the mountain. It is not the mountain itself.

但是，从你的思维和信仰的立场来看，这似乎是不可思议的，也许是不真实的，也许是不可想象的，或者你是按照你的信仰来思考的——哦，是的，你必须成为一个正直的人。你必须履行你的职责。但这只是你对山的理解。它不是山本身。

The mountain will teach you what is needed. It will teach you the way you must go. It will teach you wisdom that the world cannot teach you. It will teach you a deeper level of trust. It will teach you a deeper level of discernment. It will teach you the difference between appearances and real substance. It will teach you the difference between what looks good and what is good.

大山将教导你什么是必需的。它将教导你必须走的路。它将教导你世界无法教给你的智慧。它将教导你更深层次层面上的信任。它将教导你更深层次层面上的辨别力。它将教导你表象与实质之间的区别。它将教导你什么是看起来好的表象，什么是真的好。

It is mysterious. You cannot control it. It transcends your beliefs, your ideas and your control. You are not in control of the mission now, so you must learn to be in control of yourself if you take such a journey.

它是神秘的。你无法控制它。它超越了你的信仰、你的想法和你的控制。你现在无法控制这个使命，因此，如果你要踏上这样的旅程，就必须学会控制你自己。

Everything that you are relating to—people, places, things, work, events, circumstances—even your relationship with your mind and your body are now seen in a different way. If your mind is to serve the Spirit, it must learn to yield to the Spirit. It must now learn to take the journey instead of standing apart and judging the situation. Your body now must become healthy and flexible in order for it to be a vehicle for you to take this journey to fulfill this mission in the world.

你与之相关的一切——人、地方、事物、工作、事件、环境——甚至你与你的心灵和你的身体的关系，现在都以不同的方式被看待。如果你的心灵要服务于精神，它必须学会屈服于精神。它现在必须学会踏上旅程，而不是站在一边评判情况。你的身体现在必须变得健康和灵活，以便它成为你踏上这段旅程、完成这个世界使命的载体。

Your relationship with where you live, with how you live, with your possessions; your relationships with other people, with your employment; your relationship with your town, your community, your nation; your relationship with time itself and your relationship with nature—the list goes on and on, you see, because everything can be seen in terms of relationship. And all of these relationships, all the way down the line, ultimately have to do with whether they can sustain you and enable you to find and fulfill your purpose.

你与居住地的关系，与生活方式的关系，与财产的关系；你与他人的关系，与工作的关系；你与城市、社区、国家的关系；你与时间本身的关系，以及你与自然的关系——你看，这个清单还在继续，因为一切都可以从关系的角度来看待。而所有这些关系，归根结底，都关系到它们能否支撑你，能否让你找到并实现你的目的。

This is how God looks at your life, you see. Before you make this discovery, you think your purpose is what will enable you to get what you want—more pleasure, less pain, more security, less insecurity, more wealth, less poverty, more advantages, less disadvantages. You think your purpose, even your spirituality is there to give you what you want. This is like saying your Spirit is there to serve your mind, when in truth it is the other way around.

你看，这就是上帝看待你生命的方式。在你发现这一点之前，你认为你的目的就是让你得到你想要的东西——更多的快乐，更少的痛苦，更多的安全，更少的不安全感，更多的财富，更少的贫困，更多的优势，更少的劣势。你认为你的目的，甚至你的精神性，都是为了给你你想要的东西。这就像说你的精神是为了服务你的心灵，而真理是恰恰相反。

When people start out, everything is backwards. They think God is there to serve their desires as if God is an errand boy for their desires. “God is there to give me what I want. God is there to assure me and to have what I want. God is there to reinforce me. God is there at my beckoning.” That is how many people think. “God is there to validate my beliefs. God is there to validate my religion. God is what I say God is. God’s Will is what I say God’s Will is.”

当人们开始的时候，一切都是倒退的。他们认为上帝是为了满足他们的欲望而存在的，就好像上帝是他们欲望的差使一样。“上帝在那里是为了给我我想要的东西。上帝在那里是为了向我保证，让我拥有我想要的东西。上帝在那里强化我。上帝在那里听我的召唤。”这就是许多人的想法。“上帝是为了证实我的信仰。上帝是为了证实我的宗教。上帝就是我所说的上帝。上帝的意志就是我所说的上帝的意志。”

Foolish and arrogant, of course, but this is how many people think, for they do not realize they are not their minds. They do not realize they are a slave to the mental environment in which they live. They do not yet realize they have a greater purpose and that the mountain is real and stands beyond their estimation, that their purpose is created by God and not by themselves and that religion is there as a pathway to understand the Mystery and is not a replacement for the Mystery.

当然，这是愚蠢和傲慢的，但许多人就是这么想的，因为他们没有意识到他们不是他们的心灵。他们没有意识到他们是他们所生活的心理环境的奴隶。他们还没有意识到他们有一个更伟大目的，没有意识到这座山是真实存在的，是他们无法估量的，没有意识到他们的目的就是上帝创造的，而不是他们自己创造的，没有意识到宗教是理解神秘的道路，而不是神秘的替代品。

Ask yourself: “What must I do to learn about my real purpose?” Listen to what the New Message from God is here to advocate and to reveal. For it is a greater reminder that you have come into the world to serve a world in transition, to serve a world facing great changes, Great Waves of change, and that you are here for a purpose and that purpose remains mysterious.

问问你自己：“我必须做什么才能了解​​我真正的目的？”聆听来自上帝的新讯息在此倡导和揭示的内容。因为它是一个更伟大的提醒，提醒你来到这个世界是为了服务于一个处于转型中的世界，服务于一个面临巨大变化、变革巨浪的世界，你来到这里是为了一个目的，而这个目的仍然是神秘的。

You do not know what it is yet, but you do know that you need it. You do know that it is important and fundamental to you. This will give you a freedom to respond to a greater power within you—greater than your mind, greater than the beliefs of humanity even, greater than the appearances of life around you.

你还不知道它是什么，但你知道你需要它。你知道它对你来说是重要的、根本的。这将赋予你一种自由，去回应你内在的一个更伟大的力量——这种力量比你的心灵更伟大，甚至比人类的信仰更伟大，比你周围生命的表象更伟大。

This deeper Knowledge is wise. It is practical. It is the antidote to your foolishness. It is the antidote to your servitude to others and to the notions that are prevalent in your cultures. It is the antidote to evil in the world. It is the remedy that God has created. It fulfills your purpose. It answers your questions. It makes questioning unnecessary.

这个更深层次的内识是明智的。它是实用的。它是你愚蠢的解药。它是你对他人的奴役以及你文化中盛行的观念的解药。它是世界上邪恶的解药。它是上帝创造的解药。它实现你的目的。它回答你的问题。它让质疑变得不必要。

Over time, this will become your experience, but you must take the journey, and the journey is very long and has many turns and many thresholds. It is the most natural thing in life for you to take this journey. It is like returning home and moving forward all at once. It is like returning to something innate and familiar while breaking new ground all at once. And you will see even at the outset what is holding you back and how you are not free in your thinking, in your circumstances or even in your relationships to even begin to question and to look and to listen.

随着时间的推移，这将成为你的经验，但你必须走完这段旅程，这段旅程非常漫长，有许多转折和许多门槛。对你来说，踏上这段旅程是生命中最自然不过的事情。它就像同时返回家园和向前迈进。它就像回到了与生俱来的熟悉的地方，同时又开辟了新的天地。甚至在一开始，你就会看到是什么阻碍了你，你的思维、环境甚至人际关系是如何的不自由，甚至连质疑、观察和倾听的能力都还没有开始。

You will see how few people can go with you. Even your closest friends now have no interest in what you are being drawn to. They wonder about you. They think you are being excessive, wondering why you are not wanting to do the things that you used to do, why you are not doing the things they want you to want to do, why you are acting differently, why you are questioning and why you are so serious.

你会看到很少有人能和你一起去。即使是你最亲密的朋友，现在也对你所吸引的内识毫无兴趣。他们对你产生了疑惑，认为你变得过于极端，想知道你为什么不想做以前做的事情，为什么你不做他们希望你做的事情，为什么你的行为与以前不同，为什么你开始质疑，为什么你变得如此严肃。

They do not understand because they have not turned that corner themselves. They are looking away from the mountain and you are staring at it, feeling its pull and feeling its great attraction—the Great Attraction of God.

他们不理解，因为他们自己还没有转过那个弯。他们背离了那座山，而你却在凝视着它，感受着它的牵引，感受着它的伟大吸引力——上帝的伟大吸引力。

You will see even at the outset that you are not free. You are not free to think. You are not free to respond. You are not free to consider changing your life for something more important. You are bound to others. You are bound to your ideas. You are bound to your fears. You are bound to your circumstances. You are bound to the expectations of others. You are bound to your commitments. You are bound to your duties. You are bound to your family, your culture and your nation.

你甚至一开始就会看到，你并不自由。你没有思考的自由。你没有回应的自由。你没有自由去考虑为更重要的事情改变你的生命。你受制于他人。你受制于你的想法。你受制于你的恐惧。你受制于你的环境。你受制于他人的期望。你受制于你的承诺。你受制于你的职责。你受制于你的家庭、你的文化和你的国家。

It is like your life has already been given away. It has already been committed elsewhere. And yet the great pull of God is within you. This does not mean you have to become an ascetic or a monk or a nun. That is only reserved for certain individuals. This is a Calling from God to be in the world but with a greater understanding, with a greater association, for a greater purpose.

它就像你的生命已经被交付，你的生命已经承诺给了别处。然而，上帝的伟大召唤就在你的内心深处。这并不意味着你必须成为苦行者、僧侣或修女。这只是为特定的人保留的。这是来自上帝的召唤，要你身处世界之中，但带着一种更伟大的理解、带着一种更伟大的联系，为了一个更伟大的目的。

You will be afraid at the outset. You will think that you are dabbling in something dangerous or strange or mysterious. And other people will discourage you, question you, doubt you.

一开始你会感到害怕。你会认为你正在涉足某种危险、奇怪或神秘的事情。其他人也会劝阻你、质问你、怀疑你。

To be called by God is to be called out of your former circumstances, to be called away from the great trudging line of people in bondage, be they rich or poor. It is being called out of line with everyone else. To be called is to be awoken and to be alerted that there is something else in your life that has been waiting for you for so very long and that now it is time for you to respond.

被上帝召唤，就是被召唤离开你以前的环境，就是被召唤离开那些受奴役的人们，无论他们是富人还是穷人。它就是被召唤脱离其他人的行列。被召唤意味着被唤醒，被提醒，你的生命中还有其他的事情一直在等待着你，已经等待许久，现在是你做出回应的时候了。

The needs of the world are requiring it. The relationships you are destined to meet are requiring now that you step out of line, that you respond to a greater Calling, that you begin to receive the signs and the symbols that your life must take a great turn and set a new direction—a direction not that you invent, that is not dominated by your goals or your fears, or your political or religious beliefs, but a goal that has been set by God. For God is the Great Attraction and you must become the great respondent.

世界的需求在要求它。你命中注定要建立的关系现在需要你走出界线，要求你回应一个更伟大的召唤，要求你开始接收那些迹象和象征，表明你的生命必须发生一种伟大转变并设定一个新的方向——这个方向不是你发明的，不是被你的目标或你的恐惧，或你的政治或宗教信仰所主导，而是一个由上帝设定的目标。因为上帝是伟大的吸引力，你必须成为伟大的回应者。

This is freedom. This is what freedom is for. This is what freedom is ultimately from. This is what frees your Spirit to fulfill its mission in the world. This is what frees you from the domination of your thoughts. This is what frees you from the terrors and the inducements of this world. This is what gives you reprieve from so many of life’s aggravations. This is what gives you compassion for others for you see that others are trapped by circumstances, by beliefs, by poverty, by wealth, by pain, by pleasure—trapped, chained to the wall of their own submission.

这就是自由。这就是自由的目的。这就是自由的最终目的。这就是自由让你的灵魂得以自由地完成它在世界上的使命。这就是让你摆脱思想支配的自由。这就是让你摆脱这个世界的恐惧和诱惑的自由。这就是让你从生命中的诸多烦恼中解脱出来的原因。这就是让你对他人产生同情的原因，因为你看到其他人被环境、信仰、贫穷、财富、痛苦、快乐所困——被困住，被锁在他们自己屈服的墙上。

Here you must be willing to go forward even if no one goes with you. You must learn to have this strength and this integrity. You will not be alone for long on this journey, but you must take the journey alone. The substantiation must come from within you. It will be supported by the signs around you, but you must have the strength to do this.

在这里，即使没有人与你同行，你也必须勇往直前。你必须学会拥有这种力量和完整性。在这段旅程中，你不会孤单太久，但你必须独自踏上旅程。证据必须来自你的内心。它将得到你周围迹象的支持，但你必须有力量做到这一点。

You will see when doing this how much power you have given away to others, how much you need approval from others, how much you are afraid of disapproval from others, how insecure you really do feel and how much you have given up in order to feel safe and secure. The approach to the truth reveals the real nature of your limitations, the real nature of your bondage and the real predicament for all of humanity.

当你这样做时，你会看到你已经把多少权力交给了他人，你有多么需要他人的认可，你有多么害怕他人的反对，你实际上有多缺乏安全感，以及为了感到安全和安稳你放弃了多少。接近真理的过程揭示了你限制的真正自然、你束缚的真正自然，以及全人类所面临的真正困境。

The path to freedom can be found in all the great religions. It has not been destroyed by human manipulation, but many people have lost sight of it and the world is now changing. Humanity is facing thresholds it has never faced before—the Great Waves change and the Greater Darkness that is in the world.

在所有伟大的宗教中都能找到通往自由的道路。它并没有被人类的操纵所摧毁，但许多人已经失去了对它的关注，而世界现在正在发生改变。人类正面临着前所未有的门槛——巨浪的变革和世界上更大的黑暗。

That is why a New Message from God has been sent and the calling is going out. The calling is powerful. The need is great. The circumstances you are destined to serve are arising and you must be prepared. You do not have a lot of time. You cannot sit on the fence for years and years, wondering and doubting, going forward and going back, accepting and denying, acting and reacting. You must now become bold for the time for your expression, the time for your purpose to be communicated and discovered is coming. It is arising. For the world must call out of you your greater purpose and the needs of the world are arising and will become ever more intense in the future.

正因为如此，一条来自上帝的新讯息被发送，召唤正在发出。召唤是强大的。需求是伟大的。你注定要服务的环境正在出现，你必须做好准备。你没有太多时间。你不能年复一年地坐在栅栏上，徘徊不前，怀疑与徬徨，前进与后退，接受与否认，行动与反应。你现在必须变得勇敢，因为你表达的时机，你的目的被传达与发现的时间即将到来。它正在出现。因为这个世界必须从你身上唤起你更伟大的目的，而世界的需求正在出现，并将在未来变得更加强烈。

What you are here to do is not just up to you alone. It has to do with others. It has to do with circumstances. It has to do with an emerging reality in the world. You are part of something far greater, part of something that has to do with the future and well-being of humanity, something that has to do with God’s plan which is not governed by religion or by human understanding.

你在这里要做的事情，不仅仅取决于你一个人。它与其他人有关，与你所面临的环境有关，与你所处的世界中正在出现的现实有关。你是更伟大计划的一部分，与你们的未来和人类福祉息息相关，是上帝计划的一部分，而上帝的计划不受宗教或人类理解的制约。

You must listen to these words with your heart for there is a deeper resonance within you and there is a deeper power within you. There is a greater freedom to be experienced and there is a greater mission to be fulfilled.

你必须用心聆听这些话语，因为在你内心深处有一种更深层次的共鸣，你的内心深处也有一种更深层次的力量。有一种更伟大的自由等待着你去体验，有一个更伟大的使命等待着你去完成。