What is the meaning of life? Sooner or later this question is bound to crop up in a thinking mind. Here is a comprehensive answer by Sadhguru that addresses the very fundamentals from which the quest for meaning arises.
什么是生命的意义？这个问题迟早会浮现在我们的思想中，萨古鲁给我们提供了一个全面的回答，它阐述了探寻生命意义的基本原理。
Questioner: Sadhguru, what is the meaning of life?
提问者：萨古鲁，什么是生命的意义？
Sadhguru: You are talking about life as if it is external to you. You are life. But you are so covered with a cloud of thought, emotion, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, religions and prejudices that this psychological drama has hugely overshadowed the life process. And today, largely when people say “my life,” you are supposed to understand that they are talking about their job, their business, their family, their car, their wealth, their party; they are not talking about the life that they are.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：你谈论生命的方式，就好似它是你外在的东西。你就是生命本身，但是你被思想、情感、想法、意识形态、哲学、宗教和偏见所笼罩了，以至于这些心理戏剧极大地遮盖了生命的过程。 如今，当人们在说“我的生命”的时候，你得明白，他们所谈论的其实是他们的工作、生意、家人、车子、财富和派对；他们不是在谈论他们自己这个生命。
“What is life?” I am reminding you that you are life.
“什么是生命？”我正要提醒你， 你就是生命本身。
Only because you are a life and you are alive right now, all these accessories mean something. Only because you are alive, your job, your car, your home, your relationships mean something. What you wear, what you speak, what you are associated with, everything means something only because you are alive. The most fundamental thing is that you are life. But your psychological drama has become bigger than the life process. Europe made this big mistake which the entire world has taken up. Somehow, we started celebrating thought more than life, to such a point that someone dared to say, “I think, so I exist.”
只是因为你是一个生命，并且你此刻是活着的，所有这些配件才有意义。只是因为你是活着的，你的工作、 车子、房子和人际关系才有意义。你穿什么、你说什么、你有什么关系，所有这一切都只因为你是活着的才变得有意义。最根本的一点是，你就是生命，但你的心理戏剧已经变得比生命过程更重要了。欧洲犯了一个全世界都在为此承担的巨大错误——不知为何，我们开始庆祝思想多于庆祝生命，以至于有人敢说：“我思故我在。”
Your thought is like software. Depending on what kind of data you have taken in, that is the kind of thoughts you have. You are a life that carries that software, not a product of that software. But today, your thought has become bigger than everything else. That is why you ask me, “What is life?” I am reminding you that you are life. Why the hell should you ask me about life? If you want to ask me what the weather in India is, we can discuss it, it is a relevant conversation. But if you ask me, “What is the meaning of life” when you yourself are life, then we have to tell you a story. I am calling it a story because if I speak anything that is not yet in your experience, as far as you are concerned, it is a story. If you like the story, you will believe it. If you do not like the story, you will disbelieve it. But if you believe it, will it become real? If you disbelieve it, will it become real? Both ways you do not get to truth.
你的思想就像是软件程序，你输入了什么样的数据，你就会有什么样的想法。你是一个携带着那个软件的生命，而不是那个软件的产物。但现如今，你的想法变得比一切都重要了。这就是为什么你会问我：“什么是生命的意义？” 我提醒你， 你就是生命本身。那你为什么还要问我关于生命的问题？如果你想要问我印度的天气如何，我们可以讨论一下，这是一个切题的对话。但是当你就是生命本身的时候，还问我什么是生命，我们就不得不告诉你一个故事了。我称之为一个故事是因为，如果我说的事情不在你的体验中，对你而言，这就是一个故事。如果你喜欢这个故事，你会相信它。如果你不喜欢这个故事，你就不会相信它。但是，如果你相信它，它会成为现实吗？如果你不相信它，它又会成为现实吗？不管哪种方式都不会让你到达真相。
Why Make Conclusions?
为什么要下结论？
Why is it that you cannot at least be straight that, “What I know, I know; what I do not know, I do not know”? Whatever we do not know, we want to make it up because we have not realized the tremendous nature of “I do not know.” If you can joyfully, consciously, stay in “I do not know,” knowing is not far away. It is in the very nature of human intelligence that you cannot live with “I do not know.” The longing to know and seeking to know will be continuously on within you. You will see that your intelligence will find a way to know as much as you can.
为什么你不能坦率一些？“我知道的就知道，我不知道的就不知道。”对于不知道的东西我们就想编造，因为我们还没有意识到“我不知道”的强大本质。如果你可以带着意识喜悦地活在“我不知道”里，那么知道就离你不远了。人类智慧的本性决定了，你不能带着“我不知道”这四个字活着，求知的渴望会一直在你的内在，你会发现你（与生俱来）的智慧会想办法去知道尽可能多的东西。
If you can joyfully, consciously, stay in “I do not know,” knowing is not far away.
如果你可以带着意识喜悦地活在“我不知道”里，那么知道就离你不远了。
Then what is the problem in seeing “I do not know”? Simply because you live in a society where knowledge is valued, but seeking is not valued. Knowledge is just an accumulation of a few things and largely conclusions that you have made. Even so-called science keeps changing its opinion about everything every two years. This is because you are endlessly moving from one conclusion to another conclusion. Religious people are just staying with one conclusion, scientists are moving from one conclusion to another conclusion, which seems like an evolution and it is to some extent.
那么，看到“我不知道”又有什么问题呢？（它是问题）只是因为你活在一个重视知识而忽视探寻的社会中 。知识只是一些事物的累积，并且其中很大部分是你下的结论。即使是所谓的科学也是每隔两年就改变对所有事物的看法。这是因为你无休止地从一个结论到另一个结论。宗教人士只是始终呆在一个结论里，科学家们则是从一个结论到另一个结论，这看起来像是在进化——某种程度上也确实如此。
Fundamentally why is there such a big need to conclude about everything? When you ask, “What is the meaning of life?” you want to conclude what life is about. The conclusion for your life, the last scene of your life is the same – for both you and me. The moment you seek conclusions, unknowingly you seek death. This is all that has happened to you from your childhood till now. When you had no conclusions, you looked at everything with great wonder and involvement. But today because you have conclusions, “Oh that’s a tree, this is a butterfly, this is this, that is that,” everything is dismissed with conclusion after conclusion.
从根本上来说，为什么人们总有如此大的需求，去对每件事下结论呢？ 当你问：“什么是生命的意义”时，你想要对生命是什么下结论。 对于你和我，生命的结局、生命的最后一幕都是一样的。 一旦你寻求结论，不知不觉你是在寻求死亡。 这就是从你小时候到现在一直在发生的事情。当你没有结论时，你会带着极大的好奇和投入看待一切。但如今因为你已经有结论了，“哦这个是树，这个是蝴蝶，这个是这个，那个是那个，” 所有的一切都会随着一个又一个的结论被摒弃掉。
Experience of Life
生命的体验
When you ask about the meaning of life, you must understand that you are only trying to draw a conclusion so that you can sleep well tonight – because without a conclusion, your intelligence bothers you. If you know how to be joyfully confused, it is very nice because your intelligence is active. The moment you conclude, the moment you believe, your intelligence goes to sleep. But when you do not know, you look at everything with absolute involvement.
当你问生命的意义时，你必须明白你只是在尝试得出一个可以让你今晚好睡的结论，因为没有了结论，你的智慧就会来打扰你。如果你知道如何在困惑中保持快乐，这是非常好的，因为你的智慧是活跃的。 一旦你下结论，一旦你相信某个结论，你的智慧就沉睡了。但当你不知道的时候，你就会带着绝对的投入看待一切。
The life in you is not looking for meaning; it needs exuberance of experience. First you create that, then all these questions will evaporate.
你内在的生命不是要去寻找它的意义，它需要丰盛而鲜活的体验。首先你要去创造它，然后所有的问题都会迎刃而解。
Is it not important that you are involved with life? Is there some other way to know life? If you are not involved with the food that you are eating, would you really know what this food is like? For most people, it is only the first mouthful with which they are involved. After that, they are just gulping it down, without even tasting anything. So it is only in the initial childhood phase that most people experience life. After that, for everything they have an explanation and a conclusion.
难道你对生命的投入和参与不重要吗？难道还有其它方式让你知晓生命吗？如果你不对你正在吃进去的食物保持投入，那你真的会知道这个食物是什么样的吗？对于大多数人来说，他们对食物只在吃进去的第一口保持投入，之后，他们就只是狼吞虎咽，甚至没想要品尝任何东西。所以大多数人也只是在童年初期才体验了生命，而那之后，他们对于每一件事都有一个解释和结论。
The more you conclude, the less you can experience. We know everything, but we do not experience anything. Meaning is meaningful only to the psychological structure of who you are. Your mind wants meaning. The nature of this life is that if you live here for a million years, it will still excite you, and you can still be involved. The closer and closer you look at it, the more it will confound you. The life in you is not looking for meaning; it needs exuberance of experience. First you create that, then all these questions will evaporate. Without that, you can go on asking questions because you are standing on the platform of your mind which is in the quest for meaning.
你得出的结论越多，你能体验到的就越少。我们什么都知道，但是我们什么都没有体验到。意义只对你的心理结构有意义，你的头脑想要意义。生命的本质就是如果你在这里活了一百万年，它仍会让你兴奋，你仍可以投入其中。 你越仔细地去看生命，你越容易被它迷惑。你内在的生命不是要去寻找它的意义，它需要丰盛而鲜活的体验。 首先你要去创造它，然后所有的问题就会迎刃而解。否则，你会继续问问题，因为你正站在寻求意义的思想平台上。
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