盲目的自信是灾难

Sadhguru looks at how confidence without clarity can be a disaster, and gives us a simple process to enhance our clarity.

萨古鲁解释了为什么缺乏清晰的自信是灾难，并为我们提供了一个简单的提升明晰度的方法。

Question: I want to know the difference between confidence and clarity.

问：我想知道自信和眀晰的区别。

Sadhguru: Let us say my physical vision is not good – I cannot see clearly – and I need to walk through a group of people. But I am very confident. What will happen if I walk through? A lot of people are walking through their life like this because they are confident. They cannot see a damn thing, but it does not matter; they are confident. This is disastrous for you and for everyone around you. If my vision is clear, I would walk through the whole group without touching anyone. If my vision is not clear, at least if I have the humility to see that I have no clarity, I would seek help and walk slowly. I may not walk as quickly as a man who has clear vision, but I would at least go gently.

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：举个例子，我的视力不太好——我看不清楚——我需要从人群中穿过。但是我非常自信。我穿过人群时会发生什么？许多人都是这样走过他们的人生的，因为他们很自信。他们什么都看不见，但这没关系，他们很自信。这对你和你周围的所有人来说都将是灾难。如果我的视线是清晰的，我在穿过人群时不会碰到任何人。但如果我的视力模糊，至少我能谦逊地看到自己清晰度不够，那么我就会寻求帮助并且慢慢走。我可能没有视力清晰的人走得那么快，但我至少会轻缓地走。

People think confidence is a kind of substitute for clarity – it is not. Let's say whenever you want to make big decisions in your life, either professional or family-related, all you do is get yourself a coin and flip it, 'Heads we will do this, tails we will do that.' It will work fifty percent of the time! If you are right only fifty percent of the time, there are only two professions you can pursue – you can either be a weatherman or an astrologer. If you are in any other job, you would most likely be fired.

人们认为信心是眀晰的一种替代品——并非如此。假设，每当你要在生命中做重大决定之时（事业方面或家庭方面），你就扔一下硬币，“正面我们就做这个，背面我们就做那个。”那就有百分之五十的概率是正确的！如果你只有百分之五十的概率是正确的，只有两种职业你可以从事，气象员或占星家。任何其它的工作，你大概都会被解雇。

There is a city called Mangalore on the west coast of India. It is a beautiful, quaint, little town and I have been associated with this place for some time. I had not gone there for almost four or five years, and then I happened to visit. There was a homeopathic doctor there who was over seventy-five years of age, but he was still managing a small clinic. I went there to visit him, not as a client, but just to see him. The clinic is in the Malabar region – the land of the king cobra – snake bites are common. Outside the clinic there was an advertisement which said, 'A common antidote for all types of snakes.' I know enough about snakes. I have lived with them, I have them all around me, I have been bitten by them any number of times, and snakes and me have been very closely associated for a very long time. So I know enough about them to survive.

印度西海岸有一个叫芒格洛尔的城市。一个美丽、古朴的小镇，我和这个地方保持联系有一段时间了。期间我差不多有四五年没去那里，后来我碰巧又过去了。那里有一位顺势疗法的医生，年龄超过七十五岁了，仍经营着一家小诊所。我去拜访他，不是以病人的身份，只是去看看他。诊所位于马拉巴地区——眼镜蛇的王国——被蛇咬伤是很常见的。诊所外有一则广告写着“通用解毒剂，适用于所有种类的蛇。”我很了解蛇。我和它们住在一起，它们常围在我身边，我被它们咬了很多次，在很长一段时间内我和蛇关系密切。所以我对它们有足够的了解来保住性命。

Every day when you wake up in the morning, sit up on your bed cross-legged, sit with your hands open, eyes closed and just look at everything you are not. Appreciate all that you have gathered – your home, your family, your relationships, your qualifications, your body, your clothes – everything. Be thankful for that.

每天早上醒来时，盘腿坐在床上，双手张开，闭上眼睛，看看那些“不是你”的一切。感激你所积累的一切——你的家庭、你的家人、你的人际关系、你的资质、你的身体、你的衣服——所有一切。感谢它们。

Essentially in India, there are two basic varieties of venoms. One is a neurotoxin and the other affects your cardio-vascular system; a very small number of snakes have both. These are two completely different kinds of chemicals, so there cannot be a common antidote. Today, because people cannot identify what snake is what, doctors are administering an antidote for both together, which is very damaging for the system.

基本上在印度，有两种主要的毒液。一种是神经毒素，另一种会侵袭你的心血管系统；极少数的蛇两种毒素都有。这是两种完全不同的化学物质，所以不可能有通用解毒剂。今天，因为人们不能分辨哪种蛇是哪种毒，医生就注射一种解毒剂，这对系统的伤害是很大的。

I went in and was in conversation with the doctor. Then I asked him, 'How did you allow this board to come up in your clinic? This is not right. Someone is claiming there is a common antidote.' But he is a very wise doctor. He said, 'See, almost ninety percent of the Indian snakes are harmless, and this antidote works ninety percent of the time.'

我进去和医生交谈。然后我问他：“你怎么能允许这种宣传出现在你的诊所呢？这个不对。有人声称有一种通用的解毒剂。”但他是一位非常有智慧的医生。他说，“你看，印度的蛇几乎百分之九十都是无害的，那这种解毒剂在百分之九十的情况下就是有用的。”

Ninety is a good percentage for anything. Confidence is like that. If a snake bites you, just look up at the sky and say 'Dam-doom-dis-dis-dis!' the venom will go away, actually. Really! You must say it with enough vigor, it actually goes away… it works ninety percent of the time! And people will get more confident because it works ninety percent of the time. That is a fool's way to exist, isn't it? What you need is clarity, not confidence.

对于任何事物来说，百分之九十都是一个不错的百分比了。自信就像那样。如果一条蛇咬了你，只要仰望天空，然后说“Dam-doom-dis-dis-dis！”毒液就真地会消失。真的！你必须以足够的气势说出来，它真的会消失......百分之九十的情况下都有效！然后人们就会更加自信，因为百分之九十的情况下都有效。这是一种愚蠢的存在方式，不是吗？你需要的是眀晰，而不是自信。

If we want life to happen the way we want it, the first and foremost requirement is to be clear about what it is that we really want. Even simple practices can go a long way in creating this. Every day when you wake up in the morning, sit up on your bed cross-legged, sit with your hands open, eyes closed and just look at everything you are not. Appreciate all that you have gathered – your home, your family, your relationships, your qualifications, your body, your clothes – everything. Be thankful for that. At the same time, identify everything that is not you as 'This is what I have gathered' and mentally keep it aside. What you gather can be yours, but it can never be you. Spend ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the night every day. This will bring clarity. If one is properly initiated by a Guru, this particular process can take on a new dimension. But till such an opportunity comes in your life, you can do this by yourself. It will definitely have a big impact upon your clarity.

如果我们想让生命按照我们想要的方式发生，首要的是明确我们真正想要的是什么。对此，即使是简单的练习也有很大的帮助。每天早上醒来时，盘腿坐在床上，双手张开，闭上眼睛，想想那些“不是你”的所有一切。感激你所积累的这一切——你的家庭、你的家人、你的人际关系、你的资质、你的身体、你的衣服——所有一切。感谢它们。同时，看到这些东西“并不是我，而是我收集而来的”，并想象着把它放到一边。你收集来的东西是你的，但它永远不是你。每天早晚各花十分钟。这会给你带来明晰。如果由一位古鲁开启，这个练习可以被带到一个新的维度。但在你有这样的机会之前，你可以自己做。它一定会在很大程度上提升你的明晰度。

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isha.sadhguru.org/global/en/wisdom/article/confidence-without-clarity-is-a-disaster