《165》我们必须学习去放下有为法，并且试着不去反抗或抵抗。然而，我们却去恳求它们来顺从我们的欲求。我们寻求各种方法安排它们或跟他们谈条件。如果身体生病，处于病痛当中，我们会不希望如此，所以便去找种种的经典来诵；我们不希望身体处于病痛中，而希望控制它。这些经典于是成为一些神秘的典礼仪式，使我们更陷于执着之中。这都是因为我们诵这些经典，为的只是延寿罢了，事实上，佛陀给予我们这些教导，为的是要协助我们认识身体的真相，使我们能够放下和舍弃我们的身体，可是，到最后，我们诵经却增加了我们的愚痴。

We must learn to let go of conditions and not try to oppose or resist them. And yet we plead with them to comply with our wishes. We look for all sorts of means to organize them or make a deal with them. If the body gets sick and is in pain, we don’t want it to be so, so we look for various suttas to chant. We don’t want to control it. These suttas become some form of mystical ceremony, getting us even more entangled in clinging. This is because we chant them in order to ward off illness, to prolong life and so on. Actually The Buddha gave us these teachings in order to help us know the truth of the body, so that we can let go and give up our longings, but we end up chanting them to increase our delusion.