Chapter 2 Chapter 1 When the Shoes Fit

Chuang Tzu is one of the rarest enlightened beings, even rarer than Buddha or Jesus.Because Buddha and Jesus advocate action, while Zhuangzi emphasizes inaction.Actions can certainly accomplish things, but inaction can accomplish more things; many things can be done through will, but more things can be done without will.Whatever you do with your will always becomes a burden, a conflict, an inner tension, you can lose it at any time, it has to be kept constantly, it takes energy to keep it, and to keep it eventually will consume you.Only what is obtained through inaction will never become a burden to you, and only what is not a burden can become eternal.Only nothing unnatural can be with you forever and ever.

Zhuangzi said that truth, holiness and existence are achieved through complete ecstasy, and even the pursuit of this state itself will become an obstacle—so you cannot forget yourself, and once you try to forget yourself, it will become an obstacle. How can you try to forget yourself?All effort comes from the ego, the ego swells in effort, and the ego is the disease.So, all efforts must be left behind, nothing has to be done.Man must integrate himself into the existence of nature and return to childhood, just like a child who has just come into the world, indifferent to right and wrong, ignorant of any boundaries.Once the boundary is formed in the mind, knowing what is right and what is wrong, you have become sick, you have been far away from the real existence.

The child lives naturally, he is whole, he does not make any effort, because any effort is against himself, the heart is divided into two parts, one part agrees, the other part opposes. Remember that you can achieve a lot, especially in this world, you can accomplish a lot with effort, because effort is an offense, an outrage, a competition.But in the inner world, hard work will lead to nothing, and those who started with hard work will eventually give up helplessly. Sakyamuni worked hard for 6 years, constantly meditating and concentrating, and became an ascetic monk.He tried his best, he did everything a man could do, there wasn't a stone that wasn't turned over, he staked his life, it was an effort, because the ego was there, so he failed.

In the ultimate world nothing fails like the ego, just as nothing succeeds like the ego in the world. There is nothing like the ego that succeeds in the physical world and nothing that fails in the spiritual world like the ego, the two are very different.This is inevitable because these are two opposing interfaces. Shakyamuni failed completely, after 6 years he was discouraged, it was a complete depression, there was no silver lining.In despair he drops all efforts, he drops this world, he leaves his kingdom, everything that belongs to this dunya, he drops, renounces. Six years of asceticism passed, everything belonging to the inner world left him, and he remained in an absolute void - emptiness.That night his sleep was extraordinarily peaceful because the ego was gone; that night an extraordinary stillness came because there was no effort; A night without dreams.

Once there is no effort, there is no incompleteness. Of course, there is no need to dream. Dreams are always to accomplish something.What is not done during the day will be fulfilled in the dream, because the human mind always has the tendency to complete something.If something is not perfect, the mind will not be peaceful, so it will be diligently pursued, and once it is not obtained, the dream will appear. Wherever there is desire there is a dream, because desire is a dream -- a dream is the shadow of desire. That night, there was nothing to be done, the world was useless, and the other was equally useless—all motives for action ceased, there was nowhere to go, and no one to go anywhere, and the sleep of that night It has become "samadhi", it has become "enlightenment", it has become the ultimate thing that can happen to a person.On that night Shakyamuni blossomed, and in the morning he became enlightened.He opened his eyes and saw the last star disappear from the sky, and everything was there.It had always been there, but he wanted it so badly that he couldn't see it.It has always been there, and he rushed to the future with desire, so he didn't have time to take a look at this time and this place.

That night, there was no need, no desire, no purpose, nowhere to go, no one to go anywhere, all effort ceased.Suddenly he is aware of himself, he is aware of the truth of existence.Zhuangzi pointed out at the beginning that there should be no effort, and he was right.Because you will never make such a complete effort like Shakyamuni, you will never be frustrated until what you do falls off by itself.Your efforts are always incomplete, your thoughts are always there saying: put in a little more effort, and something will happen; a little more, and the goal is near.How can you get discouraged?You have to work harder because you are getting closer to your goal every day.

Because you can never give such total effort, you can never have total despair.You spend as much of your life as you can continuing this half-hearted effort, which is what you have been doing in the past.This is not the first time you have come before me, not the first time you have worked hard to be the real, the real, you have had many, many half-hearted efforts in the past, a million times, but you still have hope . Zhuangzi said that it is best to let go from the beginning, because you have to let go, either at the beginning, or eventually let go helplessly.But the final moment won't come so soon!So there are two ways: one is to do your best, you are so exhausted that all hope is shattered, you finally realize that through hard work, nothing can be achieved, there is no more sound even a small fragment lingering in the unconscious and saying : If you use a little more force, it will succeed...; or if you try your best, it will fall off automatically; or it will do nothing at all.Just understand the whole process, but don't get bogged down.Remember one thing: you will not be willing to give up halfway. Once you fall into it, you must complete this journey, because there is a tendency in your mind to pursue perfection.Not only humans, but even animals.If you draw half a circle and an orangutan comes over and sees it, he will eagerly complete the circle if there is chalk nearby.

Your mind has a tendency to seek completion—everything unfinished makes you nervous.You want to laugh but you can't, and that's stress; you want to cry and you can't, and that's stress; you want to be angry and you can't, and that's stress.That's why you've been sick for so long, because nothing is done. You have never laughed completely, you have never cried completely, you have never been completely angry, you have never hated completely, you have never loved completely, nothing is done completely -- nothing is done .Nothing is perfect.It wraps around, so you always have so many things on your mind, and that's why you're so uncomfortable, you never feel at home.

Zhuangzi said that it is better not to start, because once started, it must be finished.Please understand this and don't fall into a vicious circle.This is why it is said that Zhuangzi is a precious flower, more rare than Sakyamuni and Jesus, because his achievement is realized.Zhuangzi has no method, no meditation.Just get the facts for what they are, he said.You were born, have you worked hard for your birth?You grow, have you worked hard for your own growth?You breathe, are you working on your breath?Everything grows and declines on its own, so why bother?Let life flow naturally and you just go with the flow, don't struggle, don't swim against the current, don't even swim, just float with the current and let the current take you where it takes you.Be a white cloud floating in the sky, with no destination, nowhere to go, just floating, this floating is the ultimate flower.

Therefore, before entering Zhuangzi's world, the first thing to understand is nature.Anything unnatural must be avoided.Do not do anything against nature.Nature is enough, you cannot improve it.But the ego says, no, you can improve nature -- that's how all nurture exists. Any improvement of nature is culture, and all culture is like a disease—the more cultured a man is, the more dangerous he is. I once heard of a hunter, a European hunter, who got lost in an African forest.Suddenly he saw several huts.He had never known that there was a village in that dense forest, it was not on any map.So he walked up to the leader of that village and said, "It's a pity that you were abandoned by civilization." The leader replied, "No, there is nothing to regret. We are afraid of being discovered. Once civilization invades, we will be lost." "Once you try to improve nature, nature is lost -- that means you try to reform God.All religions try to reform God.Zhuangzi disagreed, saying: Nature is the origin, and he called the origin of all things "Tao". "Tao" means that nature is the source and it cannot be improved.Once you try to improve it, you're actually crippling it, and that's how we cripple our children.

Every child is born of the Tao, and then we use society, civilization, culture, morality, religion to cripple him, cripple him in every way, so although he is in this world, he is not alive. I heard about a little girl who went to a friend's birthday party. She was very young, only 4 years old. She asked her mother, "Did you have parties and dances like this when you were alive?" The more civilized and educated a person is, the more lifeless they are. If you want to see the living dead, then go see the monks in the monastery, the priests in the church, or the pope in the Vatican.They are lifeless, they are so afraid of life, of nature, they suppress life everywhere, they have passed into the grave.You can decorate a tomb, you can make a priceless marble tomb, but the people inside are dead. A drunkard was walking through a cemetery and saw a magnificent tombstone of pure white marble.He looked at the tombstone and the name on it, that is the famous Rothschild family, he said with a smile: "These Rothschilds, they know how to live." Upbringing kills you, upbringing is a murderer, upbringing is a slow poison. Chuang Tzu and his predecessor Lao Tzu are anti-education, they advocate nature, pure nature.The trees live better than you, even the birds, the fish live better than you, because they are more alive, they dance to the rhythm of nature, and you completely forget what nature is, you condemn it fundamentally. If you want to condemn nature, you must start with condemning sex, because all nature comes from it.The whole of nature is the flow of love and sexuality.The birds sing, the trees bloom—it's all sexuality.Flowers are sexual symbols, and the singing of birds is sensual.The so-called "Tao" is the whole nature to reproduce itself, to love itself, to enter into a deeper love and ecstasy of existence. If you want to destroy nature, condemn sex, condemn love.Create morals around your life.Those morals, no matter how high-sounding they may seem, are like a marble tomb where you will be imprisoned.Some alcoholic may think you know how to live and how to live in the world, but no sober person will even think you are alive.Your morality is a kind of death, and society has killed you before death has killed you. That's why Zhuangzi's message is the most dangerous, the most revolutionary, and the most rebellious—because he says: Let everything grow and flow naturally, and don't set any goals for nature.Do you think you can create goals with intentions?You are just a tiny part, like an atom, how can you force the whole world to revolve around you? For religious people, this is the most dangerous, and for Puritans with strict moral codes, this is the most dangerous allegory.It means breaking all shackles and letting nature burst forth - and that's the danger. I heard that a head nurse introduced the situation of the hospital to a new nurse who just graduated from college. She showed the new nurse around the hospital and introduced the wards of various departments: this is the cancer ward, this is the tuberculosis ward, etc., Wait, then she came to a hall and said, "Look, remember, this is the most dangerous room." The new nurse looked, but she couldn't see the danger, so she asked, "Why is this Is it the most dangerous ward? You didn’t even mention it was dangerous in the cancer ward.” The head nurse smiled and said, “These people are the healthiest, that’s why this is the most dangerous ward. Please pay attention—health is always dangerous.” The clergy were afraid of health because health was immoral in their eyes.You may or may not have heard of one of the German thinkers of this century, Count Kesselring, who was famous in his time.He is regarded as a great philosopher of religion.He wrote in his diary: Health is immoral, because health is vitality.Vitality is joy, vigor is enjoyment, vigor is love, vigor is sex, vigor is all natural phenomena.Destroys vitality, makes it docile and dull.So there are so many commandments—to destroy vitality, to prevent the bursting and eruption of vitality. ① Keyserling (Keyserling, 1880~1946): German social philosopher.There are "A Philosopher's Travel Diary", "Creative Understanding" and other works. ——Editor's note. Religious people always think that health is dangerous, so sickness becomes a spiritual goal. I repeat, Zhuangzi is very rebellious. He said: the naturalness, vitality and joy that comes from the state of being full of life and the balance that comes naturally, this is enough, there is no need to work hard.How many beautiful things in nature happen unconsciously: roses are naturally beautiful, cuckoos are naturally singing... Look, a deer, full of life, full of vitality, agile; look, a hare, so agile, so Watch out, even the Buddha couldn't help being jealous. Looking around, everything in nature is so perfect.Can you improve a rose?Can you improve nature?It only happens when something is wrong with human beings.If roses are beautiful without any effort, why can't man?What's wrong with people?If the stars are beautiful without any effort, without the help of Patanjali's "Yoga Sutras", why can't people?Man is also a part of nature, just like the stars.That's why Zhuangzi said: "Let it be, and you will blossom." If this implication penetrates deeper and deeper into your heart, all efforts will become meaningless.So you no longer plan the future step by step, but live in the here and now, the present is everything, and the present is eternity. This is the Buddhaland, and you are already a Buddha.The only thing lacking is that you didn't give it a chance to blossom because you were so focused on your goal. ①Patanjali (Patan-jali): The author of the ancient Indian yoga school philosophy classic "Yoga Sutra". ——Editor's note. The flower blooms without any effort because its energy is not squandered by any purpose.The flower does not plan the future, the flower is the present and the present.Be like a flower, be like a bird, be like a tree, be like a river or be like an ocean -- but don't be like a man, because man doesn't know what's wrong. Nature, the reason why it is natural, is because there is no effort, spontaneously, this is the essence of Zhuangzi.Now we're going to start to understand his words, listen to every word because your thoughts create a barrier, your thoughts don't let you hear.Your mind is the epitome of society.Society is very cunning, it not only surrounds you, it permeates you.This is your mind, and that is why all those who know are against mind going natural, because mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by society.So when you listen to Chuang Tzu, your mind blocks you, your mind is not willing to listen, because what he says is so contrary to your mind.If you put your mind aside and let the words of Zhuangzi permeate you, then just listening becomes a meditation, and just listening will change you.Nothing else to do but listen. Chuang Tzu believed in understanding, not in meditation.If I say you have to meditate, it is only because I find understanding very difficult for you.Meditation will not take you to the goal -- there is no way that will take you to the goal.There is no way, no trick.Meditation just helps you realize, it doesn't lead you to the truth, it just breaks the mind, and once the truth comes, you can see it. The circles drawn by hand by Mi Yixin are more perfect than those drawn with compasses. Zhuangzi tells of a cartographer named Mi Yi who drew more perfect circles by hand than with compasses.Really, you need compasses because you're afraid, and if you weren't afraid you could draw perfect circles without any help. Circumference can be seen everywhere in nature, and everything moves in a circle.Circumference is the most visible phenomenon in nature - never with the aid of compasses.The stars never look up maps, they don't carry compasses, but they move in circles.If you give them maps and compasses, I'm sure they'll be overwhelmed -- they won't know what to do and what to do. You must have heard the story of the centipede.Centipedes move by wriggling on hundreds of thin legs.The philosopher frog saw the centipede, stared at it for a long time, and wondered in his heart: it is so difficult to walk on four legs, but the centipede has hundreds of legs, how can it walk?This is nothing short of a miracle!How does the centipede decide which leg to move first, which to move next, and which to move next?There are hundreds of legs!So the frog stopped the centipede and asked, "I am a philosopher, and I am confused by you. There is a question I cannot answer. How do you walk? It is impossible to walk on so many legs!" said the centipede. : "I've been walking like this all the time, but who would have thought about it? Now that you asked, I have to think about it before I can answer you." This thought entered the centipede's consciousness for the first time.In fact, the frog was right—which leg should go first?The centipede stood for a few minutes, unable to move, staggered a few steps, and finally got down.It said to the frog, "Please don't ask other centipedes this question again, I've been walking all the time, it's not a problem at all, and now you've killed me! I can't move anymore, hundreds of legs have to move, I what can we do about it?" Life also moves in a circle, perfect and without problems.Zhuangzi talked about Mi Yi who could draw circles without compasses.You need compasses because you don't have confidence in life, you need morals, admonitions, principles, Bibles, Korans or Guitars to guide your life because you don't have confidence in your own inner strength.This is your life.Those "Bibles", "Koran" and "Gita" brought you the same results as frogs did to centipedes. There are so many warnings to follow, so many principles to follow, and so many moral values ​​to keep.There are so many things swaying you that your inner life loses its spontaneity.You have gone astray not because of any evil forces but by those who do good.It is not the devil who is leading you astray, but your priests, your leaders, and what you consider to be saints. It's hard to believe.It is easy to believe that there is a devil, so you place all the blame on the devil.I tell you: there is no devil.Zhuangzi also said the same. Zhuangzi said: There is no God, no devil, only life.Priests create God, they create devils, because priests create boundaries between right and wrong.Once the line between right and wrong enters your mind, you are never comfortable, never at ease, never relaxed, you are always tense.You are doing nothing wrong, because boundaries lead to confusion.The whole life is so peaceful and still, what are you doing with so much effort?Just because there are boundaries. "The circle drawn by hand by the painter Mi Yixin is more perfect than the one drawn with a compass." If you have no self-awareness, your life will grow naturally.The compass is self-awareness: if you do things with self-awareness, you will get into trouble.You talk, you schmooze with your friends all day, there's nothing wrong with that.But if I were to ask you to come here and speak to your friends gathered here in this chair, you'd be in the same situation as the centipede, and you've been talking all your life and it's never been a problem. How could it be a problem?The problem is your sense of self.Now with so many people looking at you, staring at you, you don't feel comfortable.So you design, you plan, you want people to like you.You want to make an impression with everything you say - you have a sense of self. Otherwise, everyone is an orator, a born orator.People talk, it's never a problem.Once you get them up on a pulpit and speaking to a group of people, something doesn't feel right.What's wrong?Nothing has changed, only ego comes in and ego is the problem. His fingers spontaneously brought up shapes out of nowhere.At the same time, his mind is free, unattached to what he is doing.No tools are needed, his thoughts are completely pure, and he knows no obstacles.His fingers spontaneously brought up shapes out of nowhere.Not knowing where means omnipresent, not knowing where means the ultimate world, not knowing where means the ultimate source, which is the source of life. How do you breathe so perfectly?Chuang Tzu said that it is not you who breathe, but "it" that makes you breathe.You're not breathing because you're not doing anything. "I am breathing" is a false concept, it would be better to say: "Nature" - "it" makes me breathe.Then the whole state of mind changes, the whole focus shifts to nature, not you, not the ego, but "it," the vast, infinite nature that surrounds you. The ground of your being, that is the ground -- "it" makes you breathe. When you fall in love, do you really fall in love, or does "it" fall in love through you?When you are angry, are you angry?For when anger is there you are not yet; when love is there you are not yet.Anger, love, any intense emotion, is not you, for all things, you disappear, only it - "Tao" exists. So, the man in the Tao just gradually understands that the "I" is the most useless thing, which only causes trouble and nothing else - so he gets out of it.In fact there is no need to get out of it, once he realizes it, it just falls off - there is no 'I', 'it' lives through him, so there is no burden, no tension, no anxiety, so he becomes a child, His heart is free, without worries. You can't do anything without worry.Whatever you do, as soon as the ego enters, as soon as concern enters, anxiety comes. Just look at this phenomenon: a surgeon who operates is a brilliant doctor.But if his wife is lying on the operating table, he can't operate, his hands are shaking.In normal times, he works like a perfect mechanic, but when his wife is lying on the operating table, he can't operate—need to call in another doctor. what happened?Concern enters.For other patients, he has no worries, because he is working as usual, he is not thinking about this, he is just a surgeon, a force of nature is working there.His mind wasn't there, he was brilliant.But now that his wife is there, concern enters: Will the operation succeed?Can I save my wife?Now, the questions were there, and there was concern in his mind—and his hands trembled. Your whole being is trembling because you are burdened with so many concerns that you cannot draw a perfect circle. And your handwriting... There is a science of understanding ideas through handwriting.Here's a definite reason: because when you write, your vibrations come in.When you sign is when you think about it the most.Your trembling is there, and with a magnifying glass you can observe and detect that trembling.That vibration can express many aspects of you, because whatever you are doing, you are doing, and "it" moves you, and "it" will also move some hints about you.You can tell a great deal about your personality just by looking at your handwriting. If the Buddha had signed it, it would have been very different.Then there will be no trembling, because there is no concern.Even the signature alone can tell whether the signer is a Buddha or not. Whatever you do, your trembling follows you like a shadow.Who caused this tremor? You come to me, and you say, "I am not peaceful, my mind refuses to be quiet." But if you don't let go of your worries, how can you be peaceful?You want your mind to be still, you want your mind to be quiet, clear, clear, without letting go of concerns, and all this is impossible, because there is always vibration there. If you don't change your concerns, the only thing you can do is to suppress all vibrations in your heart.So, if you observe, you feel that on the surface everything is peaceful, calm, but deep down you are trembling, trembling.The inner fear and trembling continued.They are all born of worry. What are concerns?Just think about what other people will think of you.But why are you so worried about other people?So worried that you can't survive?Everyone wonders what others will think of them, and others worry just as much.They worry about you and you worry about them. Once Mora was walking on a path, a lonely path, and the sun was setting and night was falling.Suddenly he felt afraid because a group of people came and he thought: These people must be thugs, thieves, there is no one around but myself.what to do?So he climbed over a nearby wall and found himself in a cemetery.There was a freshly dug grave there, and he crawled in, sort of calmed himself down, closed his eyes, and waited for the crowd to pass so he could go home.But that group also saw someone there.Mora leaped over the wall so suddenly that they couldn't help but frighten them.How is this going?Is someone hiding there doing something shady?So they all jumped over the wall.Now Mora was sure: I was right, my guess was right, they were dangerous people, and now there was nothing I could do but pretend to be dead.So he plays dead, he holds his breath, because you don't rob or go kill a dead person.But the group of people saw someone over the wall, and they were very worried.They gathered around the tomb, looking inside, what was that man doing?They said, "What do you mean? What are you doing? Why are you here?" Mora opened his eyes and looked at them, and then he was sure he was in no danger, and he smiled and said, "Look, that's a problem, A very philosophical question. You ask me why I am here, and I want to ask why you are here, I am here because of you, and you are here because of me!" It's a vicious circle: You're afraid of others, others are afraid of you, your whole life is a mess, let go of this nonsense, let go of this vicious circle, don't care about others.Your life is enough, don't worry about others.I tell you, if you live without attachments, your being will blossom and others will share your being.You are willing to share and you are willing to give, but first you must stop caring about other people and what they think of you. This kind of "for" is very dangerous, no one is comfortable, no one relaxes.Because other people are thinking about others too, everyone is following the other - life becomes hell. His fingers spontaneously brought up shapes out of nowhere.At the same time, his mind is free, unattached to what he is doing. ·Do!Don't worry about what you're doing—do it wholeheartedly, so that doing itself becomes a bliss.Don't think about big things, there are no big or small things.Don't think you're doing great things, playing great music, painting great paintings, you're going to be Picasso or Van Gogh or great Shakespeare or Milton or whatever.Nothing - nothing big and nothing small.There are only great people and small people, but there is no distinction between great and small.A great man can bring this color into every little thing he does: he eats differently, sleeps differently, walks differently.He brings his greatness to everything he does. ① Picasso (Pablo Picasso, 1881 ~ 1973): Spanish painter, the main representative of the French modern painting school.His works have had a great influence on Western art schools. ——Editor's note ②Vincent Van Gogh (Vincent Van Gogh, 1853~1890): Dutch painter, one of the representatives of the post-impressionism school.His works include, "The Peasant", "The Postman Roland" and so on. ——Editor's note. ③ Milton (JohnMilton, 1608 ~ 1674): Great British poet.Famous for his long poems.His prose works provide important explanations of the Puritan Revolution and occupy a place in the history of Western political and religious thought. ——Editor's note. what is greatnessNature... there is nothing greater than nature. Eat like a king.It does not depend on the quality of the food, but on the person who eats it and how he enjoys it.Even with bread, butter and salt, you can be a king. Once upon a time Epicurus had a garden, near Athens... Like Zhuangzi, he is also a rare person.He doesn't believe in God, he doesn't have faith, because faith is nothing.Only stupid people have faith.An enlightened person has faith, not faith.Faith is different from faith.Faith means believing in life, trusting life so thoroughly that it goes with it wherever it goes. ...He had a little garden where he lived with his disciples.People see him as a wicked atheist.He doesn't believe in God, he doesn't believe in the Bible, he doesn't believe in any temples, he's an atheist.But his lifestyle is remarkable.His life is extraordinary, magnificent and vast, even though they have nothing, even though they are very poor, the king heard about them and wanted to see how they lived, how can people without faith live happily?If those who believe in God cannot be happy, how can people be happy without God? One evening he went to Epicurus' garden. He was amazed--it was a miracle.They have nothing, almost nothing, but they live like kings, live like gods.Their whole life is joy.When they go to the stream to take a bath, it's not just a bath, it's dancing with the water, it's singing to the beat of the running water.They sing, they dance, they swim, they jump, they lurk. Their diet was also a joy, a feast, and they had nothing but bread and salt, not even butter.But they are so content that just being alive is enough and they don't need anything more. The king was so impressed by all this that he asked Epicurus, "Next time I come, I will bring you some presents. What do you want?" Epicurus said, "Give us time to think about it." , we never thought we would be given gifts, we receive so much from nature. But if you insist, please bring some butter, nothing else, butter will suffice." Life can be a joy if you know how to live without worries.Otherwise, life will be a long sickness which can only end in death. At the same time, his mind is free, unattached to what he is doing. No tools are needed, his thoughts are completely pure, and he knows no obstacles. You have to learn everything because you have completely forgotten nature.Psychologists are now suggesting that love must be trained, because people gradually forget how to love.Many texts were born from this: "The Art of Love", "How to Love".Orgasms, the ecstasy of sex, are completely forgotten.No animals need any training!Even the trees seem wiser than you. Everything has to be taught, even the very foundations of life, and that means we are uprooted.We lose our connection to nature and a divide emerges. If you are taught how to love, your love will be false.True love should be spontaneous.How can you be taught to love?If you've been taught, you're playing by the rules, there's no natural flow there. Nature doesn't flow by your rules, it has its own laws.You just go with the flow and it will work.The day is not far off when we must teach people how to breathe.Now you think it's a joke, but if you go back and ask Epicurus, "Will there come a day when people have to be taught how to have an orgasm?" he'll laugh it off.Because this is something that animals can get without any education, without a "master", without Johnsons, without Dr. Kinsey's reports and that sort of thing.Animals are just love - love comes naturally. There are now clinics in the United States that teach people to have orgasms.If you achieve orgasm through teaching and learning, well remember, it's not real.Because you are manipulating it, you are controlling it.So you're sort of forcing it, and orgasms are spontaneous, and spontaneous things can't be taught. You don't teach people to sleep.If you try to teach, you will disturb their sleep, because if they try - by whatever means - it will only be a disturbance.You just go to sleep, you just put your head on the pillow and go to sleep.If you do something, the very act of sleeping is not sleep in itself.Life is like sleep, life is like breathing. No tools are needed, his thoughts are completely pure, and he knows no obstacles. When your heart is pure, it has a clarity and you don't have to follow any rules.你头脑中不需有任何《圣经》——你只是看。一切都是透彻的，因为你内心纯净。 In this way, when the shoes are right, the feet are forgotten; when the belt is right, the stomach is forgotten; 记住，这是最伟大的祷文之一：当鞋子合适的时候，脚被忘却了。 当你健康时你对你的身体一无所知——身体被遗忘了。当身体有病时，你才忘不了它。如果不是头痛，你会念念不忘你有个脑袋吗？当你头痛时你就忘不了你的脑袋了。当鞋子挤脚的时候，也就是它不合适的时候。当你头不痛时，头在哪里呢？你完全忘了它。健康就是忘却，而疾病才是顾念——它成为头脑中一个念念不忘的标记，一种持续不断的紧张。 一个完全的道中人对自己是浑然不觉的。你觉得，因为你病了。自我就是疾病，一种很重的疾病，因为你念念不忘你是什么人。这就说明你处在一种很深的疾病中。疾病造就自我，一个十足健康的自然物体是浑然不觉的。他像一片云，像一阵风，像一块岩石，像一棵树，像一只鸟——但从不像一个人。他不像一个人只有疾病时，如有了创伤，才会需要顾念的。 顾念是出于安全的一种心理机制：如果你脚上有刺，你就不得不顾念。意念会一次又一次不停地转向这个地方，因为有刺必须拔除。如果你忘记它，刺将留在那儿，这就会有危险，毒菌可能会渗透到整个身体。当你头痛时，身体告诉你去记住它，去做点什么。如果你忘记它，那头痛可能有危险。 一旦有病，身体就会告诉你，什么地方出问题了——它将吸引你的注意。但当身体健康时，你忘却它；健康的时候你就像没有身体一样。这是健康唯一的定义：健康就是对身体没有意识。如果有任何关于身体的意识，那个部分就不健康。 对头脑也是一样。意识健康时，自我不存在——你对自己一无所知。你不用一直提醒自己"我是什么人物"，你只是放松。你存在，但没有"我"，只是存在，没有"我"，没有具体化的自我。自我不存在。 In this way, when the shoes are right, the feet are forgotten; when the belt is right, the stomach is forgotten; 这是需要明了的最深刻的道理之一。当心正确的时候，"赞同"与"反对"都被忘却了。当心念不对劲，有病时，你会一直有负担，忧心忡忡：这是对的，那是错的——对的需要遵从，错的需要避免。整个生活就是一种如何避免错误与如何获得成功的挣扎。但这不是获得成功的途径，这是永远与成功失之交臂的途径。 瞧，你有怒气、性欲、贪心。如果你说愤怒是错误的，那你的整个生活都将在气恼的状态下度过。有时你会生气，而有时候你会为你的生气而生气——这将是唯一的区别。有时你会生气，当怒气过后你又为你的生气而生气，你把这叫做忏悔。然后你决定今后不再生气，但你会再次生气，因为这两种状态都是生气。有时你为别人生气，有时你为自己的生气而生气。 如果你反对性，你说那是错的——整个世界都这么说——当然你会有性欲，而性交过后，你会觉得惭愧。在那种惭愧中你会沉思，把你的性欲想了又想；这将成为一种大脑的东西。所以，有时你会有性生活，而有时候是意淫——有时是身体的性活动，有时是头脑的性活动。 一旦你作出区别，一旦你发生冲突，你将被一分为二。有一次我与摩拉·纳斯鲁丁在一起。一个非常漂亮的寡妇来向他求教。她说："我遇到了麻烦，你得帮帮我。我爱上了一个十分英俊的男人，比我年轻，但他很穷。还有一个年长的人，他十分富有，但很丑，他爱上了我，我该怎么办？我该和哪个人结婚呢？"摩拉·纳斯鲁丁闭上眼睛，想了一会儿，说："嫁给那个富人，而对那个穷人要好。" 这便是矛盾产生的根源，这就是你如何在两者之间作出选择。于是你被分割了。当你说这是对的那是错的时候，你已经被分割了，你的整个生活将是一场冲突——像钟摆那样，从这一极荡到另一极。 不要对抗任何事情。Why?因为当你对抗某事时就意味着，在内心深处你在向往它，不然为什么要抵抗呢？ 一个内心深处没有怒气的人不会抵抗愤怒，他为什么要抵抗？一个内心深处没有贪欲的人不会抵抗贪欲，他为什么要抵抗？这对他不成为问题，这不是一个选择，他没有作出任何区分。请记住，只有贪婪的人才需抵抗贪婪，纵欲成性的人才需抵抗性欲，怒气冲冲的人才需抵抗愤怒，暴戾的人才需抵制暴戾。他们会怎么做呢？他们会设置一个对立的目标。 如果你暴戾，那么非暴戾就是你的对立面。一个暴戾的人怎么会不暴戾呢？他会怎么做？只有一种可能，那就是他对自己残忍，就这样。他能做什么呢？一个暴戾的人……他怎么才能不暴戾？一个怒气冲冲的人……他怎么能养成心平气和的习惯？如果一个愤怒的人变成不愤怒了，在他的不愤怒中还将有怒气存在，你自身不进入，你是无法养成任何习性的。愤怒会进入不愤怒；暴戾会进入非暴戾。 你环顾四周，如果你准确地观察，你会发现那些暴戾者无非是那些将非暴戾作为他们对立面的人；你会发现那些淫荡的纵欲者无非是那些将独身、禁欲作为他们对立目标的人。 庄子说：不要区分，不然，你将被分割。一旦被分割，你将两半分离。 一个被分割的人是不自然的，自然自成一体，这是一种深层的和谐，没有任何冲突。自然接受一切——没有选择，这是一种别无选择的自然而然。Don't choose.这是一个奇迹：如果你不选择去抵抗愤怒。当愤怒来临时它只是愤怒，当愤怒离去时，随它去。不要忏悔，不要让它在脑子里继续停留，不要让它成为一种持续状态，不要对抗它。当愤怒来临，它就是来了，你能做什么？当它不来时，它就不来了！You have no choice. 然后奇迹发生了。没有选择的你是如此敏捷，你的能量再也不会被分割。当能量不被分割时它是如此地强大，如此势不可挡以至愤怒成为不可能的事——因为愤怒是软弱的一个部分。请记住：你越是软弱，就越是愤怒；越是强大，就越是平和。如果你绝对强大，愤怒不会存在。请记住：你越是软弱，就越是贪婪——事实上，软弱者需要用贪欲来保护他自己——你越强壮，就越少贪欲。 当能量在你身上聚成一体时，没有分割，没有隔离，你是一个整体。贪欲消失了，因为贪欲属于一个软弱的头脑、被分割的头脑。当你被分割时，将会有愤怒，而且你会与它争斗，于是造成更大的分离，更多的能量将被消耗。你内心将充满骚乱、暴戾，没有丝毫和谐的迹象。一切都会离谱。 你越是努力保持和谐，遇到的麻烦就会越多——因为你从第一拍开始就走调，你会一路走下去直到最终。 这第一步就是，"当心灵正确的时候，赞同与反对都被忘却了。"该怎么做？忘掉"赞同"与"反对"，让心来决定。有一件事是肯定的——你与你的愤怒长期争斗而你仍在愤怒——所以，试试庄子的办法，你不会失去什么。 你试图排斥性欲可你仍有性欲；相反，你会变得更放纵。性成了有害的东西——所以，试试庄子的办法，你不会失去什么。当性欲来时就让它来，就像你饿了要吃饭一样，性欲来时就让它来。不要作任何选择，不要说这是错的。这是好事，接受它——它是自然的一部分。突然间，当你成为一个整体时，性就自然而然地变成了爱。 成为一个整体的人——试着去体味这个整体意味着什么。 每个男人和每个女人都具有双重性：每个男人的内在都有男人和女人，每个女人的内在也都有男人和女人，没有一个人只是男人或女人——他们不可能这样——因为父母的一方是男人，父母的另一方是女人，你继承的是他们双方的东西——一半对一半。你一半承袭了你母亲，一半承袭了你父亲，所以你同时是男性和女性——一半对一半。这是深层的变裂。如果你造成更大的变裂，这种变裂将越来越大，放下一切变裂，不要引起任何争斗——不要选择。愤怒来了，接受它；性欲来了，接受它；贪心来了，接受它。你还能做什么呢？自然赋予你这些，所以接受他们，当然还有他们的后果。 如果你生气，那么其他人也会生气——接受愤怒及其后果。然后你的变裂消失了，渐渐地你内在的双重性成为一种和谐，一种循环产生了，当你内在的男性和女性相遇的时候，内在的性高潮就出现了。当他们在你内心相遇时，你就成为一个整体，一个新人诞生了。爱像影子一样跟随这个整体。你不能爱，你的爱是一种面具，一种欺骗。你的爱只是一种计谋，你的爱只是为了获得性。这就是为什么当你获得性时，爱就消失了。 当你与一个男人或女人性交后，爱消失了。过了24小时，能量再次来临，你积存能量，你又有性欲——你将再爱一次。因此爱只是获得性的一种手段，这就是你不能爱你自己的妻子或丈夫的原因——非常困难。你怎么能爱呢？需求没有了。爱只是一种引诱，只是劝诱另一个人作爱的前奏。对一对夫妻来说不需要劝诱，双方都是理所当然的。丈夫可以要求，妻子也可以要求，不存在劝诱的需要，所以爱情消失了。没有追逐的需要，要想看妻子怎么爱丈夫，或丈夫怎么爱妻子，简直是不可能的。他们只能伪装，那种伪装成为每个人非常非常沉重的负担。假装去爱！于是你的生活便毫无意义。 这就是人们陷入婚外恋情的原因：它能再给你一点活力、一点爱的激情，因为对于新对象你就必须再次引诱。你不能将另一方视作理所当然，你得劝诱。当你勾引之前，劝诱是需要的。你的爱只是一种劝诱，而不可能是别的什么，因为只有当你成为一个整体时，爱才会产生，而不是在此之前。 "性"这个字是非常美丽的，"性"这个字的原始意义意味着分裂——性意味着分裂。 如果你内心被分割，性将会存在。当你渴望一个女人或男人时，发生了什么？你的一半在渴求你的另一半，而你却在渴求外在的另一方。你们可以相遇片刻，但是你会再次孤单，因为外部世界没有永恒的聚会。性注定只是暂时的，因为另一方毕竟是另一方。 当你与你内在的男人或女人相遇，那样的聚合才是永恒的。当所有分界都消失时这种聚合就发生了。这是一种内在的转换。你的男人与女人在内心相遇时你成为一个整体。当你是一个整体的时候你就会有爱。 爱是佛，是基督，是庄子的品质。你只是虚晃一枪，你不能够爱。你越是明悟它，情形就越好，因为你不会被愚弄，你也不会愚弄他人。当你是一个整体，庄子也会在你身上发生，那就是：当心正确的时候，"赞同"与"反对"都被忘却了。 没有驱使，没有强制，没有需要，没有诱惑，这 时候你做什么事都是自在的，你是个自由的人。 现在你有顽念、冲动，你得干一些事情，你的身体不断迫使你，你的头脑不断迫使你去干这些事情。如果你不干，你会不自在，如果你干了，你就会有愧——几乎走投无路。如果你迁就性欲你会惭愧，你干了错事；如果不迁就，你就会感觉不自在，因为能量聚集起来，你到哪里去释放你的能量呢？此时能量在你体内涌动，迫使你、驱动你；你的生活将是一种驱使和缠绕。无论你做什么，你都会遇到麻烦，因为如果你听从性欲，你会感到困惑；一切梦想都破碎了，一事无成。你想得那么多，设计得那么多，但现实永远不会符合你的梦想。 你越是梦想，现实就越令人受挫，于是你觉得：为什么浪费精力？为什么陷入各种关系和不必要的复杂境地？因为当另一方进入时，他便带来了他自身的问题。 因此每一种关系都成为一种负担，而不是自由——因为每一种关系都始于被迫。 只有一个内心安然的人，一个成为整体的人，才是个自由人。这并不意味着他要去喜马拉雅山，或逃遁到西藏去。No!他仍将立足于此地，但他是以一种不同的品质立足于此地。他将去爱、去同情，各种关系也将存在，但他依然是自由的。没有一种关系是出于被迫，这只是他的分享，分享他的存在。他拥有如此之多，于是他给予。如果你接受他的礼物，他将对你深怀感激。看……你的爱只是一种获得性的技巧，而他的爱不谋取任何东西。他的爱不是从你处得到任何东西，他的爱只是一种分享。他拥有，他拥有如此之多于是他给予你些许。他给予得越多，拥有的东西就增长得越快。他的存在是在一个不同的界面移动。 你只要看看……到花园里去看看。如果植物的枝头有花，就没有更多的花会开放。好好观察它。我从不允许任何人摘花，但如果在一束玫瑰上长有5朵花，你不采它们，就没有更多的花会开，那5朵花也会很快凋谢。如果你采了5朵，那么10朵会来临；如果你采了10朵，那么20朵会来临，你采得越多，树给你的花朵也就越多。 当你成为一个整体时，也是同样的情形：你会成为一棵开花的树。你越是给予，你将发现更多的会到来；你分享得越多，你从中也就成长得越快。快乐越来越大，欢喜越来越深——分享吧，因为如果不分享，一切都会死去。 但最基本的事情是：不要"赞成"或"反对"，然后你才能成为一个自由人。 容易是好的。而对你来说情况恰恰相反。你总是选择困难，因为困难给予你挑战，而挑战给予你自我。困难于你是对的，而容易从来就不对。因为在容易中没有征服，自我无法完成。任务越艰巨，自我就越兴奋、越狂热。必须这么做——珠穆朗玛峰必须被征服，月球也必须被征服。 有人问第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的埃德蒙·希拉利：为什么，为什么花这么大的努力？ 100年来人类一次又一次地尝试，许多人死了！他们永远没能回来。为什么有攀登珠穆朗玛峰的欲望？那儿有什么？nothing! 100年来许多人就这样死去，失去了他们的生命，永远没能回来，然而一再地，每年都有一队人马再度尝试，这种情形是美丽的。 西方每年都有登山队来。当希拉利登上珠峰返回时，有人问他：为什么？他说：因为珠穆朗玛峰在那里，除非它被征服，否则我是不会安心的。它仍在那里，没有被征服，这是对自我的一个挑战，它必须被征服。 困难是诱人的。事情越困难，它就越吸引你，也越具有价值，因为如果你征服了它，你将获得一个庞大的自我。甚至如果你失败，你也将获得一个扩张的自我，因为你至少尝试了，而其他人并没有作任何尝试。 如果你轻易获得，那就什么都没有得到，因为自我不能扩张。如果你失败了，则失去更多，因为每个人都会说：这么件容易的事，你都不能干好？困难总是像磁铁般地吸引着自我，然而轻松是对的，因此自我从未被引向正确，它总是被引向错误。 一个人成为罪犯，因为犯罪是难的；一个人成为政治家，因为政治是难的；一个人为钱而疯狂，因为赚钱是难的。人们总是为困难的事而疯狂。并非因为获取什么，只是因为它像珠穆朗玛峰似地立在那里，是一种挑战，必须被征服。 看看你们的成功人士，那些获得成功的人。看看他们得到了什么？是的，他们可能登上了珠穆朗玛峰，但那儿什么都没有。人们必须回来。看看你们的总统、首相、洛克菲勒①，他们得到了什么？nothing!他们在内心深处清楚他们并没有得到什么。但他们干了一件事情，最为困难的事情——历史将记住他们。 ①洛克菲勒（JohnDavisonRockefeller，1839～1937）：美国石油大王。二战后，其集团所控制的资产额成为美国最大的垄断财团。——编注。 历史总是记住些蠢人，因为是蠢人制造并撰写了历史！ 庄子没有制造历史，因为轻松是对的。要是你轻而易举，你怎么能制造历史呢？如果你杀了几百万人并赢得一场战争，你就制造了历史。如果你只是在每天早晨刷牙，你怎么能制造历史呢？而轻松是对的！你洗澡，你唱歌，你怎么能制造历史呢？你吃饭，你静静地入睡，一夜无梦，你怎么能制造历史呢？No!历史对那些闲适与自然的人是不加注意的。历史只注意那些疯狂的，为某事所驱使的，制造这样或那样的麻烦的人。困难是错误的，容易是正确的；自在地活着，不要企图载入史册。把历史留给愚套的和疯狂的人，你只是远离它。因为你不可能两者兼得。你或是拥有生活，或是载入史册。如果你拥有生活，你将只是个自在和简单的人，做简单的事、做小事并从中获得享受。你不会给任何人制造任何麻烦。没有人会注意到你，你将存在，又似乎从来未曾存在，这就是自在——你存在就像你从未存在，就像你从不存在，从不打扰任何人。没有人会注意到你，因为没有必要。你将享受，你将体会到欢乐的最高峰。 轻松是对的，有了正确的开端，你就轻松了。 这就是判断标准：做任何事情，如果你觉得容易做，这就对了。如果你干得不顺畅，那是什么事不对劲了。如果你紧张，这就意味着你的生活不顺畅。如果你不能入睡，不能放松，这就说明你活得不痛快——你在追逐困难的事情，不可能的事情。 改变你的生活作风，你走的是岔道。有了正确的开端，你总能自在，有了正确的开端，你总会放松——这就是判断标准。所以每当你干什么的时候，你得看看发生了什么：如果你变得平和，如果你变得闲适、自在、放松，这就对了。这就是判断标准，再也没有什么另外的标准。还要记住的是，对你来说是正确的，可能对其他人是不正确的。因为对你来说是容易的事，对其他人也许并不容易，也许别的事对他来说才是容易的。所以，并没有放之四海而皆准的法则。每一个个体都必须找到对他自己合适的事情。什么对你是容易的？不要听从这个世界，因为有些人喜欢将自己的法则强加于你。这些人是敌人，是罪犯。 一直轻松下去，你就对了。 你得以你一直觉得轻松的方式去生活，就像一个孩子，开心地睡，开心地吃，开心地跳舞，涌动着活力——只要自在。记住，没有人会注意到你。人们可能认为你疯了。因为如果你严肃，他们会认为你是有价值的，可是如果你不停地欢笑，让你的生活充满快乐，他们会认为你是个傻瓜。让他们去想好了。你就当个傻子，但是你自在。不要做一个聪明人而不自在。没有一种智慧能够在不舒畅的生活中开花。那种智慧是虚假的，是借来的。轻松些，轻松并不难，一旦你明白了，你就找到了你的道路。 一直轻松下去，你就对了。 庄子是美丽的，庄子是无可比拟的，庄子是独一无二的！因为他说：一直轻松下去，你就对了。他没有说：不要暴戾，你就对了；真派，你就对了；不要生气，不然你就错了；不要性欲……不！No!他说：轻松些，一直轻松下去，你就对了——然后你选择你的道路。他给予你最根本的东西，而不是具体的指点，但是，它恰恰是宇宙的真理。 轻松的正确方式是忘掉正确的方式。 因为你如果过分执著于正确的方式你就会变得不自在。所以对于庄子你也自在些，不然的话你会变得不自在。你是如此起劲地变得不自在，以至你甚至会把庄子也变成一种疯狂。 "轻松的正确方式是忘掉正确的方式。"忘了它，轻松些，这就是一切。忘记生存是轻松的——连这个也要忘记！不然你将过分执著于轻松，以至轻松也将成为你心中的块垒。 如果你去对庄子说：现在我轻松了。他会说：放下它，你仍然念着它，当你轻松时，你就轻松了，没有定义，没有概念。当你轻松时，为什么说呢？为什么还念着它呢？因为如果你念着它，它早晚会成为一个创伤。一个自在的人只是轻松，而且忘我。他并未察觉他是轻松的，他也不知道他是正确的，他并不觉得自己在任何方面有什么了不起。他只是轻松地活着。 当你靠近一个轻松地自在地活着、简简单单、浑然不觉的人，你将会闻到他的气息。紧张有它特有的气息，轻松也有它自己的气息，但你可能对此不会有什么印象。 你是非常紧张，所以你从来只是注意紧张的人——不停地行动的人，坐着笔直，像一尊雕像似的人。于是你有了印象，事情看上去十分困难。你对孩子有印象吗？你注意看他们玩了吗？没有人会留意的！你对庄子也不会留意，当然你也不会注意一个真正自在的人，因为他没有给你施加任何印象。 但是如果你明白，你就会在轻松的人周围感到一种与众不同的频率。你如何感受它？通过什么途径呢？这个途径就是在一个轻松的人身边，你会感到自己也轻松起来，更加自在了。 一个轻松的人将使你轻松，一个紧张的人将使你紧张。和一个自然地活着的人在一起，你会感到随意，他不会以任何方式强加于你，他不会试图在任何方面改变你。他将接受你，他将接受。通过他的接受你能够学会接受，一旦你接受你自己，自然就接管了。自然一接管，海洋就不远了，河流在不停地向它流去。 心灵有一座不可摧毁的，没有什么危险能够干扰的塔，只要这座塔被一个无形的保护者所守卫。保护者对自己的行为不知不觉，当那些行为变得刻意、内省及有意图时，它们就发生了偏差。 无意识的，绝对真诚的道被有意识的自我表现所干扰，所有的这些表现都是谎言。 当一个人以这种心猿意马的方式表现自我的时候，外部世界的风暴趁虚而入，禁锢了他。他不再被道的真诚所守护。 每一个新的行动都是一次新的失败。 如果他的行为是在众目睽睽、光天化日之下，他将被人惩罚。如果他是在私下悄悄地干，这些行为将受到心灵的惩罚。 让每一个明悟真诚含义的人都防止这种表演！ 他将与人、与心都和平相处，他将在你看不见的时候，独处的时候，在他的心灵之塔中正确地行动。