Anydisturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistanceto the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you intothat realm of inner peace that is stillness.
Wheneveryou deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you arestill, you are at peace.
任何恼人的噪音，都可以像静默一样，对我们有帮助。如何做到呢？放下你心里对那噪音的抗拒，允许它如实存在，这个接纳同样会带你进入内在的安详，也就是宁静之中。
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Payattention to the gap — the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space betweenwords in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap betweenthe in-breath and out-breath.
When youpay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something” becomes — just awareness.The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you andreplaces identification with form.
留意空隙– 两个念头之间的空隙、谈话中言语之间短暂的静默空间，或者是钢琴或笛子弹奏的音符之间的停顿，又或者是在出入息之间的止息。
当你留意那些空隙时，原本对于“某件事”的觉知变成了– 纯粹的觉知。那纯意识的无形的向度从你的内在升起，它替代了你对形式的认同。
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Trueintelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problemsare found.
真正的智慧静静地运作着。正是在宁静中，我们发现创造力，以及解决问题的方法。
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Isstillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself— the underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how couldthat be separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out ofthat and is being sustained by it.
It is theessence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and allother forms.
宁静仅仅是噪音或者内容的消失吗？不，宁静正是智慧本身– 它是那潜藏于深处的意识，每一个有形之物都从它之中诞生。它怎么可能与你分离呢？你以为你所是的这个外在形式正是来自于那里，并且一直被它所滋养。
它是万物的本质，大到整个星河，小到所有花草、树木、鸟儿，和其他一切有形之物。
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Stillnessis the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing,and it is not of this world.
宁静是这世界唯一无形的东西。然而，它并不真正是一件东西，也并不属于这世界。
