覺醒

Suffering and the End of Suffering

把當下的感受或經驗完全都當成好像是自己選擇的，這樣地過活就是真正的自由與痛苦的止息。

在心中與當下結盟，就是痛苦的止息。

True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment.

This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering.

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受苦真的是必要的嗎？是，也不是。

如果你未曾經歷你所經歷的痛苦，那麼你將不具備身為一個人的深度，不會懂得謙虛，不懂得慈悲，你也不會現在聽著這些話了。痛苦將小我的硬殼敲破，這時它的目的也就達到了。痛苦是必要的，直到你明白了它並非必要為止。

Is suffering really necessary. Yes and no.

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being , no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is unnecessary.

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「不快樂」需要一個由心智所打造的「我」的故事，一個概念上的身分；「不快樂」還需要時間──過去與未來。當你將時間從「不快樂」當中抽離了，還剩下什麼？那就是此刻的「實際狀況」。

它也許是一種沉重、不安、壓迫、生氣或極端憎惡的感覺，卻不是不快樂，也不是個人的問題。人類的痛苦皆非個人的，那只是一種於你體內某處感受到的強烈壓力或能量，你只要注意它，不讓那感覺轉化為念頭想法，不快樂的「我」就無法恢復動力。

留心觀察，如果你讓感覺就是感覺，會發生什麼事？

Unhappiness needs a mind-made “me” with a story, the conceptual identity. It needs time — past and future. When you remove time from your unhappiness, what is it that remains? The “suchness” of this moment remains.

It may be a feeling of heaviness, agitation, tightness, anger or even nausea. That is not unhappiness, and it is not a personal problem. There is nothing personal in human pain. It is simply an intense pressure or an intense energy you feel somewhere in the body. By giving it attention, the feeling doesn’t turn into thinking and thus activate the unhappy “me.”

See what happens when you just allow a feeling to be.

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那麼多的痛苦與不快樂，都是因為你將每個進到大腦裡的想法都當真了。事情的狀況不會讓你不快樂，它們頂多引起一些生理上的不舒服，但不會讓你不快樂，是你的想法造成你的不快樂，是那些你對狀況的看法，你說給自己聽的故事，讓你不快樂。

「是我此刻的想法，讓我不快樂」，有了這點醒悟，你就擺脫了自己不自覺中對那些想法的認同。

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth. Situations don’t make you unhappy. They may cause you physical pain, but they don’t make you unhappy. Your thoughts make you unhappy. Your interpretations, the stories you tell yourself make you unhappy.