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。

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

为了在这个世界上只存在一次,就有必要永远不再存在。

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

作家就像一棵豆科植物——他有他的小日子,然后变得有弦。

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

在生存之战中,才能是制胜法宝;机智是聪明的步法。

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

我喜欢满身灰尘,骑马,种土豆和棉花。

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。