當一個孩子問任何你不知道的事情時，就說你不知道

[Osho gives a three-year-old girl sannyas. The mother says her daughter wants to ask Osho about dying. She wants Osho to tell her where everything goes when it dies.]

[奧修點化一個三歲的女孩成為門徒。母親說她女兒想就死亡問問奧修。她想讓奧修告訴她，東西/萬物死了會去哪裡。]

OSHO:

That』s very good.... All children are interested in death; it is one of the natural curiosities. But rather than answering them -- because all answers will be false...

奧修：

那非常好……所有的孩子都對死亡感興趣，那是他們自然的好奇之一。但與其回答他們——因為所有的答案都是錯的……

So never answer -- just say that you don t know, that we will die and we will see. And let that be a very very tacit understanding about all those things for which you don t know the answers.

所以永遠不要回答——只是告訴他們，你並不知道，等到死的時候我們自然就知道了。對於任何你不知道答案的事情，讓這個成為你默認的理解。

When a child asks anything that you don t know accept your ignorance. Never feel that acceptance of ignorance can be harmful; it never is.

當一個孩子問任何你不知道的事情時，接受你的無知。永遠不要覺得接受無知是有害的，從來不是。

Parents always think that to accept that we don t know will be harmful, our images will fall down before the child, but in fact just the opposite is the case.

父母總是認為，接受我們不知道是有害的，在孩子面前我們的形象會受損，但事實上情況剛好相反。

Sooner or later the child is going to find that you never knew and still you answered and you answered as if you knew. And the day it is recognized, the child will feel that you have been cheating, and then all respect disappears.

孩子遲早會發現，你從來都不知道，但你仍然解答，你回答的跟知道一樣。一旦他們發現了這一點，孩子就會覺得你一直在騙他們，他對你所有的尊重都將蕩然無存。

Sooner or later the child is bound to find that the parents are as ignorant as anybody else, as powerless as anybody else, as groping in the dark as anybody else... but they pretended -- and that pretension is very destructive. So whenever there is something you don t know, say I don t know; I m searching and seeking.

遲早，孩子註定會發現，父母跟別人一樣無知，跟別人一樣無力，跟別人一樣都在黑暗中摸索……但他們假裝——假裝是非常有破壞性的。所以每當有什麼是你不知道的，就說「我不知道，我也在探尋、探索。」

And death is one of those things about which nothing can be said except one thing -- that we go back home, we go to the same place from where we have come. We don t know either. We come from some unknown source and we go back to that unknown source. Death is the completion of the circle, but both ends, the beginning and the end, are hidden in mystery.

有些事情什麼也說不了，除了說「我們會回家，我們從哪裡來就回哪裡去」，而死亡就是其中之一。我們也不知道。我們來自某些未知的源頭，我們會回到那個未知的源頭。死亡是圓圈的結束，但兩頭，開始跟結尾，都隱藏在奧秘之中。

It is just as if a bird enters into a room from one window, flutters there for a few seconds and escapes from another window outside. We know only when the bird is inside the room. We don t know from where it comes; we don t know where it has gone. All that we know is that small time, that interval, when the bird was inside the room. We had seen the bird entering from one window and escaping from another window; we don t know from where or to where.

就像一隻鳥從一扇窗戶飛進房間，亂飛了幾秒鐘就從另一扇窗戶逃了出去。只有鳥在房間里時我們才知道。我們不知道它來自哪裡，我們也不知道它去了哪裡。我們所知道的僅僅是，有那麼一小會兒，鳥在房間里。我們看到鳥從一扇窗戶飛進房間，從另一扇窗戶逃了出去，我們不知道它從哪裡來或去哪裡。

And this is the state of the whole of life. We see a child is born; the bird has entered -- from where nobody knows. And then one day a person is dead; the bird has flown. And life is just between birth and death... a small passage.

這就是一生的狀態。我們看到一個孩子出生了，鳥兒飛進來了——從沒人知道的地方。有一天人死了；鳥飛走了。生命就介於出生和死亡之間……一個小小的管道。

Make the child aware of the mystery. Rather than giving the answer it is better to make the child aware of the mysterious that s all around, so the child starts feeling more awe, more wonder. Rather than giving a flat answer, it is better to create an enquiry. Help the child to be more curious, help the child to be more enquiring. Rather than giving the answer, make the child ask more questions.

讓孩子意識到這份奧秘。與其給答案，最好讓孩子意識到周遭的奧秘，這樣孩子就會開始有更多的敬畏，更多的好奇。與其給平庸的答案，最好讓他去探尋。幫助孩子變得更加好奇，幫助孩子更多的去探尋。與其給答案，不如讓孩子問更多的問題。

If the child s heart becomes enquiring, that s enough; that s all parents can do for the child. Then the child will seek his or her own answers in his or her own way.

如果孩子的心變得愛探尋，那足夠了；那是任何父母都能為孩子做的。孩子會用他自己的方式探求他自己的答案。

Never give answers. That has been one of the most dangerous things that man has practiced down the ages, the greatest calamity -- that we are very arrogant when we give answers; we lose all humbleness.

永遠不要給答案。那是自古以來人們所做出的最危險的事情，製造的最大的災難——當我們給答案時，我們是非常傲慢的，我們一點也不謙遜。

We forget that life remains unknown -- something x . We live it and yet it remains unknown; we are in it and yet it remains unknown. Its unknowability is something that seems to be fundamental. We have known many things but the unknowability remains the same -- untouched.

我們忘記了生命始終是未知的，是一個謎。我們活它，但它仍然是未知的。我們身處其中，但它依然是未知的。似乎從根本上來說它就是不可知的。我們知道了很多事情，但那份不可知依然沒變——未被觸及。

Man has progressed in knowledge much, much is known every day; thousands of research papers go on being added to human knowledge, thousands of books go on being added. But still the fundamental remains the same. Before the fundamental we are humble and helpless.

人類在知識領域有非常多的進展，每天都有很多東西得以知曉。成千上萬份研究報告被加進人類的知識庫里，還有成千上萬本書在出版。那根本的東西卻仍然沒變。在根本面前，我們是謙遜和無助的。

So help her to feel the mystery more and more, mm?

所以幫助她越來越多的去感覺那份奧秘，嗯？

Deva means divine, paradha means mercury.... Mercury is a symbol of constant change, of aliveness, of flux, of liquidity... and these are all the qualities of a sannyasin.

Deva的意思是神聖的，paradha的意思是元氣……元氣是持續改變、活力、變動、流動性的象徵。這些全都是門徒的品質。

A sannyasin should be like mercury -- never predictable, never confined by any structure.

門徒應該像元氣一樣——永遠不可預言，永遠不被任何結構所限制。

A sannyasin is absolute freedom. You cannot catch hold of it, you cannot keep it in your fist. There is no way to imprison that quality of consciousness; it is utter freedom....

門徒是絕對自由的。你無法抓著它，你無法將其握在手裡。意識的那個品質是無法被囚禁的，它是絕對的自由……

摘自 Excerpted from：OSHOThe No Book

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