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深沈的休息 A Deep Rest

#202 1999/5/6 美國麻州 波士頓

當你必須做你辦不到的事情時，你無法休息；當你覺得必須去扮演一個不是你的人的時候，你無法休息。你不需要去做你辦不到的事。你不會被要求去給出你無法給出的東西。你辦不到的事，別人是不會期望你的。服務僅渉及去做你能勝任的，而且沒有人要你去成為一個不是你的人。

這種體悟能帶給你深沈的休息。假如你野心勃勃或是懶懶散散的，你無法休息。這兩者與美好的休息是背道而馳的。懶惰的人會在夜裡翻來覆去，無法休息，而野心勃勃的人則是慾火中燒。

深沈的休息帶出你的天分及能力，而且使你更接近自己的本然。即使只是種淡淡的與神同在的感覺，就足以帶出深沈的休息。而祈禱、愛和靜心則是深沈休息的各種滋味。

202 A DEEP REST

Weekly Knowledge #202 Boston, Massachusetts 06 May 1999 United States

You cannot rest when you have to do something which you cannot. And you cannot rest when you feel you have to be someone whom you are not. You are not required to do what you cannot. You will not be asked to give what you cannot give. Nothing is expected of you that you cannot do. Doing service involves only doing what you can do. And no one wants you to be someone whom you are not.

This realization brings you deep rest. You cannot rest if you have either ambition or lethargy. Both are opposed to good rest. A lazy person will toss and turn at night and be "rest-less" and an ambitious person will burn inside.

This rest brings up your talents and abilities and brings you closer to your nature. Even a slight feeling that the Divine is with you brings deep rest.

And prayer, love and meditation are all flavors of deep rest.

NEWS FLASH: Sri Sri's American tour picked up speed as it move first to San Jose with a day long advanced course and an evening program for the Indian community, and then to a weekend advanced course in Wisconsin where many tears of joy were shed. Then the travelling satsang moved on in rapid fashion to Kansas City, New Jersey and New York. The next day took on the feeling of an adventure as Sri Sri cruised north through New England, with a picnic lunch in New Haven, several wrong turns and a happy arrival in Boston in late afternoon. Tomorrow Sri Sri speaks at Harvard University on the topic of children, violence and our Art Excel program.

JAl GURU DEV