肯恩：课程是如何看待感觉的？

问：

    《课程》是怎么看待感觉的？除了“不应否认感觉”外，我们还需注意什么？需要聆听感觉在倾诉什么吗？

答：

    《课程》很少谈到“感觉”，它关注的是我们的“念头”。可是，要想看清自己的念头，不先与感觉连结是不行的。假如我们连自己的感觉都一无所觉，要找到与它们相连的念头就更难了。因此，奇迹学员需要先学习觉察自己的感觉。这个过程可能有些痛苦，因为我们必须重新经历那些被否认的痛苦感觉。开始的时候，即便我们允许这些感觉浮现出来，也会发现，它们往往刚一露头，就又被压下去了，因为这些感觉实在让人很不舒服。有些人可能只否认或压抑某些感觉，例如愤怒、哀伤、或忌妒。

 

    从小到大，社会教给我们很多应该有什么感觉，不该有什么感觉的规条。学习《课程》后，我们这些灵修人士又给自己绑上了更多的“应该”和“不应该”，难怪没有人了解自己的感觉了。

 

    一旦接触到自己的感觉，我们就可以开始下一步：发掘引发这些感觉的念头了。这一步不需要我们藉助推理拼命搜寻，因为过度理智只会适得其反。尽力寻找就好，更重要的是，别忘了向 J 兄或圣灵献上你的愿心，让你可以不批判地看清自己的念头。

 

    你会渐渐发现，你的感觉，哪怕是愤怒，通常都与某种失落感有关。只有觉察到自己的念头，你才有机会改变它，就算还不想改变，你至少已经找到了痛苦真正的根源。它不是你心外的任何东西，而是你心里紧抓不放的念头。

 

    就像 J 兄在《正文》中所说的：

 

    只要你能做到下面这一点，慧见、幸福、由痛苦解脱、彻底由罪咎脱身，这一切对你有如探囊取物。你只需如此说，但务必诚心诚意，而且毫不保留，因救恩的大能就在这几句话中：

    我应对我所看见的一切负责。

 

    我所经验到的（念头）和感受全是我的选择，我想完成之事也都出于我的决定。

 

    我所经历到的一切，都是我自己招惹来的，我所得到的一切也都是我自己祈求来的。

 

    不论面对什么遭遇，都不要再骗你自己是如何的无助。你只要承认自己犯了错误，就无需承受任何遗害之苦了。 (T.21.II.2:1,2,3,4,5,6,7)

 

 

翻译：王敬伟

润饰：张红云

Q #46: What does the course say about feelings??? I know it says we shouldn't deny our feelings. Could you say more on this. Are we to listen to what our feelings are telling us?

A: Feelings is not used very often in the Course, since it’s focus is on thoughts. But in order to access our thoughts, it is very important that we be in touch with our feelings. If we are not aware of how we feel, then we are that much farther removed from our thoughts. So one of the first practical steps a student of the Course may take is that of becoming more and more aware of how they feel.This can often times be a painful process, since more often than not, our painful feelings are denied. Once we allow these feelings to arise within us, we are tempted to shove them back down again because they are unpleasant. For some of us, we may only deny particular feelings, such as anger, grief, or jealousy, etc. Society teaches us what we "should" and "should not" feel, and then the Course comes along, and as spiritual seekers, we impose additional "shoulds" and "should nots." It is no wonder no one knows how they feel!

Once we are in touch we how we feel, we can then begin the process of discovering what thought caused the feeling. We do not have to don our Sherlock Holmes hats and search and search for these thoughts, as over-intellectualizing the process simply becomes another obstacle. Search your mind as best you can, but more importantly, give Jesus or the Holy Spirit your willingness to know what the thought is. And in most instances, even those having to do with anger, you will find that your thoughts have to do with loss of some kind. Once you are aware of the thought you then have the choice to change the thought, or not. But at least you have found the true source of your pain. It is not anything outside of you, but rather the thoughts you hold within.

As Jesus tells us in the text:

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I am responsible for what I see.

I choose the [thoughts and] feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.

And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear (T.21.II.2:1,2,3,4,5,6,7).