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I Am the Rich Man’s Guru

我是有錢人的師父

There is a perception that you and your religious following are extremely wealthy.

外界認為 你 和你的追隨者 都極為"富有"

My people

我的人們

are rich.

的確富有

In fact, only the very rich,

事實上， 只有非常富有

educated, intelligent,

高度教養、 聰明、

cultured

十分開化的人

can understand what I am saying.

才能了解 我所要表達的

Beggars cannot come to me,

乞丐不會來找我

poor people cannot come to me;

窮人也不會來找我

the gap is too big.

那個鴻溝太大了

They can hear me but they cannot understand me.

窮人聽得見我，卻無法了解我

So it is natural:

所以，很自然地

I am the rich man’s guru.

我就成了有錢人的師父

Isn’t that a contradiction with the traditional

難道這不會牴觸 傳統上

perception of a life of austerity led by religious leaders and ascetics?

宗教領袖 和苦行修士所倡導的 簡樸生活 ?

I simply think those traditions just rubbish.

我認為 那些傳統根本是垃圾

There is no question of contradiction;

沒有所謂"牴觸"的問題

I am simply against them.

我根本就"反對"他們的傳統

I don’t want to be consistent with them,

我才不想與他們同流合汙

I want to drop all connections with the past.

我要斬除一切與過去的連結

They have done enough harm.

傳統造成的損害夠多了

My

我對於

conception of a beautiful,

美好的、如花開般生命

flowering being

的生命美學

is not that of austerity, it is of luxury.

不是清苦的；而是奢華的

He will enjoy all that is beautiful in the world

我的人 將能享受世上美好的一切

great paintings, great music, poetry.

- 偉大的畫作、音樂、和詩歌

I don’t conceive of him standing on his head in the hot sun of Oregon,

我不要人們在奧勒岡的炙熱的艷陽下 倒立苦行

fasting,

或絕食

slowly destroying himself.

如此一步步地 虐待自己

To me, all religions of the world up to now

對我而言，至今世上所有的宗教

have been sadomasochistic.

都在虐待生命

My religion is, for the first time, life-affirming.

我的宗教，卻首度 真正地 肯定生命

One thing I think people on the outside

我想，當外界的人

remember about you

透過電視或媒體

when they read stories or see you on television

看見你 或了解你的故事後

is the fact that you own so many, or have so many Rolls Royces. Why is that?

都會對一件事印象深刻， 就是你擁有很多輛勞斯萊斯 。 為什麼 ?

How many?

多少輛 ?

Eighty?

80 輛 ?

No.

錯

Forty?

40 輛 ?

Ninety.

90 輛

And they are not so many.

但這也不算多

For me there is nothing…

對我而言 這不算什麼...

Why do you need ninety?

那為何需要90輛 ?

I don’t need even a single one.

我甚至一輛也不需要

And they don’t belong to me, either.

這些車子 也不屬於我

But my people want,

但我的人 甚至想要365 輛

they 365, one for every day. And I go for a drive only for one hour.

好讓我365天， 一天開一輛新車， 而我 每日卻僅開車兜風一小時

But if my people want it, if they are happy and rejoice doing it,

但若他們想這樣做，若他們樂在其中

I don’t want to destroy their joy.

那麼 我並不想奪走他們的快樂

It is perfectly okay.

這麼做也 完全OK

Couldn’t you tell them to give their money for something else, other than for Rolls Royces?

你難道不會要他們把錢作其他用途， 而不是買勞斯萊斯 ?

All other religions are doing that. Let them do that as their work, let me do my work.

世上每個宗教都在這麼做， 讓他們去做他們的工作， 讓我來做我的工作

All other religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich.

世上每個宗教 都是在照料窮人； 起碼 讓我憑一己之力 來照料富人

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