STEP 47 WHY DO I NEED TEACHERS?

YOU WILL ASK THIS QUESTION SOONER OR LATER and perhaps on many occasions. It is born of your expectations of yourself that you would ask this question. Yet when you look carefully at your life, you will see that you have required instruction for everything that you have learned. Perhaps things that you felt inside yourself appeared to be created by you, but they, too, are the result of instruction. You have been prepared through relationships for everything that you have learned, whether it be a practical skill or a deeper insight. To realize this engenders great appreciation for relationships and a full affirmation of the power of contribution in the world.

你迟早会问这个问题，也许会问很多次。你会问这个问题，是因为你对自己抱有期望。然而，当你仔细回顾自己的一生时，你会发现你所学到的一切都需要指导。也许你内心感受到的想法似乎是你自己创造的，但它们也是指导的结果。你所学到的一切，无论是实用的技能还是更深刻的见解，都是通过关系准备好的。认识到这一点，就会对关系产生极大的感激之情，并充分肯定自己在世界上所做贡献的力量。

IF YOU WERE INTENDING TO HONESTLY APPROACH LEARNING any skill, first you must recognize how much you do not know, then you must recognize how much you need to learn, and then you must seek the best form of instruction possible. This must apply to the reclamation of Knowledge. You must realize how little you know, how much you need to know and then receive the instruction that is provided. Is it a weakness to need a teacher? No. It is an honest recognition based upon an honest evaluation. If you realize how little you know and how much you need to know and the power of Knowledge itself, you will understand how obvious this is. How can you give to those who think they already have, when in reality they are poor? You cannot. And their poverty will be self-inflicted and self-maintained.

如果你想真诚地学习任何技能，首先你必须认识到你不知道的技能有多少，然后你必须认识到你需要学习的技能有多少，然后你必须尽可能寻求最好的指导方式。这必须适用于内识的开垦。你必须认识到自己知道的有多少，需要学习的有多少，然后接受所提供的指导。需要老师是一种弱点吗？不，这是一种基于诚实评估的诚实认识。如果你意识到自己知道的有多么少，需要知道的有多么多，以及内识本身的力量，你就会明白这一点有多么明显。对于那些自以为已经拥有而实际上却很贫穷的人，你怎么能给予他们帮助呢？你做不到。他们的贫穷是自己造成的，也是自己维持的。

WHY DO YOU NEED A TEACHER? Because you need to learn. And you need to unlearn that which you have learned that is holding you back. In your two practice periods today, with your eyes closed in meditation, consider why you need a Teacher. Observe any thoughts that seem to indicate that you could do it on your own if you were smart enough or strong enough or met some other qualification. If these expectations arise, recognize them for what they are. They are an insistence that you remain ignorant by proclaiming yourself an adequate instructor. You cannot teach yourself what you do not know, and the attempt to do so merely recirculates old information and binds you closer to where you are now.

为什么需要老师？因为你需要学习。你需要解除那些阻碍你学习的想法。在今天的两次练习中，闭目冥想，思考你为什么需要老师。观察是否有任何想法似乎表明，如果你足够聪明、足够强大或符合其他一些条件，你就可以自己做到。如果出现这些期望，请认清它们的本质。它们是在坚持要求你继续保持无知，宣称自己是一个足够的指导者。你不可能教自己不知道的东西，而试图这样做只会重复旧的信息，使你更接近现在的状态。

THEREFORE, IN PRACTICE TODAY RECOGNIZE your need for true instruction and your resistance, if it is there, to the presence of true instruction which is available to you now.

因此，在今天的练习中，认识到你对真实指导的需求，以及你对真实指导的抗拒（如果有的话）。

PRACTICE 47: Two 30-minute practice periods.

练习 47：两个 30 分钟的练习时段