71 AIMLESSNESS

【无为】

当我们在前方设定一个目标时，我们可能会用一生去奔跑，但幸福将永远无法实现。只有当你停止奔跑，珍惜当下和真实的自己时，幸福才是可能的。你不需要成为别人，因为你本身已经是生命的奇迹。在西方文化中，我们非常注重目标导向，常常忘记在前行的路途中享受自我。无为意味着你不把某个目标放在前面去追逐，因为一切都已经在你自己之中存在。当我们练习行禅时，我们并不试图到达任何地方，我们只是迈出平和、快乐的步伐。如果我们总是在想着未来，想着想要实现什么，我们就会失去脚下的步伐。坐禅也是如此，我们坐着只是为了享受当下的坐姿，而不是为了达成任何目标。每一个坐禅的时刻都将我们带回生活，我们以一种享受整个坐禅过程的方式来坐着。无论是吃橘子、喝茶还是行禅，我们都应该以“无为”的方式去做。

[AIMLESSNESS]

When we put an aim in front of us, we can run for our whole life, and happiness will never be possible. Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. You don’t need to be someone else; you’re already a wonder of life. In the West, we’re very goal oriented and often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route. Aimlessness means you don’t put something in front of you and run after it, because everything is already here, in yourself. While we practice walking meditation, we don’t try to arrive anywhere. We only make peaceful, happy steps. If we keep thinking of the future, of what we want to realize, we will lose our steps. The same is true with sitting meditation. We sit just to enjoy our sitting; we don’t sit in order to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings us back to life, and we sit in a way that we enjoy our sitting for the entire time we do it. Whether we’re eating a tangerine, drinking a cup of tea, or walking in meditation, we should do it in a way that is “aimless.”