Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Escape the Shadow

Man creates his own confusion only because he has been rejecting himself, blaming himself, instead of accepting himself.Thus a series of confusion, inner turmoil and distress are created.Why don't you accept who you are?What's wrong?The whole of existence accepts you as you are, but you yourself do not. You have ideals to achieve.The ideal is always in the future -- it has to be, no ideal can be in the present.And the future is somewhere, it has not yet been born.Because of this ideal you live in a future that is nothing but a dream; because of this ideal you cannot live in the here and now; because of this ideal you blame yourself.

All ideologies, all ideals, are condemnatory because that creates an image in the mind.When you keep comparing yourself to that image, you always feel that something is missing, something is missing.Nothing is missing, nothing is missed.You are perfect as long as it is possible to be perfect. Try to understand this, because only then will you understand Chuang Tzu's fable.This is one of the most beautiful fables ever told, and it penetrates deeply into the fabric of the human mind.Why is being you not enough?Why can't you be like God right now?Who is interfering?Who's in your way?Why can't you enjoy and rejoice right now?Where are the obstacles?

Obstacles come from ideals...how can you enjoy?You are filled with so much anger; first this anger should be dropped.How can you be happy?You are filled with so much sexuality; first of all this sexuality should be dropped.How can you celebrate like God right now?You are filled with so much desire, passion, anger; first they have to go.Then you will be like a god. That's how ideals are created, and because of ideals you become blame-seeking.Compare yourself to the ideal and you will never be perfect because it is impossible.Once you say "if" then joy is impossible, because that "if" is the biggest trouble.

Once you say, "If those conditions are fulfilled, I will be happy," then those conditions will never be fulfilled.Second, even if these conditions are in place, by then you have lost the ability to celebrate and enjoy.And again, when these conditions are fulfilled - if there is ever a moment, for they will not be fulfilled - your thoughts will create further ideals. This is how you miss life for several lifetimes.You create an ideal, and then you want to be that ideal, and then you feel blamed, inferior.Because of the idea that you are dreaming, your reality is blamed; the dream haunts you.

What I'm going to tell you is exactly the opposite.Be like God right now.Let the anger be, let the lust be, let the lust be -- you celebrate life.Gradually you will feel more rejoicing and less anger; more joy and less greed; more joy and less sexual desire.Then you will find the right path.rather than the other way around.When a man is able to celebrate his full life, all errors disappear, but if you arrange for it to disappear from the beginning, it will never disappear. It's like dealing with darkness.Your house is full of darkness and you ask, "How can I light a candle? The darkness has to be removed before I can light a candle." That's what you are doing.You said that first of all greed must be eliminated, and then there will be samadhi and ecstasy.you are stupid!You are saying that first the darkness has to be removed before you can light a candle, as if the darkness would stop you.Darkness is a non-entity, it is nothing, it is not an entity.It is just an absence, not a presence, it is just the absence of light.

Turn on the lamp and the darkness disappears. Celebrate, be a happy flame, and all mistakes disappear.Anger, lust, lust, or whatever you name it, are not entities, they are just an absence of joy and ecstatic life. Because you cannot enjoy, you are angry.It is not someone who is causing your anger -- because you cannot enjoy, you are in deep distress, and that is why you are angry.Everything else is just an excuse.Because you cannot rejoice, love does not come to you -- so there is sex.That's the way to deal with shadows.Then the mind said: "Destroy these things first, and then God will come." This is one of the most obvious ignorance in human nature.It follows everyone.

It is difficult for you to think that you are God at this very moment, but I ask you - what is lacking?What's missing?You're alive, you're breathing, you're conscious - what more do you need?This moment is like a god.Even if you think this is just a "what if", don't mind.Even if you're feeling "I'm just assuming I'm like a god", assume well and never mind.Start with an "assumption" and soon the facts will follow, because in fact you are.Once you start being like God, all misery, all confusion, all darkness disappears.To be a light, this change is unconditional.

Now I will go into this beautiful parable: A man was frightened when he saw his own shadow, and he hated his own footprints, so he decided to get rid of them. Remember, you are this person, and this person exists in everyone.That's what you do, and that's your logic - run from shadows.The man was worried about his own shadow.Why?What's wrong with shadows?Why should you be disturbed by a shadow?Because you've probably heard, dreamers say, God has no shadow.No shadows appeared as they walked.The man is troubled by these gods. It is said that in heaven the sun rises and the gods walk, they do not have any shadows, they are transparent.But I tell you, it's just a dream.There is no place where things are, where things can be, without shadows.If there is something, the shadow will appear, if there is no thing, only then will the shadow disappear.

To exist means to create a shadow.Your anger, your sexuality, your greed -- all are shadows.But remember, they are just shadows, in a sense they exist, but they still don't, that's what shadows mean. Shadows are not entities, but you are.You are real and that is why shadows appear.If you are like a phantom, there will be no shadow.Those angels in heaven are phantoms and nothing else, phantasms conjured up by you and your daydreamers and creators of ideals.The man is haunted because he heard that only when the shadow disappears can one become a god. There was a man who was frightened when he saw his own shadow, and he hated his own footprints, so he decided to get rid of them.

What is your problem?If you go deeper, you'll find nothing but the sound of your footsteps.Why are you so bothered by the sound of your footsteps?You are real, so there must be a little voice, and one should accept this. But people have heard stories about gods having no shadows, saying that when they walk, there will be no footsteps.These gods are nothing but illusions, they exist only in the mind.This paradise does not exist anywhere.When something exists, there is sound around it - footprints, shadows.Things are the way they are, you can't do anything about them, that's how they are.If you try to do something about it, you will go wrong; if you try to do something about it, your whole life will be wasted, and in the end you will feel that you have achieved nothing.Shadows are still there, footsteps will sound, and death is knocking at the door.

Accept yourself before death knocks at your door - and then miracles will happen.The miracle is that when you accept yourself, you no longer run away from yourself. Right now, each of you is running from yourselves.Even if you come to me, you come to me as part of your escape from yourself.That's why you can't touch me?That's the chasm.If you come to me as an escape from yourself, you cannot approach me, because all my efforts are to help you not to escape from yourself.Don't try to hide from yourself, you can't be anyone else.You have a definite calling and personality. Just like your thumb would have a symbol, an imprint, special, unique - that type of thumb never existed before, never will exist again, it belongs to you only, water will never have another As it is - so is your being.You have a special and unique, incomparable existence.There was never and never will be, only you have it.Celebrate it!Something unique comes to everyone, God has given everyone a unique gift, and you blame it, you want something better!You try to be wiser than Being, you try to be wiser than Tao -- and you go astray. Remember, the part is never wiser than the whole, whatever that whole is doing, that is the ultimate thing and you cannot change it.You can waste your life trying to do this, but you will get nowhere. The whole is vast, you are just an atom.The ocean is vast and you are just a drop in it.The whole ocean is salty and you want to be sweet.This is impossible.But the ego wants to do the impossible, the difficult, the impossible.Zhuangzi said that ease is right.Why can't you just relax and accept it?Why not say yes to Shadow?The moment you say "yes" you forget about it, it disappears, at least from the mind, even if it remains in the body. But what is the problem?How can shadows cause problems?Why does the shadow lead to problems?As you are now, you draw problems from everything, this person is confused, troubled by his own shadow.He wishes to be like a god, he wishes to have no shadow. But you are already like a god, you cannot be anything that you are not.how can you beYou can only be what you are, and all growth is moving towards that which is already there.You can hang out and knock on other people's doors, but it's just playing hide and seek with yourself.How many times you knock on other people's doors, how much you wander here and there, is all up to you.Eventually you will come back to yourself, to the awareness that you have always been there.No one can take it away.Nature and Tao cannot be taken away from you. The man is haunted by his shadow.The way he figured out was to escape it.That's the way everyone thought of it.It seems that thoughts have a vicious logic. For example, if you were angry, what would you do?The mind will say, "Don't be angry, you swear." What will you do?You repress it, and the more you repress, the deeper the anger goes into the very foundation of your being.Then you are not sometimes angry and sometimes not angry; if you repress too much you will always be angry, it will be in your blood, it will be a poison everywhere.It will extend to all your relationships.Even if you are in love with someone, anger will be there, love will become violent, even if you try to help someone, there will be poison in that help, because the poison is on you.Everything you do will carry it, it will reflect you.When you feel it again, the mind says, "You haven't suppressed enough, suppress it more." But anger exists because of suppression, and the mind says, "Suppress it more!" anger. Your mind is sexual and that's because of repression, the mind says, "Suppress it more. Find new ways, ways and means to suppress it more and apathy will blossom." But it doesn't do that flowering.Through repression, sex not only enters the body, but also enters the mind, it becomes a thing of the brain.So one goes on thinking about it, again and again.So there is so much pornography in the world. Why do people love looking at pictures of naked women?Are women not enough?Enough is enough!So what else is needed?Photos are often sexier than real women.A real woman has a body and a shadow, will have her footprints, and will make a sound.A photograph is a dream, it is absolutely spiritual, conscious, it has no shadow. A real woman sweats, then there's body odor; a photo never sweats and doesn't smell body; a real woman gets angry, a photo never gets angry; a real woman gets on Years will grow old; a photo is always young and fresh.A photo is only mental.Those who repress sex within themselves become lustful.Then their mind turns to sexual desire, so it is a disease. If you feel hungry, that's normal, just eat.But if you can't stop thinking about food, it's an obsession and a disease.When you feel hungry, it is normal if you are not hungry after eating.But you are endless about everything, then everything goes into the mind. Mulla Nasrudin's wife was ill and underwent surgery.She came home from the hospital a few days ago and I asked Mora, "How is your wife? Has she recovered from surgery?" He said, "No, she's still talking about it." If you're thinking about something, talking about it thing, it exists.And now it is even more dangerous, because the body recovers, but the mind continues, continues, endlessly -- the body can recover, but the mind will never recover. If you suppress hunger in the body, it enters the mind.The problem is not excluded, but pressed in.Suppress something and it goes to the root.Then the mind says, "If you're not succeeding, there's something wrong, you're not trying hard enough, try harder." The way he figured out was to escape them. The mind has only two choices, fight or escape.Once there is a problem, the mind will say, either fight it, or escape it.Both are wrong.If you fight, you are still living with the problem.If you fight, the problem will always be there.If you fight, you are divided because the problem is not outside -- the problem is inside.For example, if there is anger and you fight it, what happens?One half of your being will be with anger, and the other half with thoughts of confrontation.It's like your two hands are fighting each other.Who will win?You are just spreading your energy.No side will win.You can fool yourself into thinking that you are suppressing your anger now, that you are suppressing your anger now, but you have to keep suppressing it, not even allowing a moment of rest.If you forget about it for a single moment, you will lose all your victory.So those who repress something are always sitting on top of the repressed, they are always afraid.They cannot relax.Why is it so difficult to relax?why can't you sleepwhy can't you relaxWhy can't you go with the flow?Because you suppress so many things.You are afraid that if you relax, they will come out.So-called religious people cannot relax.They are tense, tense because of this: they are suppressing something, and you say relax.They know that if they relax, the enemy will emerge.So they can't relax.They are afraid to go to sleep. Go to your sages, for they fear nothing more than sleep. They fantasize about the day when they will be able to stay awake at all.They cut sleep from 8 hours to 6 hours, from 6 hours to 5 hours, from 5 hours to 3 hours, to 2 hours.If an old monk can sleep 2 hours a day, it is considered an achievement.This is stupid.This is not an achievement.This is not what Krishna means in the Gita Sutra when the world sleeps and the yogi wakes up.that's not what it means.This means that when the body is relaxed, the body falls asleep and the inner consciousness is awake even in sleep.This is a very different thing, which has nothing to do with ordinary sleep. ① Krishna (Krishna): One of the great gods worshiped by Hinduism.The eighth incarnation of Vishnu. ——Editor's note. A yogi does sleep better than you.He sleeps well because he can relax and he's not afraid.But these so-called religious people will be afraid, because in their dreams, everything that is suppressed by them will appear.Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his autobiography: I am a sexual conqueror only in my waking hours, but in sleep the sexual dreams persist.They will last because a repressed event will appear in the dream.Why in a dream?Because now you are asleep, the taboo is relaxed, the antagonist is gone -- he is sleeping.Enemies will pop up. The mind thinks: Either fight—and if you fight, you suppress—or run away.But where have you escaped to?Even if you go to the Himalayas, anger will follow you, it is your shadow; sex will follow you, it is your shadow.Wherever you go, your shadow will follow you. The way he figured out was to escape them.So he got up and ran. But each time his foot landed, another footprint appeared, and his shadow followed him without difficulty. He was amazed that he ran so fast, but the shadow followed without difficulty.Shadow followed easily, not even sweating or panting.There is no difficulty on the part of the shadow, because the shadow is not a substance, the shadow is not a person.A person may sweat and have difficulty breathing, but the shadow will always follow him.Shadow will not leave you.It is useless to fight or escape.where are you going?Wherever you go, you will take yourself with you, and your shadow will exist. He blamed his failure on not running fast enough.So he ran faster and faster, without stopping, until he fell down dead. You have to understand the logic of thought.If you don't understand, you will be its victim.Mind has a vicious logic, it is a vicious circle -- it is circular.If you listen to it, each step will lead you deeper and deeper into this cycle.The logic of this man is impeccable, and in his logic you cannot find any error, any flaw.Without holes, he was a logician as impeccable as Aristotle.He said that if the shadow followed him, it meant he wasn't running fast enough.He has to run faster and faster, so the shadow will not catch up with him for a moment.But the shadow is yours, and the shadow is nobody.It's not that other people follow you, if it is, then that logic is right. Remember, the thoughts are always right when there are other people, and the thoughts are always wrong when you are alone.In society, with others, the thought is always right; when alone with yourself, the thought is always wrong.Why?Because mindfulness is just a tool for being with others; it's just a technique to help you get along with others; it has nothing to do with yourself.Ideas are needed by society.If a child is born and he is not brought into any society, then mind will not develop.This has happened many times.Thirty or forty years ago, near Calcutta, a girl was adopted by wolves, and she grew up.She was 14 when she was rediscovered by society.But she is just a wolf child, she has no human thoughts at all.She runs on all fours, she's dangerous, she needs raw meat.She is so strong that not even 8 strong men can control her.She has a wolf mind.She has to grow up with wolves, a group of wolves, so she has to grow up with a wolf mind.It was impossible to train her to stand on two feet.She'll try two or three steps, but she'll get down again and stand on all fours.But she can run so fast on all fours that no one can catch up with her. Also, just 10 years ago, a boy was found near Le Cree.The same thing happened - wolves seemed to love children.They raised the child, a boy.He was 12 when he was found.This time the doctor tried harder.They put the baby in the hospital, massage him, give him medicine, give him everything. After 6 months the kid died because they tried to make him a human being and his whole being rebelled.He had been so healthy when they caught him, no one had ever been that healthy.He was wild, he was a wolf, and when they got him into the hospital and started treating him, he was sick; within 6 months they killed him.They try to create a human mind, but it's impossible.They only managed to train him to say one word, his name.They call him Ram.In 6 months, this was their only success.If you ask him, "What's your name?" the wolf boy will say, "Rum." That's everything. Mind is a social function.A wolf needs an idea for a wolf community; a man needs an idea for a human society.For this reason, there are many types of human minds, because there are so many societies on Earth. A Hindu has a different mind from a Mohammedan; a Christian has a different mind from a native; a Russian has a different mind from an American.They see it differently, they see it differently, they interpret it differently.Why?Because to exist in a particular society, you need a particular kind of mind.In Russia, if you believe in God, you are considered crazy. In India if you don't believe in God, you are considered crazy. ①Russia here refers to the former Soviet Union. Once I hosted a meditation camp, and the two dogs watched people doing dynamic meditations, watching those dynamic performances.I heard one dog say to another: "My master gives me bug medicine when I make these! He thinks I'm crazy!" When you come into society, be sober, don't do Dynamic Meditation in front of other people, they will think you are crazy. Everyone has established an idea, and each idea is a part. One has to let go of this idea. Only then, the idea of ​​the universe, the omnipresent idea, comes to you. A partial idea is just a way, a social function.You need words to talk to others, and you need ideas to connect with others.Remember, the idea is almost always right when you apply it to others; it is almost always wrong when you start using it on yourself.This man is right, and if other people follow him, then he is right, absolutely right.He can't run fast enough, that's why others follow you.But he was wrong because there was no one else.Thoughts are useless.Mind to others, meditation to yourself.Mind for others -- no mind for yourself.Thinking about oneself is the whole point of Chuang Tzu, Zen, Sufis, Hasidic, and all the prophets, such as Sakyamuni, Christ, Mohammed, all the prophets.The whole point is: mind to others, no mind to yourself. ① Sufism: A sect of mysticism and asceticism that emerged in Islam in the 10th and 11th centuries. ——Editor's note. ② Hasidism: A faction of Judaism. ——Editor's note. The man is in trouble because he uses thoughts to himself, and thoughts have their own form.The thought said, "Hurry up, hurry up! If you run fast enough, this shadow will not follow you." "He blamed his failure on not running fast enough. "It started with failure because he was running.But the mind can't say it, there is no input in the mind.It's a computer, you have to type, it's a program.It can't give you anything new, it can only give you what you've already typed.Mind cannot give you anything new; whatever it gives you is borrowed.If you get addicted to listening to it all the time, when you turn to yourself, you will get into trouble.Whenever there is a shift, to the Source, you are in trouble.Then the idea is totally useless -- not only useless, it is a real hindrance, it is harmful.So let it go. I heard that Mulla Nasrudin's son came back from school one day with a book on sexology.The mother was very troubled, but she waited for Mulla Nasrudin to come back.Something has to be done; this school is too much!When Mulla Nasrudin came his wife showed him this book. Nasrudin went upstairs to see where his son was.He found him kissing the maid in his room.So Nasrudin said, "Son, come down when you finish your homework." But this is logic!Logic has its own steps, and each step follows another without end. The man followed the mind, and he ran faster and faster, without stopping, until at last he fell dead.Faster and faster, non-stop - in the end only death will come. Have you ever been aware that life has not yet come to you?Have you ever found that there is never a single moment of your life befalling you?You have never experienced a moment of happiness like Zhuangzi and Buddha said.What will happen to you?Nothing happens but death.The closer you are to death, the faster you run because you think if you run fast enough, you will escape. Where are you going, so fast?People and their minds are always crazy about speed, as if we need speed wherever we go.So we get faster and faster.where are you going? Finally, whether you go slow or fast, you reach death. There is a Sufi story.A king dreamed that his death was coming.In his dream he saw a shadow standing, so he asked, "Who are you?" The shadow said, "I am your death, and I will come to you tomorrow, when the sun goes down." The king wanted to ask if there was There was no way to escape, but he couldn't because he was so frightened that the dream was interrupted and the shadow was gone.He was sweating profusely and trembling. In the middle of the night he called all his brains and said, "Find out the meaning of this dream." As you know, you won't find anyone stupider than a brains.They ran to their rooms and got out their scriptures, which were big, big volumes.Then they began to consult, debate, discuss, argue and argue with each other. Listening to their conversation, the king became more and more confused.They could not agree on any point; they belonged to different sects, as wise men always do.They don't belong to themselves, they belong to some dead tradition.One is Hindu, another is Islamic, and one is Christian.They tried and tried with their scriptures.When they discussed it, they became frantic, arguing and arguing.The king was very worried because the sun rose, and when the sun rose, it was not far from setting, because the rising was actually the setting, and it had already begun.The journey begins and within 24 hours the sun will be setting. He tried to interrupt them, but they said, "Don't interfere, it's a serious matter." Then an old man who had served the king all his life approached him and whispered in his ear, "You'd better run away, because these Man never draws any conclusions. Wise men never draw any conclusions. They will discuss and argue, their death will come, but conclusions never come. My advice is when death warns you, you better Escape from this palace at least! Go anywhere! Go!" This exhortation struck the king, and it was quite right.When man cannot do anything, he wants to fight, to escape. The king had a fast horse, and he got on it and ran away.He said to the brains: "If I come back alive, you made a decision, tell me - but now, I'm gone." He was very merry, and he walked faster and faster, because it was a matter of life and death. He looked back again and again to see if the shadow was coming, but there was no shadow.He was glad that death was gone, he had escaped.By the time the sun went down, he was hundreds of thousands of miles away from the capital.He stopped under a banyan tree, got off his horse, thanked it and said, "It was you, you saved me." Suddenly, just as he was talking to the horse and thanking it, he felt what he had felt in his dream. the same hand.He looked back, and the same shadow was there, and Death said, "I also want to thank your horse, he runs so fast. I waited all day under this banyan tree, and I was worried whether you could get here. The distance It's so far away, but what a horse it is. You've come at just the right time, when you're needed here." where are you going?Where will you be?All this running and evasion will bring you under the banyan tree.You will feel the hand of death on your shoulders as you give thanks for your horse and cart.Death will say, "I have been waiting here for you for a long time, here you come." Everyone arrives on time and doesn't miss a moment.Everyone got there on time and no one was ever late.I've heard of some people arriving early, but I've never heard of anyone getting there late. Some people arrive early because of their doctor. He blamed his failure on not running fast enough.So he ran faster and faster, without stopping, until he fell down dead.He did not realize that he had only to step into the shade and his shadow would disappear. It's easy - the easiest!If you just step into the shade where there is no sun, the shadow disappears, because the shadow is made by the sun.It is the absence of the sun's rays.If you're in the shade of a tree, the shadow disappears. He did not realize that he had only to step into the shade and his shadow would disappear. That shade is called meditation, that shade is called inner peace.Don't listen to the mind, just step into the shade, into the inner peace where no sunlight comes in. He's still on that circle, and that's the problem.He was then in the light of the outside world, and so there was a shadow. Close your eyes and go into the shade.The moment you close your eyes, the sun is gone, so all meditation is done with eyes closed -- you go into your own shade.There is neither the sun nor shadows inside, but there is society outside, and there are all kinds of shadows outside.Do you realize that your anger, your sexuality, your greed, your ambition are all part of society?If you really go in and put society out of the way, where is the anger?Where is the libido?But remember, at first when you close your eyes, they don't really close.You bring the image of the outside inside and you will find a feedback of the same world.But if you go on just going in, in, in, sooner or later society will be left outside.You are in, society is out -- you have come from the circumference to the centre. In this center there is a stillness: no anger, no confrontation with anger, no sexuality, no desirelessness, no craving, no non-craving, no violence, no non-violence -- because all that is outside.The opposite is also out there - remember.Inside you are neither, neither this nor that, you are just a being, pure.That's what I mean, being like a god - a pure being without opposites hovering and fighting, "fighting" - no!Just exist.You step into the shade. He didn't realize that if he just stepped into the shade his shadow would disappear.If he sits still, there will be no more footprints.It is so easy, but easy is so difficult for the mind, because the mind always finds it easier to run, to fight, because then there will be something to do.If you say to the mind, "Don't do anything," that's the hardest thing.The mind will ask: "Give me at least one sutra, then I can chant with my eyes closed: Aum, Aum; Ram, Ram...something to do, because how can we be doing nothing all the time , there is nothing to follow, what to chase?" Thought is active, being is totally inactive.Thought is running, existence is sitting.The circle is moving, but the center is not moving.Look at the movement of an ox cart—the wheels move, but the entire axis about which the wheels turn is stationary, perfectly still, motionless.Your being is never stationary, your circumference is always moving.This is something to keep in mind when dancing Sufi.When you dance, let the body be the circle -- the body moves and you stay still.The body becomes a wheel, a circle, and you are in the centre.You will soon realize that although the body is moving faster and faster, inside you can feel that you are not moving; the faster the body moves the better, because then the contrast is created.Suddenly, the body is separated from you. But you keep moving with the body and there is no separation.go sit down.Just sit and do nothing.Just close your eyes and sit, sit, and let everything settle.It takes time because you have been restless for several lifetimes.You have tried to cause all kinds of trouble.It takes time.You don't have to do anything; you just sit and watch, sit and watch... Zen calls this zazen.Zazen means just sitting and not doing anything.This is what Chuang Tzu said: he didn't realize that as soon as he stepped into the shade, his shadow would disappear, and if he sat still, there would be no more footprints. There is no need to fight, no need to escape.The only thing required is to step into the shade and sit still.This is what you need to do in your life.Let things go their own way.You just close your eyes and move inward to the center where no sunlight seeps in.No shadow, in fact, that's the mystical sense of God's no shadow.It is not that God somewhere has no shadow, but the God within you has no shadow because there is no infiltration from outside.It cannot penetrate, it is always in the shade. That shade Chuang Tzu calls Tao, your deepest nature -- absolutely the deepest, absolutely the deepest. So what to do?People, don't listen to your thoughts.Externally, it is a good tool, but internally it is definitely a hindrance.对别人来说，逻辑是好的，对自己，它不是好的。相反，信心更好，因为信心是非逻辑的，信心在社会上是危险的，因为它们将欺骗你。那里逻辑是需要的，怀疑是需要的。在处理事情时，逻辑与怀疑是需要的。科学靠的是怀疑，而宗教靠的是信心、信任。只是坐，带着一种深深的信任，相信你的内在本性会接手。它总会接手的，你只需等待，耐心是唯一需要的。无论你的意念说什么，不要听从，因为意念说："放下！" 意念将继续发言因为你总是听从它，你给了它如此重大的意义。甚至当它完全无用时，它仍将建议和劝告。 我听说一家银行曾试图决定他们是否应该在总部安装电脑和自动装置。于是一名效率专家被请来做一些调查工作：哪些人需要，哪些人不需要，哪些人可以被解职。 效率专家问一名职员："你在这儿做什么？"职员说："不做什么。"然后他问一名行政人员："你在这里做什么？"行政人员说："不做什么。"效率专家得意洋洋，十分快活，他对董事们说："我告诉你们，有许多重复，两个人都不做什么——有许多重复！" 效率专家总是效率专家，他运用逻辑，他受过训练。如果两个人在做同样的事情那么就有重复，如果两个人不做任何事情，那么也有重复，一个可以被解职。一个必须留着什么也不干。 对外部世界听从意念，对内在不要听从意念——只是把它放在一边。没有必要对抗它，因为如果你对抗它，它可能影响你。你只是把它放在一边。那就是信心。信心不是与意念对抗。如果你对抗，那么敌人影响你，记住……甚至朋友都没有像敌人那样的影响力。如果你持续与某人对抗，你会被他们影响，因为你不得不用同样的技巧与他们对抗。最终，敌手都变得相似。冷淡和远离敌人是十分困难的，敌人会影响你。那些与意念开始作战的人成为伟大的哲学家。他们可能谈论反意念，但他们的整个谈话都是意念的。他们可能说："反对意念。"但他们所说的都是来自甚至是他们敌手的意念。你必须与你的敌手共存。渐渐地敌对双方形成了关系，他们成为一样的。 第二次世界大战中，阿道夫·希特勒几乎把全世界完全变成暴力的世界，甚至他的敌人，那些抵抗法西斯主义的，也变成了暴力者，他们必须如此。 发生了一件有意思的事：阿道夫·希特勒几乎疯了，他不听从军事专家。他自视为有史以来最伟大的军事天才，所以整个战争必是依照他的指挥棒指挥的。这就是为什么一开始他总是赢，因为法国将领、英国将领、美国将领和俄国将领不明白将会发生什么。如果这场战争是由军事将领指挥的，他们能够明白——他们有着相同的意念，那样他们就能知道下一步是什么。 但这里是一个疯子，不相信任何军事训练，不相信任何军事技巧或策略，他只是决定。他用什么方法决定？他让占星术家决定！你可能会惊奇当丘吉尔知道时，他不得不指定了一个占星术家。丘吉尔认为这很蠢，因为他是个军人！用占星术家来决定战争应该怎么进行是愚蠢的！但如果敌人在做，你能怎么办？他指定占星术家的那一刻，他开始赢了，因为现在他们一样了。 一直记住，不要与意念对抗，不然你会屈从于敌人的条件。如果你想说服意念，你必须是好争辩的——这就是整个要义。如果你必须说服大脑，你必须运用词语——这就是全部问题。只是把它放在一边。这种放在一边就是信心。它不是对抗意念，它是超越意念，它只是把它放在一边。 这就像你出门时，你用你的鞋子；当你进门时，你就把它们放在一边——没有对抗，什么也没有。你不对鞋子说："现在我进来了，不需要你了，所以我把你放在一边。"你只是把它们放在一边，用不着它们了。 就像这个——容易是对的——没有对抗。容易是对的——没有对抗和冲突。你只是把意念放在一边，进入内在的蔽荫处坐下，那么不会听见脚步声，没有阴影跟着你，你变得像神一样。你只能是你已经是的人。所以我告诉你，你像神一样，你是神，不要满足于少于这一点的东西。 不要创造任何理想，不然你将制造冲突和责难，逃避与对抗——你的整个生活将变成一个谜。生命是一种神秘，不是一个谜。它必须被经历，而不是解答。 纪省子是个为国王训练斗鸡的人。他在训练一只出色的鸡。国王一直追问那鸡是否已作好了战斗准备。 "还没有，"训练者说，"它火气十足，随时都想与别的鸡斗。它对自己的力量有一股虚浮的骄气。" 10天之后他又回答道："还没有，它一听到别的鸡叫就怒气冲冲。"又过了10天："还没有。它仍然怒目而视，抖动羽毛。"再过10天。训练者说："现在它差不多准备好了。当另一只鸡叫时，它眼睛都不眨。它就像木鸡一样，一动不动。它已是个成熟的斗士。其他鸡一看到它就跑了。"