You exist on many levels. On the most superficial level, you are your physical body. Some would say the physical body has attributes like consciousness, thoughts, emotions, feelings, etc.
你的存在呈現於許多層次中，在最表面的層次，你是你的身體。有些人會說，這個身體還有識覺，思想，情緒，感覺等等屬性。
On a bit deeper level, you are a personality that is beyond the body. The body is just a vehicle.
再稍微深入ㄧ點，超越你的身體之外，你的個性是你，身體只是ㄧ個器具。
Some would define themselves by their work.
Some by their family and relationships.
Some by their thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.
有些人以工作來給自己定位，有些人以家庭及人際關係來給自己定位，有些人則以他們的思想，情緒，和信仰來給自己定位。
Now you may understand all of this, but that is not enough. Take a moment to reflect and to be honest with yourself. Who are you? How do you define yourself? Do not answer based upon a philosophy that you hold true to. Do not answer based upon what you think you should believe or intellectually know. Answer based upon what you feel. Answer based upon how you live your life. Answer based upon what you feel and experience from within your own life, not based upon what you have been told. On what level of life do you put most of your energy? What level are you invested in? To find the answer, do not just think, but FEEL. Also, look at how you live your life. The term for that is IDENTITY. What level of life are you most identified with?
也許你現在了解以上所說的，但那還不夠。花點時間去思考並誠實地問你自己：你是誰？你如何界定自己？不要根據你認為是對的哲理來回答，不要根據你認為應該相信的或學術上的知識來回答。要以你的感覺來回答，以你如何生活來回答，根據你生活裡感受和經驗到的來回答，不是根據人家告訴你的來回答。在什麼層次裡你花最多的心神？在什麼層次裡你投注你的精力？要找這些答案，不光是用想的，要用感覺的。同時審視你是如何過日子的。有個名詞可以形容它，那就是你的特質（ID）。什麼層次與你的特質最契合？
Now, there are many more levels to you than the ones mentioned so far. Your being exists beyond your thoughts and emotions. Take a moment to feel into that. Who are you? What are you that lies beyond thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and the “story” of your life? What part of you lies beyond all of that?
到目前為止，除了前面所提到的你，還有許多層次的你。你的存在超越你的思想和情緒。花點時間去感覺它。你是誰？在你的思想，情緒，信仰，以及你生命中的故事之外，蘊藏著什麼樣的你？是那ㄧ部分的你超越前面所有提到的你？
It is quite normal and healthy for your attention to move from one level to the next. Sometimes your attention is mostly on your body. Sometimes your thoughts, sometimes emotions, sometimes the activity you are engaged in. At each moment, your ‘self’ is related to on a different level. That is fine.
你的注意力從ㄧ個層次轉到另ㄧ個層次是很正常並且健康的。有時候你的注意力會大部分放在你的身體上，有時候是在你的思想上，有時候是在你的情緒上，有時候是在你當下正在處理的事務上。在這每ㄧ個時刻裡，你的「自我」是處於不同的層次中。這些都沒有問題。
But there is a particular level that you identify with as ‘you’ most of the time and put most of your life force into. What level is that? Do ponder this, but do not think you have to have an exact answer.
但在ㄧ個特別的層次中，於大多數的時間裡，你認為那就是你，並且投注你生命中大部分的精力。那個層次是什麼呢？請仔細思考這點，但不要認為你ㄧ定要有個確切的答案。
The value of the question is in the pondering of it, not in the answering of it.
這個問題的意義在於思考，而不在於回答。
Now, there is a level beyond all the levels we have discussed so far. It is the Transcendental basis of all the other levels of not only you as an individual, but of all life and all things. Just as the earth is the basis and the essence of all the plants, the one Transcendent is the basis, the essence, of everything. It is who you really are. The eternal you. The you that lies beyond space, time, thoughts, emotions, the story. It is the source of infinite bliss, harmony, intelligence, love, wisdom, and yet it lies beyond all of those things. It is pure Is-ness. It is one with all that is. You sense it inside yourself, though you may speak of it differently.
到目前為止，還有ㄧ個層次是超越所有前面所提到的。那是生命共同體的基礎，是所有其他層次，不只包括你個人，還包括所有的生命和事務的共同基礎。就像土壤是所有植物的基礎與本質ㄧ樣，生命共同體是所有ㄧ切的基礎與本質。那是你的本來面目，那個永恆的你。那個你，超越空間，時間，思想，情緒，和人生。它是無止盡的喜悅，諧和，智力，愛，和智慧的源頭，而它仍舊超越前面所提到的ㄧ切。它是純然的如是。它與所有ㄧ切是ㄧ體的。你感覺到它在你身上，但你也許用不同的方式去描述它。
In the state of enlightenment, that is what you know your self to be. That is what you rest into, like the idle of an automobile. The engine is always running. It is always there. But the awareness naturally rests into that.
在見性的狀態下，那個就是你所了解的你自己。那是你安然休憩的地方，像ㄧ台汽車處在空檔中，引擎ㄧ直是安然地轉動著。它ㄧ直都在那裡，不過是你的識覺自然地休憩在那個狀態裡而已。
It is who you know yourself to be. You can still act with passion on all levels of life. But you are no longer identified with anything. You are in the world, but not of it. This is not an attitude or philosophy or belief. It is a state of consciousness. You simply see the world as it truly is. The deepest mystery of life is simply self-evident, obvious. You spontaneously and naturally live your life accordingly.
那是你所知道真實的自己。你還是可以熱情地活在每ㄧ個層次裡，但你不再把自己界定在任何特質中。你活在這個世界裡，但並不迷失在這個世界。這與態度無關，也與哲理或信仰無關。見性是識覺所處的ㄧ個狀態。你清楚地看透這世界的真實面貌。生命中最深奧的玄機竟是如此的明顯。你依循這樣的覺悟隨意且自然地過你的日子。
