1、THE WEI WU WEI ARCHIVES一杯水和一片湖一位禅学大师有一个老是爱抱怨的弟子。有一天，大师派这个弟子去集市买了一袋盐。弟子回来后，大师吩咐他抓一把盐放入一杯水中，然后喝一口。 “味道如何？”大师问道。 “咸得发苦。”弟子皱着眉头答道。 随后，大师又带着弟子来到湖边，吩咐他把剩下的盐撒进湖里，然后说道：“再尝尝湖水。” 弟子弯腰捧起湖水尝了尝。 大师问道：“什么味道？ ” “纯净甜美。”弟子答道。 “尝到咸味了吗？”大师又问。 “没有。”弟子答道。 大师点了点头，微笑着对弟子说道：“生命中的痛苦是盐，它的咸淡取决于盛它的容器。” 你愿做一杯水，还是一片湖？ 指向月亮的手/序言/
2、 味无味德不孤你是天的镜子！I wonder why this collection of observations and suggestions is not signed with the personal name of an author, as books usually are?Is the person responsible modest? Is he ashamed of them? Perhaps he does not wish those who would not understand to associate him with ideas of this kind
3、? Is it pride? Is it humility?What is a name? (Is it not the symbol of someone who regards himself as a separate individual?) Is not a name essentially - the name of an ego? But the Self, the Principal, the I-Reality has no name. (The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao: one of the greatest bo
4、oks in the world opens with those words.)May we see in this the pretension that these thoughts are of someone who lives on the plane of Reality? But were that so would not the Fingers have been pointing AT the moon?No doubt the fact itself is of little interest, but its implications may be worth thi
5、s consideration. Perhaps the explanation is simpler than any of these suppositions.Tom, Dick, and Harry think they have written the books that they sign (or painted the pictures, composed the music, built the churches). But they exaggerate. It was a pen that did it, or some other implement. They hel
6、d the pen? Yes, but the hand that held the pen was an implement too, and the brain that controlled the hand. They were intermediaries, instruments, just apparatus. Even the best apparatus does not need a personal name like Tom, Dick, or Harry.If the nameless builders of the Taj Mahal, of Chartres, o
7、f Rheims, of a hundred cathedral symphonies, knew that - and avoided the solecism of attributing to their own egos the works that were created through their instrumentality - may not even a jotter-down of passing metaphysical notions know it also?If you should not understand this - give the book awa
8、y before reading it! But give it to a pilgrim on the Way. Why? Because it would have helped the pilgrim who compiled it, if it had been given to him, and that is why he compiled it, and why he presumes to offer it to other pilgrims.But in case you should still wonder who is responsible for this book
9、 I do not know how to do better than to inscribe the wordsWEI WU WEIIt is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.越在乎，就越减少。* * *The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.我们占据的任何质量绝不是一项满足而是我们已经抛弃的她的出现为这个时代注入了新的活力！* * *It
10、is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.不是寻找而是保留安静，达到静止而不是行动* * *There is no becoming. ALL IS.没有什么成为。一切本来就是。只是你认为不是。* * *The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.圣徒就是约束小我的人。圣人则是从自我里面清除小我的人。* * *It is only the arti
11、ficial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false me no longer identifies with his suffering.痛苦只是人造的小我。一个超越了他的假“我”的人不会再与自己的痛苦认同。* * *We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.我们的自性不是真实的虚幻部分；也不是真实自己所设计的虚幻。* * *Are we not wasps who
12、 spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?当另一半窗户打开着，一整天我们试图穿越窗玻璃却毫无效果的时候，我们不是易怒的么？* * *Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences.超脱是一种状态，而不是已经取得的无分别的万有。* * *The notion that human life has greater
13、value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.人类生命比其他生命形式更伟大的的概念是不合道理的和自大的。* * *Wise men dont judge: they seek to understand.智者不评价：只是寻求领会。* * *How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are n
14、ot in fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means?有多少条路（训导、练习、实践）被认为是有帮助的，甚至是必需的，开悟的造诣不是* * *There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who under
15、stand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.似乎有两种追寻着：那些为小我寻找它所不是的，如神圣，幸福，无私（好像你可以使一条鱼成为
16、非鱼） ，或那些洞悉所有这些努力不过是姿态和表演，只有一个能做的事，就是不认同小我，通过了解它的不在，变得觉察自己永恒的自性。Click here for more from this book.* * * * *From Why Lazarus Laughed:Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.生活应该是永恒的和对全宇宙的祝福。* * *Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They
17、 merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more. Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.不能把教条、经文、经典、短文当作要遵从的系统。它们只是促成理解。对我们来说应该是一个刺激的来源，如此而已，被采用而不是当作刺激物而起到妨碍作用。* * *Of the many earnest, and how earnest, people we may observe
18、 reading, attending lectures, studying and practising disciplines, devoting their energies to the attainment of a liberation which is by definition unattainable, how many are not striving via the ego-concept which is itself the only barrier between what they think they are and that which they wish t
19、o become but always have been and always will be?非常郑重地，不论如何郑重，我们去观察阅读，参加演讲，学习和实践纪律，献出* * *Play your part in the comedy, but dont identify yourself with your role!* * *On the phenomenal plane we seek pleasure and the avoidance of pain. On the noumenal plane we know the absence of both - which is Blis
20、s.在现象的水平上我们趋乐避苦。在本体的水平上我们了解二者都不在-这就是至福。* * *When you give a shilling to a beggar- do you realise that you are giving it to yourself?给一先令与乞讨者 -你觉得是给你自己么？帮助侧路上的瘸狗 -你觉得是在帮助自己么？When you help a lame dog over a stile- do you realise that you yourself are being helped?When you kick a man when he is down- d
21、o you realise that you are kicking yourself?Give him another kick - if you deserve it!踢一个人把他踢到了-你觉得是踢了自己么？再踢他一下-如果觉得你应得的话！* * *Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a dream of the One Mind, which is our mind without the our. Is it so hard to accept? Is it so difficult
22、 to assimilate and to live?唯有真实存在-这就是我们。 其它的只是梦，一体心智之梦，一个没有“我们”的心智。真的如此难于接受么？真的如此难于理解透并活出来么？* * *Even the intellectual understanding of the inexistence of our selves is a rare and bitter attainment which few even attempt. And that is only the elimination round which qualifies us for access to Realit
23、y. Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a simple mind, but, with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost inevitable preliminary.即使智力理解我们“自我”的不存在是稀少的、难以接受的成就甚至人们连试一试都不，经过淘汰到达真实。 。 。对“简单”的心智智力理解也不是必不可少的，经过训练，几乎是不可避免的开端。* * *Past and Future are a duality of which Present is
24、 the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.过去未来是来自真实当下的二元性。当下才是永恒的和真实的。* * *Spontaneity is being present in the present.Spontaneity by-passes the processes of the conceptual (aspect of) mind.Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.自发性是当下存在的出场。自发性经过概念 (方面的)
25、心智。与自然互相和谐，这我们所是的，是自发性的恢复。* * *What we know as lifeis the analytical realisationin the seriality of timeof our eternal reality.我们所知道的“生活”是对我们永恒真实的时间序列的分析领会而已。* * *We have only to eliminate the ego-notion by succeeding in the difficult task of understanding that it does not exist except as a notion.我
26、们只能通过除了概念什么也不是的理解这个艰难任务来完成对小我概念的擦除。Click here for more from this book.* * * * *From Ask The Awakened:Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 per centOf everything you think,And of everything you do,Is for yourself -And there isnt one.* * *What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.你的烦恼是什么？是错误认同而已。* * *Truth i
27、s that which lies in a dimension beyond the reach of thought.Whole-mind has no thoughts, thoughts are split-mind.真理就在思想不能到达的那个维度。整体-心智没有“思想”，思想是分离 -心智。（右脑 VS 左脑）* * *Realisation is a matter of becomeing conscious of that which is already realised.实现就是对已经领会到的变为有意识。* * *A man who is seeking for realis
28、ation is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realising that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!寻求开悟的人不仅是对眼镜一直在他的鼻子上不了解而到处找他的眼镜，而且是通过这不可能找到眼镜的这个眼镜去看去找！* * *It is necessary to un
29、derstand that I Am,In order that I may know that I Am Not,So that, at last, I may realise that,I Am Not, therefore I Am.必须了解我是谁，以便懂得我不是什么，最后能够了解到，我不是，找到我所是。* * *We do not possess an ego.We are possessed by the idea of one.我们从没有占据一个“自我”。我们却被自我的想法所占有了。* * *All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.世界上所有的邪恶、所有不幸，都来自于概念我。
