Real Love

　　真爱

Real love is wisdom. What most people think of as love is just an impermanent feeling. If you have a nice taste every day, you will soon get tired of it. In the same way, such love eventually turns into hatred and sorrow. Such worldly happiness involves clinging and is always tied up with suffering, which comes like the policeman following the thief.

　　真爱就是智慧，大部份的人都认为“爱”只是一种短暂的感觉。如果你每天都有美味的食物，你很快地就会对它感到厌烦。同样的道理，像这样的爱，最後终将演变成憎恨与悲伤。这种世俗的快乐蕴藏了执著，而且永远与苦相缠，就好像警察紧随著小偷一样。

Nevertheless, we cannot suppress nor forbid such feelings. We just should not cling to or identify with them but should know them for what they are. Then Dharma is present. One loves another, yet eventually the beloved leaves or dies. To lament and think longingly, grasping after that which has changed, is suffering, not love. When we are at one with this truth and no longer need or desire, wisdom and the real love that transcends desire fill our world.

　　虽说如此，我们不能去压抑和禁止这种感觉，我们只须不去执著和陷入它们之中，而去了解它们的本然。如此一来，“法”就现前了。一个人爱另一个人，然而，最终挚爱的人仍会离开、死去啊!悲悼、期望或执著那过眼的云烟，是苦，而不是爱。当我们明了这个真理，而不再需求或欲求时，超越欲望的智慧和真爱就会充满我们的人间!