萨古鲁谈论了我们的人生体验是痛苦与艰难，还是我们在这里的存在是优雅美妙的，这仅是由我们决定的，而不是外在环境。

Sadhguru: Most of the time, people determine the course and nature of their lives by what they like and dislike – “I like this, so I do this.” Both what you like and what you dislike are two different kinds of bondages. Both what you like and what you dislike distorts your perception. If you like somebody, you will exaggerate them in your mind. If you dislike somebody, for sure you will exaggerate them in your mind.

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：大多数时候，人们通过他们喜欢或不喜欢什么来决定他们生命的历程和本质——“我喜欢这个，所以我做这个。”你喜欢的和你不喜欢的，是两种不同的束缚。你喜欢的和你不喜欢的，两者都会扭曲你的认知。如果你喜欢某个人，你会在头脑里夸大它们。如果你不喜欢某个人，那你肯定会在头脑里夸大它们。

Exaggeration means you are unable to see things as they are. If you are unable to see things as they are, you can never handle life the way it should be handled.

夸大意味着你不能看到事物的本来面目。如果你不能看到事物的本来面目，你就永远不能以正确的方式对待生活。

What you like is not important. Have you made yourself in such a way that not just people, but just everything likes you, every creature around you likes your presence, even the flowers, the plants and the trees?

你喜欢什么并不重要。你是否把自己塑造成了这样：即，不仅仅是人，而是所有的事物都喜欢你，你周围的每一个生物都喜欢你的存在，甚至包括花、植物和树木?

“How can the plants and the trees like me?” They are extremely sensitive to who you are. They respond accordingly. If you make yourself in such a way that the very earth that you walk upon likes you, then you will see, everything in your life will become a blessing. If everything around you dislikes you, everything that could be wellbeing could become a curse.

“植物和树木怎么会喜欢我呢？”他们对于你是谁是非常敏感的。他们会相应地回应。如果你能让脚下的土地也喜欢你，那么你就会看到，你生命中的一切都将成为一种祝福。如果你周围的一切都不喜欢你，那么一切可能成为幸福的都可能变成诅咒。

Right now, there is no curse sitting on human life. It is things that people want, it is things that people aspire for, things that they work for, strive to have in their lives, which turn into curses in their lives – their work, their property, their relationships, their own body, their own mind, is the cancer of their life. They are suffering these things. It never rains misery. It is just that things that you like have become a source of misery.

现在，并没有诅咒施加在人类的生活上。是那些人们想要的东西, 是那些人们渴望的东西，他们努力拼搏想要在生命中拥有的东西，转而成为了诅咒——他们的工作、他们的财产、他们的关系、他们自己的身体、他们自己的头脑，成为了他们生命的癌症。他们正在为这些事情受苦。痛苦从来不是从天而降的。只是你喜欢的东西变成了痛苦的来源。

Existing as a limb of the creator

作为造物主的手足存在

A spiritual process is not about pursuing what you like – it is about striving to make yourself in such a way that even the birds like you, the squirrels like you, the insects like you, the mosquitoes love you! Otherwise, the very water that you drink, the air that you breathe, the food that you eat, can turn into poison in the system. All of it can become nectar, only if they like you.

灵性的进程不是追求你所喜欢的东西——而是努力使自己成为这样的人——就连鸟儿也喜欢你，松鼠喜欢你，昆虫喜欢你，蚊子也喜欢你！否则，你喝的水、你呼吸的空气、你吃的食物，都有可能在你的系统中变成毒药。而只要它们喜欢你，一切都可能变成甘露。

If you are miserable, what you call as “myself” needs to be fixed, not someone else.

如果你痛苦，那么就需要修理你所谓的“我自己”，而不是别人。

Making yourself in such a way that the creation and the Creator cannot help liking you, that is the striving. It is not about fulfilling your likes or destroying your dislikes. It is about making yourself in such a way that every atom in this existence likes you, wants to yield to you. If existence does not yield to you, you may do what you want, but nothing will work in the real sense. You may do something, you may become something, you may earn a living, but you will just go through a cycle without anything tremendous touching your life.

努力使自己成为这样的人，让造物和造物主都禁不住喜欢你。这不在于满足你的喜好或摧毁你的厌恶。这在于使你成为这样一种人——在这个存在中的每一个原子都喜欢你，都想要屈服于你。如果存在不屈服于你，你可以做你想做的，但在真正意义上，一切都不会奏效。你可能会做些什么，你可能会成为什么，你可能能够谋生，但你只会经历循环，不会有任何巨大的东西触碰你的生命。

This is the choice every human being has – either to exist here as a limb of the Creator, or to exist here as a bundle of thoughts, emotions, and nonsense that you have gathered. This choice is available to you every moment of your life. If this striving is there, it will deliver you to a different place of gracefulness, where every stone, pebble, rock, tree, every atom in the existence speaks to you in a language that you can know. Otherwise, you are alone in this vast existence, constantly feeling insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged.

这是每个人都有的选择——要么作为造物主的手足存在于此，要么作为你所收集的一堆思想、情感等乱七八糟的东西存在于此。这种选择在你生命的每一刻都对你敞开。如果能这样努力，它将把你带到一个不同的恩典之地，那里的每一块石头、每一块卵石、每一块岩石、每一棵树、每一个原子都在用一种你能懂的语言与你交流。否则，你在这个巨大的存在中是孤独的，不断地感到不安全，不稳定，心理上受到挑战。

It is not a gift, it is a choice. If one makes the right choice, the right things will happen. If one makes the wrong choice, wrong things will happen. It is a very fair and just existence. It is not like a social structure where some people can get away with wrong things. In this existence, it doesn’t matter who you are, if you jump off the roof, the earth will break your leg – no exemptions, nobody is spared. For anybody who is willing, the possibility is open. For everybody, the stick is also there. You make the right choices, everything is open. You make the wrong choices, everything will knead you in a different way.

这不是一份礼物，而是一种选择。如果一个人做出了正确的选择，正确的事情就会发生。如果一个人做了错误的选择，错误的事情就会发生。这是一个非常公平和公正的存在。它不像一个社会结构，有些人可以逃脱错误的事情。在这个存在中，不管你是谁，如果你从屋顶上跳下来，地球会让你的腿折断——没有例外，没有人能幸免。对于任何愿意的人，可能性都是开放的。对每个人来说，棍子也都在那里。你做了正确的选择，一切都是开放的。如果你做了错误的选择，一切都会以不同的方式蹂躏你。

Fixing the true problem

解决真正的问题

So if pain, suffering or misery happens, it is not time to look around. This is always the problem: If you are miserable, you think somebody else needs to be fixed. No. If you are miserable, what you call as “myself” needs to be fixed, not someone else.

所以如果痛苦发生，这不是环顾四周的时候。总是有这个问题：如果你很痛苦，你认为别人需要被修理。不，如果你很痛苦，你所谓的“我自己”需要被修理，而不是别人。

On a certain day, Shankaran Pillai went drinking with his friends. He intended to go back home at 8 o’clock, but with drink after drink, he became unconscious of time. When he looked at the watch, it was 2:30 a.m. He thought it’s really late, and he wanted to get back home quickly, so he took a short cut. As he was walking through the shortcut on his unsteady legs, he fell into a thorny bush. His whole face got scratched up. In this condition, he went home, and he tried to find the keyhole – that took another half-an-hour. He finally opened the door, went inside, went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He was bleeding all over the face. So he opened the medicine chest, fixed himself whichever way he could, quietly crawled into bed and slept.

有一天，山卡拉·皮莱和他的朋友去喝酒。他原打算8点钟回家，但喝了一杯又一杯，他就不知道时间了。当他看表的时候，已经是凌晨2:30了。他觉得很晚了，他想赶快回家，所以他抄了一条近路。当他踉踉跄跄地穿过这条近路时，他摔进了带刺的灌木丛里。他的整张脸都被划伤了。在这种情况下，他回家了，他试图找钥匙孔——又花了半个小时。他终于打开了门，走了进去，走进浴室，对着镜子看了看自己。满脸都是血。于是他打开药箱，尽可能地整理好自己，悄悄地爬到床上睡了。

Morning 8 o’clock, his wife took a bucket of cold water and threw it in his face. He got up. She said, “You idiot, once again you have been drinking?” He said, “No honey, I haven’t touched a drop. Since I promised you six months ago, I haven’t touched a drop.” She held him by the shirt, dragged him into the bathroom and showed him. The band-aid was all over the mirror.

早上8点，他的妻子拿起一桶冷水就往他的脸上泼。他爬了起来。她说：“你这个白痴，你又喝酒了？他说：“没有，亲爱的，我可是一滴也没沾。自从六个月前我答应过你，我就没有碰过一滴”。她拎住他的衬衫，把他拖进浴室，让他看。镜子上贴满了创可贴。

It doesn’t work like that. Only someone who is completely unconscious will do such things. If it is hurting here and you fix it there, it is because you are completely unconscious or inebriated. Whenever you are miserable, you want to fix that one and that one and that one. No – you need to be fixed. If you put band-aid on the mirror, it doesn’t heal your wounds. You have to attend to your wounds. Both your miseries and joys are caused from inside. So it needs to be attended here, not somewhere else. If you take a lifetime to understand this, life will have its ways. The sooner you learn this, the more graceful and wonderful your life will become.

这样是不会有用的。只有完全无意识的人才会做这样的事。如果这里疼，而你去治那里，那是因为你完全无意识或喝醉了。每当你感到痛苦的时候，你就会想要去修理那个、那个，还有那个。不，需要被修理的人是你。如果你在镜子上贴创可贴，它不会愈合你的伤口。你得照料你的伤口。你的痛苦和快乐都是由内在引起的。所以需要照料好这里，而不是其它地方。如果你要花一辈子的时间去理解这一点，生命就会用它自己的方式（来教你）。你越早了解这一点，你的生命就会变得越优雅和精彩。

原文链接：

isha.sadhguru.org/global/en/wisdom/article/life-suffering-joy-choice