His words57语录57 则

“Gewei is the place from which a thought arises.”trans.

「格位就是起心动念的位置」

“Once the mind stirs, it always lands in a standpoint.”trans.

「此心既起，必落格位」

“The standpoint of this present mind is the whole face of this present mind.”trans.

「所谓当下的这颗心，它的格位，就是当下这颗心的全貌」

“When we look at the world, we are really looking through a cone — and that cone is the self.”trans.

「我们看世界的时候，实际上是通过一个锥管在看，这个锥管就是自我。」

“To awaken to the “no-self” of this very mind.”trans.

「对此心“无我”生起觉悟」

“To see clearly how this mind moves and meets what comes.”trans.

「对此心的“运对”能有明智」

“The wisdom of Gewei finally comes down to one thing: letting go of self-clinging — in this world, on the street, in everyday living.”trans.

「“格位”的智慧，最终落脚就一个现世、大街上、过日子的“脱我执”」

““Breaking the self from within the self”: to have a self without clinging to it — here the mind grows clear.”trans.

「“我中破我”，有我无执，明心于是」

““Five disciplines” is only a manner of speaking; in truth they pass into one another — each within the other.”trans.

「五功也是方便说，实际上是互相渗透，彼中有此。」

“This, too, is just borrowing a word.”trans.

「这也不过是借个词用用」

“Don’t take the explanations above literally!”trans.

「以上的解释，不要做字面直解！」

“To wake up to how name and thing, seer and seen, tangle and drift apart — like marking the boat to find a sword lost in the river.”trans.

「觉悟到“名实”、“能所”的搅扰、分离，刻舟求剑」

“Absorption in ordinary, everyday living; a lively stillness in the middle of the market.”trans.

「日常、过日子的“三昧”，闹市活泼“入定”」

“All we see and all we know arise from a “structure” already in the mind.”trans.

「所见、所知都起自心中既有的“结构”」

“Watch the mind through events and things; understand things through the mind.”trans.

「从“事、物”观心，由“心”了物」

“Where one mind meets another, it is a relation between two standpoints.”trans.

「心与心的界面，是格位与格位的关系」

“What matters is not what you say, but … what the other person gets to hear.”trans.

「关注的不是自己说什么，而是……要让对方听到什么」

“Where the mind meets events, the question is one of knowing.”trans.

「心与事的界面是“知”的问题」

“The great wisdom of “going with conditions” — lively, and unhurried.”trans.

「“随缘”的活泼、淡定大智慧」

“What we finally become is decided by how we live — not by any single decision.”trans.

「我们最后活成什么样子是由我们的活法决定的，而不是某一个决策决定的」

“The three abstentions are a way of living; the three advances are how we learn.”trans.

「三毒戒是活法，三精进是我们的学习」

“A person needs five kinds of love before their character can be steady.”trans.

「人需要有五种爱的力量，他的人格才能安稳」

“When you lack a mother’s love, give a mother’s love.”trans.

「你缺母爱的时候，奉献母爱。」

“I call it “four CPUs.””trans.

「我叫四个CPU」

“A delayed response is not dullness. It sets a space between what you feel and what you conclude.”trans.

「迟应不是迟钝。迟应是在你的感受，和你的认知之间产生隔离」

“One is confusion, one is wonder, one is the unexpected.”trans.

「一个是困惑 一个是奇迹 一个是意外」

“Happiness is not a matter of method; it is a matter of how you live.”trans.

「幸福不是方法的问题，幸福是活法的问题。」

“Xinxue is the learning of the heart-mind and its breakthroughs. It belongs to no school — to no single one. And every deep learning, in the end, is what? It is xinxue.”trans.

「心学是关于心灵的学问、心灵的突破，它不是任何家的，它不是任何一家。而任何的深彻的学问，最终都是什么？都是心学。」

“The same truth in different structures across the traditions — that in itself is not easy to see.”trans.

「各教门的同理异构啊，这本身就不太容易」

“Faith is having, within your heart, a standpoint that watches over you.”trans.

「信仰就是你的心灵当中有一个格位在看着你。」

“Everyone is a good person.”trans.

「人人是好人」

“The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Heart Sutra … don’t expect anyone to teach them to you! They are lamps; what they light is the trace of your own heart.”trans.

「《大学》、《中庸》、《心经》……不能指望有谁教懂你！它们是灯，照亮的是你的心迹！」

“Until it reaches your life, you have not heard it. Truth does not enter through the ears; it is heard from your own nature.”trans.

「不上身不叫听到。道理不会从耳朵进去。是从心性中听到的。」

“No one needs a view of their own; each of us reaches for a view a little closer to the truth.”trans.

「每个人不需要有自己的观点，每个人都争取获得一个更加接近真理的观点。」

“The first principle of teaching: believe what you say, speak from real insight, practise what you teach!”trans.

「讲课的第一性原理：你说的自己信，你讲的来自真实感悟，你实践自己所讲！」

“A teacher is the direction in which knowledge, wisdom and love flow — not a label.”trans.

「师是知识、智慧和爱流动的方向，而不是一个标签」

“Language is a troublesome thing — so, silence.”trans.

「语言是很讨厌的东西，所以止语」

“A sense of strangeness is something very rare, and mysterious.”trans.

「陌生感是非常稀缺和神秘的东西」

“Be soft-hearted, able to care for people, warm-hearted — that is what I call the principle of our Danjue Hall.”trans.

「要心肠软，能疼人啊，热心肠啊，这是我说的我们丹蕨堂的原则」

“In our lives, all the effort of this moment is simply to leave a good story for the future.”trans.

「我们的人生啊，当下所有的努力，无非是为未来留着一个好的故事」

“The first of the common people under heaven.”trans.

「天下第一百姓」

“I deal in chimney smoke — the smoke of everyday kitchens.”trans.

「我是贩炊烟的」

“Every so often you hear someone say, “I am just me.” But is that “me” really me?”trans.

「时不时就听到有人说“我就是我”。“我”真的是“我”么？」

“If you cannot sense what program drives this wilful “I”, you cannot see that the “I” is not, in fact, free.”trans.

「如果不能“觉”到、“觉”出这个任性之“我”是在被什么程序驱动，就无法领悟“我”其实并不自由！」

“Then you see that the trouble with communication is not a lack of communication skill.”trans.

「于是就能明白沟通的困境并非是由于沟通艺术不够」

“The first of the common people: be an ordinary person, teach real learning, seek the ultimate reason of things, and live cheerful days.”trans.

「天下第一百姓。做普普通通的人，讲真真切切的学问，求极致究竟的道理，过乐乐呵呵的日子。」

“Being an ordinary person matters so much! Keeping one’s family simple and at peace — it turns out that matters so much!”trans.

「做一个普通人，居然如此重要！能够把自己家庭经营得简单平和，原来如此重要！」

“Cultivating the heart comes down to three things: a family in order, health, and steadiness.”trans.

「修心三件事就可以做到：齐家，健康，持重。」

“In university classrooms and at Dajiang I focused on a leader’s structure of wisdom and the road by which a leader’s character is formed.”trans.

「我在大学课堂和大匠塾聚焦的是领导者的智慧结构以及领导人格的养成之路。」

“Zhu Xi’s saying, “Where the spirit arrives, what cannot be done?”, is what the eight characters of Dajiang point to.”trans.

「朱熹之言，“精神一到，何事不成”就是大匠塾八字所指。」

“Looking forward to the publication of Fuchen Ji — a curated selection from decades of Danjue’s reflections.”trans.

「期待丹蕨先生几十年感悟集精编摘录《拂尘集》出版。」

“Two hundred thousand characters chosen from ten million.”trans.

「一千万字中选出二十万字。」

“This collection is only a selection. Everything I have written comes from flashes of light after long thought over some confusion in life or work.”trans.

「这部集子只是节选。我全部的文字都是来自遇到生活、工作困惑而苦思冥想之后的灵光乍现！」

“I began recording these flashes in middle school. Over forty years I have gathered nearly ten million characters of notes. This book is only one corner of them.”trans.

「从中学我就开始记录灵光乍现的感悟，至今已经四十几年，积累了近千万字的笔记。本书只是其中的一角。」

“I can’t memorise anything — I simply don’t forget.”trans.

「我什么也记不住，然而我只是不忘。」

“I take living good days at home as the first proof that one’s self-cultivation has succeeded.”trans.

「我把家里过好日子当成个人修养成功的第一证据。」

“What these pages hold runs far deeper than their surface.”trans.

「文中内容意蕴远比表面深远。」