There are a few things which are always worth keeping to yourself. Telling the world about them — however much you want to — just won’t bring you anything good. Here are seven of the most crucial things we think you should always keep secret.
有些事，你應該永遠保密。想讓所有人知道你的想法？省省吧，這並不會給你帶來任何好處的。尤其是下面的七件事，你應該永遠藏在心裡。
1. Don’t reveal your most ambitious plans. Keep silent about these until you’ve actually managed to fulfill them. Such plans often have weak spots and ill-thought out parts which you haven’t noticed; therefore, the chances are that someone could pick them apart quite easily, leading you to become too disheartened to even try to overcome them.
1. 不要向別人訴說你雄心勃勃的計劃。在你做出成果之前請保持沉默。因為你看似完美的計劃可能有一些你沒注意到的薄弱環節和未經考慮的部分。有些人可能輕易的就把你們的計劃毀掉了，會讓你變得灰心，甚至最後讓你沒有勇氣和能力克服困難。
2. Don’t deliberately share information about any good or generous deeds or charitable work that you’ve done. The greatest virtue lies in doing something good without hope of recognition. Boasting about such things can quickly lead to arrogance. If you feel the need to, perhaps you should evaluate why it is that you’re really doing these things — is out of altruism, or the desire to be praised?
2. 不要向別人炫耀你所做過的好事或者慈善工作。你要知道做好事本身最大的價值在於做好事本身，而非做好事帶來的認可。如果你喜歡向別人說你做了多少多少好事，最後可能導致你變得很自傲。如果你覺得做了好事就得讓別人知道，那麼請你想想——你做這些好事是出於利他，還是被認可，被表揚？
3. Never reveal the secrets of your lifestyle. It’s not worth bragging about how you’ve gone on a diet, or overcome your habit of sleeping too much in the morning, or stopped indulging your appetite for sex. If you’ve given up on worldly pleasures for the sake of spiritual goals, then it makes no sense to talk about this — your emotional condition needs to be harmonious, and such a desire to impress others and receive praise is a sign that it is not.
3. 不要向別人炫耀你的生活方式是怎樣的。自己如何節食，自己如何克服睡懶覺的習慣，自己如何不近男色/女色，這些都不值得向別人吹噓炫耀。如果你是為了精神目標做了這些事情，寧願放棄世俗的快樂，那麼向別人訴說是沒有意義的。如果你有這樣的情況，你真的應該好好自我調節一下了。因為你追求的是別人眼裡的自己，而並不是自己的精神世界。
4. Another thing it is always worth keeping silent about are those moments when you’ve shown courageor heroism. We all come up against various challenges every day — both in the external world and on the inside, in our own minds. Your achievements in dealing with both, should they become known, will be rewarded appropriately. It’s not for you to decide whether they are worthy of recognition — therein lies the lesson.
4. 在你應該表現出勇氣和魄力的時刻，你應該保持沉默，用實際行動來證明。我們每天會面臨各種各樣的挑戰，這些挑戰有的來自於外部世界，有的來自於我們的內心。別人知不知道你所經歷的磨難無所謂，別人認不認可你也無所謂，只要無懼挑戰，總有一天你會得到應有的回報。真理就是這樣。
5. Never share your thoughts on what you consider to be your enlightened knowledge of the universe and on questions of life and death. It’s only your interpretation, rather than objective truth, and the chances are you will only seem condescending to others when you try to convince them that they’re mistaken.Only in very rare cases will someone benefit from your thoughts on this subject.
5. 不要跟別人分享你自己總結的關於世間萬物，關於生死的觀點。那只是你自己的理解，而非客觀真理。當你試圖讓別人相信你所說的就是真理的時候，真理並不在你這邊，而你也會顯的很屈尊。要知道，只有少數的情況下，一些人才會相信你的觀看，並且從中受益。
6. It’s never worth revealing any conflicts or problems in your family life to others. Always bear in mind: the less you divulge such secrets about your family to others, the stronger it will be. Such things can only ever be resolved within the privacy of your own home, between loved ones. The more you complain to others about them the harder they will be to overcome.
6. 永遠不要向外人談起你的家庭內部問題。永遠記住：你向別人說起的家庭問題越少，你的家庭就會越幸福美滿強大。家庭內部問題是穩私問題，你和家人自己解決就好了。你向外人透漏的越多，事情反而越難解決。
7. Don’t talk about all the unpleasant things you’ve heard people say or do. Just as it’s possible to get your clothes dirty, you can also soil your mind. And the person who recounts all the foolish and awful things he hears and sees going on in the world as soon as he gets home is no different from the one who forgets to take of his shoes when he walks through the door.
7. 不要談論別人說的或別人做的不愉快的事情。這就像汙穢的東西會弄髒你的衣服一樣，你的思想也會被影響。那些一進你的家門，就整天說些負能量的話的人，就好像他說完後，人雖然已經走了，但是留給了你一雙臭氣熏天鞋忘了帶走。
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