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。
一名吵闹的读者在我上次贴出文章后留下了一条关于幸福的美丽的评价，并强调了沉思后放手的重要性。
“关于‘寻找幸福’的探索（不仅仅在你的博客上）有趣的一点是，许多（如果不是全部的话）问题的解决方案都指向放手或拿走，而非增加什么东西。如果深刻考虑的话（比如通过沉思），就可能发现幸福其实就在我们所有人之中。而且，正如你博客所指出的，‘现代生活’的许多方面将幸福从我们每天的经验中隐藏了起来。我们被深深地影响，以至于相信我们不幸福，需要从我们自身以外的地方寻找幸福，并且认为幸福是一种特殊的东西，就像激烈的乐趣或不同种类的刺激。但当幸福就在身边让我们体验时，在某种程度上它又变得非常普通并且难以描述了。”