How is the Return to the Original Nature Achieved?

返璞归真是怎样达成的

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Time appears ageless while we mortals grow old. Proceeding from childhood to puberty and to adulthood, we grow out of innocence to seek fame and fortune, assisted by self-reflection, discipline, reason,
maturity, accumulation, enlightenment，metamorphosis and eventually return to innocence.

岁月永远年轻，我们慢慢老去，人生，从童真、青春、叛逆、迷茫、世俗、功名，过渡到反省、自律、理性、成熟，沉淀、顿悟、蜕变、归真。

The highest realm of life is to not forget one’s original aspiration and go back to innate artlessness.
At which stage, I may ask, does your life cease progressing?

人生的最高境界是不忘初心，回归天真. 请问，您的人生经历到哪个阶段便停止了呢？

“Innocence of a child’s mind, pure without any falsehood, due to the original conscience at the very beginning”, said Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty. Muddled, one in his childhood feels curious by the call of all new.

明朝的李贽说：“夫童心者，绝假纯真，最初一念之本心也。”童真年代，懵懵懂懂，对一切事物感到新鲜而好奇。

As he ages, the attendant confusion, hesitation, distress and struggle may sink some people into decadence.

随着年龄的增长，随之而来的是迷茫、彷徨、痛苦与挣扎，有的人就此沉沦而迷失。

Mu Xin, a contemporary Chinese writer and painter, was jailed several times from 1956 to 1979, a time period of over twenty years.

中国当代作家、画家木心，1956年至1979年，二十年间，木心多次入狱。

His two broken fingers testified to tortures inflicted on him in prison.

牢狱期间，他受尽了折磨，断了两根手指。

His enemies had expected：“ This man would definitely crawl out of the prison.”

关他的人想：“这小子肯定得爬着从牢里出来。

To their great disappointment, however, he was upright as before on his release from prison, pants smooth-ironed.

可木心出狱时依旧腰杆坚挺，裤子还有笔直的缝。

On seeing one of his photos taken at that time, the renowned writer LIANG WenDao expressed his amazement: his face registered with determination and vitality didn’t show any sign people would ever expect to see in a former prisoner.

作家梁文道看到木心年轻时候的照片，不禁感叹，他神情那么坚定，精气那么足，这不像是坐过牢的人啊。

After years of darkness and turmoil, he takes himself as “snow falling in thick flakes in spite of darkness”.

在见过人世的复杂与阴暗，经历过世俗的纷扰和荒诞之后。 木心自己说：“我是一个在黑暗中大雪纷飞的人哪！

Maturity in its true sense entails removing your mind from the outside world despite your ordeal. Enjoying life without wallowing in it and having gone through the vicissitudes of life without negativity.

“真正的成熟是你在经历过太多事情后，依然能够将内心与这个世界进行剥离。享受人生而不沉湎、历经苍凉而不消极。”

Those toughening experiences of Purgatory are chaos before dawn!

炼狱的历练是黎明前的混沌！

Only with fire of hell can you temper your power of heaven.

只有经过地狱般的磨炼，才能炼出创造天堂的力量。

Everyone, no matter what you are doing now, is bound to be rendered a new lease of life as long as your original aspiration remains unchanged and your faith unswerving.

每个人，不管现在做什么，只要初心不改、信念不移，必然重获新生。

It is an accurate indicator of your maturity, sagacious yet forgiving. Fully enlightened at heart in spite of darkness in eyes, you live a clean, bright, cheerful and natural life.

这是一个生命走到成熟期的真实展现，知世故而不世故，看透人性却又宽恕人性，眼前黑暗而内心却充满光明，活得干净、明快、轻松和潇洒。

Romain Rolland once said, “There is only one heroism in the world：to see the world as it is and to love it.”

如罗曼罗兰所说：“世上只有一种英雄主义，就是在认清生活真相之后依然热爱生活。”

Picasso, who went beyond maturity for a return to innocence, had accumulated amazing wealth.

而越过成熟回归天真的毕加索的一生极其富有，

He passed away at the age of 91 with a legacy amounting to 39.5 billion yuan, including over 70,000 paintings, several luxury mansions and vast amounts of cash.

在其91岁辞世时，留下了7万多幅画作、数栋豪宅和巨额现金。据测算，毕加索的遗产总值达到395亿元人民币。

The figures were and are truly very large.
有人这样总结了他的一生：做自己，活成了巨富。
He was portrayed as a billionaire who had managed to be himself.

那个年代这是一个庞大的数字，就现在而言这也是一笔巨款。

This account of his life is not meant to talk about his wealth but suggest that he never forgot his original intention, evidenced by his unlimited creativity and child-like innocence in his paintings of various themes.

提及毕加索的生平，并不是想说明他的财富。而是想表达，他终其一生都没有忘记自己的初衷，他的画作里有很多的主题，他无限的创意和童趣的本真。

He once said,”I could draw as well as Raphael at 14, but I spend the rest of my life learning how to draw like a child.”

就如他自己所说：“我14岁就能画得像拉斐尔一样好，之后我用一生去学习像小孩子那样画画。”

Finally, let us

最后，让我们一起

stick to our original intention and childlike innocence which allow us to be more friendly than indifferent.

不忘初心，回归一份童真，使你多一份与人的友善，少一些冷漠麻木的照章办事；

stick to our original intention and childlike innocence which allow us to be more candid than worldly-wise.

不忘初心，回归一份童真，使你多一份与人的坦诚，少一些故作谦逊的明哲保身。

stick to our original intention and childlike innocence which allow us to be more responsible than sloppy.

不忘初心，回归一份童真，使你多一份与人的担当，少一些颓废衰疲的敷衍了事。

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张广龙翻译
黄君艳校对
2022.3.22