which cause his bondage to existence, such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
他没有那些导致执着生存的欲念,这样的比丘抛弃此岸与彼岸,犹如蛇蜕去了衰老的皮。If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind.
如果我们没有认识自己充满着高傲、野心欲念、脆弱、可悲和不义,那么我们的确是瞎子。When all dreams were posed and described as multicolored, desires were to become go with-out saying, only come down on but only return.
在所有梦想被揭示,并描述得五光十色之时,欲念变得理所当然,只有索取,从无回馈;Perhaps if they were to let go, their hands would then be open to grasp on to something newer and richer.
假如他们顺其自然,放弃某些欲念,反到有机会获得新的或者更多的东西。Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
所以,上帝任凭他们随着心里的欲念做下流的事,彼此玷污自己的身体。This desire, and hunger, made me arrive in New Orleans in an instant, like a flash vanishing at the end of horizon.
这种欲念,和饥饿,使我瞬间就到达了新奥尔良,就像地平线尽头消失的一次闪电。And because I'm suppressing my hot desires, I have not pleaded with him to stay a while.
因为我压制住我那狂热的欲念,我未曾请求他多留一会儿。My constant state of relaxation would prevent any desire to complicate my life.
放松的状态可以防止任何使我生活复杂的欲念。In any case, I learn not to separate these creatures bursting with violent energy from the sky where their desires whirl.
总之,我明白了,不应拆散这些有着狂暴精力的生物,他们爆发出的精力源于天空,他们的欲念亦回旋于九霄之上。