Time is a series of movements. So movement is time. And time is not only by the watch, chronological：time as the sun rising and the sun setting, the darkness of the night and the brightness of the morning. There is also psychological time, inward time: ‘I am this, but I will become that’; ‘I don’t know mathematics, but one day I will learn all about it.’ That requires time. To learn a new language requires a great deal of time. There is time to learn, to memorize, to develop a skill, and there is also time as the self-centred entity saying, ‘I will become something else.’ The ‘becoming’ psychologically also implies time. We are inquiring into not only the time to learn a skill but also the time which we have developed as a process of achievement. You do not know how to meditate, so you sit cross-legged and learn how to control your thoughts so that one day you will achieve what meditation is supposed to be. So you practise, practise, practise, and thus you become mechanical. That is, whatever you practise makes you mechanical.

時間是一系列的運(yùn)動，所以運(yùn)動就是時間。而時間不僅僅是鐘表上、時序上的時間：日升日落的時間，黑暗的夜晚和明亮的清晨這樣的時間，此外還有心理上的時間、內(nèi)在的時間：“我是這樣的，但我要變成那樣”；“我不懂?dāng)?shù)學(xué)，但有一天我會弄懂的?！边@都需要時間。學(xué)一門新語言需要大量的時間。存在著學(xué)習(xí)、記憶、鍛煉技能所需要的時間，還有自我中心的存在體說“我要成為別的什么”這樣的時間。這種心理上的“成為”也隱含了時間。我們探究的不僅僅是學(xué)會一門技能需要的時間，還有我們作為成就的過程建立起來的時間。你不知道如何冥想，于是你盤腿坐下，學(xué)習(xí)如何控制自己的思想，以期待有一天你會達(dá)到事先設(shè)想的那種冥想。所以你練習(xí)、練習(xí)、練習(xí)，于是你變得機(jī)械，也就是說，無論你練習(xí)什么，都會讓你變得機(jī)械。

So time is the past, the present, and the future. Time that is the past is all the memories, all the experiences, knowledge, and all that human beings have achieved. All that which remains in the brain as memory is the past. That is simple. The past—the memories, the kn3owledge, the experiences, the tendencies—the background is operating now. So you are the past. And the future is what you are now, perhaps modified. The future is the past modified. See this, please understand. The past, modified in the present, is the future. So if there is no radical change in the present, tomorrow will be the same as what you are today. So the future is now—not the future needed for acquiring knowledge, but the psychological future. That is, the psyche, the ‘me’, the self, is the past, is memory. That memory modifies itself now, and goes on. So the future and the past are in the present. All time—the past, the present and the future—is contained in the now. This is not complicated please, it is logical. So if you do not change now, instantly, the future will be what you are now, what you have been. So is it possible to change radically, fundamentally, now?—not in the future.

所以說時間就是過去、現(xiàn)在和未來。過去的時間就是所有的記憶、所有的經(jīng)驗和知識，以及人類所得到的一切。大腦里作為記憶留存下來的一切，就是過去，這很簡單。過去——記憶、知識、經(jīng)驗、傾向——這個背景現(xiàn)在正運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)著，所以你就是過去。而未來就是你現(xiàn)在的樣子，也許會稍作調(diào)整，未來就是調(diào)整之后的過去。請看到這一點，理解這一點。過去在此刻得到調(diào)整之后，就是未來。所以，如果現(xiàn)在你沒有發(fā)生根本的轉(zhuǎn)變，明天你還會跟今天一個樣。所以未來就是現(xiàn)在——不是獲取知識所需要的那種未來，而是心理上的未來。也就是說，心智、“我”、自我，就是過去，就是記憶。這記憶在此刻調(diào)整自己，然后再延續(xù)下去。所以未來和過去都在此刻。所有的時間——過去、現(xiàn)在和未來——都包含在此刻之中。拜托，這并不復(fù)雜，這是合乎邏輯的。所以，如果你現(xiàn)在沒有發(fā)生即刻的轉(zhuǎn)變，那么未來就會是你現(xiàn)在的樣子、你過去的樣子。那么，現(xiàn)在——而不是未來——有可能發(fā)生徹底的、根本的轉(zhuǎn)變嗎？

We are the past. There is no question about it. And that past gets modified by reaction, by challenges, in various ways. And that becomes the future. Look, you have had a civilization in this country for three to five thousand years. That is the past. But modern circumstances demand that you break away from the past, and so you have no culture any more. You may talk about your past culture and enjoy its past fame, but that past is blown up, scattered by the present demands, the present challenge. And that challenge, that demand is changing it into an economic entity.

我們就是過去，這一點毫無疑問。而這個過去通過各種方式，借助反應(yīng)和挑戰(zhàn)得以調(diào)整，然后就變成了未來。你瞧，這個國家擁有三千到五千年的文明，這就是過去。而當(dāng)代的環(huán)境要求你脫離過去，于是你們就再也沒有了文化。你們也許會談?wù)撨^去的文化，對它過去的名聲津津樂道，但那過去已經(jīng)被當(dāng)今的需求、當(dāng)今的挑戰(zhàn)摧毀了、拆散了。而這種挑戰(zhàn)、這種需求正把它轉(zhuǎn)變成一個經(jīng)濟(jì)實體。