在这个世间，分别念给我们带来了无尽痛苦。

In this world, the discriminating mind has brought us infinite suffering.

就拿贪心而言，

Take craving, for example. 

一个男人若爱上一个女子，并与之结为夫妻，开始时会觉得她美丽不可方物，

When a man loves a woman and joins with her in marriage, initially he finds her beauty to be unparalleled. 

而过一段时间后，对她的兴趣就慢慢淡了，甚至还觉得她毫无可爱之处，于是又开始追求别的女人。

But after a time, his interest in her wanes, and eventually he no longer finds her lovable at all. Then he starts to pursue other women.

实际上，他以前钟爱的女人，与今天讨厌的妻子同为一人，

In fact, the woman he previously adored and the wife he now detests are one and the same. 

之所以前后的态度迥然不同，完全是他自己的分别念在作怪。

This dramatic difference between his past and present attitudes is due entirely to the trickery of his discriminating mind.

但凡有了这种狂乱的分别念，人就像风中的棉絮一样飘忽不定，

Yet once this deluded discriminating mind exists, the person drifts like a cotton thread in the wind, 

今天追求甲，明天喜欢乙……

seeking A today, liking B tomorrow. 

结果得到手的美人，最后又认为过于平凡。

In the end, he will regard the beauty he eventually finds as too ordinary.

试想，假如美丽真有稳固不变的自性，那这个人前后就不该有如此巨大的变化，

Just think—if beauty truly had a solid, unchangeable nature, then this man could not have undergone such an enormous transformation over time. 

对于喜欢的人，应该永远喜欢才对，并且还应得到全人类的一致认同。

Once you like someone, you would like that person forever, and the rest of the world would feel the same way you do. 

但事实并非如此，

But this is not the way it is. 

某人认为一个女人长得勾魂摄魄、无比迷人，但别的男人就不一定欣赏，甚至觉得也不过尔尔。

One man finds a particular woman exceptionally charming and breathtaking, yet other men view her as rather unremarkable. 

这就是分别念的不同体现。

These are the different expressions of discriminating mind.

又比如，对于污秽的不净粪，人见后定会恶心，但在猪狗看来，却是不可多得的美味。

Here is another instance: humans are universally disgusted by feces and view them as impure and filthy, yet to pigs and dogs they are a rare delicacy. 

因此，对于美丑、好坏的判别，全是众生一时的分别念所致。

All judgments of beautiful or foul, good or bad, are derived from living beings’ discriminating minds at a particular moment. 

敬摘录 法王如意宝《不离》

His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche 《Always Present》