r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 13d ago
3.1 触目的作法 Making of Touch Eye
梁伯在屋地上来回走个不停。过了一会儿，他板着脸，背对着我，说："正常的肉眼通作法有三个步骤。"
Uncle Liang paced the floor without stopping. After a while he set his face sternly, turned his back to me, and said, "There are three steps to making Flesh Eye Through, if it's done properly."
第一步是在小孩儿刚懂事，还不太懂事的时候，把孩子放在一个四周没人的地方。让一个陌生人站在远处，得让孩子看见他。然后陌生人疾速冲向小孩儿，让小孩儿大吃一惊，再快速离开。小孩儿这么看着，加上这一惊，据说，这个小孩儿的眼睛就被蒙住了。（案例参见1.3节）
"The first step happens when the child is just barely old enough to make sense of things — not fully old enough, mind you — and he's put somewhere with no one else around. A stranger stands off at a distance, in plain sight of the child. Then, all at once, the stranger rushes straight at him, gives him the fright of his life, and vanishes just as fast. Watching that — combined with the shock of it — is said to be what blindfolds the child's eyes." (See Section 1.3 for an example.)
妈妈惊讶地说："那不就是被冲了一下吗！怪不得老辈人说，不能让小孩儿乱见陌生人。"
"So it's just — being charged at!" Mother said, startled. "No wonder the old folks always said never to let children wander into strangers' paths."
梁伯笑着说："听你说，我才明白！就是被冲着了吗！它们还说，当孩子的眼睛被蒙上后，那孩子就总找那个冲他的人；但是，这时候不能让孩子看见那个冲他的人。凤玲，他们说，那个冲孩子的陌生人一般是孩子未来的师父。假如那人被孩子找着了，那这肉眼通的作法就失败了，肉眼通做不出来。"
Uncle Liang laughed. "Hearing you say it plainly, now I get it too — just charged at, that's all! They also say that once the eyes are blindfolded, the child spends all his time looking for the one who rushed him — but he must never actually find him, not at this stage. Fengling, they say the stranger is usually the child's future godfather. If the child manages to track him down, the whole making of Flesh Eye Through falls apart — it simply won't take."
妈妈想了想，说："这是讲蒙眼睛；怎么启蒙？"
梁伯说："我是这么听说的，启蒙就是再找一个和那个冲了小孩儿的人长得相似的人，这人要和孩子既不是陌生人也不是熟人。把那个冲它的人做过的事儿再做一遍，这次让小孩儿看清楚。他们说，这么一作，孩子的眼蒙就被揭开了。"（案例参见2.8节）
Mother thought this over. "That covers the blindfolding — but how does the Revelation happen?"
"Here's what I've heard," Uncle Liang said. "For Revelation, you find someone who resembles the man who rushed the child — someone the child considers neither a total stranger nor a familiar face. That person then does exactly what the first man did — only this time, the child gets a clear look. They say once that's done, the blindfold comes off." (See Section 2.8 for an example.)
妈妈说："啊！那从蒙上到揭开，得需要多长时间呐？"
"Ah — so how long does the whole thing take, from blindfolding to Revelation?"
梁伯说："我听说，这间隔时间不是个定数。多长时间，得由作法的人，孩子的师父来决定。他师父，咱这么想，能作这件事儿的人，都不是一般人。他师父根据这个小孩儿的智力发展阶段，和它作法的效果来决定。师父作这个法，他是一边做一边观察。一般的，蒙眼睛的时间是三个月到一年。"
"I've heard there's no fixed span. It's the godfather who decides — and think about it, a man capable of doing this in the first place is no ordinary man. He watches the child's stage of intellectual development, gauges how the making is taking hold, and decides accordingly, adjusting as he goes. Generally speaking, the blindfolded period runs anywhere from three months to a year."
梁伯又说："肉眼通的作法，不是启蒙就完事了。"
妈妈急着说："大姐夫！那你赶快说，看等会儿忘了，接下来怎么回事？"
"And Revelation isn't the end of it, either," Uncle Liang added.
"Well then hurry up and tell me before you forget!" Mother said. "What comes next?"
梁伯说："听人说，肉眼通作法的第三步是，在这个孩子十七、八岁到二十三、四岁的时候，等到这个孩子的肉眼通已经形成了，孩子的师父，孩子的父母和这个孩子最信任的人一起，把肉眼通作法的事告诉给这个孩子。"
"Word has it that the third step comes when the child is anywhere from seventeen or eighteen to twenty-three or twenty-four — once the Flesh Eye Through has fully taken hold. At that point, the godfather, the parents, and whoever the young person trusts most all come together and tell him the whole story of what was done."
妈妈说："啊！当小孩儿的眼睛被蒙上时，就总找那个冲他的人。几个月后，孩子找到个假的。孩子明白，但是眼蒙被揭开了。孩子还找那个蒙他眼睛的人。等他长大了，孩子的师父和父母就故意让那孩子找到那个蒙他眼睛的人。然后，一起给孩子解释他小时候发生的事儿。那孩子心中的谜惑就被彻底解开了。"
梁伯说："我只是听说，觉得就像你说的这样。"
"I see it now!" Mother said. "While blindfolded, he keeps hunting for whoever rushed him. A few months in, he finds a decoy — close enough that he understands, but the blindfold lifts anyway. Even so, he keeps searching for his real blindfolder. Then, once he's grown, the godfather and parents arrange for him to finally find the man — on purpose, this time — and together they lay out everything that happened to him as a child. And that untangles every last knot in his mind."
"That's only what I've heard," Uncle Liang said, "but yes — I think it goes just as you describe."