T-11.VIII:The Problem and the Answer

1. 1This is a very simple course. 2Perhaps you do not feel you need a course which, in the end, teaches that only reality is true. 3But do you believe it? 4When you perceive the real world, you will recognize that you did not believe it. 5Yet the swiftness with which your new and only real perception will be translated into knowledge will leave you but an instant to realize that this alone is true. 6And then everything you made will be forgotten; the good and the bad, the false and the true. 7For as Heaven and earth become one, even the real world will vanish from your sight. 8The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into Heaven. 9The reinterpretation of the world is the transfer of all perception to knowledge.

2. 1The Bible tells you to become as little children. 2Little children recognize that they do not understand what they perceive, and so they ask what it means. 3Do not make the mistake of believing that you understand what you perceive, for its meaning is lost to you. 4Yet the Holy Spirit has saved its meaning for you, and if you will let Him interpret it, He will restore to you what you have thrown away. 5Yet while you think you know its meaning, you will see no need to ask it of Him.

3. 1You do not know the meaning of anything you perceive. 2Not one thought you hold is wholly true. 3The recognition of this is your firm beginning. 4You are not misguided; you have accepted no guide at all. 5Instruction in perception is your great need, for you understand nothing. 6Recognize this but do not accept it, for understanding is your inheritance. 7Perceptions are learned, and you are not without a Teacher. 8Yet your willingness to learn of Him depends on your willingness to question everything you learned of yourself, for you who learned amiss should not be your own teacher.

4. 1No one can withhold truth except from himself. 2Yet God will not refuse you the Answer He gave. 3Ask, then, for what is yours, but which you did not make, and do not defend yourself against truth. 4You made the problem God has answered. 5Ask yourself, therefore, but one simple question:

6Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?

7Decide for the answer and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already.

5. 1You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. 2Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates. 3This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application. 4Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask you will receive. 5The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem as long as you believe that problems are specific. 6His answer is both many and one, as long as you believe that the one is many. 7You may be afraid of His specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. 8Yet only by asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. 9God gives; He does not take. 10When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that asking is taking rather than sharing.

6. 1The Holy Spirit will give you only what is yours, and will take nothing in return. 2For what is yours is everything, and you share it with God. 3That is its reality. 4Would the Holy Spirit, Who wills only to restore, be capable of misinterpreting the question you must ask to learn His answer? 5You have heard the answer, but you have misunderstood the question. 6You believe that to ask for guidance of the Holy Spirit is to ask for deprivation.

7. 1Little child of God, you do not understand your Father. 2You believe in a world that takes, because you believe that you can get by taking. 3And by that perception you have lost sight of the real world. 4You are afraid of the world as you see it, but the real world is still yours for the asking. 5Do not deny it to yourself, for it can only free you. 6Nothing of God will enslave His Son whom He created free and whose freedom is protected by His Being. 7Blessed are you who are willing to ask the truth of God without fear, for only thus can you learn that His answer is the release from fear.

8. 1Beautiful child of God, you are asking only for what I promised you. 2Do you believe I would deceive you? 3The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. 4Believe that the truth is in me, for I know that it is in you. 5God’s Sons have nothing they do not share. 6Ask for truth of any Son of God, and you have asked it of me. 7Not one of us but has the answer in him, to give to anyone who asks it of him.

9. 1Ask anything of God’s Son and his Father will answer you, for Christ is not deceived in His Father and His Father is not deceived in Him. 2Do not, then, be deceived in your brother, and see only his loving thoughts as his reality, for by denying that his mind is split you will heal yours. 3Accept him as his Father accepts him and heal him unto Christ, for Christ is his healing and yours. 4Christ is the Son of God Who is in no way separate from His Father, Whose every thought is as loving as the Thought of His Father by which He was created. 5Be not deceived in God’s Son, for thereby you must be deceived in yourself. 6And being deceived in yourself you are deceived in your Father, in Whom no deceit is possible.

10. 1In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation and no division. 2Only loving thoughts are recognized, and because no one is without your help, the Help of God goes with you everywhere. 3As you become willing to accept this Help by asking for It, you will give It because you want It. 4Nothing will be beyond your healing power, because nothing will be denied your simple request. 5What problems will not disappear in the Presence of God’s Answer? 6Ask, then, to learn of the reality of your brother, because this is what you will perceive in him, and you will see your beauty reflected in his.

11. 1Do not accept your brother’s variable perception of himself for his split mind is yours, and you will not accept your healing without his. 2For you share the real world as you share Heaven, and his healing is yours. 3To love yourself is to heal yourself, and you cannot perceive part of you as sick and achieve your goal. 4Brother, we heal together as we live together and love together. 5Be not deceived in God’s Son, for he is one with himself and one with his Father. 6Love him who is beloved of his Father, and you will learn of the Father’s Love for you.

12. 1If you perceive offense in a brother pluck the offense from your mind, for you are offended by Christ and are deceived in Him. 2Heal in Christ and be not offended by Him, for there is no offense in Him. 3If what you perceive offends you, you are offended in yourself and are condemning God’s Son whom God condemneth not. 4Let the Holy Spirit remove all offenses of God’s Son against himself and perceive no one but through His guidance, for He would save you from all condemnation. 5Accept His healing power and use it for all He sends you, for He wills to heal the Son of God, in whom He is not deceived.

13. 1Children perceive frightening ghosts and monsters and dragons, and they are terrified. 2Yet if they ask someone they trust for the meaning of what they perceive, and are willing to let their own interpretations go in favor of reality, their fear goes with them. 3When a child is helped to translate his “ghost” into a curtain, his “monster” into a shadow, and his “dragon” into a dream he is no longer afraid, and laughs happily at his own fear.

14. 1You, my child, are afraid of your brothers and of your Father and of yourself. 2But you are merely deceived in them. 3Ask what they are of the Teacher of reality, and hearing His answer, you too will laugh at your fears and replace them with peace. 4For fear lies not in reality, but in the minds of children who do not understand reality. 5It is only their lack of understanding that frightens them, and when they learn to perceive truly they are not afraid. 6And because of this they will ask for truth again when they are frightened. 7It is not the reality of your brothers or your Father or yourself that frightens you. 8You do not know what they are, and so you perceive them as ghosts and monsters and dragons. 9Ask what their reality is from the One Who knows it, and He will tell you what they are. 10For you do not understand them, and because you are deceived by what you see you need reality to dispel your fears.

15. 1Would you not exchange your fears for truth, if the exchange is yours for the asking? 2For if God is not deceived in you, you can be deceived only in yourself. 3Yet you can learn the truth about yourself from the Holy Spirit, Who will teach you that, as part of God, deceit in you is impossible. 4When you perceive yourself without deceit, you will accept the real world in place of the false one you have made. 5And then your Father will lean down to you and take the last step for you, by raising you unto Himself.

1. 本课程十分简单。
也许你会觉得自己并不需要这一课程，因它最终不过告诉你“只有真相才是真的”。
问题是，你真的相信这一点吗？
等你有朝一日见到真实世界，才会豁然明了原来自己不曾相信过它。
于是，这唯一真实的新知见当下便转译为真知了，你会在瞬间了悟：唯有这个才是真的。
于是，你自己打造的一切，不论好坏，不论真假，方能一并抛诸脑后。
因为在天堂与人间合而为一之际，连真实世界都会由你眼前消逝。
世界末日并非灰飞烟灭，而是被转译为天堂了。
重新诠释世界，就是把一切知见提升到真知之境。
2. 福音要你变得像个孩子一样。
因小孩会承认自己不懂所看到的事物而愿意向大人请教。
切莫误以为你了解自己眼前的事物，它的意义对你其实早已失落了。
幸好圣灵为你保存了它的意义，只要你接受祂的诠释，祂就能把你先前抛弃的再度奉还给你。
但你若认为自己明白其中深意，自然不觉得有请教祂的必要了。
3. 你并不知道自己所见事物的意义。
你的想法没有一个是彻底真实的。
承认这一点，表示你已安稳地踏出了第一步。
你并没有被谁误导，因你从不接受任何指导。
你最需要的就是学习如何去看事情，因为你真的什么都不懂。
认清这一点，但不必接受它为事实，因为“了解”原是你的天赋能力。
知见都是后天学来的，而那位“圣师”从来没在你生命中缺席过。
你向祂学习的愿心有多大，就看你有意质问自己后天所学的那一套的意愿有多强；已经陷入学习偏差的你，不能再师心自用了。
4. 只有你能隐瞒自己的真相。
上主绝不会拒绝答复你的问题。
现在就向祂要回你与生俱来的权利吧，那可不是你打造得出来的，切莫为了保护自己而故意抵制真相。
上主早已答复了你自己造出的问题。
因此，你只需简单地反问自己：
我究竟是要问题，还是要答复？
你若选择答复，就必会获得答复的；你不只会看清它的真相，还会认出原来自己早已拥有它了。
5. 也许你会抱怨这课程不够具体，不易了解，也不实用。
这很可能是你没有按照它具体的建议去做之故。
本课程不玩观念游戏，它着重实用性。
它说“只要你求，就会得到”，还有比这更具体的指示吗？
只要你认为自己的问题十分具体，圣灵自会给你具体的答复。
你若相信单一就是多元，祂的答复便会显得单一又多元。
你很可能害怕祂答复的具体性，因你害怕那答复附带的代价。
其实，只要你求，迟早会明白：凡是来自上主的，对你都一无所求。
上主只知给予，从不夺取。
你若拒绝开口要求，表示你依旧相信“要求就是夺取，而非分享”。
6. 凡是圣灵给你的，必是本来就属于你的东西，因此祂不可能要求任何的回报。
因为那一切本来就是你的，是你与上主共享的。
那才是一切的真相。
一心只愿恢复你的本来状态的圣灵，怎么可能误解了你为得到祂的答复而必须提出的问题？
你已经听到答复了，只是你误解了问题之所在。
你还以为请求圣灵指引，无异于任人宰割。
7. 上主的小小孩，你根本不了解自己的天父。
你相信一个只知夺取的世界，因为你相信只有争取才会获得。
就是这个知见使你视而不见真实世界的存在。
你害怕自己见到的世界，所幸的是，真实的世界仍属你所有，只等你开口要回。
不要再剥夺自己的天赋权利了，它只想赐你自由。
凡是上主给出之物，绝不可能奴役圣子的，因为上主不只把圣子造成自由的生命，祂还会亲自维护他的自由。
自愿放下恐惧而向上主真相问道之人，真是有福；因为唯有如此，你才可能明白祂的答复确有解除恐惧的能力。
8. 上主可爱的孩子，你所要求的不过是我答应要给你的东西。
你难道认为我会欺骗你？
天国就在你心里。
相信真理就在我内吧，因我知道它也在你内。
上主儿女拥有之物都是人人共享的。
你若探问任何一位圣子的真相，等于在叩求我的真相。
我们每一个人心中都拥有圣子的答案，足以答复任何一位想要知道他真相的人。
9. 不论你想要知道上主之子哪一方面的真相，天父都会替他作答，因为基督在天父内不受蒙蔽，天父在基督内也不受蒙蔽。
那么，也不要在你弟兄身上受到蒙蔽，只把他的仁心善念视为他的真相；你一旦否认他心灵的分裂，你自己的心灵便痊愈了。
如他的天父一般地接纳他吧，将他疗愈到基督内，因为只有基督才是他与你所需的疗愈。
基督，就是与天父一体不分的上主之子，祂的每一念都如天父圣念一般充满了爱，而祂正是由那仁慈圣念创造出来的。
不要被上主之子的表相所蒙蔽，否则表示你已蒙蔽了自己。
你若蒙蔽了自己，就会对上主有所蒙蔽，然而，祂是不可能蒙蔽任何人的。
10. 在真实世界，由于没有分裂与隔阂，故疾病是无法存在的。
那儿只认得仁心善念；由于每个人都会受你之助，上主之助必然随时随地与你同在。
当你终于想要天助而开口求助时，你不会不给出天助的，只因你真想得到它。
你的疗愈能力所向无敌，因为只要你求，必会获允。
上主的答复一旦来临，没有问题不迎刃而解的。
为此，祈求自己能够认出弟兄的真相吧，你便会在他身上看到真相，同时也会看见他的真相中反映出你的一切美善。
11. 不要接受你弟兄对他自己反复无常的看法，否则，你的心也会跟着他的心灵一起分裂；他若没有疗愈，你是不可能疗愈的。
因为你们共享一个真实世界，正如你们共享天堂一样，他的疗愈即是你的疗愈。
爱自己其实就是疗愈自己，你无法一边视自己某一部分有病，一边还能完成自己的目标。
弟兄，我们一起生活，一起相爱，也会一起疗愈的。
不要被上主之子的表相蒙蔽了，因为他不只与自己一体，也与天父一体。
爱他吧，他是天父的爱子，唯有如此，你才体验得到天父对你的爱。
12. 如果你感到弟兄冒犯了你，请立刻由心中拔除这个感受，因为那等于是说，基督冒犯了你，表示你对祂的认知已经受到了蒙蔽。
在基督内接受疗愈吧，不要接受祂的冒犯，因为祂不可能冒犯任何人的。
不论你认为什么东西冒犯了你，其实是你冒犯了自己却诿罪于上主之子，上主是从不定圣子之罪的。
让圣灵除去上主之子对自己的一切冒犯吧！遵照祂的指示去看每一个人，因为祂真的想将你由一切罪罚中拯救出来。
接纳祂的疗愈大能吧，将它用在祂派遣给你的所有人身上，因为祂心心念念只想疗愈上主之子，祂在上主之子身上才不致受到蒙蔽。
13. 当孩子以为自己看到了恐怖的鬼魂、怪兽或恶龙时，当然会吓得半死。
如果他们能向自己信任的大人请教这些东西的意义，而且愿意放下自己的看法而接受真相的话，他们的恐惧立刻化为乌有。
只要有人帮这孩子解释一下：他看到的“鬼魂”原是窗帘，“怪兽”原是阴影，“恶龙”不过是梦中魅影，他就不再害怕了，甚至开心地嘲笑自己胆小。
14. 我的孩子，你也是这般害怕自己的弟兄、天父和你自己的。
其实你只是被他们的表相蒙蔽了。
向“真相之圣师”请教他们的真相吧，仔细聆听祂的答复，你也会嘲笑自己的胆小而安心下来的。
因为恐惧无法在真相内立足，它只会出现于不明真相的孩子心里。
孩子们因为不了解真相而害怕，等他们学会正确的看法之后，从此再也不害怕了。
下回他们开始害怕时就知道如何向人请教真相了。
让你害怕的并不是你的弟兄、天父或自己的真相。
只因你不知道他们的真相，才会视他们为鬼魂、怪兽或恶龙。
向知道真相的“那一位”请教吧，祂会告诉你他们究竟是什么。
只因你不了解他们，被自己的看法所蒙蔽，故需要真相来为你祛除恐惧。
15. 如果只要你求就能得到，你岂会不想看清真相来取代恐惧？
既然上主不可能被你蒙蔽，那么，你只可能蒙蔽自己。
然而，你能由圣灵那里学到自己的真相的，祂教你明白：身为上主一部分的你，是不可能被蒙蔽的。
当你看待自己的眼光不受任何蒙蔽时，表示你已准备好接受那个真实世界，取代你自己原先打造的虚妄世界。
于是，你的天父便会俯身向你，为你踏出最后一步，把你接到祂那里去。
1.這部課程十分單純。
或許你並不覺得自己需要這樣的課程，因為它最終要教你的便是只有實相才是真的。
但你真的相信嗎？
一旦感知到真實世界，你就會發現自己並不相信它。
然而，你那新的、也是唯一的真實感知將會迅雷不及掩耳的被轉譯為真知，因而你也只有片刻光景得以認清它才是唯一的真實。
然後，你所營造的一切將被遺忘；好與壞、假與真。
因為天上與地上一旦合而為一，即便是真實世界也將從你眼裏消失。
把世界轉譯為天堂，而非將其毀滅，才可終結世界。
重新詮釋這個世界則是在把所有的感知轉換為真知。
2.《聖經》裏告訴你要像小孩子一樣。
小孩子知道自己不了解眼中的事物，所以他們會詢問這些事物的意義。
別錯以為你了解自己眼中的事物，因為你已丟失了它們的意義。
但聖靈替你護守著它們的意義，而你若願意讓祂來詮釋，祂就會將你丟棄的一切恢復於你。
但你若自以為明白它們的意義，就看不清自己需要詢問聖靈。
3.你並不明白眼前任何事物的意義。
你心中的想法沒有一個完完全全的真實。
認清了這點，你就穩能起步。
你並未被人誤導；你根本未曾接受任何引導。
你亟需有人教你怎麼感知，因為你什麼也不了解。
你要認清這點，但不必接納，因為真知乃是你的天賦遺產。
感知係經學習而得，但你不是沒有偉大的老師。
然而，你有多願意向祂學習，卻取決於你有多願意質疑你向自己學來的一切，因為你既已學偏，就不該成為自己的老師。
4.你只能從自己身上扣留真理。
但上主不會拒絕給你祂賜下的解答。
那麼就祈求非你莫屬之物吧，但它並不出自於你，也別為了保護自己而抵禦真理。
你營造的問題上主早已答覆。
為此之故，你只需問自己一個單純的問題：
我要的是問題，還是答案？
如果是答案，你就會擁有它，因為你會如實的看見它，而它已非你莫屬。
5.你可能會抱怨這部課程不夠具體，以致難以了解和運用。
但你或許尚未做到它所給你的具體建議。
這部課程不是在教人觀念的遊戲，而是怎麼實際運用這些觀念。
還有什麼比告訴你「只要求就會得到」更具體的。
只要你仍相信問題是具體的，聖靈就會答覆每一個具體的問題。
只要你仍相信一乃是多，祂的答案就既是多、也是一。
你可能會害怕祂的具體答覆，基於你以為它會提出的要求。
但你若不詢問，就不會發覺只要是出自上主的，都不會向你提出任何要求。
上主只會給予；祂並不索取。
你若拒絕詢問，則是因為你相信詢問乃是索取，而非共享。
6.聖靈只會給你非你莫屬之物，且並不索取任何回報。
因為非你莫屬之物便是一切，係你與上主同享。
那就是它的真相。
聖靈既然一心只願恢復，又怎能錯解你為了得到祂的答覆而必會提出的問題？
你早已聽見答案，卻誤解了問題。
你以為尋求聖靈的指引與尋求剝奪無異。
7.主的小小孩啊，你不了解自己的天父。
你相信的是個伸手索取的世界，因為你相信自己可以藉著索取而得到什麼。
這種感知已使你看不見真實世界。
你懼怕自己眼裡的世界，但只要祈求，真實世界依舊非你莫屬。
別拒絕擁有它，它只會令你自由。
只要是出自上主的，就不會禁錮祂的聖子，因為他生而自由，而上主的存在亦保障了他的自由。
樂於一無所懼的詢問上主何為真相的人有福了，因為只有這樣，他們才會發覺祂的答覆可以使人逃脫恐懼。
8.美妙的上主之子啊，你祈求的不過是我所承諾的一切罷了。
你還以為我會騙你嗎？
天堂之國即在你內。
相信真理在我之內吧，因為我知道它在你之內。
上主之子並不擁有任何未經共享之物。
只要你詢問任何一位聖子的真相，就是在向我詢問。
我們無一不擁有他內的解答，以便給予任何向他尋求解答的人。
9.一旦向上主之子提出任何問題，他的天父就會答覆你，因為基督不會錯認自己的天父，祂的天父也不會錯認祂。
那麼，就別錯認自己的弟兄，而應僅僅著眼於他那愛的念頭作為他的實相，因為你若否定他的心是分裂的，就能療癒自己的心。
如天父那般地接納他，並交由基督來療癒吧，因為基督即是他的療癒，也是你的。
基督即是從不與天父分離的聖子，祂的每個念頭都如天父的聖念那般充滿了愛，因為祂便出自這一聖念。
別錯認了聖子，否則就必會錯認你自己。
而你一旦錯認了自己，就會錯認自己的天父，但在祂之內這卻是不可能的事。
10.在真實世界裡，疾病並不存在，因為分離與割裂也不存在。
你只看得見愛的念頭，也沒有人得不到你的協助，所以不論你往哪兒去，天助都和你同行。
你既已願意藉著祈求它來加以接納，你就會給出它，因為你想要它。
沒有什麼是你治癒不了的，因為上天絕不會拒絕你那單純的要求。
上主的答覆一旦臨在，還有什麼問題不會消失殆盡？
那麼，就祈求上天教你明白弟兄的真面目吧，因為這就是你將在他內見到的，而你也將見到他的美善映照出你的美善。
11.不要接納弟兄對自己的種種不同的看法，因為他的分裂之心就是你的，而少了他的療癒，你就接納不了自己的療癒。
因為你們共享真實世界，一如你們共享了天堂，而他的療癒便是你的。
愛自己即是療癒自己，而你若想達到這一目標，就不能把部分的自己視為有病。
弟兄啊，我們將一同療癒，一如我們一同活出了愛與生命。
別錯認了上主之子，因為他和自己一體，也和天父一體。
他的天父鍾愛著他，而你若也愛他，就能知曉天父對你的愛。
12.你若感知到弟兄冒犯了你，就把這一冒犯由心中摘除吧，因為你是受了基督的冒犯，而你錯認了祂。
在基督之內療癒吧，別受祂冒犯，因為祂內並無此事。
一旦你眼中之物冒犯了你，這一冒犯就在你內，而你也定了聖子的罪，但上主並未定他的罪。
讓聖靈來移除上主之子對自己的一切冒犯吧，並藉祂的指引來看待每一位弟兄，因為祂要拯救你脫離一切罪責。
接納祂的療癒力量吧，將其用於祂送來的每一位弟兄，因為祂願療癒上主之子——祂並未錯認他。
13.孩子們見到了嚇人的鬼魂、怪物、與惡龍，因而瑟瑟發抖。
然而，他們一旦詢問自己信得過的人這些事物的意義，並樂於放下自己的詮釋，轉而接納真相，他們的恐懼就會隨之而去。
一旦有人協助孩子將他的「鬼魂」轉譯為窗簾、「怪物」轉譯為陰影、「惡龍」轉譯為夢境，他就不再害怕了，反而會開心的笑看自己的恐懼。
14.我的孩子啊，你害怕自己的弟兄與天父，也怕你自己。
但你不過是錯認了他們而已。
向真理之師詢問他們的真面目，並聆聽祂的答覆吧，你同樣會笑看自己的恐懼，並以平安取而代之。
因為恐懼不在實相裏，而在孩子們的心裡，他們並不了解實相。
是他們的不了解嚇著了自己，而他們一旦學會正確的感知，就能一無所懼。
為此之故，他們若受到驚嚇，就會再度祈求真理。
嚇到你的並非弟兄或天父或你自己的實相。
你不明白他們的真面目，因而將其視為鬼魂、怪物、與惡龍。
求教於知曉他們真相的那一位吧，祂會告訴你他們的真面目。
因為你不了解他們，而你眼之所見卻欺騙了你，所以你需要實相來驅散自己的恐懼。
15.如果你只要求，就能把自己的恐懼置換為真理，那麼你豈會不這麼做？
因為上主既未錯認你，你能錯認的也只有你自己。
但你能向聖靈學習自己的真相，而祂也會這麼教你：你既是上主的一部分，就不可能抱著欺騙。
一旦你不帶欺騙的看待自己，就會接納真實世界，而非你所營造的虛假世界。
那麼，天父便會俯就過來，為你跨出最後的一步，因為祂會令你升往祂那兒去。