04 UNDERSTANDING OUR SUFFERING

【理解我们的痛苦】

当我们深入倾听自己时，我们可以理解自己、接纳自己、爱自己，并开始触摸到内心的平静。或许我们还未能接纳自己，因为我们并不了解自己；我们不知道如何倾听自己的痛苦。因此，我们首先需要练习倾听自己的痛苦。我们需要与痛苦同在，感受它，拥抱它，从而理解它，并让它逐渐转化。或许我们的痛苦中承载着父亲、母亲，乃至整个祖先血脉的痛苦，甚至是整个国家的痛苦。通过倾听自己，我们能够理解自己的痛苦，也能理解祖先、父亲和母亲的痛苦，并感受到一种释然。

[UNDERSTANDING OUR SUFFERING]

When we listen deeply to ourselves, we can understand ourselves, accept ourselves, love ourselves, and start to touch peace. Perhaps we have not yet accepted ourselves because we don’t understand who we are; we don’t know how to listen to our own suffering. So, we must first of all practice listening to our own suffering. We must be with it, feel it, and embrace it in order to understand it and allow it to gradually transform. Perhaps our own suffering carries within it the suffering of our father, our mother, the whole line of our ancestors, or a whole country. Listening to ourselves, we can understand our suffering—the suffering of our ancestors, our father, and our mother—and we feel a sense of release.