Sadhguru looks at why joy is our fundamental responsibility and answers a common yet pressing question for many, 「How to be happy in life」. He gives us 10 tips towards making this a reality.
薩古魯講述了為什麼喜悅是我們最基本的責任，並且回答了一個很多人迫切想問的常見問題，「如何才能快樂地生活」。
Sadhguru: When you are fundamentally joyous, when you do not have to do anything to be happy, then every dimension of your life – the way you perceive and express yourself and the world – will change. You will no longer have vested interests because whether you do something or you do not do something, whether you get something or do not get something, whether something happens or does not happen, you will be joyous by your nature. When you are joyous by your nature, your actions will rise to a completely different level.
Sadhguru（薩古魯）：當你從根本上喜悅時，當你不需要做任何事就很快樂時，那麼你生命中的每一個維度——你感知和表達自己和世界的方式——都會改變。你將不再有既得利益，因為不管你做什麼事還是不做，不管你得到了什麼還是沒得到什麼，不管發生了什麼事還是沒發生，你都從你的本性上感到喜悅。當你從你的本性上喜悅時，你的行為會到達另一個完全不同的高度。
1. See That being Joyful Is Your Fundamental Responsibility
1. 把喜悅看作你的的基本責任
The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous being. To be happy is not the ultimate aspect of life. It is the fundamental aspect of life. If you are not happy, what else can you do with your life? Only if you are happy, can other great possibilities open up.
人類首要也是最基本的責任就是成為喜悅的存在。快樂不是生命的終極面向。它是生命的基本面向。如果你不快樂，那麼你還能用你的生命做什麼？只有你快樂了，其他重大的可能性才會開啟。
Whatever you do, it is only your inner quality that you are going to spread. Whether you like it or not, that is the reality. Unless something of true value happens within you, you cannot do anything of tremendous value to the world. So, if you are concerned about the world, the first thing you must do is transform yourself into a joyous being.
不管你做什麼，你傳播的只是你的內在品質。不管你喜歡與否，這就是事實。除非真正有價值的東西在你的內在發生，否則你沒有能力做出對世界意義重大的事情。所以，如果你關心這個世界，你首先必須做的就是將自己轉化為一個喜悅的存在。
2. Realize That Joy Is Your Original Nature
2. 意識到喜悅是你的天性
It does not matter what you are pursuing in your life, whether it is business, power, education or service, you are doing so because somewhere deep inside you is a feeling that this will bring you happiness. Every single action that we perform on this planet springs from an aspiration to be happy because it is the original nature. When you were a child you were simply happy. That is your nature. The source of joy is within you; you can take charge of it.
無論你在生命中追求什麼，不管是商業、權力、教育或者公共事業，你做這些是因為在內心深處你覺得這會帶給你快樂。我們在這個星球上每一個行動的動力都來自於追求快樂，因為這是我們的天性。當你還是個孩子的時候，你單純地快樂著。那是你的天性。快樂的源泉就在你的內在，你可以掌管它。
3. Put Things In Perspective
3. 用正確的視角看事情
Today morning, did you see that the sun came up wonderfully well? The flowers blossomed, no stars fell down, the galaxies are functioning very well. Everything is in order. The whole cosmos is happening wonderfully well today but just a worm of a thought worming through your head makes you believe it is a bad day today.
今天早上，你看見太陽絢爛地升起了嗎？花兒綻放了，沒有星星掉下來，整個星系都運行得很好。所有的東西都井然有序。今天整個宇宙都非常得好，但是一個小念頭鑽進了你的腦袋裡，就能讓你相信今天是糟糕的一天。
Suffering is happening essentially because most human beings have lost perspective as to what this life is about. Their psychological process has become far larger than the existential process, or to put it bluntly, you』ve made your petty creation far more important than the Creator’s creation. That is the fundamental source of all suffering.
苦難的發生，本質上是因為大多數人沒能正確看待這個生命的涵義。他們的心理運作過程遠遠大過了存在的運作過程，直白地說，你把你微不足道的創造捧得遠比造物主的創造更重要。這就是一切苦難的根源。
We have missed the complete sense of what it means to be alive here. A thought in your head or an emotion within you determines the nature of your experience right now. And your thought and emotion may have nothing to do even with the limited reality of your life. The whole creation is happening wonderfully well but just one thought or emotion can destroy everything.
我們完全誤解了活在這裡的意義。你腦子裡的一個念頭或者你內在的一個情緒決定了你此刻的體驗。而你的念頭和情緒甚至和你生命的局部實相都毫不相干。 整個造物都運轉得非常好，但僅僅一個念頭或者情緒就能毀掉一切。
4. See The Mind For What It Is
4. 看清頭腦的本質
What you call as 「my mind」 is not yours actually. You don’t have a mind of your own. Please look at it carefully. What you call as 「my mind」 is just society’s garbage bin. Anyone and everyone who passes by you stuffs something into your head. You really have no choice about whom to receive from and whom not to receive from.
你所謂的「我的思想」其實並不是你的。你沒有自己的思想。請你仔細看清楚。你所謂的「我的思想」只是社會的垃圾桶。任何一個且每一個路過的人都會給你的腦袋裡塞點東西。你真的沒法選擇接收誰的或不接收誰的。
If you say, 「I don’t like this person,」 you will receive a lot more from that person than anyone else. You really don’t have a choice. If you know how to process and use it, this garbage is useful. This accumulation of impressions and information that you have gathered is only useful for survival in the world. It has got nothing to do with who you are.
如果你說，「我不喜歡這個人」，你從這個人接收的遠比從其他人那裡接收的多。你真的沒有選擇。如果你知道如何去處理和運用這些垃圾，那它就是有用的。你收集到的這些印象和信息的積累僅僅適用於存活在世上。它和「你是誰」沒有關係。
5. Move From Psychological To Existential
5. 從心理轉向存在
When we talk about a spiritual process, we are talking about shifting from psychological to existential. Life is about the creation that is here, knowing it absolutely and experiencing it the way it is; not distorting it the way you want. If you want to move into existential reality, to put it very simply, you just have to see that what you think is not important, what you feel is not important.
當我們談到靈性過程，我們談論的是從心理層面轉為存在層面。生命是關於當下的創造，完全地知曉它並且體驗它；而不是任意歪曲它。如果你想進入存在的實相中，簡言之，你只需要看清你的想法不重要，你的感覺不重要。
What you think has nothing to do with reality. It has no great relevance to life. The mind is just chattering away with nonsense that you have gathered from somewhere else. If you think it is important, you will never look beyond that.
你所想的和現實沒有一點關係。它和生命沒有絲毫關聯。思想只是在嘮叨著你從別處收集來的無稽之談。如果你認為它很重要，你就永遠不會看得更遠。
Your attention naturally flows in the direction of whatever you hold as important. If your thought and your emotion is important, naturally your whole attention will be right there. But that is a psychological reality. That has nothing to do with the existential.
你的注意力自然地流向你認為重要的事。如果你的想法和你的情緒很重要，自然地你所有的注意力都會在那兒。但那是心理層面的現實，和存在層面的實相毫無關係。
Suffering is not showered upon us, it is manufactured. And the manufacturing unit is in your mind. It is time to shut down the manufacturing unit.
苦難不是降臨在我們身上的，它是被製造出來的。而那個製造裝置就是你的頭腦。是時候關閉這個製造裝置了。
6. Stop Pursuing, Start Expressing
6. 停止追尋，開始表達
Today we are seeking happiness so vigorously that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Don’t be in pursuit of happiness. Know how to express your happiness in the world. If you look back at your life and see, the most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
現在我們正在激進地尋找快樂，以至於這個星球受到了威脅。不要去追求快樂。而要知道如何在世上表達你的快樂。如果你回顧一生，就會看到生命中最美麗的時刻是你在表達自己喜悅的時候，不是在你尋找它的時候。
What you save will never be your quality. What you dispense will be your quality. If you save your joy, at the end of your life no one will take account, 「She saved every bit of joy in her; she’s the most joyfully dead.」 They will say, 「This horrible creature never even smiled in her life.」 But if every day you dispensed your joy and love, people would say, 「Oh she was a joyful and loving being.」
你保留的永遠不是你的品質。你給出去的才是你的品質。如果你保留你的喜悅，在你生命的盡頭，沒有人會認為，「她存下了每一滴喜悅，她是最喜悅的死人。」他們會說：「這個可怕的人一輩子都沒笑過。」但是如果每天你都給出你的喜悅和愛，人們會說：「喔！她曾是一個充滿喜悅與愛的人。」
7. Smile!
7. 微笑！
When you get up in the morning, the first thing you should do is smile. At whom? No one. Because just the fact that you woke up is not a small thing. So many millions of people who slept last night did not wake up today, but you and me woke up. Isn’t it great that you woke up? So smile because you woke up.
當你早上起來，你應該做的第一件事就是微笑。對誰呢笑？不需要對任何人。因為僅僅是你醒來了，這就不是件小事。很多人昨晚睡下了而今天沒有醒來，但是你和我醒來了。你醒來了，這難道不棒嗎？所以微笑吧，因為你醒過來了。
Then look around and if there is someone, smile at them. For so many people, someone dear to them did not wake up today morning. Everyone who is dear to you woke up – Wow! It’s a great day, isn’t it? Then go out and take a look at the trees. They didn’t die last night either. You may think this is ridiculous, but you will know the reality of it when someone dear to you doesn’t wake up. Don’t wait till then to realize the value of it. It is not something ridiculous, this is the most valuable thing – that you are alive and everything that matters to you is alive. When on this disastrous night so many people did not wake up and the loved ones of so many others did not wake up, you and your loved ones woke up. Isn’t it a fantastic event? Appreciate it and smile at least. Learn to look at a few people lovingly.
然後看看周圍，如果有人，請對他們微笑。對很多人來說，他們親近之人今早並沒有醒來。而你親近的人全都醒來了——哇！好棒的一天，不是嗎？然後去外面看看樹。它們昨晚也沒死。你可能會認為這很滑稽，但是當你親近的人沒醒來時，你就會明白這個現實了。別等到那時才意識到它的意義。這不是滑稽的事，這是最珍貴的東西——你活著，並且你在乎的一切都還活著。這悲慘的一夜很多人沒有醒來，很多他人所愛的人沒有醒來，你和你愛的人們卻醒來了。這難道不是一件棒極了的事情嗎？至少感恩並且微笑吧。學著充滿愛地看看一些人。
8. Remind Yourself To Smile!
8. 提醒自己微笑！
For many people, it just takes an hour to forget all this and pretty soon their reptilian brain wants to bite someone. So give yourself a dose once an hour – a reminder of the value of life. If you are very insensitive, remind yourself every half-an-hour. If you are horribly insensitive, remind yourself every five minutes. It takes only ten seconds to remind yourself. You could do it in just two seconds too – 「I’m alive, you’re alive. What more?」
對很多人來說，過一小時就忘了這些，然後他們的爬行動物大腦很快就想要去咬別人。所以每小時給自己打一針——提醒生命的寶貴。如果你非常遲鈍，每半個小時提醒自己一次。如果你極度遲鈍，每五分鐘提醒自己一次。提醒自己只需要花十秒鐘。你也可以只花兩秒鐘——「我活著，你活著。還要什麼呢？」
9. Transform What’s Within
9. 轉化內在
At present, the quality of your life is not determined by the clothes that you wear, the educational qualifications that you carry, the family background that you come from or the bank balances that you hold. Rather, the quality of your life depends upon how peaceful and joyous you are within yourself.
現在，你的生命質量不取決於你穿的衣服、拿的畢業證書、家庭背景或者銀行存款。你的生命質量取決於你的內在有多麼喜悅與和平。
Definitely, somebody who does not have food and who is deprived of the basic needs for survival can be physically miserable. That needs to addressed. For such people, we must take care of those things first. But for most others, their needs are an endless list. You think the man who is driving the car is happier than the man who is walking on the street? No. It is not decided by what you have. It depends on how they are that moment.
當然，沒有食物和缺乏基本生存所需的人可能承受體膚之苦。這是需要解決的問題。對於這樣的人群，我們必須先解決那些問題。但對於其他大多數人，他們的需求是無盡的。你認為開車的人比走在路上的人更快樂嗎？不，這不取決於你有什麼。這取決於那一刻他們的內在狀態。
10. Stop The Comparison With Others
10. 停止與別人比較
Most people are miserable not because of what they don’t have. It is simply because they are comparing themselves with someone else. You are driving a motorbike, you see somebody in a Mercedes and you make yourself miserable. For someone on a bicycle, he sees you on a motorbike and that is a limousine for him. Somebody walking on the street looks at the bicycle and thinks, 「Wow, if I just had that, what I would have done with my life!」 It is a foolish game and it is just going on.
大部分人痛苦不是因為他們缺少什麼。僅僅是因為他們拿自己與別人比較。你騎著摩託車，看到別人坐在奔馳裡，你就使自己痛苦了。一個騎自行車的人看見你騎著摩託車，那對他來說就是個豪華房車。一個走在街上的人看到了那輛自行車，就想：「哇，如果有那個，我一生能做多少事啊！」 這是個愚蠢的遊戲，並且它一直在繼續。
All those people who depend on external situations to be happy will never know true joy in their lives. It is definitely time we look inward and see how to create personal wellbeing. From your own experience of life you can clearly see that true wellbeing will come to you only if your interiority changes.
那些讓外在條件決定自己快樂的人，一生都不會了解他們生命中真正的喜悅。真的是時候向內看了，看看如何創造個人幸福。從你的生命體驗中，你可以清晰地看到：只有當你的內在改變時，真正的幸福才會到來。
If you depend on the outside to bring joy to you, you need to understand, the outside never happens 100% the way you want it. When this is the reality, at least this one person – you – must happen the way you want it to be. If you did happen the way you want yourself to be, the very natural choice is joy. That is not something that you have to pursue. If you fall back into your original nature, joyfulness is the only way you will be.
如果你指望外界帶給你喜悅，你需要明白，外界絕不會百分百按你的意願發生。在這個現實裡，至少這個人——你——必須按你的意願發生。如果你按你自己的意願發生，最自然的選擇就是喜悅。那不是你必須去尋找的東西。如果你回歸你的本性，你只會在喜悅中。
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