STEP 55 I WILL ACCEPT THE WORLD AS IT IS.

IDEALISM IS THE ATTEMPT NOT TO ACCEPT THE WORLD as it is. It justifies blame and condemnation. It establishes expectations of a life that does not yet exist and thus renders you vulnerable to grave disappointment. Your idealism fortifies your condemnation.

理想主义就是试图不接受世界的现状。它为指责和谴责提供了理由。它使你对尚不存在的生活抱有期望，从而使你容易遭受严重的失望。你的理想主义强化了你的谴责。

ACCEPT THE WORLD TODAY AS IT IS, not as you want it to be. With acceptance comes love, for you cannot love a world that you want to exist. You can only love a world that exists as it is. Accept yourself now as you exist, and true desire for change and advancement will naturally emerge within you. Idealism justifies condemnation. Recognize this great truth, and you will begin to have a more immediate and profound experience of life and of that which is genuine and not based upon hope or expectation but upon true engagement.

接受当今世界的现状，而不是你想要的样子。接受就意味着爱，因为你无法爱一个你希望存在的世界。你只能爱一个如实存在的世界。接受你现在的存在，你内心自然会产生真实的改变和进步的愿望。理想主义是谴责的理由。认出这个伟大的真理，你就会开始对生活和真实的生命有更直接、更深刻的体验，这种体验不是基于希望或期待，而是基于真实的参与。

THEREFORE, IN YOUR TWO 30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS today, concentrate on accepting things exactly as they are. You are not condoning violence, conflict or ignorance in doing this. You are merely accepting the conditions that exist so that you may work with them constructively. Without this acceptance, you have no starting place for true engagement. Allow the world to be exactly as it is, for it is this world that you have come to serve.

因此，在今天的两次30分钟练习中，集中精力接受事物的本来面目。这样做并不是纵容暴力、冲突或无知。你只是在接受现有的条件，以便建设性地处理它们。没有这种接受，你就没有真实参与的起点。让世界保持原样，因为你要服务的就是这个世界。

PRACTICE 55: Two 30-minute practice periods.

练习 55：两个 30 分钟的练习时段