+-+-+-奥修(Osho, 1931-1990)是现代最有影响力的思想大师之一。他与释迦摩尼、甘地和尼赫鲁等一起被列为塑造印度命运的十大杰出人物。他的书籍(其实都是他讲话录音的书面整理) 被翻译成20多种语言,畅销世界各地。他21岁时‘觉悟’,开始在印度及世界各地宣讲他的思想。奥修崇尚老庄、禅宗的精神(从以下节选可见一斑),反对传统宗教、政治对人性的误导、扭曲和压抑。象耶稣一样,他被很多人爱,也被很多人恨。他对社会的抨击尤其被政客们所恨。 奥修的语言简单、优美、流畅。下面是他的Never Born Never Die谈‘道’一书的节选,我试着翻译一下,希望能传达出原文的美和力量吧。 ………………………………………………
<<谈愉快>>
……Joy has no reason, joy cannot have a reason to it. If joy has any reason, it is not joy at all: joy can only be without any reason, uncaused. A disease has a reason, but health? Health is natural. If you go and ask the doctor ‘Why am I healthy?’ He cannot answer you. If you go to the doctor and you say ‘Why am I ill?’ He can answer you, because illness has a cause……
愉快没有缘由,愉快不可能有缘由。如果愉快有缘由,它就根本不是愉快。愉快只可能是无缘无故的。疾病有原因,健康呢?健康是自然的。如果你去问医生:“我为什么健康?” 他将无可奉告。如果你问医生:“我为什么病了?”他可以回答你, 因为疾病是有原因的。
…….When a joy is pretended joy, you can find out the reason. But when the joy is truly there, it is so mysterious, it is so primal, that you cannot find any reason in it.
当愉快是伪装的愉快,你可以找出它的缘由。但在愉快真实存在的时候,它是如此的玄妙,如此的原始,你找不到它的缘由。
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Life has to be faced. It is rough; there is much pain, but the pain has to be faced. There is misery; it has to be encountered, it has to be passed through without any explanations and without any consolations. If you can live your life without any theorization about it – directly, immediately, moment-to-moment – one day, you will come to that source of joy ……
生活必须去面对。是的,生活崎岖不平 - 它有很多痛,但是痛是必须面对的;它有很多苦,但苦是必须遭遇的。生活必须不加解释地,不加安慰地被经历。如果你不给生活附着以任何理论,而是直接地、即时地体验,那么有一天,你将来到愉快的源泉…….
So there are three states of mind: discontent – a state of comparison; comparing with those who have more than you, then there is discontent. Somebody has a beautiful car and you are walking on foot; you are a pedestrian, then you are discontented. The second stage is contentment – you are a pedestrian and you see a beggar who has no feet: comparing with that one who has less than you, but still comparison. Discontent one aspect of the coin, the so called ‘contentment’ – the other aspect of the same coin. And the name of the coin is comparison. When you have thrown the coin completely – contentment and discontent, all – then suddenly you are in a state of no-comparison: that is real contentment. Then you don’t compare who has more, who has less. In fact, then it is not a question of having, then it is a question of being……..
有三种心理状态:不满足 – 这是一种比较:和那些比你拥有更多的人比,所以你不满足。有人开着漂亮的车子,而你却只能用脚走路,你是个行人,于是你不满足了。第二种状态是满足 – 你是行人,可是你看到一个没有脚的乞丐:这是和那些比你拥有更少的人比,但仍然是比较。不满足是硬币的一面,满足是硬币的另一面。这面硬币的名字就是比较。当你把这枚硬币完全抛开 – 不满足和满足,一并抛开 – 你就进入了没有比较的境界:那才是真正的满足!你不再看谁比你有的多,谁比你有的少。其实,这根本就不是‘拥有’的问题,而只是‘存在’的问题……..