8. Meditate and let go.
A RowdyReader left a beautiful comment on my last post about happiness and emphasized the importance of mediation and letting go.

What is interesting about this exploration of “Finding Happiness” (not just on your blog) is that many if not all aspects of the solutions point towards letting go of / removing things rather than adding anything. If this is considered deeply (eg through meditation) then it is possible to discover that happiness is actually already here in all of us. And, as your post points out, many aspects of “modern living” obscure happiness from our day-to-day experiences. We are so heavily conditioned to believe that we aren’t happy and need to look for it somewhere outside of our very self. And so heavily conditioned that happiness is something special – like intense pleasure or stimulation of various kinds – but when happiness is present and we experience it, in some ways it is actually very ordinary, and so kind of hard to describe!
8、沉思，然后松手。
一名吵鬧的讀者在我上次貼出文章后留下了一條關(guān)于幸福的美麗的評(píng)價(jià)，并強(qiáng)調(diào)了沉思后放手的重要性。
“關(guān)于‘尋找幸福’的探索（不僅僅在你的博客上）有趣的一點(diǎn)是，許多（如果不是全部的話）問題的解決方案都指向放手或拿走，而非增加什么東西。如果深刻考慮的話（比如通過沉思），就可能發(fā)現(xiàn)幸福其實(shí)就在我們所有人之中。而且，正如你博客所指出的，‘現(xiàn)代生活’的許多方面將幸福從我們每天的經(jīng)驗(yàn)中隱藏了起來。我們被深深地影響，以至于相信我們不幸福，需要從我們自身以外的地方尋找幸福，并且認(rèn)為幸福是一種特殊的東西，就像激烈的樂趣或不同種類的刺激。但當(dāng)幸福就在身邊讓我們體驗(yàn)時(shí)，在某種程度上它又變得非常普通并且難以描述了。”