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“不抗拒”是掌握宇宙间最强大力量的关键。经由不抗拒，意识(灵性)就从形式的桎梏中获得解放。内在对外在形式的不抗拒——对本然或眼前发生之事没有任何的内在抗拒，就等于是否定了外在形式的绝对实相。抗拒使得这个世界和属于它的事物变得更加真实，更加坚固，也更为持久，这些事物包括你自己的形相认同——你的小我。抗拒赋予这个世界和小我一定的分量和绝对的重要性，使你将自己和这个世界看得太过认真。“形相”的游戏因而被误认为是一种生存的挣扎，而当你如此认为的时候，这个挣扎就变成了你的实相。 所有发生的事情，所有生命展现的形式，都是如朝露般地短暂。它们都是稍纵即逝的。事物、身体、小我、事件、状况、思想、情绪、欲望、野心、恐惧、戏剧性事件......它们翩然来临，而且伪装成极为重要的样子，在你还没回过神来之前，它们早已消逝无踪，消融在它们源起的“空无”(no-thingness)之中。它们曾经是真实的吗？它们比一场梦(形相的梦)更真实吗？ 当我们早上醒来的时候，昨晚的梦早已消逝，而我们会说，“哦！只不过是一场梦罢了！不是真的。”但是，梦里的一些事物应该是真实的，否则不会如此活灵活现。当死亡迫近时，我们回首一生，也会纳闷这一切是否只是一场梦。即使是现在，当你回顾去年的假期或昨天发生的戏剧性事件，也同样会发现，它们和昨晚的梦没什么两样。 有梦，即有梦者。梦就是一个短暂的形相游戏。它自成一个世界，相对来说是真实的，但不是绝对地真实。而梦者，就是形相在其中来来去去的绝对实相。梦者并不是梦中人。梦中人是梦境的一部分;梦者是梦境发生之处，也是梦境得以发生的基础，它是相对后面的绝对，时间后面的永恒，在形相之内以及之后的意识。梦者就是意识本身，也是你的本来面目。 我们现在的目的就是要从梦中苏醒。当我们从梦中苏醒时，小我创造的人间戏码就此终结，而一个更祥和、更美好的梦会升起。这就是新世界。 THE DREAMER AND THE DREAM Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Through it, consciousness (spirit) is freed form its imprisonment in form. Inner nonresistance to form – whatever is or happens – is a denial of the absolute reality of form. Resistance makes the world and the things of the world appear more real, more solid, and more lasting than they are, including your own form identity, the ego. It endows the world and the ego with a heaviness and an absolute importance that makes you take yourself and the world very seriously. The play of form is then misperceived as a struggle for survival, and when that is your perception, it becomes your reality. The many things that happen, the many forms that life takes on, are of an ephemeral nature. They are all fleeting. Things, bodies and egos, events, situations, thoughts, emotions, desires, ambitions, fears, drama... they come, pretend to be all-important, and before you know it they are gone, dissolved into the no-thingness out of which they came. Where they ever real? Were they ever more than a dream, the dream of form? When we wake up in the morning, the night's dream dissolves, and we say, “Oh, it was only a dream. It wasn't real.” But something in the dream must have been real otherwise it could not be. When death approaches, we may look back on our life and wonder if it was just another dream. Even now you may look back on last year's vacation or yesterday's drama and see that it is very similar to last night's dream. There is the dream, and there is the dreamer of the dream. The dream is a short-lived play of forms. It is the world – relatively real but not absolutely real. Then there is the dreamer, the absolute reality in which the forms come and go. The dreamer is not the person. The person is part of the dream. The dreamer is the substratum in which the dream appears, that which makes the dream possible. It is the absolute behind the relative, the timeless behind time, the consciousness in and behind form. The dreamer is consciousness itself – who you are. To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth. |
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