学习佛的智慧，包括佛对抗战道士的情况的解释。附加我注解：

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.


I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

佛这里说的NIRVANA，是没有出生的，没有展现的，没有依附的，不会腐烂的，没有污点的。佛坦言这个境界是很难看到的，很难懂的，平和的，完美的，超越逻辑的，只有智慧的人才能看到的。


It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

佛说，战胜你自己比战胜一千个战役还重要。战胜自己的胜利是永远的，无法被任何人夺去的，包括天使，魔鬼，天堂，还是地狱。

（米）佛强调了，了解自己的重要性超过一切！在没有了解自己前，不要想解决世界的问题。

你注意到了没有？当你或地了心灵胜利，就根本不必担心天使，魔鬼，天堂或地狱，这些概念都消散了，没意义了。

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

佛彻底否认了我们（EGO）的真实性。他说我们的生活是MIND创造的，是幻觉。我们的记忆创造了我们的目前，我们现在的思想创造了我们的明天。

（米）；我要补充一下，所有过去和明天，都是人的记忆和思想的产物，都是幻觉，有了这个很真的幻觉，我们就看到我们的肉体了。


Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

安静比一千句空洞的话更有用。

（米），你要去除幻觉，必须静思，安静自己的心，入定。最后什么经都不要看了。


He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

佛说，看到统一的人必然在万物中看到了自己。看到万物在自己里面。看世界不用分离区别的眼睛（IMPARTIAL EYE）。


In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

天上，没有什么东方和西方，是人们的分离心（distinctiong out of their own minds) ，看出了方向，信以为真。


Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

和平安详来自于内部，不要到外面寻找。


The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

MIND（EGO的心）是所有愉快和非愉快的来源。


As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

如果你要健康，和平，愉快降临到你的家庭，你必须要修炼你的心。 如果一个人可以修炼自己的心，他可以醒悟，所有的智慧美德都可以得到了。

（米）：这个Control不是指控制你的思想，因为你无法控制思想，佛的意思是观察思想，了解思想，进而了解自己的心，最后没有了思想，所有的神圣都在那里等待了。


Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

说话的方式要注意，因为别人会误解，可能正确地或错误地影响别人。


The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.


Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

静思带来智慧，不静思，人就会无知。


Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

要静思，纯净地生活，安静。像月光一样照亮世界。

（米）注意，佛用月光，而不用太阳，就是形象地比喻了那个安静安详的博爱。不必要像太阳那样耀眼。


Look within, thou art the Buddha.

看你的里面，你就是佛！

（米）我不是一直强调，真理就在你的心里，观察它吧，最智慧的大师就是你自己。不要老是崇拜别的大师，问自己是最重要的。我们记得吗？耶稣在托马斯福音里，也强调了上帝的天国在你的里面。


Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

不要相信任何人告诉你的东西。也不要因为你尊敬某位大师就信他说的话。要自己坚持，判别他们的教诲是否是出于善良，道德，然后才决定用他们作为指导。


A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.


Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. 

保持健康的身心秘密就是，不要为过去而悲哀惋惜，或者担心未来，担心未来有麻烦。而要彻底地生活在目前（PRESENT MOMENT）

（米）我们明白了吧，那个抗战道士理解同样的道理，虽然他的妻儿过世，但他不惋惜过去，他接受了现实，只能彻底地生活在目前，所以当他看到远方的蓝色的山脉，他不由自主地赞美了。佛的教诲就是要人们放下自己无法控制的事，连最最悲哀的事都要放下，生活在目前，这样，你就领悟了，时间是没有的，一切都是永恒的现在。

有人谴责他，说他不该在最悲痛的时候赞美生活和自然。但想想，那个谴责他的人，怎么知道道士心里有多悲哀，怎么知道他已经完全放下了悲哀？

所以，我们外人只能意会他的境界。