消融情緒的靜坐方法

 *** 消融情緒的靜坐方法 ***

 

當一個人的情緒受到較大的干擾，如過度驚嚇、過度悲傷，這時不只左脈會沉重，也會影響到右脈，例如呼吸會變得急促等等，因為左脈的情緒和右脈的生理反應是相關聯的。在這種狀況下，左脈的情緒及右脈的生理反應( 如呼吸急促)必須被消融(dissolved)，如何在靜坐的時候來消融這兩者呢？

 

在靜坐開始的時候，我們可以先張開雙掌來感覺自己是否有偏左或是偏右，然後用撥能量的方法( 如偏左的時候由右撥左)，讓自己恢復平衡。在給自己平衡之後，就可以將注意力放在你的這些情緒，就靜靜地觀察它們。藉著想到母親，你可以啟發點亮(enlighten)你的情緒，即母親會來解決這些問題。當你在靜坐的時候來觀看這些情緒，你會觀察到它們在你内裡逐漸放大，假如你將它們交給你的母親，即如同放置在母親的蓮足之前，它們就會逐步被消融，你會感覺到你可以控制這些情緒，然後造成這些情緒的背後原因也會被解決。

 

也可以在靜坐時練習如下的呼吸法。當你覺知到你的這些情緒是在那裡，此時你觀看你的呼吸，試著減少你的呼吸------即你呼出氣，然後屏氣一小段時間，再帶著你的情緒吸氣，將注意力放在情緒上，如此左脈的情緒和右脈的呼吸動作就連結在一起，吸氣後也屏氣一段時間，然後再呼氣。如此進行多個循環之後，你的呼吸就會減少、緩慢下來。然後你會發覺昆達里尼上升了！你也會發覺你整個人沉澱、緩和下來了。此時左右脈的兩個力量合而為一，就是左脈的情緒及右脈的生理反應(呼吸急促)都被消融了，當下你也會發覺你現在沒有思慮了。這個方法會帶給你無思慮的覺知狀態。

 

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji在Bramham Court Ashram(英國)的談話片段1981-10-29。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

 

 

The first thing we have got is the left side – you see – is the Mana-Shakti, is the power of your emotions. All right? Now, emotions are connected with your right side, also – prana. Say for example if you are emotionally disturbed, just now we got disturbed, so our shva, our breathing also increased and we felt the whole body was sort of, say reacting and the, we were feeling the reaction of the Prana, right side also. That it was trying to express itself. Like we started the tears, is the water-element and all that came in and the whole emotion was so much pouring out and with that our Prana was also involved.

Say for example if you are frightened, if you are frightened – [aside: {INDIST.}, it’s all right] – if you are frightened too much then what happens? [aside: this is all right] If you are frightened than also you get your breathing very fast – isn’t it? So it is connected. [aside: Yes, come in, come in!] So it is connected. If you are frightened it is connected – with your Prana, in your breathing and your whole system is connected with your emotions, physical system. If you cry too much, or if you weep too much, or if you are a sad person – that shows on your face, your Vishuddhi-Chakra also shows, and not only Anahata but also Vishuddhi. Then also your Agnya goes out. So all the Chakras reflect the left side in such a way that physical manifestation is also there. So it proofs that both are very much connected.

So to, if you have to, somehow or other, dissolve these two sides within us, the left and the right side – because if you do not dissolve it you are left half way here – so you have to dissolve these two things. And to dissolve these, what should we do? What can we do – in meditation?

[aside:] Can you suggest?

Say we have got Prana and Mana. Now Prana represents the right side and the Mana-Shakti is the left side. All right? These two have to be dissolved – in the air, means dissolved. Now how do we do it? To dissolve these two things, they are connected with each other. After realization, not. So before meditation We give ourselves a balance, all right? Which side is more resided left at the time. Supposing you are emotionally – at that time – disturbed, then you put your right to the left. If you are that time disturbed on the left side – ah, I mean disturbed in that sense that if a left side is frozen, then you raise your left side and give yourself a balance before meditation.

Now let us see, which side is less, first of all. Put your hands like that. ……

So once you have given yourself a balance then the best thing is to pay attention to your emotions, to Manas-Shakti. Watch them. You can enlighten your emotions by thinking of your Mother. All right, just enlighten them. Just She will solve the problem. Whatever are the problems in the Mana, all right? So once you get connected with those emotions and you start looking at them in your meditation you will see these emotions are rising within you and if you try to put these emotions on your Mother, as put at the Lotus-Feet of your Mother, they will start also dissolving those emotions and they’ll become sort of – ah – expanded. Expanded, you see.

You will extern(?) that in such a way that, you will feel you are in control, these emotions. You are in control of them and by that controlling those emotions your emotions – which are expanded, enlightened – are powerful. And these emotions, when you feel that way, then the cause of those emotions can be solved. For example just now you got emotionally stirred up because I talked about – say – these children. Naturally, anybody would be. Now when you are stirred up with that you put that problem and those feelings that are rising in you, that those waves of feelings that are coming at the Lotus-Feet of your Mother.

So they get touched, say by that power you can say. Then these emotions become enlightened and when these emotions become enlightened they have a power to solve the problem. Do you see the point? As if they had reached the shore where they got the light and this problem can be solved. Because now you are not in an individual self, you are in the expanse, you are in the samashti and because you have entered into that position, that’s why you have got these powers of entering to another person’s body, to see the vibrations of another person, to raise the Kundalini. Otherwise you could not have done it.

So for you it is very easy to do because I am also sitting here in Person. So easy to put these emotions just there so that they get enlightened and your wish is fulfilled, because emotions are nothing but wishes. These are unfulfilled wishes. Now how they do it otherwise is also this way that you take up these emotions and put them, so that is, these emotions are actually – the left side, as I said, is the desire.

So the desire is taken, any desire, and is put in the Prana. Now how do you put it on the Prana? That you control your Prana – that’s why they do Prana-yamas, you see? Like you sit down now, very comfortably, now you have a desire, you put your attention to that. Attention is very important – you see? Now this attention is to be put onto the Prana, so the emotions are there and then bring those emotions and put them into your attention, means they are now, you are aware of them.

Now what you do is to watch your breathing. See now, try to reduce your breathing, reduce it. In the sense that you have breathed out, wait for a while, then breath in – for a long time. Then you breathe out. So in one minute your breathing will be less than normal. All right? Try that. Breathe in – now with the emotions, keep the attention on the emotions – you see? – so that the connection is established.

Hmm. Better? You see the Kundalini rises? Now when you are breathing you find that there is a space in-between, which you just leave it vacant. Breathe in! Now leave it vacant. Now breathe out. Now leave it vacant. Breathe in. Keep it there. Then leave it. Keep out-side. Now breathe in. Now start breathing in such a way that you stop your breathing. Your attention should be on the heart, or could be on the emotions.

It’s better? Keep the breathing inside for a while, then bring it out, then outside for a while. Then again, then you’ll find that for a while you will not breathe. Hmm. You see, you settle down. The layer takes place between your Prana and your Mana. Both the Shaktis become one. Now at this stage when you are silent, now you think of your intellect – it’s lost. Now just think of it, it’s lost, it’s no more there. So what is happening, actually that this layer – the attention goes into the intellect and enlightens the intellect.

Aha, now see, the thought is not there – try to find your intellect within yourself! Now see! See, where is my intellect? Try to find it! It’s not there, it’s not working. Again try it! It is working, but it has become the samashti, has become the collective now. Ha! See now! Did you follow that? There is no thought. This exercise will give you this thoughtless awareness, establishes in you the thoughtless awareness. There is no thought.