We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

我们曾说过,生命的规模是如此之小,以致于个体在其整个存在过程中还没有足够的专门化到足以成为独特的植物或动物;然而,这些都是更简单形式的确定的生命。

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If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

如果你有非我的洞见,如果你有无常的洞见,你应该让洞见成为你每天都保持活力的专注。然后你说什么,你想什么,你做什么,然后你将在智慧的光芒下,你将避免犯错误和制造痛苦。

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

经过长时间的沉思,我深信,一个有坚定目标的人必须完成它,没有什么能抗拒一种意志,这种意志一旦实现,就连生存也将受到威胁。

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

你似乎认为,邪恶能拥有的唯一真正存在是有意识的存在——没有人是邪恶的,除非他自己承认它。我不同意。

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

一个人不能爱一棵修剪过的植物,那么他要么做得不好,要么缺乏感情。

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

杂草是一种植物,除了学会如何成行生长外,它已经掌握了所有的生存技能。

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

纵观历史,讲故事是生命的开始。

The simpler it is, the more beautiful it will become.

它越简单,就会变得越漂亮。