作者: 陳嘉珍
By Chia-jen Chen
喜悅，是生命的本質，他不是你在某些條件之下才會出現的心裡狀態！
Joy is the essence of life. It is not a state of mind that only appears under certain circumstances!
但是我們失去了和生命本質連結的能力，所以需要靠著外在的條件來激活喜悦感，一旦條件抽離，又陷入懊惱之中。
However, we have lost the connection with this essence of life and need to rely on some external circumstances to trigger our sense of joy. And once the circumstances disappear, we fall back to the state of unhappiness.
所以自我不斷製造各種機會，企圖回到喜悅的感覺！郊遊旅行、朋友相聚、吃大餐、運動⋯⋯種種能夠讓你覺得喜悅的事情，這些條件抽離的時候，喜悦就不存在？
Therefore, our ego constantly seeks all kinds of opportunity to hold onto the feeling of joy! Travel, meeting with friends, eating good food, exercising… all kinds of things that may make you feel joyful. But once these events are gone, so is your joy?
生命的本質是喜悅的、我們是活在恩竉之中的、被愛或與愛分離都在宇宙的愛中得到救贖⋯⋯許多這樣的智慧之語究竟說什麼呢？
“The essence of life is joy,” “we live in the grace of God,” “Loved or unlovable, we are redeemed by the love of the universe,”… There are many wise words like these, but what do they actually tell us?
清晨七點多的阿姆斯特丹，天還沒亮，但街上穿流不停的腳踏車、公園裏晨跑的人已經為這一天揭開序幕！我的朋友體能很好，已經跑得不見人影，而我用著平常的步伐，欣賞著每一棵經過的大樹，池塘裡的小鴨悠遊著，偶爾被跑步經過的人驚嚇，但瞬間又回復自在！
Here it was early morning in Amsterdam. It was past 7 am and still dark, but the bustling bicycles on the streets and the joggers in the park already kicked off the day. My friend was so fit that he was already running out of my sight, while I was jogging at my normal pace, enjoying every big tree I passed by and the leisurely ducks in the pond. Occasionally I was startled by joggers who overtook me but I soon recovered myself.
我們可以用各式各樣的方法讓自己喜悅，但不是這些方法給你喜悅，而是透過這些方法連結一直存在的喜悅，因為喜悅本來就在，它是存在的本質！
We bring ourselves joy by all kinds of way but it is not what we do that gives us joy. It is through what we do that we connect to joy. Joy is always there. It is the nature of existence!
所以無論用什麼方式感受到喜悅，你的焦點是喜悅的本身而不是那些方法或外境！
No matter what you do to create a feeling of joy, your focus should always be on joy itself, not on what you do or the external circumstances!
眼前的美景令人非常喜悅，但美景只是喚醒本來就存在的喜悅感！所以去經驗的是喜悅的本身而不是那些美景！美景會因為離開而消失，歡樂的時刻也是暫時，肉體感覺時光的流逝，以為喜悅總是來來去去！
The beautiful scenery we are seeing makes us feel very joyful, but what the beautiful scenery does is simply trigger the sense of joy that is already there. What we are experiencing is joy, not the beautiful scenery! The scenery disappears the moment we leave the place and happy moments are also temporary. Because our physical body perceives the passing of time, we think that joy comes and goes.
其實，真正的喜悅是基本的內在心態，本來就一直在，因此才能透過外境喚起喜悅的覺受！
In fact, the true joy is our fundamental inner state and is always there. That is why a feeling of joy can be aroused by an external situation!
如此的鍛煉與認知，就能夠漸漸的讓自己直接進入喜悅而不是藉由外境來喚醒這種感覺！
Over time, this awareness and recognition can give us direct access to joy instead of relying on an external event to arouse such feeling!
喜悅是視窗、是心態，因著他的存在，無論何時何地、在任何的情境之下，你看出去的、你感受到的，都能在喜悅之中！
Joy is a window and a state of mind, through which we can turn what we see and feel into joy at any place, at any time, and under any circumstances!
處在不斷變化的外境裡，讓生命本然的喜悅感越來越清晰，成為一種常在的狀態，這應該就是能夠自在生活的秘方吧！
We live in an external world that is constantly changing. If we can deepen the sense of our innate joy and make it a constant state of mind, we have found the secret to living a happy life!
今天一早，朋友跑了7公里，我至少也走了4公里，腳趾頭痛，但卻感到極大的喜悅！
This morning, my friend jogged for 7 km and I walked at least 4 km. While my toes are a little achy, I am feeling a great deal of joy!
* Translated by Judy H *
摘自陳嘉珍臉書頁 / Source:
https://www.facebook.com/陳嘉珍-189375307763743/
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❤️ 快樂的罪惡感 / The Guilt of Feeling Happy
每當小孩快快樂樂時，不管他在做什麼，一定會有人來阻止他 ---「不要這樣!」漸漸地，小孩會了解到:「凡是令我快樂的就是錯的。」
Whenever the child feels happy, whatever he is doing, somebody or other is bound to come and stop him ---“Don’t do this!” By and by the child understands, “Whatever I feel happy about is wrong.”
而對於別人吩咐的事情，他當然不會樂意去做， 因為那不是源於他的自發性，最後，他得知痛苦才是對的，快樂是錯的，這種聯想已深植他的內心。
And of course, he never feels happy doing what others tell him to do, because it is not a spontaneous urge in him. So he comes to know that to be miserable is right, to be happy is wrong. That becomes the deep association.
這是我的觀察: 有人在靜心之後感到能量高漲，當他們快樂起來的時候，他們會立刻來跟我說:「發生了一件很奇怪的事，我覺得快樂，同時也無緣無故地感到罪惡感。」
It is my observation that when people start meditating and they start feeling an upsurge of energy, when they start feeling happy, they immediately come to me and say, “A very strange thing is happening. I am feeling happy, and I am also feeling guilty, for no reason at all.”
他們知道並沒有發生什麼事，他們也沒做錯什麼事，那麼罪惡感從何而來? 是從「喜悅是罪惡」這個根深蒂固的制約來的。悲傷就沒有關係，但快樂是不允許的。
They know that they have not done anything wrong. From where does this guilt arise? It is coming from the deep-rooted conditioning that joy is wrong. To be sad is okay, but to be happy is not allowed.
沒人曾對你說你已經有了快樂的能力，每個人都對你說唯有當你達成某些條件 – 當你有了足夠的錢，有一棟大房子，一輛大車子，以及這個那個 --- 唯有如此你才能快樂。
Everybody says that you can have the capacity to be happy only if you fulfill certain conditions – that you have enough money, a big house, a big car, and this and that – only then can you be happy.
** 快樂和這些無關，快樂不是一種成就，它是你的天性 **
** Happiness is not an achievement. It is your nature. **
<摘自【喜悅---從內在深處湧現的快樂】作者:奧修 / >
(Quotes from "Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within" by Osho)
❤ 以上由快樂的秋敏提供 / Above provided by joyful Chiumin
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