So, what in your life as you pursue a goal.⊂↹⊃所以，当你在你的生活中追求一个目标的时候
Another way of putting of approaching it,⊂↹⊃换种表达它的方式
is to ask yourself,⊂↹⊃就是问问自己
if you are not really enjoying while you pursue the goal, whatever it is in your life,⊂↹⊃如果你在追求目标的时候实际上并不享受，无论是什么目标
if you are not really enjoying the doing,⊂↹⊃如果你真的不享受“做”的过程
because you are so focused on becoming and achieving and arriving at this future point⊂↹⊃因为你极为关注在未来某个时刻“成为”，“得到”，以及“抵达”
that the enjoyment of the doing is so is greatly diminished or disappears completely,⊂↹⊃以至于，“做”的乐趣极大地降低了，或是完全没有了
because all you want to do is arrive, but you're not there yet.⊂↹⊃因为你只想要抵达，但你还未抵达
That's the nature of stress, how stress arises.⊂↹⊃这就是压力的本质，压力就是这样出现的
Stress means there is a continuous focus on the next moment.⊂↹⊃压力意味着，你持续地关注下一刻
So you are torn away.⊂↹⊃所以，你被撕裂了
And this is produced by the human mind through thinking.⊂↹⊃这是人类头脑通过思考制造出来的
You are torn away internally from the present moment into a non-existent.⊂↹⊃你的内在被从当下时刻撕裂开，进入了“不存在的时刻”
Because the future never exists except as a thought.⊂↹⊃因为未来根本不存在，未来仅作为思想存在
You are torn into this so-called future which is in never never land.⊂↹⊃你被撕扯进了这个从未到来的所谓的“未来”
Because it can never arrive. You can never reach the future.⊂↹⊃因为未来永远无法到来，你永远无法抵达未来
Because the moment it becomes reality in your life, it's the present moment.⊂↹⊃因为未来成为你生命现实的那一刻，就是当下时刻
So, by having this mindset,⊂↹⊃所以，有了这种思维模式
an excessive focus on becoming or arriving or achieving,⊂↹⊃过度关注"成为"或“抵达“ 或“得到”
you lose completely the being dimension.⊂↹⊃你彻底失去了本体维度
And then your life is completely out of balance,⊂↹⊃于是，你的生命完全失衡
even if you achieve, in the eyes of the world, fame or wealth or worldly success,⊂↹⊃即便你取得了世人眼中的名誉，财富，或世俗的成功
and yet you are a frustrated and unhappy human being,⊂↹⊃你还是一个沮丧且不快乐的人
Perhaps pretending that you are happy,⊂↹⊃也许你假装快乐
but you're not.⊂↹⊃但你并不快乐
And then you have to take drugs or alcohol,⊂↹⊃然后你不得不k药或酗酒
or go from one relationship to another,⊂↹⊃或者发展一段又一段感情关系
or compulsively pursue the next thing,⊂↹⊃或者强迫性地继续追求下一个东西
and the next thing and the next thing,⊂↹⊃下一个，下一个，下一个...
accumulate more of this and this.⊂↹⊃积攒更多的这个、这个...
So it's...⊂↹⊃所以
That's not a mastery of life.⊂↹⊃这不是掌管生命
Even if you have your private jet does not mean you have achieved mastery of life.⊂↹⊃即便你有你的私人飞机，也并不意味你已经掌管了生命
In fact, you might be completely deluded.⊂↹⊃事实上，你可能完全被骗了
Not necessarily.⊂↹⊃也不一定
You could have a private jet,⊂↹⊃你可能拥有一架私人飞机
and have achieved the master, wouldn't that be great?⊂↹⊃同时也掌管了生命，那就太棒了
So our purpose here is to have that balance.⊂↹⊃所以，我们在此的目标，就是去拥有那份平衡
And here the emphasis of course on of this teaching is on finding the being dimension,⊂↹⊃当然了，我们教学的重点是找到本体维度
awareness of being,⊂↹⊃觉知到存在
which is why I talk so much about the present moment.⊂↹⊃这就是为什么我总是谈到当下时刻
Because this is always... the moment your attention goes fully into the present moment.⊂↹⊃因为一旦你的注意力全然进入当下时刻
You have withdrawn attention from becoming a doing,⊂↹⊃你就把注意力从成为一个“做者”中撤离出来了
and what arises is the being dimension.⊂↹⊃升起的就是本体维度
And that is associated also with a sometimes brief⊂↹⊃而这也和有时一个非常短暂的
but vitally important cessation of thinking.⊂↹⊃但至关重要的思维止息有关
In that moment when you become completely aware of the present moment,⊂↹⊃在思维停止的那一刻，你完全觉察到当下时刻
and it starts with sense perception.⊂↹⊃你的觉察从感官感受开始
You're suddenly aware of your surroundings.⊂↹⊃忽然间你觉察到周围的环境
You may also suddenly be aware of the inner energy field that you feel you're alive.⊂↹⊃你可能也觉察到内在的能量场域，你感觉到你充满了活力
In this present moment there is aliveness all around you,⊂↹⊃在当下时刻，你的周围富有活力
and you can perceive it through your senses⊂↹⊃你能够通过你的感知感受到活力
You hear. You feel.⊂↹⊃你听，你感受
You see.You smell.⊂↹⊃你看，你闻
But there's also an aliveness an inherent aliveness in your body.⊂↹⊃但在你的身体里面也有一种内在的活力
So you become aware simultaneously in the present moment,⊂↹⊃所以，你在当下时刻同时觉察到
of a sense of aliveness within and without.⊂↹⊃内在与外在都有一种活力感
So in addition to what you see with your senses,⊂↹⊃除了你的五感所感知到的以外
there is a an underlying field of aliveness that you can be aware of in the present moment,⊂↹⊃你还能在当下时刻觉知到有一个潜在的活力场域
and that's the being dimension or presence,⊂↹⊃而那就是本体维度，或者临在维度
and that's who you are in essence.⊂↹⊃那是本质上的真正的你
But that's not only who you are in essence that is the essence of everything.⊂↹⊃但那不仅仅是本质上的你，那是一切的本质
So when you realize that for yourself it's not the person who has that realization,⊂↹⊃所以，当你意识到，对你来说，你不是拥有这份领悟的一个个体
the universe has that realization, the universe which for a moment.⊂↹⊃而是宇宙暂时拥有这份领悟
Because your life is a moment on a cosmic scale.⊂↹⊃因为你的生命是宇宙尺度上的一个瞬间
Your life here as a person has a very short duration.⊂↹⊃作为一个人，你的生命在这里是非常短暂的
It goes⊂↹⊃生命就像这样，转瞬即逝
Well then, was that it?⊂↹⊃就是这么一回事吗？
Yeah.⊂↹⊃是的
Then, the element of continuous frustration and discontent,⊂↹⊃然后，源源不断的沮丧和不满
and the feeling there's something not right here,⊂↹⊃以及这里有什么不对劲的那种感受
or the feeling there's something vital missing in my life,⊂↹⊃或是感觉我的生命中有什么重要之物缺失了
but always looking to the next thing to find that vital thing that's missing in my life.⊂↹⊃但却总是指望在下一件事情中去寻找我生命中缺失的那个重要之物
"I have to find it.⊂↹⊃“我必须得找到它。”
you don't realize it's already here.⊂↹⊃如果你没有意识到那个重要之物已经在这里了
So you."There's something... "⊂↹⊃”我有某样东西（缺失了）...“
"I don't feel....I don't feel complete."⊂↹⊃“我感觉不完整
"There's still something lacking, a sense of lack,⊂↹⊃我仍然缺少某个东西，我有一种匮乏感
something is missing, don't know what it is."⊂↹⊃某样东西缺失了，你不知道它是什么”
You might even not verbally say that。⊂↹⊃你可能甚至不能用语言说出来
There's just a feeling that something is missing,⊂↹⊃你就只是有什么东西缺失了的感觉
or something is not right.⊂↹⊃或是有什么事情不对
Of course not.⊂↹⊃当然了，并没有什么不对
Because your life is completely out of balance.⊂↹⊃因为你的生命已经完全失衡了
But I'm not, nothing personal, I'm not talking to you.⊂↹⊃但这不是针对个人的，我没有在说你
I'm talking general terms.⊂↹⊃我指的是普遍的状况
If your life were completely out of balance, you wouldn't be here.⊂↹⊃如果你的生活完全失衡，你就不会在这里
Or if you had accidentally stumbled upon this place, you would soon leave.⊂↹⊃不然的话，如果你无意中发现了这个地方，你很快就会离开
So,⊂↹⊃所以
the being dimension is accessed obviously in the present moment,⊂↹⊃显然，只有在当下时刻才能进入本体维度
and the doing of course requires time.⊂↹⊃“做”当然需要时间
You cannot do anything without some... dimension of time,⊂↹⊃在没有时间维度的情况下，你做不了任何事
make a cup of tea.⊂↹⊃你需要时间泡一杯茶
You need some time to make a cup of tea,⊂↹⊃你需要一些时间泡一杯茶
learn to become this or that.⊂↹⊃你需要一些时间学习成为这个或那个
You need time to become a doctor or to become a musician,⊂↹⊃你需要时间成为一名医生或成为一位音乐家
or to become a dancer or to become whatever you need time.⊂↹⊃或成为一名舞者，或成为任何事物，你需要时间
That's the time, temporal dimension.⊂↹⊃这就是时间维度
And yet, although you need time,⊂↹⊃然而，尽管你需要时间
the paradox is that you never really,⊂↹⊃悖论是，你永远不会真的...
not really that you never actually experience time or the passing of time,⊂↹⊃你永远不会经历到时间或时间的流逝
except in your head as a thought,⊂↹⊃时间，只是你头脑中的一个思想
as an anticipation of the next moment or memory of the last or other moments from the past.⊂↹⊃只是一种你对下一刻的期盼，或对刚刚过去的那个时刻的记忆，或对过去某些时刻的记忆
That's how you experience time,⊂↹⊃你就是这样经历到时间的
but the never is a direct experience, time you can never experience directly.⊂↹⊃但是你永远无法直接体验时间
Because whenever you ask yourself where is time, all you ever get is the present moment.⊂↹⊃因为无论何时你问自己，时间在哪里，你所能得到的就是当下时刻
So on one level of your life, time seems vital.⊂↹⊃所以从你生命的其中一个层面看，时间看似重要
All to do things now on an another side of that coin of time,⊂↹⊃所有待办事项都在时间这枚硬币的一面
where on one hand time seems useful, because you can...⊂↹⊃一方面，时间看似有用
On the level surface level of reality, you can do things in time,⊂↹⊃因为在表面现实的层面，你可以在时间之中做事
and become from being an ignorant person,⊂↹⊃在时间之中，你可以从一个无学识的人
become a very knowledgeable person in time.⊂↹⊃成为一个学识渊博的人
It takes time to acquire knowledge on that level.⊂↹⊃在这个层面上，你需要时间去获取知识
And yet,⊂↹⊃然而
that's a good aspect of time, but then⊂↹⊃这是关于时间的好的一面，但是
there's something else aspect of time which you discover,⊂↹⊃还有时间的另一面，你发现
when you compare a photo of yourself taken at the age of 20.⊂↹⊃当你对比自己20岁时的照片时
Let's say, you are now 40 or 50 or or whatever,⊂↹⊃假设，你现在40岁或者50岁了
and you discover oh that's me 20 years ago and then you look in the mirror,⊂↹⊃你发现，“哦，那是20年前的我”，然后你照照镜子
or 30 years ago.⊂↹⊃或者“那是30年前的我”
"What happened to me?"⊂↹⊃“我身上发生了什么？”
Time.⊂↹⊃是时间
"Who did this to me?"⊂↹⊃“是谁对我做了这种事？”
Time.⊂↹⊃是时间
"Oh my god!"⊂↹⊃“哦，我的天啊！”
And if you're young and beautiful or strong and healthy.⊂↹⊃如果你年轻，漂亮，强壮，健康
Then you can still know that eventually time is going to erode your good looks.⊂↹⊃你仍然知道时间终将会腐化你的美丽容颜
Now this is not tragic unless you are very much identified,⊂↹⊃这并不是悲剧，除非你非常认同它
you derive your sense of identity from your physical body which might look good right now.⊂↹⊃除非你的身份感来自你的肉体，你的肉体可能现在看起来很好
But won't in time, it, time will...⊂↹⊃但随着时间流逝，时间将会...
And then of course what ultimately time of course, what time does. It kills you.⊂↹⊃当然，最终时间会做什么呢？时间最终会杀死你
So first it enables you to do things and to become,⊂↹⊃一开始，时间能够让你去做事，让你成为些什么
but then at the same time,⊂↹⊃但与此同时
you begin to wilt like a flower.⊂↹⊃你开始像一朵花一样枯萎
It does, so time does that to a flower, too,⊂↹⊃时间也会作用在一朵花上
much more quickly than a human but very similar.⊂↹⊃花的生命结束得要快得多，但过程很相似
It does it to a fruit, a piece of fruit.⊂↹⊃时间也会作用在一个果实上
If you want to observe the passing of time,⊂↹⊃如果你想观察时间的流逝
all you can do is to observe the effect that time has on things.⊂↹⊃你只能观察到时间作用于万物上的结果
But you cannot observe time,⊂↹⊃但你无法观察到时间
because it's never there.⊂↹⊃因为时间从不存在
It's a paradox.⊂↹⊃这是一个悖论
One could go into this or make it into a huge philosophical thing which I won't do.⊂↹⊃一个人可以深入这一点，把这变成一门重大的哲学，但我不会去这么做
It's enough for you to see in your personal your immediate experience.⊂↹⊃对你来说，以你个人的即刻体验去看就足够了
Time is not something that you can ever experience directly.⊂↹⊃时间不是你可以直接经验的某样东西
It only leaves behind evidence, it's been there.⊂↹⊃时间只留下它存在过的证据
A dead body, for example,⊂↹⊃比方说，一具死尸
or an apple that's three two weeks ago was very fresh,⊂↹⊃或是一颗苹果，两三周前很新鲜
and now it's all wrinkled and it's gone,⊂↹⊃现在皱巴巴的，腐坏了
and two weeks before it was... the apple looked.⊂↹⊃两周前这颗苹果看起来不是这样的
And it's the same with young humans, they so can be very radiant,⊂↹⊃对于年轻人来说也是，ta们现在可能活力四射
and then gradually...⊂↹⊃然后慢慢地变老...
Now the interesting thing happens for those humans who are not totally identified with that level of form,⊂↹⊃现在，对于那些没有完全认同形相层面的人来说， 会发生有趣的事情
but to have access to being dimension.⊂↹⊃对于进入本体维度的人来说
As they grow older,⊂↹⊃随着他们变老
the being dimension, as the physical vehicle gets gradually eroded by time.⊂↹⊃随着肉体逐渐被时间侵蚀
The physical.⊂↹⊃肉身
Sorry.⊂↹⊃对不起
The being dimension is actually able to shine through more,⊂↹⊃本体维度实际上可以更多地闪耀出来
as the body weakens and gets old.⊂↹⊃随着身体衰弱，变老
There is a light, the light of consciousness that can shine through.⊂↹⊃意识之光，会闪耀出来
And then you find⊂↹⊃然后你发现
certain old people who as the body weakens,⊂↹⊃某些老年人，随着身体衰弱
the light increases, of consciousness,⊂↹⊃意识之光增长
and the ego is completely gone,⊂↹⊃小我完全消失
and there's just a beautiful presence left.⊂↹⊃只剩下美丽的临在
Let's say, at the latest as you grow old, that's still your last opportunity.⊂↹⊃比方说，最迟随着你变老，那仍是你最后的机会
But if you've missed it for the first 75 years of your life,⊂↹⊃如果你生命的前75年都错过了这个机会
because you were too concerned with doing all the time and acquiring and becoming⊂↹⊃因为你总是无比关注“做”“得到”“成为”
whether, I don't know, whether you can still find it.⊂↹⊃我不知道，无论你是否能够找到它
I think, if you fall ill, or something like that happens to you.⊂↹⊃我想，如果你生病了，或是发生了类似的事情
Yes, you can.⊂↹⊃那么，是的，你可能会找到它
It's preferable not to wait until you're close to death,⊂↹⊃更好的选择是，不要等到你已经接近死亡了
to look for the being dimension, because you might not find it anymore,⊂↹⊃再去找本体维度，因为你可能再也找不到了
because you're so absorbed in the doing and in time,⊂↹⊃因为你无比沉浸在“做”和时间之中
you won't even look for it, if you had no interest.⊂↹⊃如果你没有兴趣的话，你甚至不会去找它
Whatsoever throughout your life in any of this,⊂↹⊃无论如何，你整个一生的任何一种这样的情况下
it's a bit late.⊂↹⊃都有点晚了
That's fine. The universe is abundant and patient and every life has a purpose.⊂↹⊃那也没关系，宇宙是丰盛的，有耐心的，每个生命都有它的使命
We'll talk about that some other time.⊂↹⊃我们下次再谈论
Time, you see.⊂↹⊃看吧，“时间”
Can't get away from it.⊂↹⊃没法不提到时间
This mind made sense of self is also much more focused on the negative than the positive.⊂↹⊃思维制造的自我感关注负面事物多过正面事物
To be free, you awaken to who you are beyond your history and your life situation⊂↹⊃为了解脱，你觉醒于你的本质，超越你的个人历史和生命境遇