第二章：独处
Being Alone
As received by Marshall Vian Summers on December 1, 2008 in Seattle, Washington
2008年12月1日，在华盛顿州西雅图(Seattle, Washington)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示
Many people are alone, and perhaps they regret it extremely, depending upon their circumstance. Perhaps they welcome it if they are seeking a reprieve from an unfortunate relationship. Perhaps they seek to be alone to gain reprieve from the pressures of constant engagement with other people. Whatever the case may be, their being alone provides a great opportunity.
许多人都在独处，也许他们对此极为后悔，这取决于他们的情况。如果他们想从一段不幸的关系中解脱出来，也许他们会欢迎独处。也许他们寻求独处是为了从不断与他人交往的压力中获得解脱。无论情况如何，独处都为他们提供了一个伟大的机会。
Many people have not been alone enough to gain a deeper connection within themselves, constantly stimulated by being with others. Or due to poverty and cramped conditions, they are constantly surrounded by people so they have no time for quiet within themselves. Being alone is a great opportunity if it is utilized correctly.
许多人独处的时间并不够长，无法与他们自己建立一种更深层次的联接，他们不断受到与他人相处的刺激。或者由于贫困和拥挤的环境，他们总是被人群包围，所以他们没有时间让他们自己安静下来。如果正确善用独处，这是一个伟大的机会。
It is a time to begin to feel the deeper current of your life, to forge a deeper relationship within yourself. All the great artists and inventors and humanitarians have had to forge this deeper union with themselves, a union with a deeper intelligence within themselves, beyond the realm and the reach of the intellect.
现在是开始感受生命中更深层次的潮流、在你自己内心建立一种更深层次关系的时候了。所有伟大的艺术家、发明家和人道主义者都必须与他们自己建立这种更深层次的结合，与他们自己内心更深层次的智能建立一种超越智力领域和范围的结合。
Many people who are by circumstance alone at this time do not take advantage of this great opportunity. Perhaps they seek partnership and meaningful relationship, but such partnership and relationship is not on the horizon. So what should they do with this time alone? How can they utilize this great opportunity?
许多在这个时候因为环境原因而独处的人并没有善用这个伟大的机会。也许他们寻求的是伙伴关系和有意义的关系，但这种伙伴关系和有意义的关系并不在眼前。那么他们应该如何善用这段独处的时间呢？他们如何善用这个伟大的机会呢？
This is the opportunity to gain contact with the deeper intelligence within you, an intelligence that God has placed within you, an intelligence called Knowledge. This intelligence is so very different from your surface mind, your socially conditioned mind, the mind that has been shaped through your experience and adaptation to the outer world. But the mind of Knowledge is very different. It does not speculate. It does not debate. It does not fantasize. It is not afraid. It is not confused. It represents the center of your inner certainty and inner direction.
这是与你内在的更深层次智能建立联系的机会，这是上帝放置在你内在的智能，这是被称为内识的智能。这种智能与你的表面心灵、你社会制约的心灵、通过你的经历和对外部世界的适应而形成的心灵截然不同。但内识的心灵非常不同。它不推测。它不辩论。它不幻想。它不害怕。它不困惑。它代表着你内在确定性和内在方向的中心。
It is deep. It resides within the well of silence, a great empty space beneath the surface of your mind. You will never be able to penetrate the surface of your mind if you are constantly stimulated, or constantly engaged with other people, or constantly seeking approval and pleasure, and constantly trying to escape your own inner lack of security.
它是有深度的。它存在于寂静之井中，是心灵表面之下的一大片空旷空间。如果你不断受到刺激，不断与他人交往，不断寻求认同和快乐，不断试图逃避内心的不安全感，你将永远无法穿透心灵的表面。
You must have this time of solitude. Here you practice inner listening. You learn how to focus the mind on a point or an idea so that the mind can become clear, so that you can slip beneath the surface of the mind, the turbulent and erratic surface of the mind. The world outside is going on, but now you are disengaged from it. You are beginning to forge an experience of your inner life.
你必须有这样的独处时间。在这里，你练习内心的倾听。你学习如何将心灵集中在一个点或一个想法上，这样心灵就可以变得清晰，这样你就可以潜入心灵的表面之下，潜入心灵的动荡和不稳定的表面之下。外部的世界还在继续，但现在你已经脱离了它。你开始打造一种内心生命的体验。
When you begin this exploration, you will feel tremendous confusion, and you will see all the imagery that is stimulated in your mind—memories, imaginings of the future, strong ideas, strong impressions. These things will all be moving at the surface of your mind. Like the surface of the ocean swept by the waves, turbulent and unpredictable it is. But deeper down, the waters of the world are being moved by greater, more cosmic forces, moved with certainty, moved with purpose.
当你开始探索时，你会感到无比的困惑，你会看到所有在你的心灵中被激发出来的意象——记忆、对未来的想象、强烈的想法、强烈的印象。这些东西都会在你的心灵表面移动。就像被海浪卷起的海洋表面一样，它动荡而不可预测。但在更深层次的地方，世界的水域正被更强大、更宇宙性的力量所推动，带着确定性，带着目的性。
Beneath the surface of your mind is all the detritus of your mind—the errant thoughts, the deep-seated fears, the longings, the fantasies, fragments of your experience, fragments of your dreams—all the debris of the mind.
在你的心灵表面之下，是你心灵的所有碎片——错误的思想、根深蒂固的恐惧、渴望、幻想、经历的片段、梦想的片段——所有心灵的碎片。
To go beneath this is to enter a very quiet place. It looks empty, but it is really not. It is the well of silence. It is a place of pure experience.
走到这下面，就等于进入了一个非常安静的地方。它看上去空荡荡的，但实际上并非如此。它是寂静之井。它是一个纯粹体验的地方。
At first, you will seek this perhaps out of the need for reprieve from the friction and the difficulties of the outer world. You will want to rest and be at peace to refresh your mind. This is entirely appropriate. And even as you practice inner stillness, you will still need this reprieve. Like bathing the body, it cleanses the mind.
起初，你寻求这种放松或许是出于需求，想从外部世界的摩擦和困难中得到喘息。你会想休息，想获得平静，让你的心灵焕然一新。这是完全合适的。即使你练习内在的静止，你仍然需要这种放松。就像沐浴身体一样，它可以净化心灵。
But breaking free from the surface can be difficult. On occasion, it happens spontaneously, but often it is difficult because you are so trapped there. Particularly if you respond to the media, or watch movies or television, these images are running around in your mind, making it more difficult for you to slip beneath the surface.
但摆脱表象可能很困难。有时，这种情况会自然发生，但通常很难，因为你被困在里面。特别是如果你对媒体做出回应，或者看电影或电视，这些画面就会在你的脑海中浮现，让你更难摆脱表象。
Your relationships here can be very interfering—the expectations of others, differences of opinion, arguments, the need for people, the need to get away from people, the complexity of trying to communicate with others. All of these things are preoccupations in the mind.
你在这里的人际关系可能会非常干扰——他人的期望、意见分歧、争论、对人们的需求、远离他人的需求、试图与他人沟通的复杂性。所有这些都是心灵中的心事。
So you breathe and you focus on an idea or a sound or a word. You can use the word “Na Rahn,” “Na Rahn.” Inhale “Na,” exhale “Rahn.” It is a resonating word, resonating with the power of Knowledge in the universe. But it is not a word or a sound you will understand intellectually or that has associations with it necessarily. You want something that is just a pure sound.
所以你呼吸，把注意力集中在一个想法、一个声音或一个词上。你可以使用“Na Rahn”、“Na Rahn”这个词。吸气时说“Na”，呼气时说“Rahn”。这是一个共鸣的词，与宇宙中内识的力量产生共鸣。但它不是一个你能从智力上理解的词或声音，也不一定与它有关联。你想要的只是纯粹的声音。
And you need to be in a place that is quiet and still. You need to be comfortable, and you need to approach this practice with a passive mind, not aggressively trying to get something for yourself, not trying to solve problems or to gain insights. You come to be still, to learn how to slip beneath the surface of your mind, to develop an opening, an opening that will serve you when you are out in the world, an opening that will allow impulses and ideas and insights to come to you from Knowledge.
你需要处在一个安静和静止的地方。你需要感到舒适，你需要以一种被动的心灵来对待这个修行，而不是积极地试图为你自己获得什么，而不是试图解决问题或获得洞察力。你变得静止，学习如何潜入你心灵的表面之下，发展一个开口，一个当你身处世界时将为你服务的开口，一个将允许冲动、想法和洞察力从内识来到你身边的开口。
You build that opening in your practice. You do this without trying to get anything, without being greedy, without being aggressive, without being manipulative. You come in a state of humility to receive and to experience the reprieve and the space and the wholeness that exist within this well of silence, beneath the surface of the mind. Perhaps you will fall asleep. That is okay if that is your need in the moment. But you are taking reprieve.
你在练习中建立起这个开端。你这样做时不试图得到任何事物，不贪婪，不咄咄逼人，不操纵他人。你以谦逊的状态来接受和体验这口寂静之井、心灵表面之下的缓解、空间和完整性。也许你会睡着。如果这是你当时的需要，那没关系。但你正在缓解。
In the study of Steps to Knowledge, you will learn how to focus and still the mind and how to think in accordance with the deeper Knowledge that God has placed within you—to guide you, to protect you and to lead you to a greater life in the world.
在学习内识进阶时，你将学习如何集中注意力、静止心灵，以及如何按照上帝放置在你内在的更深层次的内识去思考——引导你、保护你并引领你走向世界上更伟大的生命。
If you find yourself alone in life at this time, it is the most wonderful opportunity to develop this deeper connection within yourself. Do not be anxious for relationship. Do not be impatient. Take advantage of this great opportunity. You do not see how invaluable it really is.
如果你现在发现你自己独处，那么这是发展你自己内心更深层次联接的伟大机会。不要为关系而焦虑。不要不耐烦。善用这个伟大机会。你看不到它有多么宝贵。
The poorer people of the world have no time and place for this—constantly surrounded by people, constantly under pressure to produce, to survive, to accommodate themselves to degrading situations. They do not have this rare opportunity.
世界上较贫穷的人没有时间和地点来做这些事——他们周围总是被人包围，总是承受着生产、生存的压力，不得不适应恶劣的环境。他们没有这个难得的机会。
Do not think of it as a misfortune, or you will miss its great significance. For in the future, should you become married and have a family, you will never have this time alone again. Short of being thrown in prison, you will never have this time alone again. You will always have to be accommodating to the needs of others, adapting to the needs of others, surrounded by others, responding to others.
不要把它当成不幸，否则你会错过它的伟大重要性。因为将来，如果你结婚生子，你再也不会有这种独处的时光了。除非被关进监狱，否则你再也不会有这种独处的时间了。你将永远不得不迁就他人的需求，适应他人的需求，被他人包围，回应他人。
If you are a young person and are single, this is a great opportunity for you. Do not fill it up with people and stimulation. You will see as you attempt to gain a deeper experience of yourself that you do not want to add to the stimulation and confusion of your mind.
如果你是单身的年轻人，那么这对你来说是一个伟大的机会。不要让人群和刺激占据你的心。当你试图更深入地体验你自己时，你会发现你不想增加刺激和心灵的困惑。
That is why movies and television and the media should be kept to a minimum because they flood your mind with images and fears and concerns, making it more difficult for you now to penetrate the surface. Using up your psychic energy, they are. You do not yet see what a great price you are paying for keeping yourself so stimulated.
这就是为什么应该尽量少看电影、电视和媒体，因为它们会用图像、恐惧和担忧充斥你的心灵，让你现在更难看透表面。它们会消耗你的心灵能量。你还不知道你自己为保持如此刺激付出了多大的代价。
Your concern for the world is not appropriate unless you are prepared to take action regarding something specific. Otherwise, you are just worrying and worrying and worrying. You are angry and you are frustrated, and you are condemning and judgmental. You are worrying because you are afraid.
除非你准备针对某些具体的事情采取行动，否则你对世界的关心是不恰当的。你只会不断地担心。你生气、沮丧、责备、评判。你担心是因为你害怕。
You are not really doing anything. You are not really taking any concerted action regarding these things that concern you, so you are just leading yourself into a state of frustration, of fear and anxiety. This is wasteful. Here you are spending huge amounts of your life force without any result whatsoever, keeping yourself in a state of high anxiety and yet producing nothing.
你实际上什么都没做。你实际上并没有针对这些令你担忧的事情采取任何协调一致的行动，所以你只是让你自己陷入沮丧、恐惧和焦虑的状态。这是浪费。你在这里耗费了大量的生命力却没有任何结果，让你自己处于高度焦虑的状态却一无所获。
If you are alone, begin your practice in Steps to Knowledge. Learn how to gain access to the well of silence. Learn how to control your mind and focus your mind so that you can direct it and use it appropriately instead of being governed slavishly by it.
如果你是独处的，那就从内识进阶开始练习吧。学习如何进入寂静之井。学习如何控制你的心灵并集中你的心灵，这样你就可以引导心灵并适当地使用它，而不是被它奴役。
This is a time to forge your spiritual practice. This is a time to organize and re-evaluate your life. This is a time to pull yourself together and to plug up all the holes where you are losing energy to other people and other things.
这是进行精神实践的时候。这是整理和重新评估生命的时候。这是振作精神、堵住所有漏洞的时候，因为这些漏洞会让你把能量浪费在其他人和其他事情上。
Some people are alone but not taking advantage of it, and others have no time to be alone. They have no opportunity to be alone. Or if they have the opportunity, they are afraid to be alone. They are afraid of themselves. They are afraid of their thoughts, their feelings, their anger, their grief, their confusion. They want to stay at the surface, looking outward, always stimulated, their mind always preoccupied. They do not know how to be with themselves. They do not know how to be with anyone. They do not know how to be with anything. Stimulated, agitated, frustrated, they are in a constant state of flux. And the power and presence of Knowledge that is speaking within them, they cannot hear; they cannot feel.
有些人独处却不好好利用独处，而其他人则没有时间独处。他们没有机会独处。或者即使有机会，他们也害怕独处。他们害怕他们自己。他们害怕他们的思想、他们的感受、他们的愤怒、他们的悲伤和他们的困惑。他们想停留在表面，向外看，总是受到刺激，他们的心灵总是心不在焉。他们不知道如何与他们自己相处。他们不知道如何与任何一个人相处。他们不知道如何与任何事物相处。他们总是受到刺激、焦躁、沮丧，处于不断变化的状态。而内识在他们内在说话的力量和存在，他们却无法听到；他们也无法感觉到。
This is tragic, particularly in wealthy nations where people have the opportunity to cultivate their inner life. This missed opportunity is such a tragedy. Put yourself in a poor country, where you live in cramped conditions, you have no personal time and space, crowded everywhere. You can hardly think for yourself. You hardly have a moment alone—driven, oppressed, threatened. So the people in the wealthy nations have freedom from these things to such a large degree, and yet they do not take advantage of their great opportunity.
这是悲剧，尤其是在富裕国家，人们有机会培养他们的内在生命。错失这个机会真的是悲剧。想象一下，你生活在一个贫穷的国家，生活条件拥挤，没有个人时间和空间，到处都是拥挤的人。你几乎无法独立思考。你几乎没有时间独处——被驱使、被压迫、被威胁。因此，富裕国家的人民在很大程度上摆脱了这些事情，但他们却没有利用好这个伟大机会。
Here you do not become acquainted with yourself in a weekend, or in a day, or an hour. It takes time and focus, like anything else. To build a relationship takes time and focus and a certain degree of skill.
在这里，你不可能在一个周末、一天或一个小时内就认识你自己。这需要时间和专注，就像其他任何事情一样。建立关系需要时间和专注，以及一定的技能。
If you are a stranger to yourself, how can you be related to anyone else in a real way? You will be a stranger with them as well. Unknown to yourself, they will be unknown to you. And you will likely be unknown to them. This in essence is the tragedy of the human condition—isolation, separation, being a stranger unto yourself and to others.
如果你对你自己来说是个陌生人，你如何能与一个人建立真正的关系呢？你和他们也是陌生人。你不知道你自己，他们也不知道你。而你对他们来说很可能也是陌生的。这实质上就是人类的悲剧——孤立、分离、对你自己和他人来说都是陌生的人。
Therefore, seek time alone. Seek a quiet place. Begin to take the Steps to Knowledge that are available to you now. And if you are already alone or isolated socially, take advantage of this time to forge a deeper union within yourself so that you can hear Knowledge speaking to you; you can feel its encouragements and its restraints; and you can reflect upon it whenever you have to make any decision that is important.
因此，寻找独处的时间。寻找一个安静的地方。开展你现在可用的内识进阶。如果你已经独处或与社会隔绝，利用这段时间在你内心建立一种更深层次的结合，这样你就能听到内识对你说的话；你能感受到它的鼓励和约束；当你必须做出任何重要决定时，你都能反思它。
Here you will let it choose your relationships and your activities, and in doing so, you will be true to yourself and will not betray your greater interests and greater purpose. Here you will see that everyone around you is giving themselves away, falling in with other people, being socially dominated, controlled by the opinions of others, driven by the need for approval, driven by the fear of being alone.
在这里，你将让它选择你的关系和你的活动，这样做的话，你将忠于你自己，不会背叛你的更伟大利益和更伟大目的。在这里，你将看到你周围的每个人都在放弃他们自己，与其他人交往，受到社会支配，被他人的观点所控制，被对认可的需求所驱使，被对孤独的恐惧所驱使。
To the person who has gained this greater connection, everyone else begins to look like they are in chains—slaves to their possessions, slaves to their relationships, slaves to their fears and their appetites, unable to be still, unable to discern, unable to experience, unable to be at peace.
对于获得这种更伟大联接的人来说，其他人都开始看起来像是被锁链束缚着——成为财产的奴隶、关系的奴隶、恐惧和欲望的奴隶，无法静下心来，无法辨别，无法体验，无法和平。
Find a quiet place in your home, or if there is no quiet place in your home, find a quiet place in nature or in a sanctuary. Go there and practice repeating the words “Na Rahn” and let this replace your thoughts, your memories, your anticipations. Let this take you deeper.
在家里找一个安静的地方，或者如果你家里没有安静的地方，那就在大自然或避难所里找一个安静的地方。去那里练习重复“Na Rahn”这个词，让它取代你的思想、你的记忆、你的期待。让它带你走得更远。
Here you will find as you proceed that your values will change. You will seek quiet now instead of constant stimulation. You will seek meaningful communication and engagements with others instead of mere social engagements and superficial conversation. You will seek honesty now instead of charm, beauty and wealth. You will look for what is real in people and not be mesmerized by their appearance or their false behavior. You will value deeper, more permanent things. Your culture will have less of a hold upon you.
在这里，随着你的前进，你会发现你的价值观会改变。你现在会寻求安静，而不是持续的刺激。你现在会寻求与他人有意义的交流和参与，而不是单纯的社交和肤浅的交谈。你现在会寻求诚实，而不是魅力、美貌和财富。你会寻找人们身上真实的内识，而不会被他们的外表或虚假的行为所迷惑。你会重视更深层次、更持久的事物。你的文化对你的束缚会越来越小。
Perhaps you will feel lonely or estranged as a result, but this is the price of freedom. If you are afraid to be alone, you will be afraid of freedom because freedom will set you apart, with a different focus and a different set of values that are more natural and more wholesome for you.
也许你会因此感到孤独或疏远，但这是自由的代价。如果你害怕独处，你就会害怕自由，因为自由会让你与众不同，让你拥有不同的关注点和一套不同的价值观，这对你来说更自然、更健康。
All the great contributors to the human family, in whatever field or endeavor, have had to face loneliness and social disassociation. Those who are free within themselves cannot just go be with anyone or do anything because they have higher standards. They are looking for deeper things. They are responding to a deeper need within themselves.
所有对人类大家庭做出伟大贡献的人，无论在哪个领域或从事什么事业，都不得不面对孤独并与社会脱离关系。那些内心自由的人不能因为有更高的标准就随便和任何人在一起或做任何事情。他们在寻找更深层次的事情。他们在回应他们自己内心一种更深层次的需求。
If you seek to know your own heart, you must be able to be alone. You must not fear yourself or your thoughts or feelings. You must learn to gain control of your emotions and your intellect instead of being a subject to them.
如果你想知道你自己的内心，你必须能够独处。你一定不能害怕你自己，害怕你的思想或感受。你必须学会控制你的情绪和智力，而不是成为它们的奴隶。
To find your real purpose in life, you will have to experience over time the deeper current of your life, for only at the level of Knowledge is your real purpose and your real destiny [discerned]. It is only at this level that it can be discerned and experienced truly.
为了找到你生命中真正的目的，你必须随着时间的推移体验你生命更深层次的潮流，因为只有在内识层面，你才能辨别出你的真正目的和你真正的天命。只有在这个层面，它才能被真正辨别和体验。
Some of the greatest rewards of life are awaiting you, in stillness, in building a deeper connection to Knowledge within yourself. But you will have to face temporary loneliness.
生命中最伟大的回报之一就在你的静止中，在与你自己内在内识建立更深层次的联接中等待着你。但你必须面对暂时的孤独。
Perhaps you will find it difficult to relate to your culture and to society at large, but that is part of the process of finding yourself, and finding what you really came to do and gaining the discernment and the values required to discern those relationships that hold the greatest promise for you.
或许你会发现很难与你的文化和整个社会建立联系，但这是寻找你自己、寻找你真正要做的事情以及获得辨别那些对你来说最有希望的关系所需的辨别力和价值观的过程的一部分。
You need to be alone to have time to see yourself in the world, to distinguish your thoughts and your conditioning from the deeper currents of your life and to recognize that you are not your mind and your intellect—that is only the surface of you—and that beneath the surface is the real power and the presence in your life.
你需要独处，这样才能有时间看清你自己在世界上的位置，区分你的思想和你的条件与你生命更深层次的潮流，并认识到你并非你的心灵和你的智力——它只是你的表面——而在这表面之下是你生命的真正力量和存在。
Look at people around you. See how unable they are to be with anything. They are constantly stimulated, constantly reading, constantly watching images on the screen, constantly talking, constantly agitated, constantly dealing with information, constantly running around—busy, busy, like little mice. They cannot stop and be with themselves. They cannot stop and be with anyone. They do not know what is happening within themselves. They do not know what is happening in the world because they are too busy to feel and to respond to the presence of Knowledge.
看看你周围的人。看看他们是多么无力与任何事物相处。他们不断受到刺激，不断阅读，不断观看屏幕上的图像，不断交谈，不断焦躁不安，不断处理信息，不断奔波——忙碌，忙碌，像小白鼠一样。他们无法停下来与他们自己相处。他们无法停下来与任何人相处。他们不知道他们自己内在发生了什么。他们不知道世界上发生了什么，因为他们是如此忙碌，无法感受和回应内识的存在。
This is hardly intelligent. To be unaware of your greatest capacities and your greatest strengths because you are caught up in trivial things is hardly intelligent. This renders you incapable of dealing with difficult questions and decisions because you cannot feel the power and the presence of Knowledge within yourself.
这绝不是明智的。因为陷入琐碎的事情而没有察觉到你最伟大的能力和你最伟大的优势绝不是聪慧的。这让你无法处理困难的问题和决定，因为你无法感受到你内在内识的力量和存在。
To Knowledge, your decisions are either unimportant or they are a yes or a no. Sometimes certain conditions are required. Knowledge does not have to debate; it does not have to go back and forth; it does not have to consider all options. That is the struggle and the burden of your intellect, but at the level of Knowledge, it is a yes or a no or nothing at all.
对于内识来说，你的决定要么不重要，要么就是肯定或否定。有时需要某些条件。内识不必辩论；它不必来来回回；它不必考虑所有选择。这是你智力的挣扎和负担，但在内识的层面上，它是肯定或否定，或者什么都不是。
People are impatient because they are driven by the insecurity of their surface mind, which is always insecure because it is not stable, because it does not have a deeper foundation, because it associates with the body, which is fallible and destructible and easily threatened.
人们没有耐心，是因为他们被表面心灵的不安全感所驱使，而表面的心灵总是不安全的，因为它是不稳定的，因为它没有一种更深层次的基础，因为它与身体相关，而身体容易出错、易受破坏、易受到威胁。
Being alone is a great asset here. Yet so many people either cannot have the opportunity to experience it because of their circumstances, or, as in the case in the wealthy nations, people avoid it or are afraid of it. So they remain unknown to themselves. And in facing the great change that is coming to the world, they will respond like herds of animals or flocks of birds, panicking at the last moment, unaware of their surroundings, caught up and preoccupied.
独处在这里是一种伟大的优势。然而，许多人要么因为自身环境而无法体验这种感觉，要么像富裕国家的情况一样，人们回避这种感觉或害怕这种感觉。因此，他们对他们自己一无所知。面对即将降临世界的伟大变革，他们会像成群的动物或成群的鸟一样做出反应，在最后一刻惊慌失措，对周围环境毫无察觉，陷入困境，心神不宁。
Yet even the animals in the field and the birds of the air are often more intelligent here, for they sense change before it occurs. They respond to subtle forces, whereas the human beings seem to be unaware, unprepared and unresponsive.
然而，即使是田野里的动物和空中的飞鸟在这里也往往更加聪慧，因为它们在变化发生之前就能察觉到。它们对微妙的力量作出回应，而人类似乎毫无察觉、毫无准备、反应迟钝。
The power and the presence of Knowledge lives within you. It is here to guide you at every turn. It is not preoccupied. It is not afraid. It is not caught up in all the swirls of sensation, fear and anxiety. It is not dominated by desire. It has no fantasies. It is creative because it adapts wisdom to the moment. But it is not lost. It is awaiting you, there to be discovered and experienced, but it does not happen by accident.
内识的力量和存在就在你的内心。它随时都在指引你。它不是心不在焉的。它不会害怕。它不会被各种感觉、恐惧和焦虑所困扰。它不受欲望的支配。它没有幻想。它富有创造力，因为它能根据当下的需求运用智慧。但它并没有迷失。它正在等待你，等待你去发现和体验，但它的出现并非偶然。
You have to build a deep connection. As if you were in the desert and the water was flowing ten feet below the surface, you have to drill that ten feet below the surface. You have to dig your way down to where the pure waters flow.
你必须建立一种深厚的联接。就像你在沙漠中，水在地表以下十英尺处流动，你必须钻到地表之下十英尺处。你必须钻到纯净水流淌的地方。
This should be part of your daily experience, your spiritual practice. It is one of the Four Pillars of your life—the Pillar of Spiritual Development, which is really the Pillar of Spiritual Practice. Along with the Pillar of Relationships, the Pillar of Work and the Pillar of Health, the Pillar of your Spiritual Practice is an essential part of your life. And it will help to keep in balance the other Pillars in everything else that you do.
这应该成为你日常体验的一部分，你的精神实践。它是你生命的四大支柱之一——精神发展支柱，实际上是精神实践的支柱。与关系支柱、工作支柱和健康支柱一样，精神实践的支柱也是你生命中不可或缺的一部分。它将帮助你在做其他事情时保持其他支柱的平衡。
Once you have learned about the power and the wonder of stillness, you will be able to still your mind in the moment when you are out in the world, to gain a greater discernment of what is happening, to make a wiser decision in the face of uncertainty, to make a wiser choice regarding who to be with and how to be with them. You will be able to still your mind to look and see.
一旦你学会了静止的力量和奥妙，当你身处世间时，你就能够静止你的心灵，对正在发生的事情有更伟大的辨别力，在面对不确定性时做出更明智的决定，在与谁相处以及如何相处方面做出更明智的选择。你将能够静止你的心灵来观察和看见。
While others are preoccupied and remain blind, you will see, you will feel, and you will know. You will look at every attractive person, and you will see the difference between what looks good and what is good. You will see if a relationship has promise or not. And the more your own greater purpose begins to emerge in your awareness, you will have real criteria about who to be with and know if they can be with you.
当其他人心不在焉、视而不见时，你会看到、会感觉到、会知道。你会看着每一个有吸引力的人，你会看到什么是看起来好的，什么是好的。你会看到一段关系是否有承诺。你自己的更伟大目的在你的觉知中浮现得越多，你就会有一个真正的标准来决定和谁在一起，知道他们是否能和你在一起。
All this awaits you. It is your promise and your destiny, but you have to work for it. You have to be in relationship with it. You have to participate. You have to practice. You have to focus. And for this, you will need to be alone. Practicing with others is beneficial, but practicing alone is the most promising.
这一切都在等待着你。这是你的承诺和天命，但你必须为之努力。你必须与之建立关系。你必须参与。你必须练习。你必须集中注意力。为此，你需要独处。与他人一起练习是有益的，但独自练习是最有承诺的。
Being at ease with yourself, having confidence in Knowledge within yourself and yet being humble places you in a position of great clarity. The world is turbulent, but you are not. People are driven, but you are not. Life is stressful, but you are able to recover from the stress. Relationships are confusing, but you are not confused regarding them. Your real work in the world remains to be discovered, as you prepare for it, but you are patient enough to work towards it and to await its emergence.
从容面对你自己，对你自己内在的内识充满信心，同时又不失谦逊，这会让你处于一个非常清晰的位置。世界是动荡不安的，但你却不是。人们被驱使，但你却没有。生命充满压力，但你能够从压力中恢复过来。人际关系令人困惑，但你并不为此感到困惑。你在世界上的真正工作还有待发现，当你为此做准备时，但你有足够的耐心去努力并等待它的出现。
Knowledge is patient. It is not seeking because it is the answer. Yet it is here in the world to accomplish something, so it is focused, it is creative and it is determined. You then become its student. You follow Knowledge. Your mind and your intellect now become subservient to a greater power within yourself.
内识是耐心的。内识不是因为它是答案而寻求。然而，它来到这个世界是为了完成某件事，所以它专注、富有创造力并且充满决心。然后，你就成为它的学生。你追随内识。你的心灵和你的智力现在服从于你自己内心一种更伟大的力量。
Here the intellect can become the wonderful instrument of communication that it really is. Here you are able to discern amongst your emotions those that are truly valuable and indicative and those that are merely the product of your own reactions to life. Here you are powerful and humble all at once, for you know the source of your power is beyond your grasp. And you cannot control it. You can only yield to it and follow it.
在这里，智力能够成为它真正意义上的奇妙沟通工具。在这里，你能够在你的情绪中辨别出哪些是真正有价值和具有指示性的，哪些只是你自己对生命的反应的产物。在这里，你既强大又谦逊，因为你知道你的力量之源超出你的掌握。你无法控制它。你只能屈服于它并追随它。
You will find that even if you are in close relationship with another, you still have this sanctuary within yourself. You do not give that up for another. You do not relinquish that to be in relationship. Instead, your sanctuary becomes stronger and more vital as it resonates with Knowledge in another.
你会发现，即使你与他人关系亲密，你内心仍然有这个庇护所。你不会为了他人而放弃它。你不会为了建立关系而放弃它。相反，当你的庇护所与他人的内识产生共鸣时，它会变得更加强大和有活力。
Here you do not lose yourself in relationship. Instead, you learn to express what is most profound and real within it. Here you can relinquish your personal freedom to a marriage and to leading a family because you know it is the right thing to do, and you know the time has come for it. Here you can give up your outer freedoms to follow what is real and genuine within yourself. Here you can withstand corruption and restrictions on the outside because you have the power and presence of Knowledge within yourself. Here you are present to life, and you can experience its wonder and its difficulties. Here you can live without answers; you can live with uncertainty because Knowledge is within you. Here you are not constantly grasping for fulfillment. You are not obsessed. You are not possessed by the world around you because you are grounded in Knowledge.
在这里，你不会在关系中迷失你自己。相反，你学会表达其中最深刻、最真实的内识。在这里，你可以放弃个人自由，走向婚姻和领导家庭，因为你知道这是正确的事情，你知道时机已到。在这里，你可以放弃外在的自由，去追随你内在真实的内识。在这里，你可以抵御外在的腐败和限制，因为你内在拥有内识的力量和存在。在这里，你在生命中在场，你可以体验它的奇妙和困难。在这里，你可以没有答案地生活；你可以带着不确定性生活，因为内识与你同在。在这里，你不会不断追求成就。你不会痴迷。你不会被周围的世界所控制，因为你扎根于内识。
Here even enlightenment becomes a kind of fantasy for the intellect, an obsession, when in fact life only asks you to be grounded in Knowledge, to have Knowledge as your foundation. God expects nothing more.
在这里，甚至开悟也成为一种智力的幻想，一种痴迷，而事实上，生命只要求你扎根于内识，以内识为基础。上帝并不期望更多。
Perfection is an obsession of the intellect. It is not a need of the soul. God does not require it. And neither should you.
完美是智力的执着。它不是灵魂的需要。上帝不要求完美。你也不应该要求完美。
You know when people are being genuine with you. You know if something is really real and authentic. You are moved by real sincerity and commitment. You are impressed when people are following a deeper strength and courage within themselves.
你知道人们何时对你真诚。你知道某件事是否真实可信。你被真正的真诚和承诺所感动。当人们追随他们自己内心深处的力量和勇气时，你会印象深刻。
Being alone, you have time to explore these things, to discern what is real from what is unreal, what is good from what only looks good. You are able to challenge yourself—your ideas, your beliefs, your assumptions, in contrast to the reality of Knowledge. This takes time. This takes focus on your part. You must be there for this.
独处时，你有时间去探索这些事情，去辨别什么是真实的，什么是不真实的，什么是好的，什么是仅仅看上去好的。你能够挑战你自己——你的想法、你的信仰、你的假设，与内识的现实形成对比。这需要时间。这需要你集中注意力。你必须为此而存在。
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, you can begin to feel a deeper experience. Beneath the turbulence of your mind, beneath your erratic thoughts, beneath the images of fear and desire that have dominated you in the past, you now can simply be present without becoming caught up, allowing all this to pass before you. Like the clouds passing over the landscape, blocking the sun, blocking the universe, they pass by.
静静地坐着，什么也不做，你就会开始感受到一种更深层次的体验。在你心灵的动荡、你飘忽不定的思想、过去主宰你的恐惧和欲望的形象之下，你现在可以简单地在场，而不会被束缚，让这一切从你面前过去。就像云朵飘过大地、遮挡太阳、遮挡宇宙一样，它们飘过。
Beyond them is the reality of life, and the truth of your spiritual nature, and the power and the presence of Knowledge, which is in the world to achieve specific things with certain people. Its goals are different from what you think. Its direction is not what you imagine. Its power is not what you think it is. And it is this reorientation and reeducation at the level of Knowledge that represents what real spiritual development is, in whatever form or tradition it is practiced.
超越它们，是生命的现实，是你精神自然的真理，是内识的力量和存在，它存在于这个世界上是为了和特定的人一起实现特定的事情。它的目标和你想象的不同。它的方向不是你想象的那样。它的力量不是你想象的那样。正是这种在内识层面上的重新定位和再教育，代表了真正的精神发展，无论它以何种形式或传统来实践。
Be alone. Be really alone. Be really with quiet. Practice your focus. Learn to slip beneath the surface of your mind. Allow there to be a great empty space within you into which you can immerse yourself. Do not come seeking answers and miracles and solutions, but just come to give yourself, to develop the skills necessary and the discernment necessary to recognize, to experience and to follow the deeper current of your life.
独自一人。真正的独处。真正的安静。练习专注。学会潜入心灵的表面之下。允许你自己内心有一个巨大的空白，让你自己沉浸其中。不要来寻求答案、奇迹和解决方案，而只是来给予你自己，发展必要的技能和辨别力，来识别、体验和追随你生命中更深层次的潮流。
Here Knowledge is the master, not your mind. And God is the master of your Knowledge. So this is where you and God make a real connection. Beyond religious belief, beyond the traditions of belief, beyond theological debates and understanding, this is where the real connection is made.
在这里，内识才是主人，而不是你的心灵。上帝才是你内识的主人。所以，这就是你和上帝建立真正联接的地方。超越宗教信仰、超越信仰传统、超越神学辩论和理解，这就是建立真正联接的地方。
Let this Power and this Presence emerge in your awareness and open your mind to receive it, and you will be its great beneficiary. And you will be able to recognize your real gifts and the greater relationships that you are destined to have.
让这种力量和这种存在在你的觉知中浮现，并敞开你的心灵去接收它，你将是它的伟大受益者。你将能够认识到你真正的礼物和你注定要拥有的更伟大的关系。
