從嬰孩學習爬行時,我們何嘗不是經歷無數的失敗才學會爬,那個時候我們都會視失敗是必經的過程,而且旁人只有鼓勵,沒有用異樣的眼光去看待這件事,我們不斷地勇敢嘗試,終于學會了爬行。
在這個競爭與比較的社會,似乎漸漸長大,我們不自覺地苛刻要求自己與別人,只能成功,不許失敗。成功意味著才會不落人後。是這樣嗎?
成功的背後往往都經歷無數的失敗,它是一個過程,經歷失敗,學習接受失敗,這是我們需要學習的。其實失敗也是我們的頭腦所想的。誰能定義什麽是成功,什麽是失敗呢?你可以說一個成功的商人,他是成功的;但也許他自己認爲他在某方面卻是失敗的。
所以你又是如何看待成功與失敗呢?
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愛,
失敗的根源不在內在。這就是為何,盡管一再又一再的試圖殺死它,人還是沒辦法殺死失敗。這也是為何你做不到。
你一定讀過這樣的故事,一個惡魔把他的生命/性命隱藏在一只鸚鵡或其他動物體內(另譯:附體到動物身上),唯有先殺了那只被附體的動物,惡魔才會死。
失敗也以同樣的方式被保護著。它的生命並不在人內在。它的生命在對成功的渴望之中。這就是為何,無論誰想要成功都無法擺脫失敗——因為只有那些擺脫成功的人才會擺脫失敗。
你寫信說,因為你的失敗,妳的自卑在增長。不,我的兄弟!你的分析已經拴住了牛車後面的小牛。
自卑並不是因為失敗才增長;相反,因為妳感覺自卑,你想要成功。
那個變成了失敗。
但為何你感到自卑?每個人都是他如其所是的樣子:獨一無二,無與倫比,無法比較。比較是不可能的,而我們卻一直被教導比較。比較是你的制約。弄明白這個誤導的、錯誤的、危險的、無知的制約,因為明白了錯誤的就是錯誤的,你就能擺脫掉它。
附:本文譯自《奧修寫給生活的充滿愛的書信:150封蛻變生命的書信》。這些書信,是奧修親自寫給一些人的私人書信,來支持他們的靜心和內在探索。英文原文如下:
Love.
The source of failure does not lie within it. That is why, despite trying to kill it again and again, man has been unable to kill failure. And that is why you will not be able to do so either.
You must have read stories where a demon hides his life within a parrot or some other animal, and then the demon can only be killed when the bird or the animal hiding his life away is killed first.
Failure is protected in the same way. Its life is not found within it. Its life is found within the longing for success. That is why whoever want success cannot be freed from failure — because only those who become free from success itself become free from failure.
You have written that your inferiority complex is increasing because of your failures. No, my brother! Your analysis has harnessed the bullock behind the cart.
Inferiority does not increase because of failures; on the contrary,because you feel inferior you want success.
That becomes the failure.
But why do you feel inferior? Everyone is as he is: unique,matchless, incomparable. Comparison is impossible, but comparison is what is being taught. Comparison is your conditioning. Understand this misguided,wrong, dangerous, and ignorant conditioning because to know the wrong as wrong is to become free from it.
“想成功的人都无法摆脱失败”!我谨记了。
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