摘要：她说，这次的病让自己有了观察、了解、认识生命的机会，她像换了一个人一样，感觉到生活特别的美好。
我们身体得病，因为环境的污染啊，家庭的破裂啊……你感觉这些事情都不是我们心里所需要的，但实际还是来源于我们平时的因因果果，来源于意识的积攒——潜意识中有恶性的心理需要，而且埋藏得很深。
比如说，一念嗔恨带来的“不想活了”，对身体的放弃、厌倦等等，我们常常会忽略它，但是却播下了种子，在某些因缘成熟时就会折射出来，恶性的疾病或者绝症就会发生。我们会把这些恶性事件当真，岂不知它们只是自己心识成熟的过程和表达罢了。
所有世间的作为、事相都如同一面镜子，会折射出我们内心的种子。所以，内心的种子才是解决问题的关键。它是主位，而外缘是宾位，这个次序不能颠倒。我们往往把外缘变成了主位，就会变得被动，内心就会跟着疾病跑，疾病一来就会产生排斥、对抗、害怕、焦虑等，会在病痛的基础上增加更多的心理痛苦——这就是恶业相伴。
我们一旦了解了疾病的来源，认知它的本质是不可得的，是无常变化的，是缘生缘灭的，那么疾病就成了推动我们了解、认识生命的动力，我们就会感恩它。感恩的心就会给恶业带来新的缘起，从此不再恶业相伴，而是善业相伴。这样我们对疾病的认识与调整就会变得主动、积极，内心的种子从对抗、害怕、焦虑转换成了感恩，外缘疾病给我们带来的痛苦和烦恼就会减轻、消融。
有一个大学英文老师得了乳腺癌。她年轻有为，家庭美满，平日努力工作，也从未做过恶事，认为自己不应该得这样的重病，因此完全不能接受这个事实，感到非常痛苦。她的家人对她的康复给予了全力的支持。在治疗的过程中，她慢慢意识到，原来她从未珍惜过家人给予她的支持和付出，一直把这些当作是理所当然的。自从得病后，丈夫每天带她去公园散步、打拳，她才发现原来生活还有另外的角度。以前她只知道工作，认为效率特别重要，为了家庭和两个孩子，她把所有的时间、精力都用在了工作上，从未让自己慢下来或放松一下去欣赏身边的美好，一直处于急躁、焦虑之中；而现在，她可以站在一边欣赏他们，把对家庭和孩子的牵挂、焦虑转变为无尽的祝福与尊重了。她说，这次的病让自己有了观察、了解、认识生命的机会，她像换了一个人一样，感觉到生活特别的美好。
The positive role illness can play in our life
We get sick because of environment pollution or family issues. Of course, they are not things we look for in our lives. But still, these phenomena come from an accumulation of causes and conditions from our daily life or bad thoughts that we deeply store in our mind.
For instance, whenever we think that we are sick and tired of life, we create negative thoughts. Although they are short lived thoughts, we create seeds that affect our body and we sometimes get very sick as a result. Because once the conditions and causes are met our bad thoughts will reflect in our body and life-threatening diseases will arise. We will treat these bad effects as if they truly exist without realizing that they are merely the result and an expression of our mind.
Therefore, the seeds in our mind are the key to all problems. The mind is the source and the external conditions are secondary. We have to be clear about this. We usually regard external conditions as primary causes, then we focus too much on them, for example illness. Once we get sick, we feel scared and anxious, which is another layer of sufferings independent from the illness itself.
Once we know about the way we get ill and we understand that its nature is emptiness, an impermanent phenomenon relying on causes and conditions, we can realize that all diseases may be a motivation to learn more about our life. We may appreciate it and a thankful heart becomes a new cause to lead us to kindness. From this point, we can have a more positive attitude towards illness. We become grateful to our illness instead of trying to fight against it or being terrified and anxious, and the suffering that comes along with the illness will be lighter.
There is this University English professor who had got breast cancer. She was young, had a happy family and worked hard. She had never done anything bad and thought that she did not deserve this disease which, to her, was totally unacceptable. She was in great pain. Her family was fully supportive during her treatment. During this time, she realized that, all along, she had provided all the support and her family had taken it for granted. After she got sick, her husband would take her to the park for a walk and Taichi practice, and she considered her life from a new and different angle. Before her illness, she used to focus on her job and efficiency was very important to her, she spent all her time and energy on work. She thought she did it for her family, for her two kids and would never slow down to take a moment to appreciate the beautiful things around her. She was always anxious and upset. Now she is able to enjoy the beauties of life and she has turned her anxiety towards her family and children into blessing and respect. She now says that the disease had blessed her with an opportunity to understand her life better and had totally changed her perspective and she now feels that life is extraordinarily beautiful.
Sunshine Breakfast
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