december23

If you go more deeply into your own

spiritual practice, emphasizing wisdom

and compassion, you will encounter the

suffering of other sentient beings again

and again, and you will have the

capacity to acknowledge it, respond to

it, and feel deep compassion rather

than apathy or impotence. When

contemplating suffering, do not fall into

the feeling of self-importance or conceit.

Cultivating wisdom helps us to avoid

these pitfalls. But it is hard to

generalize because each person’s

courage and forbearance are unique.

若你以智慧與慈悲為重點,

在心靈修持上漸漸深入,

你將會不斷的遇到其他

有覺知的生命所遭遇的痛苦,

你將有能力感知它, 回應它,

也能具有深深的慈悲心, 不再冷漠無力.

在仔細思索體認這些痛苦的時候,

不要落入高傲自負的感覺中.

培養智慧能幫助我們避開這些陷阱.

但因每個人的勇氣與耐力都不同,

因而很難概括討論.