Ted演讲: 活本来很简单我们干嘛把它搞得这么艰难？

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[00:00.10]Jon Jandai: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? 生活本来很简单， 我们干嘛要把它搞得这么艰难？
[00:06.15]There is one word that I have always wanted to say to everybody in my life. 有这样一句话，我想与我生活中的每一个人分享。
[00:12.67]That word is "Life is easy. " 这句话就是「生活很简单」。
[00:15.70]It's so easy and fun. 很简单，又充满乐趣。
[00:17.70]Before that, I never think like that. 以前我不是这么想的。
[00:22.27]When I was in Bangkok, I felt like life is very hard, very complicated. 当我在曼谷的时候，我感到生活很艰难、很复杂。
[00:29.20]I was born in a poor village on the Northeastern of Thailand. 我出生在泰国东北部一个贫困的小乡村，
[00:35.19]And when I was a kid, everything was fun and easy, but when the TV came, many people came to the village,我小的时候，一切都是那么有趣、那么简单，但是后来出现了电视机，很多人来到村子里，
[00:44.00]they said, "You are poor, you need to follow success for your life. You need to go to Bangkok to pursue success in your life. "他们说：“你这么穷，你需要追求一个成功的生活。你应该去曼谷追求成功的生活。”	
[00:57.59]So I felt bad, I felt poor. 我感觉很糟糕，意识到自己的贫穷。
[01:01.43]So I needed to go to Bangkok. 我觉得自己需要到曼谷去。
[01:03.14]When I went to Bangkok, it was not very fun. 当我来到曼谷，那里很没意思。
[01:06.77]You need to learn, study a lot and work very hard, and then you can get success. 你需要学习很多东西，非常辛苦地工作，然后才可以享受成功。
[01:15.99]I worked very hard, eight hours per day at least, but what I can eat is just a bowl of noodles per meal, or some Tama dish of fried rice or something like that. 我努力工作，每天至少8个小时，但是每餐饭只能吃到一碗面条或者是多摩菜，或者炒米饭之类的东西。
[01:31.69]And where I stayed was very bad, a small room with a lot of people slept. 我和很多人一起住在一个条件很差且很小的房间里。
[01:36.20]It's very hot. 房间里非常闷热。
[01:37.37]I started to question a lot. 我开始时常问自己。
[01:40.84]When I work hard, why is my life so hard? 我努力工作，为什么生活还这么艰难？
[01:46.13]It must be something wrong, because I produce a lot of things, but I cannot get enough. 一定是哪里出了问题，因为我生产了很多东西，但是得到的却很少。
[01:53.68]And I tried to learn, I tried to study. 我努力学习，非常努力的学习。
[01:58.57]I tried to study in the university. 并设法在大学里学习。
[02:00.50]It's very hard to learn in university, because it's very boring. 在大学里学习很辛苦，因为课程很无聊。（笑声）
[02:07.16]And when I looked at subjects in the university, in every faculty, most of them had destructive knowledge. 当我看到大学里的课程和专业，传授的几乎都是破坏性的知识。
[02:18.30]There's no productive knowledge in university for me. 大学里没有对我有用的知识。
[02:22.58]When I look at something like if you learn to be an architect or engineer, that means you ruin more. 如果你学习建筑或者工程专业，意味着你将破坏更多的东西。
[02:30.17]The more these people work, the mountain will be destroyed more. 这些人的工作越繁忙，就有越多的山林被破坏。
[02:34.82]And a good land in Chao Praya Basin will be covered with concrete more and more. 昭披耶盆地的大好土地会被越来越多的混凝土所覆盖，
[02:40.00]We destroy more. 我们会破坏的更多。
[02:42.23]If we learn agriculture faculty or something like that, that means you learn how to poison, to toxicate the land, the water, and learn to destroy everything. 如果是类似农业这样的专业，意味着我们学习如何下毒毒害土地和水，学习破坏一切。
[02:53.93]I feel like everything we do is so complicated, so hard. 我觉得我们做的每件事都是那么复杂，那么困难。
[02:57.85]And everything we just make it hard. 我们人为制造了很多困难。
[02:59.76]Life is so hard and I felt disappointed. 生活太难了，我觉得很失望。
[03:05.76]I started to think about, why I have to be here in Bangkok? 我开始思考，我为什么要到曼谷来呢？
[03:09.95]I thought about when I was a kid, nobody worked eight hours per day, everybody worked two hours, two months a year, planting rice one month and harvesting the rice another month. 我记得在我小的时候，没有人会一天工作8个小时，大家每天只工作两小时，每年只工作两个月，一个月种大米，一个月收大米。
[03:23.84]The rest is free time, ten months of free time. 其它时间都是空闲的，十个月闲置时间，
[03:27.10]That's why people have so many festivals in Thailand, every month they have festival. 这就是为什么泰国有那么多的节日，每个月都有节日。
[03:31.25]Because they have so much free time. 因为他们有太多的自由时间。
[03:33.80]And then in the daytime, everybody even takes a nap. 白天的时候，每个人都会睡午觉。
[03:38.49]Even now in Laos, if anybody go to Laos if you can, people take a nap after lunch. 现在即使在老挝，你可以去老挝看看，人们在午饭后也会睡。
[03:45.00]And after they wake up, they just gossip, how's your son-in-law, how's your wife, daughter-in-law. 午觉睡醒之后，他们就闲聊你的女婿怎么样、你的妻子、儿媳妇如何如何。
[03:51.74]People have a lot of time, but because they have a lot of time, they have time to be with themselves. 人们有太多的时间，因为他们有这么多的时间，他们就可以从容地做回自己。
[04:01.21]And when they have time to be with themselves, they have time to understand themselves. 当他们有时间做回自己，他们就有时间了解自己。
[04:05.98]When they understand themselves, they can see what they want in their life. 当他们了解了自己，就可以看到自己一生的目标是什么。
[04:10.75]So, many people see that they want happiness, they want love, they want to enjoy their life. 很多人发现他们想要幸福，想要爱，想要享受生活。
[04:17.74]So, people see a lot of beauty in their life, so they express that beauty in many ways. 于是人们看到了生命中的许多美丽，他们用各种各样的方式来展现美丽，
[04:24.56]Some people by carving the handle of their knife, very beautiful, the baskets they are weaving very nicely. 有些人喜欢雕刻刀柄很漂亮，他们编的篮子很好看。
[04:32.36]But, now, nobody does that. 但是现在，没人做这个工作了，
[04:34.63]Nobody can do something like that. 再也没有人会这项手艺了，
[04:37.78]People use plastic everywhere. 到处都是塑胶。
[04:39.16]So, I feel like it's something wrong in there, I cannot live in this way of living. 所以我觉得肯定出了一些问题，我不能用现在这种方式生活下去，
[04:44.97]So, I decided to quit University, and went back home. 于是我决定离开大学回到家乡。
[04:50.37]When I went back home, I started to live like I remember, like when I was a kid. 当我回到家乡，我开始了我小时候记忆中的生活方式。
[04:57.82]I started to work two months a year. I got four tons of rice. 我每年只工作两个月，就收获了四吨大米。
[05:02.79]And the whole family, six people, we eat less than half a ton per year. 一家六口人一年吃不到半吨大米，
[05:08.19]So we can sell some rice. 所以我们还可以卖出一些大米。
[05:10.76]And then I dug two ponds, two fish ponds. We have fish to eat all year round. 我挖了两个鱼塘，里面的鱼足够我们吃一整年。
[05:16.32]And I started a small garden. Less than half an acre. 我还搞了一个小菜园，不到半英亩，
[05:24.80]And I spend 15 minutes per day to take care of the garden. 我每天花15分钟打理菜园，里
[05:30.00]I have more than 30 varieties of vegetables in the garden. 面种了30多种蔬菜。
[05:34.60]So, six people cannot eat all of it. 所以，六口人根本吃不了，
[05:37.78]We have a surplus to sell in the market. We can make some income in there, too. 我们还可以拿到市场去卖，还能有一些收入。
[05:45.66]So, I feel like, it's easy, why I have to be in Bangkok for seven years, working hard and then not have enough to eat, 我觉得这太轻松了，为什么要去曼谷辛苦工作7年，还吃不饱呢？
[05:54.32]but here, only two months a year and 15 minutes per day I can feed six people. That's easy. 在这里，我每年工作两个月，每天花15分钟时间就可以养活六口人，太轻松了。
[06:02.80]And before I think that stupid people like me who never get a good grade in the school, cannot have a house. 以前我觉得，像我这样在学校里从没取得过好成绩的笨蛋，肯定连栋房子都买不起。
[06:13.93]Because people who are cleverer than me, who get number one in the class every year, they get a good job, but they need to work more than 30 years to have a house. 因为比我聪明、每年都在班级里排名第一的那些人，他们有一份好工作，但也需要工作30多年才能买一栋房子。
[06:25.48]But for me who cannot finish university, how can I have a house? 但是我呢？没有读完大学，怎么能拥有一栋房子？
[06:29.50]Hopeless for people who have low education, like me. 像我这样没有受过教育的人，是没有希望的。
[06:33.41]But, then I started to do earthly building, it's so easy. 但是当我开始用老方法盖房，很简单就解决了这个问题。
[06:37.10]I spend two hours per day, from 5 o'clock in the morning, to 7 o'clock in the morning, two hours per day. 我每天花两个小时，从早上5点到早上7点，每天两个小时，
[06:43.90]And in three months, I got a house. 三个月之后，我有了一座房子。
[06:46.40]And another friend who's the most clever in the class, he spent three months to build his house, too. 我的一个朋友，他是班上最聪明的学生，他也花了三个月盖起自己的房子，
[06:54.24]But, he had to be in debt. He had to pay for his debt for 30 years. 但他不得不负债，要偿还债务30年，
[06:58.87]So, compared to him, I have 29 years and 10 months of free time. 所以，和他相比，我多了29年10个月的自由时间。
[07:05.89]So, I feel that life is so easy. 所以，我觉得生活很简单。
[07:10.38]I never think I can build a house easy like that. 我从未想过这么容易地盖起一座房子。
[07:16.30]And I keep building a house every year, at least one house a very year. 于是我继续盖房子，每年至少盖一座。
[07:19.46]Now, I have no money, but I have many houses. 现在，我没有钱，但是我有很多房子。（笑声）
[07:23.24]My problem is tonight which house I will go to sleep tonight. 我的烦恼就是每晚要在哪个房子里睡觉。（笑声）
[07:28.78]So, a house is not a problem, anybody can build a house. 所以，盖栋房子不是问题，谁都能盖房子。
[07:34.86]The kids, 13 years old, at the school, they make bricks together, they make a house. 学校里13岁的孩子们，他们把砖块拼在一起，就有了一座房子。
[07:39.88]After one month, they have a library. 一个月之后，他们就有了一个图书馆。
[07:41.83]The kids can make a house, a very old nun can build a hut for herself. 孩子们可以盖房，老奶奶也可以给自己盖一个小棚屋。
[07:46.73]Many people can build a house. 很多人都可以盖房子。
[07:48.50]So, it's easy. 所以，这很简单。
[07:50.32]If you don't believe me, try it. 如果你不相信，自己去试试，
[07:53.51]If somebody wants to have a house. 只要你想要把房子盖起来。
[07:55.45]And then, the next thing is clothing. 接下来的一件事是衣服。
[08:00.32]I feel like I'm poor, I feel like I'm not handsome. 我觉得自己很穷，长得也不帅气。
[08:04.47]I tried to dress like somebody else, like a movie star. To make myself look good, look better. 我试图穿得像别人一样，像电影明星一样，让我自己更好看。
[08:11.11]I spent one month to save money to buy a pair of jeans. 我用存了一个月的钱，买了一条牛仔裤。
[08:15.31]When I wear it, I turn left, and turn right, look at the mirror. 我穿上它，左转转，右转转照着镜子。
[08:19.70]Every time I look, I am the same person. 再怎么看，我还是我自己。
[08:22.15]The most expensive pant cannot change my life. 最贵的裤子也改变不了我的生活。
[08:25.60]I feel like I'm so crazy, why I have to buy it? 我觉得自己疯了，为什么要买这个东西？
[08:29.61]Spend one month to have a pair of pants. It doesn't change me. 花一个月的积蓄买一条裤子，改变不了我。
[08:34.43]I started to think more about that. 我更深入地思考。
[08:37.47]Why we need to follow fashion? Because, when we follow fashion, we never catch up with it, because we follow it. 我们为什么要追求时尚？因为我们是追逐时尚，但是永远追不上，永远是跟在后面。
[08:42.98]So, don't follow it, just stay here. 所以不要再追了，停下吧。（笑声）
[08:45.66]Use what you have. 用你自己有的东西。
[08:48.13]So, after that, until now, 20 years, I never buy any clothes. 所以，从那以后一直到现在，20年来，我没有买过衣服。
[08:51.86]All the clothes I have is leftovers from people. 我所有的衣服都是别人不要了给我的。
[08:55.85]When people come to visit me, and when they left, they left a lot of clothes there. 人们来拜访我，他们走的时候给我留下很多衣服。
[09:01.00]So, I have tons of clothes now. 所以我现在有成堆的衣服。（笑声）
[09:02.43]And when people see me wear very old clothes, they give me more clothes. 当人们看到我穿的旧衣服，就会送给我更多的衣服。（笑声）
[09:08.42]So, my problem is, I need to give clothes to people very often now. 所以我现在的烦恼是，我需要经常把衣服送给别人。（笑声）
[09:15.21]So, it's so easy. 所以，很简单。
[09:17.27]And when I stopped buying clothes, I feel like, it's not only clothes, it's about something else in my life, 当我不再买衣服，我感到，不仅仅是衣服，还有生活中其它的一些事情，
[09:24.34]What I learned is that when I buy something, and I think about, I buy it because I like it, or I buy it because I need it. 我明白，当我买一些东西，我觉得是因为我喜欢它或者是因为我需要它。
[09:33.69]So, if I buy it because I like it, that means I'm wrong. 如果是因为我喜欢它，就说明我错了。
[09:38.86]So, I feel more free when I think like this. 想到这一点，我觉得更自由了。
[09:43.44]And the last thing is, when I get sick, what will I do?	最后一件事是，如果我生病了该怎么办？
[09:47.29]I really worried in the beginning, because when I have no money, what I will do. 开始的时候我很担心，因为当时我没有钱，该怎么办？
[09:52.00]But, I started to contemplate more. 但是，我开始更深入地思考，
[09:55.59]Normally, sickness is a normal thing, it's not a bad thing. 生病很正常，并不是一件坏事。
[09:59.17]Sickness is something to remind us that we did something wrong in my life, that's why we get sick. 生病是在提醒我们，在生活中做错了某些事情，所以我们才会生病。
[10:04.80]So, when I get sick, I need to stop and come back to myself. 所以生病的时候，我需要停下来反省自己，
[10:08.30]And think about it, what I did was wrong. 仔细考虑ziji哪里做错了。
[10:11.54]So, I learned how to use water to heal myself, how to use earth to heal myself, I learned how to use basic knowledge to heal myself. 所以我学会用水来治疗自己，用大自然资源来治疗自己，用一些最基础的知识治疗自己。
[10:21.58]So, now that I rely on myself in these four things, I feel like life is very easy, I feel something like freedom, I feel free. 所以，这四件事情，我全部自给自足，我觉得这很简单，我感觉到自由、轻松。
[10:31.76]I feel like I don't worry about anything much, I have less fear, I can do whatever I want in my life. 我觉得不需要为任何事情担心，我不再害怕，我可以做自己想做的事情。
[10:37.85]Before, I had a lot of fear, I cannot do anything. 早先我很害怕，很多事情不能做。
[10:42.81]But, now I feel very free, I feel like I'm a unique person on this Earth, nobody like me, I don't need to make myself like anybody else. 但是现在我很自由，感觉象是地球上独一无二的人，我再也不需要让自己去模仿任何人。
[10:50.24]I'm the number one. 唯我独尊。
[10:51.72]So, things like this make it easy, very light. 这么想，事情很简单、很轻松。
[10:54.79]And, after that, I started to think about that when I was in Bangkok, I felt very dark in my life. 之后，我开始思考，当我在曼谷的时候，我感觉生活一片黑暗，
[11:05.88]I started to think that many people maybe thought like me at the time. 或许很多人和我的感觉一样。
[11:09.93]So, we started a place called "Pun Pun" in Chiang Mai.所以我们在清迈建立了个叫做「PunPun」的地方， 
[11:14.84]The main aim is just saving seed. 主要的目的是节约种子。
[11:18.67]To collect seed, because seed is food, food is life. 收集种子，因为种子就是食物，而食物就是生命。
[11:22.15]If there is no seed, no life. 没有种子，就没有生命；
[11:24.87]No seed, no freedom. 没有种子，就没有自由；
[11:26.28]No seed, no happiness. 没有种子，就没有幸福。
[11:27.78]Because your life depends on somebody else. Because you have no food. 没有食物，你的生命就要依赖其他人。
[11:31.70]So, it's very important to save seed. 所以，收集种子是非常重要的。
[11:35.11]That's why we focus on saving seed. 这就是为什么我们要收集种子。
[11:37.47]That's the main thing in Pun Pun. 这就是PunPun的目的。
[11:39.92]And the second thing is it is the learning center. 第二个行动是建立学习中心。
[11:43.53]We want to have a center for ourselves to learn, learn how to make life easy. 我们希望有一个可以学习的地方，学习如何让生活变得轻松。
[11:49.72]Because we were taught to make life complicated and hard all the time. 因为我们学习到的东西总是让我们的生活变得复杂、艰难。
[11:53.81]How can we make it easy? It's easy, but we don't know how to make it easy anymore. 我们怎么会让生活变得简单？其实生活一点都不难，但是我们已经不知道怎样让生活变得简单了，
[12:02.50]Because we always make it complicated and now, we start to learn, and learn to be together. 因为我们总是把它搞得复杂，所以我们需要学习，学会协作。
[12:08.75]Because, we were taught to disconnect ourselves from everything else, to be independent, so we can rely on the money only. 因为我们学到的是把自己与周围一切隔断联系，完全独立，所以我们只能依赖金钱，
[12:16.94]We don't need to rely on each other. 而不需要依赖其他人。
[12:18.48]But now, to be happy, we need to come back, to connect to ourselves again, to connect to other people, to connect our mind and body together again. 但是现在，为了幸福，我们必须回归自我，与他人保持联系，让我们的心灵与身体真正结合。
[12:27.27]So, we can be happy. Life is easy. 在一起,这样我们就能获得幸福，生活很简单。
[12:31.10]And from beginning until now, what I learned is the four basic needs: food, house, clothes and medicine must be cheap and easy for everybody, that's the civilization. 从开始到现在，我了解了四个基本需求：食物、住房、衣服和药物。它们必须足够便宜，可以让所有人方便获得，这才是文明。
[12:43.38]But, if you make these four things hard and very hard for many people to get, that's uncivilized. 但是如果你让人们很难得到这四样东西，就是不文明。
[12:50.63]So, now when we look at everywhere around us, everything is so hard to get. 那么我们看看身边的一切，每一样东西都很难得到。
[12:57.63]So I feel like now is the most uncivilized era of humans on this Earth. 所以我觉得现在是人类历史上最原始的时代。
[13:03.84]We have so many people who finish from university, have so many universities on the Earth, have so many clever people on this Earth. But, life is harder and harder. 有那么多的人从大学毕业，世界上有那么多大学，有那么多充满智慧的人，但是生活却越来越艰难。
[13:17.94]We make it hard for whom? We work hard for whom right now?	这究竟是为了谁？我们现在努力工作是为了谁？
[13:23.47]I feel like it's wrong, it's not normal. 我觉得一切都错了，这不正常。
[13:28.98]So, I just want to come back to normal. 所以我只想让一切恢复正常。
[13:31.11]To be a normal person, to be equal to animals. 变成一个正常的人，和动物一样，
[13:35.69]The birds make a nest in one or two days. 鸟儿用一两天筑成一个窝，
[13:39.64]The rats dig a hole in one night. 老鼠一个晚上就可以挖个洞。
[13:42.43]But, the clever humans like us spend 30 years to have a house, and many people can't believe that they can have a house in this life. 但是，像我们一样的聪明人，要花30年才能有一间房子，还有很多人不敢奢望这辈子能有一间房子，
[13:53.81]So, that's wrong. 因此，这是错的。
[13:55.93]Why we destroy our spirit, why do we destroy our ability that much? 为什么我们要摧毁自己的力量、破坏自己的能力？
[14:01.65]So, I feel like it's enough for me, to live in the normal way, in the abnormal way. 我觉得自己受够了不正常的生活方式，
[14:11.24]So, now I try to be normal. 现在，我要回归正常，
[14:13.79]But, people look at me as the abnormal people. 但是人们都觉得我不是个正常人。（笑声）
[14:17.40]A crazy people. 把我当作一个疯子，
[14:18.66]But, I don't care, because it's not my fault. 但是我并不在意，因为这不是我的错，
[14:22.25]It's their fault, because they think like that. 他们要这样想，是他们的错。
[14:26.10]So, my life is easy and light now. That's enough for me. 我现在的生活简单又轻松，我很满足。
[14:33.10]People can think whatever they want. 人们爱怎样想都可以。
[14:35.40]I cannot manage anything outside myself. 我只能控制我自己，
[14:38.19]What I can do is change my mind, manage my mind. 我能做的就是改变和控制自己的想法。
[14:42.68]Now, my mind is light and easy, that's enough. 现在，我的思想简单又轻松，我很满足。
[14:46.52]If anybody wants to have a choice, you can have a choice. 假如任何人想有一个选择，他们都可以做出选择，
[14:50.81]The choice to be easy or to be hard, it depends on you. 选择轻松还是困难，完全取决于你自己。
[14:54.61]Thank you. 谢谢。（掌声）

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