生命的價值何在？自覺人生來體現(xiàn)【中英對照】

　　在這無盡的世界中、

　　無量無邊的生命狀態(tài)中，

　　我們怎么了解

　　生命真正的價值所在呢？

　　怎么能遠(yuǎn)離

　　委屈、纏縛與制約呢？

　　How do we discover

　　the true value of life

　　in this infinite world and amid these countless forms of lives?

　　How can we keep away from

　　grievance, restraint and entanglement?

　　自覺 就是答案，它是我們在思想意識中唯一不委屈的方法，能夠真正、徹底地解放自己的思想意識世界。

　　The answer lies in self-enlightening. It is the only way by which one can thoroughly liberate his entire mental world, with no trace of grievance.

　　我們常常被人生的迷茫、受限、纏縛、委屈等等這些點制約、困住，是因為我們把這些點當(dāng)成了面、當(dāng)成了全部，掩蓋了人生本來的面目。其實這些煩惱、執(zhí)著的點，從未離開過真相、離開過本質(zhì)。就像一匹馬被困在一個馬樁上，不能奔跑在遼闊的草原，但這匹馬從來沒離開過這個遼闊的草原，只是需要把馬栓解開就可以了。

　　We are often entrapped and restrained by certain life points such as confusion, limitation, entanglement and grievance. Since we focus too much on and mistakenly take these points for the whole surface, we are blinded to the truth. Actually these points of worry and attachment never lose its nature and essence. Just like when a horse is tied to a post, it cannot run on the field. But in fact, the horse has never left the vast grassland, and we just need to untie the rope to set it free.

　　委屈、徘徊、埋怨、推脫責(zé)任等等這些點，只是被我們強化、執(zhí)著了，把我們卡住了，生命并沒有失去它本質(zhì)的東西——它的廣大性、無限性、平等性、清凈性從來都沒離開過，一直在其中，只要我們一松手就解套了，一松手就回到了廣大、清凈、平等、圓滿的真實思想意識世界中。這就是自覺。

　　At a point of grievance, hesitation, complaint or shirking responsibility, we may intensify those feelings or experiences, be attached to them and be stuck. Even at those points, life has never lost its nature such as vastness, infinity, equality and purity, and those features of life always lie inside of the nature and never leave. We can easily untie that point by letting it go and go back to our true mental world of vastness, equality, purity and perfection. This is what we called self-enlightenment.

　　自覺，是讓我們主動運用這些本有的無限、廣大、清凈、自由的感知力，而不是被動地讓事相的作用力影響我們的心、蒙蔽我們的心、掩蓋我們真實的本質(zhì)狀態(tài)。我們可以在生活的每一個作為中去認(rèn)識它、了解它、實踐它，把心念放在每一個作為之前，讓自己的心念起作用。一定要清晰每個作為是用什么心念去做的，這樣，事情的好壞、對錯等等結(jié)果對心念的影響力就會慢慢減弱、消失。

　　Self-enlightenment is to actively utilize our inherently infinite, vast, pure and free perception, not being affected or blinded by the force of phenomena, which bury our true nature. We can recognize, comprehend and practise it in every action in our lives. Put a predetermined mind ahead of each action and let the mind function. We need to be aware of each flicker of thought before it drives our actions. Thus the influence of the result of things upon our heart like “good or bad” and “right or wrong”  will be weaker and gradually fade away.

　　通過這樣不斷地練習(xí)，我們的心念會越來越清晰、越來越明亮。事相給我們帶來的蒙蔽、黑暗，就會在這清晰、光明的心念的照射下破除、消失，本具的輕安、自由與舒展都會展示出來。

　　By keeping practising, our heart will become increasingly clearer and brighter. Thus the dust and darkness brought by the phenomena will be shattered under the clear and shining heart, manifesting the inherent light-ease, freedom and relaxation.

　　我們每個人的思想意識世界都是自由的，學(xué)會運用自覺，就完全可以主動地選擇、不固化地調(diào)整自己的心念。比如別人的贊嘆也好、辱罵也好，這都是對方心理意識中的你，跟自己沒關(guān)系。不對自己歸類、固化、執(zhí)著，我們就是自由的、不委屈的；一旦有執(zhí)著、固化，我們就會受到限制。

　　Everyone has a free mental world. By learning to apply the self-enlightenment, we can take initiative to make choices and adjust our minds. Other people may praise or criticize us. Whatever they are saying is just a reflection of us in their minds and it has nothing to do with ourselves. We should neither categorize, nor define ourselves based on others’ judgement. Once we lose this state, we are no longer free and once we solidify or are attached to something we will be limited.

　　把自己的思想意識輕輕地取出來放到虛空中，廣大、無限、無量等等本具的舒展就會與自己的思想意識相應(yīng)，本質(zhì)的作用力就會顯現(xiàn)出來。它把我們從種種的習(xí)氣、限制、得失的對立中解放出來，使我們回歸到一個真實的、無限制的狀態(tài)中，回歸到生命本有的廣大、究竟、無量的空凈意識世界中，從迷茫、委屈、纏縛、制約中徹底走出來——生命的價值通過自覺會真正地體現(xiàn)出來。

　　We need to gently release our heart into the universe and the vast, infinite and boundless nature will refill in our heart. The force of the nature will show up. It will liberate us from our worldly habits, restraints, limitations and the dualism of gain and loss, and bring us back to a true and unlimited state and back to the inherent vast, complete, limitless mental world of emptiness and purity, completely out of confusion, grievance and restraints. Thus the value of life can be manifested through self-enlightening.

——摘自慈法法師的『生命之光 · 陽光早餐』

『The Light of LifeSunshine Breakfast』

原標(biāo)題：自覺人生的價值 【 中英對照 】

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