放膽去追（Go After Your Dreams！）「你想要的，宇宙會給你」永保熱情別讓恐懼操控你的心
好萊塢喜劇天王金凱瑞
撰文 / 楊卓翰
出處 / 今周刊 911期
2014/06/05
在2014年的畢業演說中，喜劇天王金凱瑞鼓勵畢業生放膽追求，讓這個世界看見你而非接受你；時尚品牌Tory Burch創辦人柏琦則提醒年輕人，要以扎實的準備作為逐夢基底。祝你永遠保有熱情、願你永遠做好準備，兩人的演說，給了今年畢業生最完整的生命祝願。
Official Commencement Address Graduating Class of 2014
from Maharishi University of Management, May 24th, 2014
by Jim Carrey
Thank you Bevan, thank you all！
I brought one of my paintings to show you today. Hope you guys are gonna be able see it okay. It’s not one of my bigger pieces. You might wanna move down front — to get a good look at it.（kidding）
Faculty, Parents, Friends, Dignitaries… Graduating Class of 2014, and all the dead baseball players coming out of the corn to be with us today.（laughter） After the harvest there’s no place to hide — the fields are empty — there is no cover there！（laughter）
I am here to plant a seed that will inspire you to move forward in life with enthusiastic hearts and a clear sense of wholeness. The question is, will that seed have a chance to take root, or will I be sued by Monsanto and forced to use their seed, which may not be totally “Ayurvedic.”（laughter）
Excuse me if I seem a little low energy tonight — today — whatever this is. I slept with my head to the North last night.（laughter）
Oh man！Oh man！You know how that is, right？kids？Woke up right in the middle of Pitta and couldn’t get back to sleep till Vata rolled around, but I didn’t freak out. I used that time to eat a large meal and connect with someone special on Tinder.（laughter）
Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you. How do I know this? I don’t, but I’m making sound, and that’s the important thing. That’s what I’m here to do. Sometimes, I think that’s one of the only things that are important. Just letting each other know we’re here, reminding each other that we are part of a larger self. I used to think Jim Carrey is all that I was…
Just a flickering light
A dancing shadow
The great nothing masquerading as something you can name
Dwelling in forts and castles made of witches – wishes！Sorry, a Freudian slip there
Seeking shelter in caves and foxholes, dug out hastily
An archer searching for his target in the mirror
Wounded only by my own arrows
Begging to be enslaved
Pleading for my chains
Blinded by longing and tripping over paradise – can I get an “Amen”？！（applause）
You didn’t think I could be serious did ya’？I don’t think you understand who you’re dealing with！I have no limits！I cannot be contained because I’m the container. You can’t contain the container, man！You can’t contain the container！（laughter）
I used to believe that who I was ended at the edge of my skin, that I had been given this little vehicle called a body from which to experience creation, and though I couldn’t have asked for a sportier model,（laughter）it was after all a loaner and would have to be returned. Then, I learned that everything outside the vehicle was a part of me, too, and now I drive a convertible. Top down wind in my hair！（laughter）
I am elated and truly, truly, truly excited to be present and fully connected to you at this important moment in your journey. I hope you’re ready to open the roof and take it all in？！（audience doesn’t react）Okay, four more years then！（laughter）
I want to thank the Trustees, Administrators and Faculty of MUM for creating an institution worthy of Maharishi’s ideals of education. A place that teaches the knowledge and experience necessary to be productive in life, as well as enabling the students, through Transcendental Meditation and ancient Vedic knowledge to slack off twice a day for an hour and a half！！（laughter）— don’t think you’re fooling me!!! — (applause) but, I guess it has some benefits. It does allow you to separate who you truly are and what’s real, from the stories that run through your head.
You have given them the ability to walk behind the mind’s elaborate set decoration, and to see that there is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.（laughter）That may sound like no big deal, but many never learn that distinction and spend a great deal of their lives living in fight or flight response.
I’d like to acknowledge all you wonderful parents — way to go for the fantastic job you’ve done — for your tireless dedication, your love, your support, and most of all, for the attention you’ve paid to your children. I have a saying, “Beware the unloved,” because they will eventually hurt themselves… or me！（laughter）
But when I look at this group here today, I feel really safe！I do！I’m just going to say it — my room is not locked！My room is not locked！（laughter）No doubt some of you will turn out to be crooks！But white-collar stuff — Wall St. ya’ know, that type of thing — crimes committed by people with self-esteem！Stuff a parent can still be proud of in a weird way.（laughter）
And to the graduating class of 2017 — minus 3！You didn’t let me finish！（laughter）— Congratulations！（applause）Yes, give yourselves a round of applause, please. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. On the other side of that door, there is a world starving for new leadership, new ideas.
I’ve been out there for 30 years！She’s a wild cat！（laughter）Oh, she’ll rub up against your leg and purr until you pick her up and start pettin’ her, and out of nowhere she’ll swat you in the face. Sure it’s rough sometimes but that’s OK, ‘cause they’ve got soft serve ice cream with sprinkles！（laughter） I guess that’s what I’m really here to say; sometimes it’s okay to eat your feelings！（laughter）
Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m saying, I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it — please！（applause）And if it doesn’t happen for you right away, it’s only because the universe is so busy fulfilling my order. It’s party size！（laughter）
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn’t believe that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant, and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.（applause）
That’s not the only thing he taught me though: I watched the affect my father’s love and humor had on the world around me, and I thought, “That’s something to do, that’s something worth my time.”
It wasn’t long before I started acting up. People would come over to my house and they would be greeted by a 7 yr old throwing himself down a large flight of stairs.（laughter）They would say, “What happened？” And I would say, “I don’t know — let’s check the replay.” And I would go back to the top of the stairs and come back down in slow motion.（Jim reenacts coming down the stairs in slow-mo）It was a very strange household.（laughter）
My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham — I was the whole pig. And he treated my talent as if it was his second chance. When I was about 28, after a decade as a professional comedian, I realized one night in LA that the purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, like my dad. When I realized this, I dubbed my new devotion, “The Church of Freedom From Concern” — “The Church of FFC”— and I dedicated myself to that ministry.
What’s yours？How will you serve the world？What do they need that your talent can provide？That’s all you have to figure out. As someone who has done what you are about to go do, I can tell you from experience, the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.（applause）
Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart. My choosing to free people from concern got me to the top of a mountain. Look where I am — look what I get to do! Everywhere I go – and I’m going to get emotional because when I tap into this, it really is extraordinary to me — I did something that makes people present their best selves to me wherever I go.（applause）I am at the top of the mountain and the only one I hadn’t freed was myself and that’s when my search for identity deepened.
I wondered who I’d be without my fame. Who would I be if I said things that people didn’t want to hear, or if I defied their expectations of me? What if I showed up to the party without my Mardi Gras mask and I refused to flash my breasts for a handful of beads？（laughter）I’ll give you a moment to wipe that image out of your mind.（laughter）
But you guys are way ahead of the game. You already know who you are and that peace, that peace that we’re after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.（A sheet drops and reveals Jim’s painting. Applause.）
（Re：the painting）It’s not big enough！（kidding）This painting is big for a reason. This painting is called “High Visibility.”（laughter）It’s about picking up the light and daring to be seen. Here’s the tricky part. Everyone is attracted to the light. The party host up in the corner（refers to painting）who thinks unconsciousness is bliss and is always offering a drink from the bottles that empty you; Misery, below her, who despises the light — can’t stand when you’re doing well — and wishes you nothing but the worst; The Queen of Diamonds who needs a King to build her house of cards; And the Hollow One, who clings to your leg and begs, “Please don’t leave me behind for I have abandoned myself.”
Even those who are closest to you and most in love with you; the people you love most in the world can find clarity confronting at times. This painting took me thousands of hours to complete and —（applause）thank you — yes, thousands of hours that I’ll never get back, I’ll never get them back（kidding）— I worked on this for so long, for weeks and weeks, like a mad man alone on a scaffolding — and when I was finished one of my friends said, “This would be a cool black light painting.”（laughter）
So I started over.（All the lights go off in the Dome and the painting is showered with black light.）Whooooo！Welcome to Burning Man！（applause） Some pretty crazy characters right？Better up there than in here.（points to head）Painting is one of the ways I free myself from concern, a way to stop the world through total mental, spiritual and physical involvement.
But even with that, comes a feeling of divine dissatisfaction. Because ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.
I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out in the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself！（laughter）
My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul — one unified field of nothing dancing for no particular reason, except maybe to comfort and entertain itself.（applause） As that shift happens in you, you won’t be feeling the world you’ll be felt by it — you will be embraced by it. Now, I’m always at the beginning. I have a reset button called presence and I ride that button constantly.
Once that button is functional in your life, there’s no story the mind could create that will be as compelling. The imagination is always manufacturing scenarios — both good and bad — and the ego tries to keep you trapped in the multiplex of the mind. Our eyes are not only viewers, but also projectors that are running a second story over the picture we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script and the working title is, ‘I’ll never be enough.’
You look at a person like me and say,（kidding）“How could we ever hope to reach those kinds of heights, Jim？How can I make a painting that’s too big for any reasonable home？How do you fly so high without a special breathing apparatus？”（laughter）
This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you. No matter what you gain, ego will not let you rest. It will tell you that you cannot stop until you’ve left an indelible mark on the earth, until you’ve achieved immortality. How tricky is the ego that it would tempt us with the promise of something we already possess.
So I just want you to relax—that’s my job—relax and dream up a good life！（applause）I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the second grade that told my class during Morning Prayer that when she wants something, anything at all, she prays for it, and promises something in return and she always gets it. I’m sitting at the back of the classroom, thinking that my family can’t afford a bike, so I went home and I prayed for one, and promised I would recite the rosary every night in exchange. Broke it—broke that promise.（laughter）
Two weeks later, I got home from school to find a brand new mustang bike with a banana seat and easy rider handlebars — from fool to cool! My family informed me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine had entered my name in, without my knowledge. That type of thing has been happening ever since, and as far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it might come to pass.（applause）
Your job is not to figure out how it’s going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head and when the doors open in real life, just walk through it. Don’t worry if you miss your cue. There will always be another door opening. They keep opening.
And when I say, “life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.” I really don’t know if that’s true. I’m just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You’ll come up with your own style, that’s part of the fun!
Oh, and why not take a chance on faith as well？Take a chance on faith — not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today, you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Thank you. Jai Guru Dev. I’m so honored. Thank you.
（https://www.mum.edu/whats-happening/graduation-2014/full-jim-carrey-address-video-and-transcript/）
美國喜劇演員、金球獎得主金凱瑞，五月二十四日在愛荷華州瑪赫西管理大學（MUM）畢業典禮上致詞。他收起電影裡笑鬧不正經的態度，分享他在演藝事業成功的祕訣。從父親放棄夢想卻仍被開除，金凱瑞學到了他人生最重要的一件事……。以下為他演講摘錄。
恭喜你們，非常榮幸參與這榮耀的一刻。你們都很幸運，可以在這麼好的學校裡成長，而且你們背後坐著為你們付出這麼多的父母。家長們，你的工作做完了，接下來，把這群孩子趕出家門，讓孩子去外面闖蕩吧！當然，他們之中有些人未來免不了會變成罪犯（現場大笑），但是，是白領罪犯……華爾街的那種罪犯。
今天我來到這裡，是要播下一顆種子，我希望這顆種子能夠啟發你們，讓你能以熱情的心和清楚的腦袋，繼續走向未來人生。你們覺得我不可能正經八百地演講嗎？別搞錯了，我可是個沒有極限的人，我才不會被限制在框框裡，因為我自己就是一個容器，能決定自己的可能性。
我曾經以為，所謂「我」，指的就是這副身體，它像是一輛小小的汽車，帶著我體驗世間一切；但我慢慢發現，原來車子外面的世界也是「我」的一部分……，如今，雖然不是開著一輛超級跑車，但至少是一輛敞篷車啊！
放膽去追「你想要的，宇宙會給你」
你們就要出發了，準備好了嗎？打開這扇門，掀開屋頂，開始體驗這個世界吧！
我在外面這個世界打滾了三十年，而這個世界對於創新思想、創新領導是多麼飢渴啊！它就像隻野貓一樣，有時會在你腳邊磨蹭，要你抱牠起來拍拍牠，然後牠就會狠狠在你臉上抓一下，把你嚇得屁滾尿流！
沒錯，「恐懼」在你的人生將會扮演一個非常重要的角色；但是它的戲分有多重，將由你來決定。
你這一生做的決定，最後總是回歸到兩種：因為熱情所下的決定，或是因為恐懼所下的決定。未來真正會發生的事，其實完全取決於你現在做的決定。
你可以一輩子擔心這個、擔心那個，事實上，我們之中有太多人的人生，是用恐懼來做決定。我們總覺得內心裡真正想要的東西實在是太遙遠、太可笑，所以我們不敢向宇宙索取。我站在這裡，就是一個活生生的例子：你想要的，宇宙會給你！
我的父親曾經有機會成為一位成功的喜劇演員，但是他從來不敢相信他會成功，所以他當年做了一個保守的決定，找了一個安全的工作，當了一名會計師；然而在我十二歲那年，他被公司開除了，我們全家從此陷入了困境。就是在那一刻，我從父親身上學到一件事：就算你勉強選擇你不想做的事，你還是有可能一敗塗地，不如一開始就選擇你熱愛的工作吧！
這不是他教我的唯一一件事。我在他身上，看到用愛和幽默可以怎麼帶給這個世界快樂，所以，我七歲的時候就開始我的演藝事業。當親戚來我們家拜訪，我打招呼的方式是非常誇張的：我從樓梯上滾下來；但我父親沒有像其他家長把這個調皮的孩子打個半死，他培養兒子的表演天分，就像是給他自己的人生第二次機會似的。
發現信仰你要奉獻給世界什麼？
我在二十八歲時，在喜劇表演領域工作十年後，我理解到我這生的志業，就是幫助別人放輕鬆，解除他們的憂慮──就像我幫我父親解除憂慮一樣。從那晚之後，我發現了我的信仰，我要把我的一生奉獻給喜劇表演。
那你的信仰呢？你要奉獻給這個世界什麼？這世界需要你的天分來幫忙些什麼？這就是你現在要去發掘的。
別忘了，你這一生所得到的東西，必定會崩壞、離你而去，唯一能留下的，就是你心裡的東西。我決定要幫人們從憂愁中解放出來的志業，帶我到了頂峰；這不是說我賺了多少錢，而是，當我走到哪裡，人們總是很樂意拿出他們最好的一面給我看。這對我來說，這就是人生的頂峰。
雖然我在頂峰，但是我唯一無法解放的，就是我自己，我開始進入更深一層的自我追尋。如果我沒有這些名聲怎麼辦？如果我說出別人不想聽的話、做出別人意想不到的事，會發生什麼事？如果我演出一部完全不搞笑的電影，那部電影會賣座嗎？這時候，恐懼就開始操控我了。
我總是希望人們知道，你的財富、名聲……，那些東西沒辦法幫你找到自我滿足。就像你們，我本來也很怕到外面闖，做些連我自己都不敢想像的偉大事業。直到有個聰明人告訴我：這世界上沒有比自己還偉大的事！這話的意思是，你不該只是感受世界，而是要讓世界感受你的存在！我的存在，是被我的靈魂所定義，而這世界上還有很多地方等著被我的靈魂去影響、去充實！
你們當然會指著我說：「你是金凱瑞耶！你當然可以說這種話。我們怎麼可能變得像你一樣？」別忘了，那不是你的熱情在說話，那是你心中的恐懼在說話。
讓世界看見而不是讓世界接受你
你可以去打球、去打仗、去華爾街，但是永遠不要讓恐懼掌握你的命運。如果你只是渴望這個世界能夠接受你，那麼，對這個世界來說，你就是隱形的。你要想的，是極盡可能讓這個世界不斷地看到你，並且別讓任何東西阻擋了你靈魂的閃耀。
「生命裡的事情不會莫名其妙地發生，而是由你所創造。」當我說這句話時，我真的不知道這是真是假；但我可以說，我這生下的決定都出自我的內心，而且用最正面的態度，把我的決定所帶來的挑戰，轉換成對我的助力。當你走出那扇門，你的生命只有兩種選擇：熱情或是恐懼。
永遠、永遠、永遠、永遠……保持熱情，不要讓恐懼改變你那調皮的心！謝謝大家！
金凱瑞Jim Carrey
出生：1962年
現職：好萊塢演員
代表作：《摩登大聖》、《王牌威龍》、《楚門的世界》等
