一个人要想获得快乐,就得有活在当下的智慧。
To achieve happiness, one must have the wisdom to live in the present moment.
曾经有人向一个禅师请教如何修行,禅师答:饥来吃饭,困来眠。
Someone once asked a Zen master how to practice, and the Zen master replied: Eat when hungry, sleep when tired.
这个人就很奇怪,说,其他人也是这样做的啊,难道他们和你一样?
This person is very strange. They say that others also do the same thing. Are they the same as you?
禅师回答说,不是的,他们吃饭的时候想着睡觉,睡觉的时候想着吃饭,而我,吃饭就是吃饭,睡觉就是睡觉,所以不一样。
The Zen master replied, No, they think about sleeping while eating and eating while sleeping, while for me, eating is eating and sleeping is sleeping, so it's different.
王阳明曾以此典故写过一首诗:
Wang Yangming once wrote a poem based on this allusion:
饥来吃饭倦来眠,只此修行玄更玄。
Hunger comes to eat, fatigue comes to sleep, and this is the only way to cultivate the mysteries.
说与世人浑不信,却从身外觅神仙。
Believe it or not with the world, yet seek immortals from outside.
生活中,有太多人习惯用过去的失误惩罚自己,为缥缈的未来劳心伤神,将遭遇的不幸无限放大……
In life, too many people are accustomed to punishing themselves with past mistakes, working hard and worrying about the elusive future, and magnifying the misfortunes they encounter infinitely
可事实上,你永远回不到过去,也预测不了未来,唯有当下时刻是你能拥有的一切。
But in fact, you can never go back to the past, nor can you predict the future, only the present moment is everything you can have.
所以,人最好的活法,就是要做什么就只做什么,活在今天就只享受今天。
So, the best way for a person to live is to do whatever they want, to live today and enjoy it.