《终极自由之路》08.小我

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翻译：小粒子儿大天体



The ego concept is the root cause of all delusion and therefore, all trouble. It is the false identifying of I with a body rather than with the Self.

小我的概念是所有妄想的根源，因此也是所有麻烦的根源。是对“我是这个身体而非真我”的错误认同。

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Ego is the concept of individuality, of separation from the I, and the All. Therefore ego is a false assumption. We are really the I, we are not separate from It.
小我是一种从“我”、从整体分离的个体的概念。所以小我是错误的假设。我们是真我，从未分离。


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The ego is all the evil there is and your Self is all the good there is.

小我是一切恶，真我是一切善。

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The ego is the source of birth and death and when the ego is let go of, you die to death.

小我是生死之源。当小我被释放，你将获得永生。

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Everything that isn't good has its source in the ego sense and is therefore unreal. Our real nature is an ultimate goodness.

所有不好的，其根源都在小我感，因此都是不真实的。我们的真实本性是极善。

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Everything of the ego is the opposite of everything of the Self.

真我的一切，其反面就是小我的一切。

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Everything an ego sees is a lie in the light of Truth. Everything an ego sees is in duality. An ego can't see Oneness. The ego has an eye of duality only. There's nothing true that an ego sees. And on the opposite side, the Self sees only the Truth, the Self.
小我所看到的一切，在真相之光的照射下，不过是个谎言。小我所看到的一切，都是二元对立的。小我看不到“一”，看不到真相。相反地，真我只能看到真相，只能看到真我。


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The coloring agent of Truth is ego. The less the ego the less the coloring of truth.
小我是真相的染料。小我越少，真相就越少被着色。


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The entire trouble is wrong identity. We say we are the limited ego.

所有的麻烦都是错误的认同。我们说我们是有限的小我。

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Ego can't do anything but be limited.
小我除了限制不会其它。


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Theres only one single growth and that is letting go of the ego.

只有一种成长，那就是释放小我。

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Whenever you are not growing spiritually, you are growing in the other direction.

你若不在灵性的层面上成长，你就无法成长。

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Every time you express ego you are growing downward.

每次你表达小我，你都是在退行。

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The more you grow the more you can face your ego.

你越成长，就越能面对小我。

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When things bother us and we look for the source, we find our ego.

每次我们因不胜烦扰而寻其根源时，我们找到的都是小我。

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The whole object of the path is to let go of the ego. What remains is the Self.

灵性道路的唯一目标就是释放小我。剩下的就是真我。

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The whole thing is simple. Any complexity in life is the ego trying to undo the simplicity of Reality.
一切都很简单。复杂是因为小我破坏真实的简单性所致。
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It is the ego that makes life difficult.

正是小我，让生活变得艰难。

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Think you are a limited ego and the more you think so, the more effort you need to get along. It is the ego that requires effort.

你越认为你是有限的小我，你就越需要努力。正是小我，才要求努力。

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There is only one basic trouble in this world. It is the common denominator of all problems. It is trying to be an ego.

这世界上只有一个根本麻烦，也是所有问题的共同特性，那就是试图成为小我。

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Identify with the ego and you identify with trouble.

对小我的认同，会让你对麻烦产生认同。

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We should shift from a desire to get out of misery to a desire to let go of the ego.

我们应该把对远离痛苦的渴望，转变成对释放小我的渴望。

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The ego dies hard. But once you know the ego is the source of all misery and the Self is the source of all happiness, then it shouldn't be so hard to work at letting go of the ego.
小我很难死去。但是一旦你知道小我是所有痛苦的来源，而真我是所有幸福的来源，那么释放小我就会变得容易。


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When we start moving into the Self, the ego starts putting blocks in the way: we get sick, we go to sleep, we have other things to do, etc., because we feel we will be destroyed if the ego is destroyed. We have convinced ourselves over the millenniums that we are these limited bodies, and we think it takes time to let go of these concepts of limitation.

当我们开始进入真我，小我会出来捣乱。我们生病，想要睡觉，或做其它事等等，因为我们认为我们会随着小我的被毁灭而毁灭。在过去的几千年里，我们一直深信我们是这有限的身体，释放限制性信念需要很长时间。

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Time is an ego - thought.

时间是小我的想法。

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The ego will always try to keep us from letting go of the ego.

小我总是会努力阻止我们释放小我。

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Getting involved in intellectual questions and discussions validates the ego and avails you nothing.
参与智性的问题和讨论只会助长小我，对你丝毫无益。


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To pose a question an ego is necessitated. There are no questions when one is realized.

提出问题会让小我变得必需。当我们开悟时，问题不复存在。

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All enquiries about the non-Self are directing one's attention away from, and are delaying, one's realization of Truth. Any question about the ego directs the attention to the ego. The ego is the unreal, the untruth. No matter how much you talk about illusion it will not give you the perception of the Real, the Truth.

所有对“非真我”的探索都是在把我们的视线从真相上移开，推迟了我们的开悟。所有有关小我的问题都是把我们引向小我。小我不是真实，不是真相。不管你对假象做多少讨论，都无法让你觉察到真实、真相。

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In the beginning the ego is the only thing you know.

一开始，小我是你唯一所知道的。

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There is only one thing to do, let go of the ego! There is no other way to grow. You are fully realized now! Just let go of the ego I thats how simple it is.

只有一件事需要做，那就是释放小我。除此之外，成长没有其它途径。释放了小我，你就是开悟的。就是这么简单。

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The weaker the ego the more you can put attention on the Self. However, if you spent all your time on the ego you would never see the Self, not until you looked at the Self. It amounts to weakening the grip of the ego enough so that you can turn toward the Self..

小我越虚弱，你就越能专注在真我上。但是，如果你把所有时间都花在小我上，你就永远无法看到真我，除非你专注真我。释放越多的小我，你就越能专注于真我。

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The more you do away with the ego the more unselfish you are.

小我释放的越多，你就越无私。

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When a person is ego-centered, almost all of his attention is centered on himself. Everything he sees or hears is colored because it has to filter through his self-attention.

当一个人以小我为中心，那么他所有的注意力都会放在他自己身上。他所看到或听到的一切都是不真实的，因为已经被自我注意所过滤。

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When you have completely let go of your ego, you are not interested in yourself, you are interested only in others.

当你完全释放了小我，你就不会再对自己感兴趣，转而开始关注其他人。

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If you do things to win approval, then you are doing it for yourself. If you are doing anything for your self, it isnt selfless.

如果你所做的是为获得认同，那么你只是为自己而做。如果你为自己而做，那么就不是无私的。

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A problem is created whenever you want to assert your ego.

只要你维护小我，就是在制造问题。

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Whenever we react, it is always because there is something we selfishly want.

如果你起反应，那只是因为你想要得到什么。

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Whenever we want to make the world different than it is, that is ego motivated.

如果我们想要改变这世界，就是在被小我所驱动。

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When there is no ego involved, we see things exactly as they are.

若没有小我参与其中，我们就能看到真相。

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We are blinded to the degree of our ego.

我们被小我所蒙蔽。

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If you have any emotion, it is ego motivated.

如果你有任何情绪，都是小我在驱动。

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Any human need or desire is ego motivated. My ego thinks it needs things. My Self feels and knows that everything is mine.

任何需求或欲望都是小我所驱动。小我认为它需要什么。但真我却知道一切都是我的。

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We should have no wants. Then we are never in trouble.

我们应该无欲无求，如此我们便永远不会有麻烦。

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Talking is asking for ego attention. It's wanting ego approval.. If you will remain quiet you may feel that happiness that you are seeking through making the noise.

说话是在寻求小我的注意力，想要获得小我的认同。如果你保持平静，你就有可能感受到你一直所追求的幸福。

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Almost every time we talk we are asking for ego acceptance.

每次我们说话，我们都是在寻求小我的接纳。

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Ego is only destructive to one.

小我对我们来说，只有毁灭性。

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Everyone who has ego is destructive to the degree he has ego.

每个人，只要小我还在，就是具有毁灭性。

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Ego is the opposite of love. Love is the Self.
小我是爱的反面。爱是真我。


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Egos want to direct the universe.

小我想要控制宇宙。

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If you want to be most creative do away with the ego.

如果你想变得极富创造性，废除小我。

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Ego is the most expensive thing in the universe, dollar and sense wise.

若用美元和感觉来衡量，小我是这宇宙最昂贵的东西。

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Any sense of doership is of the little self.

任何作为者的感觉，都是小我的感觉。

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Ego equals blindness. Blindness equals ignorance.

小我等于失明。失明等于无知。

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Any lack is necessarily an ego concept for the ego is necessarily a sense of limitation or lack.
任何匮乏必定都是小我所创造的概念，因为小我就是限制或匮乏的感觉。


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Ego is a mere notion that feels like the deluge of an ocean.

小我仅仅是个突发奇想，就想海面上突然下起的暴雨。

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When you are unhappy you are looking for ego approval and not getting it.

当你不开心时，你是在寻求小我的认同，结果是你不会得到它的认同。


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Another definition for trouble is trying to be an ego.

麻烦的另一定义是试图成为一个小我。

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Any defending of oneself is asking for ego approval.

任何防御都是在寻求小我的认同。

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If you want to be good at anything, the less the ego the better you are. The ego is a limiting adjunct on the Self. Since the ego is a limiting adjunct of the Self, the less the ego the more capable you are in everything (except one thing, -misery).

如果你想搞定任何事，小我越少就越能做到。小我是真我的有限附加物。因此，小我越少，你就越能在任何事上得心应手（除了痛苦）。

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It took you millions of years to develop this ego. Keep letting go of the ego until you begin to see the Self. When you see your Self, you quickly drop your ego in short time.

发展小我花了你几百万年的时间。持续释放小我，直到你开始窥见真我。当你看到了你的真我，你就能很快脱离小我。

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After having eliminated much of the ego, when one is acting ego-wise, at that moment the ego seems like all. However, what has been eliminated has been eliminated.

在释放更多的小我后，当再次被小我控制，在那一刻小我依然是全部。然而，被消除的就永不再现。。

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It's the ego sense of being an individual separate from the All that is the source of all trouble.

小我以为自己是从整体分离的个体。正是这种感觉，导致了所有麻烦。

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Soul is a glorified ego concept of the ego.

灵魂是被美化的小我，是小我创造的概念。

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It doesn't matter what you do, it does matter with what you identify. If you identify with the limited ego, then you are unhappy.

你做什么并不重要，重要的是你认同什么。若你认同有限的小我，你就不会幸福。

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After dropping enough ego, it gets weak and the Self takes us the rest of the way.
在释放更多的小我后，小我变得虚弱。真我开始接管。


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All growth is letting go of ego.

一切成长都是释放小我。

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The ego is a false imposition of the I. When you say I that is the eternal you.

小我是对“我”的错误强加。当你说“我”，指的是不朽的你。

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The ego cannot be subjugated by one who takes it to be real.

若你相信小我是真实，你就无法征服小我。

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Seek the source of the ego and it turns out to be your Self .

去挖小我的根，你会发现那是你的真我。

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Humility is letting go of ego.

谦卑就是释放小我。

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If you are hurt look for the ego motivation and let go of it. You'll then feel happier.

如果你感觉受伤，那就去找小我的动机并释放。接着你就会变得快乐。

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Unless you are eliminating ego, you're not growing. You see, you can't grow into the Self because that's what you are. You just lift off the cover, which is ego.

如果你不释放小我，你就无法成长。你无法长成真我，因为你就是真我。你只需掀掉盖子，那便是小我。

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The ego creates and maintains the subconscious.

小我创造并维持潜意识。

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All subconscious thought is originated by the ego and hidden a way in the subconscious by the ego.

所有潜意识念头都是源自小我，并在潜意识中被小我所掩护。

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The ego-principle is the cause of the seeming separation of you from the All.
正是小我主义，导致了从整体分离的感觉。


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The high states should be used to scorch the ego. The higher we go the more we are capable of scorching the ego. When you are high you can say, All this silly reaction and ego, I'm through with! - and be through with it!

高级境界应该被用于消除小我。境界越高，就越有能力消除小我。当你处在高境界时，你可以说，我摆脱了所有这些愚蠢的反应！去摆脱它们吧！

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The real you, your Self, is infinitely grand and glorious, whole, perfect and in total peace, and you are blinding yourself to this by assuming that you are a limited ego. Drop the blinder, the ego, and be forever in perfect peace and joy!

真实的你，就是你的真我，无限灿烂、圆满、完美且宁静。你只是因为假设自己是有限的小我而蒙蔽了双眼。揭下你的眼罩，小我，你便处于永恒的宁静和喜悦中！