Praying is talking to the universe. Meditation is listening to it.
Paul Coelho
祈祷是向宇宙诉说，而冥想是聆听宇宙的声音。
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman
幸福，就在此时此地。
从醒来的那一刻到睡着的那一刻，我们总是习惯于进行自我对话。我们一直在心中喋喋不休，甚至深陷其中而意识不到它的存在。正如我在上周 文章 中的分享，这些对话是社会在我们头脑的投影。而我们在这一思想帷幔的遮蔽中感知周围的人事物，认为这就是我们的整个世界。
We’re so deeply conditioned to be lost in thought and to be having this conversation with ourselves from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep, it’s just chatter in the mind, and it’s so captivating that we’re not even aware of it.
We are essentially in a dream state. And it’s through this veil of thought that we go about our day and perceive our environments. But we are just talking to ourselves nonstop. And until you can break that spell and begin to notice thoughts themselves as objects of consciousness, just arising and passing away, you can’t even pay attention to your breath or to anything else with any kind of clarity.
Sam Harris
曾经的我就是如此，把社会的游戏当成全部，头脑的声音无情又严厉地鞭笞我拼命学习，努力工作。仿佛如果没有获得社会的认可和俗世的成功，我的生命就没有任何价值和意义。我也如同希腊神话中的西西弗斯，在一遍遍将巨石推上山顶，在追逐一场又一场永无止境的游戏通关中精疲力竭、焦躁不安。
甚至这样的不安会从白天延续到黑夜，影响我的睡眠。
就这样，我总是活在想象中目标达成的下一刻，而生活真实存在的每一个此刻则被我忽视。
如果没有活在此刻，又怎么能算真正活过呢？
冥想是我的解药，帮我拆除头脑中的思想帷幔。
它的修习有两种：“止”和“观”。
止，或“心专注”（concentration）是将注意力集中在一个对象上，比如呼吸；而观是观察事物的实相（insight，mindfulness），比如观察自己的意念。当我们开始观察自己的意念时，我们就会发现，意念不是我们，但是意念产生情绪。意念和情绪像天气一样来来去去，而我们的心是天空。
Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself. It only "works" when done for its own sake.
Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journalling, and meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
Naval Ravikant
但是在最初接触冥想的时候，我觉得十分无聊，几乎无法多坚持一秒。“我闭着眼睛坐在这里干什么？关注呼吸有什么意义？“
People who haven’t tried to meditate have very little sense that their minds are noisy at all. And when you tell them that they’re thinking every second of the day, it generally doesn’t mean anything to them. It certainly doesn’t strike most of them as pathological. When these people try to meditate, they have one of two reactions: Some are so restless and besieged by doubts that they can hardly attempt the exercise. “What am I doing sitting here with my eyes closed? What is the point of paying attention to the breath?” And, strangely, their resistance isn’t remotely interesting to them. They come away, after only a few minutes, thinking that the act of paying close attention to their experience is pointless.
But then there are the people who have an epiphany similar to yours, where the unpleasant realization that their minds are lurching all over the place becomes a goad to further inquiry. Their inability to pay sustained attention—to anything—becomes interesting to them. And they recognize it as pathological, despite the fact that almost everyone is in the same condition.
Sam Harris
事实上，直到现在，我依然很难说自己像那些“顿悟”的练习者那样，十分享受冥想的过程。我依然会觉得很无聊，尤其是在每次刚坐下的时候。
但这也许正是我练习冥想的意义所在。觉得很无聊，是我头脑意念强烈抗拒的体现。
而最开始闭上眼睛时，我们的眼睛并没有真正关闭。外界社会的图像在内心中映射出来。
但是，如果继续简单地向内部移动，这些投影会慢慢沉淀消解，社会被排除在外。而我们也可以觉察到思想的出现和消失，感受自己的呼吸，以及其他一切。
But remember, in the beginning when you close your eyes, they are not really closed. You carry images from the outside inside and you will find the same society reflected. But if you continue simply moving, moving, moving inside, sooner or later the society will be left out. You are in, society is out - you have moved from the periphery to the center.
Osho
要达到这一的状态，也并非只在静坐时发生。对我来说，运动是冥想，按摩是冥想，写作和阅读是冥想，弹琴唱歌是冥想，做饭做家务是冥想，身处大自然中也是冥想。
Hiking is walking meditation. Journalling is writing meditation. Praying is gratitude meditation. Showering is accidental meditation. Sitting quietly is direct meditation.
Naval Ravikant
Tim Ferris在《巨人的工具》中介绍了自己的晨间习惯，其中就包括静思冥想10-20分钟。他也提到在他采访的嘉宾中至少80%的人会每天冥想。一些我们熟知的一直冥想的名人就包括：Steve Jobs, Ray Dalio,Yuval Noah Harari,Naval Ravikant,Sam Altman, Cal Newport等。
我也根据Tim Ferris的建议，尝试自己的晨间习惯：
- 喝水+喝中药
- 冥想
- 很快的拜日式 （苏醒身体）
- 早餐和喝的（咖啡、茶）：出去买或者自己做
- 晨间日记
- 出门见阳光
如果早上这六件事做到了三件，就是胜利。
相关信息：
- Sam Harris on The Tim Ferriss Show — Transcript https://tim.blog/sam-harris-on-the-tim-ferriss-show-transcript/
- 靜坐止觀(禪定) https://www.tccwonline.org/meditation_big5.htm
- https://www.thetadprinciple.com/quotes-on-mindfulness-and-meditation.html
- Interviews:TAMING THE MIND A Conversation with Dan Harris https://www.samharris.org/blog/taming-the-mind
- 杨定一《真原医》
- 20230703 意念是一种社会功能 https://river.zhubai.love/posts/2287472246757146624
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