萨古鲁 Isha
Competitor extraordinaire, Sadhguru has tried his hand at many a sport and excelled at quite a few. Schedule permitting, he is always ready for a game of volleyball, billiards, cricket, frisbee or dodgeball.
萨古鲁是一名杰出的竞技者，他尝试了许多体育运动并且还有不少拿手项目。只要日程允许，他总会打打排球、桌球、板球、投飞盘或躲避球。
In the recent past, in the United States, Sadhguru also played his first game of golf. Since then, whenever he has a break, in between meetings and conferences all over the world, he makes it a point to play a bit. Here is his description of the game and his own experience of what such a simple setup can yield.
不久前，萨古鲁在美国打了他的第一场高尔夫球。此后，每当他在世界各地参加会面和会议得空时，就会特别安排打一会儿高尔夫。以下是他对这个运动的描述，以及他对这种简单运动所产生的成效的体验。
Sadhguru: What excites me about Golf is that it’s a really wonderful ball in terms of what it can do. No other ball, whether a cricket ball or a hockey ball, has that kind of bounce in it. When I first started playing, I asked a few golfers, “How far do the big shots hit in championships go?” They told me, “A really great shot is around three hundred yards. They can go beyond that, but three hundred yards means it’s really great. Anywhere, over two hundred yards is a very good shot.” I took a shot and just hit the ball. It went 325 yards. They said, “But Sadhguru, this is impossible. You have played golf somewhere.” I told them, “Even now I don’t know a damn thing about golf. But you want the ball to go there. I know how to send it there.” That’s all I know with life also. I want it to go there. I know how to send it there. I don’t know anything else. And that’s all you need to know. Otherwise you will know everything but you will not know where to go.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：高尔夫最令我感到兴奋的是高尔夫球本身非常奇妙。其它的球类，无论是板球或曲棍球都没有那种弹力。我在第一次开始打球时问一些高尔夫球手：“冠军赛的高手们能打出多远？”他们告诉我：“真正的好球要开出300码左右。他们还可以打更远，但300码就意味着真的很好了。任何地方，超过200码的都是很好的球。”我挥杆只是击打了球，它就飞出了325码。他们说：“但是萨古鲁，这不可能。你一定在哪里打过高尔夫。”我告诉他们：“即使现在我还是一点也不懂高尔夫。但是若想要球去那里，我就知道如何送它到那里。”这也是我对生命的全部所知。我想要它去那里，我就知道如何送它去到那里。其他的我一概不知。这就是你所需要知道的一切。否则你会知道一切却不知道要去到哪里。
These people had played golf for three years. They knew everything about golf. They had read books about it; every day they went to the golf course; they knew what material the club was made of - too much technology but they didn’t know how to whack the ball.
这些人已经打了三年高尔夫。他们知道关于高尔夫的一切。他们读过关于高尔夫的书，每天都去高尔夫球场，他们知道高尔夫球杆的材质——他们知道这么多技术，却不知道如何击球。
With every simple aspect of life, people make a mess of it because the interior is not settled. If the interior is settled, if you know how to use a fork or a spoon and put it into your mouth, you will know how to hit a golf ball into its hole. There’s nothing else to it. Maybe a little bit of practice is needed, but you don’t have to act so funny to hit the ball. No one has to tell you how to stand or how to hold the club. That much intelligence is built into your body. If you have enough intelligence and control to put food properly into your mouth, you have enough control to play golf too.
在生活中的每一个简单方面，人们都弄得一团糟，是因为内在没有安定下来。如果内在安定了，若你知道如何使用叉子或汤匙，把它放入嘴里，你也会知道如何把高尔夫球打到洞里。就这么简单。也许需要一点点练习，但你不必用夸张的动作去击球。没有人需要告诉你如何站立或如何握球杆。这种程度的智慧你的身体是有的。如果你有足够的智慧和掌控力能恰当地把食物送进嘴里，你也有足够的掌控力打高尔夫。
Life can happen effortlessly. Everything is being made difficult because the essential inner nature is not settled.
生命可以毫不费力地发生。一切被弄得很难是因为根本的内在本性没有安定。
A subtle game
一项精微的运动
Sadhguru: Golf is a very subtle game. The simplicity of it makes everyone attempt it, but the subtlety of it makes almost everybody get frustrated with it. One important thing about the game is that you are not playing the game with anyone. It is more about you, the course and the situation. There are competitions, but essentially the game is with you. When you play cricket, someone throws the ball at you and you have to hit it. In golf, the ball is sitting right there. It looks like the most stupid and easy game, but when you try to play it you will see it is so subtle. You don’t need any competition from anyone. Just your own body and mind can play such tricks with you. It takes so much to master that. It is so simple, and if you can’t do it, it leaves you feeling silly. Unlike many other competitive games, it doesn’t demand a great sense of physical fitness or agility, but still it gives you all the challenge that you ever want in a very subtle way.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：高尔夫是一项非常精微的运动。它的简单使每个人都想尝试，但它的精微几乎使每个人都深感挫败。这项运动的一个重点是你不是在和别人比赛。更多的是关于你自己、场地和环境。存在相互竞争，但本质上是和你自己比赛。当你玩板球时，有人扔给你球，你要击中它。在高尔夫比赛中，球就放在那里。它看上去是最傻最简单的运动，但当你尝试时，你会意识到它是如此的精微。你不需要与任何人竞争。仅仅是你自己的身体和头脑就可以对你耍出许多花招。需要花费许多功夫才能掌握。它是如此简单，如果你做不到，会让你感到自己很傻。不像许多其他的竞技运动，高尔夫对体能和灵活性的要求不高，但它仍然能以一种非常精微的方式给你所有你想要的挑战。
I know this very well because I have been in this mind/body business for such a long time. The body doesn’t behave the way you think it is behaving most of the time. In golf, this sticks out instantly because the ball flies somewhere else. This is not seen in other games - not because it is not there, but because things are happening too rapidly. When you play soccer, ten people are trying to stop you in every possible way. It is not a simple thing. But everything is happening in slow motion in golf, so you can see it.
我很了解这个，是因为我已经在头脑/身体这件事中待了这么长的时间。大多时候身体都不会按照你以为的那样去表现。打高尔夫时这就会立刻突显出来，因为球飞到其它地方去了。其它比赛中看不到这个情况——不是因为不存在，只是因为那些比赛中事情发生得太过迅速。在足球比赛中，十个人穷尽其能地想阻止你。这可不是件简单的事。但在高尔夫球场上一切都以慢动作发生，所以你可以看到它。
Golf is good for old people but young people have also taken to it. It has become a good game for everyone now, because anyway young people are also not as fit as they used to be, so golf comes early in their life now. For people who think too much of themselves, I think it kind of brings them down a bit, which is good.
高尔夫适合老年人，而年轻人也喜欢打。现在它已经成为了一项老少皆宜的运动。反正现在的年轻人不像过去的年轻人那样健硕，所以高尔夫早早地进入了他们的生命。对于那些把自己看得太重的人来说，我觉得高尔夫会让他们有点沮丧，这很好。
On a certain day, when you got it all figured out that this is the shot you are going to take, this is the club etc., not one thing goes right. This is not because the stars are not aligned, this is because that is how the system is. This is something that I always am conscious of with everything that I do. On certain days I won’t take up certain things because I know these things will not go well with me on that day. Golf makes it stick out. People who are not aware of this realize that on a certain day, everything goes right. It’s not because of luck, it is because your body and mind are working in a certain way. Golf is definitely a kind of a gauge for somebody who does not have his own awareness to gauge what kind of state he is in today.
某天，当你把一切都想好了，你要打这样的一杆、你要用这根球杆等等，但没有一件事是对的。这不是因为星体没有对齐，而是因为系统本身就是如此。我一直都在有意识地做每件事。在某些天我不会做某些事，因为我知道在那一天做那些事不会顺利。高尔夫会让这种情况突显出来。没有意识到这点的人们发现在某一天所有事情都进展顺利。这不是因为运气，而是因为你的身体和头脑在以某种特定的方式运作。对于没有自己的觉知去衡量自己当天状态的人来说，高尔夫绝对是一种检测器。
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