不同種類的瞭解 The Different Kinds of Understanding
#175 1998/10/14 加拿大 蒙特婁靜心所
瞭解有三種：理性的瞭解(intellectual understanding)、經驗性的瞭解(experiential understanding)及存在性的領悟(existential understanding)。
理性的瞭解說「是的」，它同意。經驗性的瞭解有所感覺，是顯而易見的。存在性的領悟是無法辯證的，它變成你的本性。
假如沒有那種較基於感覺層面的、經驗性的瞭解，則所有你聽到的知識僅是一堆言語罷了。理性上你可以瞭解你是空空洞洞的，但那與你坐著並感覺空空洞洞是截然不同的事。
當人有了經驗後，就會想要瞭解更多，於是就變成了一個追尋者。假如你僅有理性上的瞭解，你會自以為全都知道了，大多數的神學家都是這種類型的人。
存在性的領悟本身包含了經驗性的瞭解及理性的瞭解，但它遠超過這兩者。
問：我們要如何才能有這種領悟呢？
古儒吉：沒有方法。當果子成熟時，它自然掉落。(瓜熟蒂落)
問：什麼是懷疑？
古儒吉：那是心智的一部分在挑戰心智的另一部分。
175 THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF UNDERSTANDING
Weekly Knowledge #175 Montreal Ashram 14 Oct 1998 Canada
There are three kinds of understanding: intellectual understanding, experiential understanding and existential realization.
Intellectual understanding says yes, agrees. Experiential understanding feels, is obvious. Existential realization is irrefutable. It becomes your very nature.
All you hear will simply remain a jumble of words if there is no experiential understanding, which is more on the feeling level. You can know intellectually you are hollow and empty but sitting and feeling you are hollow and empty is totally different.
When one gets an experience, one wants to understand more about it and becomes a seeker. If you have only intellectual understanding, you will think you know it all. Most theologians are in this category.
Existential realization contains within it both experiential and intellectual understanding. But it is beyond both of these.
Question: How do we get there?
Sri Sri : There is no way. When the fruit becomes ripe, it falls.
Question: What is doubt?
Sri Sri: It is one part of the mind challenging the other part of the mind.
Bonus Knowledge Flash:
Although "there is no way," Guruji nonetheless gave some interesting clues about "the way" in a spontaneous discourse this week on the eight limbs of yoga. Following a noon - time meditation, in which some practitioners must have been busy "doing" or otherwise impatient for the final " Jai Guru Dev "
Sri Sri said: "You have to rejoice in the means. You have to love the means. Love is the goal; the means must also be lovable. Love springs when there is no effort, when all activities are shunned." More on this in the next Knowledge sheet.
Sri Sri theoretically is on vacation this week at the Montreal Ashram. To the untrained eye, however, his so-called vacation appears no different from his usual hectic schedule. Streams of visitors flow through his kutir all day long, and invariably come out beaming. How this happens continues to be the greatest mystery.
Guruji is visiting Halifax and surprised the devotees of Halifax. Halifax is far from Montreal and many devotees were unable to come to the ashram to see him. Guruji continually confirms in so many ways that he is indeed the embodiment of love and compassion.
JAl GURU DEV
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