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“Now-Here” All the Time?

永遠在「當下」？

Is it really possible to be in the “now-here” all the time?

是不是真的可能一直都在「此時此地」？

Most of my time seems to go in planning for, or worrying about, the future.

我大部分的時間似乎都在計劃或擔憂未來

Whether you

不管你

know it or not,

知不知道

you cannot be anywhere else than here and now.

除了此時此地之外，你都無法在任何地方

Wherever you are it will be here and now.

不論你在哪裡，都是在此時此地

You are given

你一次只被給予

only one moment at a time

一個片刻

and you are wasting that moment

而你卻把那個片刻

in planning or worrying about the future;

浪費在計劃或擔憂未來

and the future never comes.

然而未來卻永遠不會到來

What comes is always here, now:

來的總是此時此地

it is a series of “nows”

它是一連串的「現在」

one now,

一個現在

another now

又一個現在

but you are always living in the now.

但你永遠都活在現在

There is no future

並沒有未來

so how can you worry about the future?

所以你如何能擔憂未來？

It is because of this kind of worrying

就因為這種

and planning for the future

對未來的擔憂和計畫

that a certain proverb

所以有些格言

exists in all the languages of the world:

幾乎存在於世界上所有的語言裡

Man goes on desiring,

人一直在渴望

planning,

計劃

worrying about the future

擔憂未來

and God goes on disappointing him.

然而上帝卻一直在掃他的興

There is no God to disappoint you.

並沒有上帝在掃你的興

In your very planning, you are sowing the seeds of disappointment.

就在你的這個規畫中，你在播種失望的種子

In your very worrying about the future,

就在這個對未來的擔憂中

you are wasting the present;

你就是在浪費現在

and slowly, slowly it becomes your second nature .

而慢慢地，這變成你的第二種天性

to worry about the future.

擔憂著未來

So when the future comes,

而當未來來臨時

it will come as the present;

它會以現在之身來臨

and because of your habit of worrying about the future,

而因為你擔憂未來的習慣

you will waste that moment also in worrying

你會把那個片刻浪費在擔憂上

You will go on worrying about the future for your whole life.

你會一輩子一直都在擔憂未來

You will stop only when death comes

你只有在死亡來臨時才會停止

and takes away all

而且失去一切

possibility of the future.

未來的可能性

You missed your whole life:

你錯過了你的一生

you could have lived

你無法活出生命來

but you only planned.

但你只是規劃

Live

強烈地

intensely and totally now,

全然地活出此刻來

because the next moment will be born out of this moment;

因為下一個片刻會從這個片刻生出來

and if you have lived it totally and joyously,

如果你已全然而且喜悅地活過了

you can be absolutely certain that the next moment

你可以絕對肯定下一個片刻

will bring

會帶來

more blessings,

更多的祝福

more joy.

更多的快樂

I have heard:

我聽說

Three professors of philosophy

有三位哲學教授

were having a discussion

在一個

at a railway station. The train was

火車站進行討論

standing at the platform. There were a few minutes before it was due to leave,

火車停在月台，有幾分鐘才會離開

but they got so involved in their discussion that the train left

但他們討論得非常投入，而火車開動了

without them then they realized, and they ran….

他們才突然發現，然後追趕...

In the last compartment, only two professors could enter; the third

在最後一節車廂，只有兩位教授能上車

remained on the platform. The train had gone

第三個則留在月台上。火車走了

and he had tears in his eyes.

於是他眼淚奪眶而出

A porter was standing there. Seeing the scene, he said,

有個搬運工人站在那裡。看到這一幕，他說

“Why are you crying?

「你為什麼哭？

At least two of your friends have got the train.”

至少你的兩個朋友都上車了」

He said, “That is the problem. They had come to see me off.”

他說「問題就在這裡。他們是來送我的」

They must also be crying, inside the train.

他們在車上一定也在哭

Existence also sometimes plays jokes on people.

存在有時候也會作弄人

Stop

停止

this habit of planning.

這個規劃的習慣

Stop worrying about the future.

停止擔憂未來

If tomorrow comes,

如果明天來臨

you will be there;

你會在那裡

and if you know how to live,

而如果你知道怎麼活

if you know how to live joyously and dancingly,

如果你知道怎樣快樂雀躍地活

your tomorrow will also be full of dance and joy.

你的明天也會充滿雀躍與喜悅

It is the miserable man

正是可憐的人

who plans for the future,

他規劃未來

because his present is so miserable

因為他的現在是如此的可悲

that he wants to avoid it, he does not want to see it.

所以他想要逃避它，他不希望看到它

He thinks about tomorrows:

他想到未來

good days are going to come.

好日子即將到來

He is utterly impotent to transform this moment into a good moment.

他完全沒有能力將這個片刻轉化成好的片刻

A long habit of transferring everything

長久以來把一切都推給

to the future, .

未來

postponing,

拖延

living for the future,

活在未來的習慣

will take your whole life out of your hands.

會使你整個一生從你手中流逝

There is no other way.

沒有別的去處

You are asking, “Is it really possible

你在問「是否真的可能

to be in the here-now all the time?”

一直都在此時此地？」

This is the only possibility.

這是唯一的可能

You cannot be anywhere else.

你無法在其他的任何地方

You try:

你試試看

try to be in the tomorrow.

試著待在明天

Nobody has succeeded up to now

到現在為止沒人成功過

you cannot be in the

你不可能進入

coming minute.

下一分鐘

Do you think you can jump

你想你能

and reach into the future,

跳進未來

jump out of today

跳出今天而跳到

and reach into tomorrow?

明天嗎？

Even if you are planning for tomorrow, that too is being done here-now;

即使你在規劃明天，也是在此時此地做的

even if you are worrying about the future,

即使你在擔憂未來

that too is being done here-now.

那也是在此時此地做的

You cannot be anywhere else; whatever you do,

不論你做什麼，你都無法在別的地方做

existence allows only

存在只允許在

this space

這裡

of here and now.

在此時此地

I can say to you

我可以對你們說

that I am living here and now.

我活在此時此地

I also have tried

我也試過

somehow to get

以某種方法

into the future

進入未來

but there is no way.

但沒辦法

You cannot go back

你不能回到

into the past,

過去

you cannot go ahead of time into the future.

你不能超前時間進入未來

In your hands is always the present;

在你手中永遠是現在

in fact, the present is the only time you have.

其實，當下是你唯一擁有的時間

And now

而當下

is such

是這麼

a meaningful word,

有意義的字

because that is your whole life

因為那是你的整個生命

a “now” stretched

一個「當下」從出生

from your birth to your death.

延伸到你的死亡

But it is always now…

但它總是在現在

and here is the only space.

而且此地是唯一的地方

You cannot be

除了此地

anywhere else than here;

你無法在別的地方

wherever you are,

不論你在哪

that place will become here.

那裡就成為此地

Just be

就是要

clear about it,

弄清楚

otherwise life goes on slipping through your hands like water.

否則生命會不斷從你手中流逝

Soon you will have empty hands;

很快你就會空著手

and meeting death with empty hands

空著手會見死亡

is an utter failure.

是個徹底的失敗

Meet your death

會見死亡

full of joy

要充滿喜悅

silence and serenity.

寧靜與安詳

Meet death

會見死亡

with your hands

要你手中

full of ecstasy.

充滿狂喜

In that ecstasy, death itself dies.

在狂喜中，死亡本身就死了

You never die…

你永遠不死

your here-now continues

你的此時此地持續著

forever and forever.

直到永永遠遠

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