52 BE PRESENT WHERE YOU ARE

【活在当下】

当我们有能力在静坐时保持宁静和愉悦，我们可以随处坐下。我们可以坐在机场，可以坐在火车站，可以坐在河边，可以坐在监狱里。如果世界上每个人都知道如何这样静坐，这个世界将会拥有更多的和平、快乐和幸福。

当我们静坐时，我们真正处于当下的时刻；我们回家了，我们到达了。我们存在于此时此地；我们没有被过去、未来或者现在的愤怒和嫉妒所耗散。当我们如此坐着时，我们就像一个自由的人一样坐着。

[BE PRESENT WHERE YOU ARE]

When we have the capacity to be peaceful and joyful as we sit, we can sit anywhere. We can sit in the airport. We can sit in the train station. We can sit on the bank of a river. We can sit in prison. If everyone in the world knew how to sit like that, this world would have more peace, joy, and happiness.

When we’re sitting, we’re truly there in the present moment; we have come home, we have arrived. We are present in that time and place; we’re not pulled away by the past, the future, or by anger or jealousy in the present. When we sit like that, we sit as a free person.