迪帕克禅医《生命的制约》

作者：迪帕克·杜德曼德博士[印度]

编辑：心路，心静

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Conditioning is what we are taught about the world around us.

制约就是我们所学到的有关周围世界的某种知识。

When we are born, everything which is sensed by our senses is utterly new, which we try to figure out. All the other factors in the society, in the environment around us, teach us the way to interpret and perceive all these senses; through which, layer by layer, we get conditioned.

当我们刚出生时，我们通过感官所感知到的一切事物都是全然崭新的，我们会试图去弄明白这一切是怎么回事。所有社会及周围环境的因素，都在教我们如何解释和理解我们所感知到的一切。通过这种层层累积的教育和训练，我们逐渐被制约了。

Though such conditioning is necessary, for survival and to make our living little easy, because, even if we are born in the forest or the jungle, then too, it will provide a conditioning for us to develop survival instincts, for gathering or hunting our food, to search or build a shelter, etc. it means that, the basic conditioning is a necessity, without which, we may not survive.

为了生存以及使我们更容易的生活，这种制约是必要的。因为即便我们出生在森林或丛林中，它也会为我们提供某种制约，用于发展我们的生存本能，如采集或狩猎食物、寻找或建造居所等等。这意味着基本的制约是必要的，否则我们也许无法生存。

But, when the conditioning, unhindered, reaches and interferes with our way of thinking, it starts providing a fixed view about everything around us, including – our work, our quest, our curiosity, our relationships; then, this conditioning becomes an unnecessary burden; as it opens one door while closing all the others. This conditioning will not allow us to think freely.

但是，当这种制约不受限制的渗透到、干预到我们的思维方式时，它就会开始给我们形成一种对于周围事物的固定看法，包括对我们的工作、我们的探寻、我们的好奇心以及我们的人际关系。此时这种制约就变成了一种不必要的包袱。它为我们打开了一扇门，但同时也关掉了所有其它的门。且这种制约将阻碍我们自由的思考。

The funny thing about this conditioning is that it limits our freedom, yet, provides a false sense of security. This, so-called, feeling of security sustains itself in our day-to-day life by creating incidents that provoke fear, anger and happiness temporarily, so that, we invariably refer to the conditioning for the false sense of security it provides.

有趣的事情是，这种制约限制了我们的自由，却又提供了一种虚假的安全感。这种所谓安全感在我们的日常生活中，通过制造各种生活小插曲，激起恐惧、愤怒及快乐等短暂的情绪，来延续它自己的存在，以致于我们总求助于这种制约所提供的虚假安全感。

As we grow, the faculties of our brain start opening and the memories of the conditionings from ones previous existences (Not the re-incarnations or rebirths), start coming to surface; fear of death, is one such conditioning. These memories add to the present perceptions and distort the reality.

随着我们年龄的增长，我们大脑的能力开始扩展，我们过去的存在（并非指通常轮回转世的概念）所积累的制约的记忆开始浮现。对死亡的恐惧就是一个例子。这些过去存在的记忆，叠加在我们现有的感知上，从而扭曲了事实的真相。

Conditioning becomes the fog and the mist around us and we start seeing everything through this fog. So, nothing seems clear, everything seems hazy, and, our interpretations through this fog of, “what is” takes precedence over the actuality. And, this breeds all the pain, sorrow and suffering.

制约变成了笼罩在我们周围的烟雾，我们开始通过这层烟雾看待周围的一切。于是，似乎没什么是清晰的，所有的一切似乎都是朦胧而模糊的，我们通过这种烟雾来诠释所发生的一切，替代了事实的真相。这成为所有痛苦、悲伤及苦难的根源。

Now, the root cause of ones suffering has a big contribution from conditioning, and as some natural conditioning is required for survival and maintenance of social life, one needs to drop the conditioning that has penetrated ones way of thinking. For that, one needs to understand this conditioning objectively, and allow it to drop off.

为了生存及社会生活的维持，一些自然的制约是必要的。但是人类痛苦的根源也大部分来自于制约。我们需要扔掉那些渗入到我们思维方式中的制约。为此，我们需要客观的理解这种制约，从而自然地扔掉它。

This conditioning creates one’s own mental/psychological world filled with judgements, opinions and prejudices. And, one continuously suffers within that world, just because this fog has obstructed our vision for the actuality of our surroundings. And, to overcome these obstructions, one needs to bring back the wonder in our senses; rekindle our curiosity for what is and what is not.

这种制约制造了我们的心理世界，其中充满了各种评判、观念与成见。我们在这个心理世界里不断遭受着痛苦，因为这种烟雾妨碍了我们观察周围世界的视线。为清除这一障碍，我们需找回感官的新鲜感，重新点燃我们的好奇心，去了解这个世界到底是怎么回事。

To make our mind full of a child-like wonder, one needs to understand the fundamental philosophy and the intention behind our existence. Though these words seem big and difficult, but, when we attempt it, we realize that, it’s the most natural thing a child has felt; and we had been there.

为让我们的心灵充满孩童般的好奇，我们需要理解生命与存在的原理、规律以及背后的目的。这些话听起来似乎高大而难懂，但是如果我们真的去尝试的话，我们会发现这其实是一个孩子最自然就能感受到的事；我们儿时就曾拥有过这样的体验。

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