Sadhguru looks at how confidence without clarity can be a disaster, and gives us a simple process to enhance our clarity.
薩古魯解釋了為什麼缺乏清晰的自信可能會是個災難，並為我們提供了一個簡單的提升明晰度的方法。
Question: I want to know the difference between confidence and clarity.
問：我想知道自信和眀晰的區別。
Sadhguru: Let us say my physical vision is not good – I cannot see clearly – and I need to walk through a group of people. But I am very confident. What will happen if I walk through? A lot of people are walking through their life like this because they are confident. They cannot see a damn thing, but it does not matter; they are confident. This is disastrous for you and for everyone around you. If my vision is clear, I would walk through the whole group without touching anyone. If my vision is not clear, at least if I have the humility to see that I have no clarity, I would seek help and walk slowly. I may not walk as quickly as a man who has clear vision, but I would at least go gently.
Sadhguru（薩古魯）：舉個例子，我的視力不太好——我看不清楚——我需要從人群中穿過。但是我非常自信。我穿過人群時會發生什麼？許多人都是這樣走過他們的人生的，因為他們很自信。他們什麼都看不見，但這沒關係，他們很自信。這對你和你周圍的所有人來說都將是災難。如果我的視線是清晰的，我在穿過人群時不會碰到任何人。但如果我視力模糊，至少我能謙遜地看到自己清晰度不夠，那麼我就會尋求幫助並且慢慢地走。我可能沒有視力清晰的人走得那麼快，但我至少會輕緩地走。
People think confidence is a kind of substitute for clarity – it is not. Let’s say whenever you want to make big decisions in your life, either professional or family-related, all you do is get yourself a coin and flip it, 「Heads we will do this, tails we will do that.」 It will work fifty percent of the time! If you are right only fifty percent of the time, there are only two professions you can pursue – you can either be a weatherman or an astrologer. If you are in any other job, you would most likely be fired.
人們認為信心是眀晰的一種替代品——並非如此。假設每當你要在生命中做重大的決定時（事業方面或家庭方面），你就扔一下硬幣，「正面我們就做這個，背面我們就做那個。」那就有百分之五十的概率是正確的！如果你只有百分之五十的概率是正確的，只有兩種職業你可以從事，氣象員或佔星家。任何其它的工作，你大概都會被解僱。
There is a city called Mangalore on the west coast of India. It is a beautiful, quaint, little town and I have been associated with this place for some time. I had not gone there for almost four or five years, and then I happened to visit. There was a homeopathic doctor there who was over seventy-five years of age, but he was still managing a small clinic. I went there to visit him, not as a client, but just to see him. The clinic is in the Malabar region – the land of the king cobra – snake bites are common. Outside the clinic there was an advertisement which said, 「A common antidote for all types of snakes.」 I know enough about snakes. I have lived with them, I have them all around me, I have been bitten by them any number of times, and snakes and me have been very closely associated for a very long time. So I know enough about them to survive.
印度西海岸有一個叫芒格洛爾的城市。一個美麗、古樸的小鎮，我和這個地方保持聯繫有一段時間了。期間我差不多有四五年沒去那裡，後來我碰巧又去了。那裡有一位順勢療法醫生，年齡超過七十五歲了，仍經營著一家小診所。我去拜訪他，不是以病人的身份，只是去看看他。診所位於馬拉巴（Malabar）地區——眼鏡蛇的王國——蛇咬傷很常見。診所外有一則廣告寫著「通用解毒劑，適用於所有種類的蛇。」我很了解蛇。我和它們住在一起，它們常圍在我身邊，我被它們咬了很多次，在很長一段時間內我和蛇關係密切。所以我對它們有足夠的了解來保住性命。
Every day when you wake up in the morning, sit up on your bed cross-legged, sit with your hands open, eyes closed and just look at everything you are not. Appreciate all that you have gathered – your home, your family, your relationships, your qualifications, your body, your clothes – everything. Be thankful for that.
每天早上你醒來時，盤腿坐在床上，雙手張開，閉上眼睛，看看那些「不是你」的一切。感激你所積累的一切——你的家庭、你的家人、你的人際關係、你的資質、你的身體、你的衣服——所有一切。感謝它們。
Essentially in India, there are two basic varieties of venoms. One is a neurotoxin and the other affects your cardio-vascular system; a very small number of snakes have both. These are two completely different kinds of chemicals, so there cannot be a common antidote. Today, because people cannot identify what snake is what, doctors are administering an antidote for both together, which is very damaging for the system.
基本上在印度，有兩種主要的毒液。一種是神經毒素，另一種侵襲你的心血管系統；極少數的蛇兩種都有。這是兩種完全不同的化學物質，所以不可能有通用解毒劑。今天，因為人們不能分辨哪種蛇是哪種毒，醫生就給兩種（蛇毒）注射一種解毒劑，這對系統的傷害是很大的。
I went in and was in conversation with the doctor. Then I asked him, 「How did you allow this board to come up in your clinic? This is not right. Someone is claiming there is a common antidote.」 But he is a very wise doctor. He said, 「See, almost ninety percent of the Indian snakes are harmless, and this antidote works ninety percent of the time.」
我進去和醫生交談。然後我問他：「你怎麼能允許這種宣傳板出現在你的診所呢？這個不對。有人聲稱有一種通用的解毒劑。」但他是一位非常有智慧的醫生。他說，「你看，印度的蛇幾乎百分之九十都是無害的，那這種解毒劑在百分之九十的情況下就是有用的。」
Ninety is a good percentage for anything. Confidence is like that. If a snake bites you, just look up at the sky and say 「Dam-doom-dis-dis-dis!」 the venom will go away, actually. Really! You must say it with enough vigor, it actually goes away… it works ninety percent of the time! And people will get more confident because it works ninety percent of the time. That is a fool’s way to exist, isn’t it? What you need is clarity, not confidence.
對於任何事物來說，百分之九十都是一個不錯的百分比。自信就像是那樣。如果一條蛇咬了你，只要仰望天空，然後說「Dam-doom-dis-dis-dis！」毒液就真會消失。真的！你必須以足夠的氣勢說出來，它真的會消失.百分之九十的情況下都有效！然後人們就會更加自信，因為百分之九十的情況下都有效。這是一種愚蠢的存在方式，不是嗎？你需要的是眀晰，而不是自信。
If we want life to happen the way we want it, the first and foremost requirement is to be clear about what it is that we really want. Even simple practices can go a long way in creating this. Every day when you wake up in the morning, sit up on your bed cross-legged, sit with your hands open, eyes closed and just look at everything you are not. Appreciate all that you have gathered – your home, your family, your relationships, your qualifications, your body, your clothes – everything. Be thankful for that. At the same time, identify everything that is not you as 「This is what I have gathered」 and mentally keep it aside. What you gather can be yours, but it can never be you. Spend ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the night every day. This will bring clarity. If one is properly initiated by a Guru, this particular process can take on a new dimension. But till such an opportunity comes in your life, you can do this by yourself. It will definitely have a big impact upon your clarity.
如果我們想讓生命按照我們想要的方式發生，首要的是明確我們真正想要的是什麼。對此即使是簡單的練習也有很大的幫助。每天早上醒來時，盤腿坐在床上，雙手張開，閉上眼睛，想想那些「不是你」的所有一切。感激你所積累的這一切——你的家庭、你的家人、你的人際關係、你的資質、你的身體、你的衣服——所有一切。感謝它們。同時，看到這些東西「並不是我，而是我收集而來的」，並想像著把它放到一邊。你收集來的東西是你的，但它永遠不可能是你。每天早晚各花十分鐘。這會給你帶來明晰。如果由古魯恰當開啟，這個練習可以被帶到一個新的維度。但在你有這樣的機會之前，你可以自己做。它一定會在很大程度上提升你的明晰度。
原文連結：
isha.sadhguru.org/global/en/wisdom/article/confidence-without-clarity-is-a-disaster
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