《终极自由之路》05.爱是什么

星空

翻译：小粒子儿大天体



Human love is that which most people think love is. Real, divine love, however, is a constant, persistent acceptance of all beings in the universe, fully, wholly, totally, - as the other beings are, and loving them because they are the way they are. Divine love is wanting and allowing the other one to be the way the other one wants to be. Divine love is seeing and accepting everyone equally, and I think that this is the test of how divine our love is. Is it the same for every person we meet? Is our love for those who are opposing us as strong as for those who are supporting us?

人类的爱，就是绝大数人认为的所谓的爱。然而，真正的神圣之爱是对全宇宙所有存在的永恒之爱，彻底且如是。爱他们是因为他们就是他们自己。神圣之爱是想要且允许他人成为他们想要成为的样子。神圣之爱是视所有人为平等，我想那就是神圣之爱的检验标准。你是否爱你遇见的每一个人？你是否也爱反对你的人，就如同你爱支持你的人那样？

Real, divine love is unconditional and is for everyone alike. The greatest example of it is Christ with His teachings of: turn the other cheek, love your enemy, and so forth. If we as a nation were to practice this we could make every enemy of ours completely impotent, - just by loving them. They would be powerless to do any harm to us. However, we would have to do it as a nation, at least the majority of the people would have to love the enemy.
真正的神圣之爱是无条件的，能接纳所有的人。耶稣就是最好的例子，他教导我们要爱你的敌人。如果我们整个国家都能做到那样，那么我们的敌人将无力行动。只需做到爱他们，他们就无法再有力量伤害我们。但是，我们需要整个国家都能做到，至少需要多数人都能做到爱我们的敌人。



Real love itself is something we can't turn on and off. Either we have it or we don't have it, and with it, it's impossible to love one person and hate another. To the degree that we hate anyone, to that degree we do not love the others. Our love is no greater than our hatred is for anyone person.

真爱不是某种我们能打开又关上的东西，要么有要么没有。也不可能是爱一个人却又恨另一个人。从这个角度来说，我们恨任何一个人其实也就是不爱其他的人。


What most people call love is simply a need. If we say that I love this person but not the other, we feel that we need this person, and therefore we'll be nice to this person so that we can get what we want. But that's not real love.

大多人所谓的爱仅仅是需要。如果说我爱这个人但不爱其他人，我需要这个人，所以我要对这个人好，才能得到我想要的。但那不是真爱。

Human love is selfish, divine love is completely selfless. It is the selfless love that gives unlimited joy beyond our greatest imagination. Try it and discover this for yourself.
人类的爱是自私的，但神圣之爱是完全无私的。正是因为它的无私，才能给出我们所无法想象的无限喜悦。试着为你自己，去发现神圣之爱。


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The real love is the love we feel for others. It is determined by how much we give ourselves to others.
真正的爱是为他人着想的爱。它取决于我们给出自己的程度。


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Full love is identifying with every other being.

完整的爱是与所有存在的连结。

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When we identify with everyone, we treat everyone as we would treat ourselves.

当我们与每个人连结，我们就会像对待自己那样对待他人。

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Love is the balm, the salve, that soothes and heals everything and all.

爱是治愈一切的良药。

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When you love you lift others to love.

当你给出爱时，你也带动他人去爱。

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The most you can give is your love. It is greater than giving materiality.

你能给出最多的就是爱，它远超过你能给出的物质。

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When you understand people you see that they are doing right in their own eyes. When you understand, you allow, you accept. If you understand, you love.

当你理解他人时，你让他们看到自己是无罪的。当你理解时，你允许并接纳他们。当你理解时，你就是在爱。

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When we love, not only are we happy but also our whole life is in harmony.
当我们爱时，不仅此刻我们是喜悦的，我们的整个人生都会处于和谐中。


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Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

幸福等于我们爱的能力。

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If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.

如果我们能全然地爱，我们就会真正地幸福。

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There is always either love or the lack of it.

爱与不爱无法兼得。

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When one is not loving, one is doing the opposite.

当一个人不爱时，他就是在恨。

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The highest love is when you become the other one. Identity is love in its highest form.

最高级别的爱是成为对方。合一是爱的最高形式。

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If you love your enemy you have no more enemies!

如果你爱你的敌人，你就没有了敌人。

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The power and effect of love is self-obvious. Just try it!

爱的力量和影响体现在真我的彰显。所以，去爱吧！

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If you will look at it from your very own center the words love, acceptance, identification, understanding, communication, truth, God, Self are all the same.

如果你能从你的中心去看，就会看到爱、接纳、了悟、连结、真理、上帝和真我都是一回事。

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The original state of man was all love. His troubles are due only to his covering over of his natural state of love.

人的雏形就是爱。只是因为爱的本质被掩盖，才让人陷于麻烦。

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Love and discover that selflessness turns out to be the greatest good for yourself. .

爱，以及去发现它的无私性，是对自己最大的慈悲。

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Love is effortless and hate requires much effort.

爱无需努力，而恨则刚好相反。

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Apply love and every problem resolves.
爱能解决任何问题。


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Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

人类的爱是需要。神圣之爱是给予。

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Love equals happiness. When we are not happy~ we are not loving.

爱等于幸福。当我们感到不幸福时，就是没有在爱。

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The concept of possessiveness is just the opposite of the meaning of love. Love frees possessiveness enslaves.

爱的反面是占有。爱是解放，占有是奴役。

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Love is a feeling of oneness with, of identity with, the other one. When there's a full love you feel yourself as the other person. Then treating the other person is just like treating your very own self. You delight in the other one's joy.

爱是与他人连结、合一的感觉。当能全然地爱时，你会感觉自己成为了他，就会对他视如己出。你在他人的喜悦中感到欢愉。

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Love is a tremendous power. One discovers that the power behind love, without question, is far more powerful than the hydrogen bomb.

爱能激发强大的力量。有发现表明爱背后的力量，远超过氢弹的力量。

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One individual with nothing but love can stand up against the entire world because this love is so powerful. This love is nothing but the Self. This love is God.

一个一无所有但却拥有爱的人，能够对抗全世界，因为爱是如此强大。这样的爱是真我，这样的爱是上帝。

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Love will give not only all the power in the universe, it will give all the joy and all the knowledge.

爱不仅能给出全宇宙的力量，还给出全部的幸福，全部的智慧。

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The best way to increase our capacity to love is through understanding ourselves.

提升爱的能力的最佳途径是，了解我们自己。

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I think everyone knows the wonderful experience of loving one person, so you can imagine what it's like when you love three billion people. It would be three billion times more enjoyable.
我想每个人都知道爱一个人是何等美妙，所以你可以想象当你爱30亿人时，那种美妙是你爱一个人的30亿倍。


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Love is a constant attitude that evolves in us when we develop it. We should try practicing the love first on our family. Grant everyone in the family their own beingness. Then apply it to friends, then strangers, then everyone.

当我们发展爱时，它能演变成一种持久的态度。我们应该先在家里练习，接纳每个家庭成员的存在，之后发展到对朋友的爱，对陌生人的爱，直到对所有人的爱。

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The more we practice love the more we love, and the more we love, the more we can practice love. Love begets love!

我们越练习爱，就越能去爱。我们越有爱的能力，就越会去练习爱。爱催生爱。

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The more we develop love, the more we come in touch with the harmony of the universe, the more delightful our life becomes, the more beautiful, the more everything. It starts a cycle going in which you spin upwards.

我们越发展爱，就越能进入和谐之境，我们的生活就会越欢乐，越美好。爱开启了一个循环，你在这其中螺旋上升。

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The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
获得爱的唯一方法是给出爱，因为我们给出的必会回来。


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The easiest thing in the universe to do is to love everyone. That is, once we learn what love is, it's the easiest thing to do. It takes tremendous effort not to love everyone and you see the effort being expended in everyday life. But when we love we're at one with all. We're at peace and everything falls into line perfectly.

这世界上最容易的事就是爱每一个人。一旦我们学会爱是什么，爱就是最容易的。不爱要花费很多努力，这些不必要的努力在日常生活中不断耗尽。但当我们爱时，无需任何努力。我们只是处在宁静中，看着一切完美运作。

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In the higher spiritual love, there's no self-deprivation. We don't have to hurt ourselves when we love everyone, and we don't.
在灵性之爱中，没有自我剥夺。当我们爱每一个人，我们就不必伤害自己，也不会伤到自己。
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With love there's a feeling of mutuality. That which is mutual is correct. If you love, you hold to that law.

爱让我们有连结感。而连结就是这个世界的法则。如果你爱，你就是在遵循灵性法则。

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Love is smothered by wrong attitudes. Love is our basic nature and a natural thing. That's why it is so easy. The opposite takes effort. We move away from our natural self, cover it, smother it with concepts of the opposite of love and then, because we're not loving, unloving comes back at us.

对爱的误读，让我们感到窒息。爱是我们的本性，所以爱是容易的，不爱则需要努力。我们因为不爱的概念而脱离了真我，掩盖并抑制了真我。当我们不爱时，不爱就会反弹回来。

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We feel the greatest when we love.

只有当我们爱时，才是感觉最棒的，

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The real love wins the universe, not just one person, but everyone in the universe.

真爱能够赢得全世界，不是只能赢得一个人，而是能赢得这个世界的所有人。

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Behind the concepts of non-love, there is always the infinite love that we are. You can't increase it. All you can do is peel away the concepts of non-love and hatred so that this tremendous loving Being that we are is not hidden any more.

不爱的概念背后，是我们一直所是的无限之爱。你无法再增加它。你只需去除不爱和仇恨的概念，爱就不断涌出。成为我们的本然，爱就不再躲藏。

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Love is an absolutely necessary ingredient on the path. If we ever expect to get full Realization, we must increase our love until it is complete.

爱是灵性成长不可或缺的要素。如果我们想要开悟，我们就要增加爱，直至它圆满。

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When you really love you can never feel parting. There is no distance, because they're right in your heart.
如果你真正地去爱，就不会有分离感。你与他人没有了距离，因为所有人都已在你心里。


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Only through growth do we really understand what love is.
只有通过成长，我们才会真正明白什么是爱。


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When you really love you understand the other one fully.
当你真正去爱，就会完全理解他人。


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Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary. Love cannot be chopped up.

爱是恒久不变的态度。它不会变化，也无法被切开。

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All love, including human love, has its source in divine love.

所有的爱，包括人类的爱，其根源都是神圣之爱。

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Every human being is basically an extremely loving individual.

每个人本质上都是爱的个体。

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When you love, you think only the best for those you love.

当你爱时，你会为你爱的人着想。

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The more you love, the more you understand.
你越爱，就越能理解。


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There's one word that will distinguish the right love from the wrong love, and that is giving.

有一个词能区分真爱和假爱，这个词是给予。

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You could hug a tree the same way as a person when you are very high. Your love permeates everything.
当你感觉很有爱时，你能像抱一个人那样抱一棵树。爱能渗入一切。


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Total self-abnegation is the most selfish thing we can do. When self-abnegation is total we think only of others and are automatically in the Self.
无我是我们能做的最无私的事。当全然地无我时，我们就只会为他人着想，并自动地进入真我。


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Love is the state of the Self. It is something you are.
爱是真我的状态。爱是你的本然，


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Consideration is a necessary part of love.

关心是爱不可或缺的一部分，

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Anything but full love is, to a degree, hate.
只要无法全然地爱，就是还有恨存在


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Can you see why you can't be against anything? The ant is God, the enemy is God. If you're limiting any part, you're holding God away. Love cannot be parceled. Love has to be for all.

你知道你为什么无法对抗任何事吗？因为蚂蚁是上帝，敌人是上帝。如果你限制任何一个部分，你就是在推开上帝。爱无法再被包裹，因为爱容纳一切。

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The greatest of all progress is love.
最好的进步是爱。


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Your capacity to love is determined by your understanding.

爱的能力取决于理解的能力。

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If you dont trust someone, you dont love him fully.

如果你不相信某个人，你就无法全然地爱他。

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If we love this world we accept the world the way it is. We don't try to change it. We let it be. We grant the world its beingness. Trying to change others is injecting our own ego.
如果我们爱这个世界，我们就能接纳它的全部，而不会想着改变它。我们任其自行运转，允许它以自己的方式存在。试图改变他人，就是在助长小我。


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The more we love the less we have to think.

我们越爱，就越无需想。

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Being love is higher than loving. The real devotee of God has no choice but to love, he is love.

成为爱比去爱要高级。上帝的真正信徒除了爱别无选择，因为他就是爱本身。

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Love is your Self. That is the highest love.

爱是你的真我。真我是最高级别的爱。

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Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary. We love our family as much as we love strangers. To the degree we're capable of loving strangers; to that degree we're capable of loving our family.

爱是恒久不变的态度。它不会变化。爱就是这样：我们爱陌生人就同爱自己的家人一样。


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Love is togetherness.
爱是合一。


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Love is the Self. The Self doesn't love. The Self is love. (Only in duality can you love.)

爱是真我。真我不造作爱，因为真我就是爱。（只有在二元性中，才有爱的造作。）

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It's not loving, it's being love that will get you to God.

造作爱无法让你升入天堂，只有成为爱才能如此。

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Love: Each one glorifies himself by service rendered to others and must, therefore, necessarily receive from others. Thus God flows back and forth and we delight in His exoticism. There is nothing so delectable as the spirit of givingness. It is intoxicating beyond any other experience capable to man. Discover this.

爱：每个人都通过服务他人而荣耀自己，并接收到他人的爱。上帝因此而得以流动，喜悦弥漫。没有比给予更幸福的事。给予所带来的幸福感超过其它任何体验。去给予吧。

Service is the secret to bathing in the ever-new joy of God. Service opens the doors to the greatest fields of beauty and charm, wherein is enjoyed the nectars of the infinite variety of tastes, all blended into one drink, that of superlative love.

服务让我们沐浴在天堂般的喜悦中。服务向仙境开启了大门。如饮口味无限变化的美酒，所有味道集于一身，这就是最高境界的爱。

Come into the garden of the most delicious and everlasting joy by an everlasting desire to love and serve. Let go of the emptiness of selfishness. Fill yourself to the full with selfless love.

对爱和服务的渴望将我们带入最美的花园，如此甜蜜而欢乐。放开自私所带来的空虚感吧，让无我的爱将你充满。