学习爱的艺术，滋养幸福（1）

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最近翻开买的一本小外文书，现在看又有另外一番感触

摘录《How to Love》-THICH NHAT HANH

翻译本人

 HEART LIKE A RIVER

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can't accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don't make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform. So the big question is: how do we help our hearts to grow?

心如河流

如果你把一撮盐倒进一杯水里，水就变得无法喝了。但是，如果你把盐倒进河里，人们可以继续从河里取水来做饭、清洗和饮用。这条河是无边无际的，它有接受、拥抱和转化的能力。当我们的心量很小，我们的理解和共情力是有限的。我们不能接受或容忍他人的缺点，我们要求他们改变，因此我们会受苦。但当我们的心扩张开来时，同样的事情就不会再让我们痛苦了。我们会拥有更多的理解和同情心，我们懂得拥抱别人，接受他人本来的样子，这样他们才有机会转变。所以最大的问题是: 我们如何帮助我们的心成长?

 FEEDING OUR LOVE

Each of us can learn the art of nourishing happiness and love. Everything needs food to live, even love. If we don't know how to nourish our love, it withers. When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.

滋养我们的爱

我们每个人都可以学习滋养幸福和爱的艺术。万物都需要食物生存，爱也不例外。如果我们不懂得滋养我们的爱，它就会枯萎。当我们滋养和支持自己的幸福时，我们也在滋养自己给予爱的能力。这就是为什么爱是门学习滋养幸福的艺术。

 LOVE IS ORGAINC

Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.

爱是有机的

爱如呼吸，是鲜活的生命。没有必要强迫它朝特定的方向发展。如果我们开始对自己宽容、温柔，我们会发现它就在我们内心深处，坚固而治愈。

 DISTRACTIONS

Often, we get crushes on others not because we truly love and understand them, but to distract ourselves from our suffering. When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person.

分心

通常，我们迷恋别人并不是因为我们真的爱他们，理解他们，而是为了转移我们身上的痛苦。当我们学会爱自己，理解自己，对自己有真正的同情心，那么我们就能真正地爱和理解他人。

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