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舍得舍得，能舍便有得。学会取舍实属一门智慧。文中的大师误把辣椒当水果，旁人劝告终不进耳。为了不浪费那两卢比，而执意要吃掉一篮子辣椒，可想而知后果如何。有些时候，既然“舍”不会有“得”，而又一味地追求“得”，终将落个两手空空。
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从前有一个大师去了印度。那个时代交流不便，也没有现在的飞机和各种交通工具。因此，大师步行去的印度。他可能是波斯人，以前从没去印度。一到那儿，他看到许多水果。在印度，出售水果的很多，但大多很贵，由于那里的水质状况，水果结得不多。他看到了一大蓝子非常红，长长的水果。这种水果是商店里最便宜的，一点也不贵。
于是，他走过去问：“多少钱一公斤？”店员答：“两卢比。”在印度两卢比不算什么，贱如粪土。因此，他买了整整两公斤这种水果，开始吃起来。但吃了一些后，噢，天呢，他的眼泪出来了，口水出来了，嘴里发烧，眼睛发烧，脑袋发烧，脸变得红红的。他开始咳嗽，窒息，呼吸困难，他上下跳动，嚷道：“啊！啊！啊！”
但是他还在继续吃这种水果。看见的人摇着头说：“你疯了，哥儿们。那是辣椒！你不能吃那么多，辣椒对人体没什么益处！人们只是把它用作调味品，只是在食物里加一点来调味。你不能那样一把一把地吃，那不是水果！”但愚蠢的大师说：“不，我不能不吃！我花钱买了它们，就得把他们吃掉，这是我的钱。”
你认为那个大师很蠢，是吗？同样，我们许多时候也在做着类似的事情。我们投入了金钱，时间和努力去经营一种关系，开办一个公司或从事一项工作。即使过了很长时间，痛苦的经历告诉我们这不会成功。凭直觉我们也很清楚地知道这已无希望，将来也不会有转机，但我们依然坚持，只因为我们在里面投入了金钱，时间，努力和爱心。如果这样，我们的脑袋就坏掉了。正如那位大师一样，他吃辣椒遭罪但还坚持，只因为他不想浪费已经花掉的钱。
因此，即使我们损失了什么东西，要放手，去做点别的。这总好过继续损失。
附：原文
There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn't have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went to India on foot. He had never been to India before; perhaps he came from Persia. And when he got there, he saw a lot of fruit. In India they have plenty of fruit to sell, but much of it is expensive because they can't grow much due to the water situation. So he saw one basket, a big basket of some very red, long fruit. And it was the cheapest in the shop, not expensive at all.
So he went up and asked, "How much per kilo?" And the shopkeeper said, "Two rupees." Two rupees in India is nothing; it's like dirt. So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it. But after he ate some of it: Oh, my God! His eyes watered, his mouth watered and burned, his eyes were burning, his head was burning and his face became red. As he coughed and choked and gasped for breath, he jumped up and down, saying, "Ah! Ah! Ah!"
But he still continued to eat the fruit! Some people who were looking at him shook their heads and said, "You're crazy, man. Those are chilies! You can't eat so many; they're not good for you! People use them as a condiment, but only a little bit to put into food for taste. You can't just eat them by the handful like that; they're not fruit!" So the stupid master said, "No, I can't stop! I paid money for them, and now I'll eat the
And you think that master was stupid, right? Similarly, we sometimes do a lot of things like that. We invest money, time or effort in a relationship, business or job. And even though it's been a long time, bitter experience tells us it won't work, and we know there's no more hope that things will change in the future - this we definitely know by intuition - we still continue just because we've invested money, time, effort and love into it. If so, we're kaput in the brain. Just like the man who ate the chilies and suffered so much but couldn't stop because he didn't want to waste the money he'd paid.
So even if you've lost something, let it go and move on. That's better than continuing to lose. | 
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