Name: 為什麼大多數人從未真正活過？ ► 我們花大半輩子，選擇忘記這個真相... - Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯（中英字幕）
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And we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth,

The one thing people tend to realize at moments like this is that they wasted a lot of time,

It's not just what they did with their time, it's not just that they spent too much time working or compulsively checking email.

It's that they cared about the wrong things.

So their attention was bound up in petty concerns, a year after year when life was normal.

And this is a paradox of course, because we all know this epiphany is coming.

Don't you know that there's gonna come a day when you'll be sick or someone close to you will die?

And you'll look back on the kinds of things that captured your attention, and you'll think, what was I doing?

You know this, and yet if you're like most people, you'll spend most of your time in life tacitly presuming you'll live forever.

I mean it's like watching a bad movie for the fourth time, or or bickering with your spouse.

These things only make sense in light of eternity.

However much you feel you may need to plan for the future, to anticipate it, to mitigate risks,

Now this may sound trite, but it's the truth.

The past is a memory, it's a thought arising in the present, the future is merely anticipated.

What we truly have is this moment, and this.

And we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth, repudiating it, fleeing it, overlooking it.

We we manage to never really connect with the present moment.

And find fulfillment there, because we are we are continually hoping to become happy in the future.

Now even when we think we're in the present moment, we're we're in very subtle ways always looking over its shoulder, anticipating what's coming next.

So the the most important question for us is how can we truly be fulfilled in life?

How how can we create lives that are truly worth living, given that these lives come to an end?

And in the practice of meditation I I just showed you, often called mindfulness meditation.

Is just a trick for doing that. It's it's a trick for setting aside your to-do list if only for a few moments.

And actually locate a feeling of fulfillment.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did or what you should have done or what you would have done if you if you only had the chance,

The conversation we have with ourselves every minute of the day comes at a cost.

It's I'm not saying that discursive thought is not necessary or useful.

But it is the mechanism by which most of our suffering is inflicted.

The sorrow and the self-doubt and the anxiety and the fear.

Thinking is useful, but being perpetually lost in thought isn't.

Okay, being the mere hostage of the next thought.

That comes careening into the consciousness isn't useful.

And it's possible to simply drop your problem if only for a moment and enjoy whatever is true of your life in the present.