无心剑中译奥修《性、爱与慈悲》

Sex, Love and Compassion

性、爱与慈悲

Only compassion is therapeutic, because all that is ill in man is because of lack of love. All that is wrong with man is somewhere associated with love. He has not been able to love, or he has not been able to receive love. He has not been able to share his being. That's the misery. That creates all sorts of complexes inside.

只有慈悲才有疗效，一切人类的疾病都缘于爱的缺乏。一切人类的问题都与爱有关。他还无法去爱，或接受爱，或分享他的存在，这是他的不幸，并由此引发各种心理情结。

Those wounds inside can surface in many ways: they can become physical illness, they can become mental illness - but deep down man suffers from lack of love. Just as food is needed for the body, love is needed for the soul. The body cannot survive without food, and the soul cannot survive without love. In fact, without love the soul is never born - there is no question of its survival.

那些心理创伤能以多种方式浮现出来，并转变成身体的或者精神的疾病，但是，往深处看，人们因为爱的缺乏遭受痛苦。如同身体需要食物，灵魂需要爱的滋养。没有食物，身体无法生存；没有爱，灵魂无法生存。事实上，没有爱，灵魂从未诞生，根本谈不上生存的问题。

That's why I say compassion is therapeutic. What is compassion? Compassion is the purest form of love. Sex is the lowest form of love, compassion the highest form of love. In sex the contact is basically physical; in compassion the contact is basically spiritual. In love, compassion and sex are both mixed, the physical and the spiritual are both mixed. Love is midway between sex and compassion.

因此，我说慈悲才有疗效。什么是慈悲？慈悲是爱的最纯粹形态，性是爱的最低级形态，慈悲是爱的最高形态。性本质上指身体的接触，慈悲本质上指灵魂的联系。而爱，是慈悲和性的结合，是灵与肉的结合。爱处于性和慈悲这两极之间。

You can call compassion prayer also. You can call compassion meditation also. The highest form of energy is compassion. The word compassion is beautiful: half of it is passion - somehow passion has become so refined that it is no more like passion. It has become compassion.

你也可以把慈悲叫做祈祷或者静心。能量的最纯粹形式就是慈悲。慈悲(compassion)这个词很美，它的一半是热情(passion)，但是，热情被提炼，不再像热情，而变成慈悲。

In compassion, you simply give. In love, you are thankful because the other has given something to you. In compassion, you are thankful because the other has taken something from you; you are thankful because the other has not rejected you. You had come with energy to give, you had come with many flowers to share, and the other allowed you, the other was receptive. You are thankful because the other was receptive.

在慈悲中，你只是给予。在爱中，你会感激对方的给予。在慈悲中，你感激对方接受了你的给予；你的感激是因为对方没有拒绝你。你的能量要给予，你的花朵要分享，而对方允许你的给予，接受你的分享，因此你感激对方的接受。

Compassion is the highest form of love.

慈悲是爱的最高形态。

The greatest anguish in life is when you cannot express, when you cannot communicate, when you cannot share. The poorest man is he who has nothing to share, or who has something to share but has lost the capacity, the art, of how to share it; then a man is poor.

当你无法表达，无法沟通，无法分享时，你遭遇生命的最大痛苦。最可怜的人：他没有东西可分享，或有东西分享却丧失了分享的能力和艺术，那么这个人很可怜。

The sexual man is very poor. The loving man is richer comparatively. The man of compassion is the richest - he is at the top of the world. He has no confinement, no limitation. He simply gives and goes on his way. He does not even wait for you to say a thank-you. With tremendous love he shares his energy.

只有性的人很可怜，有爱的人比较富有，而慈悲的人最富有，他处在世界之巅。他没被限制，没有局限。他只是给予，不断前行。他甚至不期待你感谢他。他带着无限的爱，分享他的能量。

This is what I call therapeutic.

这就是我所说的疗效。

Unless compassion has happened to you, don't think that you have lived rightly or that you have lived at all.

除非慈悲在你的身上发生，否则不要认为你曾热情尽致地生活过。

Compassion is the flowering. And when compassion happens to one person, millions are healed. Whosoever comes around him is healed. Compassion is therapeutic.

慈悲是花的盛开。当慈悲在某人身上发生，数百万人就会恢复健康。无论谁接近他，都会恢复健康。慈悲具有神奇的疗效。

译于2006年12月22日。

译者简介：无心剑，四川泸州人。南大数学系毕业，国家三级笔译，目前在一所高职院校任教，讲授数学及计算机课程，但是酷爱诗词翻译，在过去十来年翻译实践中，翻译了两千余首诗词，已形成比较独特的译诗风格。