第八章 (6)
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第八章 ?接纳当下
? 利用和放弃负面情绪
如果“你” – 这个头脑 – 不相信不快乐会有帮助,你为何还要创造它?当然,事实是,负面情绪不会有什么帮助。它不会吸引来你想要的情境,相反,它会阻止这情境的到来。负面情绪不会消除你不想要的情境,相反,它会让这情境固定在原地。它唯一“有用”的功能就是强化 ego,这就是为什么 ego 钟爱负面情绪。
一旦你已经与某种负面情绪认同了,你会不想放手,在深度无意识的层面,你并不想要积极正面的改变。这会威胁到你作为一个抑郁的、愤怒的,或遭受了不公正对待的人的身份。于是,你会忽视、否认或蓄意破坏你生命中的那些积极的东西。这是一个很常见的现象。同时,这也是精神失常的。
? USING AND RELINQUISHING NEGATIVITY
If "you" — the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it? The fact is, of course, that negativity does not work. Instead of attracting a desirable condition, it stops it from arising. Instead of dissolving an undesirable one, it keeps it in place. Its only "useful" function is that it strengthens the ego, and that is why the ego loves it.
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.