重要教义特辑：存在的喜悦

存在之悦。在本期节目中，埃克哈特向现场观众讲述发现存在之悦的体验。他表示：在任何时刻，我们都有机会对生活保持开放，与当下合一，体验一种自然的平静与生机。埃克哈特帮助我们释放过往的制约，以全新的视角、活力和喜悦来感受自我与生活。

The Joy of Being. In this episode, Eckhart talks to a live audience about discovering the joy of being. He says, In any given moment, we have the chance to remain open to life, align with what is, and experience a natural sense of peace and aliveness. Eckhart helps us release past conditioning to experience ourselves and our lives with a fresh perspective and sense of vibrancy and delight.

存在之悦。我的建议是，你其实不必刻意寻找或追求存在之悦。此刻，让我们先放下'悦'，只关注'存在'本身。否则你将会追逐快乐。而如果你在寻找快乐，很可能反而找不到它。

The joy of being. My suggestion is that you don't actually try to find or look for the joy of being. Right now, let's forget about the joy and just focus on the being. Otherwise, you'll be looking for happiness. And if you're looking for happiness, it's unlikely that you'll find it.

寻找喜悦同样难以企及，因为追寻本身就意味着你认为它不在此处。'存在'这个概念对某些人可能很抽象，像是存在主义哲学或萨特、海德格尔那些晦涩著作里的术语。但觉知存在其实非常简单，可惜大多数人都不知道它有多容易，甚至不知道它的存在。如果要我写哲学著作——虽然不会写——我可能会命名为《存在与实相》或《实相与存在》，不确定哪个更好。

And if you're looking for joy, equally unlikely because looking for it implies it's not here or you believe it's not here. So being, that's a strange thing, could be, to some people, it's a very abstract term, like something you would read in existentialist philosophy or in some incomprehensible works by Jean Paul Sartre or Heidegger. But being is actually very easy to realize and humans don't know, most of them, how easy it is or even that it exists. If I had to write a philosophical work, I won't, but I would probably call it, maybe it exists already, I don't know, but I would probably call it being and existence or existence and being. Not sure which.

存在与实相。实相是你通过感官感知的一切，也包括内外在觉知中显现的所有。外在觉知涉及感官——比如眼前这些美好景象。如果正在收听而非现场参与的听众，抱歉刚才忘了问候你们。

Being and existence. Existence is whatever you perceive with your senses and also whatever arises in your outer or inner perception. Outer perception would involve the senses. So you have all this beauty here. And if you are listening to this and you're not here because this is being streamed, I forgot to say hello to you.

即便我们同处一室，你窗外的景色或许平淡无奇。但这不重要。实相就是视觉、听觉、味觉、嗅觉、触觉所感知的一切，也包括心中升起的念头——它们存在片刻又消散，情绪亦然，来了又走，周而复始。

Even if you're sitting in a, or we are in a room here, the landscape outside your place may not be spectacular. That doesn't matter. Existence is whatever you perceive with your senses, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. And also whatever arises in your mind, a thought exists for a while until it doesn't exist. An emotion exists for a while until it no longer exists and then it exists again.

肉体存在一段时间后，会像肥皂泡般'啪'地破灭。这个房间里所有的躯体迟早都会如此。今日你在，明日消散——这就是实相。所有人都在等待破灭的那一刻。

The physical body exists for a while until it pops like a soap bubble and ceases to exist. All the bodies in this room are destined sooner or later to pop like soap bubbles. And one day you're here and the next day there's just, you're gone. Everybody's just waiting to pop. That's existence.

身体存在。你感知的一切都存在。思想存在，情绪存在。'存在'(existence)这个词源自拉丁语，'ex'意为'向外'。

The body exists. Whatever you perceive exists. Thoughts exist, emotions exist. Ex, the exist comes from Latin. And so ex means out.

任何'凸显'(stand out)的事物即是被显化的存在。最终，所有感官感知的事物其实都显现在你心智的内在空间里——包括你的身体本身。

Whatever stands out, which means whatever is manifested. To stand exist stand out. So it manifests. And ultimately, of course, even all those things that you perceive with your senses, you perceive them in the inner space of your mind. So they all manifest in your mind, even your body.

你观察它、触碰它，与之建立或好或坏的关系——这些都会以思想形态显现在心智中，或化作情绪进入思维场域。'我的身体真棒'或'我讨厌我的身体'这些念头都是存在。对多数人而言，人生就是由这些实相构成的。

You look at it, you touch it, and you have certain relationship with it, good or bad, all that manifests in your mind as thought or in your mental emotional field as an emotion into thought. Look at my great body or I'm so unhappy with my body. Those thoughts exist. Existence, that's existence. To most people, their life consists of existence.

可以说有所谓外在维度的事物存在，也有内在维度以思想情绪形式的存在。但归根结底都是内在的。《奇迹课程》说'你之外空无一物'，这点值得深思。

This is the One could say there's the so called external dimension that things exist there. And then there's the inner dimension as things exist as thought and emotions, feelings. Ultimately, it's all inner. Course in Miracles, there's nothing outside of you. I have to think about that.

生命还有另一个维度，对大多数人来说并不存在。事实上，那个维度确实不存在，但绝大多数人完全意识不到这个维度。那就是'存在'。存在并不显眼，也不具象。现在，'存在'是个名词。

And then there's another dimension to life that to most humans doesn't exist. Well, in fact, that dimension doesn't exist, but most humans are completely unaware of that dimension. And that is being. Being does not stand out, does not exist. Now, being is a noun.

让我们简单谈谈基础英语语法。'Being'是名词，指'存在'。动词是'to be'。这是个不规则动词，第一人称单数形式不知为何不是'I be'——尽管德语里还保留着这种形式。

Let's talk about rudimentary English grammar for a minute. Being is a noun, the being. The verb is to be. It's an irregular verb, which means the first person singular of to be for some strange reason is not I be. Although in German, you still have that form.

'Ich bin'与存在的'be'同源，意为'I am'。但在英语中不知为何变成了'I am'。我不知道'am'是什么，这是个奇怪的发音，但它指向存在。

Ich bin is related to the be of being, which means I am. But in English, for some reason, it switched to I am. I don't know what am is. It's a strange sound, am. But it refers to being.

所以要觉知存在，就要觉知'I am'，因为那就是存在。当我们说'此刻此地觉知你的存在'时，这并不完全准确——当然你可以觉知自己存在，这时你会觉察到自己的身体、思想、个人历史。你作为历史人物存在于心智领域。

So to become aware of being, you become aware of I am because that's being. Now, when we say become aware right now, here and now that you exist, that's not quite correct because yes, of course you can become aware that you exist, in which case you would become aware of your physical body. You become aware of your thoughts. You become aware of your personal history, your historical person. You exist as an historical person in the realm of the mind.

这意味着你觉知到自己作为存在者，但我们现在寻求的是另一种东西——那个'不存在却如是'的'I am'。'Is'是第三人称单数，这很奇妙，'to be'随人称变化。第二人称是'you are'。

And then that means you become aware of yourself as existing, but now we want something else. We are looking for the I am that does not exist, that is. Is is the third person singular. That's strange, to be changes with each one. And the second person is you are.

这很诡异。'to be/am/is/are'都是同一个动词。那么是否可能超越我所称的'形相认同'（物理与心理的形相认同），不再只是觉知自己作为存在者，而是进入更深维度？

It's weird. It's all the same thing, the same verb. To be, am, is, are. Strange. So is it possible to go deeper and instead of becoming aware of yourself as existing here as of what I sometimes call a form identity, physical and mental form identity?

你的存在有物理形相（身体）和心理形相（由所谓过去 conditioning 构成的自我心理形象）。这些心理积累、思维活动、叙事被许多人强迫性重复思考——不断想着'我和我的生活'，这显然很有问题。所以我必须更多思考'我和我的生活'，或许终能解开这个谜题。

There's a physical form to who you are, the body, and there's a mental form to who you are, which is the mental image that you have of yourself that consists of conditioning from your so called past. So there's certain mental accumulations, thought movements, narratives that you think about, repeat in your mind compulsively for many people. Think about compulsively about me and my life. And it's very problematic, of course. That's why I have to think a bit more about me and my life because perhaps if I think enough about me and my life, perhaps at some point I will be able to solve the riddle and the problem of me.

再给我几年和千百个不眠夜，或许真能通过思考解决这个问题，到达不再从这问题形象中获取认同感的境地。当我不再潜意识里把自己当作待解决的问题——那种永远不安、总带着隐约缺失感（时而明显）、背景中持续不满、总觉得尚未'到达'的状态，除了那些最终证明是幻觉的短暂时刻。

Give me just a few more years and another thousand sleepless nights. And perhaps if I really think I can solve this problem and arrive at a place where I no longer regard myself or no longer derive my sense of identity from this problematic image. And when I no longer consider myself a problem that needs to be solved unconsciously. Never at ease, always a slight sense of lack in the background and sometimes in the foreground, discontent in the background, always a sense of not having arrived yet, except for brief moments that always turn out to be illusory. No, oh, I have arrived.

你无法通过思考解决'自我'问题（尽管生活中某些实际问题确实需要专注思考）。那么，除了觉知自己作为物理形相和由心智情绪构成的无形实体存在（后者占更大比重），能否通过觉知'你是'(而非'你存在')进入更深维度？这不是文字游戏。

I've made it. A little bit later, oh no, that wasn't it. So you cannot solve the problem of you by thinking, although there may be certain practical problems in your life that can be solved by applying focused thought, of course. So instead of becoming aware that you exist as a physical, form and as an invisible entity that is made up of mind and emotion, and that's a greater part of you is just that invisible entity made up of mind and emotion, Can you become aware of a deeper dimension, not by becoming aware that you exist, but by becoming aware that you are. And it's not just playing with words.

不是觉知'我是某某年龄/性别的人'，而是更深层地觉知：你是未经思维附加的纯粹存在本身——'I am'。另一种表述是：你觉知到自己是意识本身，先于任何可能浮现的内容（感官知觉/思想/情绪）。你觉知到那个作为一切生灭内容之基础的意识空间——万物存在于其中的意识空间，那就是你。

You become aware, not I am such and such a person, such and such a age, such and such a gender and so on, but go a little deeper and become aware that you are the pure beingness of you without the addition of thought, I am. And that is another way of putting it is to say that you become aware that you are conscious Prior to any content that may arise in consciousness, and that content would be sensory perception, thoughts, and emotions, prior to any content that arises in consciousness, You're aware of that which is prior to and underlies all content that may arise and then disappear, and then something else arises and disappears. Prior to that, the very foundation, the very space is perhaps a good word to use. The space within which all that exists, exists is the space of consciousness. It arises in consciousness, and that's you.

我现在所谈论的内容，你无法通过概念去理解，即便你拥有三个博士学位和天才级的智商，事实上可能反而更难以理解。你无法在概念层面理解它，只能在另一个层次上领悟。这是一种不同层次的认知，非概念性的。你必须放下才能觉知到‘我是’，即你的存在本质，你所是的意识。

What I'm talking about now, you cannot understand conceptually, even if you have three PhDs and a genius level IQ, in fact, might even be less likely that you'll understand. You cannot understand this conceptually. You can only understand it at a different level. It's a different level of knowing, not conceptual. You have to abandon to realize the I am, the beings of you, the consciousness that you are.

你需要暂时准备好放下所有知识性的认知，包括通过思维、记忆、分析、标签、判断和观点获得的认识。随之而来的，自然是你会突然变得非常宁静。在那份宁静中，除非你正受困倦折磨（比如在座有些人可能正遭受严重时差反应），否则你不会滑向睡眠。所以如果有人在你身旁打瞌睡，并不意味着他们意识不清无法保持清醒。

You need to be prepared temporarily to let go of all knowing, conceptual knowing, knowing through thought, through memory, through analysis, labeling, judgments, opinions. And then of course, what happens is you become suddenly very still. In that stillness, you're not moving towards sleep unless you're suffering. And some of you I'm sure are from severe jet lag right now. So anybody who is, somebody close to you is falling asleep, it does not mean that they are too unconscious to stay awake here.

那很可能只是严重时差反应所致。你无法通过思考来理解这一点，而思考本身正是障碍。我们整个禅修的精髓，灵性觉醒的核心就在于此。我现在提前说明，以防有人想提前离场。

It probably means they're suffering from severe jet lag. So you can't understand it through thinking about it. And the very thinking is the obstacle. The entire essence of our retreat, spiritual awakening is this. I'm telling you now in case you want to leave early.

这样至少你不算白来一趟，还能带着宇宙的奥秘离开。这次禅修的终极要义就是：让你们有些人意识到，触及那种作为‘我是’的觉知状态——即无条件的意识、纯粹的觉知或临在——不仅可能，而且并非那么困难。对你们许多人而言，这种状态已在生活中运作，也许尚未持续显现，偶尔仍会完全陷入与思维的认同。

Then at least you haven't wasted your time. You go away with the secret of the universe. The entire essence of the retreat is this. For some of you realize that the possibility exists and is not all that difficult of accessing that state of consciousness that is the I am, that is the unconditioned consciousness, that is pure awareness or presence. And for many of you, it already is operating in your life, perhaps not all the time, perhaps you still occasionally get drawn into complete identification with the mind.

因此接下来要做的是深化这种觉知。在座或许还有人此刻感到困惑，想着‘我不明白’。我只能说，其实我也不‘明白’。但这是你整个存在中最关键的事——即便活到百岁，人生也相对短暂——就是要觉醒于此。不仅是你在觉醒，更是宇宙通过你在觉醒。

And so then it becomes a deepening here. And there may be some of you who are still puzzled right now and thinking, don't understand. And I can only say, neither do I. But that is the most vital thing in your entire existence here, which is a relatively short one, even if live to a 100, is to awaken to that. And it's not just you who is awakening, it's the universe is awakening through you.

宇宙意识正在觉醒于此。所以存在两种模式或维度：你作为一个人格存在，带着由思想构成的历史、过去与未来，带着某种身份认同——即历史人格的身份，这是相对脆弱的身份；同时你又是更深层的存在。表层上，你以人格形态存在于此。

Universal consciousness is awakening to that. And so there are two modalities or two dimensions. You exist as a person with your history, your past and your future, which all exist as thought, with your kind of identity, that is the identity of the historical person, that's a relatively fragile identity. And then you are. The surface is, exist here as a person.

这点毋庸置疑。我有时称之为‘表层我’，即代词‘我’。当使用‘我’这个词时（英语中使用频率极高的词，可能是最常用的词）——我、我、我——通常指代表层的自我，历史人格。

There's no doubt about that. And that I call sometimes the surface I, the pronoun I. When you use the word I, and it's a word that's very, it's used very frequently in the English language, perhaps it's the word that most, used most frequently. I, I, I. Usually it refers to the surface self, the historical person.

在其他语言中‘我’使用频率稍低，比如许多拉丁语系语言中它被融入动词词尾（西班牙语不必总说‘我’），但你仍认同于这个表层我。而更深层存在着一个‘深我’。生命中最关键的领悟就是：除了作为历史人格拥有这个表层我之外，更根本的是，你是能将自己从表层我中解放的深我——不必再徒劳地试图从表层我获取终极身份认同，不必继续承受挫败感和缺失感。

In other languages, I is used a little less frequently because in many Latin based languages, it's built into the ending of the verb. You don't always have to say I in Spanish, for example, but you're still identified with a surface eye. And then there's a deep eye. And that is the most vital realization in your lifetime is to realize that in addition to being a historical person and having this surface eye, and more fundamentally, you are the deep eye that frees you from looking to the surface eye for your ultimate sense of identity and never finding it and always being frustrated and always feeling there's something not right. There's something missing.

那么如何觉知它？比如在两个念头之间的间隙里——当历史人格或表层我暂时消退时——留存下来的不是任何可言说或理解的东西，你只感知到一种底层的临在感或存在感。它寂静却充满生机。

And so how do you realize it? In the gap between two thoughts, for example, now, in which the historical person or the surface eye momentarily subsides and disappears. And what's left of you is not anything that you could talk about or even understand. All you know is there is a, there's an underlying sense of presence or beingness. It's still, but it's alive.

其中蕴含着警觉性。于是你开始觉知到那个维度——虽然严格来说，那个维度本身就是觉知。所以更准确的说法是：你觉知到了觉知本身。

There's an alertness to it. And that then you become aware of that dimension. But of course that dimension is awareness. So it's not totally correct to say that you become aware of that dimension. You become aware of awareness.

你意识到自己正在觉察。这就是它的本质。在日常生活中，你会越来越多地主动邀请这些临在时刻的到来，这样你就不会日复一日地完全被牵引你的思维之流所裹挟。总会有那种拉扯感——现在，我需要思考这个。

You become aware that you are aware. That's what it is. More and more in your life, your ordinary day to day life, you actually invite these moments of presence in so that you don't spend the whole day and every day in the stream of mind that drags you along. And so there's always that pull. Now, I need to think about this.

现在，我需要处理这个。中间没有间隙，永远没有间隙，除非当你开始入睡时，那时你会有个间隙。你在下沉，沉到思维之下。这某种程度上是种解脱。然后你失去了意识。

Now, I need to deal with this. And there's no gap, never a gap, except when you begin to fall asleep, then you have a gap. You're moving, you're falling below thought. That's liberating, kind of. And then you lose consciousness.

意识开始收摄。于是你开始体悟到自己的本质身份。最初是短暂的片刻，当你变得临在时——这意味着思维消退，但你并非滑向睡眠。你是警醒的。你只是存在。

Consciousness withdraws. So you begin to realize your essence identity. Brief moments at first where you become present, which means thinking subsides, but you're not moving towards sleep. You're alert. You just are.

我在。然后你会意识到，当这种状态在日常生活中升起时，你会开始明白所谓的智能其实也存在于两个维度。其一是思维头脑的智能，这可能是智商测试试图衡量的那种。但即便是思维头脑的智能，智商测试也只是其微小的一部分。

I am. And then you realize that when this arises in your daily life, you begin to realize that what is called intelligence has, that also exists in two dimensions. One is the intelligence of the thinking mind. This is the kind of thing that perhaps they measure with IQ tests. But even that, even the intelligence of the thinking mind, IQ tests are only even a short aspect or fragment of that.

这种智能是分析性智能，包括记忆力、分析能力、思考能力、积累的知识和教育。对未觉醒的世界而言，这就是智能的全部。你的智商决定一切？我不知道自己的智商，我觉得很低。

That's the intelligence, the analytical intelligence, memory, being able to analyze, to think, accumulated knowledge, education. So that is one type of intelligence and to the world, the unawakened world, that's all there is to intelligence. What's your IQ that determines everything? I don't know what my IQ is. I think it's low.

因为每次看到智商测试题，我都想：这是什么？一两分钟后我就失去兴趣。为何要解这种谜题？人们没意识到的是：这确实是智能，但它运作有限，甚至缺乏创造性。

Because whenever I look at an IQ test, I think, what is this? And after a minute or two, I lose interest. Why do I have to solve this puzzle? Now, what's not realized is that is intelligence. Yes, it operates, but it's relatively limited and it's not even creative.

它只能记忆和分析。而另一种智能则与深层觉知相连，是非概念性智能。认识世界有两种方式：其一是通过头脑的概念化判断，其二是通过纯粹觉知。后者更深层，也是创造力产生的维度——任何新思想、新事物要诞生，都需要至少短暂触及这个非概念层面。

It can only memorize and analyze. And then that is another type of intelligence that is connected with the deep eye and that is non conceptual intelligence. So there are two ways of knowing anything in this world. One is through conceptualization, judgments of the mind, and one is through pure awareness. But the second type, which is the deeper, which is also the dimension where creativity arises in order to be able to think, to have any creative thoughts, anything new, no matter what it is, anything that's new, you need to have at least a little bit of access to the deeper level of non conceptual.

比如两秒钟的无念状态。有些富有创造力的人甚至不知道奥秘在此——两秒无念后，创造性的新想法就从中涌现。就像脱口秀演员，有些段子需要准备，但即兴互动时突然迸发的创意——任何让你灵光乍现的笑话（除非是拙劣笑话）都源自更深层。

For example, two seconds of no thought. There are people who are creative who don't even know that this is how it happens. Two seconds of no thought, and out of these two seconds of no thought, this creative new thought arises. And then they, for example, it could be even a simple thing like a standup comedian. If he hasn't, some of the things they prepare, but they also interact with the audience sometimes.

无论是写诗还是其他创作，任何前所未有的词语组合方式、观察事物的新视角，都来自与源头的短暂连接，随后又消失。但我们追求的不止于此。

And then they suddenly something creative, they say creative. Any joke that you make, if it comes to you, suddenly it's a, it comes from, unless it's a stupid joke. It comes from some deeper place. Any, anything you say that is any, if you write a poem or whatever it is, a new way of putting words together that nobody's done before, a new way of looking at something or suddenly all that comes from a moment of connectedness with, and then it disappears again. But here we want more than that.

我们的任务是扎根于那个维度——变得更有创造力只是次要收获。更重要的是：当你越来越深地安住于本体维度时，你会逐渐明白你的本质身份不是那个历史性的人格。你不再从个人历史中获取自我认同——胜利、失败、成就、过失、可怕的错误、辉煌的过往终将消逝，成功的关系终会破裂，种种经历终成云烟。

Our task is to be rooted in that dimension so that, and this is so important, the fact that you become more creative is a secondary thing. It's an adding on, but more important is that as you're rooted in that deeper dimension of being, more and more you realize that your essential identity is not the historical person. So you no longer derive your sense of who you are from your personal history. Victories, defeats, successes, failures, dreadful mistakes, wonderful things that you achieved, and then they passed. Relationships that worked and then didn't work, mistakes made, wonderful things happened, and now they're gone.

这就是为什么大多数人从中获取身份认同感。它仅仅是那个‘我’，那个存在的人，而那就是他们所捍卫的。他们总是小心翼翼。你必须捍卫那个心理自我，那个由思维构建的自我。不仅要捍卫它，你还需要寻找事物来强化它。

That's why most people derive their sense of identity from. It's just the me, the person that's, and that's what they defend. They're always careful. You have to defend that mental self, that mind made self. Not only defend it, you have to look for things to strengthen it.

我能给自己、给自己的形象添加些什么？可能是一件简单的物品。如果我买了这个，就像所有广告商那样，人们想卖东西，他们大多利用你的身份认同感。他们再次承诺，通过购买这个特定产品来增强你的身份认同感。当然，并非所有产品都如此，但很多都是这样。

What can I add to me, to the image of who I am? It could be a simple thing like a possession. If I buy this, as all the advertisers, people want to sell things, most of them work with your sense of identity. They promise again, an enhancement of your sense of identity by buying this particular product. Well, not all products, but many.

因此，他们以一种微妙的方式暗示，甚至只是简单地展示那些使用产品的好看的人。他们并没有直接告诉你，但如果你购买这个产品，潜意识里你会相信自己某种程度上也与这些好看的人联系在一起，成为他们中的一员。你可以成为这些出色、迷人的人之一。他们使用这些产品。我也要用。

So in a subtle way, they imply, even just simply putting, good looking people, they're using the product. So they are not telling you that if you buy this product unconsciously, you will believe that you are somehow also associated with these good looking people and you become one of them. You can be one of these great, these wonderful looking people. They're using the products. I'm going to use it too.

然后你就买了。我记得在我二十出头的时候，我还在抽烟，我总是仔细挑选要买的品牌，虽然没有有意识地用语言表达出来。我想要一个能增强自我感的品牌。所以我寻找最好的那个，看广告。有一段时间我选择了——不知道这个品牌现在是否还存在。

And then you buy it. I remember it when I was in my early twenties, I was still smoking and I always carefully looked on what brand am I going to buy that will it, didn't consciously verbalize it in that way. I want a brand that enhances my sense of self. And so I looked out for the best one and I looked at the ads. And then for a while I chose, I don't know if it still exists.

我很久很久以前就戒烟了。我选定了我最喜欢的品牌。我尝试过其他品牌，比如为了塑造阳刚形象试过‘Lucky Strike’，但它们让我感觉不舒服。

I stopped smoking a long, long, long time ago. I chose what my favorite brand became. I tried others for masculine image. I tried Lucky Strike. But they made me feel sick.

后来又试了一些其他品牌，最终选中了‘Benson and Hedges’。它的包装看起来像金条，金色的。你撕开玻璃纸时会发出声音，然后抽出一支，点燃。你在抽‘Benson and Hedges’。有一段时间这满足了自我，直到不再满足，然后我又寻找别的东西。

And then some other brands, and finally a hit on Benson and Hedges. And it comes in a gold, the good packet it comes in looks like a gold bar. So you bite, you take off the cellophane, makes a sound, and then you pull it out, and you light it. You are smoking Benson and Hedges. And for a while that fed the ego until it didn't anymore And then looked for something else.

有一段时间我成了一个知识分子。我给自己增加了知识。这样我可以比别人更博学。这比抽‘Benson and Hedges’好多了。我可以向你展示我实际上非常有学问。

Then for a while I became an intellectual. I added knowledge to myself. I could then be more knowledgeable than somebody else. So much better than having Benson and Hedges. I can show you that I'm actually highly knowledgeable.

尽管问我吧。所以你认同各种各样的事物。你认同知识，认同财产，认同任何东西——成就，或者你负面地认同某些事物。

Just ask me. So you identify with all kinds of things. You identify with knowledge. You identify with possessions. You identify with anything, achievements, or you identify negatively with things.

你失败得如此彻底。这种失败者的形象就在你的脑海里。也许你的父母很愚蠢，以至于他们叫你‘笨蛋’——这种事常发生在孩子身上。任何称自己年幼孩子为‘笨蛋’的父母显然非常愚蠢，用一个通用术语来说。‘无意识’可能更委婉些。

You failed so badly. And this image of being such a failure is in your mind. And perhaps your parents were so stupid that they called you stupid, which happens to children. Any parents who call their young children stupid are obviously very stupid, to use a generic term. Unconscious might be more charitable.

当然，这可能会深植于一个人的脑海中，成为他们是谁的形象，作为思维构建的自我感的一部分。很难摆脱它。许多人携带着父母的声音，尽管他们可能早已去世。父母活在你的脑海里，还在说话。‘不够好’。

And of course that can get stuck in a person's mind and becomes an image of who they are, as part of the mind made sense of self. Very hard to get rid of it. There are many people who carry their mother's or father's voice, although they might have passed away a long time ago. The mother and father lives in your mind and still talks. Not good enough.

我已竭尽全力。不，还不够好。你脑海中是否有个对话？那全是思绪。这些都成为你自我认知的一部分。

I'm doing my best. No, not good enough. Do you have a dialogue in your mind? It's all thought. It all becomes part of your sense of self.

许多人的自我认知并不愉快，但不愉快的自我认知同样以自我为中心。你从何处获得它？这至关重要，因为它决定了一切。你对自己的认知决定了你与世界的关系，与他人的互动方式，以及你如何看待事物。这些都与你身份认同有关。

Many people don't have a very happy sense of self, but the unhappy sense of self is equally egoic. Where do you derive it? That is so important because that determines everything. Your sense of who you are determines how you relate to the world, how you relate to other human beings, how you perceive things. That's all to do with your sense of identity.

在温饱之后，身份认同是人类最看重的东西。即便是孩童也需要身份认同。年轻人若一无所有，若在这世上找不到被认可的角色，就会加入帮派。他们在绝望中寻求身份认同，最终成为帮派成员。

Identity after shelter and enough to eat. What's the most important thing that humans look for is identity. Even already children, they need an identity. Youngsters, if they can't have anything, if they're not, have no recognized role in this world, then they go to gangs. They become, in a desperate search for identity, they become a gang member.

这种身份暂时能支撑他们，直到有人开枪结束一切。他们为身份认同杀人，这种事并不罕见。本可以长篇大论，但这正是历史性的自我——由思维构建的自我，是人们自我认知的基础。

And then that helps for a while until somebody shoots them and that's that. And they kill people for their identity. And that's not uncommon that happens. One could talk about this for a long time, but this is the historical self. That is the mind made self that is the foundation for people's sense of who they are.

受害者身份是许多人的核心标签。当然，有人曾伤害过你。是的，很可能。有时是极其恶劣的伤害，针对你、你的祖先、家人、宗教团体或政治阵营等等。毫无疑问，这些确实可怕。

Victim is a big one for many people. Of course, people did bad things to you. Yes, probably. And sometimes very bad things, either to you or to your ancestors or to your family or your religious group or your political, whatever. And of course you have to, yes, undoubtedly, yes, terrible.

关键在于，你是否开始主要从'某些人或群体的受害者'这一身份中获取自我认知？这极具诱惑力又危险，因为你会被困在虚构的自我认知里，甚至阻碍你采取积极行动。毕竟你能做什么？你的人生被那些人毁了，现在做什么都无济于事，除了抱怨。

The question is, do you begin to derive your sense of who you are mainly from being a victim of certain other people or groups? Very seductive and dangerous because you get trapped in a fictitious sense of self that even prevents you from taking positive action. But because what action can you take? Your life is effed up because of what these people did to you or to us. No point in doing anything now, but you can complain.

每一声抱怨都强化着你的身份认同。所以不要被困在这个层面。当你觉知深层意识，越来越从那里获得自我认知时，你的历史身份就降为次要。当然你仍记得人生故事，仍保有与他人相对的自我定位，但这不再是你的存在根基。

And with every complaint, your sense of identity grows. So you don't want to be trapped there on that level. Now, as the deep eye, you become aware of the deep eye, you become aware of awareness, increasingly your sense of who you are is derived from there. And then your secondary identity is your historical identity and whatever it is in your mind, the story of your life, of course, you remember it. And yes, you still have a sense of who you are in this world relative to others, but it's no longer the basis, it's no longer the foundation for who you are.

你不再需要通过附加事物来增强自我认知，因为那已非你的根基。防御性也会消失，因为你开始明白所捍卫的终究是幻象——一个虚幻的自我。越是捍卫这个幻象，就越深陷其中。即便在简单讨论中，当观点被质疑时...

The need to add more things to enhance your sense of self goes away because that is no longer the foundation for your sense of self. The defensiveness goes away because you begin to realize that whatever you're defending is ultimately an illusion, an illusory self. And the more you defend the illusory self, the more you are trapped in the illusory self. Even in a simple thing like a discussion, your point of view, somebody questions it, somebody disagrees with it, somebody says, No, you're completely wrong. What do you mean?

你会感受到情绪洪流的冲击，一种威胁感。你的生命正受威胁——这是潜意识信念，因为你的身份认同正被挑战。当你完全认同思维立场时，这就成了你以为的'你'。

And then you notice an enormous influx of emotion, a threat. You're being threatened. Your life is being threatened. That's the unconscious belief because your very sense of identity is being threatened. When you're completely identified with mind and mental positions, that becomes who, this is who you are or think you are.

当有人质疑这些，就是在质疑你的生命本质。你自然会高度防御，情绪瞬间爆发，陷入激烈争论。你会注意到争论中的人比平时更失控。

Somebody questions it. They questions your very life, your very sense of self. And you become, of course, very defensive. And very quickly the emotion comes and you get involved in an heated argument. You notice more unconscious than somebody involved in a heated argument.

有些人一旦听到他人表达与自己截然相反的观点时，就会情绪崩溃。这种现象在互联网上屡见不鲜。某人持有不同意见时...互联网是个奇妙的地方，虚假的自我感能在这里不断被放大和强化。你只需坐在那里敲击键盘——多么美妙的进步啊，连门都不用出了。

There are people who, whenever they hear, they're with somebody who expresses a very different opinion or opposite opinion from the one they hold, they go into emotional meltdown. It happens on the internet a lot. Somebody has a different opinion. The internet is a wonderful thing that, where the false sense of self can continuously be enhanced and strengthened. All you have to do is sit on your, pry the keyboard and So wonderful advance, you don't even have to go out anymore.

你可以在自己房间或母亲的地下室里不断强化自我。

You can strengthen your ego in your room or your mother's basement.

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