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0一月二十七日 安详的心，单纯的心
若是能觉知自己，就会发现活着本是一种不断在揭露自我的过程。自我的活动是非常复杂的，我们只能透过关系的互动、日常的活动、说话的方式、下评论和算计的方式，以及谴责自己和他人的方式来揭露它。这一切的活动都能呈现出思维的局限，因此觉知这整个过程难道不重要吗？只有在每个当下觉知自己的真相，才能发现那超越时间的永恒。缺少了自我认识，永恒是不可能出现的。如果不认识自己，永恒就变成了一堆的说辞、象征、推论、教条、信仰，以及头脑可以借以逃避的幻觉。但若是能开始了解这个“我”以及它所介入的日常活动，那个超越时间、无以名之的境界就会自然而然地降临。但这永恒的境界并不是对自我认识的一种奖赏，它是无法求取的，你的头脑根本无法领略它。只有当你的头脑安静下来的时候，它才会降临。若想让头脑安静下来，就不能继续累积、谴责、批判或衡量。只有一颗单纯的心才能了解实相是什么。善于分析和算计的心是不单纯的，它总是充满着知识、信息和念头。
January 27
Quiet mind, simple mind
When we are aware of ourselves, is not the whole movement of living a way of uncovering the “me,” the ego, the self? The self is a very complex process which can be uncovered only in relationship, in our daily activities, in the way we talk, the way we judge, calculate, the way we condemn others and ourselves. All that reveals the conditioned state of our own thinking, and is it not important to be aware of this whole process? It is only through awareness of what is true from moment to moment that there is discovery of the timeless, the eternal. Without self-knowledge, the eternal cannot be.
When we do not know ourselves, the eternal becomes a mere word, a symbol, a speculation, a dogma, a belief, an illusion to which the mind can escape. But if one begins to understand the “me” in all its various activities from day to day, then in that very understanding, without any effort, the nameless, the timeless comes into being. But the timeless is not a reward for self-knowledge. That which is eternal cannot be sought after; the mind cannot acquire it. It comes into being when the mind is quiet, and the mind can be quiet only when it is simple, when it is no longer storing up, condemning, judging, weighing. It is only the simple mind that can understand the real, not the mind that is full of words, knowledge, information. The mind that analyzes, calculates, is not a simple mind.
