在最深的層面上，當下與真正的你不可分離。
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你生命中有許多事情都很緊要，但只有一件事是絕對重要的。
無論你是成功的，還是在世人眼裡你失敗了，這件事都很重要。無論你的身體好或不好，無論你是有學問或是沒學問，它都很重要。無論你是富有還是貧窮，它都很重要。它毫無疑問將為你的生活帶來改變。
是的，相對來說，以上這些事情都重要。但是它們卻不是絕對地重要。有比這些事情中的任何一件都重要得多的事，那就是去發現你的本質是超越這短暫的身軀的，真正的你是超越這短暫的被貼上個人標籤的自我感的。
你無法通過改變你的生活情境來獲得平靜，只有當你在最深的層次上意識到你真正是誰的時候，才能感到平安。
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如果你下一世還是不知道你是誰，即使是轉世輪迴也幫不了你。
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這星球上所有的痛苦都是源於一種貼上個人標籤的我或我們的感覺。它掩蓋了你的真正本質。當你最終還是對你的內在本質一無所知時，你免不了會製造痛苦。就是這麼簡單。當你不知道你是誰，你創造出一個頭腦製造的我作為你那美麗神聖的本我的替代品，你依附於這個充滿恐懼和貪婪的自我。你不停地保護和強化它，這個錯誤的自我成了你主要的驅動力。
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很多日常的語言表達，有時甚至是語言結構本身，揭示了一個事實：人們不知道他們是誰。你說：“他失去了他的生命”，或者“我的生命”，彷彿生命是什麼你可以擁有或失去的東西似的。
真相是你並不擁有一個生命，你就是生命，這合一的生命，這合一的意識，它遍布整個宇宙，它通過短暫的有形之物來經驗它自己，比如一塊石頭、一片草葉、一隻動物、一個人、一顆星星或是整個銀河系。你能否在內在深處感到你已經知曉它？你能否感到你已經就是它？
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對生命中大多數事情來說，你需要時間：學習一項新的技能、建造一所房屋、成為一名專家、泡一杯茶。
然而，對於生命中最核心的事情來說，你並不需要時間。這件真正至關重要的事- 自我實現– 指的是去了悟真正的你是超越表面的小我的，它超越了你的名字、你的身體、你的歷史、你的故事。
你無法在過去或未來找到你自己。你只能在當下找到你自己。靈性追求者總是在未來尋求自我實現或是開悟。成為一個追尋者意味著你需要未來。如果這就是你以為的，它對你來說就變成了真的。你會一直需要時間來找尋，直到你發現要成為真正的你並不需要時間。
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當你看著一棵樹，你覺察到這棵樹。當你有一個念頭或者感受，你覺察到那個念頭或感受。當你有一次愉悅或者痛苦的經歷，你覺察到那個經歷。這些看上去似乎都是真實明顯的表述。然而，如果你非常仔細地觀察它們，你會發現在它們的這個結構裡，微妙地包含了一個基本的幻象，一旦你使用語言，這個幻象就不可避免。思維和語言創造了一種顯而易見的二元對立，和一個分離的人，而它們並不真的存在。
事實的真相是你不是那個覺察到樹、念頭、感受或經歷的人。你就是那個覺知或意識，這些事物在這意識之中，並經由這意識，而顯現。當你忙忙碌碌生活時，你能否意識到你自己是那個覺知，你的整個生命內容正是在它之中展開？
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你說：“我想要認識我自己。” You are the I。你是那個知曉。你是那個意識本身，萬物通過這意識被知曉，而這意識不能知道它自己。它就是它自己。沒有什麼會超越它被知道。而所有的知曉都是來自於它。主語我不能將自己變成一個知識或者意識的客體。
所以你不能成為你自己的客體。這正是小我身份的幻象產生的原因，在頭腦裡你將自己變成了一個客體。“這是我”，你說，然後你開始發展出一個與你自己的關係，並告訴別人以及你自己關於你的故事。
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藉著了悟你就是那純粹的意識，而所有表面存在的事物都是在它之內發生，你開始從對現象的依賴之中解脫出來，你不再在情境、地位和外在條件之中尋求自我。換句話說，發生了的或者沒有發生的不再顯得那麼重要了。事情不再那麼沉重，那麼嚴肅。一種遊戲的感覺來到你的生命裡。你將這世界看作是一場宇宙之舞，形式之舞。它不多也不少。
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當你知道真正的你是誰，你感到一種持續的充滿活力的寧靜。你可以稱它為喜悅，因為喜悅正是這種感覺，生動的充滿活力的寧靜。這是知道自己就是生命的本質的喜悅，在生命背上形式的負擔之前。這是存在的喜悅，這是成為真正的你的喜悅。
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就像水可以是固體、液體或水蒸氣一樣，意識也能以不同形式呈現，它可以如物體一般堅固，如頭腦和思維一般流動，或者如純粹的意識一般無形。純粹的意識正是生命在它顯化之前的狀態，這個生命通過你的眼睛看著這個有形世界，因為意識就是你。當你了悟自己就是意識時，你就能在萬物之中認出你自己。你的感知是如此清晰。你再也不是那個有著承重的過去的人，一直以來這個過去成了你的概念的屏障，你用它來解讀你的每一個經歷。當你不再帶著頭腦的解讀來感知一切時，你能夠直接感知那個事物的本來面目。我們能找到的最恰當的語言是，在一個警覺寧靜的場域中，感知發生了。經由你，無形的意識覺知到了它自己。
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大多數人的生活都是由慾望和恐懼驅使的。慾望是想要給你自己添加點兒什麼，好讓你感到更完整。而所有的恐懼是害怕失去什麼，以免你被貶低或縮小了。這兩方面的行為都掩蓋了一個事實，存在是無法被給予或拿走的。完美無缺的存在就在你之中，就在當下之中。
翻譯：遊由
~~~原文如下~~~
Chapter 5
Who You Truly Are
The now is inseparable from who you are at the deepest level.
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Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely.
It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether
you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters
whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life.
Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding
the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived
personalized sense of self.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing
who you are at the deepest level.
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Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who
you are.
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All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of me or us. That
covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence,
in the end, you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know
who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine
being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false
sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.
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Many expressions that are in common usage and sometimes the structure of
language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say, “He
lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were something that you can possess or lose.
The truth is you don't have a life, you are life, the one life, the one conscious that
pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a
stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense
deep within that you already know that. Can you sense that you already are that?
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For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become
an expert, make a cup of tea.
Time is useless, however, for the most essential thing in life, the one thing that
really matters, self-realization–which means knowing who you are beyond the
surface self, beyond your name, your physical form, your history, your story.
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find
yourself in the Now. Spiritual seekers look for self realization or enlightenment in
the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you
believe, it becomes true for you. You will need time until you realize that you don't
need time to be who you are.
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When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or
feeling, you are aware of that thought or feeling. When you have a pleasurable or
painful experience, you are aware of that experience. These seem to be true and
obvious statements. Yet if you look at them very closely, you will find that in a
subtle way their very structure contains a fundamental illusion, an illusion which is
unavoidable when you use language. Thought and language create an apparent
duality and a separate person where there is none.
The truth is you are not somebody who is aware of the tree, the thought, feeling or
experience. You are the awareness or consciousness in and by which those things
appear. As you go about your life, can you be aware of yourself as the awareness in
which the entire content of your life unfolds?
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You say, “I want to know myself.” You are the I. You are the knowing. You are the
consciousness through which everything is known and that cannot know itself. It is
itself. There is nothing to know beyond that. And yet all knowing arises out of it.
The “I” cannot make itself into an object of knowledge, of consciousness.
So you cannot become an object to yourself. That is the very reason the illusion of
egoic identity arose because mentally you made yourself into an object. “That's
me,” you say, and then you begin to have a relationship with yourself and tell
others and yourself your story.
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By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens,
you become free of dependency on phenomena and free of self seeking in
situations, places, and conditions. In other words, what happens or doesn't happen
is not that important anymore. Things lose their heaviness, their seriousness. A
playfulness comes into your life. You recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the
dance of form. No more and no less.
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When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You
could call it joy because that's what joy is, vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of
knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy
of being, of being who you truly are.
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Just as water can be solid, liquid, or gaseous, consciousness can be seen to be
frozen as physical matter, liquid as mind and thought, or formless as pure
consciousness. Pure consciousness is life before it comes into manifestation and
that life looks at the world of form through your eyes because consciousness is who
you are. When you know yourself as that, then you recognize yourself in
everything. It is a state of complete clarity of perception. You are no longer an
entity with a heavy past that becomes a screen of concepts through which every
experience is interpreted. When you perceive without interpretation, you can then
sense what it is that is perceiving. The most we can say in language is that there is a
field of alert stillness in which the perception happens. Through you, formless
consciousness has become aware of itself.
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Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something
to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing
something, and thereby become diminished and be less. These two movements
obscure the fact that being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is
already within you, now.
摘自：<<寧靜在說話>> Stillness Speaks
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