Name: 【TEDx】靜坐如何改變我的人生 (How Meditation Changed My Life | Mamata Venkat | TEDxWayPublicLibrary)
Uploaded: 2017-07-19T12:34:34.000Z
Duration: 15 min 23 s

情態副詞

I personally have been practicing it for the last 5 and a half years.

我個人在過去5年半的時間裡一直在實踐。

I have been a trainer for the last 8 months.

But I will get into that a little bit later.

My college career has been unconventional to say the least.

我的大學生涯可以說是不拘一格。

I started out as pre-med, got halfway through my freshman year in college,

我一開始是醫學預科，大一的時候半路出家。

before realizing that really wasn't for me.

before finally landing on international studies

I think it took me a long time to figure out

我想我花了很長時間才弄清楚... ...

what I want to do with my life, for a few reasons.

我想用我的生命做什麼，有幾個原因。

One, I'd always struggled with self-confidence,

and I would set my standards for myself so high,

而我卻會把自己的標準定得那麼高。

or I felt I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing,

或者我覺得我沒有做我應該做的事情。

instead of finding strength from that situation,

而不是從這種情況下尋找力量。

Two - my idea of success, happiness, and satisfaction up until recently

二--直到最近，我對成功、幸福和滿足的想法。

We live in a world that encourages this idea,

我們生活在一個鼓勵這種想法的世界裡。

that in order to be internally satisfied, we have to rely on external circumstances.

為了滿足內部需求，我們必須依靠外部環境。

This is an idea that's been hammered into our heads,

這是一個已經敲入我們腦海的想法。

what happiness, success, and satisfaction were.

Obviously, these are different concepts for different people at different times.

顯然，這些對於不同時期的人來說是不同的概念。

like spending time with friends and family,

or getting good grades, getting the job you want,

或取得好成績，得到自己想要的工作。

finding the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with.

找到你命中註定要與之共度餘生的人。

雖然這些東西都是偉大的事情。

we're still relying on things outside of ourselves to make us happy.

我們還在依靠自己以外的東西來讓我們快樂。

This idea of external substance creation has been magnified

這種外在物質創造的思想被放大了。

with the increases in technology and the advent of social media.

隨著科技的發展和社交媒體的出現，。

We can't really exist without our devices anymore,

我們真的不能再沒有設備而存在了。

other body organs that we can't live without.

其他身體器官，我們不能沒有。

No offense to anybody, but I can guarantee,

沒有冒犯任何人，但我可以保證。

the majority of you will subconsciously reach for your phone and check your texts.

大多數人都會下意識地拿起手機，查看簡訊。

social media has created this idea of false happiness and satisfaction.

社交媒體造就了這種虛假的幸福和滿足的想法。

Nobody wants to share bad moments of their lives,

沒有人願意分享他們生活中的糟糕時刻。

none wants to share their mistakes or their failures.

沒有人願意分享他們的錯誤或失敗。

that everyone is always successful, and happy, satisfied all the time.

每個人總是成功的，而且一直很快樂，很滿意。

如果沒有得到我們想要的成績怎麼辦？

What if the person we thought to spend the rest of our lives with

如果我們認為要和他共度餘生的人呢？

Or we do get the job we want, but there is a negative aspect to it?

或者我們確實得到了自己想要的工作，但也有消極的一面？

Like our boss sucks, or we have a horrible co-worker.

比如我們的老闆很爛，或者我們有一個可怕的同事。

Suddenly, the concept that was providing us

with internal satisfaction, externally is now negative.

is that not only is our success temporary but our happiness is conditional.

是我們的成功不僅是暫時的，而且我們的幸福也是有條件的。

because something external is making us happy and satisfied.

因為一些外在的東西讓我們感到快樂和滿足。

We are never truly satisfied for the sake of being satisfied.

我們永遠不會為了滿足而真正滿足。

That's where I realized I was going wrong.

my entire life I had been on a one-way path to becoming a doctor.

我的一生都在走一條成為醫生的單行道。

My family is filled with medical professionals,

and at age of 5, I declared I was going to be just like them.

而在5歲時，我宣佈我要成為像他們一樣的人。

Of course, my incredible Indian parents let out a huge sigh of relief

當然，我不可思議的印度父母也鬆了一口氣。

because they didn't have to convince me to go into medicine.

因為他們不必說服我去做醫生。

For a long time, that was what I wanted to do

很久以來，這就是我想做的事。

until I started learning more about myself, my passions, and interests.

直到我開始更多地瞭解自己，瞭解自己的激情和興趣。

Suddenly, becoming a doctor was less of what I wanted to do,

忽然間，當醫生就不是我想做的事了。

而更多的是我覺得有義務去做的事情。

Because my entire life I have been taught

that in order to be successful you have to be a doctor.

為了成功，你必須成為一名醫生。

我一直是個奇怪的順從的孩子。

I always knew my parents knew what is best for me.

我一直知道父母知道什麼是對我最好的。

So instead of being confident to stand up for myself,

所以，反而沒有信心站出來為自己說話。

Fast forward to my freshman year of college:

I was taking classes that I hated, and I was doing poorly in them.

我在上我討厭的課，而且我的成績很差。

The person I thought I'd spend my life with

broke up with me the second he went to college.

so I felt like I wasn't having the normal college experience.

所以我覺得我沒有正常的大學經歷。

After years of having a plan and a direction for my life,

經過多年的努力，我的人生有了一個計劃和方向。

When you go through hard times or through a break-up,

everybody tells you to get out, do things for yourself.

每個人都告訴你出去， 做自己的事情。

我也是，我會和朋友們一起出去玩。

I would go curl up with a book at a bookstore,

I joined our Bollywood Fusion dance team at school,

我在學校加入了我們的寶萊塢融合舞蹈隊。

I would still come home and still feel internally dissatisfied with myself.

我回到家，還是會覺得內心對自己不滿意。

Social media became the bane of my existence.

I'd see my friends, my ex, and all my classmates

我會看到我的朋友，我的前男友，還有我所有的同學們。

posting pictures of their college adventures,

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