Tuesday, 9 June 2015

在靜心中不管發生什麽,都歡迎它,讓它發生

很多人這樣問過我:什麽是靜坐(靜心)?是不是頭腦什麽都不要想?那靜不下來,該怎麽辦呢?我覺得奧修以下的回答太棒了,它解答了很多人對靜心的疑問,包括我自己。

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愛,

別害怕。在靜心中不管發生什麽,都讓它發生。

如果頭腦一直在嘮叨個不停,不要阻止它。要讓它變得純凈,這是唯一的方法。無論是什麽,只要壓抑在潛意識中它都會浮現出來。給它一個管道,好讓你從中解脫。一旦你壓抑它,靜心就會被浪費掉。而一旦你從中解脫出來,靜心就被達成了。

所以歡迎浮現出來的每一樣東西,甚至幫它一把,因為光靠它自身的話,這項工作需要花上很長時間,假如你幫它一把,它在短時間內就能完成。


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.
Do not be afraid. Let whatsoever is happening in meditation happen.
If the mind is catharting do not stop it. This is the only way for it to be purified. Whatsoever is suppressed in the unconscious will surface. Give it passage, so that you can be free from it. The moment you repress it, meditation will be wasted. And no sooner will you be free from it than meditation will be realized.
So welcome each thing that comes up, even help it, because the work that takes a long time on its own is accomplished in a short time if there is help.


說“無論生命想要什麽”,同時往內看

讀到奧修文章中其中的一句話,感觸特別深,也是這些年靈修來有所體驗到的。

難道你看不出有些東西正在破滅、消失嗎?難道你看不到有些新的、不熟悉的東西正在誕生嗎?

記得剛踏入内在旅程,一切熟悉的東西漸漸消失時,會沮喪,也會失望,不知道該怎麽辦,也不懂如何面對,對於一切未知、不熟悉的東西會產生一種莫名的恐懼,在靈修路上跌跌撞撞,逐漸地體悟到所謂修行需要很大勇氣的道理,面對未知的勇氣,經歷蛻變的勇氣,感恩這些經歷,讓我開始學會接受緣起緣滅,享受新的事物和轉變,我知道我正走在通往隨遇而安的路上。


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愛,

除了臣服——全然的放手——沒有其他的方法可以抵達神性的廟宇。

留下——把一切都留給那個。不要在腦袋裏攜帶任何不必要的負擔。“無論生命想要什麽”——永遠記住這句經文/箴言。耶穌說過:“汝的(你的)願望已經達成。”重復對你自己說這句話。讓它開始從你的意識回蕩進你的潛意識。

無論醒著還是睡著,都讓這曲調在你內在響徹,然後,在任何一刻,當你的放手變的全然,開悟就會發生。放手的盡頭和最終就是開悟。自身的消散就是放手。說:“無論生命想要什麽”,同時往內看。

難道你看不出有些東西正在破滅、消失嗎?難道你看不到有些新的、不熟悉的東西正在誕生嗎?


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.
Except for surrender - total let-go - there just is no way to reach the temple of godliness.
Leave - leave everything to that. Don’t carry an unnecessary burden on your head. “Whatever life wants” - keep this sutra forever in your remembrance. Jesus has said: “Thy will be done.” Keep saying this yourself. Let it begin to reverberate all the way from the conscious to the unconscious.
Awake or asleep, let this tune start to play within you, and then, at any moment, as your let-go becomes total, enlightenment will happen. The end of let-go is enlightenment. The dispersal of oneself is let-go. Say: “Whatever life wants” and look within.
Don’t you see something crumbling and disappearing? Don’t you see something new and unfamiliar being born?

Friday, 5 June 2015

出淤泥而不染

我很喜歡花,眾多的花中蓮花是我非常喜愛的花之一,喜歡它那份出淤泥而不染的清純和高潔。

每次美雲都會跟我分享她用心拍的作品,這次她發給我一系列的蓮花照片,拍得太美了,我好喜歡。謝謝,愛分享的天使。

佛教中的蓮花代表著一種智慧的境界。
佛教中的蓮花也代表著一種智慧的境界
佛教中的蓮花也代表著一種智慧的境界


蓮花生長在污泥中,花和葉不沾一點污穢,仍然能保持純潔,我欣賞也願意學習蓮花的精神。塵世中太多擾人之事,如果在這樣的環境下,還能保持平靜和和諧,需要很高的智慧啊。

蓮花不畏懼污泥,反而能從污泥中,讓自己生長得如此漂亮;我們凡人世俗也能在這紛擾的生活中,活出自己的美麗。

污泥和蓮花是連接的,但蓮花讓自己不斷成長,不受污泥感染;我們也是如此,沒有跟這世界分開,要讓自己心靈成長,這樣才不至於受世界影響,即使受影響,也要覺察到雖然我們跟這世界連接,但並不等於這世界,我們能選擇我們自己要的生活方式和態度。

這是蓮花給我的學習。


















別人是一面鏡子,先從自身找原因

今天早上看到以下這篇文章,有洞見,非常喜歡。一再提醒自己,無論我處在怎樣的環境裏,始終先從自身尋找原因,別人只是自己的一面鏡子,不管我看到的是快樂和痛苦,它始終跟自己有關,與別人無關。每次當覺察到這一點,就懂得如何調整自己,心情也隨之轉變。

比如今早,下樓梯要趕巴士去上班時,一對情侶擋住我的路,他們看到我在後面,也沒有讓路,我惟有跟在他們的後面,一步一步跟著他們走。結果當我走到車站時,眼睜睜看著巴士開走。我當時很不爽,心裏在想都是這兩個人,不是他們,我就不會錯失這班車,害我遲到公司。哈,馬上回想起我之前讀過的以下文章,意識到我的不快樂開始怪罪在別人身上了。想了一下,其實我當時可以叫他們讓路啊,可是我沒有,我知道以後如果遇到同樣的狀況時,可以先開口叫對方讓路,這樣就不會把責任放在別人身上。當覺察到這點時,同樣的兩個人,看起來也比較順眼了,自己的心情也變平靜了。哈哈,結果等了一下,大概5分鐘,很快巴士就來了。一再印證自己所相信的轉念,境轉。

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愛,

世界既不是痛苦,也不是幸福快樂。

我們所尋求的變成了世界。我們的看法和觀點變成了我們的世界。我們每一個人都是自己世界的締造者。如果生命每時每刻都帶給你痛苦,那麽你的某些觀點一定出了差錯。如果四周你看到的全是黑暗,那麽你肯定閉上了雙眼——同樣的雙眼可以看到光明。再想想你自己。重新審視你自己。如果你怪罪別人,你就沒辦法找到你自身的錯誤。如果你怪罪環境,你就沒辦法搞清你自身立場的根本所在。

所以,無論你處在怎樣的環境裏,始終先從你自身找原因。原因總是在自己身上。但是它們看起來始終都在別人身上。如果你避免這份誤解,要抓住痛苦不放是很困難的。別人就只是一面鏡子而已。照出來的總是我們自己的臉。

生命可以是一場盛大的歡慶,但是我們需要重新創造我們自己。活兒不難幹,因為一旦我們看到自身觀點的愚蠢,那份愚蠢就開始枯竭死去,一個嶄新的人將開始誕生出來。

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 world is neither misery nor happiness.

What we are seeking becomes the world. Our outlook becomes our world. Each one of us if the creator of his own world. If each moment of life brings you misery, then somewhere or other there is a fault in your outlook. And if all that you can see is darkness all around, then you have certainly closed the same eyes that can see light. Think about yourself again. Look at yourself afresh. If you blame others, you will not be able to seek out your own mistakes. If you blame the circumstances, you will not be able to fathom the roots of your own mental standpoint.

That is why, whatever circumstances you find yourself in, always start by looking for the causes within yourself. The causes are always found within oneself. But they always appear to be in others. If you avoid this misunderstanding it will be difficult to hold on to misery. Others simply function as mirrors. The face is always our own.

Life can be a big celebration, but we need to recreate ourselves anew. That work is not difficult, because the moment we see the folly of our own outlook, that folly begins to die and a new man starts to be born.




Friday, 29 May 2015

靜心讓我感受到喜悅和平靜

智慧,與年齡無關,那是真的。Chris,年紀很輕,但深具慧根,我想他前世應該是個修行人。哈~

對於這個年輕人,我們都覺得很好奇,到底是誰介紹他來的?怎麽一個年輕人膽粗粗會來到中心靜坐,之前還有一個朋友跟他一起來,結果幾次後卻只剩下他自己,風雨不改每個星期六都會來報到,記得他當初來的時候很含蓄,話不多,連靜坐完畢後給他吃東西都不要,急急忙忙就回去(現在卻無所不談,能言善辯,你都講不贏他)。

以下是他的分享,我喜歡他的真誠分享,共勉之。

(英文部分是他寫的,我幫他翻譯成中文)
 
“我參加沙瑪版靜心一年多了,我之所以知道沙瑪版靜心,是基於好奇心想多了解靜心,卻在一個網站無意中發現了沙瑪版靜心。

沙瑪版靜心之所以吸引我是因爲它是免費和簡單。在8天師父的視頻演説中,我意外發現師父和我的想法和觀點很相似。這讓我覺得不可思議,我之前只是抱著探索的心態去看看,但是現在我已經是沙瑪版家庭的其中一位成員,我也覺得跟這個家庭有很深的連接。

我靜心後最大的改變是我比較不容易受情緒影響,我之前生氣的時間可以很長,我的脾氣很壞,常常因爲一些事可以生氣很久,靜坐後,即使生氣也不會很久,我也發現我比較能夠平衡自己,讓自己免受情緒之影響。

靜心也幫助我用不同的角度去看待一件事情。靜心之前我都是根據我個人的利益去看待事情,出來的結果也要以我所想的方式呈現。靜心後透過不一樣的角度看事情,自我利益和期待逐漸也減少,這兩者減少後,就能夠達到平衡,不會因爲事情沒有根據我的方式呈現而感到生氣和失望。

我也發現事情發生在我身上的都是好的。當事情發生了,我們會覺得幸運,或許這是命運,但是當很多地事情發生很頻密時,我相信真的有神聖的力量圍繞我們。我有任何問題,都能得到解答。不知何故你就會直接或間接得到答案。就如去年十二月,我去果亞的靜心中心(Goa Ashram)參加國際靜心營,在靜心營之前我有4個問題,在靜心營期間多加2個問題,我嘗試尋找答案,神奇的是我沒有詢問任何人這6個問題,但卻得到了我要的答案。

現今的世界很多人一直在追求權利,財富和利益,一些人會覺察到這是永無止盡的追求,卻有一些人沒有覺察到這是沒有結束的追求,我很開心也很慶幸我是那個在沙瑪版靜心中被喚醒的少數人,我希望我們身邊的人繼續可以得到覺醒,但願他們也像我們一樣同樣地感受到喜悅和祥和。”


It has been more than a year since I joined Samarpan Meditation. I came to know of Samarpan Meditation through the internet with the aim of trying out meditation out of curiosity, it appealed to me because Samarpan Meditation was free and it was easy. And during the 8 days video shibir, I was surprised to find out that some of Swamiji’s idea and views were the same as mine. It is quite unbelievable because initially I had the mentality of only trying it out and that’s it, but now I find myself being a part of Samarpan family and I just feel so connected to this family. 


One of the major changes in me that I realized is that I do not get affected by emotion easily; emotions such as anger do not get “hooked” onto me for long. My temper used to be bad and I used to be angry over issue for a very long time, however after meditation, even though there are times where I would get angry, the anger doesn’t stay with me for long. I also find that I am able to re-balance myself and prevent myself from being swayed by emotions. 


Meditation also helps me to look at an event based on different angles. Before meditation I am always looking at an event based on my self’s interest, where every outcome had to be based on my way. By looking at different angle, the feeling of self-interest and expectation are reduced, and when all these are reduced, I find that I am able to stay balanced rather than feeling disappointed or angry at how didn’t things go according to my way.


I also realized that things are falling into place for me nicely. Sometimes when things fall into place, we feel that we are lucky or perhaps it is fated, however when it is happening for me on so many occasions and so frequently, I just believe that indeed there are divine powers around all of us. Whatever questions that I had, were all answered, and somehow you will be able to get the answer directly or indirectly. Just last December, I went to the Goa Ashram for the International Retreat, before the retreat I had 4 questions which I was trying to find out the answer and along the retreat I had another 2, amazingly all 6 questions were answered without me asking anyone about it. 


Today’s world many people are constantly chasing after power, wealth and their self-interest, some may realize this never-ending chase, while some may never realize this never-ending chase, I am glad I am the lucky few to be awaken by Samarpan Meditation, and I hope that we can all continue to awaken those around us and wish that they too feel the same happiness and peacefulness that we are fell.