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一整天中，你不断地看见和听到持续变化的事物。在看见东西和听到声音的第一时间——尤其是那个东西对你来说不熟悉时——在你的心智评断或解释你所见所闻之前，通常会有一个高度警觉的间隙，而你的认知就是从这个间隙中出现的。这就是内在空间。它持续的时间因人而异，但你很容易错过它，因为对很多人来说，这个空当非常短暂，也许只有一秒钟或更短。 它发生的过程是这样的：一个新的景象或是声音升起，在认知开始的第一时间，在我们习惯性的思考续流之中，会有一个短暂的停顿。意识与思想分开了，因为那一刻的感官觉受也需要意识。所以一个不寻常的景象或声音会让你“目瞪口呆”(内在也是)，也就是说，会产生一个较长的间隙。 这些空间出现的频率和长度会决定你享受生活的能力以及感到内在与人类和大自然联结的能力。它同时也决定了你能从小我中解脱出来的程度，因为小我对空间这个向度是完全没有觉知的。 如果能意识到这些短暂空间的自然发生，它们就会延长，然后，你会更频繁地经验到单纯去认知事物而没有思想或很少思想来搅扰的喜悦。你会感觉周遭的世界变得鲜活、新奇而且有生气。愈是经由抽象和概念的心理屏幕去感知生活，你周遭的世界就变得愈加没有生气而且单调。 NOTICING THE GAPS Throughout the day, there is a continuously changing succession of things that you see and hear. In the first moment of seeing something or hearing a sound – and more so if it is unfamiliar – before the mind names or interprets what your see or hear, there is usually a gap of alert attention in which the perception occurs. That is the inner space. Its duration differs from person to person. It is easy to miss because in many people those spaces are extremely short, perhaps only a second or less. This is what happens: A new sight or sound arises, and in the first moment of perception, there is a brief cessation in the habitual stream of thinking. Consciousness is diverted away form thought because it is required for sense perception. A very unusual sight or sound may leave you “speechless” - even inside, that is to say, bring about a longer gap. The frequency and duration of those spaces determine your ability to enjoy life, to feel an inner connectedness with other human beings as well as nature. It also determines the degree to which you are free of ego because ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space. When you become conscious of these brief spaces they happen naturally, they will lengthen, and as they do, you will experience with increasing frequency the joy of perceiving with little or no interference of thinking. The world around you then feels fresh, new, and alive. The more you perceive life through a mental screen of abstraction and conceptualization, the more lifeless and flat the world around you becomes. |
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