行动不是将来或过去的行动，而是当下的行动。

Action is not future or past action but acting in the moment.

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观察过去的运作，也是没有过去的行动。

To observe the action of the past is again action without the past.

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不带念头地观察那棵树，就是没有过去的行动。

To observe the tree without thought is action without the past.

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In the absence of that, the states have actually taken action, over the past, maybe 5, 10 years

在这种法律空缺的情况下，各个州在过去的五到十年间已经采取了行动，

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