承擔責任的兩個要點

*** 承擔責任的兩個要點  ***

假如你們練習者都承擔起責任，來推廣霎哈嘉，那麼我確信我們可以看到整個地球(人類)的完全解放。

當你們開始感到責任感時，(開始推動霎哈嘉時)，你們應該要知道如下的兩點：

一. 並非你在主導、在做這件事情！還有許多力量、天使、仙眾來幫你，你一點都不孤單。假如你以為你是在做什麼偉大的工作，那麼這個想法可能會使你的自我變大，所以你做的時候最好說：''我沒有做任何事，是上天的力量在成就這些事''。並非上天的力量想從你身上來分一些功勞，而是你若如此說，自我的氣球就不會脹大，你也會變得謙虛，這份謙虛確定會改善你內在的靈性之樹，也會讓你更向上進化。所以當你得到靈性的認可與授權來做事時，最重要的是你應該說：我沒有做什麼事！

二. 你的行事態度應該是：並非一定要照著你的計畫及決定來做、來進行 。你的決定可能是好的，但是假如它無法實現，那也不必去擔心或不快，不用太過去煩憂這些。

我記得有一次我要去美國，出發前有不少練習者看著時鐘，就開始擔心我會來不及。我只是笑笑說：我只是要去美國 ，你們在擔心什麼呢？我出門前 正巧有一個練習者的小孩摔倒了，而且跌斷她的手，他抱著小孩子過來，我說：''讓我先來治療這個小孩，我目前暫時不出發了''。那些擔心的練習者更是憂慮加倍了，好像天要塌下來似的。當那小孩子狀況都好轉時，我告訴他們：''走！我現在去機場！''，他們說：''母親，那班飛機恐怕已離開了！''。當我到機場時，那原本要載我的飛機因為有些狀況並未起飛，反而有另一個航班要直飛華盛頓，原本的航班是要去紐約轉機，然後才飛到我要去的華盛頓，最終的結果是我舒服地直飛華盛頓！

所以你們要知道 並非你在控制所有的事，這一切原本就美好地為你安排得十分妥當。你決定、計畫要如何做，這是可以的，假如你的計劃是可行的，假如本來是應該如此做，那麼事情就會如此成就。假如事情並未如此來進行，那正表示它本來就不應該如此來完成。一個得到自覺的靈並不在乎這是否是他希望的、他喜歡的結果，他接受任何的結果，這就是自覺的靈和一般人之間的不同。

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在頂輪普祭(Sahastrara Puja)的談話1996-05-05。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

It’s complete emancipation of this earth, of this globe I’m sure will take place, if you people all take up the responsibility.

The responsibility has certain problems, which we should know. When you feel responsible, you must know that you are not in charge, one thing.

Secondly, you also must know, that there are so many other forces, so many angels and ganas are with you, you are not alone.

So to think that you are doing anything will make you, maybe, egoistical. At that time, what you have to do, is best is to say, “All right, I’m not doing anything, is the Divine that is working it out.”

Not that the Divine wants any credit from you, but by saying that, this balloon of ego will not come up. And you’ll become humble and this humility will definitely improve this great tree of spirituality within you.

Definitely it will make you a very evolved personality, no doubt about it.

But first of all, we have to say, “I’m not doing anything”. It’s very important to understand, when you have spiritual authority to do things.    ............

So the second thing should be that you should not determine what you are going to do. “What I have to do – if I have decided, I must do like that.” Whatever you have decided is all right, but if it does not materialize, there’s nothing to worry, there’s nothing to be upset, there’s nothing to be overly nervous about it.

I’ll give you an example. One day I was going to America, and of course, you know as it is, as all the Sahaja Yogis are, they get quite worried, “Now, Mother has to go to America!” I mean, you see, everybody’s upset, they are looking at the time, “Now time is this, time is that.”

I was just smiling. I said, “I have to go to America, why are you worried?”.

And suddenly one of the Sahaja Yogi’s child fell down and broke her hand and she couldn’t move her fingers. So, I was just coming out, and as soon as he brought the child, I said “All right, I’m not going just now to the airport.”

They were very upset, “How’s She’s not going to the airport?” As if all the heavens are going to fall down or what?

But I said, “Now, let Me see the child.” I treated the child; the child was all right. “All right, I said, let’s now go to the airport.”

And they were saying, “Mother, the plane must have left.” “It’s all right, doesn’t matter, let’s go to the airport.” [We] went to the airport and this plane that was going to take Me was just there because there was something wrong with the plane and there was another plane going to Washington, and I wanted actually to go to Washington, instead of New York.

So, I was in the plane nicely going to Washington.

But, one must know that you are not doing it, everything is arranged and planned and beautifully kept for you.

You decide something, all right, if your decision is all right, if you have to do that, it will work out. If it doesn’t work out, it should not have been worked out. Now this is the difference between a person who is a realized soul and who is not a realized soul.

A realized soul person is not bothered what he wants, what he likes, what he’s fond of – he’s not. Whatever he gets is all right.

金錢的價值

*** 金錢的價值  ***

對有些人而言，金錢是非常重要的， 現代這個社會毫無疑問是一個金錢導向的世界，但是我要說的是：去擁有那麼多的金錢，但變成一個傻瓜，這對你有什麼好處呢？看看那些有錢國家的老百姓，他們有很高的自殺率，顯然他們並不快樂，金錢是不能帶給人快樂。假如你成天想的都是錢錢錢，那麼你無法成為一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士。

金錢只是用來讓你表示你的愛而已！假如你有錢，最好是用來買東西送給其他人，買對他人有用的東西、買美麗的東西、買有藝術品味的東西來送人，如此可以來表示你的愛、你的感謝和你的堅信(Shraddha)。

但是有些人拼命累積錢，累積了無數的錢，但是却完全不了解錢的價值。對他而言，世界上除了錢之外，沒有任何值得一提的東西。這就像一個原本要去機場的旅客，途中看到的路邊有好玩的東西，下車去玩賞，但却忘記原本是要去機場搭飛機。這些累積了無數財富的人也是如此，他們浪費了精力在拼命賺錢上，將他們的注意力放錯了地方，最後他們也不快樂。因為我們都知道，人類的需求是無止境的，不可能從車子、房子，到更大、更更大的需求去獲得滿足感。而是純粹的愛(pure love)，你和他人之間感受的真愛，才可以帶給你滿足感，即是從你給予的愛及你從他人接受的愛，才可以獲得完全的滿足，因為這種愛是沒有參雜任何目的與任何想法的，而是單單去感受你和他人內在純粹的愛，這可以說是來自上天(Divine)最大、最美好的禮物。

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在生日普祭(Birthday Puja)的談話1996-03-21。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

For some people, money is very important. We must get money, somehow or other. If I don’t get money, what’s the use of being in Sahaja Yoga? Money is very important. We are living in a money-oriented world, no doubt. But I have told you that what’s the use of having money that makes you a fool, which takes you – now, see the countries which are very much money- oriented, who are supposed to be very rich, all the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland, whatever may they have, they might have done to get that money, doesn’t matter, but they are people with money. People are committing suicide, young people are committing suicide, there’s a competition going on, they’re very unhappy. Why? That means money cannot bring happiness. Money, money, money, money – if that goes into your head also, then you cannot be a Sahaja Yogi. But the money is there just for you to use it to express your love. Now, you go to the shop. Then you see something, “Aaaah! This is very nice to be given to such and such person.” You think like that. It’s a very sweet feeling you get there. Ah – you can give this to this one, eh? He needs it very much.
When your mind becomes the other way round, I mean, when it is thoughtlessly aware, then you will buy something that is joy giving, something artistic, something beautiful, something useful to that person. It will be a kind of a mind that will be extremely full of generosity, enjoying its generosity. And all the time it will guide you to the projection of your attention to things by which you can give happiness to others. Small, small things – not necessarily expensive things. If you have money better spend money in buying things that you can give to others, that you can – express your love, your gratitude, your Shraddha.
It is very remarkable how people give money to these sadhus and babas in thousands and thousands and crores of it. Because, I think in them it has come that to satisfy their Shraddha they must give it, and so they give. And they have amassed and amassed so much money, they have no sense of it. They don’t understand the value of that. To them it is nothing but money.
So, in the modern times I think the worst thing of ego is money. I have seen people who are very rich, supposed to be great business “wallahs” and something like that, they must meet Me separately, “We must come, Mother, and see You.” But they’re useless people, absolutely useless. So they’ll come and tell Me, “You know, I’m having a loss in this, I’m having a loss in that, can you help us in this way or that way?” I just don’t say anything to them, but they have said, “Mother we have recovered because of Your blessings.” Maybe. But it’s stupid. Like Lao-Tse described that you are going through the Yangtze river, it’s beautiful. On the sides you see beautiful scenes, but you better be on the boat and reach the ocean. In the same way, supposing we have to catch a plane, and we see something very nice on the road and get down there, how can we catch the plane?
So these side-effects of this mind are these, that we divert our attention to wrong things and waste our energy into it. Ultimately we are not happy, as you know that the – in general – wants are not satiable. It’s the love that you give and the love that you receive, which is not a love which is entangled into anything with any purpose, with any idea, but just to feel that love, pure love within yourself and within others. Is the greatest gift of the Divine.
All other things are useless, you’ll find it. You find it every day. Today you want to have a car, all right, have it. Then you want to have a house, have it, but you are not bothered about the car now you want to have a house. Now you get the house, then you are not satisfied. Then you want to have something else and something else. So then, which is that ‘want’ which is satisfying? It’s this pure love, genuine love that you feel for the others, and others feel for you.

你的想法與觀念都是虚構的 (下)

*** 你的想法與觀念都是虚構的 (下)  ***

 

人本來就帶著許多制約(conditionings)，譬如你生在印度，你就認同印度的種種，生在英國，你就認同英國的種種，這許多的認同皆是你的制約，因為這些制約，你會對某些事情做出特別的反應。若是你生在某一種宗教的家庭，這宗教背景更會帶給你許多制約。當今已無真正追求內在信仰的宗教，這些世俗的宗教都只剩下外表，所以才會排斥其他宗教，才會彼此有很多爭戰。因為信仰宗教的人已被制約，這些制約使他們為宗教而戰。生在回教家庭的小孩，從小就以為他是一個回教徒；生在基督教的家庭亦同，在他們的腦中已被灌輸這種種宗教的觀念，這些觀念在他們的腦內根深蒂固，他們已被這些制約綁住，而沒有任何的自由。

 

若說"制約"是人類的第一個敵人，那麼"自我"就是令人頭痛的第二個大敵。人類從許多方面都會形成自我，人的自我其實是來自輪穴的缺陷(deformity)，例如來說，現代社會是完全金錢導向，有些人覺得金錢十分重要，他們累積了無數的錢財，但錢卻無法滿足他們的需要與欲望，也無法帶給他們快樂。他們會給修行人大量的錢，藉此來表示他們的堅信，甚至有些有錢人認為我必須單獨和他們見面，這些都是他們的自我在作祟，我們可以說錢帶給人類最大的自我。

 

另外，我再來舉一個有關"自我"的制約（譯者：被自我宰制）的例子，這在印度尤其明顯。許多丈夫認為必須主宰他們的妻子，如此才像一個男人，這種想法完全是被他們的自我所控制。請問這種主宰在夫妻關係中可以獲得喜悅快樂嗎？ (我們都知道)只有關心與愛才可以獲致一個喜樂的夫妻關係。這種宰制的錯誤想法也帶來另外一種反彈及反作用力，即現在社會有許多女人變得極端有掌控欲，這只是另一種來自自我的錯誤想法而已。

 

不論是來自"制約"或是來自"自我"，人類的種種想法與觀念其實只是一堆垃圾而已，它對人類並沒有什麼好處，但它卻無時不刻控制操縱人類的行為。人應該是掌控自己的想法，而非被想法所掌控才對。如何才能取回掌控權呢？如何才能控制我們的想法及觀念呢？有些人嘗試來控制心智頭腦及其產生的種種想法，但是說穿了，他們也只經由頭腦心智來控制頭腦心智，或許應該說經由制約及自我來控制原來的制約及自我而已，這是不會成功的。人類必須超越其頭腦及心智才可能成功。而喚醒昆達里尼正是超越種種想法及觀念的最有效途徑，因為當她穿越寬恕輪時，你就進入無思慮的狀態，你超越了種種來自制約及自我的想法及觀念，當她穿越頭蓋骨時，她帶你進入實相的領域。即你的大腦，或該說你的心，和外面無所不在的力量產生連結，這即是所謂的瑜伽。此時你的注意力已超越你種種的想法與觀念，若你將此注意力放在任何人、事或困難之上，立即將會有光照在這對象上，你將看到事情如何被成就、被解決，你的注意力是有能力做到一般人無法做到的事，因為此時你的注意力已被淨化，且和外在的神聖力量連結，所以它會展現出無以倫比的力量。

 

註二：請參考相關的譯文：''用無思慮靜觀來超越你的想法''（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/mind-myth-ego-superego-reality-limited.html ）及 "達到無思慮狀態的練習方法" ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2018/05/mind-mind-mind-mind-shri-mataji-mind.html )

 

註三：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在生日普祭(Birthday Puja)的談話1996-03-21。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

First of all, if you are born an Indian then you are identified with India. If you are born in England, you are identified with England.   .......

To react is a sign of a person who is very conditioned. You can be conditioned by many other things, like – you are born in a particular religion, now. As you know – what has religion to do nowadays with human beings? There’s no real religion anywhere – it has become like a money-orientation, or you can say, power orientation.
That’s why they are all fighting among themselves, and you know for definite that no religion is exclusive. But they fight. The reason is, the mind is conditioned that, ‘you must fight for your religion’.
Now, they have no religion within; there’s no religion that is working out in their lives. They might be the most corrupt, most immoral people, but they belong to a particular religion, like a club. And then they start, you see, identifying themselves as something, and they have a right to do these things, because they belong to a particular religion or to cult, and this and that.   .......

Because this mind, which is just a bubble, as I told you, and is so limited, that it cannot comprehend the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality. This mind is just a collection of all the garbage, we should say, which we have to, somehow or other, deny and tell ourselves that, “I have to go beyond my mind. So-called mind of mine has done no good for me. And this mind of mine, which has been all the time controlling me, is just like the watch we have made and it is controlling us, or like the computer that controls us.”  ............

Many people try to control the mind. There’s a way of doing it that, “I’ll control my mind now.” Now, try to understand, how will you control the mind? Only through mind. Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling your mind, because it is the mind which you have created, and that is just existing there, which you cannot control, though you might think, ‘I can control.’
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening. Because She passes through your limbic area, pierces through your – fontanel bone area and just takes you away, out into the realm of reality – and the Yoga takes place between your brain, I should say, your heart, with this All-pervading Power.  ......

Now, once your attention goes beyond the mind – only the Sahaj Yogis will understand this point very clearly – when this mind goes beyond the thoughts then the manipulation of the attention is very important. Then whatever you manipulate, means you take this attention to this or to that or to that, you’ll be surprised how dynamic you become, how effective you become, and how knowledgeable you become.
Because, once you can take this attention to anything you want, immediately there is light on that issue, on that person, on that problem, and you see how it works out, how it helps. In Sahaja Yoga you have said, “Mother, there have been lots of miracles with Your Attention”, or something like that. I agree, but your attention also is quite capable of doing things which normal people can’t do, because now your attention is purified, firstly, and secondly it is manipulated with the Divine Power, and is manifesting its powers.   ......

Their mind is such that is so much made from childhood you are told, “You are a Muslim, you are a Muslim, you are a Christian, you are a Christian”, so they believe it.
Supposing you are born in some other religion then what would have happened? You would have believed something different, but this mind has been injected with the ideas which has gone into your head and that’s how you are so much without any freedom. You are tied down with these conditionings.   .......

Now, take the second enemy of ours – is Mr. Ego, which is another headache, and which works very fast in many countries where already ego has been bloated.   ........

Now, this ego comes to us from different, different angles, and it (Shri Mataji laughing) – actually, you’ll be surprised – from the deformity of our chakras.
For some people, money is very important. We must get money, somehow or other. If I don’t get money, what’s the use of being in Sahaja Yoga? Money is very important. We are living in a money-oriented world, no doubt. But I have told you that what’s the use of having money that makes you a fool, which takes you – now, see the countries which are very much money- oriented, who are supposed to be very rich, all the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland, whatever may they have, they might have done to get that money, doesn’t matter, but they are people with money. People are committing suicide, young people are committing suicide, there’s a competition going on, they’re very unhappy. Why? That means money cannot bring happiness.   ........

It is very remarkable how people give money to these sadhus and babas in thousands and thousands and crores of it. Because, I think in them it has come that to satisfy their Shraddha they must give it, and so they give. And they have amassed and amassed so much money, they have no sense of it. They don’t understand the value of that. To them it is nothing but money.
So, in the modern times I think the worst thing of ego is money. I have seen people who are very rich, supposed to be great business “wallahs” and something like that, they must meet Me separately, “We must come, Mother, and see You.”    .............

We have others, lots of conditionings of ego. In our country specially, this Indian country, India – so-called. You see, to dominate the wife is one of the greatest ego. I have seen people, how they tortured women, their wives and the children of others, just because they think, “I am a man.”
What do you get? You don’t get any joy, you can never be joyous. If you try to dominate another person you can never be joyous. Never be joyous. It’s only through loving and affection and care that you can feel the joy, because joy has these symptoms, joy is not domination, or demanding, or asking. These are not the signs of a person who is joyous. The joyous person is that who just enjoys the caring, the loving, the gentle relationship.    ...............

So now the women here have become extremely dominating also, naturally action has a reaction. This reaction itself is a wrong idea, and this reaction should be just dissolved into the feeling of pure love, the Ocean of Compassion.    ........

你的想法與觀念都是虚構的(上)

*** 你的想法與觀念都是虚構的(上)  ***

 

前言：這是一個重要的談話，Shri Mataji 多次談及此，但以1996-03-21講得最詳盡。本談話較長，譯者嘗試譯其大要，做為大家看全文或影帶的參考。文長，分成上下。

 

譯文：

一般人並不了解人的心智及其產生的觀念、想法 ( mind, 請務必看註一 )，而只是活在這些觀念及想法當中。對霎哈嘉的練習者而言，應該是很容易了解到：人類就是容易反應的動物，習慣性地對外界的種種作出反應。因為人類的腦袋裡有兩個氣球，就是''自我''(ego)及''非我''(superego, 或譯"超我"，指的是人的制約，即人被訓練而養成的習慣)。這兩個氣球會使人有反應的傾向，即人類的自我及非我無時不刻在對外界做出反應，這個反應的機制是內建在人類的裡面。人類的思維、想法等即是這個反應機制下的產物，它們隨時轟炸你的頭腦，你也不知道它們從何而來。也正因為這個反應的動作及這些思維想法，使人類無法看到外在事物的實相(reality)。當人類倚靠其心智產生的種種觀念及想法時，他就沒有了解好壞對錯的明辨力，這些人們創造的觀念及想法往往是各種罪惡的根源，帶來爭端、衝突、佔有，最後甚至造成戰爭。

 

這些觀念與想法只是人的心智虚構出來的東西，它們並沒有和實相有任何的連結，（即它們並不是真理），但是人們卻依憑這些想法來行事，說：''我的心裏就是這樣想，這就是我想要、想做的''。這些並非真理、完全來自虛構的的想法觀念就帶人走到各種錯誤的途徑。

 

人們往往以為人的心智頭腦可以創造出各種發明，這是完全錯誤的概念，不論是愛因斯坦的相對論，或是牛頓的萬有引力，或是盤尼西林的發明，並不是因為人們心智頭腦的探索研究而發現的，而是經由一些未知的力量進入他們的腦袋，其實他們當中的大部分人知道這個事實。愛因斯坦是在花園玩肥皂泡沫時，突然間不知從何而來，相對論的概念降臨他腦袋。牛頓也曾經說過：'' 這個（萬有引力的）概念是從我所未知的來源而來的''。我們霎哈嘉練習者都知道這個來源就是''神聖力量''(Divine Power)，即無所不在的力量(Paramchaitanya)。你們是知道這個力量，因為你們可以感覺到它，你們知道它在那裏，所以你們應該要知道：你們必須超越你們的心智的種種想法(beyond your mind)，來達到無思慮的覺知狀態(thoughtless awareness)。

 

在這種狀態之下，你就不會對外界反應，你變成一個靜觀者(witness)，是外在這齣戲的靜觀者，此時你完全處在放鬆和諧的狀態，你只是看著外物，你變成一個旁觀者，外在的一切並不會激起你任何反應。在此狀態下，你可以看到的整個事件的實相，而非被你的心智想法所扭曲的幻相。這就是為什麼我一直告訴你們要靜坐！要靜坐！因為只有靜坐可以帶你到無思慮的覺知狀態。

 

註一：mind這個字並不容易找到合適的中譯。譯者以為Shri  Mataji所講的mind最接近"想法、觀念"，有時候也代表 "頭腦心智" (即產生"想法、觀念"的主體)。譯者嘗試列出一些Shri  Mataji曾提過的 "人類的想法" (即人的腦袋心智虛構出來的錯誤想法)，以恊助讀者明瞭mind。例如：科學能証明的才是真的；神是不存在的；曰耳曼民族是最優秀的種族；人應該不要受任何拘束來做任何他想做的事；真正的自由就是做任何我喜歡的事；收費超高的導師才可能教上乘的法門；女人也可以做男人做的任何事，這才叫男女平等；人要拚命賺錢；流行就是對的；人類社會就要追求經濟成長。

Today, I’m going to talk about the mind. People don’t know what is this mind is. It is very easy to understand for Sahaja Yogis that we are the ones who react, react to everything that is outside. The reason is we have two horrible tendencies, one which is an ego, and another tendency is that we are being trained that way, or we can call it the superego or the conditionings.
So, both the things, our ego and conditionings, are all the time acting outside. This reaction, which is built-in within us, is just like bubbles in the ocean. And these bubbles keep us away from reality. These bubbles are of thoughts, and they just blast you all the time in your head, and you don’t know why they are coming.
When you depend on this artificial mind of yours then you have no discretion as to understand what is good and what is bad. This mind is the one where all kinds of evil things start, all kinds of quarrels, fights and – possessiveness, lastly the war also comes there.
It is in this mind only, which is nothing but a myth, all these concrete, destructive ideas, somehow or other come up, and then they start growing and growing. Then you find people whom you can impress also, put ideas into their heads – by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective. So this mind is just a myth and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying, “Oh, that’s my mind, my mind wants it.”
You see, like one Indian Sahaja Yogi went to America, and he told Me that, “Americans are maneuverer.” Maneuverer means they are mad after their mind. I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “I gave money to my wife to buy one bush shirt for me. She went and bought some skirts. And she has many skirts, but she bought some skirts. So I asked her, ‘Why did you buy the skirts?’ (Shri Mataji laughing) So she said, ‘My mind said that, “you should buy the skirts”, so I bought skirts’.”
So, this is what it is, that the mind can take you to all kinds of wrong things because it has no connection with reality, firstly, and secondly it is a mythical thing, absolutely mythical.
You see, people think that whatever they have created, it is out of their mind. Is a wrong idea, absolutely wrong idea. All great scientists, say – Einstein has said that, “I was tired trying to find out the Theory of Relativity, very tired.” He had some concept, like all scientists take up some sort of a concept, and they tried to build up their research on that, “And then I thought, it’s a wrong concept that I have taken up. Suddenly”, he said, “I went into the garden, I said let’s try and play with the soap bubbles.” He was playing with the soap bubbles like a small child, “and suddenly, from somewhere unknown”, he says, the Theory of Relativity dawned upon him. Many scientists have said that – that they don’t know from where they get this idea. From where did they get it? It has a special – study now people are doing to find out how these scientists got these things.

And in a very Sahaj manner, even the way penicillin was discovered, or anything was discovered by these people, was not through the probing or manipulation of the mind, but through some unknown force it came into their mind, and that’s what they thought, that this was from their mind, some – some. But most of them realized, even Newton realized that, “It is coming from something, some source which I am not aware of.”
As Sahaja Yogis you know it is the Source of the Divine Power, which is all-pervading, the Paramchaitanya. You know, because you can feel it, you know it is there. But, even when you know, you must know you have to go beyond your mind into thoughtless awareness, minimum. Always I tell you, “Meditate, meditate”, because you should be in thoughtless awareness, where you do not react. So, what happens, you become a witness, you become the witness of the whole drama, of the whole scene, and you are absolutely at ease with yourself, no problem. And what you are doing that you become an instrument of this Paramachaitanya, of this all-pervading power. You are just watching, you are a witness, and as watching everything, you realize that whatever you watch cannot react on you. But you know what it is, and this is what is the state in which you understand the reality of the whole situation.

在霎哈嘉你會碰到各式各樣的人

*** 在霎哈嘉你會碰到各式各樣的人 ***

前言：如何在霎哈嘉自處，如何看待在霎哈嘉碰到的人，這是初學者的功課之一。霎哈嘉對所有人開放，又對成員極其包容，這也造成一些初學者會因某些練習者的行為，得到錯誤的印象，從而誤判霎哈嘉。其實那些有問題的人並不能代表霎哈嘉，Shri Mataji 在談話中常提醒這一點，這譯文只是其中之一。

譯文：

來到霎哈嘉的人有許多不同的種類。其中有些人只是想獲得健康，一旦健康改善了，他們就消失了。若他們身體又出現毛病，他們又會回來。霎哈嘉對他們而言，只是為了身體的健康。我們很難幫助這類型的人，因為他們的願望太有限、太渺小了。

另外有一些人則是來霎哈嘉展現他們的自我、滿足他們的存在感、展示他們的重要性，"你看，我是這個、那個"。他們也會試圖拉攏同黨、組小團體。和這非常類似的、也十分常見的，即有人來霎哈嘉搞政治，他們試圖去找負責人的麻煩、反對這個那個，說："負責人有這個問題、那個問題" 等等。

第三種人(偶而)會出現在霎哈嘉的聚會、活動，但是他們並不定期來中心，他們和集體保持一種疏遠的關係，一段時間後，他們就流失了。一旦他們有麻煩、有疾病，他們則又回來。

另外有一種人來霎哈嘉只是想撈錢，這邊撈一些，那邊撈一些。他們仍未走出他們的貪婪。

不論你心中仍有貪婪，或是怨恨，或是一種自傲，或是一種疏離感，這些都表示你仍必須改進，必須要去處理這些問題。或是你仍會生大氣，或是你對某些人、事非常執着、依戀，如有些練習者仍十分依戀他們的小孩，這些都表示你仍必須(好好)反省。

在霎哈嘉裏，你(就是)會碰到各式各樣的人，(如同上面講的種種)，但你需要重視、注目的應該是你自己的昇進，你最需要擔心的是如何糾正、改進自己。

註一：請也參考相關譯文：''最重要的是看顧自己''（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/sahaja-yogi-watch-sahajayoga-sahaja.html ）

註二：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji對香港練習者的談話1996-03-10。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

Now in Sahaja Yoga when people come in, there’re different categories of people also. Some of them come because they think they can get good health; once they get good health they disappear. Then they again get some trouble, they come back, just for good health. So you can’t help, they have very limited desires. Then some people come in Sahaja Yoga for throwing their weight around, you see, showing off their ego, that, “I’m this,” you see, trying to make another group, another this thing. You see, like that also some people come, it’s very common, like a politics, you see. And they try to do it against the leader, against this, “This is wrong with him, that is wrong with him,” and all kinds of things. Thirdly people come but they don’t come regularly to Sahaja Yoga, they do not come regularly to the center. They just keep aloof and after some time they’re lost. They again get some diseases or trouble, then they come back. .....

So you have to first of all worry about correcting yourself.

Now, you see, also another kind of people come in Sahaja Yoga they came, they made lots of money, this thing, that thing, see, the greed is on. So if you still suffer from too much greed or hatred or you can call it pride and aloofness and all that, then you must know that still you have to work out. Or if you are very angry type or attached, some people are very attached to their children. So in Sahaja Yoga they learn a lesson also from their children. So one has to be introspective to see, “Are you just, are you satisfied?” Then you can certify yourself that you’re all right.

There’re so many types of people you’ll meet but what you have to see about your own ascent.

達到無思慮狀態的練習方法

*** 達到無思慮狀態的練習方法  ***

我們必須超越(我們的)想法和觀念(mind, 註一)，這個想法、觀念只是(人)虚構出來的東西，但是人們却活在其中，(以為那是真實的)。這就為什麼你們問我這麼多問題(註二)，這些疑惑都來自你固有的想法、觀念。假如你可以超越這些想法、觀念，你心中將没有任何疑問了。因為你没有處在那狀態，所以你問這些問題。或許(有時候)你可以短暫地處在那狀態，但(往往)你一下子又掉下來了。如何更多的時間處在那狀態？如何讓你超越你的想法、觀念呢？有一個很有效的練習方法：

無論你是在靜坐，或是站著，或做某事，只要你有空，首先要先連結上(譯者：即進入靜坐狀態，連上這無所不在的上天大能)，然後試著去觀察你的頭腦心智(mind)在想什麼(譯者：即腦袋裡冒出什麼思緒)，即你分離出來，從你的想法、思緒分離出來，去觀察你的腦袋在想什麼。當你這樣繼續去觀察時，突然間你就會發覺你是没有任何思緒的，即進入無思慮的覺知狀態。

所以常去觀察你的頭腦心智，看它正在做什麼。但是若你並没有處在入靜的狀態(譯者：即没有連結)，你是無法做這種練習的。

另外還有一個練習的方法也很有助於進入無思慮的狀態，即當你看著某物時，例如看著一朶花，立即地，你的腦袋心智會反應，會冒出一個想法，此時試著去觀察它在說什麼，然後告訴它："我不想聽！我不想聽！"，而只是(繼續)去看著這個對象(譯者：即 "花")，若如此練習，你就會逐漸成長。這就是禪的方法，這是用來訓練人超越其"頭腦心智及想法觀念" (mind)的方法。

 

註一：mind這個字並不容易找到合適的中譯。譯者以為Shri  Mataji所講的mind最接近"想法、觀念"，有時候也代表"頭腦心智"(即產生"想法、觀念"的主體)。譯者嘗試列出一些Shri  Mataji曾提過的"人類的想法"，以恊助讀者明瞭mind。例如：科學能証明的才是真的；神是不存在的；曰耳曼民族是最優秀的種族；人應該不要受任何拘束來做任何他想做的事；女人也可以做男人做的任何事，這才叫男女平等；人要拚命賺錢；流行就是對的；人類社會就要追求經濟成長。

 

註二：這個談話從Shri  Mataji回答練習者的發問開始。

註三：請參考相關的譯文：''用無思慮靜觀來超越你的想法''（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/mind-myth-ego-superego-reality-limited.html ）及 ''如何穩固你的注意力''（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/bodhidharma-paramchaitanya-shri-mataji.html ）

 

註四：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji對香港練習者的談話1996-03-10。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

All right, now we have to go beyond the mind, as I said it that mind is a myth and we live on a mental level all the time. And that’s why so many questions and so many things they come from your mind. If you reach a state where you are beyond the mind you won’t have any questions because you will be there. Because you’re not there you’re asking these questions. You are there for a short time and then you come down. So how to be more on that level, I’ll tell you. I don’t have that problem. I can be all the time beyond the mind but for you people I’ve tried to find out why, how to make it, to keep you beyond the mind.

Now the best way I told people and it has worked wonders that when you are, whether you are free, whether you are meditating or not, whether you are freely standing or doing, try to see what is your mind is thinking. You separate, now because you’re realized souls, you have to be, first of all, connected; if you’re not connected you can’t do this practice. But if you’re connected to the mains then what you should do is to see that your mind is thinking. Now watch your mind. Ask the mind, “Now what are you thinking? Let’s see, what are we to think?” And you will be surprised you’ll go on watching and suddenly you’ll reach a point that you have become thoughtless.

So always watch the mind. What is it doing? What is it thinking? What is it working out? And the mind will just not think because it cannot answer. It cannot answer a realized soul, you see. But for that, you have to be beyond the mind; to begin with you should separate yourself from your mind. You ask questions to your mind. “Now let’s see what are you thinking, sir. Where are you?” In the mirror also you can see, you shouldn’t suffer from narcissism, of course not, but what you have to do is to ask.

You see, if you try to understand how to become thoughtless, the best way is to look at something, now you look at something, say, look at the flowers. Now immediately it will react, your mind will react. Now you try to see what is your mind is saying. “I don’t want to hear, no, I don’t want to hear.” Just say, “I don’t want to hear anything. I don’t want to know anything.” You just want to watch, that’s all. Gradually you’ll grow. You see, this is the system Zen. Try to do it, but it was such a thing, you know, that time, they were no such nice people like you, perhaps. So he had to use other methods to make people go beyond the thought.