How to increase your happiness

翻译人员: Sue Lu 校对人员: Yanyan Hong

What would make you happy?

什么会让你感到幸福？

Can you imagine a milestone, a win, or even a material possession

取得一个重大成就、胜利， 亦或享有某种财富

that would unlock this feeling?

就能让你体验到幸福吗？

In this animated version of David Steindl-Rast’s popular TED Talk,

在大卫·斯坦德·拉斯特 （David Steindl-Rast） 这个热门的 TED 演讲动画版中，

Brother David explains how a simple adjustment in how you move

修士大卫解释说简单调整你的日常行为

through the world might just change what you see,

可能就会改变你的所见、所感和所为。

how you feel, and how you act.

Now my topic is gratefulness.

今天我的主题是感恩。

What is the connection between happiness and gratefulness?

幸福与感恩之间有什么联系？

Many people would say, well, that’s very easy.

很多人会说，这很简单。

When you are happy, you’re grateful.

当你幸福时，你就会感恩。

But think again.

再想一想，

Is it really the happy people that are grateful?

真的是幸福的人才会感恩吗？

We all know quite a number of people who have everything

我们都认识一些人，他们拥有一切

that it would take to be happy,

能让他们变得幸福的东西。

and they are not happy, because they want something else,

却依然没有感到幸福，因为他们不知足

or they want more of the same.

或者还渴望更多。

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune,

我们也认识一些遭遇很多不幸的人，

misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have,

谁都不想遭遇的那种不幸，

and they are deeply happy.

但他们却非常快乐，

They radiate happiness.

洋溢着幸福的光芒。

You are surprised.

你会很惊讶，

Why? Because they are grateful.

这是为什么？ 因为他们会心怀感激。

Now, we can ask, what really do we mean by gratefulness?

那么，我们所说的感恩到底是什么？

And how does it work?

它又从何来的呢？

Something’s given to us that’s valuable to us.

感恩如同我们得到某件至宝，

And it’s really given.

而且它是被赐予的。

These two things have to come together.

这两点必须结合起来，

It has to be something valuable, and it's a real gift.

它必须是珍贵的东西， 且是份真正的礼物。

And when these two things come together,

当这两点同时具备时，

then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart,

感恩之情就会在心里油然而生，

happiness spontaneously rises in my heart.

而幸福感也会如影相随。

That’s how gratefulness happens.

感恩之情就是这样产生的。

Now, the key to all this

这一切的关键

is that we cannot only experience this once in a while.

在于我们不能只是偶尔体验感恩，

We can be people who live gratefully.

我们要成为生活在感恩中的人。

And how can we live gratefully?

怎样才能活在感恩中呢？

By experiencing,

做法就是去体验，

by becoming aware that every moment is a given moment, as we say.

去意识到，如我们常言道， 每时每刻都是一份天赐，

It’s a gift.

都是一份礼物，

You have no way of assuring that there will be another moment given to you,

你无从确保还会有另一刻被赐予给你，

and yet, that’s the most valuable thing that can ever be given to us,

而它是我们能得到的最珍贵的礼物——

this moment, with all the opportunity that it contains.

‘此时此刻’， 以及它带给我们的所有契机。

Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything?

这是否意味着我们要对一切感恩呢？

Certainly not.

当然不是。

We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation.

我们不能感激暴力、战争、压迫和剥削。

On the personal level,

从个人的角度，

we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness,

我们无法为痛失友人、背叛或丧亲

for bereavement.

而心怀感激。

But I didn’t say we can be grateful for everything.

我并非说我们要感恩一切，

I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity,

但我们可以感恩每个时刻带来的机会。

and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult,

即使面临极端困境，

we can rise to this occasion

我们也应挺身而出，

and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

及时抓住到手的机会。

So how can each one of us find a method for living gratefully,

那么，如何找到一种方法 能让我们生活在感恩中，

not just once in a while being grateful, but moment by moment to be grateful?

不是偶尔，而是时刻心存感激地生活呢？

How can we do it?

我们怎样才能做到这一点？

It’s a very simple method: Stop. Look. Go.

有种很简单的方法：停、看、行，

That’s all.

就这么简单。

But how often do we stop?

但是多久停一次呢？

We rush through life; we don’t stop.

我们匆匆走过人生，从不止步，

We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop.

因此错过机遇。

We have to stop.

我们得停下来，

We have to get quiet.

沉静片刻，

And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

我们必须在人生中竖起一些停歇标牌。

And when you stop, then the next thing is to look.

当你停下来时，接着要做的就是去看。

You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose.

你要看。你要睁大眼睛， 竖起耳朵，开启嗅觉。

You open all your senses for this wonderful richness that is given to us.

打开你所有的感官， 去感受这份天赐的富足与美好。

There is no end to it, and that is what life is all about,

没有止境，而这就是人生的意义——

to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us.

去享受，享受上天的赐予。

And then we can also open our hearts, our hearts for the opportunities,

接着我们也可以敞开胸怀，拥抱机会，

for the opportunities also to help others, to make others happy,

拥抱那些有助他人的机会，令他人快乐，

because nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are happy.

因为当所有人都快乐时我们最快乐。

And when we open our hearts to the opportunities,

当我们敞开胸怀拥抱机会时，

the opportunities invite us to do something,

机会将邀约我们行动起来，

and that is the third.

这就是第三点。

Stop, look, and then go, and really do something.

停、看、行，真正行动起来。

And what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment.

而我们能做的， 就是此刻生活所赐予你的。

There is a wave of gratefulness

感恩的浪潮席卷而来，

because people are becoming aware how important this is

因为大家开始意识到感恩的重要性，

and how this can change our world,

而这将会改变我们的世界，

because if you’re grateful, you’re not fearful.

因为当你心存感激，你就不会恐惧；

If you're not fearful, you're not violent.

如果你不害怕，你就不会使用暴力。

If you’re grateful, you act out of a sense of enough

如果心存感激， 你的行为就会基于满足感，

and not of a sense of scarcity, and you’re willing to share.

而非匮乏感，你就会愿意分享。

If you're grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people

如果心存感激， 你就会欣赏人与人之间的差异，

and you are respectful to everybody.

并尊重每一个人，

And that changes this power pyramid under which we live.

这就会改变我们生活中的权力金字塔。

What we need is a networking of smaller groups,

我们需要一个由小团体构成的网络，

smaller and smaller groups who know one another,

团体越小越好，成员彼此相识、

who interact with one another,

彼此互动，

and that is a grateful world.

而那便是一个充满感恩的世界。