﻿翻译&字幕 │ 黄巾巾
微信公众平台@全新的地球 │ 微博@埃克哈特Eckhart Tolle
欢迎大家
welcome
这次我们聚集于此谈论的主题是：
so we are here to address the topic of
活在充满挑战的时代之中
living in challenging times
要如何去应对有时候发生的极端的挑战?
how to deal with sometimes extreme challenges
当那些挑战出现的时候，要如何保持觉知?
how to stay conscious when challenges arise
的确
it is of course true to say that
大多数时候
most of the time
对大多数人而言，他们体验的生命是充满挑战的
life is experienced for most people as challenging
虽然有的时候，在生命中的一些间歇时期
although there are sometimes interludes
事情似乎也发展得很顺利
when everything seems to be going very well
如他们所计划的那样
according to plan
好事发生了，你可以放松，感到快乐
good things happen, you can relax, be happy
也许你坠入了爱河
perhaps you've fallen in love
也许你马上要结婚了
or you're just getting married
当你升职的时候，你在工作上发挥得游刃有余
when you got a promotion you're doing well professionally
有新生儿出生了
a child is born
那些都是快乐的时刻，快乐的间歇时期
happy moments happy interludes
当人们生命中的事情发展顺利的时候，那是很棒的
it's wonderful when things are going well in one's life
那当然值得去享受，感激
and it's to be enjoyed of course and appreciated
但是奇怪的事情是
but the strange thing is that
很快或者不久之后，通常是很快
sooner or later and usually sooner
有些事情看似将蓄意破坏
something seems to spoil to
抹杀掉你在某段时期里所拥有的快乐
marthy enjoyment that you had for a while
有些事总是迟早会发生的
there's always something that comes in sooner or later
那些事似乎想要蓄意破坏你生命中发展很顺利的事情
that seems to want to sabotage the things that are going well in your life
有些人，就他们个人而言甚至会猜想
some people take it even personally and they think
可能存在着一个神明，而神明持有反对他们的事物
there's perhaps a god who has something against them
又或者，他们说“总之，生命对待我很不公平！”
or they say "Life in general is treating me unfairly"
“为什么生命待我如此不公？”
"Why is life treating me unfairly ?"
“为什么这些事情总是发生在我身上？”
"Why do these things always happen to me?"
“为什么发生在我的身上！其余的人看起来都好得很！”
"Why to me everybody else seems to be fine!"
当然了，那是一种错觉
of course that's a misperception
他们也许看起来很好，当你去看他们的Ins朋友圈动态
they may look fine if you look at their Instagram posts
和他们发布在社交软件“脸书”上的内容的时候
and what they post on Facebook
在那些地方，他们看起来都很好，很快乐
there they all look fine and happy
但是当然了，你可能也知道那是一种表面现象
but of course as you may know it's a facade
那是一种人为的、心智头脑建构的意象
it's an artificially mentally constructed image
人们把这意象投射到这个世界上
that people project into the world
为了求得认可，为了尽可能多地得到人们的“点赞”
in order to get recognition in order to get as many likes as possible
这样他们就感觉自己变强了
and then they feel strengthened
体验到一种加强了的“身份感”
and experience an enhanced sense of identity
他们短暂性地自我感觉良好
they feel better about themselves briefly
他们可能没有意识到，他们根本活在一个谎言之中
and they may not realize that they are living ultimately a lie that
他们一直在不断投射着那个谎言
they are continuously projecting and
而且通过一个虚构假想的“自我感”活着
living through a false fictitious sense of self
在某种程度上来说，所有这些事
to some extent that's that was already the case
早在人们发明社交媒体之前就已经存在了
even before people invented social media and all those things
但是它们现在被不断强化了
but this has now become amplified the tendency to
你对“你是谁”有一个心智头脑式的意象
have a mental image of who you are
并且通过这个关于“你是谁”的心智头脑意象
and to experience life and other people and events
去经历体验生命、其他人和事情
through this mental image of who you are
你会说：“那就是我，我的生命”
"That's me, my life." you say
“我的生命是什么？”
"What is my life?"
是你头脑中的叙事，是你告诉你自己
narrative in your mind, a story you tell yourself
以及告诉其他人的一个故事
and story you tell others
是你投射出去的一些事
something that you project
它是你无意识扮演的一种角色
it's a role that you play unconsciously
它是你一直被规约限制去扮演的一个角色
it's a role that you've been conditioned to play
不同的人扮演着不同的角色
the roles vary from person to person
但是几乎每个人都，除非他们开始觉醒
but almost everybod,y unless they begin to awaken
开始在精神上觉知，觉醒
become aware awaken spiritually or
在不知晓这一点的情况下
almost everybody then play
几乎每个人都扮演着一个角色
without knowing it they play a role
那是他们从童年时期就开始经历着的限制性状况
it's the conditioning that they have experienced since childhood
他们受限于他们当时所处的环境
they're conditioned by their immediate environment
受限于他们所在的文化环境
conditioned by their cultural environment
所以你变成了这个“个体”
so you become this entity
最终当你无意识的时候
and ultimately when you are unconscious
那意味着你完全认同于这个角色
which means you are completely identified with this role
你按照一个“剧本”活着
you are acting out a script
和你生活在一起的人
and somebody lives with you
他们在不久之后就知道
then they know that after a while
他们发现你的行为是可预见的
they realize your behavior is quite predictable
因为你的反应总是趋向于一致
because your reactions tend to be always the same
你说的话也总是趋向于一致
and what you say is tends to be always the same
你把那个“剧本”错当成“你真正的本质”
it's a script that you mistake for who you actually are
你头脑的限制性
the conditioning of your mind
这个个体，这个头脑制造了一种自我感
and so this entity this mind made sense of self
我们可以称它为“小我‘
that we could call the ego
它就算快乐也绝对不会快乐很久
it's never happy for very long
当你的生命中有事情出问题的时候
and it tends to very much resent it
小我会极其憎恶这种事
when things go wrong in your life
换句话说，当挑战出现的时候
in other words when challenges appear challenges arise
当有些事无法很好配合 “我的故事”的时候
something that does not fit into the narrative of me
如此
and so
很常见的是，人们总是抱怨他们的生命
it is very common for people to complain a lot about their life
无论是发生在头脑中的，还是大声说出来的
either mentally or out aloud
当有些小事情发生的时候，它们看似会蓄意造成破坏
when things happen little things that seem to sabotage
即使是一些很细微的事情，比如你错过了公交车
even the smallest things you miss the bus
你堵车了，丢失了某样东西
you're stuck in the traffic you lose something
你和某人约好见面，但是他却没有赴约
somebody doesn't turn up you are supposed to meet
各种各样的小事情，都可能会在日常生活中发生
all kinds of little things that tend to happen on a daily basis
对“小我”而言，即使是那种小事情
and even that already to the ego
也会成为它抱怨的对象
that is something that is to be complained about
小我大多数时候都是不快乐的
the ego is not happy most of the time
对于它所在的地方，和它正在做的事情
with where it is and what it's doing
所以说，那些在人们的生命中出现的挑战
and so the challenges that arise in people's lives
现在我们用另外一个词来说就是
now let's for a moment use another word
“挑战”这个词可能已经是略微带有积极意义成分的
challenges as already perhaps the slightly positive element to it
使用类似于“迎接挑战”这些表达等等
used expressions like rising up to a challenge and so on
但是当有些事情发生的时候
but when things happen
通常那些事情感觉更像是
it's usually something that feels more like
可以把它称作：发生在你生命中的“苦难”
one could call adversity that happens in your life
有些事出现了问题
something that's that's wrong something has gone wrong
所以这个“苦难”就是
so this adversity is something that
大家都知道“苦难”这个词和“对手”这个词有关联
you know that's related to the term adversity is related to adversary
所以它的意思就好像是：你正面对着一个“敌人”
and so it's it's almost as if you were facing an enemy
以一种情境的形式
in the form of a situation
或者是以一个不快乐的人、事件的形式
or an unpleasant person or an event
它本应该发生但是却没有发生
that either is not happening that should be happening
或者，它本不应该发生但是却正在发生
or is happening that should not be happening
所以你在较小的范围内经历着苦难
so you experienced adiversity on a small scale
有时也会经历大规模的苦难
and from time to time on a large scale large-scale adversity
有时也是小规模的苦难
large-scale adversity and small-scale adversity
它们都会导致痛苦
and that is leads to suffering
小我把那种经历当作“不幸”
the ego experience it as unhappiness
所以，“不幸”几乎会一直不断地出现在大多数人的生命之中
so unhappiness arises in most people's lives almost continuously
的确有短暂的间歇时期，而接着它会再次出现
yes brief interludes and then again
有些事情会发生，导致你遭受到某种“不幸”
something comes up that causes you some form of unhappiness
会发生不同类型的“苦难”
and the adversity the different forms of adversity that arise
可以说，基本上
you can they're basically one could say
有三种类型的苦难
three types of adversity
一种是出现在你个人生命中的苦难
one is adversity that arises in your personal life
在你应对某些人的那个当下时刻
in your immediate environment to do with your the people you know
可能是你在家中办公，在工作中共事的人
the people you work with in in at home at work wherever it may be
可能出现了某种疾病，或者金融方面的问题
or some kind of illness that arises or financial problems
人际关系方面的问题等等
relationship problems and so on
所以，苦难会出现在你的个人生命之中
so adversity arises in your personal life
接着第二种类型的苦难
then there's another type of adversity
这就是我们此刻想要关注的事情
and this is something that we want to focus on here
尤其是在接下来的谈论部分
in the next few sessions particularly
那就是以更大规模的形式发生的苦难
is adversity that arises on a larger scale
而你是那集体性的大规模中的一部分
in the collective of which you are part that is adversity
这种苦难不仅仅影响到你
that does not just affect you but
它还影响到无数大规模的人群
adversity that affects large numbers of people
在你的城市，你的国家
in your city in your country
甚至是整个世界
or even in the entire world
所以那可能是任何一种事情
so that could be whatever it may be
那可能是一场地震、飓风
it could be earthquake it could be a hurricane
可能是金融危机
it could be financial collapse
可能是一场流行性传染疾病
it could be a pandemic
这也是和我们当下紧密相关的主题
very relevant topic at the moment
所以突然间，不仅仅是你，而且数百万的人们
so suddenly you not only you but millions of others
都面对着同一种苦难
are faced with the same kind of adversity
这种事情可能比有的事情更严重
and those things tend to be bigger than the things that
有的事情看似只会妨碍到一些小事情
arise that seem to sabotage the little things
只是在你日常生活中妨碍到你的生命
that seem to sabotage your life on a daily basis
你有时会面对着一些巨大深重的苦难
so you sometimes faced with huge huge forms of adversity
所以我们有这些个人的和集体性的苦难
so we have those personal and collective
有时，发生的集体性苦难是如此深重
sometimes the collective adversities that arise is so huge
以致于你忘掉了你个人的问题
that you forget about your personal problems
因为你突然间就面对着巨大的苦难
because they are suddenly faced with the huge
你变成了一个巨大的集体性问题的一部分
you become part of a huge collective problem
比如说，你的国家处在战争之中
they suddenly let's say there's a war somewhere and that comes into your country
国内动乱，国家内战，国家遭到入侵
the civil unrest civil war your country gets invaded
或者出现流行性感染疾病, 金融瘫痪等等
or pandemic,complete financial collapse and so on
突然间你可能发现
and and suddenly you may find that
你曾经一直以来感到厌倦的事情慢慢变得无关紧要了
things that you've been boring about recede into relative insignificance
现在还有第三种类型的苦难
and now there's a third type
但是这一种是其它两种的一个基本部分
but the third type is an element of all the others
第三种苦难是极其常见的
the third type of adversity that is extremely common
即因苦难而遭受到的痛苦
is adversity suffering
可以说，是发生在你的头脑之中的
could say that arises in your mind
它是某些功能失调的心智活动
as a result of certain types of
或者头脑思考所造成的一种结果
dysfunctional mind activity or thinking
很重要的是：要在你之内觉察到
and that is very important to recognize in yourself
在任何情境之下问问你自己
and to ask yourself in any situation
当你经历到苦难、痛苦和不幸的时候
when you're experiencing adiversity suffering unhappiness
真的存在着一些事导致了我不快乐吗？
Is there actually something here that is causing me to be unhappy ?
还是我的头脑制造了我当下正在经历的不幸吗？
is my mind creating the unhappiness that I'm experiencing at this moment ?
通常，那个不幸
and very often the unhappiness that my mind
如果你的头脑在当下此时此刻正在制造着
if it is your mind is creating at this moment is
某些恐惧，而那是一种人们所经历到的
some type of fear that's a very common form of suffering
很常见的痛苦，即恐惧
that people experience, fear.
所以如果你越来越有觉知
So if you become more conscious of that
进而你能够区分：什么是你头脑正在做的事
So you can separate what it is that your mind is doing
什么又是在你生命中当下实际真实发生的问题
what it is that's actually an immediate problem in your life.
你能够把你自己从大量的“不幸”中解放出来
You can free yourself from a significant amount of unhappiness
通过觉察到你生命中绝大部分的“不幸”
by recognizing that huge a considerable percentage of the unhappiness
并不是来源于你发现自己所处的各种情境
in your life does not arise from situations that you find yourself in
虽然看起来好像的确是那样的
or that seems to be the case
但是当你更仔细地去看的时候，你会觉察到
but when you look more closely you realize that actually
实际上，当下正出现在我头脑中的那个故事
the narrative that's arising in my mind right now is creating this
在我的内在制造了不幸的情绪
emotion of unhappiness in me
很典型的例子当然就是，你在半夜醒来
Typical case is of course you wake up in the middle of the night
你开始担忧起来
and you begin to worry
“为什么..将会发生什么呢？”
"Why God...What's going to "
也不一定是在半夜
It doesn't have to be in the middle of night
可能是一天中的任何时刻地点
could be anywhere during the day too
你突然间感到担忧，什么是“担忧”呢？
you suddenly feel worried. What is worried?
担忧是一种头脑心智活动
Worry is a certain type of mind activity
通常它的意思：你把你自己投射到未来的某个时刻
and usually it means you're projecting yourself into some future moment
那充满了评判
that is critical
“担忧”并未涉及到当下此时此刻
Worry does not concern the present moment
当你在当下发现有一个问题或者挑战的时候
when you have a problem or challenges that arises in the present moment
你不会为其担忧
you're not worrying about it
你会直接看着它
you're looking at it
你可能需要采取行动
and you may be required to take action
你也可能直接看着在当下出现的问题
or you may look at the problem that arises in this moment
没有什么你能做的事
and there's nothing you can do
嗯 很好 它就在哪儿
and then well there it is
担忧通常指的是把某些事投射到未来
Worry usually implies future projection into the future
你无法掌控未来，而对那些你想象将在未来发生的事
which you cannot control there's nothing you can do about something
你什么也做不了
that you imagine happening in the future
而这让人更加沮丧失望
and that makes it even more frustrating.
如果事情是在当下发生的，你就可以采取某些行动
If it were happening in the present moment you could take action
你也可以说“嗯，此刻我就只能接受它本来的样子”
or you could say, "Well I'll just have to accept the way it is right now."
那就是事情发展的样子
that's how it is
但是如果那是你的头脑制造的事
but if it's something in that your mind has created
那么对此你真的什么也做不了
there's nothing you can do about it
所以头脑心智投射着它自己，并且编造着各种剧本
and so the mind projects itself and creates scenarios
而你在那些剧本中寻找着你自己
in which you find yourself
或者你在那些剧本中寻找着与你亲近的人
or people close to you find themselves
可能是你的孩子，你想象有些事情会发生在他们身上
maybe your children your imagine something happening to them
会发生到你身上，可能是某种巨大的损失
happening to you some kind of great loss
那会削弱“你的本质”
that will diminish who you are
那会让你的生命变得难以承受
that will make your life unbearable
那也可能是一个大事件
and it could be a like a big event
一种流行性传染疾病
there's a problem of pandemic
“会有什么事发生到我身上，发生到我的家人身上吗？”
"What's going to happen to me to my family?"
“那会影响到我吗？”
" is it going to affect me ?"
“我会生病吗？”
"am I going to get ill?"
“我是不是再也不能继续工作了？”
"am I going to not be able to work anymore? "
“我快要死了吗？”
"am I going to die?"
然后你想象着这些事情发生在你的身上
and you imagine yourself these things happening to you
所以接着你会体验到“恐惧”
so and then you experience fear
所以重要的是，要觉察到
so it's important to realize that
那个恐惧不是由那个情境制造的
the fear is not created by the situation
如果你真的很仔细地去看
if you look at it really closely
那个恐惧其实是由头脑心智活动制造的
the fear is created by the mind activity
是由无意识的头脑活动制造的
by unconscious mind activity
当我说“无意识的头脑心智活动”的时候
when I say unconscious mind activity by that I mean
我的意思是：你完全认同了那个被限制规约的头脑
you're completely identified with the conditioned mind
你受到某种思考模式的支配
and what the mind does in the grip of certain types of thinking
如果这种思考模式是“担忧”
and this type of thinking and if it's worry
它就会制造一种情绪，而你可能会在身体上体验到它
it creates an emotion that you could experience in the body
这种情绪就是焦虑、恐惧
this emotion is anxiety fear
你可能会经常在你的胃里感受到它
you can feel it in your stomach often
你可能感觉到你的能量场在收缩
you can feel a contraction in your energy field
你甚至可能感觉到一种汗湿
you might even feel that moist
你的手掌心会汗湿
your the palms of your hand become moist
那是一种极度焦虑和紧张的标志
it's a it's a sign of extreme nervousness or anxiety
各种各样的事，那种情绪
all kinds of things if that kind of emotion is
实际上对身体伤害很大
actually very harmful to the body
当今甚至主流医学也认识到
even mainstream medicine now recognizes that
那些经常体验到
people who frequently experience the
恐惧、焦虑和压力情绪的人们
emotion of fear anxiety stress
他们的免疫系统受到极大地削弱
have a greatly reduced immune system
那影响了你身体的整个机能
it affects the entire functioning of your body
或者说，它干扰到你身体正常和谐的机能运作
interferes with the otherwise harmonious functioning of your body
矛盾的是，讽刺的是
and the paradox is the irony is the sad irony is
你越是经常一直感到恐惧，你就越容易吸引疾病
very often that which you fear continuously you tend to attract
所以在疾病的例子上，你可以很清楚地看到
so in the case of illness one can see it more clearly
如果你一直担忧疾病
if you continuously worry about illness and
并且你看到你容易受到某些病毒的入侵
you see yourself falling prone to some virus
我们可能会持续不断持有着这种心智头脑意象
and continuously we have this mental image
首先，随着那个意象产生的情绪
first of all the emotion that you that goes with it
会消耗免疫系统
will consume immune system
同时，也存在关于你自己的头脑意象
and also there's something else the mental image of yourself
那意象通常是一种疾病，那意象会创造
as often an illness tends to create
头脑心智是一个非常强大且富有创造力的工具
that the mind is a very powerful creative instrument
所以头脑能够创造某些事物
so the mind tends to is capable of creating something that
它会经常把那些事物投射到这个世界上
it projects into the world on a regular basis
所以你更有可能
so you're more likely
不仅仅因为你的免疫系统被削弱了
not only because your immune system has been weakened
而且因为你把你自己投射成
but also because you're projecting yourself
一个遭受某种疾病的人
as a person suffering from an illness
那么你更有可能会在现实中经历到它
you're more likely to experience it in reality
所以那实际上是相当危险的
so it's actually quite dangerous
我并不是在说，那一定会发生
I'm not saying that will necessarily happen
而是说，那更有可能会发生
but it is more likely to happen
我也不是在说
and I'm also not saying that when you
当你没有这种你生病的头脑意象的时候
don't have this mental image of yourself
你就绝不会生病了
being ill that you cannot fall ill at all
还存在着很多其他的相关因素
there are many other factors involved
但是这是其中的一个重要因素
but this is one important factor
所以你体验到恐惧
so you experience fear
它是一种很不舒服的情绪
and it's a very unpleasant emotion
如我所说的，恐惧是被身体所体验到的
the fear is as I said experienced in the body
之所以身体体验到这种情绪
and the reason why the body is experiencing this emotion
是因为身体本身有它自己的智慧
is that the body which has to its own intelligence
身体中充满了智慧
the body is pervaded with intelligence
那智慧协调着身体的每个器官、细胞之间的无数机能
that coordinate the countless functions that
配合着整个身体的运作活动
every organ every cell cooperates with the totality of the body
而在这身体的机能运作之下
and there's a vast intelligence that underlies the
还存在着大量的智慧
functioning of the body
虽然这种智慧实际上无法区分
this intelligence although it is actually cannot tell the difference
现实中真正发生的事情
between something that's happening actually in reality
和仅仅发生在你的头脑中的事情
and something that's happening only in your mind
那就是为什么你体验到恐惧
and that's the reason why you experience fear
当你担忧的时候，你的身体会信以为真
the body believes that when you worry
那就是说，你体验到你的头脑在评判那些真实的情境
which means you experiencing critical situations in your mind
你在这个故事中寻找着你自己
you find yourself in this narrative
你的身体无法区分
the body cannot tell the difference between
那到底是事实还是头脑的创造
the reality or just mental creations
所以身体的反应就好像是你所想象的是真的一样
so the body reacts as if what you're imagining are reality
所以身体体验到恐惧
so it experiences fear
如果一个充满挑战的情境在当下发生到你身上
if a challenging situation were happening to you at this moment
你的身体也会体验到我们称之为“恐惧”的能量场
the body would also experience perhaps this energy field
但是那其中暗含着一种目的
that we call fear but there would be a purpose to it
你会需要这种强化的能量，以便于去采取相应的行动
you would need this heightened energy in order to take action
进而它不会受到限制
so it wouldn't be trapped or that it is possible that
当然恐惧也有可能会让你瘫痪无力
fear can paralyze you
但是当你面临着一个情境的时候
but potentially when you're faced with a situation
你就需要汇集剩余的能量
then you need an influx of surplus energy
而恐惧有它的位置，那不是一种心理上的的恐惧
and then fear has a place it's not psychological fear
它能够让你采取行动去做一些事
it is something that enables you to do something
去调整转移你自己，或者去避开
to run to remove yourself or to fight or flight is the word
但是当你担忧的时候
but when you're worrying then that is not the case
那么你就什么也做不了
there's nothing you can do
所以恐惧令人极其不舒服
So fear is extremely unpleasant and
而数百万的人，大多数人仍然体验到恐惧
millions of people majority people still experience it
当事情发展出现问题的时候
and when things go wrong
苦难会在较大范围内出现
adversity arises on the larger scale
在你的个人生命中，或者在整个集体中
either in your personal life or in the collective
然后你体验到更多的恐惧
then you experience even more fear
比你以前在正常情况下体验到的恐惧多得多
than you would normally experience
所以你首先要做的就是，看看是否有可能削弱恐惧
and so the first thing is to see whether it is possible to reduce
如果不能彻底消除掉你体验到的恐惧的话
if not eliminate the fear that you experience
因为那样的话
because then that would
沉重的负担压力就会从你的肩膀上被卸下来
huge burden would be lifted off your shoulders
如果你能够以这种方式去体验经历生命 即
if you were able to experience life without
也许是没有恐惧
perhaps with no fear whatsoever
或者至少是被减弱了的恐惧
or at least with a diminished amount of fear
那对你而言很重要
so that is something very important that you can work on
就是当你在经历体验到恐惧的时候
when you experience fear become aware of your
觉察你的头脑活动，你的思想念头是什么
mind activity what is your thinking
通常你就会发现：头脑心智把某些事物
and you will usually find there's a mental
投射到某个未来的时刻，那是很糟糕的
projection into a future moment that's very bad
那可能是对你自己的恐惧，也可能是对他人的恐惧
it could be for yourself you might have the fear for other people
有很糟糕的事情发生到他们身上
bad things happening to them
要从不必要的痛苦中解脱出来首先就要
and the first step in becoming free of unnecessary suffering
去觉察你自己的头脑
is to become aware of your mind your own mind
然后你会发现极大部分的痛苦
and then you will find that a huge chunk of suffering
都是由你的头脑而不是那个情境制造的
is produced by your mind rather than by the situation
现在
and now
首先要做的就是要觉察到那是一个事实
the first thing is to recognize that that's a fact
现在这也许不会立即让你解脱
now this does not perhaps immediately free you
因为头脑心智有一个发展势头
because the mind has a certain momentum
但是你已经开始觉醒了，当你觉察到
but you begin to awaken when you recognize
就在当下此时此刻
that actually right now here and now in this moment
我自己发现实际上根本没有任何事让人感到恐惧
in which I find myself there's actually nothing to fear
奇怪的是
and the weird thing is
那几乎适用于你生命中的每一个时刻
that applies to almost every moment in your life
当我说每一刻的时候，我真正的意思是
when I say every moment what I really mean is
它适用的是当下
it appllies to the present moment
那么当下是什么呢？
and what is the present moment
当下就是你的生命显露展开的那个空间
the present moment is the space in which your life unfolds
生命无法在其他任何地方展开
cannot unfold anywhere else
当下是你的生命能展开显露的那个唯一的空间
the present moment is the space in which your life unfolds
只在当下
in the present nowhere else
世间一切都在当下显露展开
everything is unfolds in the present moment
永远不存在除了当下之外的时刻地点
there's never anything other than the present moment
你的生命
your life
你所称之为“你的生命”的东西和当下是不可分离的
what you call your life is inseparable from the present moment
当下是你的生命所展开的那个空间
the present moment is the space for your life
永远在这个空间，甚至当你回忆过去的时候
it is the space even when you remember the past
甚至当你正在思考未来的时候
and even when you're thinking about the future
你是“在当下”做那些事的
you're doing it now
所以在当下
and so in the present moment
通常而言没有什么让人恐惧的
usually there's nothing to fear
的确，可能存在着某些事
yes there can be something
会在当下出现问题
that's going wrong in the present moment
比如一个充满挑战的情境
a situation that is challenging
你面对它需要采取行动做些事情
and you need to do something about it
你会相应地做些事
and you do something about it
如果一头野生动物进入到这个房间
if a wild animal came into this room
门突然打开了，一只熊跑进来
suddenly the door opens and a bear comes in
我们有可能会经历到
it's possible that we would experience
并且我有可能会在某一瞬间体验到恐惧
and I would experience a moment of fear
你会像这样
you go
但是随着那股巨大的能量被释放掉
but then after that enormous energy is released
可能是为了采取相应的行动
perhaps for action to happen
我们无法预测我们可能会采取什么行动
we can't predict what action it might be
如果一头熊跑进来，可能最好的行动就是
if a bear comes in maybe the best action would be
全然地静下来
to become be totally still
也可能你会很快地跑开，谁知道呢
or you'll remove yourself very quickly who knows
也有可能把你自己装扮得尽可能很高大的样子
or make yourself as big as possible
因此熊看到了会害怕
so to the bear gets afraid
那就是他们的建议
that's what they recommend
当你去英属不列颠尼亚省的森林散步的时候
when you go for walks in the forest here in British Columbia
如果你发现了一头棕熊的话，那个建议也许会有用
if you find a brown bear it might help
就是把你自己装扮得比你真实的样子更高大
to make yourself look bigger than you actually are
你会像这样
you go uh
所以你立即采取了行动，那也许有用，也许没用
so you're taking right action and it might work or it might not
也许熊不会上你的当
maybe the bear will not be fooled by it
也许熊会攻击你
maybe the bear will attack you
也许熊会杀了你
maybe the bear will kill you
但是这是一种极其少见的时刻
but this is a rare moment that is a rare moment in which
当你受到挑战的时候
you're being challenged most of the time
大多数时候不会发生这样的事情
these things do not happen almost always
当你直接看着当下的时候
when you look at the present moment
在当下唯一存在的就是
which is the only thing that ever is
在当下此刻，没有什么事是让人恐惧的
in this moment there is nothing to fear
我们来谈谈这个新冠病毒，这个流行性疾病
let's look at the virus the pandemic
我们都知道它正影响着无数人
we know that it's affecting many many people
但是在当下此时此刻
but in this moment here
存在着任何让人恐惧的事情吗？
is there something to fear right here
现在我正在呼吸着
now I'm breathing
我正在环顾着四周，我活着
I'm looking around I'm alive
我能够感觉到内在身体的能量
I can feel the energy the inner body
充盈全身的能量
energy pervading the the body
那就是当下所是的
that's what is right now
如果你发现你出现了某种病症，那可能意味着
if you find yourself with symptoms arising that could mean that
那个病毒侵入进你的身体
you could thus the viruses enter your body you
无论是什么症状，头痛，嗓子痛
whatever it may be headache sore throat
然后你会说
then you say
好吧，那可能是病毒
well that is it maybe the virus or it may not
也可能不是，当然了
be the virus then of course again the
接着头脑可能会涉足进来说“哦！我快要死了！”
mind may come in say Oh am I going to die
我们需要在之后谈谈死亡
we need to talk about deaths in a little while
因为那是一个重要的主题
because that is an important topic
死亡和这个事相联系
that's connected to this
但是即使当你经历到那些症状的时候
but even when you experience the symptoms
如果你能够专注于当下
if you could be focused on the present moment
那么你就只是经历体验着这些症状而已
then you just experience these symptoms
而且除了经历这些症状以外
and in addition to experiencing the symptoms
你也仍然能够体验到身体的内在能量场
you can still experience the inner energy field of the body
因为并不是身体的每一个部分
because not everybody not every part of the body
都感觉到那个症状
is feeling the symptoms
所以你可能会感觉到你双腿中的能量
so you can feel the energy in your legs
你的肩膀、你的手，就是这样
or your arms or your hand and this this is what is
而你来到一种“接受”的阶段
and you come into a place of acceptance
这就是你当下的经历体验
this is what experience now
那就是一直持续不断地把你的注意力转移到当下来
it's a continuous returning your attention to the present moment always
并且在当下
and in the present moment
大多数时候，你发现痛苦、不幸、恐惧
most of the time you find that suffering or unhappiness or fear
无法在当下存活
cannot survive in the present moment
那是一种很有趣的觉察觉知
and that's a very interesting realization
它们没法在当下存活
they cannot survive in the present moment
所以你需要做这个冥想练习
and so the practice is for you
当你经历到恐惧的时候，保持警醒，保持觉知
when you experience fear become alert become aware
同时问问你自己：我的头脑正在做什么？
and ask yourself what's my mind doing
我的头脑编造的故事是什么？
what is the story said my mind is created
头脑创造的故事是什么？
what are the stories that
当头脑心智正在当下创造的时候
when mind is creating right now
或者说，在过去一个小时里一直创造着
or has been creating for the past hour
在过去的两个小时，在过去两天里
the past two hours the past two days
然后你会发现，头脑所创造的一切
and then you find all created it had created
都是具有评判性的剧本，那些并没有发生
scenarios critical scenarios that are not happening
但是可能发生
but could happen
的确在其之后有一个发展势头
and so then yes there is a momentum behind that
在那些思想念头之后存在着一个势头
there is a momentum behind those types of thought
换句话说，这种思考想要一直在你之内运作
in other words that type of thinking wants to continue in you
因为它是一个能量场
because it is an energy field and
它是小我无意识的一部分
it's part of the egoic consciousness the ego consciousness
小我无意识能量场活在你之内，它不想离开你
energy field lives in you it does not want to go away
实际上它想不断增长，它是一个
it wants actually to grow it's an it's an energy field
想要持续发展、增长的能量场
that wants to persist and grow
你们也可能知道
and as you may know it's possible
有些人可能会完全
for people to become completely absorbed
深陷于某种思考之中
in certain types of thinking that
他们着了魔似的强迫性地思虑着某些事情
they obsessively think about certain things
那些事情经历体验起来是棘手的、糟糕的
that are experienced as very problematic and awful
他们放不下，几乎在生命的每时每刻都专注于其上
and they cannot let go onto almost every moment
这些都是比较极端的例子
of their daily lives these are the more extreme cases
但是并不常见
but it's not uncommon
强迫性思考
obsessive thinking
换句话说，有某样东西占据支配着你的心智头脑
in other words something has taken possession of your mind
那是一个能量场域，它想要不断增长
it's an energy field it wants to grow
它像是一种精神病毒，而不是生理上的病毒
it's like a mental virus not a physical virus
许多人都经历着精神病毒，他们对此毫无知觉
many people experience mental virus without knowing it
意思就是，一种思想念头不断增长、复制
which means one thought grows, replicates
也可以说，那会引起其他与之有关联的思想念头
one could say leads to other related thoughts
然后你就有了一整捆的思想念头，它们彼此相互联系
and then you have a whole a bundle of thoughts that are all related
这一整捆思想念头都已经
and this bundle of thoughts has taken possession
几乎你想到的任何事情
and almost anything that you think of is
都被这一整捆强制性的思想念头所粉饰歪曲
is then colred by this bundle of obsessive thought
而这思想念头一直在你之内存活着
that lives in you
但你是如此认同于它，以致于你对此根本毫无觉知
but you're so identified with it that you don't even know that
那就是你的现实，而且那是一种很糟糕的活着的方式
that is your reality and that's an awful way to live
一点也不常见
not uncommon at all
在一个较小范围的情况下
in a minor form every almost
几乎每一个对他们自己的心智头脑毫无觉察的人
everybody who does not have even a minimum of awareness
每一个完全认同于他们自己的头脑的人
of their mind which completely identified with their mind experience that
有一些人，比起其他的人而言
to some degree some people to a much greater
他们远在更大的程度上
degree than others so to be possessed by
被其头脑中的某种思想念头所支配着
certain types of thought in your mind
你把它称作“我”，你是如此认同于那些思想念头
and you call it "I" you're so identified with the thoughts
以致于你把它们称作“我”
that you call them "me"
你成为了这一整捆思想念头
you are you are this bundle of thoughts
然后，是谁在说话呢？
and then you're who is speaking
当你在说话的时候，其实是这一整捆思想念头在说话
when you speak this bundle of thoughts
它用了你的声音，你甚至都不在那儿
is speaking it uses your voice you are not even there
你在精神上处于熟睡的状态，你完完全全无意识
you are asleep spiritually speaking you are completely unconscious
你被某种思想念头所支配
you're possessed by certain types of thinking
那些思想念头变成了你的小我意识
which become part of your ego your egoic consciousness
然后生命就变得很不如意，很不舒服
and then life becomes pretty unpleasant
因为几乎在所有的情况下
because in most cases in virtually all cases
这些思想念头都不是快乐的思想念头
these types of thinking are not happy thoughts
这些强制性的思想念头都不是快乐的
the obsessive thoughts are not happy
这些强制性的思想念头都是不快乐的思想念头
the obsessive thoughts are unhappy thoughts
我还没见过任何一个拥有强制性思想的人会说
I haven't yet met anybody who has obsessive thoughts
“生命难道不奇妙吗？生命真的太美好了！
like "Isn't life wonderful! life is so good I can't stop
我会情不自禁去想生命是如此地美好！”
thinking about how good life is!"
那不是强制性的思想念头
no that's not an obsessive thought
“生命太可怕了！看看他们都对我做了些什么吧！
but "Life is dreadful! look what they've done to me!
看看吧！”
look at that！"
这些才是强制性的思想念头
those are obsessive thoughts
“看看这些糟糕的人吧！” 无论这些人是谁
"look at those those awful people" whoever they are
任何情况都可能
or whatever it may be whatever
那样的思想念头的本质就是
the nature of that thought is
它已经支配掌控了你
it has taken possession of you
接下来，我们现在需要谈谈其他的事情
and then now we need to look at something else
这些从根本上来说不是“你的”思想念头
these are not ultimately your thoughts
你是从集体意识中吸收到的这些思想念头
you have absorbed these thoughts from the collective
那个蜂巢式意识就是集体心智头脑
the hive mind is the collective mind
这个集体心智头脑寻找着一种表达
and this collective mind finds expression
现如今，你可以比你以前看得更清楚
yes nowadays you can see it more clearly than you could before
这个集体心智
the collective mind
早在我们发明社交传媒之前就已经存在着了
already existed before we invented social media
早在我们发明因特网之前
and the internet and so on
现如今，你实际上能够看到
but now you can actually see the collective mind
那个外化于网络和社交媒体中的集体心智
externalized in the internet and social media
你也能够看到 外化于主流媒体中的那个集体心智
and you can also see the collective mind externalized in mainstream media
所以当你观看这些事的时候
and so when you watch these things
无论你是在你的电脑上看
wherever you do it on your computer
还是在电视上，在手机上看
on your television on your phone
你观看这些东西
you watch these things
然后你会从这个集体蜂巢心智中吸收一些思想
and then you absorb some thoughts from the collective hive mind
接着这些思想就紧紧依附着你
and they then cling to you
它们变成了活在你之内的思想念头的一部分
and they become part of your the thoughts that live in you
而你并不知晓这事，这和你无关
and you don't know that this is nothing to do with you
你已经和那个集体蜂巢心智联系在一起了
you have linked into the collective hive mind
然后你表达你的观点看法
and then you express your opinions
但那并不是“你的”观点看法
but it's not it's not your opinions
那只是活在你之内的某些思想
it's just certain thoughts that live in you
所以“觉知意识”缺失不见了
so awareness is missing that
它能够把你从这可怕的命运中解放出来的
which frees you from this terrible fate
在这样的命运中，你受到你那限制性心智头脑的支配
of being at the mercy of the conditioning of your mind
它制造了无数不幸
that creates so much unhappiness
觉知意识是能把你从中解放的关键
awareness is the key that frees you from that
觉知意识就是“意识的觉醒”
and awareness is the awakening of consciousness
它开始于一种简单的觉察
where it begins with a simple realization
就是你觉察到所有在你头脑中经过的思想念头
that the all the thoughts that go through your mind
都不等同于“你是谁”
are not who you are
所有在你头脑中经过的思想念头都不是“真正的你”
all the thoughts that go through your mind are not who you are
它们只是思想念头
they're thoughts
你是如何知晓的呢
how do you know that
因为
because there is a
你内在有一种能力，你能够觉察到发生在你身上的
the ability in you to become aware of the thoughts
这些思想念头
that are happening to you
因为那就是如其所是的样子，它们都发生在你身上
because that's what it is they are happening to you
然后你不再全然相信这些思想念头了
and then you no longer completely believe in the thoughts
你看到这些只是思想念头
you just see they're thoughts
然后你会经常看到，譬如
and then you can see very often for example
那个蜂巢心智关注的是很多事情的疯狂性
it's a hive mind is concerned the craziness of many things
比如人们言说的一些事
that people say speak about
突然间你能够看到
you can suddenly see a lot of what I see in the
我在主流媒体上看到的很多东西真的很疯狂
mainstream media is a lot there that's actually pretty crazy
主流媒体，另外一些形式比如
the mainstream media then or in other forms of media
网络媒体等等也是如此
too on the internet and so on
都是人类心智的一种外在显化
an externalization of the human mind and
它们同时也强化了你经常感觉到的恐惧
they also strengthen the fear that you would normally feel
甚至在没有这些东西的情况下
even without those things
如果你和这些外化的集体心智
if you interact too frequently with
互动交流得过于频繁
those forms of the externalized collective mind
如果你观看太多的电视
if you watch too much television
如果你观看太多的社交媒体报道信息
if you watch too much social media
如果你和它互动交流得太多
if you interact too much with it
那么导致了你头脑心智中的不幸的很多事情
then a lot of the things that are a cause of unhappiness
都会被放大强化
in your in your mind are amplified by what you saw absorbed
被你从集体心智中所观看到的东西强化
from the collective mind
所以你变得更加恐惧
so you become even more fearful
比你在没有接触到所有这些
than you would be without all these
社交媒体、主流媒体的情况下所感觉到的更甚
the social media and the mainstream media
你变得更加恐惧
you become even more fearful
因为那些社交传播媒介放大强化了你心中已有的恐惧
because they amplify what's already in you
所以在这些时候极为重要的就是
so it's extremely important especially at these times that
当你和这些社交媒介互动交流的时候
when you interact with the media
你慢慢觉察到
you become conscious of how unconscious
大多数的人是多么地无意识无觉知
most of these people are
然后你就能够继续观看这些媒体新闻
and then you can watch the news
但是是很客观地去看
but more objectively
你能够以“临在”的方式存在着
you can be there as in a way of presence
然后你就可以看到，有着如此多的恐惧不断地传播着
and then you see how much fear mongering there is
媒体是如何沉溺于大肆渲染那些大事件
how they indulged in sensationalizing
如何把那些事件给灾难化
catastrophizing events
他们并不是有意那么做的，他们也很无奈
and they are not doing it on purpose they can't help it
那是他们的工作，他们不得不那么做
that's their job they have to do it
关注他们的观看者越多
they get more viwers
他们就越发大肆渲染那些事件
the more they sensationalize and catastrophize
把它们灾难化、情感化
and emotionalize events
同时他们制造的敌人越多
and the more enemies they create
这整个无意识无觉知的能量就增长得越多
the more the this unconscious energy grows
他们没有认识觉察到
they don't realize
而且那些无意识的观看者也没有认识觉察到
and the unconscious viewer doesn't realize
这就是痛苦
this is suffering
他们正在制造痛苦，但是他们甚至都不知道这事
they're creating suffering but they don't even know it
所以你首先要做的就是：你需要减少
so you first of all you need to reduce the amount of time
你花费在与外化的集体心智链接的时间
that you spend linking into the externalized collective mind
和集体心智链接就是：你用那些社交媒体媒介
in which you have there in social media
主流媒体以及网络
and mainstream media and it's Internet
而当你真的和那些媒介互动交流的时候
and when you do interact
要很清醒地觉察到一个事实
be very conscious of the fact that
即 这只是一种表达
this is an expression ultimately
从根本上来说，大多数你看到的只是
most of what you see and read is an expression of
人类小我意识的一种表达
human unconsciousness of the ego
个人的小我和集体的小我
the personal and the collective ego
所以你不会被其催眠迷惑
so that you don't get hypnotized by
因为它几乎就是一种催眠状态
because it is a form of hypnosis almost
你被这种科技催眠
you get hypnotized by this type of technology
被通过这种科技传递的信息所催眠
that and what is conveyed through it
另外一个有趣的因素就是
another interesting factor is
当你经历到这种媒体的大肆宣传炒作的时候
when the hype that you experience
恐惧就出现了
the fear that comes
世界的末日
the end of the world is the end of the world
有一种矛盾
there's something there's an ambivalent
很多人对世界末日
there's a certain ambivalence in
持有一种矛盾心理
many people about the end of the world
一方面，人们恐惧世界末日
on the one hand they fear it
像是某些巨大的灾难
or some huge catastrophe
就像你在很多电影里看到的
as you see in many movies that these movies have been
有很多这类电影，而且很多电影是很成功的
around for years and many of them are very successful
这类巨大的灾难，集体性的灾难
movie such huge catastrophes collective catastrophe
发生到人类世界
happening to humanity
所以无数电影都是关于这类灾难的
and so there's countless movies have to have been made of that
而且人们喜欢看这类电影
and people love watching these movies
有某种东西吸引着他们去关注这类大灾难
something draws them to the huge catastrophe
的确，当大灾难在现实中发生的时候
and yes when it happens in reality of course
当然也会有大量的恐惧产生
there is an enormous amount of fear also
但是那是一种矛盾的心理
but it's an ambivalence
很多人也有一种无意识的渴望
there's also in unconscious desire in many human beings
他们渴望被我们称作的“人造世界的坍塌瓦解”
for what we could call the collapse of the human-made world
因为大多数人活在世上
because most human experience
经历体验到的只是一种压力负担
the world as a burden
他们不得不活在这个世界上
they have to live in this world
他们不得不在这个世界中互动交流
they have to interact in this world
但对他而言这个世界是有问题的
but the world is problematic
这个世界是一个重负
the world is a heaviness to it
你有你的工作要做
you have your job
你要交税
you have the taxes
你有钱
you have money
你不得不去做事
you have you have to do
而这个世界是复杂的、沉重的
and the world's complex and heavy
人们有一种无意识的渴望
and there's an unconscious longing for people
我们可以直接把它称作“世界末日”
we might bluntly call the end of the world
但是根本上他们所渴望的
but ultimately what they are longing for is
实际上是一种解放
yes it is a kind of liberation
但是他们真正渴望的最终的解放
but the ultimate liberation that they are really longed for
其实就是从他们自己之中解放出来
is the liberation from themselves
从他们所经历体验到的
the liberation from what they experienced
充满问题的、沉重的自我感中解放出来
as their problematic heavy sense of self
而那和我们所称作的“外部世界”是不可分离的
that's inseparable from the so called outer world
翻译&字幕 │ 黄巾巾
微信公众平台@全新的地球 │ 微博@埃克哈特Eckhart Tolle
所以我们每一个人都渴望那样的解放
and so there's a longing in every human for that