英文说道，汉语介绍
道，是世界的，不分南北。
近年来，英语世界里，也有不少人在研究道，实践道，他们的表达也很有参考价值。作为读书笔记，我收集到了一些，适用，易懂的章节，逐步分享给英文学习爱好者们。我坚信，道，是桥梁，可以穿越语言文化障碍，更好地链接这个世界，阶段性很不耐烦的世界。
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Life transformation. It is special and magical when it happens. Suddenly, you realize you have made it through a certain transition. Nothing has changed, and yet everything is different, because you are no longer the same person inside.
It is no less special and magical when you watch someone else go through the process. Physically, that person remains the same, but spiritually it is as if a butterfly has emerged from its chrysalis. It sees the world through new eyes; it spreads its new wings and takes flight. It is an honor to bear witness to this, because a spiritual rebirth is as miraculous as a physical birth.
Life transformation is, in fact, the primary purpose of Tao cultivation. The ancients studied the Tao- the way of existence- not to develop philosophical topics of discussion, but to understand how we progress from one level of spirituality to the next. In their terminology, “following the Tao correctly” means successfully transcending to the next level.
生命的转化。
当生命发生转化时，它很特别很神奇。
突然地，你意识到你完成了某种脱胎换骨的变化。
看起来，什么也没有改变，然鹅，一切皆不同了，你的内在已经改变，不再是从前的你。
当你观察到别人经历这种转化时，它不只是特别，不只是神奇。外表上看，那个人还是那个人；精神层面上看，那种变化就像蝶蛹成了蝴蝶一样。它用新的眼光看世界，伸展新的翅膀去飞翔。见证这种转变是一种荣耀，因为精神上重生与物理上诞生，一样是那么神奇。
生命转化，事实上，是修道的首要目标。古人们研究，道，（普遍存在的规律），不是去拓展哲学上的讨论话题，而是在追求理解如何在精神层面的一步一步的进步。
他们的术语，正确地跟着道，意味着升华到高一级的境界。
The Tao that can be expressed in words is not the true and eternal Tao;
The name that can be uttered in words is not the true and eternal name.
The word nothingness may be used to designate the beginning of heaven and earth;
The word existence may be used to designate the mother of all things.
Hence one should gain an insight into the subtlety of Tao by observing nothingness,
And should gain an insight into the beginning of Tao by observing existence.
These two things, nothingness and existence, are of the same origin but different in name.
They are extremely profound in depth serving as the door of myriad secret beings.
以上是中文母语者的翻译。
A way called Way isn’t the perennial Way.
A name that names isn’t the perennial name:
The named is mother to the ten thousand things,
But the unnamed is the origin to all heaven and earth.
In perennial Absence you see mystery,
And in perennial Present you see appearance.
Though the two are one and the same,
Once they arise, they differ in name.
One and the same they are called dark-enigma,
Dark-enigma deep within dark-enigma,
Gateway of all mystery.
以上是英文母语者的翻译。
从文字上看，差异肯定是存在的，不是对错问题，也不是水平上的高低问题，它就是一种客观事实，一种差异存在的事实，下面是我的感受：
From what they say there and from what I have read elsewhere the essence of Tao is to regard Existence universally or impersonally, or so I understand.
Instead of thinking “I walk,” you think, “there is a walking,” until you begin to see yourself as a part of the universe not separate from other parts while the “I” is as the whole. I have tried this and the result is that there comes a feeling calm, of indifference to circumstance.
总之，涉及道，一旦我们开始进入谈论状态，一定是没完没了，与财米油盐无关，而道，本身又具有普遍性，我坚信，不同文化背景的人士的不同解读，对我们是有帮助的。维根斯坦说，语言是人类思想的边界，是有道理的，古人，现代人，都一样，总是喜欢遨游，想去谈一些语言够不着的东西，于是，玄之又玄，还是很悬，不一定就能到达众妙之门。
作为普通人，从文字入手，细心体会，琢磨琢磨，或许也能有所领悟。王弼，虽然是天才，不读他的解读，而读几千年后的外邦人的理解，就一定会离经叛道？庄子不是说，道，在屎盆子里吗？
Life is made of limits, but understanding is limitless. Using the limit to approach the limitless—that’s dangerous. To do this and consider it understanding— that’s extremely dangerous.
生也有涯，知也无涯，以有涯求无涯，很危险。
明知故犯，更危险。
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这一段，我宁愿相信外国人更理解庄子。
小时候，老师教我们背名言，书山有路勤为径 学海无涯苦作舟。我强烈相信是后人故意改编的，是朱老师，朱熹改的？
