给学校的信，1982年2月15日 - 注意
觉知会带来内心的微细和清晰We ought to consider together what we mean by attention. Most of us learn what concentration is; from childhood we are compelled to concentrate on something which generally we don't like. This breeds a kind of rebellion from being forced to do something we dislike. Education has become a funnelling of many subjects into our brain, conditioning us to conform. Millions and millions throughout the world are being educated and are finding no jobs. The whole pattern of society in which we live has become so abnormal, so dangerous, that we must find a new way of living together. This requires sensitivity and very objective observation and thinking. One questions whether this concentration, which is the narrowing down of perception, will help to bring about a different quality of mind.
我们应该共同考虑，我们要用“注意”这个词表达什么意思。大多数人都知道什么是专心，从童年起我们就被迫专心做某些事情，那通常是我们不喜欢的。因为我们被迫做不喜欢的事情，所以导致了一种逆反。教育成了一个漏斗，将很多课程灌进我们的大脑，让我们习惯于顺从。全世界有数百万接受教育却找不到工作的人。我们所处的社会模式已变得如此异常和危险，因此我们必须找到一种新的共同生活的方式。这需要敏感性，以及非常客观的观察和思考。我怀疑，专心，这种感知的狭隘化，是否有助于带来一种不一样的内心品质。
For what are you being educated? What are you going to become as a human being? Mediocrity prevails from the highest political structure to the highest religious establishment. Are you being educated to fit into this pattern? Are you going to become a mediocre human being without any passion, in conflict with yourself and with the world? This is really a serious question you have to ask yourself. Can this concentrated, aggressive, competitive human being bring about a different order in our existence?
你为什么要接受教育？你打算成为一个什么样的人？从最高的政治体制到最高的宗教机构都盛行平庸。你受教育是要适应这样的模式吗？你打算成为一个没有任何热情，和自己也和世界冲突的平庸的人吗？这真的是一个你必须问自己的严肃的问题。全神贯注、积极进取、争强好胜的人类能为我们的生活带来一种不同的秩序吗？
As we said, we ought to consider what it means to be attentive. This may be the clue to a harmonious existence. As things are, the intellect, the whole activity of the brain, which is thinking, dominates our existence. This naturally brings about contradiction in ourselves, peculiar behaviour. When only one part of our whole being is in dominance, it will inevitably bring about neurotic behaviour. Attention is the awareness of this dominance of intellect, without the instinctive urge to control it, or allowing emotion to take its place. This awareness brings about subtlety, clarity of mind.
我们说过，我们应该考虑注意是什么意思，这或许是对一种和谐生活的提示。事实上，智力，大脑的全部活动，也就是思想，支配着我们的生活。这造成了我们内心的冲突和异常的行为。当我们整个存在的一部分占据了支配地位，它必然会导致神经质的行为。注意就是对这种智力的支配性的觉知，而不是依照本能的冲动去控制它，或者允许情绪来替代它。这种觉知会带来内心的微细和清晰。
There is a difference between concentration and attention. Concentration is to bring all your energy to focus on a particular point. In attention there is no point of focus. We are very familiar with one and not with the other. When you pay attention to your body, the body becomes quiet, which has its own discipline; it is relaxed but not slack and it has the energy of harmony. When there is attention, there is no contradiction and therefore no conflict.
专注和注意是不同的。专注是把你的全部能量集中于一个特定的焦点，而注意中是没有焦点的。我们对其中一个非常熟悉，对另外一个则不熟悉。当你注意你的身体时，身体会变得安静，它有它自身的纪律，轻松而不懈怠，有着和谐的能量。注意的时候没有矛盾，因而也没有冲突。
you read this pay attention to the way you are sitting, the way you are listening, how you are receiving what the letter is saying to you, how you are reacting to what is being said and why you are finding it difficult to attend. You are not learning how to attend. If you are learning the how of attending, then it becomes a system, which is what the brain is accustomed to, and so you make attention something mechanical and repetitive, whereas attention is not mechanical or repetitive. It is the way of looking at your whole life without the centre of self-interest.
在你读这些的时候，注意你坐的方式，你听的方式，你是否接受这封信正在对你说的东西，你对这些话是如何反应的，为什么你发现注意是困难的。你并不是在学习如何注意，如果你是在学习如何注意的“方法”，那么它就成了一个体系。那是大脑习惯的东西，那样你就会制造某种机械的和重复的注意。但是注意不是机械或重复，它是这样一种方式——没有自我中心地看你所有的生活。
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