多半时候，我们无法控制自己，我们的心总是受到一些事物的吸引或干扰——我们的敌人、我们的爱人、我们的朋友，所有这一切，还有希望、恐惧、嫉妒、骄傲、执着、嗔恨。所有这些事物、这些现象，控制了我们的心，而我们无法控制自己。或许我们可以在刹那间控制自己，但我们若是处于极端的情绪当中，我们就会失去控制力。—  宗萨钦哲仁波切

Most of the time we are not under the control of ourselves. Our mind is always attracted or distracted with something – our enemies, our lovers, our friends, just everything, hope, fear, jealousy, pride, attachment, aggression, all of this. So, in other words, It’s the objects, the phenomena, the world, which control our mind; we have no control over it. Maybe we can control it a little bit, for a split second; but if you are in an extreme emotional state, you’ll lose it.   — Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

来自: ‘人間是劇場:我們認知因緣-奢摩他禪修’ - 宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切 (1999)

From: ‘THE WEALTH OF BEING NATURAL’  by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (1999)

* In March 1999 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche gave a weekend teaching at Vajradhara Gonpa about calm abiding or shamatha meditation. 

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人生中唯一不变的，就是什么都在变。位高权重的，突然会一落千丈；生死相许的，竟然会势同水火；合家欢聚的，终究会曲终人散；寿比南山的，迟早会撒手人寰。所以，一切的美好都难逃变化，变化就会带来痛苦，这即是佛陀给我们揭示的“无常皆苦”。 —- 索达吉堪布

The only constant in life is the fact of everything is changing. For example, some one who had high position of power suddenly become plummeted; couples which used to give promise to each other of love till death but actually become opposite; families which used to gather together, after happy hours they left each other in the end; people who have long life, but they have to face to death sooner or later. As a result, all the good things cannot escape changes. However, changes can bring more pains,  which represents what Buddha revealed to us: ‘All impermanence is painful’.    —- Suo Daji Khenpo

*sorry about the bad translation:(