Fwd: Are you happy? 你快乐吗？
Keane Leow
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| Subject: | Are you happy? 你快乐吗？ |
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| Date: | Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:53:09 +0800 |
| From: | SiewWoan Lim <siewwo...@gmail.com> |
| To: | undisclosed-recipients:; |
What is your commitment in life? You may say you are committed
to happiness. Every living creature wants to be happy. Whether
it is money, power or sex, you get into it for the sake of
happiness. Some people even enjoy misery because it gives them
happiness !
你在生命里有什么承诺？你可能会说你对幸福快乐有所承诺。每一个生物都要幸福快乐。无论是金钱，权利或是性，你栽在这一些事情里就是因
为要快乐。有些人甚至享受痛苦，因为那带给他们快乐！
To be happy, we seek something. But despite getting it, we are not happy. A school-going boy may think that if he goes to college, he will be more independent, free and therefore happy. If you ask a college-going boy whether he is happy, he feels that if he gets a job, he will be happy. Talk to somebody who is settled in their job or business, you already know what he will say! He is waiting to get a perfect soul mate, to be happy. He gets a soul mate, but he now wants a kid to be happy. Ask those who have children if they are happy. How can they relax until the children have grown up and have had a good education and are on their own. Ask those who are retired, are they happy? They long for the days when they were younger.
我们在寻找一些东西，为了就是要得到快乐。但是就算是得到它了，我们还是不快乐。一个小学生或许会觉得自己去上学院会比较自立，比较自
由，所以会快乐。但是如果你问一个学院生他快不快乐,他会觉得如果他开始工作了他才会快乐。跟一个已经有工作或有生意的人谈话，你肯定知
道他会怎么说！他会期待着一个完美的灵魂伴侣，好让他快乐。如果他已经有了另一半，他会觉得有小孩比较快乐。但是如果孩子还没有长大，还
没有得到好的教育，还没有自己的工作，做父母的又怎么能放轻松呢。问那些已退休的人，他们快乐吗？他们会去怀念那些年轻的时光。
All of one’s life is spent in preparing to be happy someday in
the future. It’s like making a bed all night, but having no time
to sleep.
How may minutes, hours and days have we spent our life being
happy from within ? Those are the only moments you have really
lived life. Those were perhaps the days when you were a small
kid, completely blissful and happy or a few moments when you
were surfing, swimming or sailing or on a mountain top, living
in the present and enjoying it.
There are two ways of looking at life. One is thinking that,
“I’ll be happy after achieving a certain objective.” The second
is saying that “I am happy come what may!”
Which one do you want to live?
我们的这一生都花在为未来的幸福快乐做打算当中。就像是一整夜都在整理床铺而没有时间睡觉。
这一生当中，有多少分钟，多少小时和多少天是我们真正处在内在的快乐里？那些时刻就是你真正活在你的生命里的时刻。那些时段可能就是你 还是小孩子的时候，处在完全充满喜悦和快乐里，又或者是当你在玩冲浪，游泳，或在帆船的时候，和登高山的时候，那些时刻你就活在当下并享 受着每一个时刻。
这儿有两个看待生命的看法。一是去想“我去实现了一些目标我就会快乐”。第二个是“让该来的都来吧，我还是一样快乐着！”
你要以哪一个方法去活出你的生命？
Seeking a guru 找寻大师
Before looking for a guru, it is important to know who is a
true guru, and who will guide you to the path of happiness.
One who says he is a guru is not a true guru. A guru is not one
who claims authority on you. A guru is not one who dictates
terms to you. A guru simply means one who brings more joy,
alertness and awareness into your life. He is the one who helps
you get in touch with yourself, who reminds you to live in the
present moment, who pulls you out of your guilt, agitation,
sorrow, anguish and allows you to be yourself. Also, a master
lives the values he teaches.
在寻找大师之前，最重要的是要知道谁是真正的大师，还有谁会带领你走在快乐的道路上。
一个告诉大家他是大师的人不是真正的大师。真正的大师不是一个会在你身上显示权威的人。真正的大师不是一个会跟你支配条件的人。大师只
是一个会为你的生命带来喜悦，敏锐和醒觉的人。他是一个会让你和你自己连接起来,一个会提醒你要活在当下，把你从罪恶，煽
动，悲痛，苦恼里拉出来，并让你可以好好的做自己。还有就是，一个大师会活出自己所教诲的价值。
Enlightenment does not come through authority. Somebody cannot command you to get enlightened. Once life blossoms, and love and compassion become a reality, then silence dawns and the transformation happens. That is enlightenment. It is a personal experience.
开悟不是从权威延伸出来的。没有人能命令你开悟。当生命绽放的时候，爱和慈悲就成了现实，寂静就升起然后转变就发生了。这就是开悟。是
很个人的体验。
God is also a very personal experience. It is something akin to
pain. If you have a pain in your leg, can you prove it to
anybody? Can you show your pain to anybody?
Much the same way, the opening of infinite consciousness is also
a personal experience. The basic substratum of creation — you
may call it God or any other name — opens up to us more and more
as we get rid of the stresses and start living in the present
moment. And then dawns surrender.
神也是很个人的体验。那是类似疼痛的感觉。如果你的脚在疼痛，你能证明给大家你是如何的痛吗？你能把它拿给给大家看吗？
同样的，无限的意识的开始也是个人的体验。那是一切创造的基质——你可以把那称为 神或是任何的名字——当我们摆脱压力，开始活在当下的时候，我们会把自己越来越开放给自己。然后臣服就延伸了。
Surrender is not an act. One cannot “try” to surrender. Most
often, one keeps wondering as to how to surrender. And this
struggle blocks one from being “in” surrender. Surrendering is
in your nature. Just like it is a child’s nature to love toys,
candies, and ice creams.
How can one find his true guru? Just be open and keep learning,
and when your learning is complete, it becomes obvious. When
you’re on the path, don’t worry about the guru. First look at
your own life, your own self. Have trust in yourself. And as
knowledge unfolds, you’ll find that there is suddenly a lot of
gratitude in you towards somebody and then you can accept him as
a master.
臣服不是一个动作。一个人不能说我“试试看”去臣服。很多时候我们会想要知道到底要怎么样去臣服。这种挣扎却阻碍了臣服的发生。臣服是 你的本性。就像小孩子的本性是喜欢玩具，糖果和雪糕。
一个人要如何才能找到他真正的导师呢？只需要开放自己并继续学习，当你的学习完成的时候，那就会变成非常明显了。当你走在这条道路上的
时候，不要去担心自己有没有导师。首先先去看一看自己的生命，看看你自己。相信你自己。知识就会展开，你会发现突然间自己的内在对这个人
充满着感恩，然后你就接受他成为导师了。
Live in the moment 活在当下
Life is 80 per cent joy and 20 per cent misery. But we hold on
to the 20 per cent and make it 200 per cent ! It is not a
conscious act, it just happens. Living in the moment with joy,
alertness, awareness and compassion is enlightenment. Being like
a child is enlightenment. It is being free from within, feeling
at home with everybody, without barriers.
Don’t judge and don’t worry about what others think of you. Whatever they think, it is not permanent. Your own opinion about things and people keeps changing all the time. So why worry about what others think about you. Worrying takes a lot of toll on the body, mind, intellect and alertness. It is like an obstruction that takes us far away from ourselves. It brings us fear. Fear is nothing but lack of love. It is an intense sense of isolation.
生命是80%的喜悦和20%的痛苦。但是我们却紧紧捉住那仅仅的20%然后把它放大到200%！这不是有意识的做法，但是它就是发生 了。时时刻刻活在喜悦，敏锐，醒觉和慈悲里就是开悟。能像个孩子一样就是开悟。那是从内在绽放的自由，和大家都可以自在的在一起，没有障 碍。
不要去批判也不要去担心别人会怎样看你。他们所想的也不是永久的。你对事情和人事物的看法 时时都在改变。所以何必去担心别人怎么样看你呢。担忧需 要花费很多的体力，精神，智 力和警觉性。它就像是个阻碍，让我们和自己远离了。它也带给我们恐惧。恐 惧就是缺乏爱。这是一种强 烈的孤立感。
This can be handled by relaxing and doing some breathing
exercises. Then you will realise that, “I am loved, I am part of
everybody and I am part of the whole Universe.” This will
liberate you and the mind will take a complete shift. You will
then find so much harmony around.
To find harmony, it is not as if you have to physically seek it
by sitting somewhere for years and practise. Whenever you are in
love and feel joyous, your mind is in the present . At some
level, to some degree, everybody is meditating without being
aware of it. There are moments when your body, mind and breath
are all in harmony. That’s when you achieve yoga. The art of
living lies in the present moment.
要找到和谐，并不是表示你需要坐在一个地方练习个几年。当你在爱里面或是感觉到喜悦的时候，你就是活在当下。到一个阶段，到 一个程度，每个人都会在不自觉的情况下静心。这个时刻就是你的身，心和呼吸都处在很和谐的时刻。这就是你达到瑜伽的时候。生 活的艺术就在于活在当下。
**以上是未学自行翻译，翻译不当的地方请见谅并请告之以让未学往后可以翻译得更好。也希望大家把古儒吉的爱和知识传达出去。感恩。
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Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings. How you feel, what you think, what you do, you are responsible.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar