Self-critical awareness is essential. Imagination and illusion distort clear observation. Illusion will always exist, so long as the urge for the continuation of pleasure and the avoidance of pain exist; the demand for those experiences which are pleasurable to continue or be remembered; the avoidance of pain, suffering. Both these breed illusion. To wipe away illusion altogether, pleasure and sorrow must be understood, not by control or sublimation, identification or denial.

自我批判意识是基础。 想象和幻觉扭曲了清晰的观察。 幻觉将永远存在，只要 存有想让愉快持续和想要避免痛苦的这种冲动； 想要那些令人愉快的经历持续下去或被记住； 并逃避疼痛、苦楚。 这两种做法都会滋生幻觉。 要完全地扫除幻想，必须理解愉快和悲伤， 不是通过控制或升华，识别或否认。

Destruction, the complete emptying of the brain, the reaction and memory must without any effort wither away; withering away implies time but it is time that ceases and not the ending of memory.

毁灭，大脑及其反应和记忆，完全地排空， 必须不费吹灰之力地枯萎； 枯萎意味着时间 但消亡的是时间，而不是记忆的终结。

Humility is not a virtue; it is not to be cultivated; it's not within the morality of the respectable. The saints do not know it, for they are recognized for their saintliness; the worshipper does not know it for he is asking, seeking; nor the devotee and the follower for he is following. Accumulation denies humility, whether it be property, experience or capacity. Learning is not an additive process; knowledge is. Knowledge is mechanical; learning never is. There can be more and more knowledge but there is never more in learning. Where there is comparison learning ceases. Learning is the immediate seeing which is not in time. All accumulation and knowledge are measurable. Humility is not comparable; there's no more or less of humility; so it cannot be cultivated. Morality and technique can be cultivated, there can be more or less of them. Humility is not within the capacity of the brain, nor is love. Humility is ever the act of death.

谦卑不是一种美德；它不是被培养出来的； 它不在受人尊敬的人的道德范围之内。 圣徒们不知道它，因为他们的圣洁性得到了认可； 敬拜者不知道，因为他在祈求、寻找； 奉献者和追随者也不知道，因为他在追随。 积累否定谦卑，无论所积累的是财产、体验还是能力。 学习不是一个累加的过程；知识是。 知识是机械的；学习从来都不是。 可以有越来越多的知识，但学习永远不会更多。 一旦出现了比较，学习就停止了。 学习是这种即刻地看，不在时间领域之内。 所有的积累和知识，都是可衡量的。 谦卑是不可比较的；不存在更多或更少的谦卑；所以它不能被培养。 道德和技术可以被培养，它们可以更多或更少。 谦卑不在大脑的能力范围之内，爱也不在大脑的能力之内。 谦卑永远是死亡的行动。