秋言物语（52）| 马小秋：受苦消苦，离苦得乐

常言道：＂人生苦短＂，这句话不难理解，意思是说，人生是痛苦而短暂的。纵观大千世界，芸芸众生，有多少人痛苦，又有多少人欢乐呢？通过现象我们可以看到人生苦乐各占一半。

As the saying goes, “Life is short”. The sentence is not difficult to understand, meaning that life is painful and short. Throughout the world, all living things, how many people are suffering and how many people are happy? Through the phenomenon we can see that the sweet and sour is half of the life.

人生的痛苦都来自内心深处放不下自己的得失，痛苦皆因自己所求不能如愿，或者是得到之后的失去。正如老子所言＂不知常，妄作凶＂，不知道事物的规律而乱思乱行，就产生了不好的结果，痛苦随之而升起。由于无知而乱做，我们自己制造了痛苦，当然要由我们自己来承受。人总在得失中欢乐着、痛苦着，这就是人世间一阴一阳的人之常道。

The pain of life comes from the depth of our heart, as we cannot put down our own gains and losses, the pain is due to our own desire cannot be fulfilled, or to be lost after obtaining. As Lao Tzu said, “If you don’t realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow”, meaning that if we do not know the law of things, just thinking and doing things random and disorderly, inevitably there will be a bad result, the pain rising thereby. Because of ignorance and our random deeds, the pain made by our own, of course, shall be borne by ourselves. People are always happy in the gains and painful in losses, which is the normal and proper practice of the Yin and Yang (one positive and one negative) in the present world.

那么人生有没有少苦多乐，或常常欢乐的状态呢？其实是有的，只是我们不知道怎样的方法才能使我们远离痛苦而常常欢乐。

Then is there a status of less suffering, more joy, or often happy day by day in life? In fact, there are some, but we do not know how to make us be away from the pain and often happy.

佛学中有句话讲到了事物的真相，那就是＂受苦消苦，享福消福＂，这说明人在受苦的时候，正处在消除痛苦的过程中，无论是精神的痛苦或肉体的痛苦都是如此。因此当痛苦向我们袭来的时候，我们以接纳和欢喜的心态来对待，这时痛苦就随之而变成了欢乐，苦去方能甘来。

A Buddhist word is about the truth of the things, that is “Suffering is to eliminate the pain, enjoying the blessing is to eliminate happiness,” which means that people in suffering, is in the process of eliminating pain, whether it is the spiritual pain or the physical pain. So when the pain strikes us, we treat it with acceptance and joy, and then the pain becomes joy, and sweetness comes to us as the bitterness goes.（2017年9月16日马小秋分享）

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马小秋，《秋言物语》随笔系列原创作者，深圳市鼎益丰集团创始人、总裁 、 禅道商学院院长 、深圳市企业联合会副会长 、 深圳市投资者联合会副会长 、广东省万明子慈善基金会理事长