86 AWARE OF OUR FOOD

【意识到我们的食物】

在吃饭前，我们可以看看桌上的菜肴，并通过呼吸进出来判断这些食物和饮料是否对我们有益，以及吃它们是会伤害还是有助于培养我们的慈悲心。我们每个人都可以审视，看看是否能认识到我们最深层的渴望。它是健康的还是不健康的？它是给我们带来苦难还是幸福？因为我们最深的渴望就是滋养我们意识和生命的食物。我们必须深入观察我们的食物是如何生长的，这样我们才能得以保护我们共同的福祉、最小化我们和其他物种的苦难，并允许地球继续作为我们所有生命之源。

[AWARE OF OUR FOOD]

Before eating, we can look at the dishes on the table and breathe in and out to see if this food and drink is good for us and whether eating it will harm or help develop our compassion. Each of us can look to see if we can recognize our deepest desire. Is it healthy or not? Is it bringing us suffering or happiness? Because our deepest aspiration is the food that nourishes our consciousness and our life. We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collective well-being, minimize our suffering and the suffering of other species, and allow the Earth to continue to be a source of life for all of us.