程序员也可以禅之10条法则

传说中编控制程序的不是程序员，码农似乎在鄙视链中的某个链条上可以藐视一下自控的工程师。

而实际上，自控的编程却最容易即见即得，最直观的，你要让你的代码把机器或者设备动起来，不是在小小的屏幕，而是实际的大家伙，这样就颇有成就感。

所以编程是个永远的话题了，自控的不叫码农，叫码工吧，工程师，机械些，大气些，好听！

对于编程，基本的原则，都是建立之前的痛苦经历上，所以有软件工程，所以有各种秘诀，鸡汤诸如此类。看到这样一篇文章，推荐给大家，希望有所帮助。是个老外写的，叫Christian Grobmeier。英文原文也附上，看看也许有更深的理解。

程序员是一份特别辛苦的职业，也是一个承受各种压力的群体。每周6天工作，无休止的加班，甚至过劳死，程序员的身心健康面临很大的问题。禅是另一种生活方式，在物欲横流的今天，禅对于程序员有着特殊的意义和价值。

几百年前，禅宗大师开示众生：该说“不”时且开口，生命掌握在你手中。

今天依然如此。 禅修并非史蒂夫•乔布斯这样的业界精英的专利，你也可以。 禅修并非只能在周末进行，任何时候都行，甚至是现在，是的，就在此刻，从程序员禅的10条法则开始。

1、专注

禅修程序员一旦开始工作，就应该全力以赴，做到最好。请不要同时展开多项工作。一次仅做一事就好。(注：用Sapro就全心在其上，不要分心，不然很容易忘了怎么做）

一心多用不会让效率更高，只会使你应接不暇。超负荷工作会让人疲惫不堪、容易出错，而且在不同的工作之间频繁切换也会浪费时间。这是条通用的建议，不仅仅适用于编程工作。

泽木兴道禅师教诲：若需睡觉，尽管睡。当决定休息的时候，不要再去想软件的事，尽管睡觉。要是打算编程，就尽管去编，不要再做白日梦，专注它。一旦你疲倦不堪而无法编程，你就需要睡觉了。即使是以一心多用出名的Stephan Uhrenbacher，也会决定进行单线程式的工作。我有和Setphan类似的体会，于是自己写了一个时间跟踪工具—Time & Bill。我的目标是方便地跟踪时间消耗，包括像打电话这样的小事。现在，每日伊始我会创建几个秒表，鼠标一点就可以跟踪时间的使用。起初惨不忍睹，有时我在一项工作上只花了几分钟就转到另一项工作上。现在我做得好多了。与番茄工作法类似，我计划了几个时段，努力保持专注，其间不闲聊，不睡觉，不去查看AppStore上好玩的新游戏。

1. Focus
If you have decided to work on a task, do it as well as you can. Don’t start multiple things at the same time. Do only one thing at one time. You’ll not become quicker, just you work multithreaded. If you work multithreaded you’ll become exhausted, make more errors and lose time to jump from one task to another. This is not only about programming, this is a general tip.
Kodo Sawaki says: if you need to sleep, sleep. Don’t plan your software when you try to sleep. Just sleep. If you code, code. Don’t dream away – code. If you are so tired that you cannot program, sleep. Even known multitaskers like Stephan Uhrenbacher meanwhile have decided to work singlethreaded. I have made a similar experience to Stephan and finally I wrote Time & Bill, a time tracking tool. Goal was to track my time so easily that I even do it for small tasks like a phonecall. Now I can create a few stopwatches at the beginning of the day and track my time with only one click. The outcome was a disaster: sometimes I just worked a few minutes on a task until I moved on to the next one. Now I am better. Similar to the Pomodoro technique I plan a few time slots and concentrate on them. No chatting, no sleeping, no checking out of a new great game on the Appstore.

2、心无杂念

在动手编程之前，你需要清空头脑，摒弃一切杂念。如果你有什么麻烦事，不要让它影响你。在大多数情况下，烦恼会自行消失。如果杂念太多，无法驱除，就暂且不要工作。一定努力清除它们。而你一旦开始工作，请暂且忘记身外的世界。

邮件列表中有令人兴奋的内容？别管它，你可以晚些时候再兴奋。关掉所有会占据你头脑的垃圾程序：推特、脸书和电邮。你甚至应该将手机设为静音并放进口袋里。或许你会说这条规则类似于第1条“专注”，然而这条中还应有一个限制：在工作前或午餐时不要使用这些工具。这些东东把你连接到花花世界，带来新的烦恼或耗精力玩意儿。

设想一下，当清晨醒来时，通常你的头脑会很清醒。如果不然，可以做些运动（我喜欢长跑）。等你感到神清气爽了，请尽所能立马开展工作。工作结束后，你才可以去想那些乱七八糟的东西。当历经繁忙而充实的一个工作日后，你会发现原来那些东西其实并非多么有趣。推特、脸书之类会消耗我们大量的精力，别以为只要分把钟，绝非如此。

你懂的！

(注：其实这是一个量变质变的道理，没有了杂念，会把力量集中起来，质变就会容易些，编程有时候就这样，一旦达到这样的境界，很多问题就迎刃而解）

2. Keep your mind clean
Before you work on your software, you need to clean up your memory. Throw away everything in your mind for the time being. If you have trouble with something, don’t let it influence you. It is mostly the case that trouble will go away. If the trouble is so heavy that you can’t let it go, don’t work. Try to clear things up. But when you start working, let the outer world shape away.
Something exciting on the mailinglist? Leave it there. You can follow the exciting stuff again – later. Shutdown what fills your mind with shit: close Twitter, Facebook, your E-Mails. You should even mute the ringing of you mobile and leave it in your pocket. You can say it is similar to item #1, focus. But there is one more restriction: don’t use that tools before work or at lunch. They connect you with the outer world and probably bring up some new trouble or things which require you attention.
Think like this: at most times your mind is pretty clean when you wake up at the morning. If it is not, some sports helps (I do long distance running). If you feel clean and refreshed, go to work and work as well as you can. When you leave your work then you can fill up your mind with clutter. You’ll see it is not so much fun if you have a full working day behind you. Twitter and Co are consuming much of your energy. Do not think: it is just a minute. It is not.
You know it already.

3、初学者心态（虚怀若谷）

别忘了自己还是初学者的那些日子。或者如果你目前就是个初学者，请坚守这份新人情怀。你所学到的远远不够。如果你已经是个专家了，不妨每天也把自己当成初学者。坚持以初学者的心态来对待技术问题，这样你就能更容易去接受那些让软件更好的修改，不落俗套。即使那些经历不如你的人也可能会提出一些好主意。有哪一个软件的两次构建方法会完全相同呢？即使你去复制（仿制）软件，建构过程也不会完全相同。

(注：技术方面，没有人是永远的专家）

3. Beginners mind.
Remember the days were you were a beginner. Or memorize, if you still are one. You have never learned enough. Think of yourself as you were a beginner, every day. Always try to see technologies from a beginners mind. You can accept corrections to your software better and leave the standard path if you need it more easily. There are some good ideas even from people who don’t have your experience.
Was there ever a software build twice, the same way? Even if you copy software it is somehow different.

4、无我

一些程序员存在的大问题是：过于自我。但其实，我们没有时间过于自我，没有时间成为一个摇滚明星。

谁能决定你的编程水平呢？你自己？不是。别人？可能吧。你可以拿苹果跟香蕉比吗？不能。你是个个体。你无法将整个自己与他人去比较，只能说某些方面的比较。

有个技能有啥可自豪的？你擅长Java？酷，别人是不如你，但他擅长打保龄球，你行吗？Java比保龄球更重要吗？恐怕要视具体情况而定。你可能因为Java赚得多一些，但别人可能从生活中获得了更多的乐趣，因为他有一群保龄球友。

你真的对自己是个极客感到自豪吗？过于自我的程序员容易固步自封。请保持谦虚，向他人学习，不管他是个老手，还是菜鸟。

泽木兴道禅师教诲：“你并不重要。”

自己想想。

(注：编程就是解决问题，可能会有些技巧，但不会一切）

4. No Ego.
Some programmers have a huge problem: their own ego. But there is no time for developing an ego. There is no time for being a rockstar.
Who is it who decides about your quality as programmer? You? No. The others? Probably. But can you really compare an Apple with a Banana? No. You are an individual. You cannot compare your whole self with another human being. You can only compare a few facettes.
A facet is nothing what you can be proud of. You are good at Java? Cool. The other guy is not as good as you, but better with bowling. Is Java more important than bowling? It depends on the situation. Probably you earn more money with Java, but the other guy might have more fun in life because of his bowling friends.
Can you really be proud because you are a geek? Programmers with ego don’t learn. Learn from everybody, from the experienced and from the noobs at the same time.
Kodo Sawaki once said: you are not important.
Think about it.

5、不要设置职业目标

如果你总是想得到些什么以至于忽略了当下的生活，你已经输了。对于工作，全力以赴即可，别去管将来很长一段时间后才可能达成的目标。

难道拼命工作20年，就是为了成为公司股东？为什么不能因为乐趣而勤奋工作呢？如果真心喜欢，即使辛苦也会乐在其中。“一日不作，一日不食”，禅宗如是说。

没有必要等到20年后再去寻找快乐。即使不是公司股东，即使没有保时捷跑车，现在的你也能拥有快乐。天有不测风云，你可能突然大病一场，可能被解雇，也可能会面临油尽灯枯（如果你遵循了所有这些忠告，我猜这种可能性会大大降低）。

除非这些不好的事情发生，否则只管尽力去工作，并乐在其中。没有理由去和同事攀比收入，也没有理由对未得到的高薪职位耿耿于怀。

毕竟，所得终将会来。你将收获美好的回忆，或许还有个好职位—以及那精彩的20年。每一天都是美好的。

如果某天你认为在公司工作已毫无乐趣可言，请果断离开。千万不要待在夺走你生活之乐的公司。当然，这要在发达国家才现实，因为这里的人完全可以自由跳槽。如果你正生活在这样的优越环境中，果断下决心吧。尽管离开，无怨无悔。时间不可轻易浪费—生命无常，或许明天它就会消逝。

如果你没有设定职业目标，转身离开将会容易很多。

(注：或者说就在当下，而不是说编个程序就一定要远大目标，控制一个风扇的转速，也是一个骄傲的换了回忆）

5. There is no career goal.
If you want to gain something and don’t care about your life “now”, you have already lost the game. Just act as well as you can, without looking at the goal you might reach after a long time.
Working for 20 years to become a partner? Why aren’t you working as hard as possible just because it is fun? Hard working can be fun. A day without work is a day without food is a Zen saying.
There is no need to start happiness after 20 years. You can be happy right now, even when you are not a Partner or don’t drive a Porsche. Things change to easily. You can get sick. You can get fired. You can burn out (if you follow all these items I guess likeliness is low).
Until these bad things happen, just work as well as you can and have fun with doing it. No reason to look at the gains of the collegs. No reason to think about the cool new position which you didn’t get.
After all, you will reach something. You’ll end up with nice memories, maybe a good position – and 20 excellent years. Every day is a good day.
If you ever come to the point were you think that working at your company is no fun at all you must leave immediately. NEVER stay at a company which does take away the happiness in your life. Of course, this is only possible in the rich countries, were people have the choice to go away. But if you are living in such a good environment, do it. Go away without regret. You have no time to waste, you are probably dead tomorrow.
When you have no career goal going away is easy.

6、敏事慎言

如果没有什么要说的，就不要去浪费同事的时间。这样做并不会让你看上去懦弱无能。在每天的工作中，尽量不要去无端惹人心烦。试想一下，要是每个人都努力做到，那将是一个多么好的工作环境啊？虽然有时这是不可能的，但请努力做到，你会喜欢的。

如果你不过于自我，就很容易做到谨言，只关注当讲之事。不要把你的“个人经验”变成了“自负”。永远记住：你是一位初学者。如果他人有好主意，请保持随喜心。

(注：闭嘴，通俗一些。真的是说的太多，还不如静静想一下；多说，很多时候都是辩解，甚至为错误辩解，让错误继续）

6. Shut up.
If you don’t have anything to say, don’t waste the time of your colleagues. This doesn’t make you look wimpy. Everyday you work you need to try not getting on someone’s else nerves. Imagine if everybody would try this – what a great working place would that be? Sometimes it is not possible. Try hard, you will like it.
If you don’t develop an ego it is pretty easy to shut up and care on the things you have something to tell. Don mix up your ego with your “experience” and always remember: you are a beginner. If somebody has a good idea, support the idea.

7、正念、观照、觉察

是的，你正在工作。但与此同时，你也在呼吸，在生活。即使工作再忙再累，也要倾听身体发出的信号。你要知道哪些东西对你是有好处的，所有的，包括像食物等生活必需品。要关心自己及周围环境中一切，毕竟，你所喝之水就来自于周边这条河流。记住，你是为自己而生的—一个人生来，也将一个人死去。即使没有你，地球依旧转动。

请避免在你不喜欢的那种环境下工作。如果某类无偿工作已经让你毫无乐趣可言，而且又剥夺了你的睡眠时间，那就拒绝它。放下所有那些让你不快乐的事情。你以为无偿工作只停留在理想中吗？想一想那些在空闲时间编写开源软件的人。要是你曾订阅过某个开源项目的邮件列表，你就会知道那儿有多少激烈争论（至少有时如此）。如果你觉得它没有什么乐趣，就不要再做了。我认识不少人，他们在自己不喜欢的开源环境中依旧贡献着。利用Time & Bill软件，我再次跟踪了自己在开源项目上花的时间，结果真是令人惊讶。我在那儿浪费了大量的时间，尤其是在许多自己不太喜欢的项目上。

鉴于此，有些人认为只有当有空闲时间，晚上有Xbox玩、有啤酒喝才会快乐。偶尔为之这尚且算是个好主意，但未必在人生的每时每刻这都算是“乐趣”。如果你能避免不喜欢的环境，请避开它们。话说回来，有时我们确实需要做一些无趣的事。例如，手工将经理给的Excel电子表格数据复制/粘贴到phpMyAdmin中。这可能要花上几天，而且无聊至极。这种事没有乐趣可言，但有时你确实需要去做。你总不能因为被分配一个乏味的任务就辞职。禅僧也不羞于他们的工作。他们凌晨3点起床（有时早一些，有时晚一些，取决于僧院），然后即开始静坐和劳动（他们甚至将劳作当作禅修的一部分）。或者清扫厕所，或者料理菜园。如果是一名火头僧，还要做饭。无论做什么，他们都一心一意。没有痛苦，乐在其中。对他们而言，每一秒都是生命中宝贵的一刻，逝去即永不再回，即便是在扫厕所时。

换言之：停止抱怨，如果你需要复制/粘贴Excel，做就是了。无须为这样的事情心神不宁，一切都会过去，就让自己成为最好的Excel复制/粘贴者吧。

要是你在工作中心脏病发作，有人也许会说：“是的，他真是一个勤劳的员工，甚至在晚上为我免费加班”。没有人可以指引你去另一个世界，最后一步是由我们自己走的。你无法拿这个世界中的任何东西与另一个世界进行交换。在生命中的每一秒你都要多多保重。如果你死了，人也就没了，一切成空。但如果你还活着，你就是活生生的一个人。没有时间可以浪费。

在禅宗中，“观照”是一个重要的词汇，并且我认为在各种佛教宗派中都是如此。我无法用言语来表达这个词所要表达的一切内容。要理解“观照”的方方面面含义是很难的。也许用“觉察”这个词更好把握一些。每时每刻，你都要觉察自己的所作所为。在你的一生中必须保持正念，否则就是在浪费时间。当然，究竟该怎么做，完全取决于你自己。勉力为之。

(注：有点修行的意思了！）

7. Mindfulness. Care. Awareness.
Yes you are working. But at the same time you are living and breathing. Even when you have some hard times at work you need to listen to the signs of your body. You need to learn about the things which are good for you. This includes everything, including basic things like food. You need to care for yourself and for everything in your environment – because after all, the water you drink is the water which runs in the river. Because you are living only for yourself. You live alone and you’ll die alone. World goes on, even without you.
Avoid working situations you don’t like. Avoid working for free if it means you will have no fun and keeps you away from your bed. Let go what doesn’t make you happy. “Working for free” is just theory? Consider the people doing Open Source in their prime time. If you have subscribed to some projects mailinglist you probably know what heat there is (sometimes). If you don’t have fun with that – stop doing it. I know a bunch of people who work in an Open Source environment they don’t like. Again with Time & Bill I have tracked the time I spend in 0pen Source projects and was surprised how much time I lose there – esp. on projects I didn’t like so much.
Having this in mind, some people think they are only happy when they have prime time and can spend the evening with an xbox and some beer. While this is a good idea from time to time, it is not necessary that the whole time in your life is “fun”. If you can avoid situations you don’t like, avoid them (like I said above). But sometimes there is need to something really shitty. Like for example manually copy/pasting stuff from your managers Excel sheet into phpmyadmin. This can take you days, and it is really boring. It is no fun, but sometimes you need to do such stuff. You cannot always quit your job when you got a boring task. Zen Monks are not to shy with their work too. They get up at 4am (sometimes earlier, sometimes later, depends on the convent) and start meditation and work (they even consider work meditation practice). They have stuff to do like cleaning the toilets. Or working in the garden. Or as a Tenzo, they cook. They do it with all the care they can get. Whatevery they do, they do it without suffering and they are (or should be) happy, because every second, even the second where they are cleaning toilets, is a second of their life.
That being said: stop crying, if you need to copy/paste excel. Just do it. Don’t waste your energy with such things, they will pass. Become the best excel copy/paster out there instead.
If you suffer a heart attack, people will probably say: “uh yes, he really worked too much, he even worked for me for free at night”. Nobody can guide you to the other world. This last step is taken by us alone. You cannot exchange anything in this world. Not even a fart. So it is up to you to take care, in every second. If you die, you die. But when you live you live. There is no time to waste.
“Care” is a huge word in zen buddhism (and I think in every form of buddhism). I cannot express everything which needs to be said. it is difficult to understand the different meanings of “care”. Propably you are better with the word “awareness”. You must be aware of what you do, in every second of your life. You must be mindful in your life. Otherwise you waste it. But, of course, it is up to you to do so, if you like.

8、做自己的老板

是的，某人付你薪水，告诉你需要做什么。而且他还可以解雇你。但这都不是你放弃自己的生活，成为工作狂的理由。总之，老板对你没有控制权。你甚至也可以怀疑你对自己有无控制权—打住，不要走火入魔。

回到谈老板。如果你一味纵容的话，老板可以让你的生活变得老糟糕。但是有一个解决办法。如果他要你做一些恶心或有违个人道德底线的事情，你大可说“不”。这会有什么后果？最坏的结果无非是被他开除。那又如何？如果你生在发达国家，如果你是一个程序员（要是你正在阅读这些文字，你大概跑不了），你会找到另一份工作。

我并非说对将CSV数据转换为HTML格式之类的任务说“不”。我指的是，一周工作80小时，导致你精神崩溃；你的孩子需要你的照料时；或者仅仅因为老板不喜欢谁就要你开掉他；又或者身为一名咨询师，却受雇为核电厂或坦克开发软件（有些人可能会说为核电企业工作好极了，但这违背了我的道德底线，这里只是举例而已），等等这些，你大可以说“不”。

(注：有点通俗，不是要炒掉老板，是炒掉对于事情的迁就，要专注于事情的本身）

8. There is no Boss
Yes, there is somebody who pays you. There is somebody who tells you what needs to be done. And he can fire you. But this is no reason to give up your own life or to become sick of your work. Finally your Boss has no control about you. It can even be doubted that you have control about you – but don’t lets go down this path.
Back to your Boss: he can make your life worse if you allow him to do so. But there is a way out. Say “No” if you need to do something which makes you sick or is against your ethics. What will happen? In worst case he will fire you. So what? If you live in western nations and if you are a coder (which is very likely when you read this) you’ll get another job.
I don’t mean to say “No” to tasks like copying CSV Data to HTML. I am speaking of 80 hours weeks and you feel your body breaks. Or if you feel that your kids could need some attention too. Or if you are forced to fire people just because your Boss doesn’t like them. Or if you are a consultant and get the job to develop software for nuclear plants (some might say it is perfectly fine to work for nuclear power companies – it is against my ethics and serves as an example) or for tanks. You can say “No”.

9、玩物养志

程序员不止是一个程序员。你应该尝试一些跟计算机无关的事情。在你的闲余时间，可以扬帆出海，去钓鱼或潜水，或者静坐冥想，练练武术，吹吹尺八。不管你做什么，都要尽情尽意，就像在工作时间那般投入。认真去做。爱好不仅仅是爱好，它也展示了你究竟是怎样的一个人。不要被任何说爱好不重要的人蒙骗。现在我们有能力拥有爱好。我已经录制多张CD，还写了几本科幻小说（后者尚未出版，我还得多加练习）。这些事情塑造了今天的我，并最终导致我参禅，写成本书。近来我时常练习禅宗尺八，它在我日常生活中占据重要的地位。

(注：调剂一下，别纠结，世界很大，一花一草都会有所帮助）

9. Do something else
A programmer is more than a programmer. You should do something which has nothing to do with computers. In your primetime, go sailing, fishing, diving. Do meditation, martial arts or play Shakuhachi. Whatever you do, do it with all the power you have (left). Like you do at your worktime. Do it seriously. A hobby is not just a hobby, it’s expression of who you are. Don let anybody fool you, when he says hobbies are not important. Nowadays we can effort having hobbies. I have recorded several CDs and wrote fantasy books (the latter one unpublished, I must practice more). These things have made me to the person I am now, and finally they have led me to Zen and this blog post. These days I practice Zen Shakuhachi. It is a very important aspect to my daily life.

10、淡泊宁静

花朵再美也不过是一朵花而已，并无特别之处。而你，是一名程序员，也许很优秀，那也没什么特别的。你、我以及生活在这个星球上的其他人，都没什么两样。

你需要吃喝拉撒。当然，你还需要睡觉。很久以后你终究难免一死，你拥有的一切全都会失去。很久以后，甚至金字塔都会消失。你知道建造金字塔的人们的名字吗？好吧，就算你知道，但这很重要吗？一点都不。金字塔伫立在那儿，或者不伫立在那儿，有什么特别的呢？

这同样适用于你的软件。银行用你开发的软件赚钱，当你离开后，没有人会再记得你。这本来也没什么错，只不过时间流逝，逝者如斯矣。不应该对此感到烦恼。如果你遵循了上面的9条规则，就会明白：那个优秀、有趣的项目已经过去了。现在，是时候继续前行专注他事了。

公司因为财务问题关闭了，没什么大不了的，生活仍将继续。Xbox、汽车等并非不可或缺。这个星球上的大多数人还很贫困，他们不关心Xbox，得到食物甚至只是饮水都会让他们快乐不已。

那么，为什么你是特别的？因为你命好出生在一个发达国家？因为你可以编写代码？不，没有什么特别之处。请放弃“我执”，自由自在地生活，享受花儿的美色和馨香。当冬天来临时，不必伤心难过；等春天回归，亦不必欣喜若狂。不过乃四季交替，顺其自然就好。请记住这一点，尤其在有人拒绝你的求职申请时。没有哪家公司是如此特别，值得你非要得到它的青睐

(注：不就一个编程的，你会让风扇转起来，会让空调凉下来，会让空气更清洁，但是没有什么很特殊的，只是干了自己应该干的，或者说自己明白了一些简单的道理，仅此而已！）

10. There is nothing special.
A flower is beauty. But it’s just a beauty flower – nothing more. There is nothing special around it. You are a human who can program. Maybe you are good. There is nothing special around you. You are of the same kind as I am or all the others on this planet.
You need to go in the loo and you need to eat. Of course you need to sleep. After (hopefully) a long time you will die and everything you have created will be lost. Even pyramids get lost, after a long time. Do you know the names of the people who build up a pyramid? And if you do, is it important that you know? It’s not. Pyramids are there, or not. Nothing special.
Same goes to your software. The bank is earning money with your software. After you leave, nobody remembers you. There is nothing wrong around it. It is the flow of time. Nothing you should be worried about it. If you are living after the first 9 rules, you’ll see that this last project was a good and funny project. Now it’s simply time to go on and concentrate on something else.
If your comapany closes because of financial problems, no problem. Life will go on. There is no real need for an xbox, a car or something else. Most people on this planet live in deepest poorness. They don’t care about an xbox, because they would be glad to get some food or even water.
So… why exactly are you special? Because you had the luck to be born in the western territory? Because you can code? No, there is nothing special about it. You can let go you ego and live freely. Enjoy the colors and the smell of flowers around. Don’t be too sad when the winter comes and don’t be too happy when spring comes back. It is just a flow. Keep it in mind when somebody denies your application. Because the company is not so special that you need to be worried about the job.
Disclaimer
I am not a Zen monk. I am just practicing and learning. Please ask your local Zen monk if you feel there is something you need to understand deeper. Of course I can try to answer on this blog, but well, I am just a beginner. Anyway I am glad about your comment and if you would send a tweet with this pages url if you liked this post. Thanks for reading!

结尾：在原文，开始有一段，移到后面。翻译过来，蛮有诗意的！

一个微雨的早晨，发现自己坐在桌子前考虑工作效率（也许是喝着咖啡，发着呆）.当我开始作为一个专栏写手，发现自己陷入之前努力工作却毫无结果的情形。（也许是质变前的黑暗）

On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days were I worked lots but could look only back on a worse outcome.

当我在2006年开始禅修，发现的事实是，数百年的禅宗大师已经明白，现今的程序员们应该如何编程（回归朴实真理，真无关技术）。虽然说作为一个更好的程序员，需要技术和灵敏的头脑之类，但是实际上，从人生和生活实际的角度，需要有一个不同的角度去看。

I started with Zen practice back in 2006. What clearly came to my mind before a good while was: the old Zenmasters alredy knew before hundreds of years, how today programmers should work. Even when I don’t like these “be a better programmer” posts, I want to outline some of my thoughts from that morning. It shall serve me as a reminder, but if you have some ideas about it, feel free to comment.