注意力的訓練------Abhyasa

*** 注意力的訓練------Abhyasa ***

練習者問：錫呂瑪塔吉，能否請您談關於如何維持我們的注意力 ，讓注意力維持在它應該的地方，而不會漂移到一些不重要的小事。

錫呂瑪塔吉答：他問了一個很實際的問題，確實是要將注意力維持在應該的地方。對於此，你必須隨時做一些abhyasa的練習(註一)，這是在自覺之後做的，不是之前。(其中)最好的途徑就是學習如何靜觀你自己，就像現在你坐在這裡，讓自己處在一種(靜觀的)狀態，來觀察你自己："我現在正在做什麼？"，這就是abhyasa，這是一種(自我的)探索。除了口訣和其他種種方法，abhyasa 是一種實作的練習方法，練習成為一個靜觀者的方法。這種處在靜觀的狀態，就是一種靈的狀態，此時注意力不會在外奔馳，即你可以看見所有的外物，它們就在那裡，但是注意力卻是在内裡，試著去練習這個："(現在)我是一個靜觀者嗎？"。

譬如有人說："我的天啊！我有一個很可怕的際遇，母親，發生了這個事情，又發生了那個事情"，這表示你不是一個靜觀者，假如你是一個靈，你如何會有可怕的遭遇呢？只有當你不是一個靈時，你才會有可怕的經歷。假如你可以把整件事情當成外面上演的一齣戲，那麼你就不會有可怕的經歷，而只是你的身體之外發生了一件可怕的事情，它只是你觀賞的一齣戲。......

假如你練習 abhyasa，隨時練習成為一個靜觀者，那你的注意力就可以被訓練得很好。譬如你外出看到某事，試著只是去看它，而不要有任何的想法，在整個過程只當一個靜觀者，如此你將是處在隨時享受的狀態，你也會有完全平靜的心情，你的注意力也會被徹底啟發，而你獲得的靈感啟示也會是無可比擬的。

假如你知道如何去靜觀，你的注意力可以有非凡的記憶容量。對我而言，這靜觀所看到的外界就如同我腦海中的一部電影，譬如我看這個房間，我知道房間內有什麼：它的設計、房間內所有的東西、你們如何坐著、你們的坐姿、你們的穿著，每一樣都像一個圖案與設計，它們進入我眼簾就如同一幅畫，而且並不只是這一世，而是很多世。(註二)

我們的覺知就像一個錄影系統，在這種(靜觀)狀態下可以錄得最清楚，假如你有一些思緒，那麼就像物體和眼睛之間有東西遮擋。就如同那位練習者目前正在錄影我的談話，假如鏡頭和我之間有東西，那麼就沒辦法錄到我的影像；假如中間沒有遮擋，那就可以看透，可以錄下所有重要的一切。

而且會更令你驚訝的是，(若沒有這些干擾的思緒，)你不會錄到不重要的東西。譬如人們到鄉村去，他們看到的、錄到的是："哇！我的天！這裡很髒，又發生這事，到那邊又只有水泥地可以睡覺"、"房子裏面也沒有適當的椅子可以坐，椅子是如此硬，弄得我的背部都痛了"，這些是他們所記憶的(、所錄下的)，每一樣看到的都是不好的......。但是對一個真正的自覺的靈，他看不見、聞不到這些髒的東西，他總是聞到香的東西。他不會聞到，或他不認為有什麼東西是髒的，他去的每一個地方都是漂亮美麗的。甚至只是光秃秃的不毛砂地，他也看到其上美麗的圖案。

我對那些去Maharashtra的人說："你們有看到Maharashtra美麗的山？"，他們回答說："那有什麼漂亮？山上都沒有覆蓋著綠樹！"，我說："這才是漂亮之處！你們沒有看到眾山的型態嗎？"，他們看不見我所看到的那些山形走勢。假如你問我某座山是什麼型態，我也知道，因為我知道所有山的型態------山形走勢是如何變化、那些型態是如何形成等等。因為他們只是看到缺點，所以他們無法看到這些美麗之處。或者他們會掉入相對的觀點，如："英國的樹比這些樹漂亮，所以這裏不怎麼樣"，這就是相對比較的陷阱。但是靜觀者是立足在絕對與純粹，正是看到事物的原原本本的絕對實相。所有的一切都源自你自己，為什麼要去批判評斷呢？

註一：abhyasa是梵文，意思為實做練習(practice，見1988-12-30 及1986-02-20)，但是Shri Mataji 談話中似乎特別指這種練習，所以譯文中保留原文。

註二：譯者以為Amruta編輯的英文可能有誤，應是"lifes"，請見所附英文。

註三：請也參考類似的談話：導師與無思慮(之一) ( https://sahajataiwan.blogspot.com/2017/07/guru-state-master-faculties-thoughtless.html )

註四：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji在倫敦靜室的談話1982-08-06。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

Rustom: Shri Mataji, could You say something about maintaining our attention so that it stays where it should and it doesn’t get diverted into trivial things?
Shri Mataji: Rustom has asked a very practical question, it’s true – that “to keep the attention where it should be.”
You see, for everything you have to do some exercise – abhyasa – not before Realization, after Realization. The best way is to learn how to watch yourself. Just now, sitting here, just put yourself into a position from where you watch yourself: “Now what am I doing?”
This is the abhyasa, this is the study. Apart from mantras, apart from anything, the abhyasa is the practice, practice of becoming a witness. And the witness is the Spirit state. There attention will not go. I mean you will see everything, it is there, but attention will be inside. Try to practice this: “Am I a witness?”
Now, say, some people say:” Oh God! I had a horrible time, Mother. This happened, that happened.” You see, you are not a witness. How can you have a horrible time if you are the Spirit? You only have a horrible time when you are not the Spirit.
If you can watch the whole thing as a drama that is played, then you are not having a horrible time, but this outside of you is having a horrible time, which you are watching.

That’s how the attention can be fixed very well if you practice abhyasas, practice all the time to be witness. Say, you go out, you see something, just try to see it, not to think about it. Be a witness of the whole thing. The joy will be complete, and also you will become absolutely peaceful. Your attention will be completely enlightened.
And then the inspiration you will get will be tremendous.

See, it’s working out. Working out. Try to watch. And it has such a tremendous memory, if you know how to watch. I mean, to Me, if I see something – I mean, to Me it is just like a film in My mind. If I have seen this room, now I know what is in this design. Everything I know: how you are sitting, what pose you have taken, how you were(ware?), what was it – everything is like a design. You see it comes to Me, just like a picture – absolutely. Not of this life, but of lives(lifes?).

Because that’s a recording system that records best. If there are thoughts it’s like something in between, you see. Now he is trying to record Me on the film, and if there is something in between moving, nothing will come in. But when there is nothing in between and you are just seeing through, you are recording everything that is important. Moreover you will be amazed, you don’t record unimportant things.
Like for people now, they go to a village, or any place. They will be recording: “Oh God, it was very dirty, and this happened and we went there and there were cement to sleep, for example, we get.” Or: “Then we went inside, and there was no proper chair to sit down. And the chair was so hard, and my back started aching.” All these things they will remember.
And then what happened? “Oh God! I couldn’t get Realization.”
Everything that bad, you see, just like newspaper – all bad news. But to a person who is a Realized soul in a real way, he doesn’t see, I mean, you don’t smell anything dirty. You always smell something good. You never smell, you do not think of anything dirty. Everywhere you go, it’s beautiful. Even if you see just the sand, you see the pattern. Even if you see a barren hill.

I saw some people who had gone. I said, “Look at the beauty of these hills, in Maharashtra.” They said: “Mother, what is the beauty? It’s not covered with trees.” I said, “That’s the beauty, just see the patterns.” They couldn’t see the patterns that I was seeing. But if you ask Me, “What is this hill?” I also know that. Because I know the patterns of all the hills, how it has moved, how it has made patterns and things like that. Because they don’t see that, you see, they cannot see the beauty because they are looking out for defects. Or relatively, you see, “English trees are better than say X, Y, Z trees. So then this is not better.” The relative they start. But you are at absolute point, you are getting the absolute of everything. Everything is your own. What is there to judge?