有沒有注意看過？如果你的鄰居買了一輛比你大的車子，突然間你也會需要一輛較大的車子。就在一個片刻之前並沒有這個需要；就在一片刻之前，你並沒有想要一輛大車，現在，為什麼突然會有那個需要產生？因為鄰居買了一輛。現在他有了一個較大的自我，因此你的自我遭到了威脅，你必須去買一輛較大的車子，即使你付不起，你也必須想辦法去買它。

Have you just watched it? If your neighbour purchases a bigger car than you, suddenly you also need a bigger car. Just a moment before, there was no need; just a moment before, you had not thought about a bigger car. Now how, suddenly, has the need arisen? Because the neighbour has purchased one. Now he is having a bigger ego and your ego is threatened; you have to purchase a bigger car. Even if you cannot afford it, you have to purchase it.

　　人們繼續浪費他們的生命在那個他們不需要的東西上面，人們繼續累積一些他們不需要的東西。人們繼續將他們的錢放進他們永遠都不需要的東西上面，為了要向他們不喜歡的人炫耀說：你看，這是什麼！人們甚至繼續使用他們沒有的錢來買東西，那些錢或許在兩年之內才會陸陸續續進來，他們用分期付款的方式來買車子。那些錢他們現在沒有，但是他們必須將那些錢用在他們不需要的車子上，去向他們不喜歡的人炫耀。

People go on wasting their lives in such things which they don't need in the first place. People go on accumulating things which they don't need. People go on putting their money into things which they will never need, to impress people whom they don't like. This is something! People even go on putting their money into things -- money that they don't have. They may be getting it two years afterwards; they purchase a car in instalments. The money they don't have right now, but they have to put that money into a car that they don't need, to impress people that they don't like.

　　我聽說：有兩隻母牛在高速公路旁的牧場上吃草，有一輛運牛奶的卡車經過，那輛卡車的一邊寫著：消毒過的、均質的、A級的、添加維生素B的。其中有一隻母牛轉向另外一隻說：「讓你覺得有點不足，不是嗎？」人們擁有這麼大的汽球，自我的汽球，一個人會開始覺得不足。某人有這個，某人有那個，因此你會開始覺得貧乏。你並不貧乏。是因為比較的關係而帶來貧乏。

I have heard:
Two cows were grazing in a pasture alongside a highway when a milk truck drove by. On the side of the truck was printed: PASTEURIZED HOMOGENIZED, GRADE A, VITAMIN B ADDED. One cow turned to the other and said: "Makes you feel sort of inadequate, doesn't it?"

　　真正富有的人是一個不用比較而生活的人，他怎麼可能是貧乏的？拋棄比較，那麼你就是富有的，你將永遠不會貧乏。繼續比較，那麼你將會保持貧乏，不管你變得多富有都一樣。你將會永遠都保持貧乏，因為總是會有人擁有更多。

And the really rich man is one who lives without comparison. How can he be poor? Drop comparisons and you are rich; then you will never be poor. Go on comparing and you will remain poor -- howsoever rich you become is irrelevant. You will always remain poor, because there will always be somebody who has more.

　　有無數的東西，所以會有無數的貧乏。某人有一個漂亮的太太，你就變得貧乏；某人有一輛較大的車子，你就變得貧乏；某人比你更高，你就變得貧乏，有多少貧乏！有多少東西就有多少貧乏。

And there are millions of things, so there are millions of poverties. Somebody has a beautiful wife; you are poor. Somebody has a bigger car; you are poor. Somebody has a bigger house; you are poor. Somebody is taller than you, and you are poor. How many poverties! As many poverties as there are things.

　　放棄比較。自我是透過比較來生活的。

Drop comparison. But the ego lives through comparison.

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