STEP 264 I WILL LEARN OF FREEDOM THIS DAY.

Today you will have an opportunity to learn more about freedom. The step you take today will be very substantial in giving you a new viewpoint about freedom, about bondage, about problem solving and about the nature of true advancement.

今天，你将有机会进一步学习自由。你今天迈出的这一步，将为你带来关于自由、关于束缚、关于解决问题以及关于真实进步自然的新视角。

Today think about your lesson on the hour and think about what freedom is. In your longer practice periods, devote your mind to thinking about freedom. This is a very important focal point today. In your longer meditations in particular, devote your mind entirely to reviewing your ideas about freedom. What do you think constitutes freedom? What do you think prevents people from being free? What produces a freedom that is lasting and secure? How can this be achieved? What will support it in the future? After you spend approximately thirty minutes thinking about all this in each practice, enter into stillness and silence. Open yourself to allow Knowledge to speak to you. Abide with your Teachers there. After you have exhausted your ideas, enter into stillness and receptivity.

每小时思考今天的课程，并思考自由是什么。在较长的练习期间，将你的心灵专注于思考自由。这是今天一个非常重要的焦点。特别是在较长的冥想中，全心全意地审视你关于自由的想法。你认为什么构成了自由？你认为是什么阻碍了人们获得自由？什么能带来持久而安全的自由？如何实现这一点？未来需要什么来支持它？在每次练习中，用大约30分钟的时间思考所有这些问题，然后进入静止和静默的状态。允许你自己开放，允许内识对你讲话。与你的老师同在。当你用尽你的想法后，进入静止与接收的状态。

It is very important that you be aware of your own ideas about freedom because until these are recognized and adjusted, they will continue to cast their influence upon you. They will continue to dominate your thinking and thus your behavior. A greater freedom is now available to you, but you must learn how to approach it. Today you shall learn more about freedom—what you think freedom is and what freedom really is.

察觉你自己关于自由的想法是非常重要的，因为在这些想法被识别并调整之前，它们将继续对你施加影响，并继续主导你的思维和行为。现在一个更伟大的自由正向你敞开，但你必须学习如何接近它。今天你将更多地学习自由——你认为的自由是什么，以及自由真正的意义是什么。

Practice 264: Two 40-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

练习 264 ：两次 40 分钟的练习时段。每小时练习。