The habits of happiness | Matthieu Ricard

翻译人员: han congmei 校对人员: Chaoran Yu

So, I guess it is a result of globalization

我认为全球化的后果之一就是你能在

that you can find Coca-Cola tins on top of Everest

珠穆朗玛峰上发现可口可乐易拉罐，也能在Monterey(TED大会所在地)看到佛教僧侣。

and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas

两天前，我受邀从喜马拉雅来到这里。

to your kind invitation.

So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves.

同时我也想邀请你们空时去喜马拉雅。

And to show the place where meditators, like me,

在喜马拉雅，修行者们，譬如我--

who began with being a molecular biologist in Pasteur Institute,

一位起初在巴斯德研究所从事分子研究的人，

and found their way to the mountains.

寻得了心灵的归宿。

So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there.

屏幕上的这些照片是我有幸去过的地方。

There's Mount Kailash in Eastern Tibet -- wonderful setting.

这是位于西藏东部的岗仁波齐峰--非常美。

This is from Marlboro country.

这是万宝路的产地（指美国）。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This is a turquoise lake.

这是碧湖。

A meditator.

这是一位修行者。

This is the hottest day of the year somewhere in Eastern Tibet, on August 1.

这是西藏东部一年中最热的一天，八月一号。

And the night before, we camped, and my Tibetan friends said,

这是7月31号晚上，我们在露营，我的西藏朋友说--

"We are going to sleep outside."

“我们今晚在露天睡。”我说：“为什么？帐篷里有地方睡啊。”

And I said, "Why? We have enough space in the tent."

我的朋友们说：“这可是夏天。”

They said, "Yes, but it's summertime."

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So now, we are going to speak of happiness.

现在，我们来谈谈幸福。

As a Frenchman, I must say

作为一个法国人，我不得不提及法国的许多知识分子，

that there are a lot of French intellectuals

他们皆认为幸福毫无乐趣。

that think happiness is not at all interesting.

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I just wrote an essay on happiness, and there was a controversy.

我曾写过一篇关于幸福的散文，但却引起一场辩论。

And someone wrote an article saying,

有人撰文说：不要将幸福这烦人的话题强加于我们。

"Don't impose on us the dirty work of happiness."

（笑声）

(Laughter)

"We don't care about being happy. We need to live with passion.

我们不在乎幸不幸福。我们需要的是激情人生。

We like the ups and downs of life.

我们喜欢刺激的生活。

We like our suffering because it's so good when it ceases for a while."

我们喜欢痛苦，因为转瞬的痛苦是如此美好。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This is what I see from the balcony of my hermitage in the Himalayas.

这张照片是我所处的喜马拉雅的修道院阳台上看到的景象。

It's about two meters by three, and you are all welcome any time.

阳台只有两三米阔，欢迎你们随时来做客。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Now, let's come to happiness or well-being.

我们再说回幸福这个话题。

And first of all, you know, despite what the French intellectuals say,

首先，不管法国的知识分子们如何评价幸福，

it seems that no one wakes up in the morning thinking,

似乎没有人会在早上睡醒时想到

"May I suffer the whole day?"

“今天我可以痛苦一回吗？”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Which means that somehow, consciously or not,

这在某种程度上意味着--有意识地或无意识地

directly or indirectly, in the short or the long term,

直接或间接地，短期或长期地，

whatever we do, whatever we hope, whatever we dream --

我们的行为，我们的希望，我们的梦想--

都为了寻求内心深处的幸福。

somehow, is related to a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness.

As Pascal said, even the one who hangs himself,

正如帕斯卡（法国数学家、物理学家、哲学家）所说：即使是上吊自杀的人

somehow, is looking for cessation of suffering.

也是为了摆脱痛苦--因为别无他法。

He finds no other way.

But then, if you look in the literature, East and West,

在东西方文学中，你能看到

you can find incredible diversity of definition of happiness.

关于幸福的各式各样定义。

Some people say, I only believed in remembering the past,

有人认为幸福只存于回忆中，

imagining the future, never the present.

及对未来的憧憬，而不存在于当下。

Some people say happiness is right now;

有人则认为此刻即是幸福，

it's the quality of the freshness of the present moment.

其意义在于即时鲜活的生命力。

And that led Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say,

而法国哲学家亨利.柏格森认为

"All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague

“人类所有伟大的思想家给幸福下的定义都是模糊的

so that each of them could define their own terms."

他们按自己的思维方式给出不同的定义。”

Well, that would be fine if it was just a secondary preoccupation in life.

当然，如果幸福不是生活中最令人全神贯注的，模糊倒也无所谓。

But now, if it is something that is going to determine

但如今，如果幸福会决定

the quality of every instant of our life,

我们的整个生活质量，

then we better know what it is, have some clearer idea.

那我们最好还是弄清楚幸福到底是什么。

And probably, the fact that we don't know that is why, so often,

而实际上我们很可能不知道为何我们总是

although we seek happiness, it seems we turn our back to it.

在寻找幸福而事实上却似乎是背道而驰，

Although we want to avoid suffering,

虽然我们不想遭受痛苦，却似乎在某种程度上奔向痛苦。

it seems we are running somewhat towards it.

And that can also come from some kind of confusions.

原因之一是概念混淆。

One of the most common ones is happiness and pleasure.

其中最普遍的一个混淆是幸福和享乐。

But if you look at the characteristics of those two,

如果比较二者的特征会发现

pleasure is contingent upon time, upon its object,

享乐视时间、对象、地点而定。

upon the place.

It is something that -- changes of nature.

享乐不是自然而然得到的。

Beautiful chocolate cake: first serving is delicious,

漂亮的巧克力蛋糕第一次吃起来觉得是美味，

second one not so much, then we feel disgust.

吃多了就开始觉得恶心了。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

That's the nature of things.

原因就是：我们觉得腻了。

We get tired.

I used to be a fan of Bach.

我曾经喜欢巴赫的音乐。常用吉他弹奏。

I used to play it on the guitar, you know.

I can hear it two, three, five times.

我可以把一首乐曲听两遍，三遍，甚至五遍。

If I had to hear it 24 hours, non-stop, it might be very tiring.

可如果我连续24小时不停地听，就听腻了。

If you are feeling very cold, you come near a fire, it's so wonderful.

如果你觉得冷，烤烤火会觉得很舒服。

After some moments, you just go a little back,

片刻后，你稍稍后退，火开始烧旺了。

and then it starts burning.

It sort of uses itself as you experience it.

火的不同用处在于你不同的体验。

And also, again, it can -- also, it's something that you --

这种体验只有你才有

it is not something that is radiating outside.

只是你的体验而不是火自身的本质。

Like, you can feel intense pleasure

你觉得舒服

and some others around you can be suffering a lot.

而你周围的人可能会觉得痛苦。

Now, what, then, will be happiness?

那么什么是幸福呢？

And happiness, of course, is such a vague word, so let's say well-being.

当然幸福这个词听来觉得比较含糊，就称呼其为美满吧。

And so, I think the best definition, according to the Buddhist view,

我认为佛教中关于美满的定义说得很好，

is that well-being is not just a mere pleasurable sensation.

佛教认为美满不是单纯的享乐。

It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment.

而是一种内心的安宁、圆满，

是一种能把所有内心情感融合的心境，

A state that actually pervades

and underlies all emotional states,

and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way.

能把所有快乐和悲伤融合的心境。

For you, that might be surprising.

听到这里，你们也许会觉得惊奇。

Can we have this kind of well-being while being sad?

难道真的可以在悲伤的时候也能获得美满吗？但一切皆有可能！

In a way, why not?

Because we are speaking of a different level.

只要我们换个角度去想。

Look at the waves coming near the shore.

我们来看看涌向岸边的海浪。

When you are at the bottom of the wave, you hit the bottom.

当你被海浪打在水下时会触到水底。

You hit the solid rock.

会碰到水底的岩石。

When you are surfing on the top, you are all elated.

当你在浪尖上时，你兴高采烈。

So you go from elation to depression -- there's no depth.

从高兴变得沮丧，是因为心性不定。

Now, if you look at the high sea,

当你看到大海，你可能觉得它美丽，如镜一般平静。

there might be beautiful, calm ocean, like a mirror.

There might be storms,

即使风暴发生，但海底依旧平静。

but the depth of the ocean is still there, unchanged.

So now, how is that?

这是一种什么状态呢？

It can only be a state of being, not just a fleeting emotion, sensation.

这是一种内心的平和，而不是短暂的情感变化。

Even joy -- that can be the spring of happiness.

即使高兴可以引发幸福感，

But there's also wicked joy, you can rejoice in someone's suffering.

但也存在着病态的高兴--那就是幸灾乐祸。

So how do we proceed in our quest for happiness?

人们是如何寻找幸福的呢？通常都是借助外在的东西。

Very often, we look outside.

We think that if we could gather this and that, all the conditions,

觉得只要拥有了所有东西就能幸福了，

something that we say, "Everything to be happy --

拥有一切就能幸福

to have everything to be happy."

拥有一切就拥有幸福。

That very sentence already reveals the doom, destruction of happiness.

这种说法本身就说明了幸福的脆弱。

To have everything.

因为它的前提是拥有一切，而如果不能拥有一切幸福就消失了

If we miss something, it collapses.

And also, when things go wrong, we try to fix the outside so much,

另一方面，当生活出现问题时，我们关注的总是那些外在的因素，

but our control of the outer world is limited,

但我们对外部世界的掌控是有限的、暂时的，而且通常是虚幻的。

temporary, and often, illusory.

So now, look at inner conditions.

让我们来了解一下我们的内心世界吧。我们的内心世界难道不强大吗？

Aren't they stronger?

Isn't it the mind that translates

难道不是只有内心世界才能把外部条件转换成幸福或痛苦吗？

the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

And isn't that stronger?

难道内心世界不强大吗？

We know, by experience,

我们都亲身体验过内心的快乐

that we can be what we call "a little paradise,"

and yet, be completely unhappy within.

和不快乐。

The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal,

有一次，达赖喇嘛去葡萄牙，

and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere.

当时那里到处在盖楼。

So one evening, he said, "Look, you are doing all these things,

一天晚上达赖说：“你们这里盖这么多楼，

but isn't it nice, also, to build something within?"

但如果把精力用来提升人们的内心世界不是更好吗？

And he said, "[Without] that -- even if you get a high-tech flat

就算你住的是现代化公寓

on the 100th floor of a super-modern and comfortable building,

甚至是住在舒适的摩天大楼的第100层，

if you are deeply unhappy within,

可如果你的内心不快乐，

all you are going to look for is a window from which to jump."

窗户是解脱的唯一路径。”

So now, at the opposite,

相反，

we know a lot of people who, in very difficult circumstances,

有许多生活贫困的人

manage to keep serenity, inner strength, inner freedom, confidence.

内心却能很平和，内心坚强、自由、自信。

So now, if the inner conditions are stronger --

拥有了强大的内心世界--

of course, the outer conditions do influence,

当然在外在条件的辅助下，

and it's wonderful to live longer, healthier,

人们能活得更健康、长寿，

to have access to information, education,

能受教育，能去旅行，

to be able to travel, to have freedom.

能活得自由，这也是人们最想得到的。

It's highly desirable.

However, this is not enough.

然而，外在条件只能起辅助作用。

Those are just auxiliary, help conditions.

The experience that translates everything is within the mind.

实践证明内心决定着如何转化外部世界的一切。

So then, when we ask oneself

接下来大家可能要问：如何培育幸福的心田呢，

how to nurture the condition for happiness,

the inner conditions, and which are those which will undermine happiness.

决定幸福与否的关键是什么呢？

So then, this just needs to have some experience.

从我们的切身体验中能找到答案。

We have to know from ourselves, there are certain states of mind

我们需要明确的就是在我们的内心有一种境界

that are conducive to this flourishing, to this well-being,

能让我们沐浴在幸福中，

what the Greeks called eudaimonia, flourishing.

也就是希腊语所说的恩赐、幸福、繁荣。

There are some which are adverse to this well-being.

不过也有相反的一面。

And so, if we look from our own experience,

如果我们自省--

anger, hatred, jealousy, arrogance,

愤怒、怨恨、嫉妒、傲慢、强迫、占有欲--

obsessive desire, strong grasping,

they don't leave us in such a good state after we have experienced it.

这些心态会让人迷失。

And also, they are detrimental to others' happiness.

而且也会给别人带来不幸。

So we may consider that the more those are invading our mind,

我们被这些心态侵蚀的越深，

and, like a chain reaction,

就越感到迷茫和痛苦，这是种连锁反应。

the more we feel miserable, we feel tormented.

At the opposite, everyone knows deep within

反之，无私地去做些事情，

that an act of selfless generosity,

if from the distance, without anyone knowing anything about it,

默默无闻地做些好事，

we could save a child's life, make someone happy.

比如挽救一个处境危险的孩子，就会令他人幸福。

We don't need the recognition. We don't need any gratitude.

做这些不是为了让别人知道，让别人来感激。

Just the mere fact of doing that

而是出于人的本性，只是做了该做的。

fills such a sense of adequation with our deep nature.

And we would like to be like that all the time.

其实这种行为可以成为一种习惯。

So is that possible,

那么人的行为方式和心态能够改变吗？

to change our way of being, to transform one's mind?

Aren't those negative emotions, or destructive emotions,

那些负面情感

inherent to the nature of mind?

是与生俱来的吗？

Is change possible in our emotions, in our traits, in our moods?

情感和心理特征是可以改变的吗？

For that we have to ask, what is the nature of mind?

要弄清这些疑问首先要弄清本性是指什么。

And if we look from the experiential point of view,

通常认为

there is a primary quality of consciousness

意识的一个基本特征

that's just the mere fact to be cognitive, to be aware.

就是其可被认知性。

Consciousness is like a mirror that allows all images to rise on it.

意识如镜。

You can have ugly faces, beautiful faces in the mirror.

不管人长得漂不漂亮，

The mirror allows that, but the mirror is not tainted,

镜子都能接受，镜子不会因照镜子的人长得丑而变脏，

is not modified, is not altered by those images.

也不会因照镜子的人漂亮而变干净，镜子自身不会改变。

Likewise, behind every single thought

同样如此，每个想法后面存在的意识也是不会随着想法的好坏而改变的。

there is the bare consciousness, pure awareness.

This is the nature.

这就是本性。本性不会因怨恨或嫉妒而改变，

It cannot be tainted intrinsically with hatred or jealousy because then,

if it was always there --

本性是固有的--就像染料能把布染上颜色--

like a dye that would permeate the whole cloth --

then it would be found all the time, somewhere.

本性终究会被发觉。

We know we're not always angry, always jealous, always generous.

人不会总是发怒、嫉妒，也不会总是很慷慨。

So, because the basic fabric of consciousness

意识的基本特征

is this pure cognitive quality that differentiates it from a stone,

是其可认知性，这也是人和石头的区别，

there is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.

所有情感都是可以改变的，因为情感是瞬间产生的。

That is the ground for mind training.

因此，人的心灵可以修炼。

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors

修心的可行性在于两种相反的心态

cannot happen at the same time.

不会同时产生。

You could go from love to hate.

人的心理可以从爱转变到恨。

But you cannot, at the same time, toward the same object,

但不能同时对同一对象

the same person, want to harm and want to do good.

对同一个人既想伤害又想给予帮助。

You cannot, in the same gesture, shake hand and give a blow.

人不可能在和别人握手的同时攻击对方。

So, there are natural antidotes to emotions

纾解情感自然有其方法。就是用与之相反的情感来纾解，

that are destructive to our inner well-being.

纾解不平和的心态。

So that's the way to proceed.

这就是修心之法。喜悦和嫉妒，二者相比较

Rejoicing compared to jealousy.

A kind of sense of inner freedom

前者让心灵自由，相反，后者将心灵禁锢。

as opposite to intense grasping and obsession.

Benevolence, loving kindness against hatred.

与仁爱相反的是怨恨。

But, of course, each emotion then would need a particular antidote.

每种情感都有对应的解药。

Another way is to try to find a general antidote to all emotions,

另一种方法是给所有情感找一种通行的解药，

and that's by looking at the very nature.

这种方法就是探寻本性。

Usually, when we feel annoyed, hatred or upset with someone,

每当我们感到恼怒、怨恨、不安时，

or obsessed with something,

内心就会一遍又一遍地萦绕这些情节。

the mind goes again and again to that object.

Each time it goes to the object,

越想就越不能自拔。

it reinforces that obsession or that annoyance.

So then, it's a self-perpetuating process.

这就是自我重复记忆的过程。

So what we need to look for now is,

让我们换个角度，不从外部去找原因，而是从我们的内心来找原因。

instead of looking outward, we look inward.

Look at anger itself.

以愤怒为例，

It looks very menacing,

like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm.

它看起来很有威胁性，就好像阵阵的雨季云或雷电交加的暴风雨。

We think we could sit on the cloud,

其实我们可以控制住愤怒，认清了这一点，就会觉得它只如同薄雾一样。

but if you go there, it's just mist.

Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger,

当你理智地审视愤怒这种情绪，

it will vanish like frost under the morning sun.

它就会像阳光下的霜气一样很快消失掉。

If you do this again and again, the propensity,

如果你经常这样审视，形成习惯，

the tendencies for anger to arise again

那么生气的几率

will be less and less each time you dissolve it.

就会越来越小。

And, at the end, although it may rise,

到最后，即时偶尔出现愤怒的情绪，也只会一闪即逝，

it will just cross the mind,

like a bird crossing the sky without leaving any track.

就像鸟飞过天空却不留痕迹。

So this is the principal of mind training.

这就是修炼内心的妙处。

Now, it takes time,

因为我们的内心有负面的东西，所以修炼心灵需要时间，

because it took time for all those faults in our mind, the tendencies, to build up,

因为负面心态是长期以来所形成的，所以修正它们也需要时间。

so it will take time to unfold them as well.

But that's the only way to go.

这个过程是必须的。

Mind transformation -- that is the very meaning of meditation.

冥想其实就是修炼内心。

It means familiarization with a new way of being,

是让内心去熟悉适应一种新的状态，

new way of perceiving things,

是让内心能够洞察事物的本真，

which is more in adequation with reality,

with interdependence, with the stream and continuous transformation,

能够认识到事物之间是相互关联的，能够持续不断地修正内心

which our being and our consciousness is.

这样才能找回最初的自我。

So, the interface with cognitive science,

这当中的道理可以用认知科学来解释。

since we need to come to that, it was, I suppose, the subject of --

既然和认知科学相关，

we have to deal in such a short time -- with brain plasticity.

我们有必要在如此有限的时间内讲一下。

关于大脑的可塑性，以往的理论认为大脑的可塑性几乎是有限的。

The brain was thought to be more or less fixed.

All the nominal connections, in numbers and quantities,

大脑所有的可塑性

were thought, until the last 20 years,

在20岁时也就是成年后就几乎不会再改变了。

to be more or less fixed when we reached adult age.

Now, recently, it has been found that it can change a lot.

最近，研究发现大脑的可塑性在成年后还可以有很大变化。

A violinist, as we heard, who has done 10,000 hours of violin practice,

我们知道一个小提琴家在经过一万个小时的小提琴练习后，

some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain changes a lot,

脑部控制手指运动的那个区域就会产生很大变化，

increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections.

神经元的节点强度有所加强。

So can we do that with human qualities?

那么同理我们是不是也能改变人的心性呢？

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

是不是能够通过耐心地培养友善的心态，开放胸襟，来改变心性呢？

So that's what those great meditators have been doing.

那些沉思者就是这样做的。

Some of them who came to the labs,

他们当中一部分人在麦迪逊、威斯康辛、伯克利的实验室里

like in Madison, Wisconsin, or in Berkeley,

did 20 to 40,000 hours of meditation.

做过20到40000小时的冥想。

They do, like, three years' retreat, where they do meditate 12 hours a day.

他们在实验室大概进行了3年静修，每天冥想12个小时。

And then, the rest of their life, they will do three or four hours a day.

在以后的余生中，他们每天将冥想3到4个小时。

They are real Olympic champions of mind training.

在内心修炼方面，他们是真正的奥运冠军。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This is the place where the meditators -- you can see it's kind of inspiring.

这就是他们冥想的地方--你能有所启示。

Now, here with 256 electrodes.

这是256的电极。

（笑声）

(Laughter)

So what did they find?

他们的收获是什么？当然是内心的提升。

Of course, same thing.

The scientific embargo --

科学所解释不了的--如果回归人的本性，

a paper has been submitted to "Nature," hopefully, it will be accepted.

就不难理解了。

It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional compassion.

内心变得充满同情心，是那种纯粹的同情心。

We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years,

我们向那些有多年静修经历的冥想者请教，

to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness,

他们的内心在冥想时除了慈悲再无其他杂念--

total availability to sentient being.

只有慈悲。

Of course, during the training, we do that with objects.

当然，在修炼内心时，需要有媒介物。

We think of people suffering, of people we love,

我们修炼内心时可以想着那些受苦受难的人，可以想着我们关爱的人，

but at some point, it can be a state which is all pervading.

到某种程度时，就可以蔓延内心。

Here is the preliminary result,

在这里我能展示的只是初步成果，这些成果是已经公开宣布过的。

which I can show because it's already been shown.

The bell curve shows 150 controls,

这个钟形曲线显示的是对脑部150个点的监测结果，也就是

and what is being looked at

is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe.

大脑的左右脑叶之间的差异。

In very short, people who have more activity

大脑的右前额叶活动频繁的人

in the right side of the prefrontal cortex

are more depressed, withdrawn.

更加抑郁，很少积极地看待事物。

They don't describe a lot of positive affect.

It's the opposite on the left side:

相反，左前额叶活动频繁的人更能为他人着想，

more tendency to altruism,

to happiness, to express, and curiosity and so forth.

更乐观，更善表达，求知欲更强因而更进步。

So there's a basic line for people. And also, it can be changed.

这里有条基本线。它是可以改变的。

If you see a comic movie, you go off to the left side.

在看喜剧电影时，你的左前额叶就变得活跃。

If you are happy about something, you'll go more to the left side.

在高兴的时候，你的左前额叶就更加活跃。

在压抑的时候，你的右前额叶就变得活跃。

If you have a bout of depression, you'll go to the right side.

Here, the -0.5 is the full standard deviation

这个-0.5显示的是全部的负值

of a meditator who meditated on compassion.

也就是冥想者在以慈悲之心冥想时所显示的负面情绪只有-0.5。

It's something that is totally out of the bell curve.

这个数据已经离开了钟形曲线图的范围。

So, I've no time to go into all the different scientific results.

时间有限，我就不一一列举其他的科学研究结果了。

Hopefully, they will come.

将来那些冥想者很可能也会到这来。

But they found that -- this is after three and a half hours

经过三个半小时的核磁共振检测后，冥想者觉得

in an fMRI,

it's like coming out of a space ship.

好像是刚从太空舱里出来。

Also, it has been shown in other labs --

其他实验室--

for instance, Paul Ekman's labs in Berkeley --

例如，伯克利Paul Ekman 的实验室发现--

that some meditators are able, also,

一些冥想者

to control their emotional response more than it could be thought.

对情感的控制比想象的还要强。

Like the startle experiments, for example.

例如在测试惊吓反应的试验中，

If you sit a guy on a chair

让被测试者坐在椅子上，用这类装置测试生理反应，

with all this apparatus measuring your physiology,

and there's kind of a bomb that goes off,

模拟有炸弹将引爆的场景，一般来说这时人都会有本能反应，

it's such an instinctive response that,

in 20 years, they never saw anyone who would not jump.

20年的试验结果显示所有人都会跳起来，

Some meditators, without trying to stop it,

可是一些冥想者的反应却不是试图阻止炸弹爆炸，

but simply by being completely open,

而是很平静，

thinking that that bang is just going to be a small event like a shooting star,

他们觉得炸弹的爆炸只不过如同流星一瞬即逝，

they are able not to move at all.

他们根本不去在乎。

So the whole point of that is not, sort of, to make, like,

这个测试不是

a circus thing of showing exceptional beings who can jump, or whatever.

一次马戏表演，不是为了告诉大家有人异于常人--不会在受惊吓时跳起来。

It's more to say that mind training matters.

这个测试说明了修炼内心的作用。说明了修炼内心不是单纯的奢侈，

That this is not just a luxury.

This is not a supplementary vitamin for the soul.

也不是给灵魂提供营养的维生素，

This is something that's going to determine

修炼内心将决定我们人生中每一刻的生活质量。

the quality of every instant of our lives.

We are ready to spend 15 years achieving education.

我们花15年的时间去受教育。

We love to do jogging, fitness.

我们热衷于慢跑、减肥。

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful.

我们尽其所能想让自己外表漂亮。

Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most --

可是我们花在最关键要素上的时间却少得令人吃惊：

the way our mind functions --

这个最关键要素就是我们的心态。

which, again, is the ultimate thing

这个要素也最终决定着我们的人生质量。

that determines the quality of our experience.

Now, compassion is supposed to be put in action.

现在，我们来设想一下我们的内心充满同情。

That's what we try to do in different places.

这就是我们在许多地方努力在做的事情。

Just this one example is worth a lot of work.

这个例子说明我们的许多努力是值得的。

This lady with bone TB, left alone in a tent,

这个孤独呆在帐篷里的妇女患肺结核，将要死去，她只有一个女儿。

was going to die with her only daughter.

One year later, how she is.

这是一年后她的样子。

Different schools and clinics we've been doing in Tibet.

我们在西藏的许多学校和诊所里进行着我们的工作。

And just, I leave you with the beauty of those looks

我把这些美丽的面孔留给大家。

that tells more about happiness than I could ever say.

这些面孔传达的幸福是我无法用语言表达的。

(Laughter)

这是跳起来的西藏僧侣。

And jumping monks of Tibet.

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Flying monks.

飞起来的僧侣。

非常感谢。

Thank you very much.