在找本內(nèi)特書《性：性與精神發(fā)展的關(guān)系【 Sex: the relationship between sex andspiritual development 】》時(shí)找不到，看到一個(gè)英文網(wǎng)站有這樣幾個(gè)關(guān)于這本書的5個(gè)評(píng)論，發(fā)現(xiàn)很有趣，喜歡的可以去看看，鏈接如下：

http://www./?s=Bennett+on+the+Relationship+between+Sex+and+Spiritual+Development+

這里將原文拷貝做了翻譯，譯得不好，僅做參考：

Bennett on the Relationshipbetween Sex and Spiritual Development

本內(nèi)特談性與精神發(fā)展的關(guān)系

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Joseph Azize

Joseph Azize于2017年12月23日發(fā)布

A number of years ago I read Bennett’s short, 74page book, Sex: the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development. I wasimpressed by it then. I made a number of notes on the blank pages at the back,and remember thinking to myself that it was a very powerful, very deep bookwhich I needed to return to. Having now worked through some ideas on the evilof pornography, I felt it was time to return to Bennett and try and deepen myunderstanding of sex, normal development (that is, development in accordancewith the divine norm for man), and distortions of that, such as pornography andpromiscuity. I am glad I did. Bennett’s book is even better than I hadremembered. Trying to keep those posts to readable length, I will deal with itin several articles. This first one is basically devoted to A.G.E. Blake’spreface.

幾年前，我讀了本內(nèi)特74頁(yè)的短篇小說(shuō)《性:性與精神發(fā)展之間的關(guān)系》。當(dāng)時(shí)我對(duì)此印象深刻。我在后面的空白頁(yè)上做了一些筆記，記得當(dāng)時(shí)我對(duì)自己說(shuō)，這是一本非常有力量、非常深刻的書，我需要回去看看。現(xiàn)在，我已經(jīng)對(duì)色情的罪惡有了一些認(rèn)識(shí)，我覺(jué)得是時(shí)候回到本內(nèi)特身邊，加深我對(duì)性、正常發(fā)展(也就是說(shuō)，按照人類神圣的規(guī)范發(fā)展)以及諸如色情和濫交等扭曲現(xiàn)象的理解了。我很高興我做到了。本內(nèi)特的書比我記得的還要好。為了保持這些文章的可讀性，我將在幾篇文章中討論它。第一個(gè)基本上是關(guān)于A.G.E.布萊克的序言。

Blake’s Preface

布萊克的序言

It is worthwhile commencing with Tony Blake’sconcise preface. He indicates the topics Bennett will deal with, and somethingof his approach. He states: “The rejection of ‘old-fashioned’ morality has lefta serious vacuum. Bereft of rules and inhibitions, men and women pursue an everelusive satisfaction in their sexual activity. The result is contempt of thesexual act or meaningless indulgence” (7). Some may see the “vacuum” as being agood in itself, but no one can doubt that the vacuum exists. Writing in themonths after the breaking of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it is evident thatthe vacuum has provided an opportunity for what I cannot call anything lessthan wickedness.

從托尼·布萊克的簡(jiǎn)明序言開(kāi)始，是值得一讀的。他指出了本內(nèi)特將討論的話題，以及他的一些做法。他說(shuō):“對(duì)‘老式’道德的排斥留下了一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的真空。沒(méi)有了規(guī)則和約束，男人和女人在他們的性行為中追求一種難以捉摸的滿足感。結(jié)果就是對(duì)性行為的蔑視或毫無(wú)意義的放縱'.有些人可能認(rèn)為“真空”本身是好的，但沒(méi)有人能懷疑真空的存在。在哈維·韋恩斯坦丑聞曝光后的幾個(gè)月里，我撰寫了這篇文章，很明顯，這段真空期為我所謂的“邪惡”提供了一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)。

Blake continues to the important point that toimprove our sex lives we must have the “aim to go deeper into ourselves andcultivate the more profound aspects of our being” (7). Again, this is verytrue. I have concluded that our sexual appetites are directly related to ourstate. The more collected we are, the more orderly our sexual appetite, to thepoint that a collected person has all the control over their desires that theyneed.

布萊克繼續(xù)指出了一個(gè)重要的觀點(diǎn)，那就是要改善我們的性生活，我們必須有一個(gè)“目標(biāo)，那就是深入我們自己，培養(yǎng)我們存在的更深層的方面”(7)。我的結(jié)論是，我們的性欲與我們的狀態(tài)直接相關(guān)。我們?cè)接袟l理，我們的性欲就越有條理，以至于一個(gè)有條理的人能夠完全控制他們所需要的欲望。

Waste and Sexual Waste

廢物及性廢物

The next significant matter Blake alludes to isthat the sexual energy working in us produces waste products, and that thesexual act is the normal way for sleeping man to dispose of those wastes (7).Again, this is absolutely correct. Behind it lie two facts: first, there aremany different energies at work within us. As Gurdjieff said, different fuelsare needed for different functions, and the chief divisions are the physical,emotional, intellectual and sexual functions. Second, when the active elementsin them are extracted by our organism, these fuels produce wastes. The physicalwastes are obvious, we discard most of them at the toilet. The chief fuel ofthe emotional centre, the air we inhale, expels carbon dioxide when we exhale.There are various wastes of impressions, of which, we were told by Mr GeorgeAdie, the most important is in some automatic manifestations. This makes sense,but I shall not go into it. We now have Gurdjieff’s recently publishedstatement on 8 April 1943:

布萊克提到的下一個(gè)重要問(wèn)題是，在我們身上工作的性能量產(chǎn)生廢物，而性行為是睡覺(jué)的人處理這些廢物的正常方式。同樣，這是絕對(duì)正確的。在它的背后有兩個(gè)事實(shí):第一，在我們內(nèi)部有許多不同的能量在起作用。正如葛吉夫所說(shuō)，不同的功能需要不同的燃料，主要的劃分是身體、情感、智力和性功能。其次，當(dāng)我們的生物提取其中的活性元素時(shí)，這些燃料產(chǎn)生廢物。身體上的廢物是顯而易見(jiàn)的，我們把它們中的大部分扔在廁所里。情緒中心的主要燃料是我們吸入的空氣，當(dāng)我們呼氣時(shí)，它會(huì)排出二氧化碳。印象有各種各樣的浪費(fèi)，喬治·阿迪先生告訴我們，其中最重要的是一些無(wú)意識(shí)的表現(xiàn)。這是有道理的，但我不打算深入討論。我們現(xiàn)在有葛吉夫最近于1943年4月8日發(fā)表的聲明:

“Every man has three ‘shits’ in him which are produced and which mustbe eliminated. The first is the result of ordinary food and is eliminatednaturally. This must be done every day; otherwise, all sorts of sickness ensue.This is well known in medicine. In the same way, the second shit is eliminatedthrough the sexual function. It is necessary for the health, for theequilibrium of the body. For some people, it is necessary to do this every day;for others, every week, for still others, every month or every six months. Itis subjective. A third shit is produced from the third food, impressions, andwaste from this food accumulates in the cerebellum. … This third type of shitis eliminated by the appropriate use of breathing” (G.I. Gurdjieff Paris Meetings1943, 34).

每個(gè)人體內(nèi)都有三個(gè)‘大便’，這三個(gè)‘大便’是產(chǎn)生的，必須清除。第一種是普通食物的結(jié)果，是自然淘汰的。這必須每天都做;否則，各種疾病接踵而至。這在醫(yī)學(xué)上是眾所周知的。同樣的，第二個(gè)大便通過(guò)性功能排出。這對(duì)健康和身體的平衡是必要的。對(duì)一些人來(lái)說(shuō)，每天這樣做是必要的;對(duì)另一些人，每周，還有一些人，每月或每六個(gè)月。它是主觀的。第三種大便是由第三種食物、印象和廢物產(chǎn)生的，這些食物在小腦中積累。……第三種大便通過(guò)適當(dāng)?shù)暮粑慌懦?/span>”(G.I.葛吉夫巴黎會(huì)議1943,34)。

The answer is short and obscure. It is not completeand exhaustive. It makes no obvious reference to the exhalation of the wasteproducts of the air. Even if that is possibly implied in the reference to “theresult of ordinary food,” it is not spelled out. I do not know what he meant bysaying that the third type of shit is eliminated by the appropriate use ofbreathing, unless he meant that being conscious of one’s breathing, one canextract more of the higher energies in the air, and is less subject to the tendencyto react and manifest mechanically. However, it would appear to underscore theimportance of the breathing exercises which Gurdjieff taught.

答案簡(jiǎn)短而晦澀。它不是完整和詳盡的。它沒(méi)有明顯提到的廢氣的呼出。即使“普通食物的結(jié)果”可能暗示了這一點(diǎn)，也沒(méi)有詳細(xì)說(shuō)明。我不知道他說(shuō)的第三種大便通過(guò)適當(dāng)?shù)暮粑慌懦鞘裁匆馑?，除非他的意思是有意識(shí)地呼吸，一個(gè)人可以從空氣中提取更多的高能量，而較少受到反應(yīng)和機(jī)械表現(xiàn)的傾向的影響。然而，它似乎強(qiáng)調(diào)了葛吉夫教授的呼吸練習(xí)的重要性。

I approached the question of waste by consideringthe different aspects of man: his physical, emotional, intellectual and sexualorganisms. Gurdjieff came from another perspective: the three “shits” or excrements.We seem to have arrived at the same point. What is important is that Gurdjieffseems to be saying that because we have sexual energies at work in us, we havea need to excrete them, and that this will be through sex.

我通過(guò)考慮人類的不同方面來(lái)探討廢物問(wèn)題:他的身體、情感、智力和性器官。葛吉夫來(lái)自另一個(gè)角度:三種“大便”或糞便。我們似乎到達(dá)了同一點(diǎn)。重要的是葛吉夫似乎在說(shuō)，因?yàn)槲覀凅w內(nèi)有性能量，所以我們有必要將它們排泄出來(lái)，而這將通過(guò)性來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)。

I don’t think that that is the end of the story. Aswe shall see, Bennett suggests that creativity and, I think Bennett means,spiritual activity can also dispose of those waste products (46).

我不認(rèn)為這是故事的結(jié)局。正如我們將要看到的，本內(nèi)特認(rèn)為創(chuàng)造力，我認(rèn)為本內(nèi)特的意思是，精神活動(dòng)也可以處理那些廢物。

In other words, I think we can say this:

換句話說(shuō)，我認(rèn)為我們可以這樣說(shuō):

Sexual energies which work in us in a particularway after puberty, and after this point, they seek expression in the sex act.This sexual activity can have the effect of disposing of the waste productsproduced by sexual energies.

性能量在青春期后以一種特殊的方式在我們體內(nèi)運(yùn)作，在這一點(diǎn)之后，它們?cè)谛孕袨橹袑で蟊磉_(dá)。這種性活動(dòng)可以產(chǎn)生處理性能量產(chǎn)生的廢物的效果。

However, while this is, as Blake said, the way opento “sleeping man”, we do not wish to be or to remain “sleeping man”. There isanother way to dispose of it, the path of spiritual development.

I think that this is important. Many people arebothered by their sexual activity. They find themselves addicted on pornographyand masturbation, or resorting to prostitutes. They often feel demeanedafterwards, and if they are religious, they often feel dirty. Promiscuity, andaccepting these activities as being healthy, are not the answer. The answer isunderstanding and self-control.

然而，正如布萊克所說(shuō)，雖然這是通往“沉睡的人”的道路，但我們不希望成為或保持“沉睡的人”。還有另一種處理它的方法，精神發(fā)展的道路。我認(rèn)為這很重要。許多人對(duì)他們的性行為感到煩惱。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己沉迷于色情和手淫，或者求助于妓女。之后他們常常覺(jué)得自己被貶低了，如果他們是虔誠(chéng)的教徒，他們常常覺(jué)得自己很臟。濫交，并接受這些行為是健康的，并不是答案。答案是理解和自我控制。

People may be aided by the realisation that theyare dealing with a natural process, the production of waste products, and thatthe waste can be dealt with in other ways than the most obvious, sexualactivity.

人們可能會(huì)意識(shí)到，他們正在處理一個(gè)自然過(guò)程，即廢物的產(chǎn)生，而這些廢物可以通過(guò)其他方式處理，而不是最明顯的性活動(dòng)。

Blake hints at the possibilities of understandingsexual activity as a whole and using that understanding to develop in apositive direction: “Bennett eases our bewilderment before the spontaneity ofsex and enables us to see a way of understanding and living better. Hisguidance can enable men and women to appreciate each other more wisely and,through understanding the role each has to play, to grow in mutual compassion”(8). This thought takes us beyond what I have dealt with today, but it is thestudy we shall undertake in future articles.

布萊克暗示了將性行為作為一個(gè)整體來(lái)理解的可能性，并利用這種理解朝著積極的方向發(fā)展:“本內(nèi)特減輕了我們?cè)谛缘淖园l(fā)性之前的困惑，讓我們看到了一種更好的理解和生活的方式。他的指導(dǎo)可以使男人和女人更明智地欣賞彼此，通過(guò)了解每個(gè)人必須扮演的角色，在相互同情中成長(zhǎng)。”

Joseph Azize, 23 December 2017

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