萬事萬物都是互相關聯的：佛教徒已經了解這一點，物理學家們現在也證實了這一點。沒有什麼事情是獨立發生的，只是看上去如此罷了。我們越是下判斷、貼標籤，我們就越是將它孤立起來。
由於我們的思考，生命的合一變得支離破碎。然而，這件事正是生命的整體所帶來的。它是這個聯結之網也就是宇宙秩序的一部分。這意味著無論當下發生什麼，就是什麼，它不可能是其他的樣子。
絕大多數情況下，我們無法開始了解，一個看上去毫無意義的事件在整個宇宙秩序中可能會扮演什麼角色，但如果我們對這件事情在浩瀚無垠的整體中的必然性有所體認，就開啟了對當下如是的內在的接納，於是，我們開始與生命的整體協調一致。
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以這樣的方式生活，就是真正的自由和痛苦的終結：無論在這一刻你感受到什麼，經驗到什麼，將它完全看作是你自己的選擇。與當下達成內在的協調一致，就是痛苦的終結。
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痛苦真的是必要的嗎。是，也不是。如果你不曾像過去那樣痛苦過，你就沒有作為人的深度– 沒有謙遜，沒有同情。你現在就不會在聽這個教導了。痛苦的傷痕撬開了自我的殼。然後它就完成使命了。
痛苦是必要的，直到你明白痛苦是不必要的為止。
***
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，你也許感到沉重、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。”
***
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。
***
當你在頭腦中給一個情境命名或貼標籤，認為它是煩人的或糟糕的，痛苦就開始了。你討厭一個情境，這個抵觸情緒使這個情境個人化，並且帶來了這個起習性反應的我。命名或貼標籤是習慣性的，但這個習慣可以被打破。開始利用一些小事來練習不命名。如果你錯過了班機、摔壞了一個杯子，或在泥濘中滑倒了，你能不能克制住自己，不給這個經驗貼上糟糕或令人痛苦的標籤？你能否立即接納當下的這個“如是”。
將某事標註為糟糕的會在你的身體裡引發一種情緒上的緊縮，當你不給它貼標籤，只是順其自然，突然，你會感到一股巨大的力量。這個緊縮切斷了你與這力量，這生命自身的力量的聯結。
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他們偷食了這關於善與惡的知識之樹的果實。克制住自己不要總在頭腦裡給事物貼上好與壞的標籤，你就超越了善惡的二元對立。當你超越了這命名的習慣，宇宙的力量就會穿過你。當你對一個經驗不再產生習性反應，那些你過去稱為壞的經驗，會經由生命本身的力量發生轉變，這改變就算不是立即發生，常常也會比較快到來。當你不再將一個經驗命名為壞的，而是對這經驗給予一個內在的接納，一個內在的“是”，允許它順其自然，看看會發生什麼吧。
***
無論你的生活情境如何，如果，就在現在，你徹底接納它本來的樣子，你的感受如何？
***
痛苦有很多不同的形式，微妙的，或是不那麼微妙的，它們如此稀鬆平常，常常不被人們看作是痛苦，甚至還有可能令小我感到滿足。
厭惡、焦躁、怒火、對某事或某人看不順眼、憎恨、抱怨。當它們發生的時候，你可以學會認出這些痛苦的形式，並且意識到，在這一刻，我正在給自己製造痛苦。
如果你正習慣性地給自己製造痛苦，你也很可能正在給別人帶來痛苦。只要在它們發生的時候認出它們，使它們變得有意識，這些無意識的頭腦的喋喋不休就會慢慢停止。
你不可能同時是有意識的，而又在給自己製造痛苦。
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這就是那個奇蹟。在每個看似“壞的”或“邪惡的”事件、個人，或情境的背後，都隱藏著一個更深的“善”。通過你對當下所是的內在接納，這個更深的“善”由內到外地向你揭露出它自己。“不要抗拒邪惡”是人類最高真理之一。
***
一段對話：
“接納事情的本來面目。”
“我真的做不到。我對這事感到激動和憤怒。”
“那就接納你現在的狀況。”
“接納我現在感到激動和憤怒？接納我的無法接納？”
“是的。將接納帶入你的不接納。將臣服帶入你的不臣服。
然後看看會發生什麼。”
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身體上的慢性疼痛是你能遇到的最嚴厲的老師之一。它要教導你的就是：抗拒是徒勞的。再也沒有什麼比“不情願受苦”更常見的了。然而，如果你可以放下這個不情願，而是允許那痛苦存在，你也許會留意到你與這痛苦微妙地分離開來，你與它之間有了一個空隙，這個空隙一直都存在。這意味著有意識地、心甘情願地受苦。當你有意識地承受痛苦，肉體上的疼痛可以迅速將你的小我燃燒殆盡，因為小我很大程度上是由抗拒所組成的。對於嚴重的身體上的殘疾來說，這也是真的。“將你的痛苦獻給上帝”是對這一真理的另一種說法。
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要理解十字架這個像徵符號所包含的深刻的宇宙真理，你並不一定非得是基督徒。這個十字架是一個刑具。它代表了一個人所能遭遇到的最大的痛苦、限制和無助。然後，突然，這個人帶著全然的意識，心甘情願地承受痛苦，他通過這樣的話語表達了這一點：“不是我的意志，而是你的意志會被完成。”在那一刻，這個十字架，這個施加酷刑的工具，顯露了它隱藏的面目。
同時，它也是一個神聖的符號，是神性的象徵。這個十字架，看上去似乎否定了生命中有任何超越的層面存在，然而，經由臣服，它成為了通往那個層面的入口。
（全書完）
翻譯：遊由
~~~原文如下~~~
Chapter 10
Suffering and the End of Suffering
The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it and
physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears
to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it.
The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking. Yet the totality of
life has brought this event about. It is part of the web of interconnectedness that is
the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be otherwise.
In most cases, we cannot begin to understand what role a seemingly senseless
event may have within the totality of the cosmos but recognizing its inevitability
within the vastness of the whole can be the beginning of an inner acceptance of
what is and thus a realignment with the wholeness of life.
***
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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Is suffering really necessary. Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there
would be no depths to you as a human being–no humility, no compassion. You
would not be listening to this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego. And then
comes a point where it has served its purpose.
Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is unnecessary.
***
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.
***
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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Suffering begins when you mentally name or label a situation in some way as
undesirable or bad. You resent a situation and that resentment personalizes it and
brings in the reactive me. Naming and labeling are habitual but that habit can be
broken. Start practicing not naming with small things. If you miss the plane, drop
and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the
experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the “isness” of that
moment.
Naming something as bad causes an emotional contraction within you. when you
let it be without naming it, enormous power is suddenly available to you. The
contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.
***
They ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Go beyond good
and bad by refraining from mentally naming anything as good or bad. When you go
beyond the habitual naming, the power of the universe moves through you. When
you are in a nonreactive relationship to experiences, what you would have called
bad before, often turns around quickly, if not immediately through the power of life
itself. Watch what happens when you don't name an experience as bad and instead
bring an inner acceptance, an inner “yes” to it, and so let it be as it is.
***
Whatever your life situation is , how would you feel if you completely accepted it as
it is, right now?
***
There are many subtle and not so subtle forms of suffering that are so normal, they
are usually not recognized as suffering and may even feel satisfying to the ego.
Irritation, impatience, anger, having an issue with something or someone,
resentment, complaining. You can learn to recognize all those forms of suffering as
they happen and know at this moment I am creating suffering for myself.
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating
suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patters tend to come to an end
simply by making them conscious, by becoming aware of them as they happen.
You cannot be conscious and create suffering for yourself .
***
This is the miracle. behind every condition, person or situation that appears bad or
evil, lies concealed a deeper good. That deeper good reveals itself to you, both
within and without through inner acceptance of what is. “Resist not evil” is one of
the highest truths of humanity.
***
A dialog:
"Accept what is."
"I truly cannot. I am agitated and angry about this."
"Then accept what is."
"Accept that I am agitated and angry? Accept that I cannot accept?"
"Yes. Bring acceptance into your non-acceptance. Bring surrender into your nonsurrender.
Then see what happens."
***
Chronic physical pain is one of the harshest teachers you can have. Resistance is
futile is its teaching. Nothing could be more normal than an unwillingness to suffer.
Yet, if you can let go of that unwillingness, and instead allow the pain to be there,
you may notice a subtle inner separation from the pain, a space between you and
the pain, as it were. This means to suffer consciously, willingly. When you suffer
consciously, physical pain can quickly burn up the ego in you since ego consists
largely of resistance. The same is true of extreme physical disability. “ You offer up
your suffering to God,” is another way of saying this.
***
You don't need to be a Christian to understand the deep universal truth that is
contained in symbolic form in the image of the cross. The cross is a torture
instrument. It stands for the most extreme suffering, limitation, and helplessness a
human being can encounter. Then suddenly that human being suffers willingly,
consciously, expressed through the words, “not my will, but thy will be done.” At
that moment, the cross, the torture instrument shows its hidden face.
It is also a sacred symbol, a symbol for the divine. That which seemed to deny the
existence of any transcendental dimension to life, through surrender becomes an
opening into that dimension.
摘自：Stillness Speaks
翻譯：遊由
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