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薩古魯:

要有很多生活經驗才能了解到”很多我們以為非常好的事其實並非好事”。當克里須那(印度三大神之一)被問到，”真相的本質是什麼?”，他回答，”那些很像毒藥的是甘露，而那些如甘露般美味、令人沉醉的，才是毒藥。” 需要很多生活經驗才能了知這個真相，而很少人能不經歷許多痛苦就有這樣的領悟，更甚者，當他們領悟到時已經太晚以至於沒有任何意義了。所以你越加速你的生活經驗越好，因為你會更早意識到那些曾經以為很棒的事並沒有那麼棒。你有過這樣的經驗嗎?當你16歲或30歲時認為很棒的事，實際上沒那麼棒，假如你不讓這樣的經驗發生在30歲，它將會在你60歲時發生，這對生命是多可怕的浪費!

Sadhguru:

It takes a lot of life’s experience to realize that many things that we thought were very good, turned out not to be good. When Krishna was asked, “What is the nature of truth?” he said, “What seems to be like poison is the amrita, what tastes like amrita, is the poison.” It takes a lot of life’s experience to realize this. Very few arrive at this without much pain. For most, when they arrive at it, it is too late, in the sense it anyway makes no difference anymore. So the more you hasten your experience of life, the better it is, because you realize sooner that what you actually thought was great is not so great. Has it happened to you? What you thought was really great when you were 16, or when you were 30, is not so great, actually. If you don’t let the experience happen at 30, it will happen to you at 60. That is a terrible waste of life.

一對夫妻在開車時，一如往常地產生爭執，在激動中，丈夫失控撞上中隔島翻車了，接著他們就出現在天堂門口。進門後他們發現那是一座仙境般的高爾夫球場，還空無一人。丈夫問妻子，”我們來打一輪吧，如何?”妻子回答，”好啊!” 他們倆人都開桿將球揮上果嶺，當他正準備要推桿時，他環視了眼前美麗的景觀，突然，他變得有些惱怒和沮喪。妻子問，”現在又怎麼了?” 他說，”要不是你那愚蠢的健康食物，我們早就來這裡了!”

A husband and wife were driving. There was a bit of a quarrel, as usual. In the excitement, he lost control of the car, hit the median, and the car turned over. In the next scene, they were at the gates of heaven. They walked in and found themselves on a fabulous golf course. Nobody was there. Then the husband asked the wife, “What do you think, shall we play a round?” She said, “Okay.” So both of them teed off and got to the green. He was just about to putt the ball, he looked around at the beautiful landscape and suddenly, he became a little irritated and despondent. The wife asked, “What’s the matter now?” He said, “If it was not for your stupid health food, we could have got here long ago.”

每一天身體與頭腦都會製造很多看起來像是當下”最需要、最想要的”的幻象，過一陣子，你回顧並看出那些”最需要、最想要的”並非那麼好，甚至沒有那些”最需要、最想要的”你反而可以作得更好，有很多這樣的”最需要、最想要的”。我們的整個社會被炒作成要對任何新鮮的、第一次接觸的事物感到興奮—而不是看穿事物本身。所以，就像某人說的，經驗就像當你的頭全禿了才找到的梳子，或另一俚語說的，經驗像是當牙齒已經掉光了才找到堅果吃。當你準備幫自己挖墳墓時，才被智慧的金塊砸到?不，它們必須現在就掉落。當你年輕時、當你健康時、當人生在你眼前展開時，不是一兩塊，智慧應該如洪流般落在你身上，要讓這件事發生，除了保持清明的覺知外，別無他法。

So many tricks that your body and mind carry out on a daily basis look like “the thing” at that moment. After some time, you look back and see, they were actually not very good. You could have done better without them. There are so many things like this. And we have created a whole social hype that you are supposed to get excited about everything new, everything you do for the first time – you are not supposed to look through anything.So, like someone said, experience is like a comb that you find when you lost all your hair, or there is a vernacular saying that you find nuts to eat when all your teeth are gone. Nuggets of wisdom fall upon you when they are digging your grave. No, they must fall now. When you are young, when you are healthy, when life is ahead of you, not just nuggets, a torrent of wisdom should fall upon you. If this has to happen, there is no other way than to bring clarity to your perception.

假如你沒有下足夠的功夫來保持清明的覺知，智慧的出現只能是意外。沒有清明的覺知，你將看不到事物的真實樣貌，一旦你扭曲地認知一切，不知不覺中，你會過上荒誕的生活。也許會有十個人加入你的行列，你們一起作著同樣的蠢事卻一致地覺得那是正確的事，但終有一天，你將知道事情的真相。我只希望那天不是你人生的最後一天，即使你只剩三天生命，你至少還可以享受三天的智慧。

If you don’t do enough work to bring clarity of perception, wisdom is an accident. If there is no clarity of perception, you will see things the way they are not. Once you see things the way they are not, unknowingly, you will live a ridiculous life. Ten people may have joined your party, all doing the same silly things and you all may feel it is the right thing – but one day, you will know. I only hope that day is not the last day of your life. Even if you only had three days left, you could at least enjoy wisdom for three days.

人們嘗試去獲得體驗，但體驗無法被”獲取”。假如你全然敞開地生活，體驗將自然地發生，如果你在生活中築起一道圍牆，不會有體驗發生在你身上，只有允許生命中的一切發生在你身上，體驗才能被累積。如果你保護自己不被任何小事干擾、擊打，那麼你能得到的只有防禦的體驗，防禦什麼?你在防禦生命本身，如果你來到這裡並不是為了活著，這倒是一個很好的策略，但你是生命的一部分，這意味著你為了"活著"來到這裡。

People are trying to gain experience. You cannot gain experience. If you live with absolute openness, experience will happen to you. If you live with walls around you, experience will not happen to you. Only if you let life happen to you, experience will accumulate. If you are guarding yourself against every little thing, there will be no experience except that of defense. Defense against what? You are defending yourself against life. That is a good strategy if you have not come here to live. But you are a piece of life – that means you have come here to live.

那些因為在股市虧錢或與另一半爭吵而不想活的人，試著閉上嘴巴並堵住鼻孔兩分鐘，先不要下結論，去試著這樣作並觀察，這就是體驗。不要聽從你的大腦、不要聽我說的，只聽從你內在的那個生命，它怎麼說? 它想要活下去!不論你的大腦想的是什麼亂七八糟的垃圾，那都不是真實的，這個存在想要活下去! 它想要活著代表著它想體驗生命的進程，所以你才可以看穿這個生命進程並超脫。假如你無法看穿這個進程，你永遠無法超脫此進程(輪迴)，你要嘛被糾纏其中要嘛被隔絕在外，這兩者都無法走向自由(解脫)，自由只有在你能看穿生命時才會發生。假如人們預期要到60歲才能有這樣的智慧，而你在16歲時就有了，你就到了一個境界，這境界意味著你能看穿生命的每個步驟、走向、進程，卻不需要一一地經歷那些亂七八糟的垃圾與過程--你直接看穿，這同時意味著你已取得解脫的候選資格。

Those of you who lost money in the stock market or had a tiff with your husband or wife today, if you feel like dying, just close your mouth, and hold your nose for two minutes. Don’t conclude, try and see. There is something called experience. Don’t do what your mind says, don’t do what I say, do what the life within you says. What does it say? This being wants to live. Whatever rubbish your mind is thinking up is not the reality. This being wants to live. It wants to live means it wants to experience the process of life so that you can look through the process and you can go beyond this process. If you do not look through the process, you can never go beyond the process. Either you are tangled up in the process or you are insulated from the process. Both will not lead to liberation. Liberation will only happen when you are able to look through the process. If the wisdom that people are expecting to happen to you when you are 60, happens to you when you are 16, you are sure to get somewhere. That means you are able to look through the process of life. You don’t have to go through all the rubbish – you look through it. That means you are a candidate for liberation.

獻上我的愛與祝福

薩古魯

Love&Grace,

Sadhguru

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