How to increase your happiness

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: 麗玲 辛

What would make you happy?

什麼會讓你快樂？

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

你能想像有哪種里程碑、 勝利，或甚至擁有某個物質，

that would unlock this feeling?

能夠釋放這種感覺嗎？

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

這支影片是將大衛‧斯坦德拉的 知名 TED 演說製作成動畫版，

Brother David explains how a simple adjustment in how you move

影片中，大衛兄弟會解釋 簡單調整一下你過生活的方式，

through the world might just change what you see,

可能就可以改變你的所見、 你的感覺，以及你的行事方式。

how you feel, and how you act.

Now my topic is gratefulness.

我的主題是感恩。

What is the connection between happiness and gratefulness?

快樂與感恩之間有什麼關聯？

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

很多人會說，嗯，那很簡單。

When you are happy, you’re grateful.

當你快樂時，你就會感恩。

But think again.

但，再想想看。

Is it really the happy people that are grateful?

快樂的人很感恩，真的是這樣嗎？

We all know quite a number of people who have everything

我們都認識不少這樣的人：

他們擁有一切令人快樂的東西，

that it would take to be happy,

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

他們卻不快樂，

因為他們想要別的， 或還想要更多已有的東西。

or they want more of the same.

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune,

我們也認識遭遇很不幸的人，

misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have,

這些不幸遭遇， 我們都希望自己不會經歷

and they are deeply happy.

而他們卻非常快樂。

They radiate happiness.

他們洋溢著幸福。你感到驚訝。

You are surprised.

Why? Because they are grateful.

為什麼？因為他們會感恩。

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

我們可以問，

我們說的感恩是什麼意思？

And how does it work?

它是怎麼運作的？

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

我們得到某個珍貴的東西，

And it’s really given.

事實上是被賜予的。

These two things have to come together.

這兩點必須同時存在。

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

必須是珍貴的東西， 且它是份真正的禮物。

And when these two things come together,

當這兩點結合在一起，

then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart,

感恩就會自發性地在我心中出現，

happiness spontaneously rises in my heart.

快樂就會自發性地在我心中出現。

That’s how gratefulness happens.

感恩就是這樣發生的。

Now, the key to all this

這一切的關鍵

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

在於我們不能只是偶爾體驗感恩，

We can be people who live gratefully.

我們還可以成為 帶著感恩過生活的人。

And how can we live gratefully?

我們要如何帶著感恩過生活？

By experiencing,

做法就是去體驗，去意識到

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

如我們所說的， 每一刻都是被賜予的，

It’s a gift.

是一份禮物。

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

你無法確保還會有 另一刻被賜予給你，

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

但，那是可以給予我們的 所有一切中最珍貴的：

this moment, with all the opportunity that it contains.

這個當下，以及它所帶來的所有契機。

Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything?

那表示我們可以感恩一切嗎？

Certainly not.

當然不是。

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

我們不會感恩有暴力、戰爭、

壓迫、剝削。

On the personal level,

在個人層面上，

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

我們無法感恩失去朋友、不忠、

for bereavement.

或者喪親。

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

但，我並沒有說我們要感恩一切。

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

我說的是，我們可以在 賜予我們的每一刻中感恩

得到的機會，

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

即使當我們面對非常艱難的狀況，

we can rise to this occasion

我們也能迎接這個挑戰，

and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

回應賜予我們的機會。

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

那麼，我們每個人要如何

找到帶著感恩過生活的方法，

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

不僅是偶爾感恩一下， 而是時時刻刻都能感恩？

How can we do it?

我們要怎麼做到？

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

方法很簡單：

停、看、行。

That’s all.

就這樣。

But how often do we stop?

但，我們有多常停下來？

We rush through life; we don’t stop.

我們庸庸碌碌過生活，停不下來。

We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop.

因為我們停不下來， 我們就錯失機會。

We have to stop.

我們得停下來。

We have to get quiet.

我們得靜下來。

And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

我們得在我們的生活中 豎立停止標誌。

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

停下來之後，接著要做的就是看。

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

你要看，你要打開你的眼睛、

你的耳朵、你的鼻子、 你所有的感官，

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

去感受賜予我們的富足與美好。

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

沒有止境，這就是人生的意義，

to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us.

去享受賜予我們的一切。

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

接著我們也可以打開 我們的心，迎接機會，

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

協助他人的機會，

讓別人也能快樂，因為 最讓我們快樂的就是所有人都快樂。

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

And when we open our hearts to the opportunities,

當我們打開心，迎接機會，

the opportunities invite us to do something,

機會邀請我們去做某些事，

and that is the third.

那就是第三步。

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

停，看，行，真的去做些什麼。

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

我們能做的，

就是人生在當下提供給你的。

There is a wave of gratefulness

感恩的浪潮席捲而來， 因為大家開始意識到

because people are becoming aware how important this is

感恩有多重要， 而這將會改變我們的世界，

and how this can change our world,

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

因為當心懷感恩，你就不會恐懼。

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

當你不恐懼，你就不會使用暴力。

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

如果你感恩，你會 出於「滿足感」來行事，

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

而非「欠缺感」，

因此你會願意分享。

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

如果你感恩，你就會 欣賞人與人之間的不同，

and you are respectful to everybody.

你會尊重每個人。

And that changes this power pyramid under which we live.

這會改變我們生活中的權力金字塔。

What we need is a networking of smaller groups,

我們需要的是小群體形成的網路，

smaller and smaller groups who know one another,

小型的群體，成員彼此認識，

who interact with one another,

會彼此互動，

and that is a grateful world.

那就是個感恩的世界。