To lose what we have

We are often attached to what we’ve alreadyhad and worry about losing it, resulting in suffering constantly. In fact, isthere anything that won’t be lost? In the end, we can take nothing away withus, not even the transient possession we are treasuring now. Unfortunately,people of the mundane world cover their eyes willingly and try to ignore thefact, as if by no thinking about it, nothing would happen. This is to live indelusions and obsessions, which, instead of reducing our pain, intensifies it.

How can such a mind, weighed down by gainand loss, settle down quietly? There is nothing that belongs to us naturally.Everything is but the operation of causes and consequences. What we get can belost, therefore, to “have” is not real. Since there is no real “have”, how canwe really “lose”?  To have or to lose,this is nothing but our illusion.

得到的会失去

人总是贪恋拥有、担心失去，处处都在苦中。其实，哪有什么东西是不会失去的？

到最后一样也带不走，即使现在可以暂时拥有，总有一天都会失去的，可是世人皆掩耳盗铃，有意忽视这个事实，以为不去想就不会发生，活在妄想执著之中。但这一点也没有减少痛苦，反而加重了痛苦。

得失心如此之重，如何能够静得下来呢？人生本来没有什么是天生属于我们的，一切不过是因缘的起伏变化而已。得到了会失去，并不是真有；既然没有真正的“得”，又何来“失”呢？得与失，都是我们自己内心的感觉。