STEP 284 STILLNESS IS MY GIFT TO THE WORLD.

How can stillness be a gift, you may ask. It is a gift because it is an expression of certainty and peace. How can stillness be a gift to the world? Because your stillness allows Knowledge to express itself through you. How can stillness be a gift to the world? Because your stillness enables all other minds to be still so that they may know. A mind in conflict cannot be still. A mind that is desperately seeking for resolution cannot be still. A mind that is turbulent with its own evaluations cannot be still. Thus, as you present the stillness that you are now cultivating to the world, you give all other minds that recognize you the opportunity and the demonstration that will enable them to enter stillness themselves. You are, in essence, communicating that peace and freedom are possible and that there is a great presence of Knowledge in the world, calling upon each separated and tormented mind.

你或许会问，静止怎么会是一份礼物？它是一份礼物，因为它是确定性与和平的表现。静止如何能成为世界的礼物？因为你的静止让内识通过你来表达它自己。静止如何能成为世界的礼物？因为你的静止使得所有其他的心灵也能静止，以便它们能够知道。一个处于冲突中的心灵无法静止。一个迫切寻求解决方案的心灵无法静止。一个被自我评估搅动的心灵无法静止。因此，当你将你现在正在培养的静止呈现给世界时，你给所有认识你的人提供了一个机会和示范，使他们也能够进入静止。你本质上是在传达，和平与自由是可能的，并且在这个世界上有一种伟大的内识存在，召唤每一个分离和痛苦的心灵。

Your stillness is a gift. It will calm all minds. It will still all controversies. It will have a calming, soothing effect on all who suffer under the weight of their own imagination. This, then, is a great gift. It is not your only gift, for you will also give through your ideas, your actions and your accomplishments in the world. Here you will demonstrate the evolving qualities of mind that are required of you as a student of Knowledge. Yet of all that you may contribute to the world, your stillness will have the greatest effect, for in stillness you will resonate with all other minds, you will calm all other minds and you will be extending true peace into the world and the freedom that it demonstrates.

你的静止是一份礼物。它将平静所有心灵，平息所有争论，给所有在他们自身想象的重压下受苦的人带来安抚、抚慰的效果。因此，这是一份伟大的礼物。它不是你唯一的礼物，因为你还会通过你的想法、你的行动和你在世界上的成就来给予。在这里，你将展示作为一名内识学生所要求的心灵不断发展的特质。然而，在你所能给予世界的一切中，你的静止将产生最大的影响，因为在静止中你将与所有其他心灵产生共鸣，平静所有其他心灵，并将真正的和平与自由带入世界，并展现出它的样子。

Today remember the importance of stillness upon the hour. Look about at the world of turbulence and realize its great application there. In your two deeper meditation practices, give yourself again to stillness. Allow yourself to escape the ambivalence and uncertainty that haunt you and that hold you back. Come closer to the realm of stillness, which is the realm of Knowledge, for there you will find peace and certainty. This is God’s gift to you, and this will be your gift to the world.

今天，请记住静止的重要性，在每个小时中都要牢记这一点。环顾四周，看看动荡的世界，意识到静止在其中的伟大应用。在你两次深度冥想的练习中，再次允许你自己进入静止。允许你自己摆脱那些困扰你、阻碍你前进的模糊不清和不确定性。靠近静止的领域，这是内识的领域，因为在内识中你将找到和平与确定性。这是上帝赐给你的礼物，而这也将是你给予世界的礼物。

Practice 284: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

练习 284 ：两个 30 分钟的练习时段，每小时练习。