and especially like wanting something to make you happy, is a sure way to be miserable.

想要甚麼的習慣

That happiness is placed outside, that a relationship or you know, being in the right job, or passing whatever things you have to pass through,

特別是想要甚麼來讓你快樂

will bring you to this place, is already ill-conceived notion.

是保證讓你悲慘的辦法

Ill-conceived notion.

快樂被置於外在

Happiness - even I want to say to you, like in the light of your own listening here, and then you say, 'No, also I, now I don't know what I want.'

男女關係、適合的工作

Then, allow this complete access. Don't know what you want ó why you should want something? Can you be without want?

或通過不管甚麼東西

Is it a state of deficiency or something?

能帶你到這境地

Have you ever heard amongst your own masters you talk about, can they be in a place of want and be happy?

這已經是錯誤認知的概念

Not at all. They abandoned all of this stuff, they are not in want.

錯誤認知的概念

No need.

快樂..

But, it does not mean that without need, without wants, that their life stops.

我甚至想跟你說

Somehow, natural unfolding is taking place, and it is enough.

以你在這兒聆聽的角度來說

They're content, beautifully content. They're not working for happiness.

你說，我不知道我要甚麼

What a great spaciousness to not want.

那麼讓這個全然達到

[Questioner] But I do want, I think.

不知道你要甚麼

Now that's different, 'I want, I think'? What do you want?

你為什麼要任何東西?

Or do you think you should want? Because that's what your statements say.

你可以不想要嗎?

[Questioner] No, I'll stick to: I don't know what I want.

那是一種不足的狀態嗎?

[Mooji] Right.

你有沒有聽過，從你說的師父那兒

[Questioner] And this 'don't know' affects...

他們是否可能同時有所欲求又能保持快樂?

[Mooji] Yes. But the very fact you say, 'I don't know what I want' means you don't want.

不可能

'I don't know what I want' means that what you want doesn't exist.

他們已經放棄了這些東西，他們一無所求

[Questioner] That's because I'm confused.

沒有需求

[Mooji] And then that leads to confusion.

但那並不表示沒有欲求他們的生命就停止了

You see. One friend was coming to the house, and he was always saying, 'You know, I have this problem, I have this problem. You know, I have this problem, and this problem,

不知怎地，很自然的事情就自然展開

and problem, problem. He came and stayed with me for a few days.

而那就足夠了

And we talked. And then one morning he came, we're having tea, and I looked at him and says, 'Okay, now what's the problem now?' [laughter]

他們很滿足，美妙地滿足

I look at him, he says, [grumble grumble] 'Mooji, I have this problem.' What is the problem?

他們不會為了快樂工作

'The problem is, I can't find a problem.' [more laughter]

無所欲求是多麼廣闊啊

It's true. Some of you people here know him. 'My problem is, I can't find a problem!'

但我認為我確實有欲求

'And it bothers me, I cannot find a problem.' [laughter]

不，那不一樣，我想我要...

And you're saying, 'You know, my trouble is, I don't know what I want.'

你要甚麼?

So if you don't know what you want, what is the purpose of want?

或者你認為你應該要些甚麼?

Except that there's a feeling that I should want something. Everybody else has a want.

因為你就是這麼說的

Or you may substitute the word 'want' for 'dream.' Everyone have a dream, I want a dream,

不，我想我要堅持我不知道我想要甚麼

or it seems as though. But there are many people that don't have dreams,

這個不知道，影響...

as in projecting some state that will be beautiful, or something.

但你說我不知道我要甚麼的事實

For one moment, just for one moment here with me, then you don't touch this idea of wanting something or that not wanting it is a problem.

就表示你並沒有要甚麼

Because if you want something, you're molested by it.

我不知道我要甚麼

Listen to what Ramana Maharishi said, something I think might be useful for you.

表示你要的東西不存在

He says, suppose you want this microphone, you've always wanted it. So even though you're talking to me, you're really just interested in the microphone. [Laughter]

那是因為我很困惑

Okay. You want this microphone so bad. You think it will make you happy. Okay?

而那造成了困惑，你知道

So, as long as you want it, as long as you want this thing, you are never really available for anything else.

以前有個朋友來我家裏

Every time you're talking, everybody you know, it's really just this want, just want this microphone, you know?

他老是說，我有這個問題那個問題

Okay? You cannot get ó your mind is focused only on satisfying your desire,

我有這問題那問題，問題問題

but there is no joy in the microphone.

他過來和我住了幾天，我們就談話

You feel if you get it, you'll be so happy! But there's no happiness in the microphone. Just you feel, if I get this, then I'll be happy.

有天早晨他來，我們喝茶

Here is what he says about it, and I found it fascinating, no?

我看著他說道:好，現在問題是甚麼?

He says, 'As long as you have a desire, you are being tormented by this desire.' Why?

我看著他

Because if you don't get it, you're miserable.

他說，Mooji我有這個問題

All your energy is just waiting to try and fulfill your desire. So I give you the microphone.

甚麼問題?

When you get the microphone, you get your desire, in this moment, this thing is given to you, the object you desire,

我的問題是，我找不到問題

you feel tremendous happiness, but the thing didn't give you the happiness. So he says this, there's no happiness in this thing.

這是真的，這裡有些人認識他

What happens is that your desires were molesting you, it was troubling you, agitating your mind. When you get the thing now, okay,

我的問題是我找不到問題

the agitation stops, and it is the relief from the agitation that you're interpreting as the joy you're receiving.

這讓我很困擾，我找不到問題

[grins] You think this thing's giving you happiness. When you get it, 'Ah, I feel so good,' because you're enjoying the freedom from the desire to have it.

你現在說，我的困擾是我不知道我要甚麼

Because now you have it. But this thing has nothing in it!

如果你不知道你要甚麼，那「要」的目的是甚麼呢?

Not one vitamin in it. [Laughter] But you are, 'Ah, ah, oh my God,' but all of this comes from you.

除非有個感覺認為我應該要些甚麼東西

"As long as there is wanting in you, especially for someone or something to make you happy;

其他人都要些甚麼

Paradoxically, this is a sure way to make yourself feel miserable."

或者你也可以用「夢想」來替代「要」這個字