The good news is that this thirst is within you, and the water that will quench it is within you. What you are looking for is within you, and the means to get in touch with it is also within you. This is a reality that is very sweet—not buried in conflict and pain, doubts and questions, but, in fact, dancing within you because you exist, because you are alive.好消息是，對滿足的渴求在你內在，解渴的水也在你內在。你所尋找的，存於你內在，而與之連繫的方法，同樣在你內在。有一份令人倍感溫馨的真實，沒有被埋沒在矛盾、痛苦、疑惑與問題之中，而是於你內在起舞，因為你存在、你活著。
I know you wake up in the morning with an agenda. Great. But in doing all the things that you’re going to do that day, are you going to take a moment of your life and concentrate on the reason all those things are going to happen? The reason they are going to happen is that you are alive. If you weren’t, your agenda would definitely change. No more meetings, no more appointments. Everything would be dramatically different.
我知道你一早醒來，便有滿滿的行程等著，很好！但在你完成當天的計畫之後，你是否會騰出生命中短短的一刻，專心去想想，這一切為什麼會發生？這一切之所以會發生，是因為你活著，你若沒有活著，你的計畫肯定生變，不再開會、不再赴約，一切會有戲劇性的變化。
Just take a moment to understand your own thirst, not the thirst you have been taught. You may not think you have been taught a thirst, but you have. Every time you see a shop window, it is like a little sign saying, “You need this.” Every time you see an advertisement, it is saying, “You need this; you need that.” That’s the way the world runs, and I’m not proposing to change it.
花 一點點時間去明白你自己的渴望，不是別人教你的渴望。或許你不認為有人教過你渴望，但事實卻是如此。每回你瞥見店舖的櫥窗，那裡彷彿立了一個小牌子寫道： 「你需要這個。」每回你看見一塊廣告看板，就像在說：「你需要這個、你需要那個。」那就是這世界運作的模式，我沒有提議去改變它。
Have we identified the need that we have always had that has not been borrowed or learned? People say, “Why am I not aware of it?” We have become experts at hiding it. We turn the volume up. This is our fix. If we hear a noise we do not like, we just turn the stereo up, and the noise is gone. When somebody is talking on and on, after a little while we just tune them out. They don’t exist anymore. They keep on talking, but we aren’t listening to anything they are saying.
如 何才能辨識出我們固有的需要，而非從他處借來、學來的呢？人們說：「既然如此，為何我不曾察覺？」我們藉著調高噪音音量，成了隱藏這份需要的專家。這是我 們處理的方式：我們若聽到不喜歡的噪音，只要調高音響的音量，噪音便消失了。當有人滔滔不絕地講話，過不了多久，我們會自動濾音，彷彿他們不再存在。他們 繼續講得口沫橫飛，但我們已將他們的話消音。
When you feel a thirst and have no solution for it, it feels very much like a vacuum, and it’s not easy to live in a vacuum. We say, “Let me tune it out. Let me get rid of it.”
當你感到渴望卻束手無策，那感覺很像真空狀態，要活在其中可真不簡單，於是我們說：「我要攆除渴望，讓渴望消音。」
I propose that you take on that thirst. It is the most wonderful thirst you have ever had in your life. It is the noblest cause a human being can ever have. Of all the things that we can do, of all the things that we can achieve, there is one more that I consider incredibly noble. And that is to be fulfilled.
我建議你要正視那份渴望，這是你一生中最美妙的渴求，是一個人最崇高的動機。在我們一生所能做的、所能成就的一切之中，我認為還有一件極為崇高的事，那就是要得到內在的滿足。A lot of people ask, “Isn’t that very selfish?” Well, an extinguished lamp can never light anything. It can neither light the area around it, nor can it light another lamp. There is one prerequisite for that lamp to do any such thing: it needs to be lit.
很多人問：「那不是很自私嗎？」熄滅的燈，永遠無法照亮任何東西，既不能照亮四周，也無法點燃另一盞燈。那盞燈若要這麼做，先決條件就是：先點燃自己。
Light your lamp. Looking at reality, one day it will go out. Light it while you have the chance. Let there be fulfillment in your life. Let there be clarity in your life. Let there be answers in your life. Not just questions but answers. We have become very good at questions. We question everything. But we are not very good at answers. And we are certainly not very good at accepting the answers regardless of how obvious they are. What is obvious?
點燃你這盞燈！看看真相吧，有一天，燈會熄滅的。所以，當機會還在，點亮吧，讓你的人生展現滿足，讓你的人生展現清楚。讓你的人生展現答案，而不光只有疑問。我們很擅長提問，質疑一切，卻不擅長獲得答案。不論答案有多明顯，我們肯定不擅長接受。什麼很明顯呢？
What is obvious is that you exist. And because you exist, you have the possibility of being fulfilled. It’s incredibly simple and simply profound. This is what this existence is: breath comes and goes, comes again and goes again. And I walk my life one step at a time.
明顯的是：你存在著，正因為你存在，你才有機會得到滿足。這道理再簡單不過了，意義卻無比深遠。這份存在就是：來了又去的這一口氣，來來去去。我的生命一次只跨一步。
I’m concerned about tomorrow; I lament yesterday. I’m stuck in now. If tomorrow has to become a reality for me, it will have to convert itself into the day called today. Even (the term) a day makes it very long. It is not about twenty-four hours. It is about this breath that just came and went. That’s how short it is.
我十分關切明天，我哀悼昨天，但我被夾在當下這一刻。對我而言，明天若要成為真實的一天，那勢必得轉變成「今天」。即使一天的計算方式，也似乎是很漫長的。這與二十四小時無關，這與剛剛來了又去的這口氣有關，當下就是如此短暫。
Does that show me my mortality? Or my immortality? In that moment called now, there are no limits. Even though it’s very small, it’s limitless. In that moment called now resides my determination to be fulfilled. That’s where my understanding resides. That’s where my fulfillment resides. Not somebody’s theory, but my fulfillment.
這展現出我的易朽，還是我的不朽呢？在當下這一刻，沒有任何限制，即使當下如此短暫，卻是無窮無盡的。當下這一刻，是我想獲得滿足的決心駐守之處，也是我的明白、我的滿足駐守之處。那可不是某人的論點，而是我的滿足。One problem is that whenever we have wanted something, we have had to go get it. What I’m talking about, you already have. You already have contentment inside of you. You don’t have to go somewhere to get it. You only need to discover it.
人有個毛病，不論我們何時想要什麼，就會採取行動取得。我所談的，你早已擁有。你內在早已擁有滿足，你不需到別處取得，你只需要去發掘。
Look at this breath like you have never seen it before. Look at this life like you have never seen it before. Look at contentment like you have never looked at it before. Look at this moment like you have never looked at it before.
注視這口氣，宛如你不曾看過一樣！注視這個生命，彷彿你不曾看過一樣！看清楚滿足，就像你不曾見過一樣！注視當下這一刻，宛如你不曾看過一樣！
You can. The heart can capture a moment that will last for the rest of your life. When you become good at looking at a moment, and in that moment you capture contentment, fulfillment, joy, you will have quite a collection for the rest of your life.
你辦得到，這顆心能捕捉那一刻，能在你餘生回波蕩漾的那一刻。等你擅長關照短暫的一刻，在那瞬間捕捉滿足、充實、喜悅，你這一生的典藏品將壯觀無比。
~Prem Rawat 普仁羅華
photos / Lin Jia-Jin 林佳靜攝影
0 意見:
張貼意見