《终极自由之路》23.世界

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翻译：小粒子儿大天体

We perceive the world through our physical body, more specifically, through our five physical senses. If we perceive the world and our physical body through our physical senses, then we cannot be the body vehicle that we are perceiving through, it being an instrument that we are using. Our prime object is to discover the perceiver.
我们通过我们的物理身体来感知世界，具体来说，就是通过我们的五感。如果我们通过五感来感知世界，并且感知我们的身体，那么我们就不会是这具身体，因为身体成为了我们正在使用的工具。我们的主要目的就是发现谁在感知。

Say to yourself, "I am not this body, I am not this mind, -what am I?" In the background of all seeking and thinking, always keep this quest going.
跟自己说：“我不是这具身体，我不是这颗头脑，我到底是什么？”持续地寻求这个问题的答案。

The more difficult the world is, the more incentive there is to seek the true Happiness, -the Self. When life is easy, the incentive is not as strong. This human, physical life that we are now in, is the most difficult of all living that we will ever experience and therefore presents the greatest opportunity for growth and realization. However, if one does not seek the Self and goes along with the world, then ones delusion and ignorance increases, and that is the extra hazard of being in this difficult world.
世界越艰难，也就越有动力寻求真正的幸福——真我。当生活很容易时，动机不会那么强烈。人类的生活是我们体验过的最艰难的生活，因此也是成长和开悟的最佳契机。然而，如果一个人并非寻求真我，而是继续跟随这个世界，那么他的妄想和无知就会加剧，这会让他陷入更加危险的境地。

When things get worse, if you lose your head the Masters cannot help you. If you don It lose your head, you can see it as' a motion picture and grow through it.
当事情恶化而你又失去理智时，大师也帮不了你。如果你还有理智，你就会把生活看成是一场电影，并通过它来获得成长。

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The world has a slave consciousness. Man is convinced that it is necessary to work for a living and therefore it is. Were this not so, nature would freely supply all needs.
这个世界有着一种奴隶意识。人类相信为了生存必须奋斗，因此也只能奋斗。如果不再奋斗，那么自然会提供一切所需。

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If you want to know how much hatred there is in the hearts of total Americans, look at the present conditions and the war. However, we are not going backwards spiritually; we are advancing, in spite of what you see. We have been in a docile state of deep apathy holding subconscious thoughts of hostility, and now we are moving up and out of it. This is shown by our ability to express our hostility. Expressing is higher than suppressing. And this is what is happening in the world. You see it throughout everything today. The people are growing.
如果你想知道所有美国人的心中有多少仇恨，看看我们目前的处境，看看战争。然而，这并非是我们在灵性上倒退了，相反的是，我们在前进。在过去的阶段，我们的潜意识虽充满敌意，但外在却是冷漠的，现在我们从那个阶段里出来，具体表现为我们开始有能力向外表达我们的敌意。表达要高于压抑。这就是这个世界现在所发生的，每一天你周围的一切都在向你显示着这一点。人们正在成长。

However, the important thing for you to know is that there is nothing out there in the world but your consciousness. Let go of hostility and war and see the peace and harmony just behind it. A Master, a Christ, sees no hostility and destruction; He sees the Truth. He sees God as all. Now, if God is all and God is perfect, where is there imperfection? In Truth, in Reality, there is none. You must get to see this. You have to start with the correct assumption that God is all and God is perfect, and if you look through that consciousness that is all you will see.
然而，你需要知道的最重要的一点是外在的一切都是你意识的投射。释放敌意和战争，就能看到背后的和平与和谐。大师，也就是基督，是看不到敌意和毁灭的，祂只看到真相。牠将上帝看成是全部。如果上帝就是全部，就是完美，那么哪来的不完美呢？在实相中，没有不完美。你必须看到这一点。必须首先假设上帝是全部，上帝是完美，如果你带着这份意识去看，那么你看到的就会是这样。

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We should not get too interested in this world if we want to know the truth.
如果我们想要知道真相，就不要对这个世界太感兴趣。

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The more you want and have of the world the more you let go of your limitless joy.
你越想要从这世界获得什么，就越把无限的喜悦推开。

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The things of man are not the things of God. And man wants to foolishly hold onto the things of man.
人类的东西不同于上帝的东西。人类只是愚蠢地想要抓住人类的东西。

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The world is nothing but a grinder-up of bodies.
这个世界只是一台绞肉机。

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Desires bring us here and keep us coming here until we tire of it and have no more desire for it.
欲望将我们带到这里，不断地我们带回这里，直到我们厌倦，不再有任何欲望。

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To play with this world, to try to make it a good world, as is generally done in metaphysical teachings, is fruitless as far as Realization is concerned. However, it is useful in giving us a life that is more conducive to seeking the Truth.
形而上学中所教导的“跟这世界玩游戏，让这世界成为更好的世界”，对开悟而言是无益的。但是，它还是有助于我们寻求生命的真相。

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Accepting people's limited ideas of the world is injuring the world (and yourself).
接受人们有关这世界的限制性信念，不仅伤了这世界，还伤了你自己。

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Accepting worldly limitations adds your force to them by your validating them.
当你确认尘世的限制时，你就是在强化它们。

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Education today is mis-education. We are taught limitation and illusion. The most important things are not taught. Colleges have no courses on the most important subjects: happiness and love, and the life-principle itself.
如今的教育是错误的教育，它教给我们限制和幻象，最重要的东西却不教。大学里的课程从不教授最重要的科目：幸福和爱，以及生活法则本身。

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What we call knowledge in the world is ignorance. Everything that man is trying to learn is constantly changing, so therefore, all of it is incorrect. That which is true never changes. The knowledge of your Self requires dropping all knowledge of the world.
我们所谓的知识其实是无知。人类所学的一切都在不断变化，因此，没有一样是正确的。而真实的却从不改变。有关真我的知识要求放弃有关这世界的一切知识。

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The world authorities are generally those who dont know.
这世界的各种权威实际上什么都不懂。

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The more multiplex one is, the more multiplex the world.
一个人越复杂，世界就越复杂。

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When we want to change the world, it is the ego playing God.
当我们想要改变这个世界时，是小我在玩上帝。

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People set the vibration of a place.
是人引发了地震。

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The whole world is thrashing, dashing, gnashing, gashing and slashing, which in the end, results in ashing.
整个世界都在上蹿下跳，横冲直撞，暴跳如雷，自相残杀，最后粉身碎骨，灰飞烟灭。

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Exclusiveness is a blight on the world. Oneness is its salvation.
排外让这个世界变得荒芜，唯有合一是它的救赎。

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You cannot exclude even one percent of the people in this world and attain Realization.
你不能排除这个世界上哪怕1%的人，因为那样的话你就无法开悟。

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A frustrated person is one who attempts to do and carry out things by himself instead of letting the forces of the Infinite do it.
沮丧的人想要单打独斗，却非让无限的力量来接管。

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The real history of the world is not a series of dates, battles and events. It is the continuous story of its spiritual growth. Someday the history of this world will be rewritten correctly by a Master, but not until the world wants it.
这个世界真正的历史不是一系列的年代、战役和事件，而是一部灵性成长史。只要这个世界愿意，总有一天它的历史会由大师来重写。

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Clairvoyance and TV are similar except that clairvoyance is on a much higher frequency.
透视和电视相似，只是透视的频率更高。

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People are like dogs with a mean master. No matter how much the world beats us we keep coming back for more.
人就像狗，被一个卑鄙的主人养着。不管这世界如何鞭打我们，我们总是要回来，为了得到更多的鞭打。

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The world has moments of pleasure with far more pain between.
这个世界的快乐非常短暂，其间夹杂的是更长久的痛苦。

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Chasing after joy in the world is an extremely frustrating thing. Has anyone attained full satisfaction in this world?
在这世间追逐快乐，是一件极其令人沮丧的事。有谁在这世界获得过完全的满足吗？

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Never let anyone know or tell anyone your weaknesses. People accept us at our own values and their mind goes to work to support the concepts.
不要让任何人知道或告诉任何人你的脆弱。人们只会附和我们的观点，支持我们的信念。

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Our vision of the world is our own. No one sees this world as any other one sees it.
我们对这世界的看法是我们自己的。没有两个人能看到相同的世界。

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If the world pulls you down it is because you have its negativity in you.
如果这个世界让你沮丧，那是因为你只看到其负面性。

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Weather is caused by the total of all people’s consciousness.
天气是集体意识导致的。

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The world beats you until you know your Self.
这个世界会一直鞭打你，直到你了知你的真我。

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There is no such thing as a good world. Its the extremist limitation man can impose on himself. It is the helliest hell that he can live in.
不存在一个好的世界。好的世界是人类能强加于自己的最极端限制，是人类所能居住的最地狱般的地狱。

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The world is a grand graveyard. Everything in it dies or disintegrates.
世界是一个庞大的墓园。在其中的一切只会死去或腐烂。

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If the world is real to you, you are all the time validating ego.
如果这世界对你而言是真实的，那么你就会一直在确认小我。

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All knowledge of the world is knowledge of delusion and must be let go of for Realization.
这世界的所有知识都是谬见，为了开悟必须全部释放。

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The highest enjoyment in the world is a mere pittance compared to your natural inherent state of joy.
这世界的最高级别享受，相对你固有、天然的喜悦来说，只是九牛一毛。

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The realer the world, the greater the misery. The realer the Self, the greater the joy.
这世界对你来说越真实，你就越痛苦。但若真我越真实，你就越快乐。

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There is much more to this world than meets the physical eye. That which the eye sees is the least.
真相远不是呈现在眼前的这个世界。眼睛能看到的是最有限的

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The world is only God chopped up into little nothingnesses.
这世界只是把上帝粉碎后的虚无。

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The world is one long misery when seen as world but eternal joy when seen as your Self.
当你把这世界看成是世界时，那么只有长久的痛苦；但若把它看成是你的真我，那么就会是永恒的幸福。

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The world is powerful only because we have been in the habit of it for a long, long time.
这世界之所以是强大的，仅仅是因为我们被困在它的惯性中太久，太久。

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Progress in the world lifts us from the physical agonies to the mental agonies. The world is a trap, attempting to trap infinity into finiteness, -an impossibility!
这世界的进步体现在我们从身体的痛苦上升到心智的痛苦。世界是个陷阱，试图把无限骗入有限——绝不可能！

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The true view of this world is intense joy. The deluded view is misery. See the world aright and have nothing but joy!
这世界的真相是极乐，假象是痛苦。正确地看待这世界，便只有极乐存在！

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The Absolute Perfection is above the perfection of the world.
绝对的完美超越了世间的完美。

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The only good world is a transcended world.
唯一的美好世界是已经超越了的世界。

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When you take your attention off the world, you can see what you are.
当你把注意力从这世界移开，你就能看见你的本然。

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If you do not know the world is in you, how can you let go of it? If the world is out there, what can you do about it?
如果你不知道世界是在你内，那么如何释放它？如果这世界是在你外，你还能做什么呢？

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Any pleasure in the world is a momentary ego satisfaction.
这世界的任何快乐都只是小我的短暂满足。

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The world is a limitation no matter how high you go, until you see the truth of it.
无论你走得多远，这世界始终是个限制，除非你看到了世界背后的真相。

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People who have enough spiritual understanding don't need laws, don't need parliaments.
拥有足够灵性洞见的人不需要法律，也不需要国会。

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The only way to get a good society is to get the individuals composing it good.
拥有一个美好社会的唯一方法是每个个体都来参与美好社会的建构。

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All legislation is to control acts resulting from selfishness. When all are selfless, no laws are necessary.
所有立法都是为了控制自私所导致的行为。如果所有人都是无私的，便不再需要法律。

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In the not-too-distant future, the president will be the highest spiritual person in the country, the vice-president the second highest and so forth down.
在不远的将来，总统会是一个国家最具灵性的人，副总统的灵性在其之下，以此类推。

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The world as world is one long sadness. The world as Self is one constant joy.
当你把这世界看成是世界时，那么只有长久的痛苦；但若把它看成是你的真我，那么就会是永恒的幸福。

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World equals misery. Self equals joy. The cause of misery is that you think the world is real. The cause of joy is the knowing that the Self is real.
世界等于痛苦。真我等于幸福。痛苦是因为你把世界当真。幸福是因为你把真我当真。

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In the world we are seeking to know the truth about the world as we see it. This is tantamount to wanting to see the truth about a lie. There is no truth, no changelessness that can be found in the world. Only within our Self can we find the truth of the world.
我们总是在这世界中苦苦寻觅着世界的真相。这就等同于想要看到谎言的真实。这世界只有无常，没有真实。只有在真我中，我们才能找到世界的真相。

It should be obvious that with all the tremendous increase in knowledge of the world acquired in the past 25 years, man has become less happy rather than more happy. Any knowledge other than knowledge of one's Self is not right knowledge. It is because of the aforesaid that our authorities of today are of muddling minds, are constantly changing their knowledge and theories. Someday they will discover that they are about 90% wrong. Only the knower of his Self can be correct in the knowledge of the world. He can change the 90% to 0%.
显而易见的是，在过去25年中，人们对这世界有了更多的探索，习得了更多有关这世界的知识。但是只要不是有关真我的知识，便不是正确的知识。因为正如前文所述，当今的各领域权威只会混淆视听，不断修正着他们的知识和理论，终有一天他们会发现他们90%的理论都是错误的的。只有了知真我的人才能知道这世界的正确知识，并把那90%的错误修正到0。

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The world is a play act. You have written, in your imaginative mind, the script, the acts, and the actors, and yourself as one of the actors. Recognize this and dwell in your authorship.
这世界就是一出戏剧。你在头脑的想象中编写剧本，设置场景，安排演员，并亲自出演其中的一个角色。认识到这一点，你便能安住在你的作者身份中。

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The limiting of infinity gives the appearance of matter and energy.
限制无限，所以才会有物质和能量的显化。

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You have to master the world; otherwise, it is master over you.
你必须成为这世界的主人，否则它会成为你的主人。

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If there is anything in the world we like or dislike, it is master over us.
如果这世界有任何我们喜欢的或不喜欢的，它就会成为我们的主人。

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Use the world to transcend the world. Look at your attachments and aversions to it and drop them.
利用这世界来超越这世界。看看你对这世界的执着和厌恶，释放它们。

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Not seeing the world as it is, is an aversion to it.
不能如实地看待这世界，你就会厌恶它。

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You have to start mastering the world because you are convinced the world is master over you. You must see that you are the one who determines it. That makes you master over it. The next step is to become master over your mind and then you are a Master. (It's a nice feeling when you start mastering the world. isn't it?)
你必须开始掌控这世界，因为你相信你受到它的掌控。你必须明白你才是那个掌权者，这会使你成为世界的主人。接下去就是要成为你头脑的主人，之后你就会成为大师。（当你开始掌控这世界时，感觉会很美妙，不是吗？）

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The world is a tremendous magnet.
这世界是块巨大的磁铁。

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Primarily, you have to un-want the world and want your Self.
首先，你必须不再想要这世界，而是想要你的真我。

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You don't have to be subject to anything because you are master of everything.
你不必受制于任何事，因为你才是主人。

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The truth is, we created the stars and the planets. The important thing is to run them. Don't let them run you.
真相是，我们创造了恒星和行星。重要的是要运转它们，而不是由它们来运转你。

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Look at the earth t s influence on you and undo it.
看看地球对你的影响，并摆脱它。

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Rather than be automatically locked into the world, keep up your vigilance of remembering your true Self.
与其无意识地被这世界困住，不如保持警觉，时刻谨记你的真我。

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The world is a very good place for rapid growth because your ego is being presented to you every time you talk to someone or someone talks to you. Daily, look at your ego motivations and let them go!
这世界是个能让你快速成长的好地方，因为每次你跟人交谈时，小我都会出现。经常地看看小我如何驱动你，然后释放它们。

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Every' act in the world is motivated by your ego, until, of course, there is no more ego. Then action goes on egolessly.
在这世界的每一个行动都由你的小我所驱动，直至不再有小我，那么行动便是无我的行动。

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After you scorch enough of the mind, then the world doesn't trap you.
当你烧掉了足够的头脑，世界就不再困住你。

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There is immediate realization of the Self the moment one sees the unreality of the world.
当你发现世界不是真实的那一刻，你就顿悟了真我。

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When the eye sees the world as "I", -that is Realization.
当你的眼睛把世界看成是“我”时，开悟了。

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Now you see the world as a very variegated variety. When you see the singular substance just behind it, you see the reality of it. Seeing the reality, you will see the singularness as the Self, - your Self.
现在你把世界看成是富于变化的，但当你看到其背后的一味时，你就看到了真相。看到真相时，你就会把一味看成是真我，你的真我。

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When you see the Self, the world does not disappear; your view of it changes. It will not look like it does now. You will see it as your Self.
当你看到真我时，世界不会消失，但是你对它的看法会随之改变。世界不会像你现在看到的那样，你会把它看成是你的真我。

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The only reason people do not get Realization is that they have more desire for the world than for Realization.
人们无法开悟的唯一原因是他们对这世界的渴望要高于对开悟的渴望。

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It is the belief that the world is real that is the cause of one's difficulty in keeping out habitual thoughts. Were it not for this belief, realization of your Self would be easy. And this is your prime difficulty, - this belief that the body, mind and world are real.
相信世界是真实的，这个信念让你很难摆脱惯性念头。没有这个信念，开悟会很容易。相信身体、头脑和世界是真实的，是你最大的障碍。

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Our pleasures must be taken directly, not attributed to things outside of ourselves.
我们的幸福必须来得非常直接，而不是来自我们之外的东西。

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Looking for joy in the world makes Realization impossible. The source of that joy is you, and it is not outside of you.
若在这世界寻找幸福，便不可能开悟。幸福来自你内，而非你外。

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Only desire for this world keeps us in the world.
正因为对这世界有欲望，才把我们困在这世界里。

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You are causing everything around you, - even when someone else seems to be doing it. When you realize this, you'll take responsibility for everything.
你周围的一切都是你导致的，即使看起来像是他人所为。当你明白这一点时，你就会对一切负起全责。

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If you don't like the world, change your consciousness. That is all there is out there (your consciousness) and it's the only thing that you can change, the only thing that you should try to change. Make the world perfect by perfecting your consciousness and all will be perfect.
如果你不喜欢这个世界，那就改变你的意识。因为你的意识是你唯一能改变的东西，也是你唯一应该改变的。让你的意识变得完美，那么这世界的一切都会变得完美。

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The Truth of the world is just behind what you now see.
世界的真相躲在你现在所看到的背后。

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Declare your mastership rather than be a victim.
宣告你的主人身份，而不是受害者身份。

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The whole world is just a mere thought, -think on that!
整个世界仅仅是个念头，想想吧！

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I and world, seer and seen, rise simultaneously, concurrently, co-dependently, and necessarily exist co-existently. The creation is instantaneous with the creator. Realize this. There is no world without the one who sees it. Realize the seer, within whom the apparency, the world, was imaged. The reality then is only the Seer.
我和世界，观者和被观者，造物主和造物，同时出现，相互依存。看清这一点。没有看的人，便不会有被看到的世界。意识到你的观者身份，世界只是表象，来自你的想象。那么真相就只会是观者。