37 Letting Go

【放下】

"放下"意味着释放某物。这个“某物”可能是我们头脑中的一个对象，是我们创造出来的，如一个想法、感觉、欲望或信念。执着于那个想法可能会带来许多不幸和焦虑。我们想要放下它，但该如何做呢？仅仅希望放下它是不够的；我们首先必须认识到它作为一种真实存在的事物。我们必须深入观察它的本质以及它的来源，因为想法是源于感觉、情绪和过去的经历，源于我们所见所闻的事物。通过正念和专注的能量，我们可以深入观察并发现那个想法、感觉、情绪或欲望的根源。正念和专注带来洞察力，洞察力可以帮助我们释放心中的执念。

[Letting Go]

To “let go” means to let go of something. That something may be an object of our mind, something we’ve created, like an idea, feeling, desire, or belief. Getting stuck on that idea could bring a lot of unhappiness and anxiety. We’d like to let it go, but how? It’s not enough just to want to let it go; we have to recognize it first as being something real. We have to look deeply into its nature and where it has come from, because ideas are born from feelings, emotions, and past experiences, from things we’ve seen and heard. With the energy of mindfulness and concentration we can look deeply and discover the roots of the idea, feeling, emotion, or desire. Mindfulness and concentration bring about insight, and insight can help us release the object in our mind.