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一个开悟瑜伽士：如何分辨聪明与智慧

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2021-01-23 16:12

原标题：一个开悟瑜伽士：如何分辨聪明与智慧

本文转自一位当代开悟瑜伽士萨古鲁的对话（中英双语）

Sadhguru looks at the nature of intelligence and the nature of being smart, and explains where each of these is relevant.

萨古鲁谈智慧和聪明的本质，并且解释了他们各自与什么有关。

Sadhguru: Being smart and being intelligent are different things. Twenty-five years ago, you would refer to someone as intelligent. But the terminology is different nowadays. No one cares if you are intelligent. They are only concerned about whether you are smart. If you are smart, you can find your way through the world – you will make it in the current economy!

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：聪明和智慧是两码事。25年前，你可能会称某人很智慧。但现今的术语已经不同了。没有人在乎你是否智慧。他们只关心你是否聪明。如果你很聪明，你可以畅行世界——你会在当今的经济上取得成功！

If there is you and me, me being smarter than you helps. If there is me and me, me being smarter than me is stupid.

如果存在着你和我，我比你聪明是有用的。如果存在的是我和我，我比我聪明就是愚蠢的。

But intelligence is of a different nature. Intelligence doesn’t always equip you to win a race. In fact, you might be much slower than others because you see many more things than they do. Those who are smart and are just looking to achieve one little goal in their life may get there much faster – and everybody may clap their hands. But your intelligence may be grasping too many things for you to take even one step.

但是智慧的性质不同。智慧并不总能令你具备赢得比赛的条件。事实上，你可能比其他人慢得多，因为你比他人看到的东西多得多。那些聪明且只想在生命中实现一个小目标的人可能更快到达那里——每个人都可能鼓掌。但是你的智慧可能使你洞察到太多，令你举步维艰。

If you are smart, that means you somehow consolidated the situation to your benefit. Different types of people are considered smart depending on what kind of society you are in, in what kind of time, situation and among what kind of people. Today, people who have some scruples are generally considered dumb. Quite unscrupulous people turn out smart because they know how to take advantage of certain situations.

如果你很聪明，那意味着你能以某种方式巩固了你的利益。在不同的社会、时间、环境和人群中，不同类型的人被认为是聪明的。今天，有所顾忌的人通常被认为愚蠢。肆无忌惮之徒显得聪明，因为他们知道如何利用某些情况。

The Smart Dog

聪明的狗

Let me tell you a story. There was a very smart dog once. He was so smart that he kind of became a better dog than all the other dogs in the local villages. One day, he got a little adventurous. If you have noticed, village dogs will never go into the jungle. Maybe sometimes they just go to the fringe, trying to hunt down a rabbit or a hare, but they never go deep because they instinctively know there are bigger animals out there, for which they will just be meat.

让我给你讲个故事。从前有一只非常聪明的狗，它太聪明了，几乎成了村里最出色的狗。有一天，它有个大胆的想法。如果你留心，会发现村子里的狗从不会去丛林里。或许偶尔它们会到丛林边缘，试图猎捕一只兔子或野兔，但他们从不深入丛林，因为它们本能地知道那里会有更大的动物，它们只会成为猎物。

But this is an over-smart dog, so it went deep into the jungle, where a tiger saw it. The tiger had never seen a creature like this before. He thought, “He looks like he’ll make a good afternoon snack.” He growled and started coming towards the dog. But this is a very smart dog. It wanted to run, but it knew if it ran, the tiger would catch up in no time and he will become a crunchy snack. He saw a heap of bones nearby and started strutting around saying, “Oh my god! These tigers make a real good meal. Ha!” The tiger hesitated and stepped back. “Oh, this is some kind of a creature that has tigers for a meal. And all these heaps of bones.” He turned back and moved away. Seeing this, the smart dog slowly started slinking away.

但这是一只太过聪明的狗，所以它去了丛林深处，有只老虎看到了它。在此之前老虎从未见过这样的动物。老虎心想：“它看起来会是不错的下午点心。”它咆哮着向那只狗走去。但这是一只非常聪明的狗。它很想跑，但是它知道自己一跑，老虎就会立马追上来，把自己变成一道嘎嘣脆的点心。它看到附近有一堆骨头，便开始趾高气昂地边走边说：“哦，天哪！这些老虎真是一顿美餐。哈！”老虎犹豫了，退了回去。“哦！这是一种以老虎为食的动物。还有这些成堆的骨头。”它转身走开了。见此，那聪明的狗开始慢慢地溜走了。

A monkey sitting on a nearby tree saw the whole scene and couldn’t help monkeying with the situation. He told the tiger, “He just fooled you and went away. That’s just a dog. I’ve been into the villages. He can do nothing to you. He doesn’t have the strength of even one of your paws.” The tiger felt stupid. “What? The idiot fooled me? Come, let’s catch him.” So the monkey jumped onto the tiger’s back and they started running towards the dog.

一只坐在附近树上的猴子看到了整个场景，忍不住要搅局。它对老虎说，“它刚刚骗了你就跑了。那不过是只狗。我去过村里。它对你无能为力。它甚至无力抵抗你的一只爪子。”老虎觉得自己很蠢，“什么？那白痴骗我？走，我们去抓住它。”于是猴子跳到老虎背上，一齐去追这只狗。

The dog saw a monkey riding a tiger and coming towards it. It knew what had happened, but this is a smart dog. He yawned and said, “Where is that god damn monkey? It’s been almost an hour since I ordered for another tiger. Where is he?”

狗看到一只猴子骑着老虎朝它过来。它知道发生了什么，但这是一只聪明的狗。它打了个哈欠说到：“那只该死的猴子在哪儿？离我订另一只老虎已经过去快一小时了。它在哪儿？”

You can manage the world like this. But when it comes to your inner nature, this will not get you anywhere because dealing with manifestations of creation is one thing, dealing with the source of creation is a completely different thing. Here, your smartness will not work at all. Smartness is good only when there is you and the other. When there is just you and you, the smarter you think you are, the more stupid you will become.

你可以像这样应对这个世界。但在涉及到你的内在本质时，这不会让你有任何进展，因为应对造物是一回事，应对创造之源完全是另一回事。在这，你的聪明毫无用处。聪明仅适用于存在“你”和“他人”的场景。当只有你与自己的时候，你越认为自己聪明，就会变得越愚蠢。

Realizing How Stupid You Are

意识到自己有多愚蠢

Enlightenment is not some kind of an achievement. Enlightenment means you broke through your ignorance. It is a realization – that means you realized how stupid you are. That which was always there, you saw it only today. It takes a lot of intelligence to realize how stupid you are. Most people cannot see it. You can only see it if the very urge to be smart and special, the very urge to be better than someone, is completely vanquished within you. Only then will you have the intelligence to break through your ignorance. If you get smarter with the spiritual process, your ignorance will just keep taking different forms. It will be an endless ride from one level of ignorance to another.

开悟并非某种成就。开悟意味着你打破了你的无知。这是一种觉醒——那意味着你意识到了自己有多愚蠢。那些一直存在的东西，你如今才看到。意识到自己有多愚蠢，需要很大的智慧。大多数人都看不到这一点。只有当你内在那种想变得聪明和特别，想要比别人更好的强烈渴望完全被征服时，你才能看见它。只有这时，你才有智慧去突破你的无知。如果你在灵性过程中变得更聪明，你的无知只会不断换外衣。从无知的一个层次到另一个层次，是一场无止境的旅程。

I am not saying being smart is wrong. You can train yourself to function better than someone but that only has a limited application and domain. You cannot take it inward and try to be smarter because the only person you are fooling is yourself. If there is you and me, me being smarter than you helps. If there is me and me, me being smarter than me is stupid.

我不是说聪明是错的。你可以训练自己比别人更好，但它只在有限的领域中起有限的作用。你不能把这套用于内在，耍小聪明，因为你唯一愚弄的就是自己。如果存在着你和我，我比你聪明是有用的。如果只存在我和我，我比我聪明是愚蠢的。

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