为什么练习哈他瑜伽时空腹很重要？

Sadhguru answers a question on why Hatha Yoga should be practiced on an empty stomach, and explores the nature of the body and how Hatha Yoga influences it.
萨古鲁回答了关于为什么应该空腹练习哈他瑜伽的问题，并且探讨了身体的本质以及哈他瑜伽是如何影响身体的。
Question: Why should we do Hatha Yoga on an empty stomach?
问：为什么我们练习哈他瑜伽时要空腹？

Sadhguru: You should not only be on an empty stomach – your bowels should be empty too. If you do Hatha Yoga, you must ensure to leave at least 10 or better 12 hours between your last meal and your practice. That way, you give enough time for digestion so that when you get up in the morning, the body will naturally purge. If you eat late at night and get up early, the digestion will not be complete.
萨古鲁：你不仅应该空腹——你肠道也应该清空。如果你要练习哈他瑜伽，你必须保证最后的正餐和（第二天早上）练习之间至少间隔10个小时或者最好12个小时。这样的话，你就有充足的时间消化，这样当你早上起来的时候，你的身体会自然地排便。如果你晚上吃得很晚并且起得很早，消化就会不充分。

In traditional Indian m edicine, whether it is Ayurveda or Siddha, whatever health problem you have, first they will purge your colon. If you want to be healthy, it is essential that your colon is clean. The colon cannot be clean for people who eat certain types of foods, and who have the habit of eating in between too much. Especially dairy products and non-vegetarian food remain in the colon for long periods of time.
在印度的传统医学中，无论是阿育吠陀还是悉达医学，不管你有什么样的健康问题，人们首先会清理你的结肠。如果你想变得健康，最根本的是你结肠要干净。对于那些吃某些种类食物的人以及那些习惯在两顿正餐之间吃太多的人，结肠是不可能干净的。尤其是奶制品和荤食在结肠中停留的时间很长。

Anything that is not an actual part of your body should be out if you want to move your energies upward. Yogic practices are not exercises – they are methods to restructure your system. In a way, you are trying to recreate yourself by remolding your system the way you want it to be. For this to be done, there should be nothing but your body. The only thing that is okay to have is water.
如果你想要提升你的能量的话，任何不是你身体的组成部分都应该去除。瑜伽练习不是健身运动——它们是重新构建系统的方法。从某方面来说，你是想通过以你想要的方式重新塑造你的系统，以重新创造自己。为了实现这一点，除了你的身体之外，其他一切都要排出。只有一样东西是可以的，那就是水。

Practicing yoga means beginning a partnership with the Creator. You cannot do it all yourself, but you can create the necessary atmosphere for the Creator to do the job. You want that which is the source of creation to become your willing partner. The first time you were made, it was not your choice – it was your parents and forefathers who decided how your body should be shaped, and how it should function. It happened from genetic memory. This is why in this culture, we refer to enlightened ones as dwijas or twice-born. Once born out of your mother’s womb – the way you were born was not your choice. But now you are reinventing and recreating yourself, step-by-step, the way you want yourself to be.

练习瑜伽意味着开始了与造物主的合作关系。你无法全部自己完成，不过你可以营造一个必要的环境让造物主来完成任务。你想要创造之源心甘情愿与你合作。第一次你被创造出来并不是出于你自己的选择——是你的父母和祖先决定了你身体的形状和运作方式。那是来自基因的记忆。这就是为什么在印度文化里我们称悟道者为dwijas，即重生者。第一次你出生于你母亲的子宫，你怎样出生不是出于你的选择。但是，你现在正在逐步按照你想要的方式重新改造和创造你自己。

Your life will not change if you have a nose job done or if you get an implant in some part of your body. Your experience of life will change only if the very way your body functions energy-wise, the way it thinks, the way it feels, the way it responds to the universe around, can be altered. If you change your nose or you do some other kind of cosmetic procedure, how someone else looks at you may change. It may change the experience for the beholder, not for you. Your experience will only change depending on the extent to which your body is in line with the source of creation.
如果你只是整了你的鼻子或是在身体的某个部位植入了东西，你的生命不会改变。只有当你身体的能量运作方式、你身体的思考方式、你身体的感知方式以及你身体对周围万物的回应方式改变了，你的生命体验才会改变。如果你整了你的鼻子或者做了一些其它的整容，外人对你的看法可能会改变。这可能会改变那个看你的人的体验，但不会改变你的体验。你的体验只会基于你的身体与创造之源之间的一致程度。

If you really look at creation, you will see everything smacks of phenomenal intelligence. If you pay enough attention to a simple leaf, you will know what kind of intelligence has gone into making this, and how many functions it has. In a way, a leaf is a plant’s energy source. The dream of today’s scientists is to create a leaf as a renewable energy source that could power your house, and even provide food and water for you. Scientists have been working on this cutting-edge technology for years. They are struggling so much to produce one leaf, because it is incredible how many things a leaf can do at the same time. Even in a single atom, phenomenal intelligence is involved – we are not able to really figure it out.
如果你真真切切地观察创造，你会看到一切似乎都带有惊人的智慧。如果你足够地专注于一片简简单单的叶子，你会了悟到是什么样的智慧被注入了这片叶子的创造中，而这片叶子有多少功能。从某方面来说，一片叶子就是一棵植物的能源。如今科学家的梦想是制造一片可作为再生能源的叶子，它可以为你屋子供电，甚至能够为你提供食物和水。科学家们已经在这一前沿科技上研究了数年。他们如此努力，就是为了制造一片叶子，因为一片叶子能同时发挥如此多功能，简直太让人惊叹了。甚至是一粒原子中也包含着巨大的智慧——这些我们真的无法弄明白。

The nature of the Creator is intelligence. You may think you need love, money, wealth, or whatever else – no, you need a little more sense – no matter what your IQ is. How many times have you looked at people around you and thought, “I only wish they had a little more sense.” If not just your intellect but your intelligence doubled today, you would grasp everything so much more easily. What you would otherwise learn in fifty years, you could learn in five years.
造物主的本性就是智慧。你可能会想，你需要爱，需要钱，需要财富或者其它什么——不是的，你需要再多一点脑子——不论你智商有多高。多少次你会看着身边的人，然后想，“要是他们再多一点脑子就好了。”如今，如果不仅是你的智力并且你的智慧也加倍的话，你会更加容易地理解一切。你本来需要用50年来学会的东西，现在只需5年就可以了。

Being partner with the source of creation means getting a huge infusion of intelligence, a kind of intelligence that you would not believe possible. For this to happen, obstacles need to be removed. This body is the work of the source of creation. The food that you have put into it is not yet part of the body, and the stool that you have produced is not part of it either. Therefore, your stomach and bowels should be empty. But if you are doing yoga for four, five hours continuously, it is all right to lace the water that you drink with a small spoon of honey. We want the water to be tepid because if you drink cold water, the body has to warm it up, which results in a loss of energy. If the water you drink is within three degrees above or below body temperature, the body treats it as part of itself.
与创造之源合作，意味着获得巨大的智慧灌输，这种智慧是一种你本来认为不可能的智慧。要实现这一点，就必须要扫除所有障碍。这个身体是创造之源的作品。你摄入的食物还不是你身体的一部分，你产生的粪便也不是你身体的一部分。因此，你的胃和肠道应该是空的。但是，如果你连续练习4、5个小时的瑜伽，饮用掺了一小勺蜂蜜的水是很好的。我们需要温水，因为如果你喝了冷水，身体需要把水加热，这样能量就会流失。如果你喝的水的温度在体温上下三度之间，身体会把它当作自己的一部分。

Tepid water and honey are the only two substances that are allowed in your stomach, and nothing else. There must be only body – no other obstacle. Otherwise, the Creator will not have anything to do with you. The source of creation, the intelligence which functions within you, treats anything else as an external substance, which will not participate in your asana. The Creator or the source of creation must function and participate in your asana – only then does an asana become a yogasana. Otherwise, it is just a posture.
只有温水和蜂蜜这两样东西在你胃里是被接纳的，除此之外，再无其它。应该只有身体存在——没有其它阻碍。不然，造物主就不会与你建立任何关系。创造之源，也就是，在你内在运行的智慧，会把其它东西都看作异物，不会参与到你的体式之中。造物主或创造之源应该运作并参与到你的体式之中——只有这样体式才能变成瑜伽体式。不然的话，它就仅仅是一个姿势。

Love&Grace

爱与恩典