主动运用生命或者让生命被动于感觉【中英对照】

　　大部分人在生活状态中都会说“我感觉”，比如说“我感觉到我很难受……”，这实际是“被感觉”——业力让人时刻活在感觉中。被动于感觉时产生——“我感觉到什么什么”；主动运用生命、主动锻炼生命时——“我建立了什么感觉”。

　　One thing most of us love saying in daily life is “I’m feeling…”， say, “I’m feeling upset”， while actually a more precise way to put it is “I’m made to feel…。”。  It is karma that makes us subjected to one feeling or another at any given moment.

　　“This is how I feel” happens when we are subjected to our feelings, while “These are the feelings that I construct” takes place when we are able to rule Life and exercise it in a proactive manner. 

　　主动和被动都是生命的作为，但主动与被动是完全不一样的。我们完全可以选择这两种取向——主动运用生命或者让生命被动于感觉。这个选择，是主动与被动的分水岭。要是能选择主动锻炼，我们就有机会明白主动锻炼的意义在于：主动运用生命。

　　Both dictated by Life as they are, being proactive is vastly different from being passive. It’s up to us to choose one way or the other: rule Life or subject Life to our feelings. This very act of choosing sets apart a proactive life and a passive one.  When we choose to exercise in a proactive manner, we will see that it is all about how to rule Life proactively. 

　　比如说一活动身体时，我们说这也疼、那也疼——这种感受很明确。但是被动于感觉呢，你的感受会不明确，会感受到似是而非的东西，因为这个感觉不是你建立的。主动锻炼呢，好比说我们进行锻炼活动的时候——“我这做得到”“我那做不到”，你是明确的；但你在被动于感觉的时候就不知道、不明确。因为在被动活动的状态时，我们对生命的运用不清晰、不准确。

　　Here is an example.  As we practice some physical exercise, we may experience pains here and there in our body, pains that are easily detectable.  However, when we are subjected to our feelings, we become less sure of how we actually feel and the differences between feelings become much less discernible, for they are not constructed by us.  If we exercise in a proactive way, we know what we “are capable of” and what we “are incapable of” with great certainty.  But if we just stay put and try to make sense of all these feelings, we won’t be as certain. This explains why we cannot rule Life with certainty and clarity when we are in a passive state of being.

　　“我感觉怎样怎样”，就是被动于业力了。大部分人谈论的、关心的基本上是感觉。关心别人时也是，我们会问“你感觉怎么样？”而不是说“你建立得怎么样？”或者“你怎么运用的？”

　　When we say “I’m feeling…”， we are subjected to the power of Karma.  Most of us spend our day thinking and talking about how we feel or, in case of caring for others, about how others feel, rather than how they “are constructing” or how they “are ruling”。 

　　一般医生会说“你锻炼锻炼身体”“你活动活动”；生活中人们也会说“你缺乏锻炼”“你运动太少了”。实际这都是给你一个鼓励——主动起来的鼓励。

　　Therefore, we often hear doctors say “do some exercise!” or “go exercising!”， or others tell you that “you need some exercise” or “you need to exercise more”。  All of these remarks are kind reminders of the fact you need to be more proactive.

　　有些人根本不知道自己是被动的，病来了才知道。被动越大，对人的制约越厉害，往往这时人们已经没法主动重新建立一个东西了。因为这个过程很漫长，被动的人不明确自己生命的状态，已经让被动的业力成为一种生命习惯了。主动运用生命，是明确的状态，这样对比很简单。

　　There are people who never realize that they are passive until illness knocks at their door.  The more passive they are, the more constraints they will have in their lives. Unfortunately, most of the time, this realization almost always comes when it is too late to construct something proactively, for it usually takes a long while for passive people to notice their state of being with some clarity.  Passive Karma has become a life’s habit. Ruling your life in a proactive way brings clarity.  What a sharp contrast!

　　病没来、身体正常时，我们感觉不到自己的生命有什么问题。障碍来了，难受了，马上会说“我感觉到了，我这痛，我那痛”——这是被动的。主动与被动的特质，就差这一丝，就这么一线之隔！我们可以观察，有太多这样的例子。

　　We tend to ignore what is wrong in life when we are enjoying good health.  Yet when difficult time comes, we exclaim without hesitation,  “Oh, I feel pain!  I feel it!”  This is an example of our passiveness. Being passive or proactive can be just a hair apart!  Observe your life and you will know what I mean.

　　大部分的医生都会跟我们提出，“你锻炼锻炼”“你缺乏锻炼”，实际就是我们普遍缺乏自我建立、自我测试、自我运用的东西。一般情况下，我们就活在这样一个对生命状态的不明确中——病来了，“哦，我头痛了”“哦，我腰疼了”——这时我们才有感觉了！主动锻炼，是主动建立感觉并运用这种感觉。感受来了，已经有果了，那我们主动就行，心念随时自我测试，重新建立感觉，不相续旧业就行了！被动于感觉，不改变自己，就是旧业相续。

　　Most doctors would suggest that we do more exercises.  It is an indicator of the fact of that far too often we have done very little to construct, examine and rule our life in a proactive way.  In general, we live our lives with little clarity - illness catches up and we go “alas, my head aches” or “alas, my hip aches” - we start to feel only when problems arrive!  To exercise in an active way is to take the initiative to construct and rule your feelings.  Your feeling is your effect.  Why don’t we instead take the initiative, examine our minds as we go, reconstruct our feelings and put an end to our previous karma?  Remaining passive with our feelings and unchanged with yourself, you are only going to continue your previous karma.

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　　当然有人就是愿意等！等病了，才感觉“哎呀，我不行了”。这个时候说“不行”的人，你一定要去行，要活动去、跑去、玩去、吃去、喝去、闹腾去！实际这就是重新建立生命的感觉，不沉浸在旧业上。反过来，如果说“我不行了啊”“我要看病去啊”，这样就加深、加强了旧业，滞留在旧业上了。

　　Well, there will always be people who would rather wait whatsoever.  They will wait until they are sick and only then they will start to admit that they “cannot go on like this”。  Once you realize you “cannot go on”， you must go and practice - exercise, jog, have fun, wine and dine, simply have a life!  All of these actions are going to help you reconnect to Life’s feelings and stop dwelling on old karma.  On the contrary, if you keep saying “I’m done” or “I need a doctor”， you are only going to dwell deeper on your old karma, which in turn will grow stronger and harder.

　　主动建立就是重新来，不复杂！——“我已经这样子了”，那我一定试着主动锻炼生命，重新建立感觉——没问题，这是完全做得到的！

　　To construct proactively is to do it all over again.  It’s as simple as that!  Say no to ‘I am done’， say yes to proactive exercise and to reconstruction of feelings.  Yes, we all can do it.

来自慈法法师的『生命之光 · 阳光早餐』

The Light of Life Sunshine Breakfast

2018年2月

原标题：主动锻炼 | 中英文

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