百年致富经典第一章

凤凰花 发表于 2008-5-14 22:37:08

这是百年致富经典第一章，英文原文在后面。第一章开宗明义就说：致富的权利。这是每个人與生俱来的权利，可是有太多的人，受到从小教育、环境的影响，觉得金钱是罪恶的，或是不重要的，甚或是觉得自己是不配得的。 　　我去年参加了一个五千人的培训课程，是“有钱人和你想的不一样”的作者在新加坡举办的。（这本书现在中国已经出了！）之前，我很不屑这样的课程，因为我觉得金钱不过就是个工具，是次于我的，何况现在我这麽深入灵性……呵呵！ 　　不过上了这个课以后，改变了我对金钱的观念。钱不过就是一种能量，就像你的健康，事业，人际关系，等，是需要你去经营的。如果你尊重你的健康，你的健康一定不差。如果你尊重并且花时间去经营你的人际关系，你的人际关系一定也不错。一个人的时间花在那里是看得出来的。 　　同样的，金钱也是需要你去关注、尊重的一种能量。我们从事灵修的人，口口声声说与万物连结，活在爱中，而金钱就是一个显示你整个能量状态到底顺不顺的温度计。如果真的修得很好，你不会为钱挣扎。 就像本文中说的，渴望充分活出我们的生命，是我们会出现在这个世界上的原因。我们要最好的表达自己，活出自己，而金钱是其中的一种方式。渴望金钱和执着金钱是不一样的。以后我们还会谈到。 　　在这里，大家最重要的就是了解：金钱不是负面的东西，你一定要先改变自己对金钱的一些负面的看法，金钱才可能会流向你。此外，致富是每个人與生俱来的权利，所以你要看看自己潜意识中“不配得”的信念。 每一个人的生活状况都是他相信岀來的。你相信你可以过到什么样的生活，你就可以拥有什么样的生活。这是我个人的实证经验。你认为自己不可能得到财富，或是财富不重要，或是有了财富反而不好……等等，那么，你就一辈子注定在原地节衣缩食。 　　所以，第一堂课，让我们检视一下我们的人生信念，金钱观，找出来会阻碍你的这些思想，然后把它们摊在阳光下审查。在你慈悲而温柔的光照下，这些黑暗的信念会逐渐融解，而你就会得到你真心向往的生活！ 第一章致富的权利 　　世上虽有许多赞扬贫穷的说法存在，但人若不够富有就无法拥有真正完整或成功的人生，却仍是不变的事实。如果一个人没有足够的金钱，就无法将其才能或灵性发展至最高层次；这是因为人必须要有许多物品可供其运用，才能展现其灵性并发展其才能，而如果没有购买这些物品所需的金钱，那么他就无法得到这些物品。 人是透过运用各种物品来发展其心智、灵魂与身体；而在现今的社会中，人一定要拥有金钱才能取得所需的物品。因此，「致富」这门学问就是人类一切进步的基础。 　　所有生命存在的目的都是为了成长，而所有具有生命的东西都拥有一个不可剥夺的权利：获得所有可能的成长机会。 　　人对于其生命的权利，指的就是可以无限制地自由使用有助于完全展现其心智、精神与肉体的一切事物，也就是「致富」的权利。 　　在本书中，我将以最直接的方式来说明何谓「富有」。满足于只拥有一小部份并不是真正的富有；如果一个人有能力使用与享受更多，那么他就不应该满足于只拥有一点点。自然界万物存在的目的，就是不断进步并将其生命作最完美的呈现；因此，每一个人都应该要拥有能帮助他展现生命之力量、优雅、美好与丰富的一切事物。满足于不足是一种罪恶。 　　如果一个人拥有希望拥有的一切事物，而能过他所想要的生活，那么这个人是富有的；然而，没有足够金钱的人是无法拥有他想要的一切事物的。现代生活已经进步到相当复杂的程度，就算是最平凡的人想过一个趋近于完整的人生，都会需要一笔相当大的财富。每一个人自然都会想成为他们可以成为的人，这种了解自身天赋能力的渴望，是人类与生俱来的天性；我们都忍不住想成为自己有能力成为的人。所谓的「成功」，也就是能成为你想要成为的人。唯有透过运用各种物品，你才能成为想要成为的人，而也唯有拥有足够购买所需物品的财富，你才能自由的使用这些物品。因此，在所有知识当中，最重要的就是关于「致富」的知识。 　　渴望致富并不是一件坏事，对致富的渴望，事实上就是对能够拥有更丰富、更完整、更充实的生命的渴望，而这种渴望是值得称许的。不希望获得更充实的人生的人是不正常的；换句话说，不渴望拥有更多金钱，来购买到他想要的一切物品的人，也是不正常的。 　　我们生存的动力有三种：我们会为了追求身体的成长而活、我们会为了追求心智的成长而活、我们会为了追求灵性的成长而活。这三者没有谁比谁好或高尚，每一项都值得追求；而身体、心智与灵性当中如果有任何一项没能达到完美的境界与完全的展现，那么其他两者也不可能达到完全。只追求灵性的成长，而否认心智或身体的重要性，这既不正确也不崇高；而只追求获得智识而否认灵性或身体成长的重要性，也同样是错误的。 　　我们都很了解如果只追求身体上的享乐，却不发展心智与灵性肯定会带来恶果；我们也了解真正的人生，指的是人透过其身体、心智与灵魂而呈现的完整样貌。不管一个人嘴上怎么说，如果他的身体机能无法正常运作，就不可能真的感到快乐或满足；同样的，在心智与灵性层面也是如此。只要有还未实现的可能性、或是尚未发挥的机能存在，就会产生渴望。人的渴望就是源于潜在的可能性在寻求实　　现的机会，或是所具有的功能在寻找发挥的机会。 如果没有营养的食物、舒适的衣着、以及温暖的住所，如果无法免除过度的辛劳，那么这个人的身体将无法健全发展；休息与娱乐对于人的身体健康也是很重要的。 如果没有书籍与阅读的时间、如果没有旅游与观察的机会、如果没有一起追求智识成长的同侪，那么这个人的心智也无法健全发展。 　　人若要让心智健全发展，就必须拥有知识性的娱乐，也必须能让自己周遭充满他有能力使用与欣赏的艺术作品以及其他美好的事物。 　　人若要让灵性健全发展，那么他必须要拥有爱，而贫穷会使人无法完全展现爱。 　　一个人的至高喜乐，来自于为其所爱的人们带来益处；「付出」就是爱最自然的呈现方式。一个人如果没有东西可以付出，就无法扮演好配偶、父母、公民、乃至于身为一个人类的角色。人类需要透过运用各种物品，才能了解如何使身体健全发展、如何使心智成长、以及如何展现其灵性。因此，对每一个人而言，「致富」都是极为重要的。 　　你应该渴望致富，这是绝对正确的事。如果你是一个正常人，那事实上你也无法克制这样的渴望。全心学习关于「致富」的知识是绝对正确的，因为那是所有学问当中最高尚、也最必要的一种。如果忽视这门学问，那么可以说你没有尽到对自己、对神、以及对全人类的责任，因为你能为神与全人类提供的最大贡献，就是让自己发挥到最高境界。 Chaper 1 The Right To Be Rich WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with. A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich. The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining. Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich. In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful. The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge. There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal. There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three--body, mind, or soul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul. We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance. Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life. He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating. To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty. A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich. It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself. <img id=paperPicArea1 style="DISPLAY: none; POSITION: relative" src="http://imgcache.qq.com/ac/qzone_v4/b.gif"/>

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百年致富经典第一章