《终极自由之路》16.身体

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翻译：小粒子儿大天体

Why should we have need for this body? If we are infinite beings, why need we a body? The fact that we were born into a body shows that we are ignorant of our infinite Being. It's an indictment right in its own de facto situation.
我们为什么需要这具身体？如果我们是无限存在，为何还需要身体？我们以身体的形式降生表明我们对自己的无限存在一无所知。以身体的形式降生也是对我们全然不知自己无限存在的控诉。

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The body is the greatest shackle, imprisonment that we have, the greatest obstacle we have placed in our way.
身体是最坚固的镣铐、最严密的监禁，是我们自设的最大障碍。

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The only way out of all difficulties is to know that you are not the body.
脱离所有困局的唯一方式是知道你不是这具身体。

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We came into this world to be a body in order to learn that we are not a body.
为了明白我们不是一具身体，我们以身体的形式降生到这个世界。

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The worst habit we have gotten into over the millenniums is that we are this body.
在过去的几千年中，我们所养成的的最坏习惯是我们是这具身体。

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The body is a slow action machine, that's all it is.
身体是一台运转缓慢的机器，这就是事实。

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The desire to survive as a body is the basis for all our present aberrated behavior. Everyone wants approval (love), struggles hard for it, and spends almost all his effort in life to attain it. As an infant, as a child, in our formative years we believed our parents would not take care of us if they did not approve of us and we would therefore die! So we developed perverted aberrated behavior patterns through suppressing our own wishes and desires in order to get that approval from our parents, which meant survival. The patterns are so deeply subconscious because of being formed in the very first days and years of our life and with so much suppression, that it is extremely difficult to reopen and consciously examine them now. However, once we know that we are not the body, all this behavior is gone.
想要身体生存的欲望是我们所有异常行为的根源。每个人都想要获得认同，终其一生、倾尽全力地为此而奋斗。在婴幼儿期，我们深信如果我们的父母不爱我们，就不会照顾我们，这样我们就会死去。所以通过压抑自己的欲望，我们发展出了不正常的行为模式，试图以此来获得父母的认同，因为那意味着可以活下来。从婴幼儿期延续下来的经年累月的压抑，深植于潜意识中，以致于想要重新打开或者有意识地审查它们，都变得极度困难。然而，一旦我们知道我们不是这具身体，所有的这些异常行为都会消失。

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All fear is either directly or indirectly the fear of the body dying.
一切恐惧都直接或间接地来源于对身体死亡的恐惧。

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You're infinite and there's nothing complicated about that, but the habit of being a body is so strong it complicates and overwhelms your abiding as your Self.
你是无限的，就是这么简单。但是我们是一具身体的习惯如此顽固，以致于混淆并掩盖了真我的存在。

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The entire body of misery relates to the physical body.. The entire body of happiness is being what you are, the Self. Happiness is exactly what you are. Misery is exactly what you are not. The natural state is happiness. The artificially self-imposed state is misery. That is the choice, to say that the body is real or the Self is real.
身体的痛苦跟这具物理身体有关。身体的幸福则跟你所是的真我有关。幸福就是你的所是。痛苦就是你的所不是。自然的状态是幸福。人为的状态是痛苦。那是一个选择，说身体是真的还是说真我是真的。

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How attached are you to the body? That's how attached you are to misery.
你对身体有多执着，你对痛苦就有多执着。

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The body is life conditioned. You are life unconditioned.
身体局限了生命，而真我不会。

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This body is nothing but a dying mechanism, from birth till death.
这具身体只是一个从生到死的死亡装置。

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If you have a car you do not say that you are the car. Why then, if you have a body, do you say you are the body?
如果你有车，你不会说你是那车。同样地，如果你有身体，为何还要说你是这身体？

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Sleep is the pleasure of non-bodily existence.
睡觉是件愉快的事，因为忘记了身体的存在。

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You actually drop your body when you are in deep sleep and recreate it in the morning when you wake up. There's no difference between sleep and death except that after death you pick up a different body while after sleep you pick up the same body. The time between sleep-bodies is short and the time between death-bodies is long.
当你睡得很深时，你实际上放弃了自己的身体，而当早上醒来时，你又重新创造了它。睡觉和死亡并无区别，除了死后你换了副新身体，而睡醒后你又用回旧身体。两次睡眠之间的间隔很短，而两次死亡之间的间隔却很长。

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Wrong belief that one is a body is the basic cause of desire and aversion.
相信自己是具身体的错误信念是所有欲望和嗔恨的根源。

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We shouldn't pay too much attention to the body. Give it what it needs and no more. Do it without attachment.
我们不应该把太多注意力放在身体上。只给它需要的，并不带执着地。

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Because of the extreme limitation of the human body, the incentive to get free is great. It affords the greatest prod for growth.
由于人身的极度限制，所以才渴望自由。正是对自由的渴望，驱动着成长。

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To make your body perfect and to live in a consciousness of the body is not as high as to live with an imperfect body in a consciousness of your Self.
以完美的身体活在身体的意识中，不如以不完美的身体活在真我的意识中。

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It's a higher state to have a sick body and not identify with it. And that's why certain Masters do that. They will go through life with a weak or sick body, all the time maintaining their peace and equanimity. And they welcome it because it is an opportunity to be constantly reminded that they are not the body.
拥有一副病体，但却不认同它，是更高的境界。这就是一些大师们所做的。他们以一副病体经历生活，却时刻保持着静定。他们欢迎疾病，因为疾病创造了机会，时刻提醒着他们不是这具身体

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The body is the disease, not the sickness of it.
身体就是疾病，而不是它会生病。

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A perfect body can keep one in bondage as well as an imperfect one can.
正如有缺陷的身体带给人束缚一样，完美的身体也会带给人束缚。

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If you know that you are not the body, you are not the mind, so what if they hurt?
如果你知道你不是这具身体，不是这颗头脑，它们还能带给你痛苦吗？

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The body is just a thought. Everything about the body is a thought.
身体只是个念头。有关身体的一切也都只是个念头。

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All functions of the body at one time had to be done consciously before they became unconscious.
之前身体的所有机能都是处在被觉知中的，后来才开始变得无意识运转。

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People are not aware that they run their bodies entirely. Subconsciously we know more chemistry than all chemists today know consciously.
人们并不知道他们才是身体的管理者。潜意识层面我们对化学的了解要多于化学家在意识层面对化学的了解。

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The mind is the switchboard for the nervous system of the body.
头脑是神经系统的电话总机。

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The body is nothing but a robot, controlled by us. We create it and then say, That's I.
身体只是由我们控制的机器人。我们创造了它，并说：“这就是我。”

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It makes just as much sense to identify with this body as it does to identify with a body on a movie screen.
认同这具身体，就像认同电影屏幕上的身体。

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Me and mine are binders to this body and to possessions.
“我”和“我的”将我们同身体和财产捆绑在了一起。

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Some people who take no care of the body are very attached to the body. It is our attitude toward the body that counts.
一些不爱护自己身体的人其实对身体非常执着。对身体的态度才是重要的。

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When you think of the body as God that is conceit.
将身体视为上帝，那是自大。

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If you think you are the body, then make it perfect. If you think you are the Self, - then it doesn't matter.
如果你认为你是这具身体，你会想办法让它变得完美。如果你认为你是真我，身体就变得无关紧要。

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Body equals pain and Self equals infinite joy.
身体等于痛苦，真我等于无限的喜悦。

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If you think you are the body. you are distracted by it. If you know you are not the body, the body doesn't distract you no matter how sick it is.
如果你认为你是这身体，你就会被它所烦扰。如果你认为你不是这身体，不管它病得多严重，你都不会因它而苦恼。

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The basic motivational force in physical life is the desire to survive as a body. (And it is impossible!)
物质生活的根本动力是想要身体存活的欲望（而这是不可能的）。

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One of the basic troubles today is that people are much too interested in the body. Most people live 99% of the time for the body.
当今人们的一个主要麻烦是对身体过于感兴趣。大部分人99%的时间都是为身体而活。

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The body is a real jail. There's nothing about this body that needs glorification.
身体是真正的监狱。对它实在没有什么可赞颂的。

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If you want to know how attached you are to your body, consider throwing it off a cliff.
如果你想知道你对自己的身体有多执着，考虑一下把它扔下悬崖。

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There's no mind in the physical body. It's the mind of the astral body that operates the physical body.
肉体是没有头脑的。是星光体的头脑在运行着肉体。

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I am the body, is ignorance. The body is not apart from the Self, is Knowledge.
我是这身体，是无知。身体从未与真我分离，是全知。

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The body is one of the least things that we can have.
身体是我们所拥有的最小的东西之一。

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All trouble starts with wanting to be a body.
所有的麻烦都始于想要成为一具身体。

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The body operates on the law of cause and effect, and is an effect of the mind.
身体的运转遵循因果法则，它是头脑的一个果相。

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There is always a decision to leave the body when we do.
我们总是可以作出离开身体的选择。

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Misery is caused only by identifying with the body.
痛苦只由对身体的认同所导致。

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Give the body its due. Keep the body healthy etc., and then forget it.
给身体应得的，保持它的健康等等，然后忘掉它。

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The healthiest foods are fruits and vegetables from the flower of the plant. The unhealthiest foods are flesh.
最健康的食物是蔬果，最不健康的食物是肉。

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Cooking kills the vitality. We should eat fruits and vegetables uncooked.
烹饪扼杀了生命力。我们应该生食蔬果。

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Exercise is good if one believes it is good.
如果你相信运动是好的，它就是好的。

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Best method of exercise is seeing cosmic energy moving in and out of the muscles and body as they are tensed and relaxed.
最好的运动方式是随着身体和肌肉的紧缩和舒张，看着宇宙能量在其间进进出出。

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We should see every body as our body.
我们应该将每一个身体都视为自己的身体。

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It's all right to be that body if you'll be every other body. Then you see every body as your Self.
如果你是每一具其它的身体，成为那具身体就没什么问题。那么你会将每一具身体都视为你的真我。

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You are so convinced you are the body that you don't want to look away from it and therefore you look away from your Self.
你是如此坚信你就是这具身体，以致于你不愿将视线从身体上移开，那意味着你的视线从真我上移开了。

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You feel yourself as you no matter what body you have on you.
无论你拥有的是什么样的身体，你都感觉这身体是你自己。

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You're only free when you know that you're not the body.
只有当你知道你不是这具身体时，你才会自由。

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If you want immortality, stop holding onto the body.
如果你想要永生，就不要执着于这具身体。

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Once you know you are not the body, it doesnt matter what happens to the body.
一旦你知道你不是这具身体，不管这身体发生什么，都不重要了。

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Be a body and be forever submerged in misery. Be your Self and be forever at peace.
成为身体，会让你永远被痛苦所淹没。成为真我，会让你永远处在平静中。

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The body is like a strait-jacket when you see the Truth.
当你看到真相时，你会发现身体就像约束衣（用来束缚精神病患者—译者注）。

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You have the concept that you are only that body and only through that body can you be somewhere. That's not true. If you would see the Truth you would see everything going on anywhere right now.
你认为你只是这具身体，只有通过身体才能到达某处。那不是真的。如果你看到了真相，你就不再受到空间的限制，能看到任何地方所发生的。

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When you see you are not a separate individual, you transcend the physical, astral and causal bodies. Separate individuality is the cause of body form. You should see your individuality as the one Being.
当你看清你不是分离的个体，你便超越了肉体、星光体和业力体。分离的个体性是身体形式的起因。你应该将你的个体性视为“一的存在”。

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In the process of realizing what you are you will see all bodies as your bodies.
随着意识到你的本然，你会将所有身体视为你的身体。

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An unusual thing happens, you become all beings. You give up being one body and become all bodies. But the bodies appear different from the way they look to you now. They become a flimsy, dream-like substance.
当不可思议的事发生时，你成为了全在。你不再只是一个身体，而是变成了所有身体。不过这些身体不同于你现在所看到的，它们变得像梦一样轻薄。

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Nothing that the body does should shake you from abiding as your Self.
身体无法将你从真我中拉出。

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We should live our way of life so that we are not identifying with this extremely limited, garbage producing vehicle called the body. It only cuts off joy because we attach joy to it when really the joy is nothing but the experiencing of our real Self. Our way of life should be to be not the body, but be the witness of it.
我们应该活出自己的生命，这样我们就不会认同这具身体，这个由垃圾制造的有限制的工具。身体只会切断幸福，因为我们将幸福建立在它的基础上。而真正的幸福只是经验我们的真我。我们的生活不应该是这具身体，而是身体的见证者。

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It's impossible to find God if we're accepting the body and the world as real. When you are the Infinite Self you don't see bodies, you see only the Beingness in them.
如果我们相信身体和世界是真实的，就不可能找到上帝。当你是真我时，你看不到身体，你只看到身体里的临在。

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To be not the body is a beginning step. As long as you are trying to be the body you haven't got a chance of seeing the Truth because the Truth is you're infinite and the body is at the opposite end of infinity, it's the most limited thing you can be unless you want to be a stone.
不再成为身体，是第一步。只要你想成为身体，你就没有机会看到真相，因为真相就是你是无限的，而身体却在无限的另一端。它是你能成为的最有限制的东西，除非你想成为一块石头。

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Saying I am a body, is tantamount to saying, I, the limitless Self, am a limited body.
说我是一具身体，就等于说：我，这无限的真我，是一具有限制的身体。

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Identify with your body and the extreme limitations of a body are yours. Identify with your Self and you are all bodies, all things, all knowledge and power, with no limits, and totally free!
认同你的身体，那么身体的所有极端限制就都是你的了。认同你的真我，那么你就是所有的身体，所有的东西，你就无所不知，无所不能，没有限制，彻底自由。

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Be not the body and the world is a dream, a beautiful and perfect dream.
不要成为身体，世界就变得只是一场梦，一场美梦。

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There is a physical, astral and causal body. When you know what you are, you let go of all bodies. When you let go of the concept of being a body, you go all the way to the top. This physical plane is the greatest because in it we can transcend all planes and be Free!
当你知道你的本然时，你释放了肉体、星光体以及业力体。当你释放了我是身体的概念后，你将完全觉醒。地球是绝佳的星球，因为在这里我们可以超越所有星球，获得自由。

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We have free will to identify with the body or to identify with our unlimited Self.
我们有认同这具身体或认同无限真我的自由意志。

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If you think the body is so great, after realizing your Self you can make a thousand of them, all alike, all perfect!
如果你认为这具身体太好了，当你意识到你的真我时，你可以创造出1000个这样的身体，完全相同，且全都完美。

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Die to the body and you die to death!
让身体死去，你将获得永生！