【中英文连载】《Are You Ready for Happiness?》(72) 轮回中的幸福并不可靠

如何面对痛苦和幸福

Methods of Relative Truth

In samsara, everything is illusory; we have no freedom or control over things, including our own mind. Greed, anger, ignorance, jealousy, and arrogance disturb and imprison us. As our mind is not free, we follow wherever external circumstances take us; this is normal, nothing to be alarmed about.

在轮回这么一个恶劣的环境当中，一切都是变幻莫测、不由自主的，包括我自己的内心，也一点都不自由。贪心、嗔心、愚昧、嫉妒、傲慢等烦恼会让我心烦意乱、不得解脱。没有自由的人一定会跟着外境的变化而变化，这很正常，没有什么值得大惊小怪的。

If only I can be like the Buddha, bodhisattvas, and arhats who always abide in a state of great equanimity, free from external influences!

如果我能像佛菩萨和阿罗汉那样，不随外界的变化而变化，始终保持如如不动、平稳悠然的心境该多好啊！

This kind of suffering is not new to me. Since time immemorial, I have most certainly experienced similar, if not greater, suffering innumerable times. Until the first bodhisattva ground is reached, all ordinary people will encounter even worse suffering in the future than the suffering they have already endured. Yet I have not grown tired of this world and samsara, nor developed renunciation, and still hope to find happiness in samsara. I am truly ignorant!

这样的痛苦，也不是第一次经历了。在无始以来的轮回中，我肯定经历过成千上万次类似的痛苦，甚至还有过更大的痛苦。在没有得到一地菩萨的果位之前，所有凡夫不仅曾经有过很多痛苦，未来还会面临更多、更残忍的痛苦。但我到现在还没有厌倦这个世界和轮回，还没有出离心，还希望在轮回中得到幸福。我真是愚昧透顶！

Although my suffering is unbearable this time, it cannot compare with suffering in the hell, animal, and hungry ghost realms. If I cannot even accept this pain, how can I face suffering in the three lower realms? Hence，apart from my practice and liberation, all mundane things — money, reputation, status, marriage, family, relationships, etc. — are temporary and meaningless. I must practice with diligence and seek liberation; if not, the outcome is really unthinkable. This is renunciation.

尽管对我自己而言，这次经历的痛苦是巨大无比，但相较于地狱、旁生、饿鬼的痛苦，我这个痛苦根本不算什么。如果这点痛苦都无法接受，以后又如何去面对地狱、旁生、饿鬼的痛苦呢？如此看来，除了修行与解脱以外，世上任何东西——金钱、名声、地位、婚姻、家庭、感情等等的一切，都是暂时的，没有任何意义。我一定要好好修行、追求解脱，如果再不修行，后果是非常可怕的。这就是出离心。