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当面临一个巨大的危机时，当旧有的生活方式，与他人互动的方式以及与大自然共存的方式都需要改变时，当生存受到看起来难以应付的问题的重大威胁时，某种个别的生命形式(或是物种)可能会死亡、绝种或是经由一个进化的跳跃而突破现有的限制。
大家都相信，地球上的生命的形式最早是从海洋中开始演化的。当陆地上还没有动物时，海洋中却已满布生命。而在某个时间点，海洋中的某种生物可能开始向干燥的陆地探险，刚开始可能只是爬个几英寸，然后，由于受不了巨大的地心引力牵引而筋疲力尽，于是再度回到水中，因为水中几乎没有地心引力，它可以生活得比较舒适。然后，它又一而再，再而三地尝试，过了很久以后，它终于能够适应地面的生活，长出了脚以取代鳍，发展出了肺以取代鳃。对一个特种来说，除非它是被危机所迫而不得不如此，否则要冒险进入一个完全陌生的领域，还要经过一个进化的转变，真是不太可能的。也许当时某一大片海域真的与主要的海洋隔绝了，经过几千年后，水渐渐地减少，迫使鱼类要离开它们的栖息地而展开进化。
对人类来说，我们此刻面临的挑战就是：对一个威胁我们生存的巨大危机做出回应。虽然在2500年以前，古代高度智慧的导师就已经察觉到人类小我心智功能失调，而如今这种失调因为科技的发达而更加恶化，首度威胁到了地球的生存，直到不久之前，人类意识的转化(早期的大师们也指出过)一直都只有个可能性而已，而且只有在不同地点的少数个人曾经实现过，这与文化或宗教背景都无关系。而在当时，广泛的人类意识的绽放尚??发生，因为那时还不是那么的急迫。 地球上大部分的人类将很快地认识到(如果他们尚未认识到的话)，人类现在面临着一个严酷的选择:进化或是灭亡，比例上来说相对较少，但是正在急速增加的一小群人，目前正经验到内在旧有小我心智模式的瓦解，以及新向度意识的浮现。
目前正在兴起的不是一个新的信念系统，一个新兴的宗教、灵性意识形态或是神话。我们其实是走到了神话、意识形态以及信念系统的尽头了，这个转化要比你的心智内容和思想的转变来得更深。事实上，新意识的核心就是超越思想——你会发展出一个能够超越思想的新能力，它同时能让你领悟到，你的内在有一个比思想更为广阔无边的向度。在此之前，你认为旧意识中不间断的思想续流(stream of thinking)就是你自己，现在你不需要从那个不间断的思想续流当中，去寻找你的身份认同，还有你的自我感了。能够领悟到“在我脑袋中的声音并不是我”这个事实，是多么伟大的解脱啊!那么我究竟是谁呢?你就是看到这个事实的觉知，那个在思想发生前就存在的觉知，也就是思想、情绪或感官觉受(sense perception)发生时所在的那个空间。 小我只不过是：与外在形相的认同，形相主要指的是思想形相(念相，thoughtform)。如果邪恶有任何真实性的话(这个真实性是相对的，不是绝对的)，那么它的定义也可以是:完全地与外在形相认同，就是与物质形相、思想形相、情绪形相认同。这样的认同会造成我们的无知:无视于我们与整体的联结，完全无法觉察到我们内在与其他万物以及源头的合一，这样的遗忘就是原罪，受苦和幻相。 当“我们与万物显然是分离的”这个幻相主导了我所想、所说和所做的所有事物的时候，我会创造出什么样的世界?想找到答案的话，你就是去观察人类是如何互动的:读一??历史书，或是看一下今晚的电视新闻，你就知道了。如果人类的心智结构还是不改变的话，我们会不断地重新创造出本质上如出一辙的世界，同样的邪恶，同样的功能失调。 THE URGENCY OF TRANSFORMATION When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form – or a species – will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. It is believed that the life-forms on this planet first evolved in the sea. When there were no animals yet to be found on land, the sea was already teeming with life. Then at some point, one of the sea creatures must have started to venture onto dry land. It would perhaps crawl a few inches at first, then exhausted by the enormous gravitational pull of the planet, it would return to the water, where gravity is almost nonexistent and where it could live with much greater ease. And then it tried again and again and again, and much later would adapt to life on land, grow feet instead of fins, develop lungs instead of gills. It seems unlikely that a species would venture into such an alien environment and undergo an evolutionary transformation unless it was compelled to do so by some crisis situation. There may have been a large sea area that got cut off from the main ocean where the water gradually receded over thousands of years, forcing fish to leave their habitat and evolve. Responding to a radical crisis that threatens our very survival – this is humanity’s challenge now. The dysfunction of the egoic human mind, recognized already more than 2,500 years ago by the ancient wisdom teachers and now magnified through science and technology, is for the first time threatening the survival of the planet. Until very recently, the transformation of human consciousness – also pointed to by the ancient teachers – was no more than a possibility, realized by a few rare individuals here and there, irrespective of cultural or religious background. A widespread flowering of human consciousness did not happen because it was not yet imperative. A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. A still relatively small but rapidly growing percentage of humanity is already experiencing within themselves the breakup of the old egoic mind patterns and the emergence of a new dimension of consciousness. What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion, spiritual ideology, or mythology. We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems. The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness is the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought – or the emotion or sense perception – happens. Ego is no more than this: identification with form, which primarily means thought forms. If evil has any reality – and it has a relative, not an absolute, reality – this is also its definition: complete identification with form – physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. This results in a total unawareness of my connectedness with the whole, my intrinsic oneness with every “other” as well as with the Source. This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? To find the answer to this, observe how humans relate to each other, read a history book, or watch the news on television tonight. If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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