After Reading Takuan: Part 10 不動智神妙録を読んで１０

早くやろうとすると，結果的に早くできない。うまくやろうとすると，結果的にうまくできない。こうありたいという心が，今この瞬間に全身全力でやりきることを妨げる。その瞬間にやるべきことをただ全身全力でやりきれば，自然と早く，自然とうまくいく。視点を変えれば，こうありたいということは，今現在そうなっていないことを意味する。すると，こうありたいという未来の理想に対して，現在の状態は負の価値を帯びる。何かを達成したいという理想を持つことは大切であり，そのために我々は努力しようと動機づけられ，そこに到達しようと計画を立てる。しかし，一旦計画に従って努力を始めたら，理想のことは忘れて，その瞬間にやるべきことだけに全身全力で向かう。未来を思えば，実現していない現在は相対的に不快で苦しい。苦しい時ほど長く感じる。逆に，楽しい時は短く感じる。それは，どこにも心がとらわれず，今ここになりきっているからである。

When we hope to finish something early, as a result we can not finish it early. When we hope to do something successfully, as a result we can not do it successfully. The mind of becoming what we want prevents us from doing something completely at this very moment with full effort. Just doing thoroughly what we should do at that instant with full force makes it naturally be finished early and be done successfully. From another viewpoint, hoping that we will become what we want to be means now being not what we want to be. Then, compared to the future ideal to hope to be like that, the present state will have a negative value.To have an ideal for achieving something is so important that we can be motivated to make a plan and an effort to reach the goal. But, once we start working toward the goal along the plan, we should forget the ideal goal and devote all our energies to what we should do at that time. When we imagine the future, the present in which the future ideal has not been realized yet is relatively uncomfortable and painful. The more painful it is, the longer we feel it is. Conversely, the more fun it is, the shorter we feel it is. It is because of being not stuck in anything but the present and being completely in the here now.