给学校的信 - 关系
Relationship is society关系就是社会
Freedom is not something you set out to find. It isn't a thing to be cultivated. It comes naturally, through the negation of what it is not. It is not a reaction, and this is a basic thing that must be understood. The reaction to what is is a continuation of what is in a different form. It may be modified, it may be structured differently, it may be rationalized and made to function, but this is not freedom. This reaction may take the form of opinion, evaluation, of judgement, but this is not freedom. The reaction to an old order, to tradition, to various forms of authority is not freedom. The reaction of one's particular tendency, idiosyncrasy or characteristics, which are the response of one's conditioning, is not freedom. The reaction to having been told to restrain, to control, to obey by going off in some different direction, pleasant or unpleasant, neurotic or rational, is not freedom. And going from one orthodoxy to another, from one belief to another, from one authority to another, however pleasant, is not freedom; exchanging one ideology for another is in no way freedom. To do what one likes is an imagined freedom. To assert one's own individuality, and the identification of one's desires with something that is romantically or mystically great, is not freedom.
自由不是一样你可以着手去寻找的东西。它也无法被培养。否定了那些不是自由的东西，自由自然会出现。它不是一个反应，这是一个我们必须了解的基本事实。对“事实”的反应是“事实”另一种形式的延续。它可以被修改，以不同的方式去构造，也可能被合理化并使之发挥某些功用，但这不是自由。这种反应也许表现为意见，评价，判断，但这不是自由。对于旧有秩序，传统和各种不同形式的权威的反应，这不是自由。出于你特别的倾向，癖好或个性所做出的反应，这不是自由，那只是自我的局限所做出的一种反应。如果你过去被教导要去克制，去控制，去服从，而作为对此的反应，你选择另外一些方式，令人愉悦或难受的，神经质的或理性的，这不是自由。从一种正统观念到另一种，从一种信仰到另一种信仰，从一个权威到另一个权威，无论它是多么令人舒服，这都不是自由。把一种意识形态换成另一种，这与自由无关。为所欲为只是一种想象中的自由。坚持自我的个性，或把自己的欲望与某种浪漫，神秘而又伟大的事物相认同，这不是自由。
Freedom is the understanding of all this, not only verbally but actually transcending all this. That is why it is so important to observe clearly the repetitive reactions in the guise of freedom and experience. Through negation of these reactions and in transcending them, one is confronted with the actual, the what is. The what is is relationship.
自由是对这一切的理解，不只是言语上的，而是确实超越了所有这些东西。这就是为什么去清晰地观察那些反应是那么的重要了，它们披着自由和经验的外衣不断重复地出现。通过对于这些反应的否定和超越，一个人才能面对真实，面对“事实”。“事实”就是关系。
Relationship is society, this society which humanity has put together. As you and I have put this society together, we are responsible for the society. It is our society, not "theirs". It is not created only by your parents, you also are responsible for it. You as a human being are creating this society and you are part of this society. So you are the society, the world.
关系就是社会，这个人类所制造的社会。是你和我制造了这个社会，我们要对它负责。它是我们的社会，而不是“他们的”。它不只是由你的父母所创造的，你也要对它负责。作为一个人类，你正在创造这个社会，你也是这社会的一部分。所以你就是社会，你就是世界。
It is your relationship with another, your behaviour, your conflicts, your ambitions, your competition that has brought about this structure in which we live. Again, this is very important to understand. Understanding is not at the intellectual or verbal level; understanding is action. It is not first understanding and then action afterwards; they are simultaneous, they go together. This relationship is not only with your intimate friend or with your neighbour, but with people you never see, who may be thousands of miles away. The responsibility of relationship is enormous. You cannot live without relationship; life is relationship. However much one may want to isolate oneself for neurotic reasons or for some form of specialization, one is still in relationship.
正是你与他人之间的关系，你的行为，你的冲突，你的野心，你的竞争造就了我们的生活结构。理解这一点是非常重要的。不是智力或语言层面的理解；理解就是行动。不是先理解再行动；它们是同时的，一起的。这种关系不只是你和你的密友，你的邻居之间的关系，还有你和千里之外素未谋面的人之间的关系。关系的责任是巨大的。你的生活之中无法脱离关系；生活就是关系。一个人，无论他是多么的想要孤立自己，出于某些神经质的或别的特殊的理由，但他仍在关系之中。
So relationship is of the highest importance. There is no relationship if your daily activity is centred around your own egotistic activities. There is no relationship if you build a wall around yourself because you have been hurt, or because you cannot have what you want, or because you are trying to fulfil yourself in a particular activity. There is no relationship if you are tethered to a strong belief or a conclusion, either one given by another or one you have put together yourself. There is no relationship if you belong to one group as opposed to another, or if you have committed yourself to one course of action based on some rational or irrational conclusion. There is no relationship if you have an image about yourself or about another. That image may be based on your knowledge, your experience, and these images, either traditional or your own, separate you from another. Where there is separation of any kind, national, religious, economic or social, there must be conflict in yourself and so with the world. Where there is conflict there is no relationship.
Love has no conflict. When love becomes pleasure, there begins conflict. Desire is not love, and in the fulfilment of desire love is denied.
所以关系是重中之重。而如果你的日常活动是以你自己的自我活动为中心的，那么这里便没有关系。如果你因为曾经所受的伤害，或是无法获得你想要的，又或是因为你在试图以某种特别的活动来满足自己，而在自己身边建立一道围墙的话，关系便不会存在。如果你将自己拴在一个强烈的信念或结论上，无论它是来自别人的还是你自己形成的，关系便不会存在。如果你属于某个团体而反对另一个，或坚持某个基于理智或不理智结论的行动，关系便不会存在。如果你有了一个关于自己或他人的形象，关系便不会存在。那个形象可能是基于你的知识，经验，而这些形象，无论是传统的还是自己的，都会将你与他人分开。只要有任何形式的分别，国家的，宗教的，经济的或是社会的，你就会有自身的冲突，并进而与这个世界发生冲突。哪里有冲突，哪里便没有关系。爱没有冲突。当爱变成了快感，便开始有了冲突。欲望不是爱，而在欲望的满足里，爱被否定了。
Relationship is not only with human beings, but with nature, with the tree and with the animal. When we lose contact with nature, we lose contact with each other. When you lose contact with the birds, the shy and timid quail, then you lose contact with your child and the person across the street. When you kill an animal to eat, you are also cultivating insensitivity which will kill that man across the border. When you lose contact with the enormous movement of life, you lose all relationship. Then you, the ego with all its fanciful urges, demands and pursuits, become all-important, and the gulf between you and the world widens in endless conflicts.
So relationship and freedom go together. The denial of what is not relationship and the negation of what is not freedom bring about an action of total responsibility. And this is love.
关系不仅是人类之间的，还有与自然，与树木，与动物之间的关系。当我们与自然失去联系的时候，我们便失去了相互之间的联系。当你失去与鸟类，与害羞胆小的鹌鹑的联系时，你就与你的孩子和路上的行人失去了联系。当你杀了一只动物来吃时，你也在培养自己的不敏感，而那会让你去杀别国的人。当你与生命巨大的运动失去联系的时候，你便失去了所有的关系。那时你，这个自我以及它所有绚丽的渴望，要求和追求，将变得无比重要，而你与世界之间的鸿沟将在无尽冲突里越来越宽。
所以关系和自由是一起的。对非关系和非自由之物的否定将带来一种完全负责的行动。而这便是爱。
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