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回來的原因 The Cause of Return

#176 1998/10/21加拿大 蒙特婁靜心所

我們大多數的人來到這世間，內在都帶著一顆種子——「事情那樣子是不好的」。而終其一生我們就企圖糾正事情、人以及情況。你能夠糾正多少呢？那好像是企圖要重新安排天上的雲朵一般。這顆種子使得你無法快樂，無法打從內心發出微笑，無法愛人以及討人喜愛。它永遠就像是根刺般的存在那兒，令人氣腦，令人氣腦。

這顆種子，「事情那樣子是不好的」，一次又一次將你帶回到這個世間，你如何才能燃燒掉這種子呢？

1. 首先認清種子的存在。這個可能在深度的內省與靜心中出現。


2. 有時你感覺到你的身體、心智、理智、記憶以及自我也不是很好。你會為它們找尋理由，或者對它們吹毛求疵。它們也是世間的一部份。承認你所見到的是不完美的，同時把它們獻給神。


3. 對至高無上智慧的無限組織能力要有信心，並懷有一種虔誠的感覺，「讓神達成衪的旨意」。這時「事情那樣子是不好的」種子就會被燒毀。「神達成衪的旨意」是一種完全滿足的狀態，一種純粹是愛的狀態。我們甚至不要把這當成是一種對未來的說法。「現在所發生的無一不是神的旨意。」

問：因此一切發生的事情都是神的旨意囉？

古儒吉：是的，包括「這事不應該發生」這種念頭。

上週額外知識剪影(續)

你必須對法門樂在其中，你必須喜愛法門。愛是目標，法門也必須是令人喜愛的。當不費力時，當所有的活動都靜息時，愛就泉湧而出。只要尚有業力——要行動的印象——存在，你就必須行動。當這種要行動的傾向止息時，完全的不費力就發生。在不費力中，無條件的愛就出現。而每個生命都渴望著那種愛。

新聞剪影

本週某個傍晚，古儒吉在天黑之後穿越森林作了一次很漫長的散步。對於一群跟隨他的虔信者而言，此種經驗似乎是靈修之道的一種暗喻：盲目地跟隨古儒吉，穿越漆黑，沿著險峻狹窄的羊腸小道走著，完全不知路在哪裡，但卻充滿著歡笑。

光節（Diwali）在此地以精緻的方式慶祝著：湖上煙火、燭光遊行，各式火光照亮了每個人的心靈。樹木現在幾乎都光禿禿的，但是深秋蕭瑟的景象還不如古儒吉週末離去的光景那般令人喪氣。

176 THE CAUSE OF RETURN

Weekly Knowledge #176 Quebec Ashram 21 Oct 1998 Canada

Most of us come into this world with the seed in us, "It's not OK". And all our life we try to correct events, people and situations. How much can you correct? It's like trying to rearrange the clouds in the sky. This seed does not allow you to be happy, to smile from your heart, to be loving and loveable. It's there all the time like a thorn - irritating, irritating.

This seed, "It's not OK," brings you back into this world again and again. How do you burn this seed?

1. First recognize that it is there. This can happen in deep introspection and meditation.


2. Sometimes you feel your body, mind, intellect, memory and ego are also not OK. You justify them or find fault with them. These are also part of the world. Acknowledge what you see as an imperfection and offer it to the Divine.


3. Have faith in the infinite organizing power of the Supreme Intelligence and have the sincere feeling, "Let thy will be done." Then the seed, "It's not OK," gets burned. "Thy will be done" is a state of total contentment, a state of just love.

We need not even make it a statement about the future. "Thy will alone is happening now."

Question: So everything happening is God's will?

Guruji: Yes, including the thought, "This shouldn't be happening."

NEWS FLASH !

One evening this week, Guruji took a very long walk through the forest after dark. For the flock of devotees following Him, the experience seemed to be a metaphor for the spiritual path following the Guru blindly along a steep and narrow trail, through the pitch black darkness, without any idea of how to find our way, yet laughing merrily anyway.

Diwali (The Festival of Lights) was celebrated in fine style with fireworks over the lake, a candlelight procession and the Light of Lights illuminating our hearts. The trees are now nearly bare, but the colorless landscape of late fall is not nearly as bleak as the prospect of Guruji's departure this weekend.

We are happy to report that Art of Living courses have now started happening in El Salvador and Zimbabwe.

Last week's Bonus Knowledge Flash continued: "You have to rejoice in the means. You have to love the means. Love is the goal; the means must also be loveable. Love springs when there is no effort, when all activities are shunned. As long as there is karma - the impression to act, you have to act. When this tendency to act eases up, total effortlessness happens. In effortlessness, unconditional love dawns. And every life is aching for that love."

JAl GURU DEV