Source text in Chinese | Translation by ms_translators & tianshandun (X) (#6620) |
我们常常听人说,自己醒悟了,明白了,觉悟了之类的。 或许是的,或许不是的,更多的是在途中说的话。 我们没有可能说终极性的、不会变的话。那么这句话本身是不是终极的呢?这句话和它指向的话并不在一个意义上说的,这是一种视角立场,我们最好不要这样问。 我们常常感到自己醒悟了,例如我感到每一个月,每一个学期,每一年,甚至每一天都会感到自己醒悟了。然而,从历史的眼光看,我们只是说出了当下的感受和理解。事实上,时间一推移,什么都会变的。对一个人的爱,似乎也如此。你对一个人说,我爱你,直到永远。这句话其实是当时自己的体验和理解以及甚至是许诺,但时间是那样的严肃,生活是那样的偶然,你在另一个时间和条件下,你会把原来的话放下,或者淡化之,甚至完全背叛了 。 醒悟,我觉得把它理解为一个过程比较合适。我们对生活处于不断的醒悟中。对个人的生命,对群体生活,对组织单位,对民族文化,对自然宇宙,对未知者,对平时不被注视者处于不断的醒悟中,出现新的意识。一般地说,我们的醒悟依赖我们的方法论之发展,立场之改变,语言之变化,异质的交流,语言的反复运动,默观的实践等。我们的醒悟是历史中的醒悟。 | We have often heard people say that they have awakened, understood, become conscious, and so on. Maybe, maybe not, these things were said more in passing. We are unlikely to make definitive statements that will not change. Is, then, this last sentence itself definitive? This sentence and its meaning do not rest upon the same levels of understanding. It is a difference in point of view. We had better not ask why. We often feel that we are awakened, for instance, every month, every school term, every year, even every day I can feel that I am awakened. However, from a historical perspective, we have only stated our feelings and understandings of the moment. In reality, as time goes by, anything could change. For loving someone, it seems the same. You say to them, ‘I love you forever’. These words in fact only express your current sensation and comprehension as well as a commitment; but time is so unforgiving and life is so easily changeable that you may, at another time or under different circumstances, abandon your previous promises or dilute them or even betray them. Awakening, in my opinion, would be more appropriate to consider as a process. We live in perpetual awakening to the wonders of life, perpetual awakening of personal life, group life, organizational units, national cultures, nature of the universe, unknown peoples and the people who are not usually given attention to by others. All these bring us new awareness. Generally speaking, our awakening relies on the development of our methodology, the changing of our standpoint, the evolution of our language, the interchange between heterogeneous materials, the constant flux of the language, the practice of silent prayer with meditation, etc. Our awakening is awakening in the passing of history. |