Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Cockfighting

The human mind ends with the ego—that is its last stage of growth.So first try to understand how the human mind becomes the ego.The ego is the obstacle.The more ego you have, the less divinity you have; the less ego you have, the closer you are to divinity.If you are utterly empty, divinity becomes a guest, and it can only be a guest when you are utterly empty, when not a single fragment of you remains.Then you become the host and he becomes the guest.When you are not there, you are the master.When you exist, all your prayers are in vain, all your invitations are false.When you exist you haven't called him, for when you don't exist your call is real, it's a silent longing in a void existence, a thought that doesn't exist, a dissolved The silent prayer of the self.

Mulla Nasrudin came to me once, looking very confused, sad, lost, and said, "I'm in deep trouble. A problem popped up. I'm not a blind believer, I'm a Reasonable people." So I asked him, "What's the problem?" He said, "Just this morning I saw a mouse sitting on the Koran, the holy Koran. So I was confused. If the Koran "Can't protect myself against an ordinary rat, how can it protect me? My whole belief is broken, my whole existence is disturbed. Now I can't trust the Koran anymore, what should I do?" So I told him, "That's the logical step, now you start believing in the mouse, because you saw with your own eyes that the mouse is stronger than the Koran."

Of course, power is the only criterion for the mind, and power is what the mind seeks—and Nietzsche was right. I told Mulla Nasrudin: Man is just a will to power.Now you see with your own eyes that a rat is more powerful than the Koran. He was convinced.Of course, there's no way to escape logic, so he starts worshiping rats.But he soon got into trouble again, because one day he saw a cat jumping on a mouse.But this time he didn't ask me; now he's got the hang of it - he's worshiping cats.Before long he was in trouble again.A dog chased the cat, and the cat shivered.So he began to worship dogs.But he got into trouble again.One day his wife beat the dog to death.So here he is again.He said: "This is too much, I can worship a mouse, a cat, a dog, but not my own wife." But I told him: "Nasrudin, you are a sane person, and That's how reason works, you can't go back, you have to accept it." So he said, "Then I'm going to do one thing. I'm going to take a picture of her without anyone knowing, and I'm going to go Go into your room, lock the door from the inside, worship her, but please don't tell her."

So he began to worship her quietly and privately.Things are going well.Mulla Nasrudin's wife came to me one day and she said, "Things were going wrong for a few days. We thought he was a little bit crazy because at one point he worshiped a mouse, then a cat, and then It was a dog, and for days he was doing something quietly in his room. He locked the door and let no one in. But today, just out of curiosity, I looked through the keyhole, which was too much, really It's unbearable!" I asked, "What is he doing?" She said, "Come and see." So I had to go, had to look through the keyhole!He was standing naked before a mirror adoring himself.So I knocked on the door and he came out and said, "That's the logical conclusion, I hit my wife in a rage this morning and I thought: I'm stronger than her, so now I adore myself."

This is how the mind turns toward the ego—the ultimate target is the "I."If you listen to the mind, this goal is destined to come sooner or later: you must worship yourself.I'm not kidding.This is how the whole human nature tends towards worship.All gods are thrown aside, all temples are useless, and man worships himself. How did this happen?If you listen to the mind, it will convince you through subtle arguments that you are the center of the world, that you are the most important being in the whole world, that you are supreme—that you are God.This self-centered mentality is bound to come, and it's a logical, final step.The mind will question everything, but it will never question your ego.Whenever the mind feels that it must yield, it will question.It will say, "What are you doing? Submitting to a leader? Submitting to God? Submitting to the temple, or church? Submitting to prayer and love? Submitting to sex? What are you doing? You have lost yourself. Be alert and control yourself, Otherwise you will be lost."

Whenever there is something you can let go, the mind rebels.That's why the mind is against love - because love is a surrender in which the ego cannot exist; that's why the mind is against the master, because the ego has to surrender, otherwise the master cannot function; that's why the mind is against God, because if there is A god exists, you will never be able to be supreme, the ego will always be low, you can never be pushed into the idol status of apparent supremacy.You cannot contain God. Nietzsche said: "It is impossible for me to accommodate the existence of God, because then what will happen to me? Where am I? If God exists, then I do not exist, so I will choose myself instead of God." That's why he said: "God is dead and now man is free, completely free." Nietzsche set the trend of this century, he is the prophet of this century.He is at the root of all of you, whether you know him or not, he is deeply present in every human being born in this century.In you God is dead, only the ego exists.Remember - they cannot coexist.

There is a beautiful sentence in the Old Testament.That sentence is: "You cannot live to see God." Means the same.You have to die when you see God, you cannot live to see God.When you die, only then can you see God, because you are the barrier, you are the wall.Ego or God, that's how things go, you can't manipulate both.If you try to manipulate both, you will manipulate the ego and God will die - within you.Existentially God will not die, but within you God will die.He will not be there.You push him out because you are too full of yourself.You are too much.The ego is not permeable; it has no room for anyone.It is very jealous, it is absolutely jealous.It will not allow anyone else to enter the inner sanctum of your being.It is to be a supreme ruler.

The mind always resists submission.That is why as the mind becomes more and more prominent, all levels of surrender disappear.The century is suffering because the century cannot bow.This is a problem.This is the foundation, the crux of the modern mind - you keep asking, "How can I love?" The mind cannot love: the mind can fight, that is easy; but the mind cannot enter love, that is impossible .For in war the mind can exist, it can function; but in love the mind must yield. Love means giving power to the other over yourself, and you are afraid.It means that the other becomes so important, so much more important than you, that if a crisis comes, you have to sacrifice yourself for your lover.The lover is revered as an idol -- you are only a servant, you are only a shadow.This is difficult for the mind.That's why love is impossible, even sex becomes impossible.Because even in intercourse there comes a moment when you have to lose yourself -- only then is there an orgasm, only then is the whole body filled with a new energy, a new agitation, a bioelectricity.It can become a turbulent, brilliant flow -- you lose yourself.But even that is impossible.

Ejaculation is not an orgasm, it's just part of being sexual.Orgasm is psychological, it is spiritual.Ejaculation is useless, it releases the body, that's all.It works like a safety valve: whenever there is excess energy, you release it through ejaculation.But that's not the real thing.The real thing is when you come to a peak of agitation, you come to a peak of ecstasy, where everything loosens up, your whole being relaxes.First the whole existence surges in a new music - it's to the tune of the universe, the ego is gone, you're just energy; there's no one inside, it's just energy surging like a tide in a river - then the tide goes out , the river is soothing, and you are tuned to the tune of the entire universe.That's the orgasm.Orgasm is an internal phenomenon.

But orgasm becomes impossible, and because of the lack of orgasm, ninety-five percent of people have some kind of subtle neuroticism.This is because you have lost the shortcut to divinity.You lose, even for a moment, the natural possibility of becoming one with the whole.The whole resurrects, the whole gives you life and energy, the whole refreshes you.The old ones are shattered by the orgasm, and your overall energy is refreshed, fresh and youthful.Otherwise you will gradually become lifeless.But because of the ego, this has become impossible.The problem is the same, whether it is on the level of sex, or the level of love, or the level of prayer, or the level of meditation -- the problem is the same.You have to submit, and the ego cannot submit, it can only fight.

Why does the ego always want to fight?Because confrontation is fuel: to feel powerful by fighting it; to exist by fighting it.The ego is the deepest violence, and if you want to strengthen the ego, you must keep fighting.24 hours a day you have to fight this or that.But the enemy has to be there, so you have challenges, conflicts, and you can be yourself.The ego needs a constant battle.Why?First, build energy by fighting it.Secondly, the ego is always afraid, that's why it is always ready to fight -- there is fear.The ego can never be fearless, ever.Why?Because it is a false thing, it is not natural, it is not part of Tao.It's an artificial setting, and you have to ride it and maintain it consistently.If you don't handle it even for a moment, it will disappear -- that is fear.So you are always alert. Even if you exist for 24 hours in an egoless existence, you will be amazed, amazed, bewildered.What happened to the ego that you have been carrying for so many lifetimes?Even within 24 hours it goes away because it needs a constant feed, again and again.It is not a natural phenomenon, and it has no perpetual force of its own. Existence is continuous, eternal; it has eternal, inexhaustible things.The tree may die, but immediately another tree replaces it, and the energy goes to the other tree.Your body may have fallen, but the energy has moved into another body.In the depths you have, like anything else in existence, an inexhaustible perpetual drive.Your body needs fuel.If you don't eat or drink you will die.If you don't eat, you will die in 3 months; if you don't drink water, you will die in 3 weeks; if you don't breathe, you will die in 3 minutes.The body needs constant fuel because the body is not a permanent state. But consciousness needs no fuel.When this body died, your consciousness was implanted in another womb.Consciousness is continuous movement.It is endless energy -- no beginning, no end.It never started and it will never end.Fear disappears only when you discover the source of eternity, the Immortal, the Immortal -- there is no death. The ego is very fragile; every moment it is on the verge of death.Anyone can kill it, just a movement can kill it, just a look.Someone is watching you and the ego is haunted.That man looked like an enemy.You feel a tremor at every movement of the enemy, because the ego is fragile.It is a false, artificial thing, and it must be maintained.That's why there's so much fear -- out of this fear, this boundless fear, you manage to make a few islands of bravery.Otherwise it would be too difficult. You think you are brave, a coward, even the most cowardly person thinks you are brave, because that too is a very complicated question.The ego is fearful, terrified, inside, because death can happen anytime.In love, death happens; in prayer, death happens to the ego, and in any deep relationship the ego must die.Even if you look at a rose and think nothing, the ego will die.Even a rose could kill it, it's so fragile, it's just a delicate, dreamy thing - there's nothing substantial about it.So fear, deep down inside you've been thinking about death, but you still think you're brave.That's how this bravery, this fearlessness, this "I'm not a coward" is helping your ego.If you start to understand that the ego is a coward, "I am a coward", if you really know and become aware that this ego is nothing but fear, you will not keep it.You will let it go.Why carry a disease?But the disease is hidden. You think it is not only not a disease, but the only health. Mulla Nasrudin got married and he went to the mountains for his honeymoon.On the first night, in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door, and Nasruddin got up to answer it.A man with a gun in his hand is a thief.He entered, but when he saw Mulla Nasrudin's wife, a young and beautiful woman, he forgot all about the theft.He said to Mulla Nasrudin, "You stand in that corner." Then he drew a circle around him and said to him, "Don't step out of the circle - one step and you're dead." He then kissed Nasrudin's wife and made love to her. After he left, his wife said: "What kind of man are you? Stand in the circle and watch other people make love to your wife." Nasrudin said: "I am not a coward!" Turning my back and I stepped out of the circle, not once, but three times." This is how the ego sustains itself, just stepping out of the circle.Whenever your back is turned, whenever death does not watch you, you step.Not just 1 time, but 3 times!you feel good.I tell you, everyone is standing in the corner and drawing a circle around it.You stand in the circle.Sometimes you step out just to feel like you're not a coward.But the ego is a coward, it cannot be anything else.You cannot see a person with an ego without fear, that is impossible, it is not in the way of nature. Why is it impossible?How can the ego be free from fear?It cannot be eternal, it cannot be immortal, death will come.The ego is a manufactured phenomenon, chosen by you, and it will disappear.How can you be free from fear when death exists and is a necessity?Sometimes you may step out of the circle.that's it.But the ego is not without fear.So remember 3 words: one is "cowardly", another is "courageous", and the third is "without fear".Cowardice is a part of the ego, a deep part, the real thing, and bravery is 3 times out of the circle, which is also a part of cowardice, but hidden and embellished.It is a wound covered with flowers, a wound covered by flowers.Courage is nothing but cowardice adorned and prettified; and in every brave man you will find a coward.Even your Napoleons, Hitlers or Alexanders are cowards whose bravery is only to step out of the circle 3 times - within you will find cowardice that is also trembling.Just to cover up that cowardice, you create bravery - bravery is a ruse.Now psychologists know too. Religion has always noticed that in order to cover something up you set up opposites.If you are a fool, you will try to create some intelligence around you to cover up the truth.If you are ugly, you will beautify your body, your face, your hair to somewhat cover up the fact that you are ugly.With clothing and accessories you will try to cover it up.If you have low self-esteem within you, you will create an ego just to show others that I am not a low self-esteem person.If you feel like you are "nobody" -- everyone feels that way because of the ego, everyone is nobody -- then you try to create, emphasize that you are someone big. Cowardice and bravery are two sides of the same coin: fear is on both sides.They are the two sides of fear.One side is simple and direct, the other side is cunning and concealed—a brave man is a cunning coward. I heard that once a soldier who was fighting at the front was so frightened that he started running back.An officer stopped him and asked, "What are you doing? Where are you going? The battle is on! Are you a coward?" But the man was so frightened that he didn't bother to answer, and he continued running, followed by the officer. He, caught him and said, "Where are you running? Why don't you answer? Do you know who I am? I am your general!" The soldier said, "God, have I come that far?" Your generals, your leaders, they're always behind, they're never killed, they're never in trouble, they're utter cowards, but they put on the bravest airs.Others died for them, and they stayed behind.Your Napoleons, your Hitlers, your Alexanders are all cowards, creating and creating a phenomenon that is diametrically opposed to their inner mentality.This has to be remembered, and only then can you remember the third possibility, which is, no fear.A man without fear is neither cowardly nor brave, he is neither - he cannot be, because he just has no fear.Mahavira, Sakyamuni, Chuang Tzu, Christ, they are not brave people, not at all, because they are not cowards.You are only brave if you are a coward!Only when you stand inside the circle can you step out of the circle 3 times; otherwise, how can you step out of the circle?How can you show your bravery by stepping out 3 times if you have never agreed to stand in the circle?A man without fear is a man who has come to know that there is no death in him, a man who has come to know the immanent, the immortal and the eternal in the deepest part of the heart.There is no fear, and there is no bravery, for bravery is only a disguise.This person is neither stupid nor smart, because smartness is just a cover.The man is not divided into opposites, the man is one, he is one, he is a unique phenomenon, that's why you cannot give him a definition.It is impossible to define Shakyamuni.How do you define him?Would you call him a coward?you can not!Would you call him brave?you can not!Would you call him a fool?you can not!Would you call him smart?No!For cleverness is the opposite of stupidity, and bravery is the opposite of cowardice. ① Mahavir (Mahavir): That is, the raft Mana, the founder of the Maona religion, and the followers of the Maona religion respectfully call him Daxiong, and the transliteration of Daxiong is Mahavir. ——Editor's note. What do you call Buddha?Whatever you call Buddha is wrong.You can only keep silent in front of the Buddha.Can you call him a sinner or a saint?No, he is neither.How can you be a saint without sin in your heart?Holiness is only a decoration, a covering.That's the problem.This is the problem whenever Buddha appears: we cannot define him, we cannot categorize him.You cannot label him, you cannot place him anywhere.Either he belongs everywhere, or he belongs nowhere.He transcends all categories.Classification is not for him.The whole language was put down before the Buddha, and the mind became still.You can't say anything about it.He is fearless, he is thoughtless, you cannot call him a fool or a wise man, because both need thought. Now enter this beautiful story of Chuang Tzu, one of his most beautiful fables. Ji Shengzi is a man who trains fighting cocks for the king.He is training an excellent chicken.The king kept asking if the chicken was ready for battle. Ji Shengzi is not only a trainer, he is also a Taoist.In China, in Japan, in the Far East, they use all kinds of things as a stepping stone for thinking.All sorts of things: archery, painting, fencing, even training chickens and birds to fight.Name any area of ​​life and they use it as an inner discipline.This man, Ji Shengzi, was invited to train a chicken for the king.The king was interested in the fight, in the contest, and of course he was interested in his chickens winning the contest. Our egos even fight through chickens.We use everything for our ego, even the game is overshadowed by it, so you are not interested in the game, you are only interested in how to win - that is the difference between the game and the competition.In a game you are interested in the game itself - a child's game.Games were beautiful then, and if your whole life could become a game, it would become a beautiful thing.In a game you are not interested in the game itself, you are interested in the end result.You're interested in how to win, and when you're interested in how to win, you ruin the game.Now it's no longer a game, it's a business.From the beginning, remember that this man, Ji Shengzi, has an interest in training chickens, while the king is different: he is interested in fighting, and the trainer is interested in something else. Ji Shengzi is training an excellent chicken.The king kept asking if the chicken was ready for battle.Trainer says, "Not yet, it's full of fire." See... the king will say, "It's full of fire, that's what we need, because when you fight someone you're full of fire, then you win More likely." The King must have been confused.What kind of trainer is this person?He said: "Not yet, because it is very angry." As soon as it sees other chickens, it will rush to fight.It is always ready to fight -- that means it is afraid, it is not ready. How can you rise to the challenge when you are afraid?Take a look at different ideas.The logic of the mind would say: If you're angry, you're ready to fight anyone, and then you can be a great fighter -- and you already are.why are you waitingWhat are you waiting for?If the anger is already there - fight!Because if you wait too long, the anger can go away, if you wait too long, the energy can fade. But for a kind of non-consciousness, it is completely different, and the psychology is different.The mindless man says, "Because he is always ready, he is not ready." Why?Because you're a coward when you're ready to fight.Confrontation is a cover-up.You want to prove that you are a brave man.It's this desire, this desire to prove, that means you're not ready.A truly intelligent person never seeks an opportunity in any way to prove that he is intelligent.A fool is always looking for a way to prove that he is smart.A person who is really in love, a person who is in love does not try to prove that he is in love. When you are not loving you try to prove that you are loving in many, many ways.You bring presents, you keep talking about love, but all your efforts are just showing the opposite.If you really love someone, you don't even mention the fact that you love him.What is the need?If the other party can't understand your silent love, then love is worthless.If you have to say it, it means something is bogus. Ask Dale Carnegie and he'll say tell your wife you love her over and over again every morning even if you don't feel it.Whenever you have any chance during the day, don't forget to repeat it.When you go to sleep, repeat it again, make it a mantra.He is right -- like you, he is right -- because your wife depends on words.You also depend on words.That's why when two people are in love, at first they talk so much about love.They're so poetic because they're seducing each other and there's so much romance and dreams.Gradually it subsides because you can't continue the same thing over and over again.That looks stupid.When it starts to look silly, they start to feel like something is wrong.Now there is no love, because love depends only on words.At first, you talk about it, but it's not there.Your talking is a cover up. Remember the word "cover up".You've been doing it all your life, Dale Carnegie seems right, he's attractive.His books have sold millions of copies worldwide, second only to the Bible.But I tell you, pay attention to the Dale Carnegies, because they are the ones who make you more and more hypocritical.Then you are no longer real, there is no need to say: love, I love you.Let your whole being speak it.If you love, it will say, words are not necessary at all.The way you speak expresses it; the way you act expresses it; the way you look expresses it.Your whole being will express it. Love is such a huge phenomenon that you cannot hide it.Who can hide his love?No one can hide it; it is such an inner flame that it shines.Whenever someone is in love you can see in his face, in his eyes, that he is no longer the same person—something has changed him.The flames lit up, and a new fragrance entered his being.He walked with a leaping step; he spoke, and there was a poetic charm in his words.Not only for his loved ones - when you are in love your whole being changes. Even speaking to a stranger on the street, you are different.If the stranger understands the love of his life, he will know that this person is in love.You can't hide love, it's almost impossible.No one has ever successfully concealed love.But when it is not, then you have to create it, you have to fake it.A little boy was visiting a zoo. There was a deer park full of deer.He asked the owner: "What are these animals called?" The owner replied: "It's the same as your mother called your father when you got up in the morning." Homophone.) The boy said, "Don't tell me these animals are skunks!" ) Some things go sour, some things become traumatic when it's false, and some things turn ugly.Fake is ugly.But you mask it with the opposite. "Not yet, said the trainer, it is very angry." That means he is afraid, otherwise why is he so angry?To whom do you show your anger?What is the need?Fear inside, anger outside, that's a creation.When it sees other chickens, it will fight, there is no need.It is ready to fight whoever stands in its way. "It has a vain pride in its power." Not yet, it's not ready. When you think you believe in your own strength, remember well that you are disguising something about yourself.What do you mean when you say "I'm confident"?The word is meaningless if you are truly confident.You are not confident.You are cheating.Not only to others, but when you repeat "I am confident" to yourself, you are creating an automatic hypnosis.If you repeat it for quite a long time, you may start to feel it, but that feeling has no inner energy. Everyone keeps repeating to themselves: "I am confident." Why?What are you hiding?If there is such confidence as you speak of, there is no need to say anything about it.A truly confident person is not even aware of it.This has to be understood - you are aware when something is false because you have ego awareness.When something is true, you just forget it.Do you remember that you are breathing?If it's hard to breathe, if you have a lung problem, if you have a cold or asthma, then you remember that you're breathing.But when everything is normal, you are unconscious. "When the shoes fit, the feet are forgotten." When you are truly confident, confidence is forgotten. People come to me and they say they have absolute confidence in me, what is this absolute?What are you hiding?Not confident enough?What is absolute confidence?It's not absolute, that's why you say that.You say, "I love you completely." What is this totality? Have you ever heard of imperfect love?Love is complete.Why do you repeat the same word over and over again?You know in your heart that it is imperfect, and if you don't say it, who will?You don't say no one knows, because if it's complete, everyone knows. Whole love is a reinvention; whole love is a death and a new life; whole love does not need anyone to say anything to it. I heard there was a great connoisseur who was a wine taster.A friend invited him to his house because he had some very, very old valuable wine and he wanted to show this guy his collection.He wants to be appreciated by this person.He gave him one of the most expensive wines.The man tasted it, but remained silent.He didn't say anything, not even that it was good.The friend felt hurt.Then he gave him very rough ordinary wine.He tasted it and said: "Very, very good, very good!" The friend was confused, he said: "I am confused, I will give you the rarest and most expensive wine, you keep silent, but don't say anything about it." An ordinary wine, not expensive at all, but a crude wine, you say: very, very good!" The connoisseur said: "For the first wine, no one needs to say anything, it speaks for itself. But for the second wine, Someone has to praise it, or it will be frustrated!" When you say absolute confidence you know it is not absolute; that is why you say it, although you may not realize it.Be careful with your words. "Not yet," said the trainer, "he's full of fire and wants to fight with other chickens at any time. He has a vain pride in his own strength." You can see this in your own life.It happens everywhere.You're ready to fight everybody - just waiting for your chance, just making excuses.Someone steps on your toe, and a fight begins.Why are you so touchy?Because you have trouble inside you, you know you are nobody, so as soon as someone steps on your toes, you immediately say, "You know who I am?" You don't know yourself. Ten days later he replied: "Not yet, it gets angry when it hears other crows." The emperor kept asking because the day of the game was getting closer and the emperor's chicken had to win.But the man kept putting it off—and for reasons that seemed ridiculous. Whenever there is a Taoist, his statements will seem absurd.That's what they are because they don't think like you.After 10 days, he said again: "Not yet, it gets angry when it hears other crows." It is still immature and childish.This is not what a fighter looks like, this is what a coward looks like.It's not a man without fear, a chicken without fear, no!This is not what the fearless look like. When anyone -- when any chicken crows -- why do you feel it's coming at you?Why do you feel challenged?Why do you make the whole world your enemy?If you have the whole world as your enemy, it means that somewhere, deep down, you have not found the source.Otherwise, the feeling given by the whole world is friendly, and friendliness is the main theme.If an enemy shows up, that's an exception.Now the enemy is the main theme, and the appearance of friends is an exception.You will never understand, you can never trust, even trust a friend, because you know so much about the enemy. At one point Mulla Nasrudin was appointed magistrate.This is necessary because there are always bad people.If they are very, very harmful, you make them government officials.If they are more harmful, you send them abroad as ambassadors.If they're just generally harmful, endemic, you make them sheriffs.They have to have something to do so they don't do too much harm. Mulla Nasrudin is a harmful person.But not too big, if you will allow me to say so, a very small important person, not a big one, just a local one.So they made him sheriff.He converted the living room into a courtroom, hired a clerk and a guard, got up early in the morning, waited and waited but no one showed up.In the evening he was so depressed that he said to the clerk, "Not a single case! No murder, no robbery, no crime in town. If things go on like this, it will become a very tedious job. I would have非常兴奋，但连一起交通事故都没有，没有事情发生。"书记员说："不要那么沮丧，摩拉，要相信人的本性。有些事迟早会发生。我对人的本性仍有足够的信心。" 那位书记员说的是怎样一种人的本性呢？他说他仍有足够的信心，有些事总会发生。你只是等待，事情将会发生。 你们的法庭、你们的法官、你们的政府依赖于你及你的本性。这一整个的荒谬事情一直在进行是因为你，从根本上说这是因为你总是准备争斗。如果社会真的变得越来越自然，政府将会消失。这是一种疾病。法庭将会消失，它们不是好的迹象。有警察是因为有犯罪，整个结构的存在只是因为一件事——因为你随时准备争斗，发怒。因为你的自我存在，政府存在，法庭存在，地方行政官存在。如果自我放下，整个政治就消失了。一切政治存在都是因为自我。 他说："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。"它变得安静了，成长了，变得越来越成熟，但还没有准备好。到目前为止，它仍然怒目而视，抖动羽毛。在无意识的深层，它仍然准备争斗。表面上他变得沉着和安静，但如果一只鸡经过，它仍然怒目而视。现在它不是有意识的，现在它是无意识的，但它在成长，移动。现在，争斗从它有意识的意念中放下，但在无意识中它没有放下，还没有。 "再过10天。训练者说：现在它差不多准备好了。"还没有完全准备好，但是差不多准备好了。"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。"他没有必要争斗。当斗士成熟时，没有必要争斗。当士兵存在，没有恐惧时，有什么必要争斗？他的出现就够了，别的鸡将会逃跑。这种情况发生了。这只鸡被列入战斗，他只是站在那里。别的鸡怀着满腔的勇敢来了，它们跨出圈外，它们充满了自我、骄傲、虚浮——可这时它们看到了这只鸡。这只鸡看上去不正常，一点儿都不属于这个世界。它就像佛陀似地站在那里。它们试图激怒它，但它连眼睛都不眨。它们跳动，它们叫唤，但没有用。那时它们发抖了。这只鸡不是自然的，这只鸡是个陌生者，它不属于它们。 它们只是得到了信息——这鸡既不是一只懦弱的鸡也不是一只勇敢的鸡。他只是没有恐惧，每当有一种没有恐惧的存在时，另一方不得不逃跑。这种训练与禅宗的战士、日本武士一样——这是一样的。他必须战斗但不带怒气。这看起来很难，因为你就连爱都带着怒气，但他必须不带怒气地作战。 There is a Sufi story.它发生在欧玛尔的一生中——伟大的穆罕默德·卡利法。他与一名敌手斗争了30年。对手非常强大，斗争一直持续着，那是一生的战斗。最后，有一天机会来了。敌人从他的马上摔下来，欧玛尔带着长矛跳在他身上。仅在一秒钟之内长矛就可以刺穿那人的心脏，那么一切就结束了。但就在这一瞬间敌人做了一件事。他向欧玛尔的脸上吐唾沫——长矛停住了。欧玛尔摸了摸他的脸，起身对敌人说："明天我们再开始。"敌人糊涂了。他说："怎么回事？我等这一刻等了30年，你等这一刻也等了30年。我一直在等待，希望有一天我能持着长矛骑在你胸前，事情就了结了。那种机会从未光顾我，却给你遇上了。你可以在一瞬间就把我干掉。你这是怎么啦？"欧玛尔说："这不是一场普通的战斗。我起了一个誓，一个苏非的誓言，我将不带怒气作战。30年以来，我不带怒气作战。但只有一会儿愤怒来了。当你啐我的时候，只有一会儿我感到愤怒，这成了私人性的了。我想杀了你，自我进入了。30年来至今，那一点都不成问题，我们为了一项目标而战。你不是我的敌人，它无论如何都不是私人性的。我对杀你这一点都不感兴趣；我只想达到这项目标，但就在刚才，有一瞬间，我忘记了这项目标。你是我的敌人，我想杀了你。那就是为什么我不能杀你。所以，明天我们重新开始。" 但这场争斗永远没有重新开始，因为敌人成了一名朋友。他说："教教我。做我的师父，让我做你的学生。我也想不带怒气作战。" 全部秘密就是作战没有自我，如果你能够没有自我地作战，那么你可以没有自我地作任何事情。因为作战是自我的顶峰。如果你能做到这一点，那么你能够做任何事情。而现在你甚至不能没有自我地去爱。 因此这就是日本武士和禅宗战士的训练——就像这只鸡一样没有自我地作战。现在他差不多准备好了。但记住这话："差不多准备好了。"为什么不完全？因为道认为这个世界上不存在完全，只有近乎完全。你完全的那一刻你消失了。完全不可能存在于事物、物质。事物本身就提供了一些其自身的缺陷。你不可能在躯体中完全，总会缺少点什么——而那一点所缺少的东西就是一种联系。那就是你在躯体中存在的原因，一旦你完全你便消失了。你死去，但一个完全的人永不死亡，他只是消失。你离开了，但一个完全的人消失了。离开意味着到达即将发生，因为离开只是一个部分，是到达的开端。到达是离开的开端。你从这个世界离去以便再次到来。一个完全的人只是消失，因为他是如此完全，物质不能牵住他；他是如此完全，躯体不能容纳他；他是如此完全，在这个不完全的世界上他无法成形。他是无形的。那就是为什么训练者说："现在它差不多准备好了。"你无法想象它再能作更多的准备。看来这就是最终的事情。 当另一只鸡叫时，它眼睛都不眨——什么更完全？它就像木鸡一样，一动不动。进一步的完全是可能的吗？它已是个成熟的斗士。其他鸡一看到它就跑了。进一步的完全是可能的吗？这是可能的。因为它可能一动不动，就像一只木鸡；它的眼睛可能是平静的，连眨也不眨；别的鸡可能跑掉，它可能赢得竞争；但它仍然存在。那就是为什么它不完全。它仍然存在。 它在做的一切都是通过努力的。那就是为什么它是不完全的。它被训练去干这个而现在它准备好了。它将表演，但内心深处它是那只原来的鸡。将会有一种轻微的颤抖。它不能觉察，没有人能够觉察它，从外在看它是个完美的圣人，但内在它仍是那只原来的鸡，在深层的中心它仍然是一样的。这就是问题。你可以练习宗教，你可以如此多地练习它，你会变得近乎完全。但近乎完全仍是不完全，而你必须绝对地完全。什么是绝对地完全？当训练，努力被放下的时候，容易是对的，这只鸡仍有努力。它在做它。它是不动的，但在深处它不是一种无为。它在做它。它被训练、训导。 宗教不是一种训导，它不是去练习的东西。它是流入的顺流而下的东西。它不是要被强迫的东西。你不是从外在开始强迫它，你必须从内在帮助它并随它流动，满溢出来，到外在。它应该是自发的。 那么该做什么？如果你等待自发，它似乎不会来。如果你练习你可能只会变得像这只鸡；有利于战斗，对别人来说也是有利的，但对你自己你仍保持原样。那就是在许多所谓圣人身上发生的事情。你走向他们——他们的神性仍是努力的。他们保持着它。当你保持什么的时候它不是真实的，因为反面、对立面仍在无意识的什么地方躺着。它会随时展开——如果你放松它就展开。 有一次一个苏非教徒被带到我这里。30年以来他都在练习，他是真正练习过了，这个毫无疑问。他是近乎完全的，就像这只鸡。他有许多门徒，他们告诉我，无论他看哪里，树、岩石、星辰，他到处看见安拉——神性。他来与我住了3天。 他不停地念诵——苏非称作吉戈拉——安拉的名字。甚至洗澡时他也继续念诵。我问他："为什么？如果你现在能够到处看见安拉，为什么不断地念他的名字？你在为什么而练习？如果安拉到处都在，神性处处都在，你在叫谁？这个念诵者的内在是谁？放下它！你与我在一起的3天里，放下你所有的练习。他能够懂得，他是一个谦虚的人。他懂得如果你仍然练习，那么就没有完成。" 他说："我有绝对的自信它已经完成了。"于是我说："那么放下它。"他说"绝对自信"的那一刻就很清楚，如果他放下它，他会有困难。他放下了它，他必须，3天来我观察了他。在第三天的清晨4点，他奔到我的房间，开始摇晃着我说："你干了什么？一切都丢失了！我现在不能看见上帝，事物又开始显现了。一棵树就是一棵树，一块石头就是一块石头。你干了什么？你杀了我。你破坏了我30年来的努力。你不是个朋友，你是个敌人。" 但我告诉他：稍微安静些，在我旁边坐下，让我们看看会发生什么。我不是你的敌人。因为即使你继续这种练习30年，什么也不会发生。你将一直是近乎完备。任何时候你停止这种练习，原来的将会回来，它并没有消失，它只是隐藏着，你把它推进去了。你的练习只是把它推进去。你停止练习它就展开了，它像一个弹簧。你一直推着它，你认为一切正常；你把手拿开弹簧就打开和展开，一切都回到原先的样子。 所以不要发火不要不知所措，这是一个伟大的觉知。现在不要练习，只是看着那棵树！你不必将你的神投射进去。这就是一个真实的宗教之士与不真实的宗教之士之间的不同。看着那棵树，不要将神强加于它。如果你说这是神并不停地重复它，你将接近于它开始看着像神这一点，但那个神是虚假的，你强加上去的，它是一种投射。看着树，安静。不必在树上投射你的神，树已具有足够的神性，渐渐地，当你变得越来越静默，渐渐地你将看到那棵树在随着你的静默转换着。有一天你将认识到一切都是具有神性的，没有人能够将那种神性从你那里夺走。它不是一种练习的事情，它发生了。真正的发生不是通过文字，而是通过静默。 这个训练者说现在它差不多完备了，因为它练习过，是被迫的。这就是许多所谓圣人的"完备"，因为训练过。他们表演得很好，但在深处却毫无益处。一个真正的圣人是一个自发性地活着的人。他所有的经历都没有任何意念的投射。 那么该做什么呢？起先你必须练习，不然那种自发性不会到来。你把它压制在如此隐秘的深处，它可能冒不出来，它可能不会浮上你的意识。那么该做什么呢？先练习，必须彻底地练习，于是你也来到我所告诉你："现在你近乎完备了"的那一点。下一步是放下所有的练习，只是观察会发生什么。如果你放下练习，那么原先的一切将开始重来。你只是做一个目击者看着它。如果你能看，它将自行消失——不必做任何事情。 你的练习只是将弹簧推至极端。what happened?你用一个弹簧试试，你将它推至极端，然后随它去。它不仅会打开，它会弹跳。如果你尽可能以你的整个存在练习，这种情况将会发生——你永远不能真正地投入整个存在，你只是尽可能地练习。 你的意念，就像一只弹簧，被推向墙壁，你不断地推、推、再推。所有我叫你去做的这些静心都只是将意念推向墙壁，推向极端。当我看到再也不能向前，弹簧不能再推一点、再进一点的那一刻，你已近乎完备，我将说："放下！"弹簧不仅会打开，它将跳出你。一旦意念跳出你，你就从它那里自由了。那时不再需要练习——那时就只有时时刻刻的生存、欢庆；时时刻刻的感恩；时时刻刻的极乐与狂喜。 吴王坐船到了猴山。猴子见了他都惊慌地奔逃，藏在树顶上。有一只猴子却仍然完全不顾，在树枝间荡来荡去——拼命卖弄灵巧。吴王向那只猴子射了一箭，可那猴子敏捷地凌空抓住了飞箭。这时吴王命令他的随从用箭一齐追射，顷刻间那猴子就死于乱箭之下。于是吴王对他的朋友颜不疑说："你看发生了什么？这个动物卖弄机巧。它仗着自己的技艺，以为没人能够碰它。记住！当你与人打交道时，不要依仗自己的卓越和天赋。"当他们回家之后，颜不疑成为圣贤董梧的门徒，以便摆脱一切令他出类拔萃的东西。他退避了一切享乐。他学会了隐藏所有的出众之处。 不久这个王国里没有人知道怎么利用他，于是他们敬畏他。