Name: 為什麼大多數人從未真正活過？ ► 我們花大半輩子，選擇忘記這個真相...- Sam Harris 山姆-哈里斯（中英字幕） (為什麼大多數人從未真正活過？ ► 我們花大半輩子，選擇忘記這個真相... - Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯（中英字幕）)
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T02:25:32.000Z
Duration: 4 min 22 s

And we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth,

而我們一生中的大部分時間都在忘記這一真理、

The one thing people tend to realize at moments like this is that they wasted a lot of time,

人們在這種時候往往會意識到，他們浪費了很多時間、

It's not just what they did with their time, it's not just that they spent too much time working or compulsively checking email.

這不僅僅是他們如何打發時間的問題，也不僅僅是他們花太多時間工作或強迫性地查看電子郵件的問題。

It's that they cared about the wrong things.

他們為自己所關心的事情感到後悔。

So their attention was bound up in petty concerns, a year after year when life was normal.

於是，他們的注意力被瑣碎的關注所束縛，年復一年，生活一切正常。

And this is a paradox of course, because we all know this epiphany is coming.

這當然是個悖論，因為我們都知道這種頓悟即將到來。

難道你不知道這一切即將發生嗎？

Don't you know that there's gonna come a day when you'll be sick or someone close to you will die?

難道你不知道總有一天你會生病，或者你身邊的人會死去嗎？

And you'll look back on the kinds of things that captured your attention, and you'll think, what was I doing?

當你回顧那些吸引你注意力的事情時，你會想，我當時在做什麼？

You know this, and yet if you're like most people, you'll spend most of your time in life tacitly presuming you'll live forever.

你知道這一點，但如果你和大多數人一樣，你在生活中的大部分時間都會默認自己會長生不老。

I mean it's like watching a bad movie for the fourth time, or or bickering with your spouse.

我的意思是，這就像第四次看一部爛片，或者與配偶爭吵。

These things only make sense in light of eternity.

只有從永恆的角度來看，這些事情才有意義。

However much you feel you may need to plan for the future, to anticipate it, to mitigate risks,

無論你覺得自己有多需要規劃未來、預測未來、降低風險，也無論你覺得自己有多需要規劃未來、預測未來、降低風險，也無論你覺得自己有多需要規劃未來、預測未來、降低風險、

Now this may sound trite, but it's the truth.

這聽起來可能有些老套，但卻是事實。

The past is a memory, it's a thought arising in the present, the future is merely anticipated.

過去是記憶，是現在產生的想法，未來只是預期。

What we truly have is this moment, and this.

我們真正擁有的是這一刻，還有這一切。

And we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth, repudiating it, fleeing it, overlooking it.

而我們一生中的大部分時間都在遺忘這一真理，否定它，逃避它，忽視它。

We we manage to never really connect with the present moment.

我們從未真正與當下聯繫起來。

And find fulfillment there, because we are we are continually hoping to become happy in the future.

並在那裡找到成就感，因為我們不斷希望在未來變得幸福。

Now even when we think we're in the present moment, we're we're in very subtle ways always looking over its shoulder, anticipating what's coming next.

現在，即使我們認為自己身處當下，我們也在以非常微妙的方式時刻關注著它的一舉一動，期待著下一秒會發生什麼。

So the the most important question for us is how can we truly be fulfilled in life?

是以，對我們來說最重要的問題是，如何才能真正實現人生價值？

How how can we create lives that are truly worth living, given that these lives come to an end?

既然生命終將結束，我們該如何創造真正有價值的生活？

And in the practice of meditation I I just showed you, often called mindfulness meditation.

我剛才向你們展示的冥想練習，通常被稱為正念冥想。

Is just a trick for doing that. It's it's a trick for setting aside your to-do list if only for a few moments.

這只是一個小竅門。這是一個將待辦事項擱置一旁的技巧，哪怕只是片刻。

And actually locate a feeling of fulfillment.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did or what you should have done or what you would have done if you if you only had the chance,

如果你總是在反思自己剛剛做了什麼，或者你應該做什麼，或者如果你有機會的話你會做什麼、

The conversation we have with ourselves every minute of the day comes at a cost.

我們每時每刻與自己的對話都是有代價的。

It's I'm not saying that discursive thought is not necessary or useful.

我並不是說辨證思維沒有必要或沒有用處。

But it is the mechanism by which most of our suffering is inflicted.

但我們的大部分痛苦都是由它造成的。

The sorrow and the self-doubt and the anxiety and the fear.

悲傷、自我懷疑、焦慮和恐懼。

Thinking is useful, but being perpetually lost in thought isn't.

思考是有用的，但永遠沉浸在思考中就沒用了。

Okay, being the mere hostage of the next thought.

好吧，我只是下一個想法的人質。

That comes careening into the consciousness isn't useful.

And it's possible to simply drop your problem if only for a moment and enjoy whatever is true of your life in the present.

你可以暫時放下問題，享受當下生活的一切。