阿汤现任掌门人揭秘：炖汤的要诀

Sharath Jois

掌门人

告诉我们在哪里可以找到真正瑜伽练习的正确原料。

When pizza was very new to India, some companies wanted to market themselves to get business, so they created a new pizza called “Gobi Manchurian Pizza.”

当披萨刚进入印度时，一些公司想要推销自己来获得生意，所以他们创造了一种新的披萨，名为Gobi Manurian Pizza。

We were very interested, so we ordered one to our house.

我们非常感兴趣，所以我们订购了一个外卖。

It was a regular pizza with pieces of Gobi Manchurian, a Chinese dish, on top.

这是一个普通的披萨，上面有中国菜椒小碎片。

Many people bought it

很多人买了它。

It was new and different and tasty, but it wasn’t healthy.

它是新鲜出炉的、与众不同的、美味的，但是不健康。

Similarly, this is how yoga has become: Tasty and attractive, but not healthy.

同样，瑜伽也变成了这样：美味、诱人，但并不健康。
Today, there are so many styles of yoga.

今天，瑜伽的风格多种多样。

People put their surname in front of the word yoga and invent a new style.

人们把自己的姓氏放在瑜伽这个词的前面，就发明了一种新的风格。

They hope to get many followers.

他们希望得到更多的追随者。

They create so many videos, but it’s like junk food.

他们制作了很多视频，但，就像快速食品一样。

It’s tasty, it looks good, but it’s not healthy.

它很好吃，看起来不错，但是不健康。

People look at these styles as yoga, they try them, and think they are doing yoga, but they are not.

人们把这些风格看作是瑜伽，他们练习它，认为自己在做瑜伽，但事实并非如此。
Ashtanga yoga is not a style of yoga.

阿斯汤加瑜伽不是瑜伽的一种风格。

It is a method to explore something far more than handstands.

这是一种深度探索之道，远不止是倒立。

Many people see handstand and leg-behind-the-head and think that is what Ashtanga yoga is.

许多人看到手倒立和腿绕脖，认为这就是阿斯汤加瑜伽。

But Ashtanga yoga is a method to experience what yoga is, to understand who we are, how to be more responsible, how to live in this world as better people.

但阿斯汤加瑜伽是一种体会瑜伽之道，是一种了解我们是“谁”，如何更负责任，如何成为生活在这个世界上更好的人的修行之道。

Ashtanga yoga is a method.

阿斯汤加瑜伽是法。
I've said this many times, but students need to be reminded of the fundamentals of Ashtanga yoga: the yamas and niyamas.

我曾经说过很多次了，但需要再次提醒学生们阿斯汤加瑜伽的基本原则：制戒与内制。

They are the key ingredients to establishing and practicing yoga.

它们是建立与练习瑜伽的关键要素。

It's like making a dish from a recipe: You need these ingredients or else it won't work, and you won't be doing yoga.

这就像根据食谱炖汤：你需要这些原料，否则它没办法炖好，或可以说，你做的也不是瑜伽。

The Ashtanga method has eight limbs.

Ashtanga之道有八支。

The first four are the external pillars: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama.

前四支是外部的：持戒，内制，体式，呼吸法

Yama has sublimbs, which are ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, aparigraha.

持戒升华有：不暴力、求真、不偷盗、节制、不贪婪。

The niyama sublimbs are saucha, santosha, tapas, svadhyaya, Ishvara pranidhana.

内制升华有：纯净、满足、热情或克己、自我研习、敬奉神。

These are all very important ingredients essential for our spiritual journey.

这些都是我们精神之旅必不可少的最重要的成分。

If you want to get deeper in your practice, these ingredients are indispensable.

如果你想在练习中更深入，这些要素是必不可少的。

Without these ingredients, you will never understand yoga.

没有这些要素，你永远不会理解瑜伽。

You will live your entire life missing out and thinking yoga is what flexible people do in photographs and videos like leg-behind-the-head and handstands.

例如在视频与照片中，那些身体灵活的人做腿屈到头后或手倒立。如果你认为那就是瑜伽，那你的一生都错过了瑜伽。

It’s attractive, it makes for a nice photo, but it is not yoga.

它很炫酷，可以拍成一张很棒的照片，但它不是瑜伽。
The remaining four limbs—pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi—are internal practices.

另外的四支--制感、专注、冥想和三摩地--都是内在修行。

Once the first four limbs are established, the other four will automatically happen.

当前四个支建立起来，其他四支就会自然发生。

You don’t have to try, they will automatically happen.

你不必强求，它们会自然发生。

Of course, these are higher, more subtle levels of yoga.

当然，这些都是更高、更微妙的瑜伽。

To achieve these, you have to get rid of many patterns, attachments, dispositions, many things

要实现这些，你必须摆脱许多框框条条、执着、分别心，以及很多东西。
This will be a life-long practice and the real transformation happens once one is educated in all the limbs.

这将是一辈子的修行，当一个人获得八支的全部指引，真正的转变就会发生。

Without understanding yoga through proper education, it is impossible to understand what yoga is.

如果不通过正确的教育来领会瑜伽，就不可能理解瑜伽是什么。

Yet what is meant by education here is the practice, putting theory into practice, not necessarily a formal education.

不过，这里所说的教育是实践，把理论付诸实践，不一定是正规的教育。

My grandfather, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, used to always say “99% practice, 1% theory,” but oftentimes, people got this wrong.

我的祖父斯里·K·帕塔比·乔伊斯(SRI K.Pattabhi Jois)过去常说“99%的实践，1%的理论”，但人们经常把这句话理解错了。

They practiced asana from morning until evening.

他们从早到晚练习体式。

What he meant was to practice the theory, the yamas and niyamas, all the time.

祖父的意思是要一直践行这个理论，制戒和内制。

To do this, you don’t sit around and read about it in books, you have to live it.

要做到这一点，你不能坐在那里从书本上读到这一点，你必须活在其中。

Can you expect to calm the mind by reading citta vritti nirodha (the second sutra of the Yoga Sutras)?

你能指望通过读“控制心念的波动”(瑜伽经第二句)来让心灵平静下来吗？

Simply reading it, even a thousand times, won’t make it happen, and it will probably do just the opposite.

只是阅读它，即使是一千遍，也不会让它发生，而且很可能会适得其反。

Yoga theory must be put into practice all the time.

瑜伽理论必须一直付诸于实践。

Only when you apply all the things in your daily life will citta vritti nirodha happen.

只有当你把所有的理论都应用到你的日常生活中时，控制心念的波动才会发生。
For us, however, what is important is to be calm every day, to have a peaceful life everyday.

不管怎么样，对我们来说，重要的是每一天都要保持平静，每天都要过上平和的生活。

This is what we are focusing on.

这就是我们的重点。

Someone can be very famous one day and then the next fall out of favor.

有些人可能一下子网红了，没多久又掉下来失宠了。

Asana will come and go, money will come and go, fame will come and go.

体式会有来有去，金钱会有来有去，名望会有来有去。

What we have to do is keep ourselves calm, steady and stable.

我们要做的就是让自己保持平静、持续与稳定。

This is what asana gives us.

这就是体式所带给我们的。
How many of you can sit still in one place for long periods of time having control of your mind?

你们中有多少人可以长时间静静地坐在一个地方控制自己的心念呢？

To bring the vrittis, or the fluctuations of the mind under control you must have stability found in a practice.

要控制心念的波动，你必须在练习中找到稳定。

This is the method to gain equanimity.

这就是获得平静之道。

薄伽梵歌2-48

yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi

sańgaḿ tyaktvā dhanañjaya

siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā

samatvaḿ yoga ucyate

心平气和履行自己的职责，不去计较得失成败，这就是瑜伽！

Samatvam yoga uchyate.

心平气和就是瑜伽。

Samtvam is calmness, balance, equanimity.

Samtvam是宁静、平衡、祥和。

This is what yoga is.

这就是瑜伽所。

It is a lifelong practice of key ingredients for the entirety of your life.

这是你一辈子都在练习的关键要素。

The proper fundamentals will help the stability grow, and thus, the yoga to happen.

正确的基础将有助于稳定的成长，因此，瑜伽就会发生。

If it can happen to me, it can happen to you.

如果瑜伽能发生在我身上，它也能发生在你身上。

We are not different.

我们没有什么不同。

It takes a firm, positive outlook.

它需要坚定、积极，大处着眼。

Yoga can happen to anyone when we put in the proper ingredients.

只要我们注入正确的原料，瑜伽就能发生在任何人身上。