It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same as it was yesterday.

努力去重复和延展快乐，快乐就变成了痛苦。 观察你的努力。 想要重复快乐的要求，引来了痛苦， 因为它和昨天的不一样。

You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense, but the same inward quality of the mind. And you are hurt and disappointed, because it is denied to you.

你努力去获得同样的喜悦，不仅要有同样的审美感，头脑还得有同样的内在品质。 你受伤，你失望，因为它拒绝了你。

Now take your own particular form of fear. Look at it. Watch your reactions to it. Can you look at it without any movement of escape, justification, condemnation or suppression? Can you look at that fear without the word which causes the fear?

现在，拿出你的某个恐惧。看着它。 观察你对它的反应。 你能不带任何逃避、辩解、谴责或压制的冲动去看它吗？ 你能不带着由`恐惧`这个词而引发的感受，直接去看吗？

Can you look at death, for instance, without the word which arouses the fear of death? The word itself brings a tremor, doesn't it, as the word love has its own tremor, its own image? Now is the image you have in your mind about death, the memory of so many deaths you have seen and the associating of yourself with those incidents, is it that image which is creating fear? Or are you actually afraid of coming to an end, not of the image creating the end?

例如，你能不带着由`恐惧`这个词而引发的感受，去看死亡吗？ 词语本身就会引发一阵颤抖，不是吗？就像“爱”这个词有它自己的颤抖、自己的形象， 现在，你的头脑中有关于死亡的形象， 那是你曾见过的死亡及其相关事情的记忆， 是那个形象在制造恐惧吗？ 还是你真地害怕终结，而非制造出来的形象？

Is the word death causing you fear or the actual ending? If it is the word or the memory which is causing you fear, then it is not fear at all.

引发你恐惧的，是“死亡”这个词还是实际的结束？ 如果是言词或记忆使你恐惧，那就根本不是恐惧。

Now, if you want to stop violence, if you want to stop wars, how much vitality, how much of yourself, do you give to it?

那么，如果你想停止暴力，如果你想停止战争， 你要付出多少精力、多少心血？

Isn't it important to you that your children are killed, that your sons go into the army where they are bullied and butchered? Don't you care? My God, if that doesn't interest you, what does? Guarding your money? Having a good time? Taking drugs? Don't you see that this violence in yourself is destroying your children? Or do you see it only as some abstraction?

你们的孩子们被杀害，你们的儿子们参军后被欺凌和屠杀，这对你来说不重要吗？ 你不在乎吗？ 天哪，如果那都不能使你感兴趣，还有什么能呢？ 守护你的钱财？寻欢作乐？吸毒？ 难道你们看不出你自己内在的这种暴力正在毁灭你们的孩子们吗？ 还是你只把它看成某个抽象的东西？

Now why is there any comparison at all? Why do you compare yourself with another?

那么，究竟为什么会有比较？ 你为什么拿自己与别人比较？

This comparison has been taught from childhood. In every school, A is compared with B, and A destroys himself in order to be like B.

这种比较是从童年就被教会的。 在每一所学校里，张三与李四比较，张三为了像李四一样，就毁了他自己。

When you do not compare at all, when there is no ideal, no opposite, no factor of duality.When you no longer struggle to be different from what you are, what has happened to your mind?

当你完全不比较时，当没有理想、没有对立、没有二元因素时， 当你不再挣扎着要变得与现在的你不同时， 你的头脑发生了什么？

Your mind has ceased to create the opposite, and has become highly intelligent, highly sensitive, capable of immense passion, because effort is a dissipation of passion. Passion which is vital energy, and you cannot do anything without passion.

你的头脑不再制造对立， 变得高度智慧、敏感、能承载巨大的激情， 因为努力是对激情的一种耗散。 激情是生命能量，没有激情你什么都做不了。

The youth of today, like all youth, are in revolt against society, and that is a good thing in itself. but revolt is not freedom, because when you revolt it is a reaction. And that reaction sets up its own pattern, and you get caught in that pattern.

今天的年轻人，像所有年轻人一样，都反抗社会，这是好事。 但反抗不是自由，因为当你反抗时，那是一种反应。 而那种反应会建立起它自己的模式，然后你掉进了那个模式。

You think it is something new, it is not, it is the old in a different mould. Any social or political revolt will inevitably revert to the good old bourgeois mentality.

你以为那是新的，其实不是，那是换了面具的旧东西。 任何社会或政治的反抗，都不可避免地会回归到那种美好的旧资产阶级心态。

Freedom comes only when you see and act, never through revolt. The seeing is the acting, and such action is as instantaneous as when you see danger. Then there is no cerebration, no discussion or hesitation. The danger itself compels the act, and therefore to see is to act and to be free.

只有你去看去做，自由才会来，而不是通过反抗。 见即做，如同你见到危险的即刻反应，是瞬间的。 没有思虑、没有讨论或犹豫的余地。 危险迫使你做，因此，见即做，从而自由。

When you cry for yourself, is it love - crying because you are lonely, because you have been left, because you are no longer powerful - complaining of your lot, your environment - always you in tears?

当你为自己哭泣，那是爱吗？ —— 你哭泣，因为你孤独、因为你被遗弃、 因为你不再有力 —— 你诅咒你的命运、你的环境 —— 你总是这样哭吗？

If you understand this, which means to come in contact with it as directly as you would touch a tree or a pillar or a hand, then you will see that sorrow is self-created, sorrow is created by thought, sorrow is the outcome of time. I had my brother three years ago, now he is dead, now I am lonely, aching, there is no one to whom I can look for comfort or companionship, and it brings tears to my eyes.

如果你去理解 —— 直接地靠近，触摸它，如同你触摸树干、柱子或者一只手那样， 那么你会看见： 悲伤是自我创造的，是思想创造的，悲伤是时间的产物。 三年前，我曾经有个兄弟，现在他死了， 我感到孤独痛苦、没人安慰和陪伴我，于是我流出了眼泪。

You can see all this happening inside yourself if you watch it. You can see it fully, completely, in one glance, not take analytical time over it. You can see in a moment the whole structure and nature of this shoddy little thing called `me', my tears, my family, my nation, my belief, my religion - all that ugliness, it is all inside you.

在你的里面，你可以看到所有的这些场景，如果你观察它。 你能一下子充分地、彻底地看见它，而不必花时间去分析。 你一瞬间看清它的整个结构和性质 —— 这粗鄙的、被称为‘我’的小东西 —— 我的眼泪、我的家庭、我的祖国、我的信仰、我的宗教 —— 所有那些丑八怪，都在你里面。

When you look at a face opposite, you are looking from a centre. And the centre creates the space between person and person, and that is why our lives are so empty and callous. You cannot cultivate love or beauty, nor can you invent truth, but if you are all the time aware of what you are doing, you can cultivate awareness.

当你见到对方的面孔时，你从一个中心在看。 而那个中心在人与人之间创造出空间， 这就是为什么我们的生命如此空洞和麻木。 你无法培养爱或美，也无法发明真理， 但如果你一直觉察到自己在干什么，你能培养觉察。

And out of that awareness, you will begin to see the nature of pleasure, desire and sorrow and the utter loneliness and boredom of man. And then you will begin to come upon that thing called `the space`. When there is space between you and the object you are observing, you will know there is no love. And without love, however hard you try to reform the world or bring about a new social order, or however much you talk about improvements, you will only create agony. So it is up to you. There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world.

从觉察中，你将开始看到快乐、欲望和悲伤的性质， 以及人类巨大的孤独和无聊。 然后，你将遇到那个叫做“空间”的东西。 当你和观察的对象之间存在空间时，你会知道没有爱。 没有爱，无论你多么努力地改革世界，或建立新的秩序，或不停地讨论改进， 你只会制造惨痛。 因此，这取决于你。 没有领导者，没有老师，没有人告诉你做什么。 你独立于这个疯狂而残酷的世界中。

Thought is crooked because it can invent anything and see things that are not there. It can perform the most extraordinary tricks, and therefore it cannot be depended upon.

思想是扭曲的，因为它可以发明任何东西，看见并不存在的事物。 它可以玩出最离奇的花招，故而不可靠。

But if you understand the whole structure of how you think, why you think, the words you use, the way you behave in your daily life, the way you talk to people, the way you treat people, the way you walk, the way you eat - if you are aware of all these things, then your mind will not deceive you, then there is nothing to be deceived. The mind then is not something that demands, that subjugates, it becomes extraordinarily quiet, pliable, sensitive, alone, and in that state there is no deception whatsoever.

但是，如果你理解它的整个结构：你怎么思考、为何思考， 所用的词语，你在日常生活的行为方式， 你与人交谈、待人、走路、吃饭的方式 —— 如果你觉察到所有这一切， 那么你的头脑就不会欺骗你，就没有什么可被欺骗的了。 那样的头脑没有要去抓取、去征服的东西， 它变得非常安静、柔软、灵敏、独立， 在那种状态中，根本无法欺骗。