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0一月二十四日 无法限量的心
个人产生转化才能带来世界的转变，因为自我就是人类整体存在过程的一部分。若想转化自己，必须认识自己，缺少对自己的认识，你不可能有正确的思想，也不可能产生任何转变。你必须如实地认识自己，而不是希望自己能变成别的模样，后者只是虚而不实的理想罢了。认识自己需要极为警醒的心智，因为你每一个当下都在不断地改变。跟得上心念的变化，你就不会受制于任何教条、信仰或特定的行为模式。你必须有觉知才能认识自己。一颗警醒的心是没有先入为主的信仰或理想的，因为信仰或理想只会使你扭曲真实的觉知。假如你想知道自己的真相是什么，就不能把自己想象成一个与真相不符的东西。譬如我很贪婪、善妒，内心充满着暴力，那么一味地把自己想象成不贪婪、不暴力是没有多大意义的事。毫不扭曲地了解自己的真相，不论美或丑，善或不善，便是美德的开始。美德是最重要的一种品质，因为它会带来解脱。
January 24
The untethered mind
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential; without knowing what you are, there is no basis for right thought, and without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation. One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be. To know oneself as one is requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, because what is is constantly undergoing transformation, change; and to follow it swiftly the mind must not be tethered to any particular dogma or belief, to any particular pattern of action. If you would follow anything, it is no good being tethered. To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, from all idealization, because beliefs and ideals only give you a color, perverting true perception. If you want to know what you are, you cannot imagine or have belief in something which you are not. If I am greedy, envious, violent, merely having an ideal of nonviolence, of non-greed, is of little value....The understanding of what you are, whatever it be—ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous—the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom.
