无论是否愿意，你都必须面对痛苦

中英文

Are You Ready

for Happiness? (4)

How to Face Suffering 

如何面对痛苦

There is suffering everywhere in the six realms of rebirth: if not suffering of suffering, it is suffering of change; if not suffering of change, it is all-pervasive suffering. This is especially so in this degenerate time. Even if we are unwilling to accept suffering, all of us have to confront it; we cannot ignore it.

六道轮回处处皆是痛苦，不是苦苦就是变苦，不是变苦就是行苦，尤其是末法时代，更是离不开痛苦。尽管所有生命都不愿意接受痛苦，但不管愿不愿意，所有的生命都要面对痛苦，谁都无法逃避。

Human beings do not have methods for facing suffering, thus they hope for happiness and are afraid of suffering. Animals are the same way — they hope bad things go away and that good things come quickly. A whole life is hence wasted in this expectation.

世人没有面对痛苦的方法，所以渴望幸福，害怕痛苦。包括动物也一样——都希望不愉快的事情早点过去，幸福快快来临。在这样的期盼中，一生就这样蹉跎过去了。

Practitioners also encounter suffering and happiness. How we transform happiness and, in particular, suffering into favorable conditions in our practice is very important. Without the right method, suffering and happiness become obstacles to the path. This not only impedes our practice, it also affects the normal course of our life.

修行人也会面临痛苦和幸福这两种境遇，如何把幸福，尤其是痛苦，转变成修行的助缘、顺缘，就显得非常重要。如果没有正确的方法，痛苦和幸福就会变成修行的障碍，这样不但修行没有进步，连正常的生活都会受影响。

In facing suffering, if we have the right view and understanding, suffering may not be harmful; otherwise, suffering will cause anxiety, mental disturbance, even self- destruction.

在面对痛苦时，如果能以正知正见去对治，痛苦就不一定有害；反之，如果没有正知正见，痛苦就会让我们心烦意乱、焦躁不安，甚至走上绝路。

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