《终极自由之路》20.如何助人(续)

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翻译：小粒子儿大天体

One who is not in some way helping others is injuring them. This some way is basically and generally in thought. Any thought other than one of good will or good wishes toward anyone, is injuring others and therefore injuring oneself.
若无法在某种程度上助人，便是伤人。这某种程度基本上指的是在念头里。若非以善意的念头助人，便会伤人又伤己。

The above is effected through the interconnection of all minds and by the fact that the law of compensation, i.e., karma, is affected in the thought, whether the thought is carried through into action or not.
以上情况由所有头脑的相互连接所致，以及业力在念头中的影响，不管该念头最终是否付诸行动。

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Your helping others is more by your attitude of how much you love them, than by your behavior.
助人取决于你有多爱他人的态度，而非你的行为。

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When you love you are very constructive whether you are in action or not. Just feel love and your thoughts will be those of love.
当你爱时，不管你是否付诸行动，你都是非常具有建设性的。只是感觉爱，你的念头就会成为爱的念头。

Thought is far more powerful than action. Thought is the basis of action. It is the initiator. It comes before it. It determines action.
念头远比行动强有力。念头是行动的基础，是行动的发起者。念头在行动之前，又决定行动。

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The degree of the lack of recognition of the woes of others is the degree of one's ego. The more one knows his Self, the more compassion and desire one has to help others.
越是无法认识到他人的痛苦，小我就越强大。越明了真我，就越慈悲，并且越想着帮助他人。

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The more you are capable of loving, the more you are helping the world.
你越有爱的能力，对世界就越有益。

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All minds are interconnected, interact and interreact. The more an individual increases his love, the more everyone is helped.
所有头脑都是相互连结、相互影响的。个人越增加他/她的爱，其他人就越受益。

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Your thought force either helps or hurts the world's spiritual progress and is consequently hurting or helping yourself.
你念头的力量要么帮助、要么伤害这个世界的灵性进程。所以，它要么帮助、要么伤害你自己。

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He who is not helping the world's upliftment is helping its degradation.
若不是帮助世界扬升，就是在促进它的沉降。

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The greatest good is done by the person who best understands himself.
只有最理解自己的人，才能达到至善。

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Everyone can be helped in every situation that involves more than one person, and no one has to be hurt when love determines.
在所有不只一个人参与的情境中，当爱起决定性作用时，没有人会受伤，相反地，每个人都从中受益。

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When you let someone know you are doing something for them, they are obligated and return a thank you. When they dont know and dont return, then the Infinite returns, overflowing!
当你让他人知道你在帮助他们，那么他们就变得有义务来回报你。当他们不知道你在帮助他们，也就无从报答，那么无限就会向你回流，将你充满！

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When I give and you give back, you stop me from receiving a blessing from the Infinite.
当我给予时，你又给回来，你阻止了我接收来自无限的祝福。

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It's helpful to you to help others, provided there's no ego motivation behind it and that it's done without attachment.
帮助他人，但又并非由背后的小我驱动，在结束之后又不带执着，这样的助人其实是利己的。

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A high being sitting in a cave somewhere all by himself is doing much good for the world by his sending out powerful thoughts of love and peace.
一个在山洞独处的高级存有，对这世界的贡献远高于发出爱与和平的强有力念头。

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To the degree that we know the other one is perfect. to that degree we are effective in helping the other one.
我们越明了他人是完美的，助人就变得越有效。

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Charity is aiding and abetting the lie that God will take care of the sparrow but not man.
慈善助长了上帝会照顾麻雀而非人类的谎言。

Charity is saying. You can't help yourselves.
慈善即是说：你帮不了自己。

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Charity is good and necessary for one who is at that level of givingness and havingness.
慈善对处在给予和拥有层次的人来说，是好的，也是必需的。

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The greatest thing we can do for others is to help them to help themselves.
我们能为他人所做的最好的事是帮助他们自助。

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Blessed is the giver because he is the happier, if he gives from his heart.
给予者是有福的，因为当他发自内心地给予时，他是更快乐的人。

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To the degree you straighten out yourself you may help others. Again I say, you're not going to help others any more than you help yourself. But try to help others because that will help you to help yourself.
当你清理了自己时才能帮助他人。我再说一次，如果不能自助，就不要助人。但是要试着帮助他人，因为那会帮助你自助。

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You don't need any special training to help others. You do it naturally, from your own state of beingness.
帮助他人无需任何培训。从你的临在出发，助人变得自然而然。

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Everyone is a teacher teaching at his level. He does it unconsciously in his daily relationship with others
每个人都是老师，在他所在的层次教导。这种教导在他与他人的日常关系中无意识地发生着。

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The greatest givingness is not in things. The greatest givingness is your attitude of love.
最好的给予不是给予物质，而是你爱的态度。

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Giving out money is like giving out snake protection (the snake and the rope concept). The greatest giving is giving the understanding that there is no snake to protect yourself from.
发钱就像保护对方免于蛇的威胁（蛇和草绳的寓言）。最好的给予是给予智慧，让对方明白根本就没有蛇需要防护。

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Have an attitude of givingness. It's not how much you give; it's your attitude. Some people give to hospitals etc. to get their nameplates on them, and that is the extent of their reward.
要有给予的态度。不是你要给予多少，而是你的态度。有些人捐助医院等机构，为的是那些机构以他们的名字命名，作为对他们的回报。

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Whatever we do we should do with a desire to serve.
不管我们做什么，都要带着服务的渴望。

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Serve with the feeling that it is not you but the God in you who serves.
服务时要带着这样的感觉：不是你在服务，而是上帝通过你来服务。

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The giver should say Thank you and the receiver should say You are welcome. (The giver is the more blest.)
给予者应该说谢谢，接受者应该说不客气。（因为给予者更幸福。）

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The less ego we have the more we know the perfection of others. And it's to the degree that you know they're perfect that you support them in their being perfect.
我们的小我越少，我们就越明了他人的完美，也就越能支持他人的完美存在。

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A completely giving person always has whatever he wants.
一个完全给予的人，总是能够拥有任何他想要的。

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We help mostly by raising our own state of being.
最大的帮助是提升自己的境界。

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The higher you go the more you lift everyone.
你走得越高，就越能帮助他人提升。

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When you're holding good thoughts, you're sending out good thoughts to everyone.
当你保持好的念头时，就是在对所有人发出好的念头。

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When you're helping others, where's your attention?
当你帮助他人时，你的注意力在哪呢？

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Selflessness is an excellent yardstick to measure the state of beingness of an individual.
无私是绝佳的标尺，能够衡量个人的所在境界。

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Givingness is also a good yardstick. One's state of beingness is proportional to one's feeling of givingness, one's wanting to give.
给予亦是很好的标尺。个人存在的境界和他想要给予的感觉以及给予的意愿成正比。

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Does a Master ask things from the devotees, the disciples? A Master is all-givingness.
大师会跟他的信徒要东西吗？大师只会给予。

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Our feeling of givingness should be equal toward everyone. Giving to someone who likes you is ego motivated. A Master has equal-mindedness toward all.
给予的感觉应该对所有人都一样。给予喜欢你的人，是小我在驱动。大师则对所有人都给予。

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Anyone who has spiritual pride is only giving out words, and the other one picks it up as words with no import or authority.
在灵性上傲慢的人只会给出语言，而接收的人也只是接收语言，贫乏而空洞。

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To help another one you have to equate him to you, i.e., not think you are spiritually higher.
帮助他人时，你必须将他放在和你同等的位置，也就是不要以为自己的境界更高。

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When one understands, one sees everyone equally a Master.
当一个人开悟时，会视所有人都为大师。

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If everyone lived only for others, that would right the world. It would make it a utopia!
如果每个人都为他人而活，就能纠正这个世界，让这个世界成为一个乌托邦。

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When we live only for others, then we're at the top.
当我们只为他人而活时，我们就是在最高境界。

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Any and every relationship should be for the purpose of helping the other one attain realization, or for your being helped in attaining Realization.
任何关系以及每段关系都应是为了帮助他人获得开悟，或者帮助你自己开悟。

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Service to mankind will get you full realization if you do it with no interest in the fruits thereof.
不为回报而做的服务能够让你完全开悟。