痛苦，真的来源于大脑吗？

When suffering or happiness arises, changes in brain wave activity in certain parts of the brain are detected. Thus some people believe suffering and happiness are produced by the brain. Actually, the brain is only a tool. Consciousness is dependent on the brain to discern and experience external phenomena, but suffering and happiness are not produced by the brain.

因为痛苦或者快乐产生时，能检测到大脑某个部位的脑波会有所变化，所以有些人认为：痛苦与快乐是大脑活动的产物。其实并非如此，大脑只是一种工具而已，意识依靠大脑，可以辨别、感受外面的东西，但痛苦与快乐本身，却不是由大脑产生的。

The sutras have often discussed and demonstrated that suffering comes from self-attachment, that is, attachment to the existence of a self. Here, the conclusion is set forth from a different standpoint. Suffering and happiness are not produced by external circumstances, but are closely related to our views and habitual tendencies. All suffering is created by our own attachment to things.

佛学经典中多次探讨并论证过，痛苦来自于我执或执著，这是从另一个角度讲的；此处的结论是，痛苦和幸福的产生，不是来自于外界，而是与我们自己的观点、习气或习惯有着密切的关系。所有的痛苦，都是我们自己的执著创造的。

Although the suffering of non-discriminating thought is generally not connected with our consciousness, it can be transformed when our practice reaches a certain stage. However, our goal now is to transform suffering of the sixth consciousness, i.e., the suffering of discriminating thought.

无分别识的痛苦多半与我们的意识没有太大关系，但修行能力达到一定水平的时候，也可以转变无分别识的痛苦。但目前我们要转变的，是第六意识的痛苦，亦即分别识的痛苦。