If you don't know the truth, you waste all your life trying to solve the wrong problem

如果你不瞭解真相，你就會浪費一生的時間去解決錯誤的問題

And I realized first that I know almost nothing about my mind

我首先意識到，我對自己的思想幾乎一無所知

I have no control of my mind on a very deep level because you can never be happy

在很深的層次上，我無法控制自己的思想，因為你永遠不會快樂

If you don't know the truth about your life

如果你不瞭解自己生活的真相

Throughout history the problem is people are very good at solving problems, but they tend to solve the wrong problems

縱觀歷史，問題在於人們非常善於解決問題，但他們往往解決了錯誤的問題

Like they spend very little time deciding what problem we need to solve

就像他們很少花時間決定我們需要解決什麼問題一樣

Like 5% of the effort goes on choosing the problem

比如 5%的精力用於選擇問題

Then 95% of the effort goes in solving the problem we focus on

那麼，95% 的努力都將用於解決我們所關注的問題

And then we realize, oh, we actually solved the wrong problem

然後我們意識到，哦，我們實際上解決了錯誤的問題

We actually solved the wrong problem and it just creates new problems down the road that we now need to solve

我們實際上解決了一個錯誤的問題，而這隻會帶來我們現在需要解決的新問題

And then we do it again

然後我們再來一次

And, you know, wisdom often comes from silence, from taking time, from slowing down

要知道，智慧往往來自於沉默，來自於花時間，來自於放慢腳步

Let's really understand the situation before we rush to make a decision

在我們匆忙做出決定之前，讓我們真正瞭解一下情況吧

And, you know, it starts on the individual level

而且，你知道，它始於個人層面

That so many people, for instance, think, oh, my main problem in life is that I don't have enough money

比如，很多人認為，哦，我生活中的主要問題是我沒有足夠的錢

And then they spend the next 50 years making lots of money

然後，他們用 50 年時間賺大錢

And even if they succeed, they wake up at a certain point and say, oops, I think I chose the wrong problem

即使他們成功了，他們也會在某一時刻醒悟過來，說，哎呀，我想我選錯問題了

I think it wasn't, yeah, I need some money, but it wasn't my main problem in life

我覺得不是，是的，我需要一些錢，但這不是我生活中的主要問題

You've often said clarity is power

你常說，清晰就是力量

And I think your superpower is your ability to kind of stand at 10,000 feet

我認為你的超能力是站在萬丈高空的能力

Look down on humanity and the planet

俯視人類和地球

And identify what's most important in these macro trends

並確定這些宏觀趨勢中最重要的是什麼

How you cultivate that clarity through meditation

如何通過冥想培養這種清晰度

And your, you know, very kind of like profound practice of mindfulness

而你，你知道的，非常像深刻的正念實踐

We go throughout our life and we take in a lot of junk, whether we like it or not

在我們的一生中，無論我們喜歡與否，我們都會吸收大量的垃圾

It fills our mind

它充斥著我們的心靈

And I meditate two hours every day, so I can tell you there is a lot of junk in there

我每天都要冥想兩個小時，所以我可以告訴你，裡面有很多垃圾

A lot of hate and fear and greed that I picked up over the years

我多年來積攢了許多仇恨、恐懼和貪婪

So I began when I was doing my PhD in Oxford

是以，我在牛津大學攻讀博士學位時開始

A friend recommended that I go on a meditation retreat

一位朋友建議我去參加冥想靜修

Or a Vipassana meditation

或毘婆奢那（Vipassana）冥想

And for a year, he kind of nagged me to go on a meditation

一年來，他一直嘮叨著要我去冥想

And I said, no, this is kind of mystical mumbo-jumbo, I don't want to

我說，不，這是一種神祕的胡言亂語，我不想

And eventually I went

最後我去了

And it was amazing because it was the most remote thing for mysticism that I could imagine

這太神奇了，因為這是我能想象到的最遙遠的神祕主義事物

Because it was a 10-day retreat

因為這是一次為期 10 天的務虛會

And on the very first evening of the retreat, the teacher, S. N. Goenka

在閉關的第一天晚上，老師 S. N. Goenka

The only instruction he gave

他唯一的訓示是

He didn't tell me to kind of visualize some goddess or do this, nothing

他沒有讓我想象某個女神，也沒有讓我做這些，什麼都沒有

He said, what is really happening right now?

他說，現在到底發生了什麼？

Bring your attention to your nostrils, to your nose

將注意力集中到鼻孔、鼻子上

And just feel whether the breath is going in or whether the breath is going out

感受氣息是吸入還是呼出

That's the only exercise

這是唯一的練習

Like a pure observation of reality

就像對現實的純粹觀察

What amazed me was my inability to do it

讓我驚訝的是我無法做到這一點

Like I would bring my attention to the nose and try to feel, is it going in, is it going out?

比如，我會把注意力放在鼻子上，試著感覺一下，它是往裡走，還是往外走？

And after about 5 seconds, some thought, some memory, some fantasy would arise in the mind

大約 5 秒鐘後，腦海中就會浮現出一些想法、一些記憶、一些幻想

And would just hijack my attention

而且會奪走我的注意力

And for the next 2 or 3 minutes, I would be rolling in this fantasy or memory

在接下來的兩三分鐘裡，我會在這種幻想或記憶中打滾

Until I realized, hey, I actually need to observe my breath

直到我意識到，嘿，其實我需要觀察我的呼吸

And I would come back to the breath

我會回到呼吸

Again, 5 seconds, maybe 10 seconds, I would be able to

同樣，5 秒鐘，也許 10 秒鐘，我就能

Oh, now it's coming in, it's coming in

哦，進來了，進來了

Oh, now it's going out, it's going out

哦，現在要熄滅了，要熄滅了

And again, some memory would come and hijack me

又一次，一些記憶來劫持我

And I realized first that I know almost nothing about my mind

我首先意識到，我對自己的思想幾乎一無所知

I have no control of my mind

我無法控制自己的思想

And my mind is just like this factory that constantly produces

我的思想就像這座工廠，不斷生產出

Fantasies and illusions and delusions that come between me and reality

我與現實之間的幻想、幻覺和妄想

Like if I can't observe the breath going in and out of my nostrils

比如，如果我無法觀察到鼻孔中呼吸的進進出出

Because some fantasy comes up

因為有些幻想會出現

What hope do I have of understanding AI or understanding the conflict in the Middle East?

我還有什麼希望瞭解人工智能或瞭解中東衝突？

Obviously, your ability to think clearly and write so articulately about these ideas

很顯然，您有能力清晰地思考這些觀點，並將其寫得如此鏗鏘有力

Is very much a product of this practice

在很大程度上就是這種做法的產物

Absolutely, I mean, without the practice, I would not be able to write such books

當然，我的意思是，沒有實踐，我就寫不出這樣的書

For the last 24 years, I have this daily exercise

在過去的 24 年裡，我每天都進行這樣的鍛鍊

I devote 2 hours every day to just what is really happening right now

我每天都會花兩個小時來關注當下發生的真實事件

I sit with closed eyes and just try and focus

我閉目靜坐，努力集中精力

Let go of all the mind-made stories

放下心中所有的故事

And feel what is happening to the breath

感受呼吸的變化

What is happening to my body

我的身體發生了什麼變化

The reality of the present moment

當下的現實

I also go for a long meditation retreat, usually every year

我還會進行長時間的冥想靜修，通常每年一次

Of between 30 days and 60 days of meditation

冥想 30 天至 60 天

Because again, one of the things you realize

因為你會發現

There is so much noise in the mind

心中有太多喧囂

That just to calm it down to the level that you can really start meditating seriously

這只是為了讓它平靜下來，以至於你可以真正開始認真冥想

It takes 3 or 4 days of continuous meditation

需要三四天的持續冥想

Just so much noise

噪音太大

So long retreats, they enable to have this really deep observation of reality

如此長時間的閉關，能讓人對現實有真正深入的觀察

Which is impossible

這是不可能的

Most of life we spend like detached from reality

生命中的大部分時間，我們都在脫離現實

Humans are really interested in knowing the truth

人類真正感興趣的是瞭解真相

About ourselves, about our lives, about the world

關於我們自己，關於我們的生活，關於這個世界

On a very deep level, because you can never be happy

在很深的層次上，因為你永遠不會快樂

If you don't know the truth about your life

如果你不瞭解自己生活的真相

Because you will not know what are the sources of misery

因為你不知道什麼是痛苦的根源

Again, you will focus on your life

再次，您將關注自己的生活

If you don't know the truth, you waste all your life

如果你不知道真相，你就會浪費你的一生

Trying to solve the wrong problems

試圖解決錯誤的問題

Information isn't truth

資訊不是真理

Truth is a costly, rare and precious thing

真理是昂貴、稀有和珍貴的東西

It is the foundation of knowledge and wisdom

它是知識和智慧的基礎

So if you never try meditation, absolutely try it out

所以，如果你從未嘗試過冥想，那就一定要試一試

And give it a real chance

給它一個真正的機會

It's not like you go for a few hours and it doesn't work

又不是去了幾個小時就不行了

Okay, give it up

好吧，放棄吧

Give it a real chance

給它一個真正的機會

But if you want to build a good society

但如果你想建立一個良好的社會

And you want to build a good personal life

你想建立美好的個人生活

You must have a strong basis in the truth

你必須有堅實的真理基礎

And it's difficult

而且很難

Because most information is not the truth

因為大多數資訊都不是真相

And invest in it

並進行投資

It's worthwhile to have a practice

值得一練

Whatever it is

不管是什麼

That gets you connected with reality

讓你與現實聯繫起來

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