【首译】如何对待过去的错误？

赛斯《私人课》第917节

1980年5月21日

当你最初在学校学习写字时，老师必须教你如何写出字母的形状。你犯了很多错误。然而，最后，你可以很容易地写出字母。你觉得胜利了。你忘记了过去所犯的错误。你已经做成了一些事情。

When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. You made many mistakes. Finally, however, you could form the letters quite easily. You felt triumphant. You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. .

然后老师告诉你，你必须把这些字母放在一起组成单词。你又犯了许多错误，而当你终于高兴地写下一个个单词时，你又忘了那些错误。然后，老师要你把单词排列成句，而你遵循了同样的程序。你忘记了你的错误。当你只能写出简单的字母时，你是蠢是傻——还是个笨蛋呢？显然不是。你的抱负和好奇心一直引领你走向更完善的发展，直到你最终能够读出、写出完整的段落。

Then you were told that you had to put those letters together to make words. Again you made many mistakes, and forgot them as with delight you now wrote separate words. Then you were told to put the words into sentences, and you followed the same procedure. You forgot your mistakes. Were you stupid or dumb—or an asshole—when you could only form simple letters? Obviously not. Your aspirations and your curiosity kept leading you toward a more complete development, until you could finally read and write whole paragraphs.

你不仅可以抄写句子，更重要的进展是，你可以造出自己的句子，并以这种形式表达自己的想法。

You could not only copy sentences, but—important development—you could form your own sentences, and express your own thoughts in that form.

那么，这些都是发展的阶段，同样的道理也适用于你的生活。你所谓的错误之所以作为错误而存在，只是因为你想表现得更好，想表达出更成熟的经验，而不是想写出更好的句子。

These were all stages of development, then, and the same applies to your life. Your so-called mistakes exist as mistakes only in the light of your aspirations to perform better, to express more fully developed experiences, rather than to write better sentences.

因此，为所谓的错误责备自己是适得其反的，如果仅仅是因为就你目前的发展阶段而言，那些错误和你现在所期待的行为比起来显得不那么成熟。每当你发现自己因为过去的错误而对自己不满时，请读一读这些段落。不要总是审查自己。相信你会像你曾经学习阅读或说话一样自动地学习你想学的东西，或者像你思考一样自动地学习。

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. Whenever you catch yourself disapproving of yourself for past mistakes, read these passages. Do not check on yourself all the time. Trust that you will learn what you want to learn as automatically as you once learned to read or speak, or as automatically as you think.

在你们的实相领域里，错误是学习过程的一部分。它们甚至看起来不是错误，除非你到达了“下一个发展阶段”，或者在你的理解上提高了一步时——比如说，在六年级的时候，你回过头来看自己在五岁时写的一页幼稚的字母。

In your realm of reality, mistakes are a part of the learning process. They do not even seem to be mistakes until you are “at the next level” of development, or a step higher in your understanding—as when, say, in the sixth grade you looked back and saw a page of your own childish lettering done at the age of five.

我知道这有时很难理解，但即使是你们所谓的错误也会产生许多深远的有益结果，这些结果不会以任何孤立的方式表现出来。它们可能会增进你对自己和他人的了解。它们可能被有益地应用于你生活中完全不同的领域——所以不要再否定你自己和你的“错误”。试着设定你的目标，并相信你会有适当的冲动来实现这些目标，而他人也会出于自身的原因朝着你的方向发展。与此同时，尽量活在当下。

I realize it is difficult to understand at times, but even your so-called mistakes have many far-reaching beneficial results that do not show in any isolated fashion. They may add to your understanding of yourself and others. They may be applied beneficially in entirely different areas of your life—so stop disapproving of yourself, of your “mistakes.” Try to set your goals and to trust that the proper impulses will come to you to bring them about and that others will be disposed in your direction, for their own reasons. In the meantime, try to live in the present as much as possible.

不要低估或高估自己。要知道，在你自己的独特性中，这样的判断是没有立足之地的。

Do not undervalue or overvalue yourself. And know that in your own uniqueness such judgments have no place. 

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