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事实的存在是毋庸置疑的。如果你说：“光速比音速快。”而另一个人抱持相反的说法，那么，显然你是对的，而他是错的。只要观察闪电比雷声先到的现象，就可以确认这个事实。所以不但你是对的，而且你确信你是对的。有没有任何小我掺杂其中呢？也许有，但却不必然。 如果你只是简单地陈述你以为是真的事实，小我并不会包含在其中，因为在此并没有认同的问题。认同于什么呢？认同于心智和一个心理的立场。然而，这种认同很容易就会渗透进来。如果你说：“相信我啦，我确定。”或是：“为什么你从来不相信我？”那么小我就已经渗透进来了。它藏身在“我”这个不起眼的字的后面。一个简单的陈述：“光速比音速快。”即使是千真万确的，现在却已经用来服侍那个幻相（小我）了。这个事实已经被那个“我”的虚假感所污染，变成是针对个人的，也成为一种心理的立场。由于有人不相信“我”说的话，那个“我”就感觉被贬低或是被冒犯了。 小我觉得每件事情都是冲着它来的。情绪因此而起，防卫性的心理，甚至攻击性都会出现。你是在防卫真理吗？不是的，在任何情况下，真理都是不需要防卫的。光，或是声音，根本就不在意你或者其他人心里是怎么想的。你只是在防卫你自己，或者说，你是在防卫那个自我的幻相，一个心智制造的替代品。也许这么说更正确：这个幻相在防卫它自己。如果如此简单而直截了当的事实范畴，都会导致小我的扭曲和幻觉，那么，更抽象范畴内的意见、观点和评断的那些念相，就更容易和自我感混淆了。 小我常常把意见、观点与事实搞混。尤有甚者，它甚至分不清楚某件事情本身和它对事情的反应这两者之间的差异。每个小我都是“选择性认知”和“歪曲理解”的大师。唯有经由觉知，而非思考，才能分辨事实和意见的不同。只有经由觉知你才能认清：在那一头是境况的本身，而在这一头是我对它产生的愤怒情绪，然后你才会明白，还有其他的方式可以处理、看待和交涉这件事情。只有经由觉知，你才能看见某件事情或某个人的全貌，而不会采取一个受限的认知角度。 IN DEFENCE OF AN ILLUSION Facts undoubtedly exist. If you say: “Light travels faster than sound,” and someone else says the opposite is the case, you are obviously right, and he is wrong. The simple observation that lightning precedes thunder could confirm this. So not only are you right, but you know you are right. Is there any ego involved in this? Possibly, but not necessarily. If you are simply stating what you know to be true, the ego is not involved at all, because there is no identification. Identification with what? With mind and a mental position. Such identification, however, can easily creep in. If you find yourself saying, “Believe me, I know” or “Why do you never believe me?” then the ego has already crept in. It is hiding in the little word “me.” A simple statement: “Light is faster than sound,” although true, is now in service of illusion, of ego. It has become contaminated with a false sense of “I”; it has become personalized, turned into a mental position. The “I” feels diminished or offended because somebody doesn't believe what “I” said. Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense. The light or sound does not care about what you or anybody else thinks. You are defending yourself, or rather the illusion of yourself, the mind-made substitute. It would be even more accurate to say that the illusion is defending itself. If even the simple and straightforward realm of facts can lend itself to egoic distortion and illusion, how much more so the less tangible realm of opinions, viewpoints, and judgments, all of them thought forms that can easily become infused with a sense of “I.” Every ego confuses opinions and viewpoints with facts. Furthermore, it cannot tell the differences between an event and its reaction to that event. Every ego is a master of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through awareness – not through thinking – can you differentiate between fact and opinion. Only through awareness are you able to see: There is the situation and here is the anger I feel about it, and then realize there are other ways of approaching the situation, other ways of seeing it and dealing with it. Only through awareness can you see th totality of the situation or person instead of adopting one limited perspective. |
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