76 Eating to Reduce Suffering

【减少痛苦的饮食】

第四观：愿我们通过这样的饮食方式来保持我们的慈悲心，减少生灵的痛苦，停止对气候变化的贡献，并治愈及保护我们珍贵的地球。

第四观是关于我们食物的质量。我们决心只摄取对我们的身体和意识无毒素的食物，这样的食物能保持我们的健康并滋养我们的慈悲。当你以这样的方式进食，能在你内心保持慈悲，那就是正念饮食。

有时候，即使我们不饿，我们也会吃东西来掩盖内心的痛苦。我们可以以一种不掩盖痛苦但承认并帮助其转化的方式来进食。你甚至可以对自己的痛苦微笑，因为痛苦在帮助我们转变中扮演了一个角色。对痛苦的意识在帮助我们理解痛苦和产生慈悲能量中扮演了非常重要的角色。有了正念，我们不再害怕痛苦和痛苦。我们学会如何利用痛苦的淤泥来制造莲花。

[Eating to Reduce Suffering]

THE FOURTH CONTEMPLATION: May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that reduces the suffering of living beings, stops contributing to climate change, and heals and preserves our precious planet.

The fourth contemplation is about the quality of our food. We are determined to ingest only food that has no toxins for our body and our consciousness, food that keeps us healthy and nourishes our compassion. When you eat in such a way that you can keep compassion alive in you, that is mindful eating.

Sometimes, even if we’re not hungry, we eat to cover up the suffering inside. We can eat in a way that doesn’t cover up suffering but acknowledges it and helps it transform. You may even smile to your own suffering, because suffering has a role to play in helping us transform. Awareness of suffering plays a very important role in helping us to understand suffering and generate the energy of compassion. With mindfulness we’re no longer afraid of suffering and pain. We learn how to make good use of the mud of suffering to fabricate lotus flowers.