構築現實
Composing reality
1/19
好了，我親愛的美麗們，你們現在對事物有了更深的認識，也學到了不少東西。看，我也讚美你們！在上一課中，我們學習了如何追蹤注意力。
So, my dear pretties, you now have a greater understanding and have learned something. See, I praise you too! In our last lesson, we studied how to track attention.
2/19
為自己設定一個目標，記住一定要追蹤自己的注意力。
Set yourself the goal of remembering to track your attention.
3/19
只要有事情發生，你就要立即覺醒。
As soon as something happens, you wake up.
4/19
在採取任何行動之前，先讓自己再次覺醒。
Before doing anything, you wake up again.
5/19
如果你能做到這點，你就會養成掌控注意力的習慣，最終進而掌控你的人生。但這並不意味著你有權看低那些還在沉睡的人。請靜靜地觀察他們，不讓人發覺你知道他們所不知的事。假裝你自己也仍在沉睡。這一點適用於你清醒和睡夢中的所有行走。
If you do this, you will develop the habit of controlling your attention, and eventually, your life. But this does not give you the right to look down on those who are asleep. Observe them quietly without giving away that you know something they don’t. Pretend that you are also asleep. This goes for all walks, both in waking and in sleeping.
6/19
記住：在進入夢境之前，你必須對他人保有善意，否則你會受到懲罰。那些自以為是、傲慢無禮、滿口蔑視、擺架子、挑剔自大的人會被現實狠狠抽打，不是我，正是現實。別指望我會賜予你這種殊榮。
Remember: before entering the dream, you should be well-disposed towards others, otherwise you will be punished. A superior, arrogant, disdainful, insolent, pompous, stuck up, finicky, smart Alec know-all will get a clip round the ear. Not from me but from reality. Don’t expect such an honoured privilege from me.
7/19
現在聽著，在我們初次會面的時候，我就曾說過這句話：「真實只存在於此刻——既非曾經，也不會屬於未來。」(Reality is what has never been and never will be, and only is in the here and now.) 真實就像電影膠卷上的一幀，僅在那瞬間存在，從過去滑向未來。我們該如何理解這句話呢？
Now listen. At our first meeting I said this phrase: Reality is what has never been and never will be, and only is in the here and now. Reality exists only for a single moment like a frame on a film roll, which moves from the past into the future. What are we meant to understand by this?
8/19
這意味著，在任何時刻，只有眼前那由光芒照亮的幀——那即時的真實印象——是真正存在的。其他一切，無論是過去還是未來，都屬於虛擬。而這一切，都永久存放在一座電影資料庫中，記錄著所有曾經、將來以及可能發生的事物。
This means that in any moment, only the immediate impression of reality — the illuminated frame — is ever real. Everything else is virtual, the past as well as the future. And it is all stored forever in a film archive, where everything is recorded, everything that has been, that will be, and ever may be.
9/19
過去和未來都是資訊，而資訊是無形的，你無法觸碰；但承載資訊的載體卻是物質的，且可以被解讀。這正是通靈者窺探過去、預知未來的方法。
The past and the future are both information. Information is intangible. You can’t touch it, but the media that carries the information is material and can be opened. This is how clairvoyants look into the past and tell the future.
10/19
那電影資料庫確實存在，雖然它如以太般無形，但以太物質卻懸浮於夢境空間中。在睡眠與清醒的現實中，夢境空間都是完整的。在你睡覺時，你所見的是可能的狀態，無論代表過去還是未來；然而，那究竟是否曾發生或將會發生，並非定論，因為變數是無限的。
The film archive truly exists, although it is intangible, like the ether. Ether substance hangs in the dream space. Both in sleeping and in waking reality, the dream space is whole. In your sleep, what you see is what could be, either past or future. But whether it happened or will happen is not a foregone conclusion as the variants are infinite in number.
11/19
夢中可能發生的事，也可能在清醒現實中上演，反之亦然。從這個角度看，夢境空間便是一個統一的電影資料庫。你可以欣賞其中，也能存在其中，不論你是睡夢還是清醒，但你實際上每一幀只存在一次，每一後續幀都是新的實現，乃至所有生物與非生物的升級，直達原子層級。
What might happen in a dream could also take place in waking reality, and vice versa. In this sense, the dream space is a single film archive. You can watch it and you can exist within it, both in a dream and in waking, but you only actually exist in each frame once. Each subsequent frame is a new realisation, an upgrade of everything living and non- living, right down to the level of the atom.
12/19
唯有活著者的靈魂保持不變——它們能觀看夢境中的電影，也能隨著現實的膠卷與每一幀同往。因此，你的自我與你在睡夢中翱翔時、與過去以及未來都是一樣的。
Only the souls of living beings remain unchanged — they are capable of watching the films of dreams and moving along the film roll of reality, together with the frame. So your Self is the same as it was in the past, as when it flew about in your dream when you were asleep, and as it will be in the future.
13/19
我們的世界既有有生命的形態，也有無生命的形態。生命就像嵌入物質現實中的包裹，而現實則是一種無生命的物質。然而，生命具有活力，能夠影響現實的進程，甚至構築現實。
Our world exists in animate and inanimate form. Life is embedded like inclusions in a material reality. Reality is an inanimate substance. Life is animate and life can influence the course of reality. Life can compose reality.
14/19
最後一點，我的小蟎蟲們，這是你們最需要明白的：構築現實意味著選擇電影膠卷並決定那幀移動的方向。你們擁有這樣的機會，但卻未能運用，就如同你們未能掌握那指引注意力焦點的能力般。
The last point, my little mites, is the most important thing you need to understand. To compose reality means to choose the film roll and determine the direction in which the frame is moving. You have this opportunity, but you don’t use it, just as you fail to use your capacity for directing the focus of your attention.
15/19
你必須事先構築現實，而不是與現有生活狀況抗爭。那你究竟做了什麼呢？你只是在試圖在當前幀中變動現實。你明白你在做什麼嗎？
You have to compose reality ahead of time, instead of fighting the current circumstances of your life. But what do you do? You try and change your reality within the current frame. Do you understand what you are doing?
16/19
再次重申：生命的實際狀態是什麼？它就是那既不屬於過去，也不會屬於未來，而僅存在於此時此刻的事物。生命的實際狀態只存在於已發生之中，你無法更改「既成」事實，但你卻在試圖改變；因為你周圍的一切，都是已經發生過的。
Again: what is the actuality of life? It is that which has never been and never will be, and is here and now. The actuality of life only exists to the extent that it has already occurred. You cannot change what has already happened. But that is what you are trying to do because everything that surrounds you is that which has already happened.
17/19
當下與過去幾乎無異。過去早已逝去，而當下僅僅存在於片刻之中，故你也無法更改。事實上，當你身處當下時，你的注意力卻彷彿仍被當前的幀所纏繞，你便如同不斷活在過去之中。這幻象緊抓著你，阻止你進入未來，因此未來不由你掌控。
The present differs very little from the past. The past is long gone and the present exists only for a brief moment, so you can’t change that either. Whilst you are in the present moment, you are, in effect, continually in the past because your attention is enmeshed in the current frame. The illusion grabs hold of you and keeps you from entering the future, which is why the future isn’t up to you.
18/19
你或許以為你對自己的行動是有覺知的，認為自己在採取果斷行動、解決問題、實現目標；但這一切都僅發生在當前幀中的無意識狀態下，所以劇本正牽動著你隨那你未曾選擇的電影膠卷前進。實際上，你只是無力地顫抖著你的小爪子而已。
You might think that you are conscious of what you are doing, that you are taking decisive action, solving problems, and achieving your goals. But all this is happening in the current frame in a non-conscious state, and so, the script carries you along a film roll that you did not choose. All you are doing, really, is helplessly twitching your paws.
19/19
這就是你們的真實樣子，我的甜心，我的小南瓜。跟你們在一起實在令人筋疲力盡！
That’s who you are, my sweets, my pumpkins. It’s exhausting being with you!
創造現實
Composing reality
1/19
所以，我親愛的漂亮們，你們現在有了更深的理解並學到了一些東西。看，我也讚美你們！在我們的上一次課程中，我們學習了如何追蹤注意力。
So, my dear pretties, you now have a greater understanding and have learned something. See, I praise you too! In our last lesson, we studied how to track attention.
2/19
設定目標，記住追蹤你的注意力。
Set yourself the goal of remembering to track your attention.
3/19
一旦有事情發生，你就醒來。
As soon as something happens, you wake up.
4/19
在做任何事情之前，你再次醒來。
Before doing anything, you wake up again.
5/19
如果你這樣做，你將養成控制注意力的習慣，最終控制你的生活。但這並不給你看不起那些沉睡者的權利。安靜地觀察他們，不要透露你知道他們不知道的事情。假裝你也在沉睡。這適用於所有的行走，無論是在清醒還是在睡夢中。
If you do this, you will develop the habit of controlling your attention, and eventually, your life. But this does not give you the right to look down on those who are asleep. Observe them quietly without giving away that you know something they don’t. Pretend that you are also asleep. This goes for all walks, both in waking and in sleeping.
6/19
記住：在進入夢境之前，你應該對他人保持友好，否則你會受到懲罰。一個自以為是、傲慢、輕蔑、無禮、自負、自命不凡、挑剔、聰明的自以為是者會被現實打耳光。這種榮譽不會來自我。
Remember: before entering the dream, you should be well-disposed towards others, otherwise you will be punished. A superior, arrogant, disdainful, insolent, pompous, stuck up, finicky, smart Alec know-all will get a clip round the ear. Not from me but from reality. Don’t expect such an honoured privilege from me.
7/19
現在聽著。在我們第一次見面時，我說過這句話：現實是從未有過也不會有的，只存在於此時此刻。現實只存在於單一瞬間，就像膠卷上的一幀，從過去移動到未來。我們應該如何理解這一點？
Now listen. At our first meeting I said this phrase: Reality is what has never been and never will be, and only is in the here and now. Reality exists only for a single moment like a frame on a film roll, which moves from the past into the future. What are we meant to understand by this?
8/19
這意味著在任何時刻，只有現實的直接印象——被照亮的幀——是真實的。其他一切都是虛擬的，包括過去和未來。這一切都永遠儲存在一個電影檔案庫中，記錄著一切曾經存在、將要存在和可能存在的事物。
This means that in any moment, only the immediate impression of reality — the illuminated frame — is ever real. Everything else is virtual, the past as well as the future. And it is all stored forever in a film archive, where everything is recorded, everything that has been, that will be, and ever may be.
9/19
過去和未來都是信息。信息是無形的。你無法觸摸它，但承載信息的媒介是物質的，可以被打開。這就是通靈者如何窺探過去和預測未來的方式。
The past and the future are both information. Information is intangible. You can’t touch it, but the media that carries the information is material and can be opened. This is how clairvoyants look into the past and tell the future.
10/19
電影檔案庫確實存在，儘管它是無形的，就像以太一樣。以太物質懸浮在夢境空間中。在睡眠和清醒的現實中，夢境空間是完整的。在你的睡夢中，你所看到的是可能發生的事情，無論是過去還是未來。但無論它是否發生或將要發生，都不是必然的結論，因為變體是無限的。
The film archive truly exists, although it is intangible, like the ether. Ether substance hangs in the dream space. Both in sleeping and in waking reality, the dream space is whole. In your sleep, what you see is what could be, either past or future. But whether it happened or will happen is not a foregone conclusion as the variants are infinite in number.
11/19
夢中可能發生的事情也可能在清醒的現實中發生，反之亦然。在這個意義上，夢境空間是一個單一的電影檔案庫。你可以觀看它，也可以在其中存在，無論是在夢中還是在清醒中，但你實際上只在每個幀中存在一次。每個後續的幀都是新的實現，是對所有生物和非生物的升級，直到原子的層次。
What might happen in a dream could also take place in waking reality, and vice versa. In this sense, the dream space is a single film archive. You can watch it and you can exist within it, both in a dream and in waking, but you only actually exist in each frame once. Each subsequent frame is a new realisation, an upgrade of everything living and non- living, right down to the level of the atom.
12/19
只有生物的靈魂保持不變——它們能夠觀看夢境的電影，並隨著幀一起沿著現實的膠卷移動。所以你的自我與過去一樣，當它在你睡著時在夢中飛翔，未來也是如此。
Only the souls of living beings remain unchanged — they are capable of watching the films of dreams and moving along the film roll of reality, together with the frame. So your Self is the same as it was in the past, as when it flew about in your dream when you were asleep, and as it will be in the future.
13/19
我們的世界以有生命和無生命的形式存在。生命像嵌入物一樣嵌入物質現實中。現實是一種無生命的物質。生命是有生命的，生命可以影響現實的進程。生命可以創造現實。
Our world exists in animate and inanimate form. Life is embedded like inclusions in a material reality. Reality is an inanimate substance. Life is animate and life can influence the course of reality. Life can compose reality.
14/19
最後一點，我的小傢伙們，是你需要理解的最重要的事情。創造現實意味著選擇膠卷並確定幀移動的方向。你有這個機會，但你沒有利用它，就像你沒有利用你引導注意力焦點的能力一樣。
The last point, my little mites, is the most important thing you need to understand. To compose reality means to choose the film roll and determine the direction in which the frame is moving. You have this opportunity, but you don’t use it, just as you fail to use your capacity for directing the focus of your attention.
15/19
你必須提前創造現實，而不是與你生活的當前情況鬥爭。但你在做什麼？你試圖在當前幀中改變你的現實。你明白你在做什麼嗎？
You have to compose reality ahead of time, instead of fighting the current circumstances of your life. But what do you do? You try and change your reality within the current frame. Do you understand what you are doing?
16/19
再說一次：生活的現實是什麼？它是從未有過也不會有的，只存在於此時此刻。生活的現實只存在於它已經發生的範圍內。你無法改變已經發生的事情。但這就是你試圖做的，因為圍繞你的一切都是已經發生的事情。
Again: what is the actuality of life? It is that which has never been and never will be, and is here and now. The actuality of life only exists to the extent that it has already occurred. You cannot change what has already happened. But that is what you are trying to do because everything that surrounds you is that which has already happened.
17/19
現在與過去幾乎沒有區別。過去早已逝去，而現在只存在於短暫的瞬間，所以你也無法改變它。當你處於當下時，你實際上不斷處於過去，因為你的注意力被困在當前幀中。幻覺抓住了你，阻止你進入未來，這就是為什麼未來不由你決定。
The present differs very little from the past. The past is long gone and the present exists only for a brief moment, so you can’t change that either. Whilst you are in the present moment, you are, in effect, continually in the past because your attention is enmeshed in the current frame. The illusion grabs hold of you and keeps you from entering the future, which is why the future isn’t up to you.
18/19
你可能認為你意識到自己在做什麼，你在採取果斷行動，解決問題，實現目標。但這一切都發生在當前幀中，處於無意識狀態，因此，劇本將你帶到你未選擇的膠卷上。你所做的，只是無助地撲騰著爪子。
You might think that you are conscious of what you are doing, that you are taking decisive action, solving problems, and achieving your goals. But all this is happening in the current frame in a non-conscious state, and so, the script carries you along a film roll that you did not choose. All you are doing, really, is helplessly twitching your paws.
19/19
這就是你們，我的甜心們，我的南瓜們。和你們在一起真是累人！
That’s who you are, my sweets, my pumpkins. It’s exhausting being with you!