Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Tower of Mind

Only people are suffering.The place of suffering is not elsewhere, but in the heart of man. All nature is a joy; all nature is always celebrating, without fear, without worry.Existence goes on, but man is a problem.why is it like this?Everyone is a problem.If only a few people have problems, we can call them pathological, abnormal, but the fact is the opposite - only a few people have no problems.There are very few people like Buddha, Jesus or Chuang Tzu, who are at ease, whose life is one of joy, not suffering.Without them, everyone would be living in dire straits. Something is wrong with man—not a specific person, but the whole human society.This situation starts from the root.When a child is born, society begins to put the child into that unnatural pattern—the unnatural pattern that all human beings suffer from.Psychologists have tried to explore the secret of where children's changes come from, and they have finally discovered the 4-year-old age group.Around this age a child becomes part of society, around this age he ceases to be natural.Until he is four he is part of the great world of trees, flowers, birds, and animals, until he is four he is free.After that he was domesticated.Society took over.Then he has to live according to rules, morality, right and wrong.Then he is no longer whole.Then everything is differentiated.Henceforth, before he acts, he has to consciously decide how to act, what to do, and what not to do. "Should" enters, "should" is a disease.The distinction comes in, and now the child is no longer divine, he has fallen from that grace.

This is the meaning of Adam's fall in the biblical story.He was natural before eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and he lived in the Garden of Eden.Eden is here.The trees still grow there; the animals are still a part of it; the sun and moon and stars still move there.Now, Eden is here - but you are already outside.Why was Adam expelled from the Garden of Eden?For he ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.At the age of 4, every Adam and Eve was expelled from the Garden of Eden.It's not just something that happened in the past, it just happens over and over again as each child is born - another Adam is born, another Eve is born.No wisdom before 4 years old.At the age of 4, children begin to understand what is what.Then he goes off track, he is no longer natural, the spontaneity is gone.Now he will live by the rules.

Once you start living by the rules you will suffer.Because you can no longer love spontaneously, you can no longer enjoy, you can no longer dance, you cannot sing.Once you start living by rules, you have to settle into a pattern -- but life is never a pattern, it's a flow, it's a fluid, mutable flow.No one knows where it will go.Once you start living by the rules, you'll know where you're going.But deep down, that flow stops.From then on you just follow the steps, from then on you are going to die - because you are imprisoned.That confinement is very subtle - unless you are absolutely alert, you cannot see it, it surrounds you like an invisible armor.

One of the most revolutionary thinkers of the age, William Reich, discovered the armor, but he was declared mad by society and thrown into prison.He died in prison with many sorrows.His worry is that he speaks the truth but no one will listen to him.He discovered the problem that Zhuangzi once talked about in this classic - imprisonment.William Reissy found that every mental disease of man has a corresponding disease of some part of the body; some part of the body is necrotic and dull.It is impossible for your mind to be free until this part of the body is released, the hidden dangers are removed, and the vitality within you begins to flow again.The prison must be broken, the armor must be thrown away.

①Wilhelm Reich (WilhelmReich, 1897～1957): Austrian psychiatrist and biophysicist.Worked with Freud for many years. ——Editor's note. For example, let's look at how children are regulated at age 2.He was banned from playing with his genitals: don't touch your penis.Don't touch your clitoris.There seems to be a natural pleasure in playing with one's own body, a kind of ecstasy, a natural ecstasy.Look at those boys or girls enjoying their bodies and you will see what this ecstasy is.A thrill of ecstasy runs through the body, and you can see this wave running through the body.The child was ecstatic.But this expression seems to us to be somewhat animal - because we have forgotten how to be natural and uninhibited, so we stop the child.

There are two reasons for this blocking.One is that deep down we feel jealous.The second is that we were also blocked when we were children, and human concepts are a kind of mechanical repetition.Whatever our parents did to us, we will do to our children.We are always ashamed of what we did wrong.The kids are happy, and we feel like something is wrong.Remember, when a child is happy, do not associate it with anything wrong, or, in the depths of the heart, joy will be a mistake. That's the way it is, when you're happy you're ashamed, when you're sad you're happy, what's that? —When you're happy you feel something's wrong! "I'm doing something wrong." And when you're worrying you feel right, as it should be.This is because when a child is happy, society immediately intervenes from somewhere and says it is not allowed.Children have no concept of right and wrong.He has no morals, the child is amoral.All he knows is happy and unhappy -- he's free.What happens to the child when you say stop?Originally, the wave of happiness is flowing through the whole body from head to toe, from the sex center starting from the spine to the seventh center Sahasra① on the top of the head, Kundalini② is awakened.

① Sahasrar (Sahasrar): The last energy center of the body. ——Editor's note. ②Kundalini (kundalini): The life force in yoga teachings, it is said that curled up in the tailbone, when it rises to the brain, it can stimulate enlightenment. ——Editor's note. Every child is born with its natural functioning kundalini.But you say stop, what will happen to the child?He will hold his breath.When something is blocked, breathing must be blocked.He won't be able to breathe, he'll constrict his stomach, because that's the only way to stop those waves of energy.His diaphragm will stiffen, and his stomach will constrict again and again to prevent deep breaths.His diaphragm would become a suit of armor.Then, the breath will never be able to pass this obstacle smoothly.If the breath goes deep, it stimulates the sexual center, and when it stimulates the sexual center, the energy starts to fluctuate again, the vitality flows.This is why no one takes a deep breath.

When I make people breathe chaotically, they tell me it's very dangerous.They are afraid.What are you afraid of?Afraid that if you breathe too hard and chaotically, you will lose your restraint and your armor will be shattered.And that breath will affect the sex center.This is what society oppresses you - it creates a gap between the sex center and the breath.If the breath does not affect the sex center, all sources of pleasure are blocked.Your stomach becomes like a rock.It doesn't let anything flow down the stream, and your body is split in two.You never identify with your lower body.For you, the lower body is what really lows.Judgment entered.The upper part means noble, good things; the lower part means low, bad things.You never identify with your lower body, it is something bad -- it is the devil, the devil is there.

Adam was cast out of Eden, every Adam and Eve was cast out of Eden.Why?For they eat of the fruit of wisdom, and the fruit of wisdom is the most harmful.If you want to drop distinctions and deliberate divisions, you have to drop wisdom, you have to go back to childhood.Only then can the armor be broken.But if you try to break the armor, you will feel anxious, because the armor is your whole self.Because of it, you feel good about yourself because you are moral, and you feel superior to others because you are moral. If you break this armor, there will be chaos.First you will be in chaos, then the fear will come, and if you are afraid, you will be suppressed again, you will put on the armor again - you will even strengthen it.Then you will be afraid to leave it.

Think it protects you. I heard that in an elementary school, the teacher was explaining the principle of gravity to the students.After all, she said, we live on Earth because of the law of gravity, and a child is confused.He stood up and said he didn't understand—how did we stay on the ground before the law of gravity passed? You think you exist because of society, you think you are here because of morality -- and all that nonsense; you think you are here because of the Bible or the Koran or the Gita.No!Nature exists without any laws.It has its own internal laws, but those are not laws passed by humans.It needs no judgment from you, it exists and life flows through it.If you don't intervene, you will get there quickly; if you do, you will get into trouble.If you have trouble, sorrow and suffering, you need to know that you have interfered with nature.Nothing is possible until you stop interfering.

That's what Chuang Tzu is all about - don't interfere with nature, let it be, trust in it.From it you come, it is your mother; it is the source; to it you will return one day -- this is the ultimate purpose.At the same time, why intervene, why fight? You have to go back to childhood, you have to go back.You have to bring society in and force you to intervene in nature heavily once in a while.So remember a basic truth: If something goes wrong in your life path, you can't fix it with just intellectual understanding - it's not that simple.It's the pattern of your life, it's in your body, deep down in your bones.You must go back.If you really want to be natural, you have to go back in time - move backwards. All methods of meditation help you return.Lie in bed at night and try for 1 hour a day.It's a bit of an effort at first, but soon it becomes a natural activity that you enjoy.The further back you are, the freer and happier you will feel. Nature is vast, but human beings who make laws are narrow.They are like a tunnel that gets narrower the further you go.At some point you hit a dead end, you can't get anywhere, and the tunnel becomes your grave.This is where everyone hits a wall. If you really want to remove obstacles, at night, before going to sleep, close your eyes, and just go back to the old days.Move slowly, don't rush, you can't do it in a day - it will last about 3 months or so.Move slowly.Severe - not just recollection, recollection is useless because recollection is an intellectual activity and you still keep a distance because it does not touch you.Remember: serious. What do I mean by heavy?Just go back, like it happened all over again.It just "seems" at first, but it quickly becomes real.Your incomplete, repressed state of being is there, struggling to regain your freedom.Just go back in time, and before long, within 3 weeks, you'll find where that block is.Before this obstacle you are free, natural, and this obstacle has created all the troubles.You will never be natural again.Somewhere you will find your mother, your father standing on this obstacle -- that's why you are completely oblivious. If you recall, it's impossible for you to remember anything before the age of 4, because the barrier is so huge, it completely obscures things.Otherwise, why can't you remember things before the age of 4?Why do you forget so cleanly?Your thoughts are there.You enjoy, you suffer, you have many experiences—how can you forget them all?You have not forgotten, because of this block you have repressed everything in the unconscious.That's why people always say their childhood was beautiful.You always thought your childhood was paradise.It is - but it seems so, because you can't remember. walk slowly.Gradually more things will appear.The dust of the past must be thrown up.You will be ashamed, you will be afraid, your whole mind will say, "What are you doing? Come back, go to the future!" The mind will always say go to the future, because only then will it remain intact. If you really want to be a meditator, first you have to go back to the past.If you go the wrong way at a fork in the road, the only way is to go back to the fork in the road and take the right road again.There is no other way.Wherever you are now, you can't just go back from where you are - you have to go back. When I say heavily, I mean let it happen to you.Think about your parents telling you to remove your hands the first time you touched your genitals.Think about the look in their eyes, their expression - how they condemn you.Look at your father standing there again, same look, same look, gesture, accusation, the whole situation.Not only that, but feel the emotions of that day—the contraction, the narrowing of your consciousness and the condemnation and the trauma they caused. The child is so helpless that he has to follow your orders; whatever you say, he has to follow you.Even if you go against his nature, he has to obey you.He is so helpless, he cannot live without you, he depends on you. Look at this utter helplessness.Feel it in your body.You may start to cry and shed tears.You may start protesting.You might want to punch your dad - it's a shame you didn't.You won't be able to forgive your father without beating him up during this heavy time.That's why children can't forgive and forget their parents.They are always there because events are always connected to them.Go back and relive those moments, and gradually you will go deeper and deeper.Then suddenly the tunnel disappears - you've passed the barrier.You are in a vast, endless sky.You are a child again.Only then can you understand Chuang Tzu, not before. William Reiss and his therapy are very helpful; William Reiss will give you beautiful help on your way to understand Zhuangzi. Proverbs are as follows: Tower of the mind. The mind has an indestructible tower, from which no danger can disturb, so long as this tower is guarded by an invisible protector.Protectors are unaware of their actions, and when those actions become deliberate, introspective, and intentional, they go awry. Your mind is protected by nature itself, you don't have to be afraid of it.You don't have to be afraid and uneasy because your existence is protected by the existence of all things, the whole universe is helping you, but this help is unconscious, not deliberate, and you can't manipulate it - you have to let it be so that the universe The power of can work on you.If you are deliberate you become tense, and as soon as you become tense you become narrow, the infinite does not work for you.When you're afraid, you cringe -- psychological cringing happens. Zhuangzi said that the inner you is eternal, immortal.No death can destroy it.There is no need to be afraid of it.You are afraid because you are not in that tower -- the invisible tower of the mind.You have entered the society with laws and rules, those laws and rules don't protect you, they only give you a feeling of protection, but they don't really protect you, laws don't make you safe, they only give you a false sense sense of security.Death finally comes and shatters all your security.You will tremble and be filled with fear unless you go back to the source - the tower of the mind. what is that towerWhat does it do?It works unconsciously. A child is born.How does the child know that he has to come out of the womb after 9 months have passed?How does the child know?He has no calendar, no watch or anything like that.But after 9 months the baby is completely ready to be born.He actually struggled to be born.That's why the mother is in pain.That was a real struggle.The conflict started, and the mother cringed—fearful of pain in her body.So she fights.This confrontation and the child's attempt to get out of the uterus caused pain.If the mother lets it go, if she doesn't fight, there will be no pain.In primitive societies there is never pain.The more civilized a woman is, the more intense her pain will be.This is because she is now living by laws and rules; everything is false and unnatural now. How will the child know when the time is right?How does a seed know when it's time to germinate?The seeds may wait a full year until that night falls.The seed never asks the astrologer or the palmist; at the right time the seed is sown on the ground and it just breaks out.How can trees bloom in the right season?How does the constellation work?Look at this universe - so mysterious, so complex, so contradictory, yet it works so simply, so freely, so effortlessly.It is protected by Tao, by nature, and by the mind of nature itself.Man is stupid because he thinks he is right. And so the child grew up.Have you noticed that every child is beautiful?It is difficult to spot an ugly child.Every child is beautiful.Where does this beauty come from?But before long, it became difficult to find even one beautiful woman among 100.At first, 100 were beautiful - so what happened to them then?How can they be so ugly?Why is every child beautiful?His beauty comes from his actions, that flow is natural, and nature is beautiful.Once artificial and unnatural, you become ugly; pretentious, ugliness takes advantage of the void. A child's life is unconscious.When he is hungry, he cries; when he wants to sleep, he sleeps.But we impose rules and standards on them.Now there are instruction manuals on how to raise a child, how to be a mother, how to be a father.All kinds of guides are available.One wonders, how were children born before these guidelines?How were we born when the Articles hadn't been passed yet? "Guidelines" give you specific, special rules.Feed every 4 hours.The child cried, but the mother looked at the watch, not the child, and the four hours had not yet arrived.In this way you destroy the unconscious nature.Soon the kid will follow your example - he'll also be watching the clock and start crying as soon as the 4 hours are up - whether he's hungry or not!He had to go to the toilet early in the morning - potty training was a nuisance.How can you force your child to do it when he doesn't want to pee?His mother stood there with a reproachful look on her face, telling him to do it—do it.The baby was crying and sobbing, he didn't know how to satisfy his mother - she was crazy!But sooner or later he would force himself to do so. Psychologists have found that 50 percent of human psychosis stems from this type of toilet training.Fifty percent!The child starts pushing himself because he has to obey and he feels guilty if he doesn't do it on time.He also feels guilty when he does it naturally, because the guests are there—and he needs to be in the living room.How does the child know that the living room is not the right place?He lives unconsciously, he doesn't know which is the toilet and which is the living room.He didn't know when the guests were there and when they weren't.He didn't know when he was allowed to do it and when he wasn't allowed to do it.He doesn't live by rules, but he obeys because he has to.He is so helpless and you are so strong. dddd Watch what happens when your child forces himself to the bathroom.Gradually, the whole body becomes a manipulated artificial machine.Then nothing is natural.However, more or less, he forced himself - just to satisfy his parents.When he is not hungry he starts to sob and cry.You can see this happening.Go to any house where children are sitting at a table eating with tears in their eyes.They are not hungry now--they are right, the mother is wrong.This is how children are led astray.So, when the time "is right", he wants to eat - even though he's not hungry!When he is hungry, he will control himself because he is forbidden to ask. That's how he lost his connection with nature—to lose his connection with nature meant to become neurotic. The child is alive and active; he wants to run and dance.And the mother tried to force him to sleep.Have you ever thought that this is making things difficult for others?Can you force yourself to fall asleep?Can the mother force herself to fall asleep?What can you do when you don't feel sleepy?The child will pretend, he will close his eyes and pretend to be asleep, and then open them again as soon as the mother is gone.It was training him to play tricks, to make him a hypocrite for trivial matters.Sleep cannot be forced - it cannot be done.How else could there be so many insomniacs?Why are so many sedatives needed?Why do people toss and turn in bed all night?A child is expected to go to bed on time, get up on time, in order to be a good child, to be a good baby - otherwise he is a bad child.Those who live naturally are bad children, and those who obey the rules are good children.Then your whole life will suffer.He will go to this or that teacher, this or that pastor, this or that master, and they will give him something to do - this or that - and none of it will help much, because his whole state of life is Wrong, once the whole structure is wrong, nothing can be added.The structure had to be put down and start over. But that appears to be going too far.You've lived for forty or fifty years, and you've invested so much in your entire state of being.You come to me, I let you let go completely.This is what I mean by sannyas—it's just a decision to let go of the whole state of life, to let go of the past, to change completely.Because you no longer identify with it.You let go of all your investment and all the benefits you get from it.There are benefits, otherwise why would you have such a burden?It is paid.Society respects you - you are a respectable human being.Society will honor you when you obey society. ①Sannyas refers to a certain realm of practice. ——Editor's note. So when I say step into sannyas, I mean change your whole life situation.Nothing less.I can't change the part, because your disease is deeply rooted.Even if I tried to change, I couldn't because the disease was so deep that partial change was impossible.In fact the disease is more likely to re-alter locally.Unless you are ready to let it go completely, there is no other way.You can meditate, you can transcend meditation.You can close your eyes and say the mantra for 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening - you can fool yourself in all kinds of ways and hope that a miracle will happen without the state of your life being affected. This is why Mahesh Yogi has had such a profound influence in the West.He never touches the state of your life.He never said change yourself.He said you are what you are.It's like taking a pill; your state of life isn't touched, not at all.Whoever you are, right or wrong, just add 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening—and then everything will be fine.Because the gates of heaven are open for you to enter.One is so stupid as to believe such tricks -- and it's just tricks.They only work like tranquilizers.They may help you adjust your wrong life situation, but this may not solve the problem.They may help, they may adjust your life situation, but your life situation is fundamentally wrong.So it is better not to make this adjustment.They may give you comfort but those comforts are harmful - because you are no longer changing.You will take comfort from the state of your life, and you will feel that because of something you have done - Transcendental Meditation, everything is alright. You'll sleep better - I know of a spell that will give you a better night's sleep.You are less likely to get sick because you are more attuned to this wrong life situation.But it won't bring you joy.Your sickness will be less, but it will not bring you ecstasy.You may prolong your suffering life a little.You will be less likely to go astray, but you will never be a reveler, a joyous person.It is only when you are ready to let go of your entire state of life that you can become a joyous person.Doing less than sannyas will not help you. The mind has an indestructible tower, from which no danger can disturb, so long as this tower is guarded by an invisible protector.Protectors are unaware of their actions, and when those actions become deliberate, introspective, and intentional, they go awry. Avoid deliberation, avoid will, avoid purposefulness - act like a child, trusting in nature.When you are hungry, eat.When you are not hungry, don't eat.Nature guides you: when you want to sleep, go to sleep.If you don't feel sleepy, you don't have to go to sleep—just let go of the thought.Act freely, and before long, this neurotic state of life will be let go and you will return to the source.That source is the Tao. The unconscious, absolutely sincere Tao is disturbed by conscious self-expressions, all of which are lies. Live, but don't make your life a show.All these performances are lies.Live, but don't be an actor.Don't perform tricks - it's not necessary.It doesn't matter what other people say; it doesn't matter; what you are is the only thing that matters.Live according to your nature.What other people think of you is their problem and you don't have to worry about it.Don't make your life a show.Once you do that there is no end, so you are always deceiving, and if people worship deception, you become deceitful.If they think it is good, and respect you for it, then you will be poor if you want to be a painter, and it is an unconscious desire, even if there is no natural reason. .Don't become a doctor to get rich.Being a doctor may make you rich, but if being a doctor is not your natural desire, if you are doing it just to satisfy your parents, society, friends, then although you may be very, very rich, you will still be dissatisfied —and the most important thing is satisfaction. I heard of a doctor who became the best surgeon in his country.He was elected president of the National Association of Surgeons.On the day he was elected chairman, a grand celebration was held.But he felt sad. A friend asked him, "Why do you look so sad? You should be very, very happy. You have become the best surgeon and now you are unbeatable. The highest honor a surgeon can receive Is to become the president of the National Association of Surgeons. Why are you so sad?" The surgeon replied, "I never wanted to be a doctor, but I have succeeded in doing it. There is no escape for me now. If I fail I still have a chance to choose again, but now I can't move." His friend said, "Are you kidding, what are you talking about? Your family is happy, your wife is happy, and your children are happy too." Happy, everyone happy—everyone thinks highly of you." The doctor said: "But I can't respect myself, and that's the fundamental thing. I want to be a dancer, but my parents won't let me, I have to Obey them. I'm a coward. I'm the best surgeon and I'm not happy. I'm not happy because I'm the worst dancer in the world. I can't dance, that's the problem." Self-realization comes from nature, not from society.You are on your own mission, but unconsciously.Follow it, others don't know where you are going, but you can feel it yourself.You may not get the Nobel Prize, because the prize was never given to a satisfied man.No one who is content has ever won a Nobel Prize, neither did Buddha, nor did Christ.For the Nobel Prize is awarded to the man who has faithfully obeyed society and achieved its goals—not his own.Look at the Nobel laureates - you will find no sadder ones.Some of them committed suicide, and for a reason.Most of them feel that they are not satisfied.Rewards don't enrich you.Follow your inner nature, don't force it consciously. The unconscious, absolutely sincere Tao is disturbed by conscious self-expressions, all of which are lies. Mulla Nasrudin was sick and he went to the doctor.The doctor said to him, "Nasruddin, do you drink?" Nasruddin said no - but his hands were shaking, even at that moment he was drunk - you could tell from his breath There was a smell of alcohol.So the doctor said, "Well then, are you chasing women?" Nasruddin said no.But he's just come out of a brothel - you can see the lipstick on his face. "Do you smoke then?" asked the doctor. "Never," said Nasrudin—but you could see the cigarettes in his pocket, and his fingers were brown. "So what do you do?" said the doctor. "I'm lying," Nasrudin said. This is what you successful people look like: the bigger your lies, the more brilliant your success.To be successful in this world, you have to be a liar.But you lost yourself.You are successful in this world, but you are a failure in the inner world.In the end, it is the inner world that makes sense. When a person expresses himself in such a distracted way, the storm of the outside world takes advantage of it and imprisons him. As soon as you reveal your inclination to perform and display, the world moves in and imprisons you.You become a victim. He is no longer guarded by the sincerity of the Tao. Every new action is a new failure. Once you become interested in what others think of you, every new action you take will be a failure.You may succeed, but that will not help at all, because you will not be satisfied with it, you will never flow through it.You can never achieve your mission.Your seed is still a seed.You can collect stories about yourself from newspapers, but they are dead clips, testimonials, and you hang them in your living room, but that is not life.These masks you put on when you go out, the smiles are fake, not life.Little by little, with each new action, you sink deeper and deeper into the lie.You think how can you be happy in these lies?You may gain much of the rubbish of the world, but you will lose all that is real. Zhuangzi said: Be in the Tao, truly be in it, and be devout in it.There is only one devotion you need, and that is devotion to the Tao -- devotion to your inner being, your true being.No other piety is necessary - let the whole world call you impious. That's what Buddha's father said about him, because he left his parents behind.Buddha's wife said the same about him, because he also left her.That's what his whole kingdom said to him, because he put down his whole kingdom.But he is happy, and he remains true to his Word, his nature.He said: There is no other way.If you suffer, you suffer because of your expectations -- not because of me. You live to satisfy yourself, and others live to satisfy themselves.If they expect anything from you, that's their problem and they will suffer.But you don't have to fake it. Be true to your inner nature and help others to be true to theirs as well.That's what I call a godly person.A godly person who is true to his inner nature helps others to be true to their inner nature.You live to fulfill your mission, others live to fulfill theirs.Don't expect anything from them, or you'll turn them into actors, you'll turn them into liars.Don't expect anything from anyone, and don't try to live up to other people's expectations of you.It's hard, but that's sannyas -- that's what it's all about.Don't fuel anyone's expectations of you.Don't even give them the slightest hint that you will grant their wishes, and whatever the ordeal you're going through, go through it with ease.Otherwise, the world will take you in and imprison you.Once you agree to do something, you will be imprisoned.你已进了坑道，于是随着你每一步、每一个新的行动，你将陷入一种新的苦难，新的缺陷，新的谎言，新的失败。不要实现其他人的期望，也不要让别人实现你的愿望。记住，如果你痛苦，你是因自己而痛苦；如果其他人痛苦，那也是因他们自己而痛苦。没有人因他人而痛苦——牢牢地记住这一点。只有那时，你才能忠实于你的内在本性，这种虔诚就是宗教性。印度人称其为里特（Rit），耶稣称其为神的王国，庄子称其为道。无论用什么词，它都意味着去接近你的无意以，无条件地跟随它。这意味着无条件地跟随无意识，无论它向何处去——信任它。 这就是信任，这不是对某个神的相信，不是对地狱或天堂的相信，也不是对概念、理论或哲学的相信。信任意味着信任你来自于它，也将回归于它的自然。信任你将完整地回归的那个自然。那么，你生活的每一个步骤将成为一种新的、更深的实现。不然，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。 不要表现你自己。如果你在众目睽睽、光天化日之下表现，你将被人惩罚。这是必须明白的。当你成为一个演员，一个艺人，当你的生活成为一种马戏，一种展览，人们将欣赏你，因为你沦为他们幻想及期望的受害者。他们为你喝彩，但这不会持续很久，他们早晚会觉察到你的谎言，因为你的谎言能支撑多久呢？它会露馅，当他们开始觉察到你的谎言时他们将惩罚你。看看尼克松吧。这种情况在每一个表演者身上都会发生。首先他们为你喝彩，于是你成了一个受害者。只是为了博得他们的掌声你会越来越多地说谎。你开始实现他们的愿望，你会变得越来越不真实。It's a vicious circle.你变得越不真实，他们将越容易看出你在说谎——注意，你正走上一条危险的道路。他们早晚会惩罚你。当人们谈论你的成功时——注意，失败不远了。当他们把你推上王位，躲避它，因为他们迟早会把你赶下台。但你是如此愚蠢；你永远看不见这样一个事实——在你之前，王位上本是另一个人。他们把他放在那儿，现在，为你，他们赶走了他。现在他们给你戴上花环，欢迎你，但他们迟早会找到另一名表演者，然后他们会将你赶走。这种情况在每一个生活在公众舆论中的人身上都会发生。不要在外部世界要求成功，你不会有任何失败。不要让人们尊敬你，那么也不会有任何侮辱。 庄子说做最末一个，那么没有人能够把你推到更后面。不要走在队伍的前列，因为每个人都将是你的敌人，迟早他们会惩罚你。每一件事都有它的对立面。如果他们欣赏你，他们将惩罚你；如果他们尊敬你，他们将侮辱你。 这个过程是什么呢？当某人尊敬你的时候，他在内心深处觉得屈辱——他在内心深处觉得不如你，那么他怎么能宽恕你？he can not.终有一天这笔帐必须清算。当他俯首触摸你的双足，就是那一刻给他烙下了深深的创伤。他比你低。现在他必须证明他不比你低。终有一天他会证明他高于你。试着去了解这种内心的变化过程：帐必须清算，你欣赏一个人时，你不能忍受这种不平衡，就在那一刻，如果你清醒，你会发现你在内心深处也想攻击他。这只是时间问题。它迟早会冒出来。一个聪明的人从不要求你的欣赏。当你为他戴上花环时，他说：放下吧，因为今后我将为此付出。 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。 你也可能不在公众面前表演而在私下玩弄伎俩。人们变得如此虚伪，以至在盥洗室，当他们独自一人时，他们也说谎。甚至在那里他们也不真实，杂念丛生。谎言是如此根深蒂固以至你不能轻易将它们撇在一边——它们跟着你。就是在梦里你也说谎，甚至在你的梦里。谎言变得如此根深蒂固以至在梦里它们也跟着你。如果你想杀死你的父亲，你在梦里却会杀你的叔叔。谎言就是这样跟随着你。你叔叔并没有对你做什么，但他是最贴近的一个，他看上去就像你父亲。甚至在梦里你要杀你的父亲也很困难。这就是梦为什么变得复杂而需要弗洛伊德①与荣格②去解释它们。你说出叔叔，弗洛伊德便能读出父亲。叔叔只是个幌子——他与父亲最贴近。 如果你在私下捣鬼，你将被自然本身惩罚。表演术必须被惩罚。这就是庄子所指的心灵。他是说你将被自然本身惩罚。 ①弗洛伊德（SigmundFreud，1856～1939）：奥地利心理学家、精神病医师，精神分析学派创始人。主要著作有《释梦》、、《精神分析引论新编》等。 ——Editor's note. ②荣格（CarlGustavJung，1875～1961）：瑞士心理学家，分析心理学首创人。主要著作有《分析心理学论文集》、《心理学型态》等。 ——Editor's note. 如果你不想被惩罚，那就不要做一个表演者。无论别人说什么，你都保持自然。只因为他们说如此这般，你千万别改变自己。甚至如果他们说你是叛逆的、有罪的、坏的、恶的，让他们这么认为好了。甚至如果他们把你钉上十字架也悉听尊便，但还是要保持自己的真实。当耶稣将被钉上十字架时他本来可以逃脱。彼拉多·庞修斯会宽恕他，但耶稣必须请求。他不请求，因为他对自己的本性全心全意地忠实。 当苏格拉底被雅典人处罚的时候曾有这样的情形。他们说："只要你向法庭保证不再到城里四处游说，不再讨论世事及哲学，如果你保持沉默，我们会宽恕你。"苏格拉底笑着说："这是不可能的，因为我不能违背我的本性。这就是我，我将继续我的游说活动，你可以杀了我，这由你决定。"他接受毒酒但他不接受沉默，他不接受保持沉默。 忠实于你自己，不要去看别人怎么说。这是走向神性的唯一途径，因为这也是走向自然的唯一途径。 让每一个明悟真诚含义的人都防止那种表演！ 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。 他将与人、与心都和谐共存。如果你对表现你的存在不感任何兴趣，你将与自然与人都和谐共存。即使他们杀了你，你是平和的。基督在被钉上十字架的时候是平和的。苏格拉底甚至在接受毒药的时候也是与平常一样平和。你将心平气和，他们做什么能把你怎样？它触及不到你，你依然远远地隔离在你的心灵之塔中，在你所守卫的内在本性中。没有什么来企及和渗透你。 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。 当庄子说他将正确地行动，他不是指正确与错误。No.他不是指错误的对立面。他是指自然。自然是对的，容易是对的。做你自己是对的。成为你自己就是你能真正存在的一切，其他任何事情都是步入歧途。 有一个人看到自己的影子很害怕，他也很讨厌自己的脚印，于是他决定摆脱它们。他想出的办法是逃避它们。于是他起身跑起来。但他的脚每一次落地，又出现另一个脚印，而他的影子也毫无困难地跟着他。他把自己的失败归咎于他跑得不够快。于是他越跑越快，一刻不停，直至倒地而死。 他没有认识到他只要踏入蔽荫处，他的影子就会消失，如果他坐下不动，就再也不会有脚印。