如何才能真正了解周围的生命？

In this volume, Sadhguru opens up a whole new perspective on 'Why suffering?', a question which has concerned humanity from the beginning of time. In the quest to tackle this problem, man has developed many theories, concepts and dogmata, but still, suffering is omnipresent in this world.

“为什么会痛苦”，这是一个从创世之初就困扰着人类的问题，萨古鲁在本书中开启了一个全新的角度看待这一问题。为了解决这个问题，人们发展出了很多理论、概念和定论，然而在这个世界上，痛苦仍然无处不在。

Abrogating the erroneous belief that it is inevitable, Sadhguru delivers insights on the very origin of suffering and discloses ways beyond.

萨古鲁摒弃了“痛苦不可避免”这一错误理念，继而阐述他关于痛苦起源的洞见，并揭示了超越痛苦的方法。

Questioner: Dear Sadhguru, how can I actually know life around me?

提问者：亲爱的萨古鲁，我如何才能真正了解我周围的生命呢？

Sadhguru: A thought cannot know life. An emotion cannot know life. An ego cannot know life. Only life can know life. If you stop being a bundle of thoughts, opinions and emotions, and just exist here as life - just throbbing pulsating life - knowing life is just natural. So what we are referring to as enlightenment is just this - instead of being a thought, instead of being an emotion, instead of being an ego, you just become life, simply life. In a way, it is the most basic thing. Enlightenment is not the ultimate thing. Yes it is in one way. In another way, it is the most basic thing because first of all you're life, then everything else, isn't it? Only because you're alive, you're capable of thoughts. Only because you're alive, you're capable of emotions. Only because you're alive, you're capable of ego. So the most basic thing is life. It is like becoming very basic, just pure life, nothing else. All other things are there, but you're never identified with them. Experientially, intellectually, knowing I am not this, I am not that, doesn't liberate a person. Something much deeper is needed. Right now, the center of your existence is your identities or your identifications.

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：想法无法了解生命。情感无法了解生命。自我（ego）无法了解生命。只有生命才能了解生命。如果你不再是一堆思想、观点和情感，只是作为一个生命存在——就是脉动着的鲜活的生命——了解生命是自然而然的。所以我们所说的开悟就是这样的，它不是一种思想，不是一种情感，也不是一种自我，你只是成为了生命，纯粹的生命。从某种方面来讲，它是最基本的。开悟不是最终极的事。是的，从某方面来看它是终极的。但从另一方面来说，它是最基本的，因为首先你是生命，然后才有其他一切，不是吗？只因为你活着，你才能有思想。只因为你活着，你才能有情感。只因为你活着，你才能有自我。所以最基本的东西就是生命。这就像是成为了最本源的，只是纯粹的生命，别无其他。其他一切都在那里，但你不会认同于它们。从体验上、从智力上理解我不是这个，我不是那个，并不会让一个人解脱。它需要更深得多的东西。而现在，你存在的中心是你的身份或你的认同。

All identities are taken on; they are a 'put-on'. So the very center of your existence is something you put on, and is not based in reality. So when you are not in reality, the question of experiencing life as it is doesn't arise.

所有的身份都是附加上去的，它们是你的“装饰”。所以你是以你的装饰作为存在的中心，而不是现实。所以，当你不在现实中时，如实地体验生命也就不可能了。

Now, you said you want to know life just the way it is, and the flowers, and the moon, and the clouds. It is cloudy today so there is no possibility of knowing the moon. But anyway if you just become life, there are no clouds, there is no moon, there are no flowers; there is simply pulsating life. Just as you are, everything is. Flowers, clouds, mountains, moon exist because you have become something other than life. If you become just life, none of those things exist -only life exists, just this pulsating mass of energy.

现在，你说你想要知道生命本来的样子，知道花、月亮和云彩。今天多云，所以不可能看见月亮。但不管怎样，如果你成为了生命，那就没有云，没有月亮，没有花，只有脉动着的生命。就像你一样，一切都是如此。花、云、山、月亮之所以存在，是因为你成为了生命之外的东西。如果你成为了纯粹的生命，这些东西都不存在，只有生命存在——只是这个脉动着的能量体。

You can call it Creation, you can call it the Creator, or you can call it myself, it's the same thing. It doesn't matter what you call it, it is just life. Some of it is manifested; most of it is un-manifested, but still it is life. I call everything 'life', because all of it is in some kind of movement; all of it is some kind of possibility. Every atom in the existence is a possibility. So it is life. What you call as life is just a possibility. What you make out of it is all that it is, isn't it?

你可以称之为“创造”，你可以称之为“创造者”，或者你可以称之为“我自己”，都是一样的。不管你叫它什么，它就是生命而已。其中一些显化了；大部分未显化，但仍然是生命。我称一切为“生命”，因为它们都在某种运动中，它们都是某种可能性。存在中的每一个原子都是一种可能性，生命也是。你称之为生命的东西其实就是一种可能性。你从中创造出什么就是什么，不是吗？

Questioner: Since I have come here, one day I am in love, another day I am sad, one day I am friendly, and another day I am a barking dog. These moods happened before, but here I have realized that these emotions are happening without any reason.

提问者：自从我来到这里，我一天在爱里，另一天又很伤心，一天很友善，另一天又像是一只狂吠狗。这些情绪以前也发生过，但在这里，我意识到这些情绪的发生是没有任何理由的。

Sadhguru: It's monsoon time, you know? At anytime clouds will gather, it'll rain, and there will be sunshine. All these days you thought your emotions, your thoughts, your problems had something to do with somebody. It's good. You're beginning to realize it's nothing to do with anybody; it's just your own madness. A lot of people take a whole lifetime to realize this. They may be seventy years of age, and they still think their emotions and their thoughts have something to do with somebody else. They don't understand that the seat of their experience is within them. The seat of your experience is within you, isn't it?

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：现在是季风期，你知道吗？随时，云层都可能积聚，会下雨，然后阳光会出来。一直以来，你认为你的情绪、你的思想、你的问题都和别人有关。现在你开始意识到它与任何人都无关，它只是你自己的疯狂。这很好。很多人花了一辈子的时间才意识到这一点。他们可能已经70岁了，却仍然认为自己的情绪和思想与别人有关系。他们不明白体验的根源在他们的内在。你体验的根源就在你之内，不是吗?

If you're beginning to realize that the madness is yours, that nobody has anything to do with it, then I think you should look for a solution. The solution is that we have to just dissolve you; there's really no other solution. I've been telling you repeatedly that there is only one problem in the world, and that's you. If you dissolve this one problem, there is really no other problem in the world. So for dissolving you, sulfuric acid won't do.

如果你开始意识到疯狂是你自己的，没人与它有任何关系，那么我想你应该去寻求解决办法。解决办法就是我们必须消融你，真的没有别的办法。我一再告诉你，这个世界只有一个问题，那就是你。如果你解决了这个问题，世界上就真的没有其他问题了。要消融你，硫酸是不行的。

You need something more powerful than that. That's what we have loaded this place with.

你需要比这更强大的东西。而这就是我们遍洒于此的东西。

Here if you have a little sense, just a little bit, if your door opens a little bit, even a millimeter, this will seep into you and dissolve you. If you're tightly shut, then it'll bother you. It will make you do insane things, because that's the nature of the energy. It won't let you be where you are. It just keeps putting you on fast forward.

在这里如果你有一点觉知，只要一点点，如果你的门开了一点，哪怕是一毫米，它都会渗入你，把你消融。如果你紧紧地闭上，它会困扰你。它会让你做一些疯狂的事情，因为这是能量的本质。它不会让你停留在原地。它只会让你快速前进。

The very purpose of creating a space like this is to put your life on fast forward. What most people realize at seventy, I want you to realize when you're eighteen. If you're already past that, at least now, it's time you realized that the seat of your experience is within you, and not in somebody else. Your thoughts, your emotions, your nonsense has nothing to do with anybody but you.

创造这样一个空间的根本目的，就是要让你的生命快速前进。大多数人在70岁时意识到的，我想让你在18岁时意识到。如果你已经过了18岁，至少现在，是时候该意识到体验的根源来自内在，而不是别人了。你的思想、你的情感、你的各种荒谬，和其他任何人都没有任何关系，只与你有关。

If you just understand this, you'll know that you are the problem. At least, once you know what the problem is, the solution becomes easy. When you don't know what the problem is, there is no solution for you, isn't it? When you do not know what the problem is, where is the question of finding a solution? You just suffer the problem. At least now you know what the problem is, then the solution is not too far away.

只要你理解了这一点，你就会知道自己就是问题所在。至少，一旦你知道问题出在哪儿，解决它就变得简单了。不知道问题出在哪儿，你就没有解决办法，不是吗？当你不知道问题是什么，何谈解决问题？你就只能为问题受苦。至少现在你知道问题所在了，那么离解决问题也就不远了。