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我们欲求快乐，但我们得到的却是不快乐。我们每个人都尽了努力试图快乐，但却犯了一个基本错误；快乐和努力无关，与快乐相关的是，不要要求快乐。
实验一下。这些日子你在这里和我在一起。不要滋养任何对快乐的欲求，然后看看你的心如何变得被快乐充满。不要有任何对宁静的欲求。 然后看看那些在你内在的动乱如何消失。不要企求满意，看看满意如何洒落在你身上。尝试一下—只有这样你才会明白。
这是生命最深的实验。关于生命无论甚么曾被发现过，这是里面最重要的发现：如果想要快乐不要企求快乐，如果想要平静不要企求平静。你所要求的都将错失。你所不要求的将会得到。你已经要求过很多次，但似乎并未收到它。现在尝试不要要求然后再去看看。不需相信我，只需去实验。
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如果生命是个礼物，那么所有属于生命的都将是个礼物。快乐、爱和静心—所有那些美丽的都将是个来自神圣、来自整体的礼物。你无法用任何方法得获它，你无法强迫存在使你快乐、使你充满爱或使你静心。那个非常努力来自自我。就是那个努力创造了悲惨。那个努力对抗着你。那个努力摧毁了你—那是自杀。
快乐不可能追求。没有任何人曾经追求得到它。他必须等待。快乐一点也不是权利。没有法庭可以强迫你快乐或是强迫快乐跟随着你，没有政府的暴力能够使你快乐。没有权力可以使你快乐。
那个你可追求快乐、你应得快乐、你可要求快乐、你有权利快乐的这些想法都是愚蠢的。没有任何人有权利变成快乐。你可以是快乐的，但是快乐无关乎权利。如果认为这是你的权利，那么你会继续错失它，因为打从一开始你就已经看错方向。
为何如此？如果生命是个礼物，所有属生命的和生命本身都将是个礼物。你可以等待它，你可以接受它，你可以在臣服的情绪中，等待、耐心，但是不能要求，也不能强迫。
Don’t Nourish any Desire for Happiness
“We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it…
“Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don’t nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don’t have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don’t beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this – only then will you understand.
“This is the deepest experiment of life. And whatever has been discovered in regard to life, this is the most significant finding of all: don’t ask for happiness if you want to be happy, don’t ask for peace if you want to be peaceful. Whatever you ask for will be lost. Whatever you do not ask for you will get. You have asked many times and seen that you do not receive it. Now try not asking and see. There is no need to believe me; there is a need to experiment.”
It Is Impossible to Pursue Happiness
“If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation – all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you – it is suicidal.
”It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy…
”The very idea that you can pursue happiness, that you can deserve it, that you can demand it, that you have the right to be happy, is foolish. Nobody has the right to be happy. You can be happy, but there is nothing like a right about it. And if you think that it is your right you will go on missing, because you have started to look in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
”Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.”
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