Who We Are
Well I'm so and so
嗯...我不是什么大人物
I was given this name by my parents
被父母赋予了名字
I've been to such and such a college
上了大学
I've done these things in my profession
在我的领域里做出了些许成就
and I produce a little biography.Buddha says forget it.That's not you
又出了部小小的自传 佛说:"算了吧 那不是你
that's just some story.That's all gone
那些故事 都如过往云烟
that's all passed.I want to see the real you!Who you are now!Well nobody knows who that is, you see?Because we don't .. know ourselves except through listening to our own echoes .. and consulting our memories.But then there's a real you
然后我们再次回到这个问题
and that again leads us back to this question:
然后我们再次回到这个问题
Who are you?
你是谁？
You will find that the Zen people are quite divided on this.They will say
你会发现 修禅的人会给出截然不同的答案 他们可能说：
'"No we don't believe literally in reincarnation.That after your funeral
“不，我们完全不相信轮回。不可能你的葬礼刚结束
you will suddenly become somebody different
你就突然变成了
living somewhere else.'"
在某处新生的活生生的人”
They will say
他们会说：
'"Reincarnation means this:
“轮回意味着
that if you sitting here now are really convinced that you're the same person who walked in at the door half an hour ago
你坚信 现在坐在此处的你 和半小时前走进这扇门的你 完全相同
you're being reincarnated.If you're liberated
那你就是相信轮回的
you'll understand that that you're not.The past doesn't exist.The future doesn't exist.There is only the present and that's the only real you that there is.'"
而如果你已然醒悟 那你就会明白事实截然相反 过去并不存在 未来并不存在 唯一切实存在的 只有当下和真正的你
The Zen master Dogen put it this way
禅师道元是如此解释的
he said
他说
'"Spring does not become the summer.First there is spring and then there is summer'"
春天不是变成夏天的。而是先是春天，然后才到夏天。
T.S. Elliot has the same idea in his poem '"The Four Quartets'"
托马斯·艾略特在他的诗《四个四重奏》中也有相同的概念
where he says
他写道：
'"When you settle down in the train to read your newspaper …
当你坐在火车上看报纸的时候
you are not the same person who left the platform.'"
你与上车时的自己已然不同
If you think you are
如果你不这么认为
you are linking your moments up in a chain,and this is what binds you to the wheel of birth and death.But when you know that every moment in which you are is the only moment
那你就是将自己的一生连成了一个整体 这就是为什么你被生老病死所困扰 除非你能明白 你现在的每一瞬间 都是唯一的瞬间
this comes into Zen—a master will say to somebody
就像禅师对某人说
'"Get up and walk across the room!'"
”起来 走出房间“
and he comes back and the master says '"Where are your footprints?'"
那个人走了回来 禅师问他：‘你的足迹在哪里呢？’
They've gone.So where are you?Who are you?When we're asked who we are
它们消失了。所以”你在哪里？你是谁？“这样的问题
we usually give a kind of recitation of a history
我们通常只能给出背诵历史一般的答案。