亚洲新闻国际，2011年2月25 ANI, Feb 25, 2011

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译者：慧灵
校对：圆唐

印度新德里——一位专家建议，处理生活抛给我们的某些挑战的棘手问题——包括疼痛、遭受痛苦、疾病、悲痛和损失——就是真正地欣赏人生的积极方面，而不是简单地关注消极方面。

承认挫折是很重要的，但是对事物将会向好的方向发展，需要给予同等的注意力和认定。这是美国加州的精神健康洛杉矶分部的凯伦·希尔斯伯格，给出的基于佛陀教法的生活课程。

她的活动、个人的解释描述了正念——或者是一种特别的觉察意识，该觉察意识留意和亲切处理生活中的每一刻——如何帮助她应对她丈夫的癌症，如何帮助她处理他的疾病和死亡对她自己及她年轻的家庭的影响。

这样严格的正念练习，主要通过每日冥想、每周的佛教团体(僧众)聚会、和每日深度放松，帮助希尔斯伯格诚实和客观地对待她生活中发生的一切。

正念教会她一些有价值的应付策略和生活中的课程，帮助她往远看且活在当下。她学着去从别人那里寻求帮助；由于精神上和伦理道德上的支持她不再孤单。无论如何，看起来难以忍受的生活经历都不会再持续了。

“正念的练习，教学和僧宝都鼓励我，继续不断的用自己的现实生活经历，去寻找当下的平和。为了我自己，我已经学会了平和不取决于外在的条件。我真正的平静，仅仅来自我的内心。生活不断地继续—我们活着并且呼吸着，这就是一个奇迹，”海瑟琳总结说。

New Delhi, India -- An expert has suggested that the key to dealing with some of the challenges life throws at us - including pain, suffering, illness, grief and loss - is to truly appreciate the positive aspects of life, and not simply focus on the negative.

It is important to acknowledge the setbacks, but equal attention and value need to be given to what is going well. This lesson in living, based on the teachings of Buddha, has been given by Karen Hilsberg, from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health in California in the US.

Her moving, personal account describes how mindfulness - or a special kind of awareness that is attentive and warmly engaged with each moment of life - helped her cope with her husband’s cancer, and the impact of his illness and death on both herself and her young family. The rigorous practice of mindfulness through daily meditation, weekly Buddhist group (sangha) meetings, and daily deep relaxation helped Hilsberg to be honest and objective about what was happening in her life.

Mindfulness taught her some valuable coping strategies and lessons in living, helping her to put things into perspective and stay grounded in the present. She learned to ask for help from others; she was no longer alone due to the moral and ethical support she received. However seemingly unbearable her experiences were, they would not last.

The practice of mindfulness, the teachings and the sangha have encouraged me to continually use the realities of my own life experiences to find peace in the present moment. I have learned for myself that peace does not come from outside conditions, but that my true serenity can only come from within me. And life goes on and on - we are alive and breathing, and this is a miracle, Hilsberg concluded.

The article has been published online in Springer’s journal, Mindfulness.