〖水流〗
肉身的老化和病痛并没有错，它只是顺著它的本性。因此，导致我们受苦的不是身体，而是自己错误的知见。当我们误解时，一定会烦恼不已。
如同河里的水，它很自然地会往下流，这是水的本性。如果我们站在河边看著水急速流下，却异想天开地想让它逆流而上，我们会因此而痛苦。我们会因为我们错误的思想和想“逆水而上”而受苦。如果我们有正确知见，就会知道水必定是往下流的，除非我们觉悟和接受这事实，否则心将永远动荡不安，永远找不到平静的心。
水必然往下流的道理，就如同我们身体的现象，它一度年轻，然后趋向老化，最后死亡。不要期望有其他奇迹出现，这不是我们所能挽救的。不要异想天开地想让水逆流而上。
River Flow
There's nothing wrong with the way the body grows old and gets sick. It just follows its nature. So it's not the body that causes us suffering, but our own wrong thinking. When we see the right wrongly, there's bound to be confusion. It's like the water of a river. It naturally flows downhill. It never flows uphill. That's its nature. If we were to go and stand on the bank of a river, and seeing the water flowing swiftly down its course, foolishly want it to flow back uphill, we would suffer. We would suffer because of our wrong view, our thinking "against the stream." If we had right view, we would see that the water must flow downhill. Until we realize and accept this fact, we will always be agitated and never find peace of mind. Our body is like the river that must flow downhill. It passes through youth, old age and finally dies. Don't let us go wishing it were otherwise. It's not something we have the power to remedy. Don't go against the stream!
