Our problems - social, environmental, political, religious - are so complex that we can solve them only by being simple, not by becoming extraordinarily erudite and clever. A simple person sees much more directly, has a more direct experience, than the complex person. Our minds are so crowded with an infinite knowledge of facts, of what others have said, that we have become incapable of being simple and having direct experience ourselves. These problems demand a new approach; and they can be so approached only when we are simple, inwardly really simple.
我们的问题——社会的、环境的、政治的、宗教的——都实在太复杂，变得学识渊博、聪明绝顶是没有用的，只有变得简单才能解决这些问题。一个简单的人比一个复杂的人看得更直接，有着更直接的经验。我们的头脑塞满知识，满脑子别人说过的话，我们已经无法简单，无法亲自获取直接的经验。这些问题需要新的方法，只有当我们的内心真正简单的时候，问题才能解决。
That simplicity comes only through self-knowledge, through understanding ourselves; the ways of our thinking and feeling; the movements of our thoughts; our responses; how we conform, through fear, to public opinion, to what others say, what the Buddha, the Christ, the great saints have said - all of which indicates our nature to conform, to be safe, to be secure. When one is seeking security, one is obviously in a state of fear and therefore there is no simplicity.
只有认识自我，了解我们自身，了解我们的思考方式、感受方式，了解我们思想的活动、我们的反应，了解我们怎样因为恐惧而随波逐流、人云亦云，怎样对佛陀、基督、伟人圣者们的言教遵行不悖——那一切都表明了我们的本质：循规蹈矩，一心只想安全和稳定——只有了解那一切，才会有那样的简单。追求安全时，我们显然处于恐惧之中，因此就没有简单可言。
Without being simple, one cannot be sensitive - to the trees, to the birds, to the mountains, to the wind, to all the things which are going on about us in the world; if one is not simple one cannot be sensitive to the inward intimation of things. Most of us live so superficially, on the upper level of our consciousness; there we try to be thoughtful or intelligent, which is synonymous with being religious; there we try to make our minds simple, through compulsion, through discipline. But that is not simplicity.
没有简单，就无法敏感——无法对树木、飞鸟、山峦和风敏感，无法对这世上围绕着我们的万事万物敏感；如果我们不简单，就无法敏锐地觉察万物在向你吐露着什么。我们大多数人活得非常肤浅，活在我们意识的表层；在那个层面上，我们试图变得有思想有智慧，即变得具有宗教性；在那个层面上，我们试图通过强迫、通过持戒让头脑简单起来。但那并不是简单。
When we force the upper mind to be simple, such compulsion only hardens the mind, does not make the mind supple, clear, quick. To be simple in the whole, total process of our consciousness is extremely arduous; because there must be no inward reservation, there must be an eagerness to find out, to inquire into the process of our being, which means to be awake to every intimation, to every hint; to be aware of our fears, of our hopes, and to investigate and to be free of them more and more and more. Only then, when the mind and the heart are really simple, not encrusted, are we able to solve the many problems that confront us.
如果我们强迫表层的头脑简单，这样的强迫只会僵化头脑，而不会让它变得柔韧、清晰、敏锐。要在意识的整个过程中都保持简单，是相当艰难的；因为你的内心需要没有任何保留，你必须非常热切地想要弄清楚、想要探究我们的存在过程，这意味着清醒地觉察每一个提示、每一个暗示；要去觉察我们的恐惧、我们的希望，去探究它们，去一点一点地从中解脱。只有那时，只有当头脑和心灵真正简单，不再结茧生壳时，才能解决我们面临的诸多问题。
The First and Last Freedom, 'Simplicity'
《最初和最终的自由》之“简单”
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