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 main spring of whatever they do and whatever they put up with.

有些事情關于我的，是些非常私人的問題。還有一些是你們最關心的問題，有件事我們都能懂與我們遇到的每個人有關：無論是在世上的某一處還是在大街上，那是他們非常主要的動力，無論他們在做什么還是在忍受什么，那就是我們所有的 都想要快樂。

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.

在這件事上，我們站在同一陣線 我們?nèi)绾蜗胂笪覀兊目鞓?每個人都不相同但是我們已經(jīng)有夠多的共同處了就是我們想要快樂

Now my topic is gratefulness. What 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?

我的話題關于感恩快樂和感恩之間有著怎樣的聯(lián)系？很多人會說，恩，這很容易當你快樂的時候，你就心存感激。但是，請再想一想快樂的人是心存感激的，真的是這樣嗎？

We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy, and they are not happy, because they want something else or they want more of the same.

我們知道，很多人他們擁有應該令他們感到快樂的東西，但他們并不快樂，因為他們想要其他的東西或者他們想要更多自己已有的東西。

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy. They radiate happiness. You are surprised. Why? Because they are grateful.

我們都知道有些遭遇很多不幸的人，這些不幸是我們完全不想沾染的，但他們卻深深地感到快樂，他們散播歡樂。你會感到驚訝為什么？因為他們懂得感恩。

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.

所以，并不是快樂讓我們有感激之情，而是感恩之心讓我們快樂。如果你認為是快樂讓你心存感激再想一想。是感恩讓你快樂。

Now, we can ask, what do we really 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 tous. Something is given to us that's valuable to us. And it's really given.

現(xiàn)在，我們可以問，對我們來說，感激的意義是什么？它是怎么發(fā)生的？我希望你們能想到自己的經(jīng)驗。我們可以從自己的經(jīng)驗中了解到它是如何運作的。我們經(jīng)歷了一些對我們來說重要的事情，一些我們收到的，并且對我們而言很寶貴的東西。而且，是真正由別人給予的。

These 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.

這兩個條件必須同時存。在這件事物必須是重要的，而且是一份禮物不是你買的，也不是你掙來的。不是你買賣得來的，也不是你工作得來的只是單純的給予了你。

And when these two things come together, something that's really valuable to me and I realize it's freely given, then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart, happiness spontaneously rises in my heart. That's how gratefulness happens.

當這兩個條件同時符合時，這東西對我很有價值。我意識到這完全是饋贈感恩之心油然出，現(xiàn)在我心里快樂也同時出現(xiàn)在我心里，這就是感激如何發(fā)生的。

Now the key to all this is that we can not 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.

這一切的關鍵點在于我們不能僅僅體會到單一的感覺。我們不能只有感激的經(jīng)驗。我們可以是那些存有感恩生活著的人，感恩地活著，就是這樣。那么我們?nèi)绾文芨卸鞯厣钅?？通過經(jīng)歷，意識到我們的每秒每刻都是被給予的，這是上天的禮物，不是你掙來的。

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.

它不是你透過任何方式帶來的你，無法確定你會被贈予其他的時刻。但是，那就是能贈與我們最有價值的東西。但是，那就是能贈與我們最有價值的東西。以及尾隨這個時刻而來的各種契機。

If we didn't have this present moment, we wouldn't have any opportunity to do anything or experience anything, and this moment is a gift. It's a given moment, as we say.

如果我們沒有現(xiàn)在這個時刻，我們不會有任何機會去做任何事，經(jīng)歷任何事而這個時刻，就是一個禮物就像我們所說的那樣，它是被贈與的。

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, because if that thing were somewhere else 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.

現(xiàn)在，我們說禮物中的禮物就是機會你真正感激的，是這個機會而不是那個你收到的東西。因為如果那個東西在別處而你沒有機會享受它，來體會它，你就不會覺得感恩。機會是禮物中的禮物，我們有這樣的諺語：機會只有一次那么。

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 ourselves ofthis opportunity, or we can miss it, and if we avail ourselves of the opportunity, it is the key to happiness. Behold the master key to our happinesss in our own hands. Moment by moment, we can be grateful for this gift.

再想一想每個時刻，都是一個新的禮物，周而復始。如果你錯失了這個時刻給予你的機會，另外的時刻總是會出現(xiàn)。我們可以利用這個機會或者我們也可以錯失它。如果我們把握這個機會，那就是讓我們快樂的關鍵所在，通往快樂大門的鑰匙在我們手中，每分每秒我們感謝這個禮物。

Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything? Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn't say we can be grateful for everything.

可是，那意味著我們會對世間一切都心存感激嗎？當然不是。我們不會感謝暴力、戰(zhàn)爭、鎮(zhèn)壓、剝削的存在。個人層面上看，我們不會感恩朋友的離去，不忠喪友喪親之痛，但我并沒有說我們要對世間一切心懷感恩。

I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

我的意思是，我們感謝每一個時刻背后所帶來的機會，即使當我們面對極其困難的問題，我們可以回想起這個給予我們的機會，然后對它做出回應。

It isn't as bad as it might seem. Actually, when you look at it and experience it, you find that most of the time, what is given to us is the opportunity to enjoy, and we only miss it because we are rushing through life and we are not stopping to see the opportunity.

它可能沒有看起來那么糟，事實上，當你檢視并經(jīng)歷它之后你會發(fā)現(xiàn)，給予我們的大部分時刻都是讓我們樂在其中的機遇，我們之所以錯失它，是因為我們急著過自己的生活，我們沒有停下來看看這個機會。

But once in a while, something very difficult is given to us, and when this difficult thing occurs to us, it's a challenge to rise to that opportunity, and we can rise to it by learning something which is sometimes painful.

可是偶爾一些非常困難的事情發(fā)生了，當這些困難出現(xiàn)時，這個機遇，就是一種挑戰(zhàn)。它會讓我們學到些什么。有時是痛苦的例如，

Learning patience, for instance. We have been told that the road to peace is not a sprint, but is more like a marathon. That takes patience. That's difficult. It may be to stand up for your opinion, to stand up for your conviction. That's an opportunity that is given to us.

學著有耐心。我們知道，通往自由的道路不是短跑，更像是一場馬拉松，那需要耐心。那是困難的它也有可能是捍衛(wèi)自己的觀點立場，捍衛(wèi)自己的信念，這就是給予我們的機會。

To learn, to suffer, to stand up, all these opportunities are given to us, but they are opportunities, and those who avail themselves of those opportunities are the ones that we admire. They make something out of life. And those who fail get another opportunity. We always get another opportunity. That's the wonderful richness of life.

去學習，去遭遇，去堅持所有這些給予我們的機會。但是，它們是機會那些自己抓住機遇的人是我們所尊重的，他們從生活中獲得了些什么。那些失敗的人，也總能獲得其它的機會，我們總能獲得額外的機會，那就是生活中美好與豐富之處。

So how can we find a method that will harness this? How can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being grateful, but moment by moment to be grateful. Howcan we do it? It's a very simple method. It's so simple that it's actually whatwe were told as children when we learned to cross the street. Stop.

那我們要如何找到善用機會的方法呢？我們每個人如何能找到生活中存有感恩之心的方法。不是某一次感到感恩，而是每時每刻都心存感激。我們要如何做到呢？這是一個非常簡單的方法，方法如此簡單，就像小時候大人教我們?nèi)绾芜^馬路一樣停下來，

Look. Go. That's all. But how often do we stop? We rush through life. We don't stop. We miss the opportunity because we don't stop. We have to stop. We have to get quiet. And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

看一看，向前走就是這樣我們多久才停下來？我們急著過自己的生活。我們從不停歇我們錯失機會因為我們沒有停下來，我們必須停下腳步，安靜下來我們要在人生旅途中時刻提醒自己停下來。

When I was in Africa some years ago and then came back, I noticed water. In Africa where I was, I didn't have drinkable water. Every time I turned on the faucet, I was overwhelmed. Every time I clicked on the light, I was so grateful.

很多年前，我去了非洲?；貋碇笪乙庾R到水的存在。在非洲，我沒有可以飲用的安全水源，每當我看到水龍頭的時候我受寵若驚。每次我打開電燈開關的時候我心懷感恩，

It made me so happy. But after awhile, this wears off. So I put little stickers on the light switch and on the water faucet, and every time I turned it on, water. So leave it up to your own imagination.

非常開心可過了一陣子，我就不再注意到這些了，所以我在燈的開關上，水龍頭邊貼了一些小貼紙，每次我看到它們就會感受到，所以請根據(jù)自己的情況自由想象。

You can find whatever works best for you, but you need stop signs in your life. And when you stop, then the next thing is to look. You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose. You open all your senses for this wonderful richness that is given to us. There is no end to it,and that is what life is all about, to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us.

你會找到對你來說最好的方式，但你要提醒自己時常停下來。當你停下來的時候下一件事就是看一看，你看一看，你睜開眼睛你打開耳朵。你張開嘴巴，你打開身體的感知系統(tǒng)，感知那些精彩豐富的事情，這是沒有止境的，這就是人生的意義來享受，享受我們被給予的一切。

And then we can also open our hearts, our hearts for the opportunities, for the opportunities also to help others, to make others happy, because nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are

happy. And when we open our hearts to the opportunities, the opportunities invite us to do something,

我們也可以敞開心扉迎接機遇，那些能夠幫助他人的機會讓他人開心，因為沒有什么比所有人都開心更值得高興的了。當我們敞開心扉迎接機遇的時候，這些機遇會邀請我們做一些事情那就是第三件事停下來，

and that is the third. Stop, look, and then go, and really do something. And what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment. Mostly it's the opportunity to enjoy, but sometimes it's something more difficult.

看一看，向前走，然后真正地去做一些事情我們能做的是認真過生命在當下提供的選擇。大多時候，那是去享受的機會但有時，是更困難的事。

But whatever it is, if we take this opportunity, we go with it, we are creative, those are the creative people. And that little stop, look, go, is such a potent seed that it can revolutionize our world. Because we are at the present moment in the middle of a change of consciousness, and you will be surprised if you -- I am always surprised when I hear how many times this word "gratefulness" and "gratitude" comes up. Everywhere you find it, a grateful airline, are staurant gratefulness, a café gratefulness, a wine that is gratefulness. Yes ,I have even come across a toilet paper whose brand is called "Thank You."

但不管是什么，如果我們抓住了這個機會我們就去完成它，我們是有創(chuàng)造性的人們有創(chuàng)造力。而那個停下來，看一看，向前走是賦有潛力的種子，那種子甚至可以改變我們的世界因為我們需要，我們在這個時刻我們在感知發(fā)生變化的過程中，你會感到驚訝，當你--我時常感到驚訝，當我多次聽到感恩和感激這些詞匯的出現(xiàn)，你可以在任何地方找到一個“心存感恩”的航空公司，一家“心存

感恩”的餐廳，一間“充滿感激之情”的咖啡館，一款“充滿感激之情”的葡萄酒確實。我曾見過一款廁紙“感謝”牌的廁紙。

There is a wave of gratefulness because people are becoming aware how important this is and how this can change our world. It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live.

感恩的浪潮席卷而來，是因為人們已經(jīng)開始意識到感恩有多么重要，并且感恩是如何能改變我們的世界。感恩可以改變我們的世界以諸多種重要的方式，因為當你心存感激，你不會恐懼。如果你不恐懼，你就會平和。如果你心存感激，你會表現(xiàn)出滿足感，而不是短缺的模樣，你會更樂于分享。如果你心存感激，你會欣賞人與人間的不同，并且你尊重每個人。這會改變我們生活中的權利金字塔結構。

And it doesn't make for equality, but it makes for equal respect, and that is the important thing. The future of the world will be a network, not a pyramid turned upside down. The revolution of which I am speaking is a nonviolent revolution, and it's so revolutionary that it even revolutionizes the very concept of a revolution, because the normal revolution is one where the power pyramid is turned upside down and those who were on the bottom are now on the top and are doing exactly the same thing that the ones before. What we need is a networking of smaller groups, smaller and smaller groups who know one another, who interact with one another, and that is a grateful world.

它無法創(chuàng)造平等的卻能帶來平等尊重，而這是最重要的事。未來的世界將會是一個網(wǎng)狀物不是金字塔，也不是倒過來的金字塔，我所說的革命是非暴力的革命，它是如此具有革命性。它甚至革命性地改變了革命的概念，因為一個普通的革命是權利金字塔倒轉(zhuǎn)過來，那些底層的人站在了頂尖，然后做了和以前在金字塔頂尖的人一模一樣的事情我。們需要的是小群組的網(wǎng)絡小型的群組相互知曉、相互溝通那將是一個充滿感恩的世界。

A grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people, and joyful people -- the more and more joyful people there are, the more and more we'll have a joyful world. We have a network for grateful living, and it has mushroomed. We couldn't understand why it mushroomed.

一個感恩的世界，是生活在其中的人，都感到愉悅。有感恩之心的人是快樂的人，快樂的人。人們越來越快樂我們才越會有一個愉快的世界，我們有一個感恩地生活的網(wǎng)絡它迅速增長，我們不明白為什么它增長如此迅速。

We have an opportunity for people to light a candle when they are grateful for something. And there have been 15 million candles lit in one decade. People are becoming aware that a grateful world is a happy world, and we all have the opportunity by the simple stop, look, go, to transform the world, to make it a happy place. And that is what I hope for us, and if this has contributed a little to making you want to do the same, stop, look, go. Thank you.

當人們對某事“心存感激”時，他們就可以點亮一根蠟燭，在十年內(nèi)點亮了總計一千五百萬蠟燭。人們開始意識到感恩的世界是快樂的，世界我們都有機會，只需要簡單地停下來，看一看，向前走來改變世界。讓世界變得更美好快樂，這就是我所希望的，如果（我的演講）能夠為你帶來一點點動力，做這件事停下來，看一看，向前走。謝謝。