如果你从爱自己开始，你爱的只会是你的自我

Naturally, first you will love yourself, because that will be your first encounter. First you will become aware of the fragrance that is arising in you and the light that has been born in you, and the blissfulness that is showering on you. Then loving will become your nature. Then you will love many; then you will love all.

很自然的，首先你会爱你自己，因为那是你第一个会遇到的。首先，你会意识到你内在正在升起的芬芳，你内在生出的光，沐浴在你身上的极乐。之后爱会变成你的天性。之后你会爱很多人；之后你会爱一切。

In fact, what we know in our ignorance is a relationship, and what we know in our awareness is no longer a relationship. It is not that I love you; it is that I am love.

事实上，在我们的无知里我们所知道的只是一段关系，在我们的觉知中我们所知道的不再是一段关系。那不是我爱你，而是我就是爱。

And you have to understand the difference. When you say, “I love you,” what about others? What about the whole existence? The more narrow your love is, the more imprisoned. Its wings are cut; it cannot fly in the sky across the sun. It does not have freedom; it is almost in a golden cage. The cage is beautiful, but inside the cage the bird is not the same bird that you see in the sky opening its wings.

你必须了解其中的不同。当你说，“我爱你，”那别人呢？那整个存在呢？你的爱越狭窄，它就越被囚禁。它的双翼被斩断了；它无法在天空里在太阳底下飞翔。它没有自由；它就像是在个金笼子里。笼子很漂亮，但笼子里的鸟儿，不是你看到的在天空中展翅飞翔的那只鸟儿。

Love has to become not a relationship, not a narrowing, but a broadening.

爱不应该变成一段关系，不应该窄化，而是扩大。

Love has to become your very quality, your very character, your very being, your radiance. Just as the sun radiates light not for anyone in particular, unaddressed, meditation radiates love unaddressed.

爱必须成为你的品质，你的性格，你的存在，你散发的频率。就像太阳散发光，它并不特别指向任何人，也没有针对，静心也散发着没有指向的爱。

Of course, first it is felt within oneself, for oneself, and then it starts radiating all around. Then you love not only human beings, you love trees, you love birds; you simply love, you are love.

当然，首先它在自己内在感受到，是对自己，然后它开始散发到四周。然后你不只是爱人类，你也爱树木，你也爱鸟儿；你在爱，你就是爱。

You are asking, “ What does it mean to love myself?”

你问，“爱自己是什么意思？”

It means meditation.

它意味着静心。

It means to be yourself.

它意味着做你自己。

And nature will bring love as a reward.

作为奖赏，自然会带给你爱。