2. Physical Condition
2. 身體狀況

I once asked a very great Murshid which was best suited for psychic and occult powers, strength or weakness of the body. No doubt there are people who, when they were sick and weak, found themselves able to see things which, being well, they could not see. But this kind of psychic power has no scope for development, because there is no strength. We sometimes think that in order to have psychic powers we should become ethereal, delicate and weak, but physical strength is needed. If it were not so, God would not have manifested Himself as man. If this physical world were not needed it would never have been created. At whatever time of life, a person, whatever his constitution, should spend twenty minutes a day developing his bodily strength. How to develop physical strength is a very extensive subject and it would take a long time to study it.

我曾問過一位非常偉大的穆希德（導師中的導師），對於靈能力量與神祕力量而言，身體強壯或虛弱，哪一種狀況最為適合。毫無疑問，有些人在生病虛弱時，發現自己能看見一些在健康時無法看見的事物。然而，這種靈能力量沒有發展的餘地，因為其中缺乏力量。我們有時以為，為了擁有靈能力量，自己應當變得輕靈、纖弱而虛弱；然而，身體的力量是必要的。若非如此，神就不會將祂自己顯現為人。若這個物質世界並非必要，它也絕不會被創造出來。無論處在人生的哪個階段，也無論一個人的體質如何，每天都應花二十分鐘來發展身體的力量。如何發展身體力量是一個非常廣泛的主題，需要很長的時間來研究。

Physical weakness produces many bad effects and prevents a person, however great his spiritual progress may be, to do what he wishes. There is weakness of the heart, of the body and of the brain. Weakness of the heart makes a person at one moment very happy, at another very sad. Small things make him instantly very joyful or very sad. To make the heart strong one should eat living food: that is fresh food. By drinking alcohol, which is dead matter, the worst matter is put into the heart, and its condition becomes very bad.

身體的虛弱會產生許多不良的影響，並使一個人無論在靈性上已有多大的進展，都無法做到自己所希望做的事。人會有心的虛弱、身體的虛弱，以及頭腦的虛弱。心的虛弱使人這一刻非常快樂，下一刻又非常悲傷。一點小事，就會使他立刻非常喜悅或非常悲傷。要使心強健，一個人應當食用有生命的食物，也就是新鮮的食物。飲用酒精，這種死的物質，便是把最糟的物質放進心裡，使心的狀況變得很差。

Weakness of the body makes a person unable to keep still, to have repose. To make the body strong a balance of activity and sleep is needed, a balance of work and repose, and physical exercises should be done. When you work there must be activity and no slowness, and when you rest there must be slowness and no activity. How many useless words do we speak, how much energy do we waste in useless actions. We should expend our energy on what is worthwhile, and not waste it in useless actions.

身體的虛弱使一個人無法保持安靜，也無法得到休息。要使身體強健，需要活動與睡眠之間的平衡、工作與休息之間的平衡，也應當做身體的鍛鍊。當你工作時，就必須有活力，不可遲緩；而當你休息時，就必須緩慢下來，不可活動。我們說了多少無用的話，又在多少無用的行動中浪費了能量。我們應當把能量用在值得的事情上，而不是浪費在無用的行動中。

Good and righteous actions, good feelings – all the things people teach their children – are necessary. In reality it does not matter to God whether you are good or bad, righteous or unrighteous, but by a pious and good life man keeps himself, his body and brain, in good condition.

善良而正直的行為、良善的感受——人們教導孩子的一切這些事——都是必要的。實際上，對神而言，你是善是惡、正直或不正直並沒有關係；但是，藉由虔敬而良善的生活，人能使自己、自己的身體與頭腦維持在良好的狀況。

Weakness of the brain produces heat. In such a condition, however nice, however good a person may be, he is at one moment very hot-tempered, then cold as snow, then hot again. To worry very much, to repent very much, to sorrow very much, to think that life is a great burden upon us, to make a great thing out of every small event, of every small responsibility – it all weakens the brain. Normal deeds and actions and normal rest strengthen the brain.

頭腦的虛弱會產生熱。在這種狀況下，無論一個人多麼和善、多麼良善，他這一刻可能脾氣非常火爆，接著又冷若冰雪，然後又再次火熱起來。過度憂慮、過度悔恨、過度悲傷，認為生命對自己是一個沉重的負擔，把每一件小事、每一份小小的責任都看成大事——這一切都會削弱頭腦。正常的作為與行動，以及正常的休息，會使頭腦強健。

Remember that all things pass. If worry comes – it is a passing thing. Keep it away, and if it is already there, help it to go; do not hold on to it. If you are good, the world will not understand you, and the better you become, the less the world will understand you. So you have a choice: to be like the world, or to be good and let the world misunderstand you. Let your joy and your satisfaction be within you.

要記得，一切都會過去。如果憂慮來了——它也是會過去的事物。不要讓它靠近；如果它已經來了，就幫助它離去，不要抓住它不放。如果你是良善的，這個世界不會理解你；而你變得越好，這個世界就越不會理解你。因此，你有一個選擇：要像這個世界一樣，或者保持良善，任由這個世界誤解你。讓你的喜悅與滿足存在於你自己之內。

The Sufis have ways of exciting the heart and making it quiet..They excite it when there is benefit in exciting it; they make it quiet when there is benefit in making it quiet. They let the brain be active, and let it rest.

蘇菲有一些方法，可以使心振奮，也可以使心安靜。他們在使心振奮有益時使它振奮；在使心安靜有益時使它安靜。他們讓頭腦活動，也讓頭腦休息。

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