想要快乐?学会感恩Want to be Happy be Grateful
大卫·斯坦尔德-拉斯特是一位和尚，也是研究多种信仰的一名学者。他说，想要变得快乐是人类共有的期待。快乐，是 TDD演讲：David Steindl Rast Want to be Happy be Grateful大卫·斯坦尔德-拉斯特: 想要快乐？学会感恩
There is something you know about me, something very personal, and there is something I know about every one of you and that's very central to your concerns. There is something that we know about everyone we meet anywhere in the world, on the street, that is the very mainspring of whatever they do and whatever they put up with, and that is that all of us want to be happy. In this, we are all together. How we imagine our happiness, that differs from one another, but it's already a lot that we have all in common, that we want to be happy.
有些事情 关于我的，是些非常私人的问题 还有一些我知道 是你们每一个人 最关心的问题 有些我们知道 关于我们在世界上任何地方遇见的所有人 在街上 那是他们做某些事，和忍受某些事情 最主要的动力 那是他们做某些事，和忍受某些事情 最主要的动力 那是他们做某些事，
和忍受某些事情 最主要的动力 那就是，我们所有人 都想要快乐。 就这个问题而言，我们是一样的 我们如何想象我们的快乐 与别人不同的快乐 但是我们最重要的共同点是 我们想要变得快乐
Now my topic is gratefulness. How is the connection between happiness and gratefulness? Many people would say, well, that's very easy. When you are happy, you are grateful. But think again. Is it really the happy people that are grateful? We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy, and they are not happy, becau they want something el or they want more of the same. And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourlves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy. They radiate happiness. You are surprid. Why? Becau they are grateful. So it is not happiness that makes us grateful. It's gratefulness that makes us happy. If you think it's happiness that makes you grateful, think again. It's gratefulness that makes you happy.
我的话题关于感恩 快乐和感恩之间 有着怎样的联系？ 很多人会说，恩，这很容易 当你快
乐的时候，你就心存感激 但是，请再想一想 快乐的人是心存感激的，真的是这样吗？ 我们知道，很多人 他们拥有应该令他们感到快乐的东西 但他们并不快乐 因为他们想要其他的东西 或者他们想要更多自己已有的东西 我们都知道 有些遭遇很多不幸的人 这些不幸是我们完全不想沾染的 但他们却深深地感到快乐 他们散播欢乐。你会感到惊讶 为什么？因为他们懂得感恩 所以，并不是快乐让我们有感激之情 而是感恩之心让我们快乐 如果你认为是快乐让你心存感激 再想一想。 是感恩让你快乐。
Now, we can ask, what really do we mean by gratefulness? And how does it work? I appeal to your own experience. We all know from experience how it goes. We experience something that's valuable to us. Something is given to us that's valuable to us. And it's really given. The two things have to come together. It has to be something valuable, and it's a real gift. You haven't bought it. You haven't earned it. You haven't traded it in. You haven't worked for it. It's just given to you. And when the two things come together, something that's really valuable to me and I realize it's freely given, then gratefulness spontaneously ris in my heart, happiness spontaneously ris in my heart. That's how gratefulness happens.
现在，我们可以问， 对我们来说，感激的意义是什么？ 它是怎么发生的？ 我希望你们能想到自己的经验 我们可以从自己的经验中了解到它是如何运作的 我们经历了一些 对我们来说重要的事情 一些我们收到的，并且对我们而言很宝贵的东西。 而且，是真正由别人给予的。 这两个条件必须同时存在 这件事物必须是重要的 而且是一份礼物 不是你买的，也不是你挣来的。 不是你买卖得来的，也不是你工作得来的 只是单纯的给予了你。 当这两个条件同时符合时， 这东西对我很有价值 我意识到这完全是馈赠 感恩之心油然 出现在我心里 快乐也同时出现在我心里 这就是感激如何发生的。
Now the key to all this is that we cannot only experience this once in a while. We cannot only have grateful experiences. We can be people who live gratefully. Grateful living, that is the thing. And how can we live gratefully? By experiencing, by becoming aware that every moment is a given moment, as we say. It's a gift. You haven't earned it. You haven't brought it about in any way. You have no way of assuring that there will be another moment given to you, and yet, that's the most valuable thing that can ever be given to us, this moment, with all the opportunity that it contains. If we didn't have this prent moment, we wouldn't have any opportunity to do anything or experience anything, and thi
s moment is a gift. It's a given moment, as we say.
这一切的关键点在于 我们不能仅仅体会到单一的感觉。 我们不能只有感激的经验。 我们可以是那些存有感恩生活着的人 感恩地活着，就是这样 那么我们如何能感恩地生活呢？ 通过经历，意识到 我们的每秒每刻都是被给予的 这是上天的礼物。不是你挣来的。 它不是你透过任何方式带来的 你无法确定 你会被赠予其他的时刻 但是，那就是能赠与我们最有价值的东西。 但是，那就是能赠与我们最有价值的东西。 以及尾随这个时刻而来的各种契机。 如果我们没有现在这个时刻 我们不会有任何机会 去做任何事，经历任何事 而这个时刻，就是一个礼物 就像我们所说的那样， 它是被赠与的
Now, we say the gift within this gift is really the opportunity. What you are really grateful for is the opportunity, not the thing that is given to you, becau if that thing were somewhere el and you didn't have the opportunity to enjoy it, to do something with it, you wouldn't be grateful for it. Opportunity is the gift within every gift, and we have this saying, opportunity knocks only once. Well, think again. Every moment is a new gift, over and over again, and if you miss the opportunity of this moment, another moment is given
to us, and another moment. We can avail ourlves of this opportunity, or we can miss it, and if we avail ourlves of the opportunity, it is the key to happiness. Behold the master key to our happiness in our own hands. Moment by moment, we can be grateful for this gift.
