会伤害我们的，是我们对事情的想法

It is your idea that causes you harm

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一天清晨，天降大雨，一个男子搭公车去上班，车上乘客非常拥挤，他的心正感不耐之中，突然觉得某人的雨伞尖刺到了他的脚踝。
It was raining heavily outside one morning. A man, rushed getting to his office on a packed bus, felt a sudden surge of anger because he was prodded sharply on the ankle by something like an umbrella.

他本想转头对那不知轻重的人还以颜色。但是，车里实在太挤了，人挤人的，使他无法转身。车子行进中，当车子摇晃时，那雨伞尖就刺得更重，他心中的怒火逐渐升高，心想等一下非好好训斥对方不可。
审核：His attempts to get back at that rash passenger was thwarted by the crowdedness. His anger intensified as the vibration of the bus sent more prods at his ankle. He was ready to give a severe telling off.

好不容易到了一个大站，下去了不少乘客。有了回转余地的他，愤怒地顶开那刺人的雨伞尖，然后转身怒视那个“不长眼”的乘客。这一看，发现对方竟然是个盲人！再看 刺他脚踝的，并非想像中的雨伞尖，而是她的拐杖！这一发现，让他原本难以抑制的怒火，突然消失了，脚踝也不再那么疼痛了。

Lots of people got off at the next stop. Now he could turn around to elbow aside the so-called umbrella and glared at its owner, only to find that it was a crutch on which a blind passenger leaned. The glance drove his boiling anger and agonizing pain away.

为什么整个感觉会突然转变了呢？从表面看来，愤怒起因于刺痛他脚踝的“那个人”和“那件事”，再往深处想，愤怒的起因其实是“这个人鲁莽又无礼”的想法。所以当他发现对方是个盲人的时候，他的“想法”转变了， “感觉”也转变了。
审核：What accounted for such a sudden change in how he felt? On the face of it, it is the so-called umbrella and its owner that aroused his anger. But in reality, the root lies in his idea that the fellow passenger was rash and rude which changed as he found the truth. His feelings changed along with his changes of mind.

在《庄子》里也有个故事，大意是：在烟雾弥漫的清晨，有个人划船逆流而上，突然一艘小船顺流直冲向他。他暴跳如雷，开始向对方怒吼，接著，发现撞上他的，竟然是一艘空船！他摇摇头，气也消了。
审核：As told in Chuang Tzu, a man rowing a boat against the current on a foggy day was astonished to find that another boat drifting down the stream shot towards him. He got so angry and shouted out to veer that. But his shout went unheeded and the boat bumped into him. To his surprise, it was an empty boat. He shook his head with resignation and his anger vanished.
很多时候 事情本身不会造成伤害 造成伤害的是我们对事情的想法。而想法就是念头。念头不变，命运就无法改变；念头一变，世界就开始转变！转念的原因在于包容和看清真相，因为看到弱势人群，内心生出怜悯和包容，往怜悯和包容的方向思惟，在转念中，当下就气消了，从怨怒变得和善。因为看清了真相，烦恼得以当下息灭，暴躁的心变得平静。所以，一念之间，可以成为好人，也可以成为恶人。
On many occasions, it is not what happened but how you think of it causes harm. Your thought is what is on your mind. Your fate changes along with changes in your mind. The world also changes along with changes in your mind. Truth, coupled with tolerance and compassion toward the underprivileged, stimulates these changes. With truth in mind, you will calm down and your anger will vanish and you will get peaceful. There is only a slight boundary between good and evil.

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翻译：王科&慈德
校对：张广龙