萨古鲁：为什么在体式中专注呼吸是至关重要的？

Sadhguru answers a question on why we should focus on the breath during asanas, and how the breath offers a possibility to experience the human system more profoundly.

萨古鲁回答了一个关于为什么当我们处于体式中时应该专注在呼吸上的问题，并且讲解了呼吸是如何为我们提供一个更深刻地去体验人类系统的可能性的。

Question: Why should we focus on the breath during asanas?

问：我们为什么要在体式中专注在呼吸上？

Sadhguru: Your mind and emotions need a single object to focus on. If both of them stay with the same object, you are at maximum ease. If your body goes in one direction, your mind goes in another, and your emotions go in yet another direction, you will be struggling. Let’s say you have a job that you are very involved with, a family at home, and an affair on the side, you will be in a lot of mess – never at ease. Only if your body, mind, and emotions are focused in one direction, you will be at total ease.

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：你的头脑和情感需要专注在一个事物上。如果两者专注在同一事物上，你会处于最大程度的放松中。如果你的身体在一个方向，你的头脑在另外一个方向，而你的情感又处于其它方向，你就会挣扎。比如，你非常投入地工作，有家人需要照顾，同时还处于另外一段关系中，你的生活会一团糟——永远不会放松自在。只有当你的身体、头脑和情感处于同一方向时，你才会完全地自在。

Nothing and no one – neither your job nor your wealth nor your family nor your love affair – are as reliable as your breath. As long as you live, it will always be there. It is the most steady and reliable thing to focus your mind on. If while doing an asana, you do not focus your mind onto the breath, it will go all over the place. Therefore, focus on the breath. If I take away your breath now, you and your body will fall apart. It is your breath which holds you and your body together. This kurma nadi, as we call it in yoga, is like a thread that ties you and your body together.

没有什么事物，也没有人——不论是你的工作、财富、家庭或者爱情——能像你的呼吸一样可靠。只要你活着，呼吸永远都在那里。它是让你的头脑专注在上面的最稳定、最可靠的事物。当你处在一个体式中时，如果你没有把头脑专注在呼吸上，它会到处跑。因此，把头脑专注在呼吸上。如果现在我把你的呼吸拿走，你和你的身体会分离，是你的呼吸把你和你的身体联结在一起的。这个kurma nadi（指呼吸）, 我们在瑜伽里这么称呼它，就像是一根绳子，把你和你的身体绑在一起。

If you constantly stay with your breath, if you really travel with it, one day, you will understand where you and your body are linked. Once you know this, you can hold your body at a distance, and all your trouble and suffering will be over. All the trouble and suffering in your life arise from your body and your mind. If you can hold your body and your mind at a distance to yourself, this is the end of suffering. And only when there is no fear of suffering, a human being will dare to explore his life at full stride.

如果你一直和你的呼吸在一起，如果你能够真的跟随你的呼吸，有一天，你会知道你和你身体的联结点。一旦你知道这个点，你就可以和你的身体保持一段距离，这样你所有的烦恼和痛苦就终结了。你生命中的所有烦恼和痛苦都是来源于你的身体和头脑。如果你可以将你的身体和头脑与自己保持一定的距离，这就是痛苦的终结。并且，只有当你没有对痛苦的恐惧时，一个人才敢于全力去探索自己的生命。

So, being with the breath is very important. One thing is your mind has a steady companion to stay with. Anyone may leave you, but your breath will not leave you until you die. And another thing is it will transport you to a place where you and your body are linked. If you don’t want your life to be determined by multiple factors of compulsiveness, if you want to do or undo your life by choice, it is important to know this place.

所以，和你的呼吸在一起非常重要。一方面是，你的头脑有一个稳定的专注点。任何人都可能离开你，但是你的呼吸不会离开你，直到你死去。另一方面是，它（呼吸）会带你到你和你身体联结的地方。如果你不想让你的生命被种种强迫性所左右，如果你想主宰你的生命，知道这个地方很重要。

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isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/wisdom/article/focusing-breath-essential-asanas