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刚发现一个人，通过一本书《行动瑜伽，Karma Yoga - Swami Vivekananda》

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Swami Vivekananda, 斯瓦米·维韦卡南达

很多观念需要通过不同的人用不同的语言说出来。我想这里的知识，可以是一般的知识，也更应该是佛教所说的根本智慧，对究竟实相的认识。只有根本智慧是无漏、无尽的。就是争取真实的智慧，最后达到彻底的解脱和快乐。快乐有两种，一种是认知的突破带来的快乐，因为认知、知识是不依赖外部环境的，所以它是永恒的，而佛教讲的解脱智慧就是这种知识，是通过修行认识到的真理。另一种快乐是感受带来的快乐，这种快乐随时随地跟着环境、年龄和感受而变化，属于无常，只能说得之坦然，失之淡然。

【Karma 这个词源自梵文 Kri，意为“做”；所有的行动都是业力。从技术上讲，这个词也意味着行动的效果。就形而上学而言，它有时意味着结果，而我们过去的行为就是原因。但在业力瑜伽中，我们只需将业力一词视为工作的意思。人类的目标是知识，这就是东方哲学摆在我们面前的一个理念。人的目标不是快乐，而是知识。快乐和幸福是有尽头的。把快乐当作人生的目标是错误的。我们在世界上所经历的一切苦难的根源在于，人们愚蠢地认为快乐是我们奋斗的理想。随着事件的推移，人发现他所追求的不是快乐，而是知识，在这个过程中，快乐和痛苦都是伟大的老师，他从恶中学到的东西和从善中学到的东西一样多。

当快乐和痛苦在他的灵魂面前经过时，它们会在灵魂上留下不同的画面，这些印象结合起来的结果就是所谓的人的“性格”。如果你观察一个人的性格，你会发现他实际上只是各种倾向的总和，是他思想倾向的总和。你会发现，痛苦和幸福是塑造性格的同等因素。善与恶在塑造品格方面具有同等的作用，在某些情况下，痛苦比幸福更能成为老师。

我敢说，在研究世界上产生的伟大人物时，在绝大多数情况下，我们会发现，苦难比幸福更能教人，贫穷比财富更能教人，打击比赞美更能激发他们内心的火焰。

The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects, of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word Karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good. As pleasure and pain pass before his soul they have upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called man's "character". If you take the character of any man, it really is but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of that character. Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. In studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise.

Swami Vivekananda. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (p. 19). Kindle Edition. 】

该书分八章，目录如下
Chapter 1 Karma in its Effect on Character
Chapter 2 Each is great in his own place
Chapter 3 The Secret of Work
Chapter 4 What is Duty?
Chapter 5 We help ourselves, not the world
Chapter 6 Non-attachment is complete self-abnegation
Chapter 7 Freedom
Chapter 8 The Ideal of Karma-Yoga