…痛苦和痛苦的終結
不愉快的感受需要一個由頭腦製造的我，和一個故事，它需要這個概念性的身份。它還需要時間，過去和未來。當你將時間從你的不愉快上移除，剩下的是什麼呢？是此時此刻的“如是”。那一刻，你也許感到沈重、焦慮、緊張、憤怒，甚至噁心。這並不是不愉快，這也不是個人的問題。
在人類的痛苦中，沒有什麼是屬於個人的。它只是你在身體的某處感受到的一種巨大的壓力或能量。藉著給予它注意力，這個感受沒有轉化為思考，也沒有激活那個不快樂的我。如果你只是允許一個感受存在，看看會發生什麼。
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如果你將進入你的頭腦裡的每一個念頭當真，就會引發很多痛苦和不愉快。情境不會使你不愉快。他們也許會帶來身體上的疼痛，但是他們不會使你感到不愉快。是你的念頭令你不愉快。你的解讀，那個你告訴自己的故事令你不快樂。“是我此刻的一些念頭，令我不快樂。”這個領悟打破了你對那些念頭的無意識的認同。
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“多麼糟糕的一天。”“他沒回我電話，真沒禮貌。”“她太讓我失望了。” 通常，我們都是以抱怨的形式，對自己和別人述說這些小故事。我們無意識地設計了這些抱怨，通過使自己是正確的，使其他人或其他事是錯誤的，來加強我們那匱乏的自我感。“我是對的”將我們置身於一種想像的優越感之中，從而強化了這個虛假的自我，這個小我。這同時也製造了某個敵人。是的，小我需要敵人來定義它的邊界。甚至是天氣也能服務於這個功能。經由習慣性的頭腦上的判斷和情緒上的緊縮，你對生命中的人或事有一個個人化的反應模式。這都是自己製造的各種形式的痛苦，但是人們意識不到，因為它們令小我感到滿足。經由習性反應和衝突，小我強化了它自己。如果沒有那些故事，生活會是多麼簡單啊。“下雨了。”“他沒回電。”“我去了，她沒去。”
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當你痛苦的時候，不開心的時候，全然地與那一刻在一起。
不愉快或是煩惱，都無法在當下存活。
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…Suffering and the End of Suffering
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 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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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.
“The thoughts I’m thinking right now make me unhappy.” This realization breaks you unconscious identification with those thoughts.
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“What a miserable day.” “He didn’t have the decency to return my call.” “She let me down.” Little stores we tell ourselves and others, often in the form of complaints. They are unconsciously designed to enhance our always deficient sense of self through being right and making something or someone wrong. Being right places us in a position of imagined superiority and so strengthens our false sense of self, the ego. This also creates some kind of enemy. Yes, the ego needs enemies to define its boundary. And even the weather can serve that function. Through habitual mental judgment and emotional contraction you have a personalized reactive relationship to people and events in your life. These are all forms of selfcreated suffering but are not recognized as such because to the ego they are satisfying. The ego enhances itself through reactivity and conflict. How simple life would be without those stories. “It is raining.” “He did not call.” “I was there, she was not.”
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When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is now.
Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.
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