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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，谁有钱听最爱的音乐家的演奏？欣赏最爱的演员的表演，最爱的戏剧
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.
谁有钱做那些事？只有王室。即使是他们也不能随心所欲，只能看在城里的音乐家演奏，只能看逗留在城里的演员
Today, we have literally the tip of our finger, whether it's on our MP3 or our DVD player.
今天这一切都在我们的指尖上，在我们的MP3和DVD播放机上
Imagine... Just think about the luxury that we are living in.
想像……想想我们的奢侈生活
Kings and Queens that not lived that kind of luxury.
国王和王后也望尘莫及
However, we get used to it. We adapt.
然而我们习惯了，我们适应了
And sometimes it's a good thing, because we also adapt to difficult experiences.
有时这是件好事，因为我们也适应困难的经历
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?
问题是我们如何学会，学会适应痛苦，但又不被伤害或变得容易受伤害
To become indifferent to the privilege that we have.
变得漠视我们所有的特权
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。思考我们拥有的美好的东西，
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.
不论是在朋友身上，在一部我们想看的电影中，或是过一会，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.
感激修习如此有用的一个原因，因为我们所做的是共同创造一个现实
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?"
我们问得最多或被问及最多的问题是"哪里不对了？有什么需要改进的？我的弱点是什么
Important questions- not enough.
这远远不是重要的问题
If these are the only questions that we ask as far as we are concerned, good does not exist.
如果这些问题是我们唯一提出或关心的，那么好的事物是不存在的
