回到当下：从不快乐中解脱

你是否怨恨你正在做的事情？它可能是你的工作，或者你已经同意了做这件事，并且你正在做，但是你同时又在怨恨和抗拒这件事。你会默默地怨恨与你亲近的人吗？你是否意识到了你因此而散发的能量是非常有害的，它会影响你自己以及你周围的人？

请仔细观察你的内心，那里是否有一些轻微的怨恨和不情愿的迹象呢？如果有，请从心理以及情绪两个层面去观察它。关于某种情况，你思维所创造的观点是什么？然后请观察你的情绪，这是你身体对这些观点所做出的反应。请感受一下这些情绪。你觉得是开心还是烦恼？这是一个你会选择让它进入你内在的能量吗？你有选择吗？

也许你被利用了，也许你所参加的活动枯燥无味，也许与你亲近的人不诚实或令人厌烦，但是所有的这些都是无关紧要的。你对于这种情况而产生的思想或情绪是否合理，不会起到任何作用。事实是，你正在抗拒本然，你将当下视为敌人。你在你的内心创造和外界创造了不快乐和冲突。你的不快乐不仅污染了你的内心世界和你周围的人的内心世界，而且还污染了与你不可分割的人类集体的精神。

我们这个地球的污染只不过是内心污染的外在投射；上百万个无意识的人没有为他们的内心世界担负起责任。

FREEDOM FROM UNHAPPINESS

Do you resent doing what you are doing? It may be your job, or you may have agreed to do something and are doing it, but part of you resents and resists it. Are you carrying unspoken resentment toward a person close to you? Do you realize that the energy you thus emanate is so harmful in its effects that you are in fact contaminating yourself as well as those around you? Have a good look inside. Is there even the slightest trace of resentment, unwillingness? If there is, observe it on both the mental and the emotional levels. What thoughts is your mind creating around this situation? Then look at the emotion, which is the body's reaction to those thoughts. Feel the emotion. Does it feel pleasant or unpleasant? Is it an energy that you would actually choose to have inside you? Do you have a choice?

Maybe you are being taken advantage of, maybe the activity you are engaged in is tedious, maybe someone close to you is dishonest, irritating, or unconscious, but all this is irrelevant. Whether your thoughts and emotions about this situation are justified or not makes no difference. The fact is that you are resisting what is. You are making the present moment into an enemy. You are creating unhappiness, conflict between the inner and the outer. Your unhappiness is polluting not only your own inner being and those around you but also the collective human psyche of which you are an inseparable part. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.