除非我們對痛苦有一種理解、和能接受痛苦，我們就無法超越痛苦。在我們的生命裡，我們總是在奮鬥掙扎；我們掙扎，是因為我們覺得自己的存在是固定的、不能改變的。我們不斷地焦慮著。為什麼這樣呢？天知道！只因為我們具有本初善，或天生本具的健全，我們方能感覺其對應部份，不舒適、焦慮、與困惑之痛苦。就如在攝影時，不僅光線是唯一的要素，陰影亦是必要的。
摘自邱陽創巴仁波切著作《苦之真相與解脫之道》，由香巴拉阿闍黎Judith Lief 集結整編。香巴拉出版社2009年出版。
Photo by Yeachin Tsai.
Both Light and Shadow are Necessary
Unless we have an understanding and acceptance of pain, we will have no way to transcend that pain. Throughout our lives we are struggling. We struggle because, in our being, we feel we are what we are and cannot change. We are constantly anxious. Why? Goodness knows! Only because we have basic goodness, or innate wholesomeness, in us can we feel the counterpart of that, the pain of discomfort, anxiety, and confusion. In order to take a photograph, not only light but shadow is necessary.
Excerpted from The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation, page 7.
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