If you generate a thought in you

A Single-pointed Mind is Powerful

专注的头脑是强大的

Thought itself is a reverberation and an energy. You cannot generate a thought without energy. It is just that because it is happening in such a haphazard way, maybe it does not have the necessary energy to manifest itself. You can generate so much energy with your thought process that you could kill someone. When your mind is single-pointed, it is a powerful instrument. Unfortunately, most of the time this single-pointedness happens to people in a negative way, not in a positive way. An angry mind and also a lustful mind are very single-pointed minds. That is why in Indian culture, children are always warned, “When you are angry, do not say anything negative about somebody,” because if your mind has become single-pointed with anger, it can easily manifest itself.

念头本身是一种振动和一股能量。没有能量你不可能产生念头。只是它是以一种偶然而随意的方式发生，所以可能没有必要的能量使其显化。你可以通过思想产生巨大的能量，这股能量足以杀死一个人。当你的思想聚焦于某点，它是一个强大的工具。不幸的是，大多数时候它是以消极的方式发生，而不是积极的方式。一个愤怒的想法和一个好色的想法都是非常专注的想法。这就是为什么在印度文化中，孩子们常被警告，当你生气的时候，不要对某人说任何消极的话。因为当你的思维聚焦于一点，它很容易显化为现实。 Let us look at the process of generating a thought. Is your thought conscious or is it just an outcome of a million things that have already gotten into you? When your thought process is unconscious, most of the time it is like mental diarrhea. There is no control over it. It simply rambles because there is old stuff inside. This is just like the more bad food you have in your stomach, the more your diarrhea goes on. When you have mental diarrhea, you cannot call it a thought.

让我们来看看一个想法的产生过程: 你的想法是有意识产生的，还是过去无数个进入你头脑的东西而产生的后果而已？当你的思维过程是无意识的，大多数时候它就像精神腹泻。对它没有任何控制，它就那样冒出来，只是因为里面有陈旧的东西。这就像你胃里不好的食物越多，腹泻也就越严重。如果你精神腹泻，你就不能称之为想法。

A woman once invited a few friends for dinner. She served dinner and then told her 6-year-old daughter, “Why don’t you say the blessing?” She wanted to show off her daughter a little bit. The daughter said, “I don’t know how to say a blessing.” The mother said, “Just repeat what mummy says.” So the girl very religiously bent her head, held her hands together and said, “Why on earth did I invite all these people for dinner.” These things are happening to you, isn’t it? You want to meditate, isn’t your mind talking so many things?

有一次一个女人邀请了一些朋友共进晚餐，她为大家盛好饭菜后，对她的6岁女儿说：“你为什么不祈祷一下呢？”她想炫耀一下她的女儿。女儿说：“我不知道怎样祈祷。” 她说：“只要重复妈妈所说的就可以了。” 所以女孩非常虔诚的低下头，握住双手，说道：“我到底是干嘛要请这些人来晚餐啊？”这样的事情也发生在你身上，是不是？你想要冥想，但是你的脑袋不是一直喋喋不休的？

Clearing Your Slate

清扫过去

If you want to write on a blackboard, first you have to wipe it clean. Only then will you be able to write clearly. If a million things have already been written on it and you write something else on that, no one can figure out what you have written. And after sometime neither will you. You have to first clear the space and then generate a thought consciously.

如果你想在黑板上写东西，首先你要将它擦干净，只有这样你才能清晰地书写。如果上面已经写了很多东西，你还想写上其他的，那么没有人能明白你写了什么。过一段时间连你自己都搞不清。所以首先你必须清理空间，这样就能有意识地产生想法。

If people have cleared their space and then have a thought, this thought really matters because this has come out of a conscious process. Once this thought is on like this and it is held in that clarity, infusing energy to it can be done.

如果人们清理了他们的空间，再产生想法，那么这个想法就真的有意义，因为它是出自于有意识的过程。一旦你像这样维持这个想法，并保持这种清晰度，那么就可以向它注入能量。

If you generate a thought in your mind consciously and if it is single-pointed, it will find its way in the world. It will manifest itself naturally. And if you have little more control over your life energies, you can tweak it further.

如果你的头脑有意识地产生一个想法，并且集中在这个想法上，它将在这个世界找到它的出路。它自然而然会显化为现实。而如果你能够较好地控制你的生命能量，你还能进一步调整它。