TED | 获得快乐的法则便是感恩

演讲简介

说到获得快乐的方式，有人会先想到外出旅行，有人会先想到“买买买”，有人会先想到彻夜狂欢开派对。。然而僧人兼学者David Steindl-Rast 却认为，想要快乐，学会感恩即可。让我们一起来听听他是怎么说的吧。

 

 

 

演讲精彩片段（节选）欣赏

 

You can find whatever works best for you, but you need stop signs in your life. And when you stop, then the next thing is to look. You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose. You open all your senses for this wonderful richness that is given to us. There is no end to it,and that is what life is all about, to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us.

你会找到对你来说最好的方式，但你要提醒自己时常停下来。当你停下来的时候，下一件事就是去看一看，把眼睛和耳朵都打开。张开嘴巴，打开身体的感知系统，感知那些精彩丰富的事情，这是没有止境的，这就是人生的意义，就是要去享受我们被给予的一切。

 

And then we can also open our hearts, our hearts for the opportunities, for the opportunities also to help others, to make others happy, because nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are happy. And when we open our hearts to the opportunities, the opportunities invite us to do something, and that is the third. Stop, look, and then go, and really do something. And what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment. Mostly it's the opportunity to enjoy, but sometimes it's something more difficult.

我们也可以敞开心扉迎接机遇，去帮助他人，让他人开心；因为没有什么比所有人都开心更值得高兴的了。当我们敞开心扉迎接机遇的时候，这些机遇会“邀请”我们做一些事情，那就是第三件事。停下来，看一看，向前走，然后真正地去做一些事情。我们能做的就是认真对待生活给你的每一个机会。大多数时候，那会是一个可供享受的机会，但有时，那会是件困难的事。

 

But whatever it is, if we take this opportunity, we go with it, we are creative, those are the creative people. And that little stop, look, go, is such a potent seed that it can revolutionize our world. Because we are at the present moment in the middle of a change of consciousness, and you will be surprised if you -- I am always surprised when I hear how many times this word "gratefulness" and"gratitude" comes up. Everywhere you find it, a grateful airline, a restaurant gratefulness, a café gratefulness, a wine that is gratefulness. Yes,I have even come across a toilet paper whose brand is called "Thank You."

但不管是什么，如果我们抓住了这个机会，去完成它（就好了），（因为）我们是有创造力的。而那个停下来，看一看，向前走是赋有潜力的种子，那种子甚至可以改变我们的世界。因为我们需要，我们在这个时刻我们在感知发生变化的过程中，你会感到惊讶，当你--我时常感到惊讶，当我多次听到感恩和感激这些词汇的出现，你可以在任何地方找到一个“心存感恩”的航空公司，一家“心存感恩”的餐厅，一间“充满感激之情”的咖啡馆，一款“充满感激之情”的葡萄酒确实。我还曾见过一款厕纸的品牌名叫做“感谢”。

 

There is a wave of gratefulness because people are becoming aware how important this is and how this can change our world. It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live.

“感恩”的浪潮席卷而来，是因为人们已经开始意识到感恩有多么重要，并且感恩是如何能改变我们的世界。感恩可以以诸多种重要的方式去改变我们的世界，因为当你心存感激时，你不会感到恐惧，就会变得平和。如果你心存感激，你会表现出满足感，而不会是匮乏的模样，你会更乐于分享。如果你心存感激，你会欣赏人与人间的不同，并且你尊重每个人。这会改变我们生活中的权利金字塔结构。

 

And it doesn't make for equality, but it makes for equal respect, and that is the important thing. The future of the world will be a network, not a pyramid turned upside down. The revolution of which I am speaking is a nonviolent revolution, and it's so revolutionary that it even revolutionizes the very concept of a revolution, because the normal revolution is one where the power pyramid is turned upside down and those who were on the bottom are now on the top and are doing exactly the same thing that the ones before. What we need is a networking of smaller groups, smaller and smaller groups who know one another, who interact with one another, and that is a grateful world.

它无法创造平等，却能带来平等尊重，而这是最重要的事。未来的世界将会是一个网状物，不是金字塔，也不是倒过来的金字塔，我所说的革命是非暴力的革命，它是如此具有革命性，它甚至革命性地改变了革命的概念，因为一个普通的革命是权利金字塔倒转过来，那些底层的人站在了顶尖，然后做了和以前在金字塔顶尖的人一模一样的事情。但我们需要的是小群组的网络，小型的群组相互知晓、相互沟通，那将是一个充满感恩的世界。

 

A grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people, and joyful people -- the more and more joyful people there are, the more and more we'll have a joyful world. We have a network for grateful living, and it has mushroomed. We couldn't understand why it mushroomed. We have an opportunity for people to light a candle when they are grateful for something. And there have been 15 million candles lit in one decade. People are becoming aware that a grateful world is a happy world, and we all have the opportunity by the simple stop, look, go, to transform the world, to make it a happy place. And that is what I hope for us,and if this has contributed a little to making you want to do the same, stop,look, go.

一个感恩的世界，是生活在其中的人，都感到愉悦。有感恩之心的人是快乐的人。人们越来越愉悦，我们才越会有一个愉快的世界我们有一个感恩地生活的网络，它迅速增长，我们不明白为什么它增长如此迅速。当人们对某事“心存感激”时他们就可以点亮一根蜡烛，而在十年内总共有总计一千五百万蜡烛被点亮了。人们开始意识到感恩的世界是快乐的，在这个世界上我们都有机会，而我们只需要简单地停下来，看一看，向前走来改变世界。让世界变得更美好快乐，这就是我所希望的，如果（我的演讲）能够为你带来一点点动力，做这件事停下来，看一看，向前走。

 

Thank you.(Applause)

谢谢。（掌声）