There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

  • -- Bernard Hill 伯纳德山

在我的童年时代,有一股贫穷的潜流。我们和我的祖母住在她的两居室里,我和我的父母睡在一起。我们有便宜的假期,我不得不为我的自行车攒钱,等我长大了就买一张纸。

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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。

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

一个早熟的天才可能被认为是童年时代的天才。当孩子长大了,它会消失得无影无踪。也许有一天这个男孩会成为一个真正的画家,甚至是一个伟大的画家。但到那时,他将不得不重新开始一切,从零开始。

We assume from childhood that certain fields of study are closed to us, and it never occurs to us in adulthood to see whether they might not have opened up for us in the interim.

我们从小就认为某些领域的研究对我们来说是封闭的,而在成年后,我们从来没有想过这些领域是否会在这段时间里为我们敞开大门。