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工作——小我存在与否 很多人都有不受小我控制的时刻。在某些领域有特殊成就的人，就有可能在他们工作的时候，完全或是大部分地从小我中解脱。他们可能毫不知情，但是他们的工作本身已经成为一种灵性的修持了。他们大多数都是在工作的时候非常的临在，而在日常生活中又会落回到比较无意识的状态。这意味着他们临在的状态只是暂时地局限于生活中的一个领域而已。我接触过一些老师、艺术家、护士、医生、科学家、社会工作者、服务生、美发师、企业老板还有销售人员，他们工作时并没有在追寻自我，而是完全顺应当时之所需，令人敬佩。他们与工作合一，也与当下合一了，也与当时他们服务的人或是任务合而为一。这些人对于其他人的影响，远超过他们提供的功能所带来的影响。每个和他们接触的人都会感觉到自己小我的缓减。即使那些小我强烈的人，都会开始放松，放下防卫，并且在互动中不再做角色扮演。理所当然的是，这些工作时不带小我色彩的人，在他们的工作中都有杰出的表现。任何与他所做之事合一的人，就是在创建一个新的世界。 我也接触过一些人，他们也许技术上非常到位，但是他们的小我却时时地破坏他们的成果。他们的注意力只有一部分是放在工作上，其他的部分都是在自己身上。他们的小我需要得到个别的关注，如果得不到足够认可的话（可能永远都不够），他们会浪费很多能量在怨怼上面：“有其他的人获得比我还多的关注吗？”此外，这些人主要关注的焦点也许是利益或权力，而他们的工作只不过是为了达到目标的手段。当工作变成不过是达到目标的手段时，它就不会是高质量的。当工作中有障碍或困难的时候，当事情不如预期顺利的时候，当其他人或是环境不给予助力或合作时，他们不但不会立刻与这个新的状况合一，而针对当下的情况采取必要的措施，反倒会起而抗拒新的状况，而让自己与它分开。在这里，有一个“我”觉得个人受到了侵犯或是觉得怨恨，而且大量的能量会在无用的反抗或怒气中燃烧殆尽，而这些能量如果没有被小我错误地使用的话，其实是可以用来解决问题的。尤有甚者，这股反抗的能量会创造新的障碍、新的反对势力。很多人真的是自己最大的敌人。 当有些人不帮助其他人、不与其他人分享资讯或是陷害别人，免得别人会比“我”成功或是比“我”得到更多的荣誉时，这反而是不自觉地伤害了自己的工作。对小我来说，合作是个陌生的名词，除非有暗藏的其他动机。小我不知道，你愈是把别人包容进来，事情会进行得愈加顺利，而且各种事物会愈容易流向你。当你不给别人帮助，或是只给别人一点点帮助，或是在别人的路上制造障碍，宇宙（以人、事、物的形式）也不会给你帮助，或是只给你一点点帮助，因为你把自己从整体之中切割开了。小我无意识的核心感受就是“不够”，所以它对别人成功的反应，觉得好像是他们从“我”这里拿走了什么。小我不知道，你对其他人成功的怨怼，反而会阻碍你自己成功的机会。为了要吸引成功，不论你在哪里看到它都要随时欢迎它。 WORK – WITH AND WITHOUT EGO Most people have moments when they are free of ego. Those who are exceptionally good at what they do may be completely or largely free of ego while performing their work. They may not know it, but their work has become a spiritual practice. Most of them are present while they do their work and fall back into relative unconsciousness in their private life. This means their state of Presence is for the time being confined to one area of their life. I have met teachers, artists, nurses, doctors, scientists, social workers, waiters, hairdressers, business owners, and salespeople who perform their work admirably without any self-seeking, fully responding to whatever the moment requires of them. They are one with what they do, one with the Now, one with the people or the task they serve. The influence such people have upon others goes far beyond the function they perform. They bring about a lessening of the ego in everyone who comes into contact with them. Even people with heavy egos sometimes begin to relax, let down their guard, and stop playing their roles when they interact with them. It comes as no surprise that those people who work without ego are extraordinarily successful at what they do. Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth. I have also met many others who may be technically good at what they do but whose ego constantly sabotages their work. Only part of their attention is on the work they perform; the other part is on themselves. Their ego demands personal recognition and wastes energy in resentment if it doesn't get enough – and it's never enough. “Is someone else getting more recognition than me?” Or their main focus of attention is profit or power, and their work is no more than a means to that end. When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. When obstacles or difficulties arise in their work, when things don't go according to expectation, when other people or circumstances are not helpful or cooperative, instead of immediately becoming one with the new situation and responding to the requirements of the present moment, they react against the situation and so separate themselves from it. There is a “me” that feels personally offended or resentful, and a huge amount of energy is burned up in useless protest or anger, energy that could be used for solving the situation if it were not being misused by the ego. What is more, this “anti”-energy creates new obstacles, new opposition. Many people are truly their own worst enemy. People unknowingly sabotage their own work when they withhold help or information from others or try to undermine them lest they become more successful or get more credit than “me.” Cooperation is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive. The ego doesn't know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you. When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe – in the form of people and circumstances – gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole. The ego's unconscious core feeling of “not enough” causes it to react to someone else's success as if that success had taken something away from “me.” It doesn't know that your resentment of another person's success curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it. |
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