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许多人说，通过深深的痛苦，他们找到了上帝，基督教中流传一句话“受苦之路”，我想这指的是一回事。 严格地说，他们没有通过痛苦找到上帝，因为痛苦意味着抗拒。他们通过臣服，通过完全接受事实找到上帝，剧烈的痛苦迫使他们进入这种状态。他们在某个层面已经认识到，他们的痛苦是自己创造的。 你为什么将臣服和找到上帝看成一回事？ 因为抗拒与思维密不可分，放弃抗拒，即臣服，就是思维的终结。放弃抗拒，所有的批判和所有的消极心态就会消失。这样，以前被思维所遮挡的存在就会敞开大门。突然之间，在你的内心就会产生宁静的空间。在这种宁静的空间中就会有巨大的喜悦。在这种喜悦中就有爱的存在，并且在内心的最深处，有一种神圣的、不可测量的和不可名状的东西。 我不称它为找到上帝，因为你怎么可能找到那永远不会丧失，且就是你的本质的生命？上帝这个词是有局限性的，这不仅是因为几千年来的错误理解和错误运用，还因为它意味着一个在你之外的实体。上帝是存在本身，而不是一个实体。这里没有主观和客观的关系。没有二元性，没有你和上帝。上帝的实现是最为自然的事情。 你提到的受苦之路是一种通向开悟的旧方式，一直以来，都是唯一的方式。但是请你不要低估它的效用，它仍然很有效。 受苦之路的意思是通过迫使你臣服，迫使你进入死亡状态，迫使你变得一无所有，迫使你变成上帝——因为上帝也是一无所有的，将这些你生活中最坏的事情、你的磨难变成你身上发生过的最好的事情。 通过受苦来开悟、即受苦之路，你最终会被迫臣服，因为你不能再忍受任何痛苦了。开悟会有意识地选择让你放弃对过去和未来的执着，来使当下时刻成为你生活中的重点，它会使你进入临在意识状态而不是时间状态。它意味着你对事实说“是”，这样你就不会有任何痛苦。在你说“我不会再创造痛苦，不会再遭受痛苦”之前，还需要多长时间？你到底还要受多少苦才会让你做出那个选择？ 如果你认为你还需要更多的时间，你就会得到更多的时间。当然，还会遭受更多的痛苦，时间和痛苦是密不可分的。 THE WAY OF THE CROSS There are many accounts of people who say they have found God through their deep suffering, and there is the Christian expression 'the way of the cross, ' which I suppose points to the same thing. We are concerned with nothing else here. Strictly speaking, they did not find God through their suffering, because suffering implies resistance. They found God through surrender, through total acceptance of what is, into which they were forced by their intense suffering. They must have realized on some level that their pain was self-created. How do you equate surrender with finding God? Since resistance is inseparable from the mind, relinquishment of resistance — surrender — is the end of the mind as your master, the impostor pretending to be 'you,' the false god. All judgment and all negativity dissolve. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named. I don't call it finding God, because how can you find that which was never lost, the very life that you are? The word God is limiting not only because of thousands of years of misperception and misuse, but also because it implies an entity other than you. God is Being itself, not a being. There can be no subject-object relationship here, no duality, no you and God. God-realization is the most natural thing there is. The amazing and incomprehensible fact is not that you can become conscious of God but that you are not conscious of God. The way of the cross that you mentioned is the old way to enlightenment, and until recently it was the only way. But don't dismiss it or underestimate its efficacy. It still works. The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into 'death,' forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing. Enlightenment through suffering — the way of the cross — means to be forced into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming. You finally surrender because you can't stand the pain anymore, but the pain could go on for a long time until this happens. Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. You then don't need pain anymore. How much more time do you think you will need before you are able to say 'I will create no more pain, no more suffering?' How much more pain do you need before you can make that choice? If you think that you need more time, you will get more time — and more pain. Time and pain are inseparable. |
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