《终极自由之路》31.冥想

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翻译：小粒子儿大天体

The greatest thing, and the most difficult thing, we have to do, is to drop the mind. It's a junkyard full of refuse from ages past; refuse of thoughts of limitations: I am a limited body; I have troubles. All thoughts contain limitation. We pile them up in the thing we call mind. Mind is nothing but the total accumulation of all the se thoughts. So mind is nothing but a junkyard of limitation.
我们需要做的最好同时也是最难的事就是释放头脑。头脑是废物堆积场，堆满了累世的废物、限制的念头：我是有限的身体，我有麻烦等等。所有的念头都是有限的，我们将它们堆积在所谓的头脑里，因此头脑只是念头的集合，限制的废物堆积场。

All right, so how do we get rid of the mind? By quieting it. When we quiet the mind we discover our infinity. The more we see our limitlessness, the more we recognize that junkyard called mind, and the more we let go of it, -until we go so far that we drop the whole remaining mind at one time.
那么，我们如何才能消除头脑呢？让它安静下来。当我们让头脑安静下来时，我们便能发现我们的无限性。我们越看到我们的无限性，就越能认识到头脑是个废物堆积场，也就越能释放它，直到最终我们一次就释放掉剩余的头脑。

However, before that, we keep battling the thoughts as they come up. As the thoughts come up, we let go, let go, let go, until we let go of enough of them so that the Self that we are is obvious. Then it takes over and takes us all the way. The greatest thing is quieting the mind, which is eliminating thought, which is eliminating the mind.
然而，在这之前，我们必须跟念头打持久战。念头一出现，我们就释放，释放，释放，直到释放了足够的念头，以便我们所是的真我显现。那时真我就会接手，并带我们走完全程。所以最好的事就是让头脑安静，也就是消除念头，消除头脑。

Meditation is necessary. This is the major point I'm stressing: meditation. Learn how to meditate. The deeper one goes, the more one discovers the innate joys to which there are no limits; no matter how joyful you get, you can always go further. If you were a thousand times more joyful than you are now, you could still go on and on and on in joy. Joy is unlimited because we're infinite.
冥想是必要的手段，也是我一直强调的。学会如何冥想，冥想得越深入，就越能发现内在那无限的喜悦，不管你有多喜悦，都可以走得更远。如果你那时的喜悦是现在的一千倍，你可以向一万倍探索。喜悦是无限的，因为我们是无限的。

But the major thing to accomplish is the ability to control the mind, to meditate, to drop into peace at will. A man can control a whole nation and if he cannot control his own mind, what kind of control has he got? He is a victim of his own mind. Rather than being in free control over his thoughts, he is an effect of them. He is actually pushed around by past habits. He is no Master. Only he who can control his mind is a Master, a Master not only of himself, but of anything and everything he does. Meditation is the way.
但是这需要我们能够任意地控制头脑，任意地冥想，任意地进入宁静。一个人可以控制一个国家，但如果他连自己的头脑都控制不了，他还能控制什么？他只会成为他自己头脑的受害者。他无法自由控制自己的念头，相反地他只会受到念头的影响，被过去的习气耍弄。他绝对不是大师。只有能控制头脑的人才是大师，不仅是自己的大师，更是他所做的一切事的大师。冥想能帮我们做到这点。

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Meditation is directed thinking.
冥想是直接的思考。

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Meditation is putting your mind on the way to find God.
冥想让你的头脑走上寻找上帝的征途。

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Meditation is looking for the answers in the right direction.
冥想是在正确的方向寻找答案。

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Meditation is basically thinking in the right direction and holding to it so that other thoughts keep dropping away until the mind is concentrated. When the mind is concentrated the answers become obvious to you.
冥想是在正确的方向思考，让其它念头离开，直到头脑能够专注为止。当头脑能够专注时，答案就会向你显现。

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Concentration is holding one thought to the exclusion of other thoughts and will lift one and help one grow.
专注是待在一个念头里，将其它念头排除在外。专注能够帮助你提升和成长。

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The ability to hold one thought concentrates the mind so that it can crack the secrets of itself.
待在一个念头里能让头脑专注，如此头脑就能揭开它自身的秘密。

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Meditating to get the mind quiet is good. Meditating to let go of ego-wants is better. Meditating on "What am I?" is best.
让头脑安静的冥想很好。释放小我欲望的冥想更好。有关“我是什么“的冥想最好。

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Meditate, actively seeking.
在冥想中积极地探索。

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Meditation should be on: "What am I?" "What is God?" "What is the world?" "What's my relationship to the world?" "What is the substance of this world?" "What is infinity?" "What is intelligence ?" "Where is this world?" Or on some of the statements you've heard like: "I'm not in the world but the world is in me." Question, and ask. "How come?" Try to see it. Try to see the meaning behind these statements of Truth.
冥想时应该问自己：我是什么？上帝是什么？这个世界是什么？我与这世界有何关系？这世界的本质是什么？无限是什么？智力是什么？世界在哪里？或者对你听到过的一些话提出质疑，比如“世界不在我的外面，而是在我的里面”。问自己为什么，试着去挖掘这些真理背后的意义。

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We get to see the perfection by looking in the direction where the perfection is. Now, the perfection isnt out there; we know that. The perfection is in here where we are, where the "I" of us is. So first, we have to direct our attention inwardly; we should pose a question and hold it until the answer comes. When the answer does come, you know, and you know you know. And to get the answer to "What am I?" it is necessary to still the noise of the mind, to still the thoughts. The thoughts are the noise. The thoughts are concepts of limitation and there are so many of them that they're constantly bombarding us, one after another all the time. Keep on dropping them until the perfection is obvious.
我们通过寻找完美的所在来发现完美。我们知道完美不在外面，完美就在此地，我们的“我”所在的地方。所以首先，我们必须将注意力转向内在，提出并持住一个问题，直到答案自行呈现。当答案到来时，你就会知道你已经知道。为了得到“我是什么”的答案，你需要消除头脑中念头的噪音，让念头安静下来。念头都是些限制性的概念。头脑中有许许多多的念头，它们不断地轰炸着我们，此消彼长。持续地释放它们，直到完美显现。

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All these extraneous thoughts wouldnt come in if we werent interested in them.
如果我们不对这些无关的念头感兴趣，它们就不会出现。

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We must learn how to quiet the mind. We can never learn how by constant conversation. The less conversation, the better.
我们必须学会如何让头脑安静。但是谈话无法让我们学会这点。所以，最好少一些谈话。

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Meditation does not have to be formal to be meditation. It can be any time one gets quiet and seeks. Some of us find it is easier to meditate when it isnt formal because sometimes we unconsciously have objections and resistances to formal meditation. However, we should work to drop the objections and resistances, and be free of them.
冥想不必非得正式地去做，随时都可以做。我们有些人发现不正式地去做冥想，冥想反而更容易，因为我们有时会对正式的冥想产生无意识的抗拒。但是，我们应该释放这种抗拒感，从抗拒感中解脱。

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Reverse your negative thoughts as they come into mind. Let go of negative thoughts by reversing them and then eventually, let go of all thoughts.
当负面念头出现时，反转它们。通过反转负面念头来释放它们，最后释放所有的念头。

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What you gain remains. Even though you've undone one thought, one idea, there still remains a multitude of thoughts and so another one comes up. Undoing one limiting thought doesn't undo all the subconscious thoughts. What remains must be let go of by dropping a tendency or predisposition, you drop all the thoughts motivating it.
你已经获得的会一直都在。即使你消除了一个念头，还会出现下一个念头，因为剩下还有许多的念头。释放一个限制性念头无法消除所有的潜意识念头。通过消除一种惯性或倾向，你就消除了激发它的所有念头，剩余的必须通过这种方式来释放。

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Meditation should always be with a seeking.
应该在冥想中加入探索。

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Everything that everyone is looking for through work is far better gotten through meditation. Meditation will sooner and better get you what you want than working in the world for it will.
每个人通过工作所寻求的一切，不如通过冥想来寻求。相比通过工作来获得想要的，冥想会更快且更好地帮你实现这点。

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It is the doorway to the Infinite when you go inward. When you go outward, it is the doorway to limitation.
去往无限，向内走；去往有限，向外走。

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Internalize your attention. All externalized attention is wasted.
将你的注意力向内，因为一切向外的注意力都是浪费。

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What you do to yourself, being your own doing, can only be undone by you.
你对自己所做的，都是你自己的所为，因此只有你能解除它。

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God is known only through your effort and direction. Look concentratedly within for the kingdom of God.
只有正确的方向和努力才能让你发现上帝。向内聚焦，上帝的王国就在那。

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With meditation, you will discover that you've covered up your unlimited Self with your limited ego.
冥想会让你发现你那有限的小我掩盖了你那无限的真我。

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Meditation is the road to omnipresence.
冥想通往全在。

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Meditate to get into the practice and habit of meditation. We should meditate as much as we possibly can. Meditation is getting the mind one-pointed in the direction of who and what we are. It's taking the mind away from the worldly things and focusing it on the direction that we're in. The more we do it the more we like it. And the more we like it, the more we do it, until it becomes a thing that goes on effortlessly all the time. No matter what you're doing, that meditation continues in the background. Then you are really moving. Until then you're not moving very rapidly, because most of the time you're in the world and in the direction of limitation.
我们应该尽可能地冥想，让冥想成为一种习惯。冥想是让头脑专注在我是谁以及我是什么的问题上。它让头脑从世俗的事务中移开，转而聚焦于内在。冥想做得越多，我们就越喜欢；我们越喜欢冥想，就会越多地冥想，直到冥想成为毫不费力的事。不管我们在做什么，冥想都会在背景中进行着。那样你就会进步。否则的话你就进步得很慢，因为大部分时间你都忙于世俗的事务，也就是走在限制的方向上。

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There is only one way to get to the high state, and that is by quieting the mind. The method of quieting the mind is meditation. It's very difficult; the moment you sit down and want to quiet the mind, up pop the thoughts. Well, as the thoughts pop up keep knocking them out, putting them out, dropping them, until you reach a state where you can sit relatively quiet. Then you begin to like meditation because it's a deeper experience of your real Self. Once you like it, the main obstacle to the practice of meditation is eliminated. But you should never stop until you reach the place where meditation is delightful. Then you will go on with ease.
通往终极之境只有一条路可走，那就是让头脑安静。让头脑安静的方法是冥想。这非常困难，因为你坐下来试图让头脑安静时，会有很多念头跳出来。在念头跳出来时释放它们，直到你能平静地坐着。那样你就会开始喜欢冥想，因为它是对真我的深度体验。一旦你喜欢上冥想，冥想的主要障碍就消除了。但你绝不要就此打住，而是继续练习冥想，让冥想成为一件令人感到轻松并愉悦的事。

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The most effective meditation is when you are by yourself. Group meditation is for beginners, for the purpose of accustoming one to meditation.
最有效的冥想是单独冥想。集体冥想只是作为开始的练习，为了能够让你适应冥想。

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Meditation really should be communing with your Self.
冥想应该是与你的真我连结。

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You'll see your Self to the proportion that your mind is quiet.
你是否能看到你的真我取决于头脑安静的程度。

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The way to get rid of the ego is to get the mind so quiet that you can see what you are. Then you know that you are not the ego and you drop it.
若要摆脱小我，那就让头脑安静，如此你才能看清你是什么。知道你不是小我，便释放了小我。

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Intense meditation will get you to your realized Teacher, to your Master.
深度冥想会将你带向你那开悟的上师，你的大师。

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To expand out from being just a body is so difficult because of the state of the world today. We do need the help of the Masters to lift us, actually to help pull us right out of it. They cannot do that unless we are receptive. We cannot be receptive unless our mind is quiet. And our mind becomes quiet through meditation.
当今世界所处的状态，使得我们从作为身体的限制中脱离出来是如此之难。我们的确需要大师来帮助我们提升，帮助我们脱离作为身体的限制。如果我们无法涵容，就无法接受祂们的帮助。如果我们的头脑无法安静，也就无法变得涵容。而我们的头脑如何才能安静？冥想。

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Just go into meditation, get quiet and expect that higher help and it will come. God and Gurus are constantly helping us. If we just get quiet, with Their help we are lifted into experiencing our Self.
冥想吧，让头脑安静，期待更高存在的帮助，祂们便会到来。上帝和上师们一直都在帮助我们。如果我们能够安静下来，祂们会帮助我们提升到能够经验真我的境界。

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Meditation has to get to the point where it is the most important thing. However, even a little meditation will go a long way, especially if it is concentrated.
必须让冥想成为最重要的事。即使是短暂的冥想，也会把我们带得很远，尤其是专注的冥想。

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Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Spiritual knowledge does not come down to a lower level. We have to raise ourselves up to it. We raise ourselves in meditation. Meditation should be used to get higher understanding by raising ourselves up to where higher understanding is.
灵性的东西必须是通过灵性领悟。灵性知识不会屈尊降贵，所以我们只能提升自己来获得它。我们通过冥想提升，提升到能够领悟的境地，而冥想应该是以此为目的。

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Meditation is wonderful. Things happen in meditation that never could happen while you are talking or active.
冥想是很棒的事。在冥想中发生的事永远不会在你谈话或行动时发生。

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You can make the mind quiet by the desire to discover what you are. When the interest in knowing what you are becomes stronger than the interest in this world and body, then you discover You. Desire, intense desire for it, is the key.
对发现你是什么的渴望，能够让你的头脑安静下来。当对我是什么的兴趣要比对世界和身体的兴趣更强烈时，你才能发现“你”。强烈的渴望是关键。

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The concept of meditating by making your mind a blank is in error. You cannot make your mind a blank.
认为“冥想是让你的头脑空白”是错误的。你无法让你的头脑空白。

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Meditation is a stepping stone to the knowledge of the answer to "What am I?"
冥想是了知“我是什么”的垫脚石。

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Someday the most delightful thing you will know of will be meditation.
总有一天你所知道的最快乐的事是冥想。

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Meditate until it becomes constant, i.e., until it continues in back of the mind regardless of what you are doing.
持续冥想，直到冥想成为常态，也就是不管你做什么，冥想都在头脑之后进行着。

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There is a meditation of just getting quiet. Just get quiet, not in a passive way, but in an active way of just being. It's awfully nice to just be and be and be. It's a tremendous experience. It's a wonderful feeling of just being. However, don't stop there. Keep dropping ego until there is no more.
冥想让头脑安静。只是变得安静，但不是以消极的方式，而是以积极的方式存在。只是存在是非常美妙的事，但不要就此打住。持续地释放小我，直到小我不复存在。

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You'll reach a point where you'll1ike meditation better than anything else, because you'll reach a point where you're being very much your real Self. That is the greatest of all joy which you, formerly thought was external in the world, in your wife, in your children. You'll see your wife and your children as nothing but your very own Self; you'll see that. And the joy will be direct and constant all the time.
总有一天你对冥想的喜欢会超过其它事，因为那时你会成为你的真我。之前的念头都是关乎外在世界，关于你的妻子、你的孩子。但那时你只会把你的妻子和孩子视为你的真我，那样幸福就会变得直接，变得永恒。

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The answer wont come from reasoning. It will come from quiet meditation. Someday, sometime, it will come. It will just present itself to you, so simple, and you'll say. "Oh-!"
答案不是来自推理。答案来自安静的冥想。总有一天，它会自动地呈现在你眼前，如此简单，你会说：“哦！”

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Meditation is thinking, but thinking on one thing so that other thoughts drop away. When you are intensely interested in one thing, other thoughts drop away.
冥想是思考，但只是思考一件事，那样其它念头就会离开。当你只对一件事有强烈的兴趣时，其它念头就会离开。

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The quieter we are. the more we are the Self. When meditation becomes constant. all the time, even though we are outwardly active, we go through life and work automatically, all the time remaining in our real Self.
我们越安静，就越是我们的真我。当冥想成为常态时，即使我们仍忙于世俗的事务，也依然居于我们的真我中。

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The mature seeker of the Self starts with: The reality is that I was never bound; I was always free and perfect, - and takes off from there.
成熟的真我追寻者从这里出发——真相是我从未被束缚，我一直都是自由且完美的。

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Just look at what you are instead of what you are not. When you discover what you are, you simultaneously discover what you are not and drop it.
只是看着你的所是，而非你的所不是。当你发现你的所是的同时，你也发现了你的所不是，那样就释放了你的所不是。

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Say, "I am not this body; I am not this mind, and stay with it.
说：“我不是这具身体，我不是这颗头脑。”并坚持下去。

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Seeing that you're not the ego, you're letting go of big chunks of ego.
看清你不是小我，你便释放了小我的大部分。

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The depth to which you go in meditation determines how much you wipe out the ego.
冥想的深度决定了你能消除多少的小我。

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Depth of meditation is the degree of quieting the mind.
冥想的深度取决于头脑的安静程度。

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The longer you can meditate, the deeper you can go.
你能冥想得越久，就能走得越深。

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Once you reach peace, then find out what you are.
一旦你进入宁静，那就去找出你是什么。

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Getting the good feeling is good. The higher you go the better the feeling is. But when you look for the good feeling as the end, then that is the end. Growing is more than dropping into the good feeling of the Self; it is dropping the non-self, - the ego.
有好的感觉是不错。你走得越深，感觉越好。但若你把好的感觉当成是终点的话，那它就会是终点。成长不仅仅是拥有真我所带来的美好感觉，成长更是释放你的小我。

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Enjoying meditation is a step, but don't stop there; go beyond it. You have got to get the answer.
享受冥想只是其中一步，但不要就此打住，要超越它，因为你必须得到答案。

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One could possibly meditate forever and forever.
一个人可以永远地处在冥想中。

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Meditation in itself can get to be a trap, cart be used as a crutch. You've got to get realizations.
冥想本身可能会成为一个陷阱。你要将冥想作为你的拐棍，支持你走向觉醒。

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When you get full realization, you're in the meditative state all the time. Actually, meditation is the natural state.
当你完全开悟时，你会一直处在冥想的状态中。实际上，冥想是种天然的状态。

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Constant meditation is a constant remembering of God, Self.
持续的冥想就是持续地忆起上帝，忆起真我。

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Meditation is extremely difficult at first, but it gets easier as time goes on, - then, one day you'll say. "This is great! This is what I want!" Then you do it all the time. Then you're really on the spiritual path.
冥想一开始是非常难，但随着时间的推移，会变得越来越容易。有一天你会说：“这太棒了！这就是我想要的！”那时你就会一直地冥想，你就真正地走在了灵性道路上。

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Very concentratedly dwell upon your Self. Turn the mind back upon the mind to discover what the mind is, and then go beyond the mind and dwell in your Self. Each one must experience it. It's a perception, but it's not really a mental perception. You get recognitions, revelations, realizations by keeping the mind pointed in one direction until it gets very quiet, until other thoughts drop away. Hold one thought until that takes you to the realm just behind thinkingness; the answer is there. We call it an experience, a revelation.
必须非常地专注于你的真我。将头脑转回头脑上，去发现头脑是什么，然后超越头脑，居于你的真我中。每个人都必须经验到它。那是一种觉知，但并非头脑的觉知。通过将头脑专注在一个方向上，直到头脑变得非常安静，直到其它念头都自行离开，你获得了开启、揭露和了悟。专注在一个念头上，让这个念头带你到达思考的背后，答案就在那里。我们称它为经验，称它为揭露。

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We must learn to quiet the mind so that when we sit down, we let go of the world. Only then do we really begin to move at high levels on this spiritual path. Weve made this world a better world; we've made this dream a happier dream, -but were almost as bound as we were before. We have replaced bondages to bad things with bondages to good things. Now we must learn to let go of thoughts, all thoughts. The way is through meditation, right meditation: quieting the mind, stilling the thoughts, and finally, eliminating all thoughts.
我们必须学会让头脑安静，那样当我们坐下来时，我们才能释放全世界。只有到那时，我们才是真正地走在灵性道路的高水平上。我们已经让这世界变得更好，让这梦境变得更甜，但是我们还是像从前一样受到束缚，只是这束缚从坏的变成了好的。我们必须释放所有的念头，通过正确的冥想，即让头脑安静，让念头静止，最终消除所有的念头。

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In group meditation support is lent one unto the other. The power is multiplied and you can get more deeply quiet as time goes by. But the very best meditation is when you are by yourself and you need no group support. Then you are not confined to any time period. You get with it and you might stay with it five, ten, even twenty-four hours. And this should happen. When you get to like it so much that you stay up all night continuing it, it has become more interesting than sleep. Then you've got the momentum going. Then you'll get to see and be youre real Self.
在集体冥想中，支持从一个人传给另一个人。集体冥想的力量是成倍的，你可以随着时间的推移进入更深的宁静中。但是最好的冥想是单独冥想，你不需要团体的支持，并且不受时间的限制。你可以冥想5小时，10小时，甚至一天24小时都在冥想。你应该这么做。当你对冥想变得非常喜欢时，你就会彻夜冥想，对睡觉都会失去兴趣。那样你就处在强有力的推动中，你会发现并回归你的真我。

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A way to dominate the mind is to drop into the Self. You reach a place where it's so delightful you just don't want to do anything but remain in it. It gets to be very easy. Once you get to the point where it's easy, then just continue it. Stay with it until you go all the way. By the constancy of it, each day, you get quieter and quieter, and then the Self, as you see It, keeps scorching the ego, which further quiets the mind.
若要支配头脑，那就进入真我。进入真我是如此愉悦的事，以至你只想待在真我中。而那又会让进入真我变得更容易。一旦进入真我变得容易，那就继续和你的真我同在，直到你彻底觉醒。随着时间的推移，你会变得越来越宁静，并且你所看到的真我会不断地吞噬小我，而那会让头脑变得更安静。

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You know, it's said that your spiritual growth really begins when you are' able to drop into samadhi. I don't like to say this because it's discouraging to some people. Samadhi is complete absorption in your thought. It's total concentration.
据说你的灵性成长始于当你能够进入三摩地的时候。我不喜欢这个说法，因为那会让有些人感到却步。三摩地是完全地专注于你的念头。三摩地就是完全的专注。

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Meditation at first is holding the thoughts on God, Self, to the exclusion of other thoughts. When one is realized, meditation is the awareness, not of anything by anyone, but only the current of awareness of awareness where there is no otherness and no action, yet compatible with full use of the mental and physical faculties.
冥想一开始是专注在有关上帝或真我的念头上，而将其它念头挡在门外。当一个人开悟时，冥想就是觉知，但不是觉知某个东西，而只是觉知“觉知之流（current of awareness）”，没有其它，也没有行动，但却与心智和身体的功能完全相容。

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At the end of the road of meditation you discover your grand and glorious Self!
在冥想的尽头，你会发现你那恢弘而灿烂的真我！

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关于冥想的一些补充

人类可分为三个主要类别：拥有、行动以及存在。幸福指数随着三个类别逐级上升，也就是存在拥有最大的幸福。

拥有状态是三者中最低的。大多数人认为只要他们拥有什么，他们就会快乐。“只要我有100万美元，我就会是全世界最幸福的人。”“只要我有强健的身体就好了。”“只要我有…就好了。”

更高一点的状态是行动状态。人们不再满足于只是说“只要…就好”，而是开始走出去做些什么。此时我们对行动的兴趣要高于拥有。

最高的状态是存在状态，这也是我要带你们去的地方。如果你没有体验过存在，存在对你是毫无意义的。只有当你了知存在是什么时，你才会对存在的兴趣高于一切。这让我想起某个人对我说的话。我们有次去拜访一个一年未见的朋友，她对灵修很感兴趣。当我们见到她时，她说：“话就不必说了，我们去冥想吧。谈话只是浪费时间！”她对存在已经有所体验，当你达到那个状态时，谈话是很傻的事。为什么还要谈话，为什么不只是单纯地存在？

存在是一种非常深沉、宁静的冥想状态。就像桔子的味道你必须亲自品尝过才能知道，你必须亲自去体验存在。一旦你尝到了存在，你便知道了存在。而一旦你尝到了存在的美妙滋味，你会对存在的渴望高于这世界的一切！

如何才能到达存在？冥想。为了达到最好的效果，每天早上至少冥想一小时，晚上就寝前冥想一小时。早上的冥想能让你有好的状态来应对新的一天。而晚上的冥想则帮你释放掉白天的压力，并带你更好地入眠。尽可能地抽出时间来冥想，直到冥想成为你无需费力的常态。