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The Power of Now by Echhart Tolle

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生活劇的結束
The End of Your Life Drama

問： 在全然接納和內在安詳的狀態下，是否仍舊有一些你也許不叫它為惡或壞，但是一般人叫它做「惡」的東西，會來到你的生活中呢？

Question: In that state of acceptance and inner peace, even though you may not call it "bad," can anything still come into your life that would be called "bad" from a perspective of ordinary consciousness?

答： 在人們的生活中，大多數所謂惡的事物，是由於不能覺察而產生。

Answer: Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people's lives are due to unconsciousness.

它們是由我們自己所創造出來的，或者說是由本我所創造出來的，我有時叫這些生活劇。

They are self-created, or rather ego-created. I sometimes refer to those things as "drama."

當你處於全然覺察的狀態下時，生活劇就不會來到你的生活中。

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

讓我簡短說明一下，本我是如何運作和製造生活劇的。

Let me remind you briefly how the ego operates and how it creates drama.

本我就是那個不具觀察力的心智（頭腦），當你不是以觀察者出現時，就是本我在主宰著你的生活。

Ego is the unobserved mind that runs your life when you are not present as the witnessing consciousness, the watcher.


本我覺得自己是活在一個充滿敵意的世界中，自己只是分離的片斷，與其他生命沒有任何真正的內在關聯。身旁的眾生，要不就是潛在的威脅，要不就是可以利用的對象。

The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as a potential threat, or which it will attempt to se for its own ends.

本我運作的基本形態就是：悍衛自己根深蒂固的恐懼和匱乏感。

The basic ego patterns are designed to combat its own deep-seated fear and sense of lack.

它使用的技倆有：抗拒、控制、權力、貪婪、防衛、攻擊。
本我使用的某些技倆似乎十分聰明，但它不能真正解決問題。原因很簡單，因為本我本身才是問題的癥結所在。

They are resistance, control, power, greed, defense, attack. Some of the ego's strategies are extremely clever, yet they never truly sole any of its problems, simply because the ego itself is the problem.

當幾個本我聚在一起時，不論是在個人的人際關係，或是在組織和機構中，遲早會有所謂的惡的事物發生：亦即某種生活劇的發生，如衝突、問題、權力鬥爭、情緒或肢體暴力等等。

When egos come together, whether in personal relationships or in organizations or institutions, “bad” things happen sooner or later: drama of one kind or another, in the form of conflict, problems, power struggles, emotional or physical violence, and so on.

這也包括集體罪惡，例如戰爭、滅種屠殺、剝削利用，都起因於集體的無明（無覺察）。

This includes collective evils such as war, genocide, and exploitation—all due to massed unconsciousness.

甚至，許多的疾病也因之而起: 因為本我持續的抗拒，造成全身能量的循環滯礙不通。

Furthermore, many types of illness are caused by the ego's continuous resistance, which creates restrictions and blockages in the flow of energy through the body.

當你與本性(being)再度連繫起來，不再讓心智控制你的生活，你就不會再製造這些事情，你就不會再製造或是參與生活劇的發生了。

When you reconnect with Being and are no longer run by your mind, you cease to create those things. You do not create or participate in drama anymore.

當兩個以上的本我聚在一起時，某種生活劇一定會發生。
但即使是獨居的人，也會製造自己的生活劇。

當你自怨自艾，那就是生活劇。
當你覺得罪惡感或焦慮不安，那就是生活劇。當你讓過去或未來遮蓋了現在，那就是生活劇…

Whenever two or more egos come together, drama of one kind or another ensues.
But even if you live totally alone, you still create your own drama.

When you feel sorry for yourself, that's drama. When you feel guilty or anxious, that's drama. When you let the past or future obscure the present,….

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當你對當下全然接受時，那就是你生活劇結束之時。

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

甚至沒有人能夠與你爭吵起來，不論對方如何挑釁。

Nobody can even have an argument with you, no matter how hard he or she tries.

要與一個完全覺醒的人爭吵起來，是不可能的。還會與人爭吵就表示你認同你的頭腦，認同你自己心智的立場，你對另一個人的立場產生抗拒和反彈。其結果就是造成兩極化的對立。

You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person. An argument implies identification with your mind and a mental position, as well as resistance and reaction to the other person's position. The result is that the polar opposites become mutually energized.