祝福自己

Bless Yourself
祝福自己

Now we will try the difficult one, and that is to bless yourself. Forgiving somebody else who was not nice to you, for whatever you think that they did, that is so easy compared to blessing yourself. Many of us deep down don’t feel that we deserve to be blessed.

現在要是較難的，那就是祝福你自己。原諒對你不好的人，不論他們對你做了什麼，比起祝福自己容易得多。許多人內心深處不認為自己値得被祝福。

We feel maybe we did something wrong, or we are not good enough, or we know how bad our thoughts really have been, or we did something to somebody, or it’s been so many years that you have felt bad that you don’t even know how to not feel bad anymore.

我們也許覺得自己做錯事，或不够好，或自己想法很惡劣，或曾對某人不好，許多年來你都覺得自己很糟，甚至已經不知道該如何覺得自己並沒有那麼糟。

That is the situation that most humanity faces. We have begun to believe the illusion. We have forgotten the fundamental truth about ourselves, and we’ve begun to believe that we are not good enough, or that we can’t be well, or that we will never be happy, or a thousand other kinds of negative thoughts.

大部分的人類所面對的都是這種情形，我們開始相信這個假相，我們忘了自己的真我，相信自己不夠好，沒辦法好，永遠不會快樂，千百種負面的想法。

This is great cause of suffering for people everywhere in the world. It’s a common illness. Then, many times, to make it very complicated, human beings think that these negative energies come from the gods.

在世界各地，這是痛苦的真正源頭，是一種共同的病。而人類又認為這種負面量是來自神或上帝，常常使得這病狀更為複雜。

Then they feel powerless because it’s what the gods want for them. This is a very, very big illusion. There are no gods that want you unhappy. That would be a very silly god.
然後她們覺得無力反抗，因為是神的旨意。這是一個很大的假相，沒有神會想要你不快樂，果真如此，那就是一個很傻的神。

There is nothing that cannot be healed. There is no negativity that cannot be transformed. There is no karma that cannot be resolved.

沒有什麼是不可康復的，沒有不可轉化的負面事件，沒有不能消的業。

Yes, some of these things may take time. And many of them will not be easy at first. But everything that is the illusion can be resolved when you see it with the truth.

是的，這些事也許需要時間，而且初期也許並不容易，但是當你用真理來看時，任何假相都會破滅。

Sometimes, if we can’t see it ourselves, that is where the value of a friend or a teacher can help us see something that we might be blind to at first. It’s as if we may have fallen into the water and somebody throws us a life preserver. And once you get out of the water that would be a good time to learn how to swim.

有時候我們自己看不到，這時候，如果有一位老師或朋友能幫我們看到盲點，就很有價值了。這時就好像我們掉到水裡，而有人丟給我們一個救生圈。一旦你從水理上來時，就該是好好學游泳的時候了。

If we teach people to swim, then if they fall into the water and nobody is around, it would be OK. Of course, I am not really talking about swimming. I am talking about how to be free with the truth, expressing yourself as you. To let your true nature, your true self, come forward.

如果我們教會別人游泳，萬一他們落水，沒有人在旁也沒有關係。當然我不是真的在講游泳，我是在講如何以真理讓我們自在，展現出你的真我，讓你的本性、真我現前。

節錄自 滴水禪 琉璃光 Dr. Mitchell May