Time shapes or modifies the past through the present to the future. Now to be aware of that as one is aware of that trunk of that extraordinary tree with that colour, choicelessly. And if one is totally aware of that then what takes place? Is there an awareness of the unknown? No, that's the whole point. The moment you are aware of the unknown it is the known. I don't know if you see all this. Right, sir? So the movement of the known, and it's a movement, and that which is not capable of being put into words, which is not measurable, has no relationship to thought. So the total awareness of both: awareness of the known and also awareness that says, 'l cannot possibly be aware of the movement of the unknown'. Right? Sir, it's like this: if you are happy, the moment you become aware that you are happy it's gone. That's all, it's as simple as that. Truth is that quality of mind which never knows that it is the truth. (Ojai 2nd Public Talk 8th April 1973)
【海译】心理时间塑造、改造着过去，并通过当下，延伸到未来。请觉察这一点，就如同觉察那棵巨树的躯干，觉察树的颜色，不做任何好恶选择。如果你对心理时间有了全然的觉察，那会发生什么呢？会对未知产生觉知吗？不会！这是关键点。一旦你意识到未知，那就不再是未知了。不知你明白了没有？先生，是吧？那已经是已知的活动了。而那不可言传、难以度量的未知，与思维毫无关联。所以，要彻底明白两点：明白已知，明白“未知是不可认知的”，对吧？先生，这就如同，你很快乐，但一旦你意识到自己的快乐，那快乐已经离去了。一语道破，就这么简单。真，是一种心境——游乎其中，而不知其为真。
这段都在讲思维的局限性。一旦我们跳出了思维的极限，觉悟到未知境界，而且要用认知能力把它抓住，诉诸语言，此时那种灵动、智慧、妙不可言、不可思议的境界就消失了，就凝固成了已知。科学发现和技术进步如此，宗教修持探索，社会实践与进步，似乎都如此。
Truth is that quality of mind which never knows that it is the truth.
这句话真是妙不可言！
语言就是这样，一堆字母、文字的组合，原本没什么意义，但它如同一只指月手，突然启发、唤醒了某种感受、境界，甚至电光火石的觉悟。如果拘泥于语言文字上，往往就失去了这次联想、顿悟。如果强逼自己把那感受、觉悟用自己的语言表述出来，往往又是支离破碎。也许，下次再见到那句话，却没法产生同样的启迪，因为真是流动不息的。
如果K的某句英文，启迪我产生了某次联想、觉悟，那么试着把那句英文转换成汉语，以期能产生同样的启迪、觉悟，产生同样的指月手作用，这就是翻译的困难之处了，这是将一个灵动的“悟”捕捉住，使之凝固成文字，以期僵死的文字再焕发灵动的启迪力的过程。
Truth is that quality of mind which never knows that it is the truth. 兹翻译如下：“真，是一种心境——游乎其中，而不知其为真。”人，返归本真，与真相、真理冥合，而不自知，此时才是真正的、不人为造作的本真状态。一旦我对此产生了意识——我此刻正处于本真状态，我看到了事物的真相，我与真理同游……此时已经有了微妙变化：刻意摆拍，忸怩作态，按照某标准进行善恶取舍。这就是思维意识介入，企图按照某种固定的思维定式，去涂抹、装饰那本真状态，目的是演给某些人、某个特定群体看，去迎合世界。
此时，浑然不觉中，本真已悄悄溜走，我经历了一次无缝的面具切换。
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