有一次晚上，我们教徒听了布道，然后分组讨论。讨论中涉及下面的问题：
1. What does repentance mean to you? Is it a regular part of your life?
2. What are your "Abrahams" -- things that you use to avoid taking the time to examine your heart and, if necessary, repent?
布道者说犹太人认为他们无需担忧得到神的恩典，因为他们是 Abraham 的子孙。神早就向 Abraham 保证，所有他的子孙都会得到恩典。所谓一劳永逸。
 我不知道今天的犹太教徒是否真的是这样想的。我希望听众里会有一个犹太教徒站出来反驳一下。
可是真正的犹太教徒是不会来我们的教堂的。所以那只是我的痴心妄想。
讨论中，我们谈到了 self-awareness。某些人认为 self-awareness 是避免说错话，做错事的重要武器。
wiki 上说：
Self-awareness is the awareness of the self as separate from the thoughts that are occurring at any point in time. In other words, self-awareness is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. Without self-awareness the self perceives and believes the thoughts that are occurring to be who the self is. Self-awareness gives one the option or choice to choose thoughts being thought rather than simply thinking the thoughts that are stimulated from the accumulative events leading up to the circumstances of the moment. It is distinct from self-consciousness.
这让我不得不查 self-consciousness.
 Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness,
which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being; although
some writers use both terms interchangeably or synonymously.[1]
An unpleasant feeling of self-consciousness may occur when one realizes
that one is being watched or observed, the feeling that "everyone is
looking" at oneself. Some people are habitually more self-conscious
than others. Unpleasant feelings of self-consciousness are sometimes
associated with shyness or paranoia. According to Schopenhauer, man can, through self-consciousness, make a choice between affirming or denying the will.
Self-consciousness 看起来是症状了。还是 self-awareness 比较安全。
如
果我来定义的话，self-awareness 就是 the practice of thinking what other people or
moral standards would perceive my words or my behavior.
我相信我的定义与 wiki 的定义差别不大。wiki 有的时候会把概念搞得莫名其妙。
 Anyway, self-awareness 也包括思考 “神会如何看我的言行呢？” 我把这样的思考称为 God awareness。
如果我们常有 God awareness，当然我们会避免很多错误的言行。
知道 “别人会怎么看我呢？” 并不一定会避免我们的错误言行。
所以，God awareness 是 self-awareness 里最为重要的部分。There is no surprise. |
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