Being Right Here — Bilingual Edition

Being Right Here is a teaching as gentle as dawn light, pointing directly to the nature of our own mind – the nature, the essence and the capacity of the flow of all experiences. In a quiet and unerring way, it reveals the fresh presence of immediate innate awareness: in the radiant flash of timelessness, free from concepts, it is already just as it is — complete, open, unobstructed, and inseparable from whatever appears.

【刹那当下】是一部如晨光般轻柔，直指我们心性 – 一切经验流的本体，本源与能显妙力 -- 的不二禅修教言。它以一种宁静而直接的方式，揭示我们当下本然明觉的新鲜临在 – 在超越时空，超越概念明朗闪现的刹那当下，一切早已如其所是，圆满，敞开，通透，与一切显现 – 经验流的内容 --，毫无隔离，不二不别。

This is the first bilingual English–Chinese edition of its kind to meet the reader's eye -- an authentic Dzogchen practice manual presenting the essential view and meditation, taught by James Low, the lineage holder, in the presence of his root teacher, C. R. Lama, and rooted in the treasure teachings of the great master Nuden Dorje.

这是首部呈现在读者眼前的中英双语文化适应版，是雪域传承佐钦（dzogchen）教法的真实修持指南，清晰呈现了由传承持有者詹姆士·洛(James Low)在其根本导师C.R. Lama在场时所教授的甚深见地要义与不二禅修，根源于伟大成就者努登多杰（Nuden Dorje）的伏藏教法。

Being Right Here has been like catching snowflakes on an open palm. At first, there is shape -- words, meaning, intention -- but soon, it melts into something far subtler: a quiet clarity, moist and light, that seeps into the soft soil of being. This is not a book to be "thought about." It's not a teaching to be acquired. It is more like morning mist resting on spider silk, or a breeze brushing through bamboo leaves -- felt but never grasped.

【刹那当下】，像是将一片雪花接在掌心。起初有形有色 -- 是词句，是意图，是意义的重量；但很快便悄然融化，化为一种更为细腻的虚灵纯净感，润湿而轻柔，无声无息深深渗入临在的生命土壤。这不是一本用来"思考"的书，也不是一种可以"掌握"的教导。它更像是晨雾中悬着露珠的蛛丝，或是一阵拂过竹林的风 -- 可以感受，却无法捕捉。

How wondrous that anything at all can be said about what is beyond all saying. And yet, here it is, softly speaking.

多么奇妙，关于那些超越言语的本真，竟还能如此柔软地被言说。

James Low's expression has a peculiar transparency. He draws awareness out of the cocoon of concept and returns it to the rhythm of breath.

詹姆士·洛的文字有种奇特的透明性：他将"觉知"从概念的茧中抽离，还原为呼吸间的自然律动。

Sometimes, I paused mid-translation, not because the words were difficult, but because they were so simple, and so unutterably true. I often found myself gazing -- not searching for language but simply sitting inside the glow of the phrase. Not thinking, Just being. Sometimes with tears, sometimes with laughter, sometimes with a stillness too deep for either.

翻译时常常停下手指，不是因为句子难以理解，而是因为它们太简单，太真实了。那种真实不带重量，只带着一种无言的颤动。常常只是静静坐着，不再寻找词语，而是进入句子本身的光晕之中。有时泪流，有时微笑，有时只是静得深不可测。

One radiant line continues to shine quietly within me:

"The unitary path of primordial purity of awareness and emptiness spreads as the spontaneous wisdom, free from all relative conditions."

有一句话，一直在心中悄然发光：

"本然纯净的当下明觉与空性的不二之道，自然展开为无缘而起，超越一切对待条件的任运智慧。"

How utterly wondrous. Here, the innate clarity of awareness is not something constructed, but something unbound -- inseparable from emptiness, and moving freely, unceasingly, unstained by defilement or effortful structure. It is not "my" wisdom, or "your" wisdom -- it is the wisdom of how things are when nothing is added.

多么不可思议。当下本然明觉的纯净，从来不是造作而成，而是本然无拘，与空性不二，自由无息无碍地流动着，不受任何无明或费力架构所染。这不是"我的"智慧，也不是"您的"智慧，而是当万像无添时，本然展现的实相。

What a blessing, what unspeakable beauty! That the mind, empty and open like the sky, is already luminous -- its radiance only veiled, not stained, by passing clouds. These defilements are not intrinsic. They come and go with causes and conditions. They are not our truth.

多么温柔的祝福，多么难以言喻的美。我们的心性，就像天空，空灵开放，自具光明 -- 它的光只是暂被浮云遮掩，从未被真正染污。这些烦恼并非本有，它们随因缘起灭，来去无踪，从不是我们真实的本性。

To abide in this presence is to rest in the innermost freshness of our being — without doubt, without altering, without resisting, without reaching for something else.

安住于当下本然明觉，就是安住在我们本然的新鲜临在中 – 毫不怀疑，不需改变，不需抗拒，也不再寻求他物。

"Trust only the path that is utterly vast and profound." — Tilopa

"惟有信赖那彻底空灵而深邃之无为之道。" —— 帝洛巴

The original purity -- the already awakened mind -- is the only real "self", the true body of reality, beyond time, beyond boundary, beyond substance. And the veils of confusion? They're not enemies, not opposites. Just ephemeral mist -- dispersing the moment we return to how it is right here.

这本初的清净，已然觉醒的心性，是唯一真实的"自性"，是我们身心世界，森罗万象的实相 – 无垠无限，超越时空，不可分割却无实体。至于无明和烦恼？它们并非敌人，不是与当下本然明觉对立的东西，而只是片刻升起的雾气。当我们回到刹那当下，那些迷雾便自然消融，不留痕迹。不是靠努力，而是靠这当下本然明觉之光轻轻一照。

Presence does not need improvement. It doesn't need effort. It only asks for one thing: don't turn away.

当下本然明觉不需改善，它无需被修饰。它只请求一件事：别转身离开。

Again and again, this book gently points us back to the simplicity of being: seeing, hearing, sensing, thinking — not as separate experiences belonging to someone — but as the continuous play of life itself. All at-once. No observer, no observed. Just presence.

一次又一次，这本书温柔地引导我们回到"只是临在"的极简中：看、听、触、感、念 -- 不是属于"谁"的经验，而是生命自身的自然流动。没有观察者，也没有被观察的对象，只有纯粹无间的本然明觉临在。

The true refuge is not something outside us. It is the immediate, intrinsic awareness — self-liberating and ever-present.

真正的皈依，并非来自外在。它是当下本然明觉 -- 自我解脱，恒常在场。

As James Low so says, from the depth of his own seeing, "The refuge is awareness itself."

如詹姆士·洛从他亲证的深处所说："真正的庇护，是当下本然明觉本身。"

And in this presence, the view breathes through the body. And what arises is not something to grasp, but something to feel -- We find our own intimacy.

在临在中，见地透体而呼息。所显非可攫取之物，而是刹那当下可感之光。在这当下本然明觉中，我们找到了我们珍贵的亲密。

Intimacy not as merging, not as effort, but as the natural kinship of all that is. Already here, already whole.

这种亲密，不是融合，也不是努力获得，而是存在之间原本就有的深切亲缘。早已在此，完好无缺。

What is offered here is not a "path" to walk, but a kind of barefooted trust in the groundlessness we already stand on. Not striving, but resting. Not improving, but releasing. In that release, the natural dance of life begins to move effortlessly. Thoughts, feelings, joys, and sorrows all arise like wind-touched grasses -- momentary, luminous, and free.

这不是一条"道路"，需要我们去努力跋涉；它更像是赤足站立于本自虚空的恩典之中。无需追求，只需安住；无需改进，只需松坦。而就在这松坦之中，生命的自然之舞开始自在流动。念头、情绪、喜悦与忧伤，如风拂草动，刹那即现，光明而自由。

There are no stages here, no steps to climb. Only a kind and radical invitation to let things be as they are -- and to see the miracle that this "how-it-is-ness" has never, ever been missing.

这里没有阶段可循，也没有阶梯可登。只有一个温柔而彻底的邀请：允许万事万物如其所是 – 并且觉照到一个奇迹，这"如其所是"从未缺席。

Yes, as human beings we feel sorrow and joy, doubt and clarity, strength and fragility. But when we gently relax into the open presence of this moment -- not "what if" but simply "how it is" -- then a shift happens. The sky-like mind reveals itself. Unmistakably. Tenderly. All-embracingly.

是的，作为人类，我们会体验悲伤与喜悦、怀疑与明净、坚强于脆弱。那些经验都是真真切切的。但当我们轻轻地松开自己，安住于当下的开放本然明觉，不再追问"如果……"，而只是温柔地陪伴着"就是这样" – 移位变自然发生。天空般的心，会刹那当下自然现前 -- 毫无疑问，温柔无边，包容一切。

And then… we smile. Not because we've arrived anywhere, but because we've stopped trying to arrive. In this gentle not-arriving, love begins to flow -- not as something to give or receive, but as the very atmosphere of being.

这时，我们微笑了。不是因为我们"抵达"了哪里，而是因为我们终于不再试图抵达。就在这温柔的不抵达中，爱开始流动 -- 不再是给予或索取的爱，而是临在本身的气息。

This book is not a "guide," nor is it a "method." It is a boundless, crystalline mirror of awareness. When you truly gaze into it, your body and mind, the myriad phenomena of the universe -- all are revealed as mirrored reflections within it. And you -- you are that clear, luminous mirror itself. In the stillness before each word arises, in the silence after each word fades, in the very place where each word abides -- you are the unmoving, ever-luminous vitality of this living moment.

这本书不是一本"指南"，也不是一个"方法"。它是一面广袤无际，晶莹剔透的觉知明镜。当您真的看进去，您的身心世界，宇宙万象，皆是映现其中的镜像。而您 -- 正是那澄明通透的空灵明镜本身。在每个文字升起之前的寂静，在每个文字消逝之后的沉默，在那每个文字安住之处，您即是那如如不动、灵妙跃然的刹那当下的临在。

If, while reading, there is even one glimpse when the sense of separation softens, when thoughts recede and simple being shines through -- open, fresh, holding nothing -- that is simply the play of immediate intrinsic awareness, already complete.

如果在您阅读的某一刻，凛然一觉，小我的习惯分离感悄然松动，全然放下，思绪退到后台，让位于新鲜纯粹的临在 -- 那也只是当下本然明觉的游戏，本自圆满。