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Back only 200 years ago, who could afford to listen to their favorite musicians, or to watch their favorite actors, favorite plays?
就在200年前，誰有錢聽最愛的音樂家的演奏？欣賞最愛的演員的表演，最愛的戲劇
Who could affor to do it? Only royalty. And even them- they were limited, in terms of which musician was in town or what players were in town.
誰有錢做那些事？只有王室。即使是他們也不能隨心所欲，只能看在城里的音樂家演奏，只能看逗留在城里的演員
Today, we have literally the tip of our finger, whether it's on our MP3 or our DVD player.
今天這一切都在我們的指尖上，在我們的MP3和DVD播放機上
Imagine... Just think about the luxury that we are living in.
想像……想想我們的奢侈生活
Kings and Queens that not lived that kind of luxury.
國王和王后也望塵莫及
However, we get used to it. We adapt.
然而我們習慣了，我們適應了
And sometimes it's a good thing, because we also adapt to difficult experiences.
有時這是件好事，因為我們也適應困難的經歷
And the question is how do we learn in a sense to eat the cake and leave it whole, meaning to adapt to the painful but not to remain impervious or to become impervious?
問題是我們如何學會，學會適應痛苦，但又不被傷害或變得容易受傷害
To become indifferent to the privilege that we have.
變得漠視我們所有的特權
How do we maintain the gratefulness? And it's by being mindful. By thinking about those wonderful things that we have,
如何才能保持感激之情?那就是要用心。思考我們擁有的美好的東西，
whether it's in a friend, whether it's in a movie we want to watch, whether it's in the lunch we are going to have served to us in our house later.
不論是在朋友身上，在一部我們想看的電影中，或是過一會，食堂提供的午餐
The gratitude exercise, one of the reasons why it's so powerful, because what we are doing is we are cocreating a reality.
感激修習如此有用的一個原因，因為我們所做的是共同創造一個現實
Most of the questions that we ask or are asked of us is "what's wrong?", "what needs to be improved? what are my weakness areas?"
我們問得最多或被問及最多的問題是"哪里不對了？有什么需要改進的？我的弱點是什么
Important questions- not enough.
這遠遠不是重要的問題
If these are the only questions that we ask as far as we are concerned, good does not exist.
如果這些問題是我們唯一提出或關心的，那么好的事物是不存在的
