从愚蠢到充实的一次旅程

My friend sent a message to me, “A baby fish asked her mother, “Why can’t we live on earth? Mother fish- earth is not the place for fishes, it’s made for selfishes.” Selfishness makes one a fool or blind. We many are selfish and we have entered into the path of meditation to be a selfless person. We fools have come to the earth to discard our foolness but many will leave having become more foolish. Because the way we have accepted is the way of foolness. Very fortunate the ones who try to be full inside; only they can really discard the external foolishness. Fools are they who want fullness outside through accumulating health, wealth, power, name or fame. But only one who has fullness inside can discard the foolness outside.
我的一个朋友给我发了一条短信，一条小鱼问她的妈妈：“为什么我们不能在地球上生存下去了？妈妈说：“因为地球不再是鱼儿生活的地方，而是自私者的地方。”自私使人们变得愚蠢和盲目。我们很多人都是自私的，我们必须走上冥想的道路，让自己成为一个无私的人。我们这些傻瓜来到世上就是为了去除我们身上的愚昧，但是许多人却变得越来越愚蠢，因为我们所走的道路本身就是一条愚蠢的道路。很幸运的是，一些人却选择了内在的充实，只有他们能真正去除外在的愚昧。傻瓜是那些想通过外在的积累而变得充实的人，像健康、财富、权力或者名望。但是只有那些内在充实的人才能摒弃这些外在的愚昧。


The earth is populated mostly by fools and everything around us here is foolishness. Foolishness means to see the unreal as real. We search for permanent pleasure in money, sex, cars, food and so on. But they are really only the cause of pain. They cannot be the means for permanent pleasure. Are we not foolish? Rich people fear losing their wealth to thieves or “market forces”. Young people fear aging. People of supposed importance fear enemies and opposition. And we even fear being unable to repeat our small enjoyments with the thought, “May I never cease to be [alive]!” What a wonder, that we see the fire which burns us and yet we wish for coolness from it, and then we crash and burn jumping into it!

地球上大多数人都是傻瓜，我们周围的许多事也都是愚昧的。愚昧就是把不真实的东西当成是真实的。我们想从金钱、性欲、汽车、食物等当中获得永恒的快乐。但它们确实是一些烦恼的根源。它们不可能给我们带来永恒的快乐。我们难道不愚蠢吗？有钱人担心他们的财富被小偷偷去或者因为市场竞争而破产，年轻人怕衰老，那些所谓重要的人害怕敌人和对手。我们甚至会想：“我可以长生不老吗？”

多么奇怪，就像飞蛾扑火那样，我们明明看到炙烤着我们的火焰，却想从中获得清凉。

All the texts, all the sadhana are also for fools. One should not think that we meditaters are not fools. Only they are the means, practicing it we eliminate our foolishness. The veil of foolishness is called Maya, which covers all the mind of the universe. So that the foolishness does not allow us to know our real self. We say I am this or I am that. If you are Hafiz or Sandeep or John your name was not with you when you born. What did your face look like before you were born? If you are in middle age, say 50 or so, look at a picture of your childhood. Are you same person? We do not really know anything of ourselves but we compose a great, voluminous text of ourselves. People in India often say- “One tells the stories of whole Ramayana but he does not know if Sita was a male or female.”

所有的书本、规矩也都是为愚昧者准备的。你不要以为冥想的人就不傻了，冥想只是一种工具，通过不断的练习，使我们去除我们身上的愚昧无知。愚昧身上的面纱叫做玛雅，她蒙蔽着世间所有的思想。所以这些愚昧无知阻碍我们去认识真正的自我。我们说我是什么我叫什么。其实在我们出生的时候我们是没有名字的。在你出生之前你的脸是什么样子的？如果你人到中年，50岁左右，再看看你小时候的照片。你是同一个人吗？我们对于自己并不真正了解多少，但我们却自以为自己是什么什么。印度人经常说：“有人会讲整个《罗摩传》，但他自己也不知道悉多到底是男是女。”

On this earth the more one knows (of information or worldly knowledge) more of a fool one is. Meditation is the process of elimination of all the information and the distractions that we have accumulated. Discarding this “knowledge” and these impressions, one becomes completely naked and is born from the foolness, becoming fully (purnam) a boon for mankind and for al the world.

在这个世界上我们知道得越多（信息或者世俗的知识），就变得越傻。冥想就是这样一个过程，逐渐剔除我们的所知所见。去除这些知识这些印象，使我们完全变得纯净，远离愚昧，为人类为世界带去福祉。

A sadhaka also should be like a fool in the external world. If one shows themselves to be a great yogi, you can not practice well. All the people of the world will come to such a person and ask nonsense questions and disturb his sadhana. Once Lao Tzu (father of Taoism) was walking with his disciples where the carpenters were cutting many trees to make a palace. They left only one tree. Lao Tzu asked why they left this big tree. They replied because this tree is of no use. He advise his disciple-“Be like this tree and live long to give shadow and fruits to the humanity for a long time. Do not sell your spirituality otherwise you will be in trouble”.

一个修行者在外在的世界中也应该像个傻子。如果一个人表现出来他是一个很了不起的瑜伽修行者，那么他就别想好好练习了。世界上的人都会来找这个人，问一些无意义的问题，打扰他的修行。一次老子（道家创始人）和他的弟子在路上走，看到木匠砍了许多树去造一座宫殿，他们只剩下了一棵树。老子问他们为什么留下这棵大树，他们回答因为这棵树没用。于是老子对弟子说：“就像这棵树那样，活得长久，长期为人们带去阴凉和果实。不要轻易出卖你自己的智慧，否则你很快就会陷入麻烦。”

When one obtains the state of fullness inside one becomes a real fool in another way. Knowing everything one behaves as one does not know anything, like a fool. But the people of this world are really do not know anything besides some information, but they do not accept they are fool. If you say someone “you fool” h/she will kill you. But a realized one will be still, undisturbed if you tell him/her fool or disturb him. And that person’s stillness and peacefulness will calm the disturbance of anyone who comes into their presence.

当一个人达到这种内在充实的状态之后，他就变成了另一种傻瓜。洞悉了一切却又表现得一无所知（大智若愚）。但是这个世界上大多数人除了知道一点信息之外，实际上什么也不知道，但他们却不肯接受他们是傻瓜这一事实。如果你对某个人说：“你这个傻瓜”,他/她会恨不得杀了你。但是一个觉醒的人在你叫他/她傻瓜时，会保持冷静，不被打扰。这种人的安静与平和会使他们自己不被任何人打扰。

I do not know much about April Fools’ Day, even I do not know if it is April full day. Only I know that on this day people tell lies. Last year my friend told me- “ someone is waiting for you in the guardroom.” Leaving my class and other things I rushed to meet him but nobody was there. I became angry to him. He said – “ha ha ha April fool.” This day teaches us not to be disturbed by foolishness untruthful situations. For sadhakas time, space and causation has no value. They value one pointedness and centering in one’s own self. One cannot clean this world through anger or worry, but one needs one’s own stillness to clean one’s own mind before trying to help others.

对于“愚人节”我了解得并不多，甚至我不知道它是不是“充实节”。我知道的就是这一天人们会撒谎。去年我的朋友对我说：“老师，门口有人找你。”我离开课堂放下手头的事就匆匆赶去，结果发现根本没人。我对他很生气。他说：“哈哈，你这个傻瓜。”这一天让我们学会不要被那些愚蠢的、不真实的东西打扰。

对于一个修行者来说，时间、空间、原因都是没有多少价值的。他们只关注一个点，集中于他们自己。一个人不可能消除世界上所有的愤怒和担忧，但一个人在试图帮助别人之前必须先用自己的冷静去清理自己的思想。

On this day one becomes aware the effect of falseness. When somebody says something false, what happens to our mind and emotions? In this same way what would become of this world if everybody is the devotee of untruthfulness? So on this day, knowing the problems with untruth, one should resolve to be truthful in all matters in life. That’s the message of April fool.

在这一天，让我们认清假象所造成的影响。当别人说一些并不是真实的事的时候，对我们的思想和感情会产生什么影响？同样，如果每个人都是虚假的整个世界会变成什么样子？所以在这一天，知道不真实所带来的问题，在生活中应该尽量成为一个诚实的人。这才是这一天的意义。

May the April fool lead you to the path of truthfulness.

希望愚人节带你走上真实的道路。

May the April fool make you a real fool, where there would be no ego, no bondage, no veils.

希望愚人节使你成为一个真正意义上的傻瓜，没有自我、没有束缚、没有蒙蔽。

May the April fool make you aware that state of fullness which is only truth. (Jagan mithya is controversial. I like the shakta position that the world is both real and illusory.)

希望愚人节使你知道充实的状态才是唯一的真理。（Jagan mithya是有争议的。我喜欢shakta的观点，世界既真实又虚幻。）

May God and Guru bless you. (Thanks Vishnu ji)

and thanks Anna for a wonderful translation.

 Namaste,

 Manu