I'd been walking around like what the Buddhists call a hungry ghost: always focused on the bite that was yet to come, not the one in my mouth.

我就像佛教徒所说的“饿鬼”一样四处游荡：总是专注于即将到来的一咬，而不是嘴里的那一口。

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In reality, the mind or life is something clean, bright and peaceful but there are plenty of defilements that suck and stick to it, which make it dark and blind : a hungry ghost !

话说回头，实际上我们的心或或生命是本自清净、光明与平静的，然而现在却有很多烦恼吸住它、黏住它，使它变得黑暗、盲目，这就是个饿鬼！

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One can have the body and face of a monk and wear brown robes but one's mind can be a hungry ghost. Physicly there is a person but mentally there is a hungry ghost, a ghostly person.

一个人可能有着和尚的身和脸且穿着袈裟，但他的心可能是饿鬼心，从身体来看是个人，但从心理来看是个饿鬼，一个像鬼的人。

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It is said that if the wronged receive anything less than a proper burial, their spirit will almost certainly come back as a Hungry Ghost, damned to starve in the afterlife, feeding only on their hatred.

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