如果你想经历爱，你必须冒一切险

Love will caress you. But it will also go deep down to your roots and shake them to make you free.

爱会抚慰/爱抚你。但它也会深入你的根，撼动它们让你自由。

It is something to be remembered: most of us go on living in a contradiction. On the one hand we want freedom; on the other hand we go on clinging to something. Freedom is a risk. In the cage the parrot is safe, secure. In freedom, although he gains the whole existence, the whole sky, he loses the safety and the security.

有件事要记住：我们大多数人都活在矛盾之中。一方面我们想要自由；另一方面我们继续执着于某些东西。自由是冒险。在笼子里，鹦鹉是安全，有保障的。在自由里，尽管他获得了整个存在，整个天空，但他也失去了安全和保障。

But freedom is such a value, anything can be sacrificed for it. And love needs absolute freedom to grow. Only then can you make the whole sky your home. People afraid of insecurity, unsafety, choose just the word love but never experience it.

但自由如此有价值，为之牺牲任何东西都是值得的。爱需要绝对的自由来成长。只有这样你才能把整个天空变成你的家。人们害怕没有保障，不安全，他们只选择了“爱”这个词，但从来不去经历它。

If you want to experience love, you will have to risk everything and all – all your clingings, all your future safeties. But instead of sacrificing clingings and safeties and securities, man in his deep sleep has sacrificed love and saved security.

如果你想经历爱，你必须冒一切险——你所有的执着，你所有的未来保障。但与其牺牲执着、安全和保障，在深深的昏睡中，人们牺牲掉了爱，挽救了保障。

That is what your marriage is – love is sacrificed. There is security; of course in marriage there is security, there is safety. There is a guarantee that tomorrow, too, the wife will be available to you, the husband will be taking care of you. But what about love? Then love becomes an empty word.

你的婚姻就是这样——爱被牺牲了。你有保障；当然婚姻里有保障，有安全。有一个承诺，明天老婆会在你旁边，丈夫会照顾你。但爱呢？爱变成了一个空洞的字眼。

Be aware of empty words, and particularly words like love, which are higher than God – God is only a quality of love. Don’t go on carrying an empty container with no content in it. This is your misery, the misery of the whole humanity. Nobody loves.

要警觉空洞的字眼，尤其是像“爱”这类词，它们比神/上帝更高——神/上帝只是爱的品质之一。不要继续抱着空罐子，罐子里却什么也没有。这是你的痛苦，整个人类的痛苦。没有人在爱。

Love is risky. I teach you to take all the risks, because even a single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity. And a life without love may be immortal, but will be just a graveyard. Nothing will blossom. You will be secure – but what will you do with your security?

爱是有风险的。我教导你冒一切险，因为哪怕一个爱的片刻都顶的上整个永恒。没有爱的生命或许让你流芳百世，但它只是一座坟墓而已。什么也不会盛开。你会安全——但你要拿你的安全做什么？

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People want love but they don’t want to be prepared for all the threshing, the fire that they have to pass through. They think love is just pleasure. It is not. Love is far more: it is blissfulness, it is the ultimate benediction. But you will have to drop fear.

人们想要爱，但他们并不想准备好面对所有的打击，穿越他们必须穿越的火焰。他们认为爱只是欢愉。爱不是。爱多得多：它是极乐，它是终极祝福。但你必须放下恐惧。

The man who is full of fear will never know the sweet taste of love. And if you have not known love, you have not known anything: all your knowledge is useless, all your treasures are useless. All your respectabilities are useless.

一个充满恐惧的人永远也不知道爱的甜美。如果你还没有知晓爱，那你到现在还一无所知：你所有的知识都没用，你所有的财富都没用。你所有的声望和受人尊敬都没用。