每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（6）
每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（6）
2019/03/27 星期三 雨
《世界是心的倒影》
第一辑 不变的真相（TheImmutable TrueCharacteristic）
第六节 人为什么活着(What Do People Live For) 节选
英文版
Part 1
Late at night when everyone is quiet and you cannot sleep, have you ever asked your mind and spirit this kind of question:"What do people live for?
Birth, old age,sickness, death, being separated from those you love,being put together with those you hate, being unableto find the answer, the five poisons of greed, anger,ignorance, arrogance and doubt blazing up.
Human life has so much suffering, and the only refuge is death. Even the planet earth cannot avoid facing destruction one day.
So then, why do people have to go through all this, and go on living in such pain?
Part 2
People always ask me: Is our fate in life created by karma or not?
Is our fate in life already a fixed constant?
I tell them that a"fixed constant"is the program of a mind that is already dead.
People who are alive can create their causal conditions. When the mind changes, then fate changes.
If you do good deeds and create good karma, you will obtain good results. If you do bad deeds and create bad karma, you will obtain bad results.
All choices,behavior, and outcomes do not lie outside of the mind. so I always say:"Great virtue shapes the mind, and fate in life is created by mind. （page 34-35)
~An excerpt from The World is a Reflection of the Mind.
Author: Xuemo, translated by J.C.Cleary
中文版
选段一：
夜深人静又无法成眠的时候，你是否曾经叩问心灵这样一个问题：“人为什么活着？”生、老、病死，爱别离，恨相聚，求不得，贪嗔痴慢妒五毒炽盛，人生有太多的苦，唯一的归宿又是死亡，就连地球，也难免面临灭的一天。那么人为什么要经历这一切，苦苦地活下去？
选段二：
总有人问我，命运是不是由业造，命运是不是早已定数？我告诉他们，“定数”是死了的心的程序。活的人可以造缘。心变则命变。行善，造善业，获得善的反作用力；行恶，造恶业，获得恶的反作用力。所有选择、行为、后果，都逃不出他的“心”去。所以我常说：“大善铸心，命由心造。”（27页）
摘自《世界是心的倒影》，雪漠著
讲解笔记
【1】Golden sentence:
All choices,behavior, and outcomes do not lie outside of the mind. so I always say:"Great virtue shapes the mind, and fate in life is created by mind.
所有选择、行为、后果，都逃不出他的“心”去。所以我常说：“大善铸心，命由心造。”
【2】Words:
blaze /bleɪz/
V-I When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly. 熊熊燃烧
例：
Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers.
三个人丧生于熊熊燃烧的残骸，营救人员奋力去解救被困的司机。
refuge /ˈrɛfjuːdʒ/
N-UNCOUNT If you take refuge somewhere, you try to protect yourself from physical harm by going there. 避难
例：
They took refuge in a bomb shelter.
他们在一个防空洞里避难。
destruction /dɪˈstrʌkʃən/
N-UNCOUNT Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed. 毁灭
例：
...an international agreement aimed at halting the destruction of the ozone layer.
…一项旨在停止对臭氧层的破坏的国际协议。
karma /ˈkɑːmə/
N-UNCOUNT In religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, karma is the belief that your actions in this life affect all your future lives. (印度教和佛教的)业; 印度教和佛教等宗教中认为今生的行为会影响到来世的信仰
constant /ˈkɒnstənt/
ADJ You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there. 常发生的; 常存在的
例：
She suggests that women are under constant pressure to be abnormally thin.
她提出女性受持续的压力之下要异常苗条。Remarks:
So the earth, the world, my body,everything I have hold so tightly,will be ended up in the mouth of impermanence.
What do I live for?
It is a question, which only I can ask and answer for myself.
It is a choice.
It is the meaning which I need to lighten up the journey.
With the shadow of fate, I am not only the victim,and I can be the creator.
What I need is a heart, strong and full of wisdom.
中文版要看完了，之后就看英文的啦(^_^) 不过，之后会再看的~
