第1662期:10 rules for better living

Do you want better living?

Duh, who doesn’t?

今天跟你分享Manly P. Hall提出的美好生活的10个基本守则,供你思考与践行。

First, who is Manly P. Hall?

Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages. In 1934 he founded the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. (Wikipedia)

他提出了10个快乐生活原则:

1) Stop worrying.

Worrying不是操心,也不是深思熟虑(thoughtfulness)。不是叫你什么都不管,而是叫你别想得太多,别杞人忧天。忘了谁说的了——99% of the things you worry about never happen.

2) Stop trying to dominate and possess your friends and relatives.

别总想出风头,别总显得比别人聪明。人生很多悲剧的根源就是逞能。这一条不仅适用于亲朋,也(更)适用于同事。

3) Moderate ambition.

有理想有抱负不等于你发誓这辈子银行存款一定要超过马斯克,人的快乐程度常常与野心大小成反比。Happiness is not have what you want; happiness is want what you have. 中国人的“知足常乐”(content is happiness)是了不起的生活智慧。

4) Do not accumulate more than you need.

很多人声称等实现了财务自由就提前退休就去周游世界就去做一切自己想做的事,但现实是大多数所说的“财务自由”这种东西根本就不存在。多少钱算自由?怎样才算自由?你到底想做哪些事?其实很多人回答不出这三个问题。我的理解是,如果心灵不自由,有多少钱都不会自由。

How much is much? How many days do you still have? How do you know tomorrow you are still alive? Do your own things; leave everything else to providence. – Fuolao

5) Learn to relax.

这个无需多说,如果你真的学会了放下一切纠结,你的嘴角就会自然地上扬,脸上就会洋溢出那种心中充满了确定和目标,不被一切外物影响的安静与幸福。这是一辈子的功课。

6) Cultivate a sense of humor.

Genuine humor is the ability to laugh with the world and not at the world. – Dale L. June

7) Find a reason for your own existence.

Try everything, find your thing – that’ll be your calling. Then your life has all the meaning. – Fuolao

8) Never intentionally harm any other person.

不仅不要伤害别人,也不要伤害一切动植物。我坚信万物皆有灵,万物皆有情。

9) Beware of anger.

对一切你厌恶的人或事,你一关注他,你就给他脸了,你一生气,你就输了。

所以我从不看新闻,耽误我看书。

10) Never blame others for your own mistakes.

人做了一丁点好事,总想让神明知道。人做了再大的坏事,都以为神明没看见。

很多人,下属有一点成绩,功劳是他的。下属犯了一点小错,责任都是下属的。

很多人,凡是跟自己不一样的都是敌人,凡是跟自己想法不同的都是傻剥衣。

很多人,得理不饶人,没理搅三分。

很多人,放屁瞅别人,其实就是他放的。

远离这些人,你立刻就会快乐起来。所以我从不看新闻,耽误我看书。

I wish you happiness today. You know what? Happy or unhappy, you’ll have to live it for 24 hours and nobody else cares.

希望你每天阅读佛老的文章都会感到快乐,并有智识的收获。