在各種不同的情緒中有一些東西是相同的，那就是：過多了。可能是愛，可能是恨，可能是憤怒，任何事情都有可能。如果太過了，它會使你有被某些東西淹沒的感覺。甚至痛苦也能制造出相同的經(jīng)驗，但是它本身并沒有價值。它只是表示你是個情緒化的人。

There is certainly something very similar in very different emotions: the over whelmingness. It may belove, it may be hate, it may be anger – it can be anything. If it is too muchthen it gives you a sense of being overwhelmed by something. Even pain andsuffering can create the same experience, but overwhelmingness has no value initself. It simply shows you are an emotional being.

這是典型的情緒化性格的指標。憤怒的時候全被憤怒淹沒，愛的時候全被愛淹沒。幾乎是盲目的醉在情緒中。任何出于此的行動都是錯的。甚至是淹沒的愛，出于此的行動都不會是正確的。

This is typically the indicationof an emotional personality. When it is anger, it is all anger. And when it islove, it is all love. It almost becomes drunk with the emotion, blind. Andwhatever action comes out of it is wrong. Even if it is overwhelming love, theaction that will come out of it is not going to be right.

降到它的基本來，任何時候當你被任何情緒淹沒時，你會失去所有的理智、所有的敏感度、失去你的心。

Reducedto its base, whenever you are overwhelmed by any emotion you lose all reason,you lose all sensitivity, you lose your heart in it.

那幾乎像是迷失在黑霧中。那么，不論你怎么么做都是錯的。

It becomes almost like adark cloud in which you are lost. Then whatever you do is going to be wrong.

愛不是情緒的一部份。通常人們是這么認為，這么經(jīng)驗的，但是任何被淹沒的事情是很不穩(wěn)定的。它像一陣風般吹過，拋下你而去，留下的是你的空虛、粉碎與悲痛。

Love is not to be a partof your emotions. Ordinarily that’s what people think and experience, butanything overwhelming is very unstable. It comes like a wind and passes by,leaving you behind, empty, shattered, in sadness and in sorrow.

依據(jù)這些已經(jīng)對頭腦、心與自性知曉整體自性的人：愛必須是你自性的表達，不是情緒。

According to those whoknow man’s whole being –his mind, his heart and his being –love hasto be an expression of your being, not an emotion.

情緒非常脆弱，經(jīng)常改變。一下子看似全部，下一個片刻你又變得完全空虛。所以首先要做的是把愛從過多的情緒中帶出來。愛不是令人受不了的。

Emotion is very fragile,very changing. One moment it seems that is all. Another moment you are simplyempty. So the first thing to do is to take love out of this crowd ofoverwhelming emotions. Love is not overwhelming.

相反地，愛是一種極具的洞見、清澈、敏銳度與覺知。

On the contrary, love is a tremendousinsight, clarity, sensitivity, awareness.

但是那樣的愛很稀有，因為很少人能夠觸及他們的自性。

But that kind of love rarely exists,because very few people ever reach to their being.

有人愛他們的車子……那是頭腦的愛。然而愛你的太太、先生、小孩，那是心的愛。但是這需要變換以維持鮮活，而你不允許它的改變，所以就變得污濁。每天同一個丈夫？這么無聊。它使你的敏感度與喜悅的可能性變遲鈍。慢慢地，你忘了歡笑的語言。生命只剩下沒有喜悅的工作。而一個人必須工作，因為他有太太與小孩。

There are people who lovetheir cars.... That love is of the mind. And then you love your wife, yourhusband and your children –that love is of the heart. But because itneeds change to remain alive, and you cannot allow it its changeability, it becomesstale. The same husband every day –it is such a boring experience. Itdulls your sensitivity, it dulls every possibility of joy. You slowly startforgetting the language of laughter. Life becomes simply work without any joy.And one has to work because one has a wife and one has children.

你必須把你與生俱來的愛從情緒的夾縫中帶離，找出到達你自性的路。除非愛變成你自性的一部份，否則跟痛苦、悲傷沒什么不同。

You have to take your love out from the emotional grip where it has been since your birth, and you have to find a route to your being. Unless your love becomes part of your being, it is not much different from pain, suffering, sadness.

摘自O(shè)m Shantih,Shantih, Shantih