Is happiness an elusive goal that happens in your life only once in a while? Sadhguru meticulously takes apart man’s quest for happiness and explains how to be happy in life.
幸福快樂是一個在你的生活中偶爾發生、難以捉摸的目標嗎？薩古魯詳細地剖析了人們對幸福快樂的追求，並闡釋瞭如何在生活中變快樂。
Sadhguru: Being happy or unhappy is actually your choice. People have chosen to be unhappy because they think that by being unhappy they will get something. It is being taught that if you suffer, you will go to heaven. If you are a suffering human being, what will you do in heaven anyway? Hell will be more of a home for you. Once you are unhappy, whatever you get, what does it matter? If you are happy, even if you do not get anything, what does it matter? This is not a philosophy, this is your true nature. By nature, you want to be happy. This is not a teaching that I am trying to give you – “Be happy; be happy.” Every creature wants to be happy. Everything that you are doing, every single act you are performing is to seek happiness in some way.
Sadhguru（薩古魯）：快樂或者不快樂其實是由你選擇的。人們選擇不快樂是因為他們覺得藉由變得不快樂，他們能獲得某種東西。人們被教導如果你受苦，你就能上天堂。如果你是一個受苦的人，在天堂你又能幹什麼呢？地獄會更像是你的家。如果你是快樂的，即使你沒得到什麼，又有什麼關係呢？這不是什麼哲學，這是你的自然本能。出於本能，你想要變快樂。這不是我在給你們教導——“變快樂，變快樂。”每一個生物都想變快樂。你做的每件事、你進行的每一個行動都是在以某種方式尋求幸福快樂。
For example, why would you want to serve people? Serving people gives you happiness; that is why. Someone wants to wear good clothes; someone wants to make a lot of money, because that gives them happiness. Whatever every human being is doing on this planet, it does not matter what, even if he is giving away his life to someone, he is doing it because it gives him happiness. Happiness is the fundamental goal of life. Why do you want to go to heaven? Only because someone has told you that if you go to heaven, you will be happy.
比如說，你為什麼想要為他人服務？服務他人能帶給你快樂，這就是原因。有人想要穿得好，有人想要賺很多很多錢，因為那能帶給他們快樂。不管這個星球上的每個人在做什麼，做什麼並不重要，即使是他在把他的生命給予別人，他那麼做是因為那能帶給他快樂。快樂是生命最基本的目標。你為什麼想去天堂？只是因為有人告訴過你，如果你去了天堂，你會變快樂。
The Source of Unhappiness
不快樂的根源
After doing all that you are doing, if happiness is not happening, somewhere the fundamentals of life have been missed. When you were a child, you were simply happy. Without doing anything, you were happy. Then somewhere along the way, you lost this. Why did you lose it? You got deeply identified with many things around you, your body, your mind. What you call as your mind is actually just the stuff that you have picked up from social situations around you. Depending upon what kind of society you have been exposed to, that is the kind of mind you have acquired.
在做了你能做的一切之後，如果快樂還是沒有發生，那就是在某個地方，生命的根本被錯失了。當你是個孩子的時候，你就是單純地快樂。不用特意做什麼，你就是快樂的。然後隨著成長，你失去了它。你為什麼失去了它？你開始深深認同於你周圍的許多東西，你的身體、你的頭腦。你稱之為“我的頭腦”的東西，實際上只是你從周遭的社會環境中撿來的東西。取決於接觸了什麼樣的社會，你會得到相應的頭腦。
Everything in your mind right now is something you picked up from outside. This nonsense did not come with you; you picked it up and got identified with it. You got so identified with it that now it is causing you misery. You can collect any kind of garbage you want, it is okay. As long as you are not identified with it, there is no problem. This body is not yours; you have picked it up from the earth. You were born with a tiny body which your parents gave you. After that, you ate plants and animals and grew. You borrowed it from the earth; it is not yours. You have to use it for a while, so enjoy it and go. But you have become so deeply identified with it that you think that this is you. No wonder you are suffering. The basis of all this misery is that you have established yourself in untruth. You are deeply identified with that which you are not.
你此刻頭腦中擁有的一切都是你從外面撿來的。它不是跟著你出生的，你收集了它並把它認同是你自己。你如此認同它，現在它給你帶來了痛苦。你可以收集任何你想要的垃圾，這是沒問題的。只要你不把它們認同是你自己，就沒有問題。這個身體不是你的，你從地球上得到它。你出生時只有一個小小的身體，那是你父母給你的。那之後，你吃植物和動物然後成長。你從地球借來了它，它不是你的。你得用上它一段時間，所以請享用它然後離開。但是你變得深深認同於它，以至於你認為它就是你自己。難怪你在受苦。所有這些痛苦的根源是由於你將自己建立在不真實之中。你深深地將自己認同於那些不是你的東西。
Discount What You Are Not
將“不是你”的東西打折
The whole process of spirituality is only to dis-identify with that which you are not. When you do not know what you really are, can you search for it? If you search, only your imagination will run wild. If you start thinking, “Who am I?”, someone will tell you that you are God’s child. Someone else will tell you that you are the devil’s child. Someone might tell you something else. It is just endless beliefs, and imagination runs wild. The only thing that you can do is that whatever you are not, start discounting that. When everything is discounted, there is something which cannot be discounted. When you arrive at that, you will see that there is no reason for misery in this world.
靈性程序的全部就只是消除對“不是你”的東西的認同。當你不知道你自己真正是什麼的時候，你要怎麼尋找它？如果你尋找，只有你的想象力會肆意奔跑。如果你開始思考“我是誰？”有人會告訴你你是上帝的孩子。另一些人會告訴你你是魔鬼的孩子。還有人會告訴你你是其它的什麼。那只是數之不盡的各式信仰和想象力在肆意飛舞。你能做的唯一的事情是，對那些“不是你”的東西進行打折。當一切能打折的都打折了，那裡有一些無法被打折的部分。當你到達了那裡，你會發現這個世界再沒有痛苦存在的理由。
原文連結：
isha.sadhguru.org/sg/en/wisdom/article/how-to-be-happy