萊斯特利文森自傳 Lester Levenson Autobiography

-- 無攀冀無負累

No Attachments No Aversions

Lester ． Levenson 原著 Azure 中譯

一位美國大師靈性啟明的故事

An American Master's Own Story to Spiritual Enlightenment

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出版序

For the first time, a living American Master tells the story of his life and details step by step in simple, everyday English how he achieved the extraordinary powers of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.

這是有史以來第一次有活生生的美國籍大師，用簡單而日常的英語，告訴我們他生 活的故事；以及以逐步的方式，告訴我們他是怎樣達到全知 (omniscience) 、全然 (omnipresence) 、和全能 (omnipotence) 的超常能力的。

This twentieth century Master came into his immortality not by the shores of the Ganges, nor on the heights of the Himalayas, but in the bustling heart of New York City. 這位二十世紀的大師證道的地方，並不是在恆河的岸邊，也不是在喜瑪拉雅山上的 高處，而是在人車熙攘往來的紐約市中心裏。

In the past, anyone who has sought information and understanding of ultimate happiness and peace has had to turn to the exotic teachings of the East.

在以往，任何尋求至高幸福與安寧消息和知識的人，都得取道於東方異國的教誨。

Lester Levenson - born in New Jersey, a former physicist and businessman-points the way to freedom that Westerners can readily understand and follow.

而萊斯特．利文森 -- 出生於紐澤西州 (New Jersey) ，一位前物理學家和生意人 -- 則以西 方人能立即就明瞭和遵循的方式，指出了通往自在的路逕。

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目 錄

出版序..............................................................................................................................................................................2
作者序..............................................................................................................................................................................4
壹_:_覺醒前的日子...........................................................................................................................................................6
愛是信任LOVE IS TRUST .......................................................................................................................................7
關於我MYSELF ........................................................................................................................................................9
愛就是因為他人就是他那個樣子而愛他LOVE IS LOVING THE OTHER ONE BECAUSE THE OTHER ONE IS THE WAY THE OTHER ONE IS.........................................................................................................................17
愛是按照人們原來的樣子接受他們LOVE IS TAKING PEOPLE AS THEY ARE.............................................25
愛和瞭解是同一回事LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING ARE THE SAME ...........................................................36
人並非去滋長她的愛只是擺脫她的仇恨而已ONE DOES NOT INCREASE HIS LOVE ONE MERELY GETS RID OF ONE'S HATE ...............................................................................................................................................43
愛我們的敵人才是愛的高度TO LOVE OUR ENEMY IS THE HEIGHT OF LOVE ..........................................51
當一個人真的在愛時他永遠不會受到傷害WHEN ONE REALLY LOVES ONE CAN NEVER BE HURT ....60
不論何時當一個人感覺良好時她就是在愛中 不論何時當一個人感覺不良時她就是不在愛中ANYTIME ONE FEELS GOOD ONE IS LOVING ANYTIME ONE FEELS BAD ONE IS NOT LOVING...........................67
貳_:_獲得自在.................................................................................................................................................................73
愛會消弭恐懼 愛才是至上的LOVE ELIMINATES FEAR LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE....................................74
參_:_覺醒後的日子.......................................................................................................................................................85
愛背負一切 愛相信一切LOVE BEARS ALL THINGS LOVE BELIEVES ALL THINGS.............................86
愛讓愛更加華麗LOVE FLOURISHES IN LOVE..................................................................................................94
肆_: "為什麼"_的智慧.....................................................................................................................................................99
愛是會傳染的LOVE IS CONTAGIOUS ..............................................................................................................100
愛是不具個人角度的LOVE HAS NO PERSONAL ANGLES............................................................................111
愛是方法也是目的LOVE IS THE MEANS AND THE END..............................................................................118
愛會尋求它自己的同類LOVE SEEKS ITS OWN LIKENESS ...........................................................................125
愛是讓其它人自在的放手LOVE IS A FREEING OF THE OTHER ONE .........................................................133
愛是接納LOVE IS ACCEPTANCE......................................................................................................................137

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作者序

When I think this book is going to be about me, I get cringing feelings. It's not easy for me to be an ego and yet I must talk as an ego in order to communicate. 每當我想到這本書所要講的內容是關於我的時候，我就會有一種退縮的感覺。因為 對我來說，再變回成一個自我 (Ego) 是件不容易的事，而為了溝通的關係我又得以像 是一個自我在講話的方式來發言。

Once you see your real inner Self, it's very difficult to identify as a separate individualan ego.

因為一但你見到過你真正的我 (Self) 之後，那就很難再自認是一個個別的個人 -- 自 我。

But I can go through with the telling of this story. 但我還是能說完這整個故事的。

I fell into something that everyone is looking for. I had no idea it was there. All of my desires were fulfilled; all my miseries dropped away; all my sicknesses disappeared. I came into an exalted state of happiness, so tremendous, it is difficult to describe. 我掉到一個大家都在尋找的名堂裏去了，其實我跟本就不知道它在那兒。我所有的 欲望都被滿足了；所有的憂悽都脫落了；所有的病痛都不見了。我進入到一個極致 的幸福狀態，這狀態很鉅大，很難去加以形容。

This joy is what everyone in the world is seeking. This is what very few people are finding. But the way this fell upon me can be given to others, so that it can fall upon them also. 這種愉悅就是世界上的每一個人所在追尋的。這也就是那幾個極少數的人所找到 的。只是這個讓這個掉到我身上的方法是可以授受給它人的，由此這個名堂也同樣 的可以掉到他們身上去。

I'm talking about something that hardly anyone has yet experienced. How can I describe it? No limits on anything in any direction whatsoever. The ability to do anything for the mere thought of it. Yet it is more than that.

我現在要講的是一種幾乎沒有人曾經經驗過的名堂，那我又要怎麼去形容它呢？ 不論在什麼角度上任何事物都不會有限制，只要想像就能讓所有事情成辦的能 力，而還不只是這些而已。

Imagine the highest joy you can have, multiply it by a hundred, and tell me what it is. You will only feel it to the degree that you're capable of feeling it, experiencing it. It can't be gotten intellectually through the mind.

想像一下你所能擁有的最高愉悅境界，把它乘上百倍，然後告訴我那是什麼。你只

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能盡你所能的去感受它、體驗它而已，並無法以智能性的心智去加以捕捉的。

Imagine being madly in love with your mate and embracing your mate, with your mind on nothing else but the joy of the embrace. Now double that for two people, quadruple 使成四倍 it for four people, and then make it four billion times greater by including the four billion people on earth.

想像一下你和你的伴侶陷入瘋狂的戀愛並擁抱著你的伴侶，你的心中除了擁抱的愉 悅以外什麼都沒有。然後把那愉悅乘以 2 代表兩個人，乘以 4 代表四個人，然後將它 繼續擴大到 40 億倍以包括地球上的四十億人。

That's the feeling. 就是那個感覺。

Lester ． Levenson 萊斯特．利文森

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壹 : 覺醒前的日子

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愛是信任 LOVE IS TRUST

I was an average guy seeking happiness in money and women, battling my way through life like everyone else. Never finding it, I continued banging my head so hard on the brick wall of the world that I almost smashed my brains out. I had ulcers, migraine, jaundice, kidney stonesand, finally a coronary attack which put me near death.

我只是個在金錢與女人堆中尋找幸福的普通傢伙，像所有的人一樣在為生命搏殺自 己的出路。但沒找著，我繼續的用我的腦袋猛力的往「世界」這堵磚牆上撞去，幾 乎都要把腦漿給撞出來了。我患有胃潰瘍、偏頭痛、黃疸、腎結石，還有最後差點 讓我送命的冠狀動脈病變發作。

That extremity drove me into the right direction, to the knowledge of what life is all about. This knowledge gave me contentment, actually a peace which cannot be disturbed. People can yell at me, scream, do anything, and the peace in the background never changes. It's there all the time.

那個極端狀況把我導入了正確的方向，導向生命究竟是什麼的了知上。這個認知給 了我以饜足 (contentment) ，事實上就是一種無法被攪擾到的安寧感 (peace) 。別人可以 對我吼、對我咆哮、或對我做任何事，但這背景上的安寧卻從不曾變動過。

I was a rebel against society and I banged my head on its brick wall until I discovered the way out.

我是一個反抗社會的叛逆者，而且我用我的腦袋去撞這堵磚牆，一直到我發現到了 出口為止。

Now that I have discovered it, others don't have to bang their head so hard to find it. It's available for anyone who wants it.

現在我已經發現到這個了，其它的人就不需要再這麼兇的去撞他們腦袋才找著的。 任何想要的人都是可以取便的。

Anyone who really wants the knowledge and freedom gets it. All you need is you and the desire for it. You are the book. You are the real book. An intense desire for it opens up the real you to you.

任何人真想要這個知識 (knowledge) 和自在 (freedom) 的便得著，你所需要的就只是你 自己和想要得到它的想望 (desire) 而已。你就是書，你就是真正的書本，只要一個強 勁對它的望想就會把真正的你翻開來給你的。

That's what happens. But we're so plagued with blindness today that we need a teacher, one who knows and can keep pointing out the way.

這就是實際的狀況，但我們卻都被折騰於時下的迷信，說我們需要一個導師，一個 知道並能不斷指點迷津的人。

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Within you is unlimited power, knowledge and intelligence. You just open yourself up to that which you subconsciously already know, have always known and always will know. 在你內在的是無限制的能力、知識和智能，你只要打開你自己去面對你潛意識上已 經知道、一向知道而且一直都會知道的就行。

From the beginning, I was bewildered. I couldn't understand the world. I rebelled against it, yet I wanted to do right, be right with the world. From post-college days on until 1952, I just kept trying to do what I thought was the correct thing.

打從一開始起我就一直覺得很困惑，我無法理解這個世界。我反抗它，卻又想要做 的對，對於這個世界是正確的對。打從我大學畢業後的日子開始一直到 1952 年為 止，我就一直嘗試著去做些我認為是正確的事。

I had a degree in physics and I wanted to be the world's greatest physicist. I was graduated from college in 1931. No jobs for physicists then, so I shifted into engineering. I worked as an aeronautical, civil, mechanical, electrical, marine and construction engineer. 我擁有一個物理學學位，也想要成為世上最偉大的物理學家。我是畢業於 1931 年 間，當時並沒什麼給物理學家做的工作，所以我轉行到工程界，我作過航空、土 木、機械、電器、海洋和結構工程師。

I'd get a job and wouldn't last a year because it just didn't feel right. So I'd go into another type of engineering and yet another. I tried going into business for myself. I've been in many businesses, again for short periods of time. I'd get them successful, lose interest, then lose them.

我每找到工作都無法維持上一年，因為總就是覺得有點什麼不對勁的。所以我就得 轉到別個形態的工程領域去，然後再轉到另一個去。

I just kept changing and changing, never understanding why until 1952. Then I realized what I was looking for was not in a job or business. No job, no business, even when I was into it and successful, could give it to me.

我就是這樣變了又變、變了又變，從來也不明白到底是為什麼的，直到 1952 年。然 後我明白了我所尋求的名堂並不在工作或生意裏，並沒有任何工作或任何生意，即 使我曾身入其中並獲得成功，是不能給予我這個名堂的。

During my whole life, I was unconsciously seeking what I discovered in 1952. 在我整個生命中，我都是無意識的在尋求我 1952 年所發現到的這個名堂。

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關於我 MYSELF

I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 19,1909. 我在 1909 年 07 月 19 日出生於紐澤西州 (New Jersey) 的伊利莎白市 (Elizabeth) 。

My earliest recollection was of water. I always loved water. 我最早的記憶印象是水，我一向喜歡水。

When I was four, I used to walk two long blocks and two short blocks to a large docking and recreation wharf in Elizabeth port.

在我四歲的時候，我經常徒步走過兩個大街區和兩個小街區，到伊利莎白港一個大 型的停泊兼遊樂的碼頭去。

I'd climb up on a wall at the edge of the dock-it was about two feet high and about three feet wide-and I'd just lie down on it with my head over the edge watching the water flow by for hours at a time, for so many hours that my mother went looking for me. When she found me, she almost collapsed seeing me, a tot, hanging over the edge of the dock, and gently took me by the hand and with a smile said, "Come on home." She never scolded me. She just told me I shouldn't do that because I might fall in.

我會爬到碼頭邊緣的一堵大約兩呎高三呎寬的牆上去，然後趴下來把頭伸出去看著 流過的海水，一看就是好幾個鐘頭，時間久到我母親都開始四處找我了。當她找著 我的時候，她是幾乎暈了過去的看著我；一個小不點，把腦袋懸在碼頭邊牆外面； 然後臉上帶著微笑的用手溫和的把我抱起來說：「回家囉。」她從來不責罵我，她 只跟我說我不該那麼做因為我可能會掉下去。

But I never fell in. I didn't believe it. 但是我從沒掉下去過，我根本不相信會。

Liking the water so much I'd wander back to the dock. 由於這麼喜愛水，所以我都會再偷偷的溜回去。

Even as a child I wasn't believing what others told me. My mother warned me that green bananas made people sick. I used to love bananas. I had eaten green bananas and had not gotten sick. So to prove a point, one day I ate a dozen green bananas and said, "Look, Ma! I feel fine!"

雖然我還小，但我並不會相信人家所告訴我的。我母親警告我說沒熟的香蕉會讓人 生病的，那時我很喜歡香蕉，我曾吃了沒熟的香蕉但也沒生病。所以為了證明這一 點，有一天我就吃了一整打的綠香蕉，然後跟她說：「媽，妳看 ! 我覺得很好啊 ! 」

She just laughed.

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她就笑開了。

My mother used to get a delight out of me. Here I was, so little and acting like a grown-up, teaching her by proving things to her. 我母親經常從我這邊得到愉悅。像這次，我這麼小卻儼然大人般的用實證來給她教 導。

〝我們是不受限制的存在 —
只受限於執持在我們心智中
的限制性觀念〞

My mother was an unusually loving person. Never in her whole lifetime did she ever scold me. Never.

我母親是一位很有愛心的人，在她的一生中從來不曾斥責過我，從來沒有。

She was so good, whatever she asked, you had to do it for her. Not only I, but my three sisters did the same thing. We could never refuse her because she herself went way out of her way to help us all the time. She never said "No" to us. Wouldn't even "No" us on anything.

她是這麼的好，不論她要求什麼，你都無法拒絕。不只是我而已，就連我的三個姐 妹們也都是這樣。我們無法拒絕她是因為她不論什麼時候都是在竭盡所能的幫助我 們，她從來不會對我們說〝不〞，她甚至不會在任何事情上對我們說〝不〞。

When she died, mobs and mobs of people came to the funeral and we never expected it. She loved every person she met. What a winning personality! All of my friends, everyone, loved her.

她去世的時候，一群又一群我們沒預料到的人來參加她的葬禮。她愛她所遇到的每 一個人，這是多麼贏得人心的人格啊！我所有的朋友，每一個，都愛她。

She was the real guiding light in the family.

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