感受痛楚 Feel The Pinch
241 2000/02/17 印度 班格羅靜心所
有個虔信者請求古儒吉：假如我犯了錯，請你原諒我吧！
古儒吉：為什麼你該被原諒呢？你請求原諒是因為你感覺痛楚，而希望擺脫它，對吧？讓那痛楚留著，痛楚會讓錯誤不再發生。原諒會拿掉痛楚，讓錯誤一再發生！
問：我們怎麼知道錯誤是個錯誤呢？
古儒吉：錯誤是某些給你痛楚的東西，假如它未令你痛楚，而那痛楚會讓錯誤不再重覆。與那痛楚共處，而非與罪惡感共處。這是種極為精微的平衡。
問：罪惡感與痛楚之間的差異何在？
古儒吉：罪惡感與特定的行動有關，而痛楚與特定的結果或發生的事情有關。你只會對你的作為，而非對所發生的，產生罪惡感。然而無論發生什麼，無論是因為你或是因為別人，所發生的都會造成你內在的痛楚。
問：我們要如何克服罪惡憾呢？
湯姆：只要怪罪老闆就好了（笑聲）。
古儒吉：你透過智慧，藉著對於心智本性、意識本性的瞭解以及藉著對於現象界更寬廣的視野來克服罪惡感。
問：我們是否可以免除痛楚而從錯誤中學習呢？
古儒吉：學習是在理智的層面，而感受痛楚則是在情憾的層面。情憾的驅策力遠強過理智，因此痛楚會讓錯誤不再發生。
巴拉特：我們感覺罪惡的是在我們所能掌控的地方，是在理智的層面。但痛楚是在情憾的層面，那是我們所無法掌控的地方。
問：因此我們是否應該拋棄理智呢？
古儒吉：你無法僅是受著自己情感的驅策，你的理智即是你情感的煞車器。
去感受痛楚。痛楚會創造一種覺知，亦即所發生的事是超乎你能力所能掌控的。這種覺知會引導你去臣服，臣服將使你擺脫罪惡感。
所以進化的過程是，從痛楚到覺知，再到臣服，最後達至解脫。
241 FEEL THE PINCH
Weekly Knowledge #241 Bangalore Ashram 17 Feb 2000 India
A devotee asked Guruji: Please forgive me if I have committed a mistake.
Sri Sri: Why should you be forgiven? You are asking for forgiveness because you feel a pinch and you want to be free from it, isn't it? Let the pinch be there. The pinch will not let the mistake happen again. Forgiveness removes the pinch and you keep repeating the mistake!
Question: How do you know a mistake is a mistake?
Sri Sri: A mistake is something that gives you a pinch. If it hasn't pinched you, it is not a mistake at all.
It is the pinch that irks the consciousness and that pinch disallows the mistake to be repeated. Be with the pinch and not the guilt. It is a very fine balance.
Question: What is the difference between guilt and pinch?
Sri Sri: Guilt is about a specific action and pinch is about a specific result or happening. You can only feel guilty about what you did and not about what happened. But whatever happened, whether because of you or someone else can cause a pinch in you.
Question: How do we get over the guilt?
Tom Gill: Just blame the boss!!! ( laughter)
Sri Sri: Through wisdom, by knowing the nature of mind, nature of consciousness and from a broader perspective of the phenomenon, you can get over the guilt.
Question: Cant we learn from our mistakes without feeling the pinch?
Sri Sri: Learning is at an intellectual level whereas you feel the pinch at an emotional level. The drive of your emotions is much stronger than your intellect. So a pinch will not let the mistake recur.
Bharat: We feel guilt where we have control, it is at the intellectual level, whereas a pinch is at the emotional level where we do not have control.
Question: So, should we discard the intellect?
Sri Sri: You cannot be driven by your emotions alone. Your intellect acts like a brake for your emotions!
Feel the pinch.
The pinch will create an awareness that what happened was beyond your capacity.
The awareness will bring you to surrender.
Surrender will free you from guilt.
So, from pinch to awareness to surrender to freedom are the steps of evolution.
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Chinese New Year - the Year of The Dragon - was celebrated in the Ashram. The international advanced course began in jet lag and ended in bliss, and so it drags on!!!!
Jai Guru Dev
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