離婚對一個人安全感的影響有多大?
Questioner: Here in the US, we are affected so much by divorce, and you have mentioned previously that there are big consequences to separating two people. How can we address the consequences of a divorce that has already happened? And how can we educate people to care for each other better?
提問者:在美國,我們深受離婚的影響,你之前提到將兩個人分離會產生重大後果。如果已經離婚,我們如何處理它帶來的後果?我們又該如何教導人們讓他們更加在乎對方呢?
Sadhguru: A husband came home one day, and the next day was his wife’s birthday. He said, “Honey, what do you want for your birthday? A BMW, a mink coat, or a yacht?” She said, “I don’t want any of those things – I want a divorce.” So he said, “I was not thinking of anything that expensive.” A lot of people do not see divorce as a bad thing. Their ideas of freedom are only getting them into deeper and deeper entanglement. Probably nowhere else in the world, women have as much physical freedom as American women have. But probably nowhere else in the world, women are as tense, nervous, and agitated as women are in America.
Sadhguru(薩古魯):一天,一位丈夫回到家,第二天是他妻子的生日。他說:“親愛的,你生日想要什麼?一輛寶馬車、一件貂皮大衣還是一艘遊艇呢?”妻子說:“那些我都不想要,我想要離婚。”他說:“我還真沒想到你要那麼貴的東西。”很多人並不把離婚當作一件壞事。他們的自由觀念只是讓他們陷進越來越深的糾纏當中。這世界上恐怕沒有任何其它地方的女性擁有像美國女性那樣的人身自由。可也許世上也沒有任何其它地方的女性會像美國女性那樣緊張和煩躁不安。
An Idea of Freedom
關於自由的觀念
This is not freedom. This is only an idea of freedom, which is not going well. This definitely does not mean to say we should go back to those tyrannical days where women were exploited. It is just that you should have a more mature idea of freedom – something that will work. An idea is worthwhile only if it works and produces results. If it is breaking people and half the population is on anti-depressants, it is obviously not working. It does not matter how educated and intellectual you think you are, still emotion is a strong dimension of who you are. When emotions arise, they become the most powerful thing in you. Your thoughts are not that powerful. Even if pleasant emotions are not that strong, at least anger, fear, and anxiety are – these are all emotions gone bad.
這不是自由。這只是一種關於自由的觀念,而且它並不奏效。當然不是說我們應該回到過去壓迫女性的專制暴戾的日子。只是你應該有一個更加成熟的、奏效的自由觀念。只有奏效、能產生好結果的觀念才有價值。如果它正在摧毀人並且一半的人都在對抗抑鬱,很顯然這個觀念並不奏效。不管你認為自己受過多好的教育或者多有才智,情感依舊是你很強烈的一個維度。當情感升起時,這成為了你最強烈有力的部分。你的思維沒有那樣強烈。即使愉悅的情感也沒有那樣強烈,可憤怒、恐懼、焦慮卻非常強烈有力——這些都是變壞了的情感。
If you are free of emotion, you can ignore what I am saying now. But when emotion is an important part of your life and you ignore this, you will only suffer. Whether you work somewhere, do business, or marry a rich man – somehow you find a way to take care of your physical survival. But even if the physical survival is happening very well, if you are well-fed and well taken care of – let’s say you have a BMW, a mink coat, and a yacht – still if your emotions are trampled upon, you cannot remain there. So, not only is it important to work towards financial security, but society should work towards emotional security as well. That is missing in the US right now – not just for women, even for men. This is one reason why America will go down economically – because there is no emotional security.
如果你已擺脫了情緒,你可以忽略我現在所說的。但當情感還是你生命中非常重要的一部分,而你卻忽略這一點時,你必定會受苦。無論你在哪裡工作、或者做生意或者嫁給了有錢人,總之你找到了某種方法來保障你的物質生存。但就算是物質生活被照顧得很好,比如你有一輛寶馬車、一件貂皮大衣、一艘遊艇,如果你的情感受到了傷害,你的生活也會受影響。所以社會也應該在“情感保障”方面努力,而不只是在經濟保障方面努力。這一點在美國是缺失的,不僅對女性,甚至對男性也是如此。這是美國經濟下行的原因之一——因為沒有情感保障。
Right now, the community that does best in the universities of the United States is the Indian community, next comes the Jewish community. Why is that? It is just that they have emotional security. Until they are 25 years of age, till they finish university, everything is taken care of for them. They do not have to fight for anything. Parents are committed to their children, and children are committed to them in turn. They do not have to handle any other aspect of life. That is not so with American children. By the time they finish university, they have already seen three boyfriends or six girlfriends – with all the emotional upheavals, jealousies, problems, and struggles. Before they stand up on their feet, they have seen too much life, which is making them incapable.
如今,在美國大學中表現得最好的學生群體是印度群體,其次是猶太群體。為什麼會那樣?只是因為他們有情感保障。他們25歲大學畢業之前,所有的事情都被照顧得很好。他們不必為任何事去奮鬥拼搏。父母對子女盡心盡力,相應的子女也對父母有承諾。他們不需要去處理生活的其它任何方面的事情。而美國孩子的情況卻不是這樣。大學畢業前,他們就已經交往過三個男朋友或者六個女朋友,伴隨著情感的激變、嫉妒、問題和掙扎。在他們能自力更生前,已經經歷過太多,讓他們無力面對。
What happens in the university need not determine everything, but it indicates that they are not performing well. If you randomly pick people anywhere in the US, at least 8 out of 20 do not do anything productive. The main reasons for that are the emotional upheavals that they go through from the age of 12 or 13, when they are dealing with things that they are not old enough to deal with. As a result, no one has any emotional security.
大學裡所發生的不一定決定了一切,但它表明了他們表現得並不佳。如果你在美國任何其它地方隨機挑選一些人,20個人當中至少有8個並沒有做什麼富有成效之事。其主要的原因是當他們在12或13歲時就經歷了情緒的激變,在他們不夠成熟的時候就在面對那個年齡無法面對的事情。所以沒人有任何情感保障。
Today, someone claims they love you; tomorrow morning they may go away with someone else. This fear, both in men and women, will not let them focus on doing anything. In the Indian business community, by the time the boy is 21 and the girl is 18, they are married. They still go to the university, but they are married and committed to each other. By the time they are 23 or 24, they are into serious business, and their life is very secure. They are bound for life – there are no two ways about it. There is no way that you even have to think whether your wife will be there when you go home. Such a thing does not occur to you because it is total commitment. Just that one area of life being absolutely secure gives you the ability to do something. When the man is afraid of what will happen when he goes out, he cannot be productive. When the woman is afraid that the man may not come back when he goes out, she cannot be productive.
今天,有人宣稱愛你,明天早上他就可能隨他人而去。有這種恐懼,不管是男人還是女人,都將無法專注在任何事上。在印度商業群體中,當男孩21歲、女孩18歲時,他們就會結婚。結婚後他們可以繼續上大學,但他們已結成伴侶,並對彼此有承諾。當他們到23歲或24歲時,他們就正式開始做生意,生活就非常有保障。他們的聯結是一輩子的——沒有第二種可能。你根本不用想你回家時妻子是否還在那兒。你根本不會冒出這種想法,因為彼此的承諾是絕對的。就因為生命的這個方面完全安定,你就有能力去做其它事情。當一個男人害怕他出門之後家裡會發生什麼,他是無法有所作為的。當一個女人害怕他的丈夫也許出門後就不再回家了,她也是無法有所作為的。
How Much Does Emotional Security Matter?
情感保障有多重要?
Emotional security is an extremely important aspect for any human being and for any society to flourish. Unfortunately, due to a juvenile concept of freedom, we have lost this emotional security. That way, we are making people incapable of many things. There may be a percentage of the population who are strong enough to anyway go ahead and do things, but the majority become unstable. They are always afraid what will happen if they do something wrong. Let’s say you were supposed to go on a holiday this weekend but you could not because you had something to do, you may get a divorce notice on Monday morning.
情感保障是人類和社會繁榮昌盛異常重要的一部分。不幸的是,因為幼稚的自由觀,我們失去了這種安全保障。如此一來,人們喪失了做很多事情的能力。也許有一定比例的人群足夠強大,他們無論如何都可以繼續前行,做出一番事情,但是大多數的人會因此變得不穩定。他們總是害怕如果他們做錯事會帶來怎樣的後果。比如這個週末你們本該去度假,然而因為其它的事情你無法去了,週一早上你就可能會收到離婚通知書。
也許不是每個家庭都是這樣,但是這正在大範圍發生。在美國這已經不是個人問題而是社會問題。每個社會里都有一些人有這樣的問題,但是當這成為了社會問題,當太多人面對著相似的問題,我們就必須想想該如何強化他們的情感生活。否則人們無法過上充實高效的生活。很多夫妻來參加我們的課程,如果一個丈夫或妻子有一絲不安全感,第一件會發生的事情就是他們不願意另一半去冥想。“你閉上眼睛做什麼?”這太可笑了。你又沒有跑掉——你只是閉上了眼睛。但那就是危險之處——當你閉眼時,你可以去任何地方。
“承諾”文化應該回歸,這很重要。那些從零開始建設美國的人擁有著穩定的生活,否則他們無法建設這個偉大的國家,因為當情緒陷入恐慌時,沒有任何人可以真正有所作為。只有人類的情感得到一定的滿足,他們才能在生活中執行良好,否則就不行——除非他們已經超越了這些事情,這對他們來說已經不再重要。如果一個人在生命中已經達到了那個境界,那麼一切都不重要了。
Option #2!
選項二!
One of these things must happen to people – either they must become meditative, or they must have emotional security. Right now, with all the freedom they have, people are not having a good life. They are leading desperate lives. In the name of freedom, you have removed all the stop signs – that is how people live their lives. It is like the Indian road scene is happening to the American emotion. Everyone is going somewhere, no one knows where they are going – the only thing is they have to be free. In the name of freedom, you lose all structures that keep you on track.
人們必須擁有這兩者中的一種——要麼他們必須冥想,要麼他們必須有情感保障。現在,人們擁有了所有的自由,卻沒能擁有美好的生活。他們在過著絕望的生活。以自由的名義,你移除了所有的限制——那是人們生活的方式。美國人的情緒就好像印度的公路場景(一樣無序)。每個人都往前衝,但沒有人知道他們要去哪兒——唯一重要的就是他們必須有自由。以自由的名義,你失去了所有讓你保持在正軌上的構架。
If creating emotional security is not possible, the only way out is to make people meditative because it will take care of several aspects – it will settle the emotions, people will progress spiritually, and their brains will also work better.
如果無法創造情感保障,那麼唯一的方法就是讓人們冥想,因為它會照顧到很多方面——它會讓情緒穩定,讓他們在靈性方面有所成長,他們的大腦也會運轉得更好。
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關於離婚
愛情似花朵,結婚便是它的果實。植物界的法則是,果實與花朵不能兩全,一旦結果,花朵就消失了。由此的類比是,一旦結婚,愛情就消失了。有沒有兩全之策呢?有的,簡單極了,只須改變一下比喻的句法:未結婚的愛情如同未結果的花朵的美,而結了婚的愛情則如同花已謝的果實的美。是的,果實與花朵不能兩全,果實不具有花朵那種絢爛的美,但果實有果實的美,只要它是一顆飽滿的果實,只要你善於欣賞它。植物不會為花落傷心。人是太複雜了,他在結果以後仍然緬懷花朵,並且用花朵的審美標準批判果實,終於使果實患病而失去了屬於它的那一種美。
問:什麼情況非離婚不可?
周國平:你說你移情別戀了,因此想要離婚?我勸你慎重,因為你有可能只是一時的迷戀,以後你會後悔的。你說你沒有愛上任何別人,但是覺得在現有的婚姻中沒法過下去了,兩個人之間不是冷戰就是冷漠,氣氛極其沉悶,心情總是壓抑,看不到一點光明的希望?好吧,我勸你決斷,因為這確鑿無疑地說明,你們的婚姻已經沒有了感情基礎。
問:結婚五年,老公有家暴,目前感情已全無,但是為了孩子不得不接受現狀。在不離婚的情況下該如何解脫?
周國平:我認為,在你說的情況下,離婚是更好的選擇。即使對於孩子來說,這個父母感情全無、父親時有暴力行為的家庭,也是一個比單身媽媽壞得多的環境,其中充滿了負能量,而單身媽媽不過是能量弱一些,只要你把心態調整好,可以都是正能量。如果出於種種考慮,你決定不離婚,則最好能和老公達成協議,維持家庭的表象,雙方都善待孩子,同時互不干涉對方的事情。你必須有一個老公不能干涉的自由空間,在這個空間裡,你可以自主安排自己的事情,包括工作、學習、娛樂、交朋友等。這需要老公的理解和配合,問題是他會嗎?
問:社會的不穩定出現大量的離異家庭,請問對於缺失父愛的孩子們,單親媽媽們應該如何引導孩子樹立正確的人生觀?
周國平:因為離異,孩子缺失父愛,這個缺憾不能單靠人生觀教育來彌補,事實上也彌補不了。我認為,真正對孩子負責,離異的雙方應該形成一個共識,就是要讓孩子仍然最大限度地得到和感受到父愛。你們不是夫妻了,但仍是孩子的父母,完全可以做出安排,讓父親和孩子經常相聚,表達和享受親情。父親不配合怎麼辦?只能退而求其次,有兩個辦法。一是單親媽媽自己同時承擔起父親角色,也從父親角度思考和滿足孩子的需要。二是由一二個親密的男性友人承擔起準父親角色,多和孩子接觸。總之,情感的缺憾必須用情感的方式補償。
問:離過婚的女人,遇到自己鍾情的男人,在什麼時機坦白自己的經歷比較好?
周國平:你鍾情於他,他還沒有鍾情於你,這個時候一定不要說,如果他最後還是沒有愛你,跟他說這個不是多餘嗎?如果你感覺他也是鍾情於你的,我就認為晚說不如早說。離過婚是一個法律事實,他可以透過各種渠道知道或聽說,一旦他發現你隱瞞,就會對你的人品發生懷疑。你告訴他,他就和你分手,怎麼辦?分手就分手唄,第一這是遲早的事,第二心胸這麼狹隘的男人不交也罷。還有一種情況,不是離過婚,是有過男友或者性經歷,我的看法是基本不必坦白,因為這是你的隱私,作為他來說,尊重你的隱私是他應有的教養。
問:丈夫出軌了,我一方面希望他及時回頭,我會把這個事情當成生活中的插曲。另一方面,如果他仍執迷不悟,那我就不再糾結,我會單獨撫養孩子。可是,我最糾結的是,我現在內心已經有陰影了,就算這次事情過去了,以後會不會再出現類似的事情,我覺得很累很累。周老師,我該怎麼辦?
周國平:你做兩手準備,我很欣賞你的態度。你說的內心陰影和擔憂,我也很理解,這是自然會有的,沒有才奇怪呢。不過,你要把目標定在前一種前景上,就是爭取讓這個事情成為生活中的插曲,為此你要淡化內心的陰影和擔憂,儘量不把它表現出來。也就是說,鼓勵和相信他不會再犯,這很重要,你的信任會對他發生作用。相反,如果家庭氛圍是充滿猜忌的,他在感情上必然會疏離這個家庭,從而增大再次出軌的可能。當然,你的大度和努力也可能無效,如果真是這樣,你再做決定也不遲,那就分手吧。
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