Chapter 7 Chapter 6 A Symphony for Seabirds

There is not just one humanity—there are many.Each individual is a universe in itself, and you cannot make any general rules.All generalizations are false.This must be remembered deeply, because on this path, at any time, you may start to follow the rules, and once you become a victim of the rules, you will never know who you are. You can know yourself only in total freedom -- the rule is the prison.They are prisons, because no one else can make rules for you; he may have discovered the truth through them, but they are for him.Human nature is different - they help him, but they don't necessarily help you; on the contrary, they will hinder you.So let comprehension be the only criterion.

Learn, grow with insight, but don't play by the rules.Rules are dead, understanding is alive; rules will become a kind of imprisonment, understanding will give you the boundless sky.Everyone is burdened with rules, and every religion becomes just a canon.Because of Christ, because of Buddha, their life became a rule for everyone to follow.But no one else is Shakyamuni; no one else is Jesus Christ.So at most you can be a modified carbon copy, but you will never be your true self.If you follow Jesus too much, you will be a Christian but never a Christ, that is the danger.It is not worth missing out on Christ in order to be a Christian.You can be Christ, but Christ cannot be your rule, only your own understanding will be the law.

Jesus doesn't follow anyone.He had a master, John the Baptist, but he never obeyed any rules.He feels the Master, he is with the Master, he sees the flame of the Master, he absorbs the Master, he is baptized by the Master, but he never obeys any rules.John's other followers opposed Jesus.They say, "This man has betrayed you. He has his own way, he does not strictly follow the rules." No enlightened person will follow the rules strictly.Only the dead can strictly follow the canon, because there is no canon for you, you are your own canon.Understand, learn from others, just discover your own code, but remember never to impose code on anyone else - it is violence.Your so-called Mahatmas always impose codes on others because by codes they kill and destroy, they enjoy violence.Their violence is very subtle, they don't kill you directly, they kill you very indirectly.If someone directly attacks you, you will defend yourself.When someone attacks you indirectly - under the guise of being for yourself - you become a complete victim, and you cannot even defend yourself.

Many masters are just violent, but their violence is subtle.So whenever you approach someone who wants to impose his code on your life, wants to give you a fixed frame, wants to give you a window through which you can see the truth, avoid him.dangerous.A real master will not give you a window into the truth, he will take you under the sky.He will not give you a pattern to live, he will just give you the feeling, the understanding, which will help you to function; the understanding is free, your own. Remember... because you don't want to understand, because understanding is difficult and difficult, because understanding requires courage, understanding requires transformation, otherwise you are a victim of those who want to give you guidelines.But guidelines are substitutes, and you can get them easily.You could easily turn your life into a disciplined one, but it would be false stuff.You may act, you may pretend, but it's not real.I want to tell you a story about Judaism.Christ must have heard of it because it was older than Christ and everyone knew the story back then.He must have heard the story from his mother, Mary, or from his father, Joseph.The story is beautiful and you've probably heard it too.

The story goes like this, a so-called wise man is almost a rabbinical jurist... I say almost because although he is a rabbinical jurist, it is difficult to be a real rabbinical jurist.To be a true rabbi means you are enlightened.In fact he was only a priest, and he knew nothing.But people knew him, he was a smart guy... coming home from a nearby village.As he was passing by, he saw a man with a beautiful bird.He bought the bird and started thinking: This bird is so beautiful, I'm going to eat it when I get home.Suddenly the bird said, "Don't think like that!" The priest was startled, and he said, "What, I heard you?" The bird said, "Yes, I am not an ordinary bird. I am also almost a legal expert in the world. I can give you three pieces of advice, if you promise to set me free." The jurist said to himself: "This bird can talk, it must be learned ."

That's what we decided - if anyone can talk, he must be wise!It is so easy to speak, it is very difficult to be wise -- they have nothing to do with each other.You can talk without being wise, you can be wise without speaking, it doesn't matter.But for us, a man who speaks becomes a wise man. The jurist said, "Okay, you give me 3 pieces of advice and I'll let you go." The bird said, "The first piece of advice—never believe a lie, no matter who says it. He may be a great man, famous all over the world , has prestige, power, and authority—but if he's talking nonsense don't believe it." The priest said, "Yes!" The bird said, "This is my second piece of advice—whatever you do, never try Impossible, because then you will fail. So always know your limitations: a man who knows his limits is wise, a man who tries to go beyond them is a fool." The jurist nodded and said, "Yes!" The bird said: "This is my third piece of advice - if you do something good, don't repent, only if you do something bad."

The advice was subtle and beautiful, so the bird was released.The jurist started walking home happily, thinking to himself: Good material for a sermon, and when I speak at the assembly next week, I'll give these 3 pieces of advice.I will write them on the wall of my room, I will write them on my desk so I can remember them.These 3 principles can change a person. Just then, suddenly, he saw the bird sitting on a tree, and the bird started laughing out loud, and the jurist said, "What's the matter?" The bird said, "You fool, I have a Very precious diamond, if you kill me, you will become the richest person in the world." The jurist regrets in his heart: I am so stupid.What did I do, I believed this bird.

He threw away the books he was carrying and started climbing the tree.He is an old man who has never climbed a tree in his life.The higher he climbed, the bird flew to another, higher branch.At last the bird climbed to the top of the tree, and so did the old jurist—and then the bird flew away.Just as he was about to catch the bird, it flew away.He stumbled and fell from a tree, bleeding out, his legs were broken, and he was near death.The bird came to a lower branch and said, "Look, first you believed me, how can a bird have precious diamonds in its stomach? You fool! Have you ever heard of this fallacy? Then You tried the impossible - you never climbed a tree. How can you catch a bird with your bare hands when it is free, you fool! You regret it in your heart, and feel wrong when you do a good thing What, you set a bird free! Now go home and write your guidelines, and go to the convention next week and spread them."

But that's what all missionaries do.What is lacking is understanding. They carry only guidelines -- and guidelines are a dead thing.Understanding has no weight, you don't have to carry it -- it carries you, it becomes your wings.It is not heavy at all, you don't even have to memorize it, if you realize something you don't have to memorize it, it becomes your blood, your skeleton, it is you.Whatever you do will be done through that understanding; it is an unconscious phenomenon. Principles are conscious, comprehension is unconscious, and Zhuangzi always tends to be unconscious.The whole tradition of Tao is inclined toward the unconscious.Don't memorize rules, just try to understand things.If you impose rules on yourself, you will not become wise, you will remain ignorant within, just a decoration for ignorance.Jesus said: I look at you, and I see you as a tomb, whitewashed—dead on the inside, but a whitewashed wall on the outside.It may look beautiful and clean, and all your disciplines can give you an outer cleanliness, but inside you are still the same fool you were.Remember, only fools follow the rules; a wise man tries to understand and forget the rules.A wise man acts freely; a man with rules cannot act, he must always follow the rules.Life is changing every moment -- it is changing all the time, it does not wait for you and your criteria.Every moment is new, if the code is old, you will always miss your steps, you will always be out of place, and whenever there is a man who follows the code, he will be out of place everywhere.Because life is fluid and you stick to the rules.

As I see within you, you all stick to the rules.In your childhood you were given guidelines and you were fixed there.You have never moved since then.You may be jogging in place but you are not moving.You may get old - 70 - but deep down you're still fixed.How all the striving towards enlightenment is no longer fixed, how to run, how to become a flow again instead of frozen.Don't be like ice - frozen; but become like water, like a river - flowing.The code never allows you to do this.Remember, life is always renewing itself, and only understanding can correspond to it. Mulla Nasrudin always used negative words, so I told him: be positive.Why look at life in such a negative light?Then you'll find thorns instead of flowers.So he said, "Okay, now I'm going to make a rule to stay positive."

The next day his wife went shopping at the market and she asked him to babysit the children.When she came home she immediately felt that something was wrong.The whole house is sad, the children are not running here and there - there is no sound.She became worried.Then she saw Nasruddin sitting by the door and instantly she felt something really happened. She was scared and said: "Nasrudin, don't tell me bad news, just tell me good news." Kids - 6 of them didn't fall under the car!" That's how he became positive.You can change the words, but deep down you remain the same.You can change behavior, but deep down you remain the same.The real thing is how to change your being - not your actions, not your words, not your clothes - how to change your being.A disciplined man changes himself in the circle, an enlightened man changes himself, and the circle changes itself.When the center changes, the circumference automatically changes, it must change, but when the circumference changes, the center does not necessarily change with it. What can rules do?They can tell you what to do and what not to do, but they can't change you, they can only change your behavior, and the behavior is not you.Actions come from you, but you are deeper than your actions.Rules can change your behavior—behavior means how you relate to other people—but they cannot change you.Only when you are completely alone, you are your being, not in relationship. Zhuangzi said that human nature is different. A guy came to me, and he was doing a handstand — a yoga pose that uses his headstand, headstand pose.It is written in the book that it is very beneficial because it is very beneficial and he has been doing this pose for a long time.But now he was in such a turmoil inside that he was almost going crazy.So he asked me what went wrong.He's a man of the rules.He followed Patanjali word for word: diet, bedtime, exactly as they should.He's a very conformist guy.So he couldn't figure out what went wrong.I asked him to tell me his full schedule.He does handstands for 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening.He waited, always praying for the moment of enlightenment.It didn't come.Instead, he was going crazy, he was crazy. Handstands work for some people.The duller the person, the better it suits him.For a wise man, it is dangerous.The higher the intelligence, the more dangerous.Because it's not just a pose, it changes the mysterious structure of your entire body. Humans have acquired intelligence, but animals have not, why?Because people stand on two legs.That's everything.If a child keeps walking on all fours, he can never be a human being, he can never acquire that intelligence.When your spine is parallel to the earth, the blood flows evenly throughout the body; it flows to the legs in the same amount as to the head.Then the mind cannot generate subtle nerves -- it cannot generate a subtle nervous system.The inner structure of your brain is subtle, very subtle, the most subtle thing in the world. Your head weighs only 1.5 kilograms.Even Einstein's head, the head of a great genius, weighs only 1.5 kilograms.There are 70 million cells in this tiny skull.Each cell can carry millions of pieces of information.Cells are so delicate that if the blood flows too fast the cells will die.The blood doesn't have to flow too much into the head, or it would overwhelm the delicate internal structures.So if a person is stupid, dull, imbecile, handstand is the best, because it will not do any harm, he will feel very good.It won't hurt, he'll feel great because the blood will flood his head, and when the tide goes out, everything will relax.He will feel great, just like you feel great when you take a shower.But if you're smart, then it's dangerous.You will be stuck and your subtle inner structure will be destroyed.You may feel perfectly fine physically, but mentally it will prove destructive.So if a very intelligent person does it, he may become crazy; if a not intelligent person does it, he may become healthier. Then there is the question of time, how much?To do it for a few seconds, even for a wise man may be good, just a few seconds, just a tide and then back: nothing is destroyed, everything in the mind just becomes more alive.But that has to be decided by a master, not by you -- you cannot do it by books.Only a living master can decide that a few seconds is enough for you, otherwise you will be in danger.But human thoughts are childish.If your watch breaks, the first inclination is to open it up to see what's wrong and do something about it.Don't do anything, or more things will go wrong.Because a watch is an ingenious mechanism that only those who understand it can open it.You can't fix it; you can mess it up so badly that it's almost impossible to fix it.A watch is nothing—a watch is nothing to the brain.Don't do anything by books; books won't help.You need someone who can see through your mind, through the whole brain system, who can feel how your brain works inside; only he can decide for a few seconds to do it and whether it is good or not. This is just an example.Many people have been trying to do things with the help of books.Life is very complicated, books can only give you dead rules, if you follow them, then you are stepping into a dangerous area.It is better to do nothing than to do something wrong.It is better to be ordinary—to maintain an ordinary life.If you can't find a living master, if you can't trust someone, then don't do it.At least you will remain healthy, otherwise, you will become abnormal. Your bioenergetic inner system is very complex - the whole universe is nothing compared to it.The whole universe runs on a very simple route. Man is the most complicated being; that's why no lion goes mad and man is always on the verge of it.You can go crazy at almost any moment.This is such a complex phenomenon that one should approach it with great vigilance.Understanding is a must, not a rule.Through books, through scriptures, through rules, you can have knowledge, but not understanding.Everyone is different: men are different from women, each individual is different from the other.Not only that, you are different every day from the day before.Yesterday you were one person, today you are another person, and tomorrow you will be another person.A very, very deep understanding is necessary; rules are no substitute. Now we come to that proverb: A symphony for seabirds You can't put a lot of stuff into a pouch, nor can you, with a short rope, draw water from a deep well. But that's exactly what everyone's doing: trying to pack a ton of stuff into a pouch.You never cared about the bag or what your talents were.It starts with knowing your limitations and then thinking about your accomplishments.What is your talent?what can you do?What is your inherent talent?No one cares about it.If a person without a musical ear keeps trying to become a musician, his whole life will be wasted, because musicians are born, not made.A man without feeling keeps trying to be a poet or a painter.If a man without vision tries to be a painter, he will fail, because a painter has a different kind of eye -- almost a third eye.When you look at trees you see only one green, when a painter looks he sees thousands of greens, not one.Every tree has its own greenness.He feels colors; colors have an oscillation for him; the whole world is nothing but colors. Indians say the whole world is a sound. Just like that, those who wrote the Upanishads were poets, musicians, and they had ears for sound.Then the whole universe becomes one sound -- omkar, anahata.A man who never loved music keeps trying to say the spell aum, nothing happens.He keeps repeating it inwardly - nothing happens.He goes to this or that master, never thinking about his own abilities. ① "Upanishads": one of the ancient philosophical classics of Brahmanism. ——Editor's note. If you have musical ears, if you have a heart that can understand music - not only understand but feel - then mantras will help.Because then you can become a person with an inner voice, and you can take that voice into more and more subtle levels.Then comes the moment when all sound stops and only the sound of the universe remains.That's Om.That's why Indians say that the whole world is made of sound. That's not true, that's not an absolute truth, it's the musician's truth. Remember, there is no absolute truth, each truth is individual - this is your truth.There is no truth like the objective world.Your truth may not be my truth, and my truth may not be your truth, because truth is not objective.I was there, participated in it, my truth means me - your truth means you. When Buddha attained, when Jesus or Zhuangzi attained, they attained the same source of the universe, but their deduction is different. Buddha was not a musician at all, he found no sound, he was not a painter, he found no color.He was a very silent man, and silence was his music.That's why he found a formless void - nothingness.That is his truth.He has come to the same source, the source is one, but the people who come are different, they watch, watch, feel in different ways.That's why there are so many philosophies, so many religions.When Mira reaches the same source she starts dancing.You cannot imagine Buddha dancing, you cannot imagine Christ dancing!Mira started dancing - she reached the love of her heart.A woman's heart, the feeling of love - the source becomes the love of the heart, she touches her lover.The source is the same, the ultimate truth is the same, but the moment someone utters it, it is different.Remember, no one's truth can be yours; you must reveal it. The first is to remember your abilities, but you are so confused that you cannot feel what your abilities are.Therefore, you need someone who can feel your pulse with his hand, someone who can feel what your abilities are.You may have been making a lot of effort in the wrong direction, but the result will be nothing.You can reach only in a certain way; you can reach only through you. You can't put a lot of stuff into a pouch, nor can you, with a short rope, draw water from a deep well. Know your abilities - that's the first thing.If you understand your capabilities correctly, the first step has been taken, and the final one is not too far away.If the start is wrong, then you may spend your life walking and walking, and you will not get anywhere. Haven't you heard how a sea bird came to the shore and lived outside the city of Lu? A beautiful fable—a bird came from the sea and landed outside the city of Lu State, a beautiful bird. The king ordered a grand reception—because the king is the king, he thought that the king of the bird kingdom came, just like other princes must receive, this beautiful bird must also be received according to the same etiquette.But how to host a bird?The king has his own way. The king ordered a grand reception, offered wine to the seabird in the sacred temple, summoned musicians to play "Jiu Shao" music, and killed a cow for it to eat.Confused by the symphony, the unhappy seabird dies in despair. Although everything is done to receive guests, no one cares who the guests are.The guest is received according to the wishes of the host, not the guests, and that kills the poor bird. Many of you died because of the master.No one follows you.A child is born and the parents start thinking about what to make him, even before he is born they start thinking about it. I used to live with a friend who was a professor at a university and his wife was also a professor, both very intelligent people with gold medals, diplomas and PhDs.I saw their daughter—they only had one daughter—playing the piano while wiping away tears and crying.I asked her mother, "What's the matter?" Mother said, "I always wanted to be a pianist, but my parents didn't allow it. It won't happen to my daughter again—she has to become a musician. Because the parents No, I've been through so much pain and they forced me to be a professor. I'm not going to force my daughter to be a professor, she's going to be a musician!" And the daughter is wiping tears and crying! You are so confused because of other people: your mother wants you to do this, your father wants you to do something else.And that's often the case, because they never agree, father and mother, they never agree. Mulla Nasrudin's son told me, "I want to be a doctor, but my mother insists that I have to be an engineer. What should I do?" I said, "You do one thing. You spread rumors, Say your father wants you to be an engineer." Now he's a doctor. They are always in opposition, father and mother, their opposition goes deep inside you, it becomes an inner conflict.Your father and mother may be dead, no longer in this world, but they exist in your unconscious - still fighting.They will never give you peace.Whatever you do, your father says do it, and your mother says don't do it, the conflict inside you is your parents' conflict.Then there are uncles, siblings and many relatives.You are alone among so many well-wishers who all want you to be something according to their will.They spoil you, and then your whole life becomes a confusion -- you don't know what you want to be, you don't know where you're going, you don't know what you're doing and why you're doing it.So you feel pain.If you cannot be a natural being, if you cannot grow with your being, suffering comes. It happened to the seabird, it happened to all the islands—you are all seabirds.One day you were in the country of Lu, landed in a womb, you were received in magnificence, and the astrologer decided what should be done.Musicians welcome you with their music, parents welcome you with their love.And all of them just drive you crazy and nothing else. A wise man does not receive you according to his wishes, he receives you according to your wishes.The seabird was killed by the musicians and the wonderful symphony.Everything the king does is right, and that is how guests must be received.How should you treat the bird?Treat yourself like you are, or like a bird? Always give the other the opportunity to be himself -- that is understanding, that is love.Don't impose yourself on others.Your wishes may be good, but the results will be bad.A good wish is not enough by itself, it can become harmful.The real point is not good intentions.The real point is to give the other person the freedom to be him or herself. Let your wife be herself; let your husband be himself; let your child be himself—don't force it. We are all seabirds, we don't know each other, we are strangers.Nobody knows who you are.To the greatest extent, all we can do is help you become the person you will become.The future is unknowable; it cannot be forced.There is no way of knowing it, no astrologer can help, these are stupid ways.People rely on them because people are stupid.Astrologers live on because we always want to know the future so we can plan.Life cannot be planned, it is an unplanned tide -- and its unplanned is good.If it was planned, everything would be dead and dull.It is good that no one can predict the future, and it is good that the future remains unknowable, unpredictable, because there lurks the whole freedom.If the future becomes known, then there is no freedom, and then you will run like a predictable machine.But that's what we want, or, that's what we try to do. If you have a little understanding, give those around you the freedom to be themselves, and let no one interfere with your freedom.Don't make anyone your slave, and don't be anyone's slave.This is sannyas.This is what I mean by sannyas.It is a man's decision to enslave no one, and to be enslaved by no one; a man's determination to be utterly true to himself, and to go wherever this truth leads him. This is courage -- because it may lead you into insecurity, and you will be willing to be safer; then you will listen to others and their blessings, and then their symphony will kill you.They have killed you.Why do you obey others?Because you think they know better. I heard a kid ask his brother something.The youngest is 5 years old and the oldest is 10 years old.The younger one said to the older one, "Go to your mother and ask her permission, then we can go to the theater." Then the older one said, "But why don't you go?" The younger one said, "You know her It's been longer than me!" It's an old question, you listen to your mother because she's known the world longer than you.You listen to your father because he has known the world longer than you.But do you think that as long as they are here for a long time, people will be sensible?Do you think time gives understanding?Do you think old age is wisdom?Then go to the government office and look at the elders there, age may be wisdom in government but not in life. Life is not learned through time, it is learned through meditation.It is inward.Time is an external movement, and time is on a circle.A person can live 1000 years and still be stupid.In fact he will become more and more stupid as he grows up.If you have a seed of stupidity, within a thousand years you will become such a huge tree, and millions of stupid people will live under your tree.Whatever you have grows; nothing is static, everything is growing.So a stupid man becomes stupider, a wise man becomes wiser - but time has nothing to do with understanding. Understanding is not temporary, it is not more experience.It's not the amount of experience that makes you smart, it's the quality.If you bring the quality of awareness into it, one experience can give you more wisdom than you can get in several lifetimes.A man can make love to many women, thousands of women, thousands of times.Do you think he understands love?There are quantities!You ask Byron, you ask Don Juan, there are quantities.Don Juan kept the records, and they kept counting how many women they conquered.There are numbers, but do they understand love?A love can give you wisdom if you bring quality to it.Quality has to come with you.What is that quality?That quality is awareness.If you have made love to a woman only once, with all your being, with all your awareness, you will know what love is.Otherwise you go on and on and on and on, it becomes a repetition.Then you have to do anything, the wheel turns by itself, it becomes automatic.Wisdom is that thing that comes when you bring awareness into any experience, and the meeting of awareness and experience is wisdom.Experience plus awareness is wisdom.When experience plus more experience you get quantity, but not that -- the quality that will make you free and wise. Whenever a child is born, if the mother loves the child, if the father loves the child, they will not impose themselves on it, because at least they will know: they have failed.So why give this kid the same model?Why destroy another life?But look at that stupidity.They want their children to follow their way.They reach nowhere, they know deep down that they are empty, false, yet they force a child to go on the same road, and they end up at the same false.Why?Because the ego knows that "my children follow me" will feel good. You may not get anywhere, but it will give you a good feeling if your son follows you.As if you were done, the son follows you.If you are not satisfied with a son, you gather followers, disciples.There are many who are ready to fall into anyone's trap; because people are so imperfect, they are ready to follow anyone's advice.The problem is that they are incomplete because of the advice of others - they are always asking for it again and again.Thoughts are a nasty thing.You are so empty and false because you follow the advice of others; and then you look again for others to advise you.When will you realize that you are fundamentally missing out because you are not following your inner voice! So a master cannot give you rules.If a master gives you rules, clearly he is a false master.avoid him!A master can only give you understanding, teach you how to understand yourself -- then rules will come, but they will come out of your understanding. How should you treat the bird?Treat yourself like you are, or like a bird?Shouldn't it make its nest in deep woods, and fly over meadows and swamps?Shouldn't it swim in rivers and ponds, eat some eels, fly with other waterfowl, and roost among reeds?It's bad enough having seabirds surrounded by crowds and startled by their sounds!That's not enough!They killed it with the music! Everyone is killed by music.That music comes from good intentions, well-wishers, people who do good.The whole thing seemed so ridiculous and crazy.If you planted 1000 trees and only one flowered and 999 died, would anyone call you a gardener?Will anyone give you credit for that flowering tree?They'll say it must have escaped you to bloom because you killed 999.You can't take credit for this one, it must have escaped!It must have escaped your skill, your experience, your intellect.One out of millions becomes a Buddha and blossoms.what happened?Why do many trees have to live without flowers!Look at a tree, when it has no flowers the flowers never come.What sorrow befalls the tree.It can't laugh, it can't sing, it can't dance.Flowers need to dance.how can you danceEven if I say to you, "Dance!" how can you dance?Because dancing is an overflowing joy, such an overflowing that every cell in the body starts dancing and you become a dancing universe.but how can youEnergy is not flowing, no energy is coming.你多少在带着你自己，拖着你自己。你怎么能跳舞呢？花儿未了，当树拥有那么多，它能够给予。花儿是一种礼物，它们是一种分享。树在向整个宇宙说，我比我需要的更多。这是一首歌。树在说："现在我进入了丰裕的世界。我的需要满足了。"树拥有了比它需要的更多的东西——那时花儿出现了。 你是那样地不满足，你甚至连你需要的都没有。你怎么能跳舞？你怎么能歌唱？你怎么能静心？ 静心是最终的花朵，只有当你像一股潮水满溢出来时，狂喜才会来临，当你拥有那么多的能量以至你坐不住了，你只能跳舞；当你拥有如此多的能量以至你不能做任何事情，只能分享，邀请客人来分享你的能量、你的快乐、你的歌唱和你的舞蹈。 有一次我的一位大学里的老师来看我。他说："你必须记住我是你的老师。"于是我告诉他："是的，我记得。我怎么会忘记呢？正因为你我才是我的那个样子。你在我身上不能成功。你试过，我将对你的失败感激不尽。你不能成功。" 他真的爱我，他试着用一切方式迫使我进入学术界。他那么爱我，他那么关怀我，每当有考试时，早晨他都开着车来把我带到考场，因为他总是怕我可能不去考场或者我在做静心。考试前他会来告诉我，读这个，读那个。这个会出现因为考卷是我定的。他会一次又一次地提醒我："你念了这个没有？要知道考卷是我定的，这个会出现。"他总是怕我不听从他。 他爱我。你的父亲也爱你，你的老师也爱你，但他们是无意识的，他们不知道他们在干什么。即使他们爱你，他们也会把事情搞糟，那就是他们试图按照他们的意愿给你些什么。他想要我成人一名了不起的大学教授，某地某所名牌大学的系主任，或一名院长或一名副校长。他想象这些事，我总是笑着问他："通过这个我能得到什么？你获得了什么？你是一个系的头儿，一位有着那么多头衔的系主任——文学名誉博士，这个和那个——你获得了什么？"他会狡黠地微笑着说："你只是等着并照我说的去做。"因为对于这个问题"你获得了什么"？他总会感到一点儿困惑，茫然。 What can he say?他什么也没有得到，现在他已临近死亡。他想要把他的志愿转移到我身上。他想要我继承他的志愿。 一个父亲没有完成却死了，但他希望至少他的儿子将达到目标。它就是这样继续下去，继续下去，没有人达到。爱还不够；觉知是必须的。如果只有爱没有觉知，它将成为一种监禁，如果有爱又有觉知，它成为一种自由。它帮助你成为你自己。 让海鸟被人群包围，被他们的声音惊吓已经够糟了！那还不够！他们用音乐杀了它！ 鱼需要水，人需要空气，自然特性不同，他们的需要也不同。 因此聪明的古人并没有立下适用于一切的尺度。 你不能被作为事物一样对待。事物可以是相似的；灵魂不可能。你能够有100万辆相同的福特牌小汽车。你可以用一辆福特小汽车代替另一辆。当一个人消失的时候，他曾占据的那个位置将永远永远空缺下去。没有人能够占据它，不可能占据它，因为没有人能与那个人一模一样。每个人都是独特的，所以没有规则可以定下。 聪明的古人……但如果你去找现在的聪明人，你将发现规则和规定以及一切——一种模式。他们将使你成为一名战士而不是一名桑雅生①。战士是一个死人因为他的整个作用就是将死亡带入世界。他不能被允许非常有活力，不然他将 ①桑雅生（sannyasin）：古鲁（精神领袖、灵性导师）的信徒。 ——Editor's note. 怎么带着死亡呢？死亡只能由死人而来。他必须杀。在他杀其他人之前他必须完全地自杀，通过规则。所以整个军队的训练就是杀去人的活力，人的意识——将他变成一种自动机器。因此他们一直对他说："向右转，向左转，右转，左转。"一连几年！干的什么傻事？为什么向右转，为什么向左转？但是有一点——他们想让你成为一种自动机器，向右转——你每天要做几个小时。它成为一种生理现象。当他们说："向右转！"时，你不必去想它，身体就移动了。当他们说："向左转！"时，身体就移动了。现在你成了一种自动机器。当他们说："向后转"，你射击；身体动了，意识没有干扰。 全世界军队训练的整个要点就是从你的行动中割去意识，那么行为就成了自动的，你变得更有效率，更为熟练。因为意识始终是个麻烦……如果你在杀一个人你想一想——你将错失。如果你想：为什么杀这个人？他没有对我做任何事，我甚至不知道他是谁，他是一个陌生人。如果你想一想，你将会有一种感觉，你在家有母亲，有妻子，有小孩，他们在等着你，另外一个人的情况也是一样。母亲一定在某处等，妻子在祈祷丈夫将回来，孩子期待着他父亲回来。为什么杀这个人，杀了那些孩子、妻子、母亲、父亲、兄弟、朋友的希望？为什么杀这个人？ 他没有对你做任何错事，只有两个政治家发了疯。他们可以去互相对打决定事态。为什么通过他人决定？ 如果你警醒，觉知，你就不可能射击和杀人。所以整个军队的训练就是分割觉知和行动，分割，造成一条鸿沟。所以觉知继续它自己，行动继续它自己，它们是平行的，它们永不相遇。 桑雅中的训练恰恰相反：它是如何消除存在于意识和行动的鸿沟——如何把它们合为一体。它们不应是平行线，它们应该成为一个整体。它是如何意识你的每一个行动，如何不要变成种自重动机器。当你所有的自动作用消失时，你就开悟了；那时你就是佛陀。 通过规则不能做这个。通过规则你会成为一个战士但你成不了一个桑雅生。所有的规则必须被放下；领悟必须获得。但记住，放下规则并不意味着你成了反社会的。放下规则仅仅意味着因为你存在于社会，你遵从某些规则，但他们只是游戏规则——不是别的什么。 如果你打牌你有规则：某一张牌是国王，另一张牌是皇后。你知道这是愚蠢的，没有牌是国王，没有牌是皇后，但如果你想玩那种游戏，某种规则就必须被遵守。它们是游戏规则，它们没有什么终极的东西。你必须遵守交通规则。 记住，道德的整体只是交通规则而已。你生活在一个社会中，那里不是你一个人，还有许多人。某些规则必须遵守但它们不是最终的，它们中没有什么终极的东西。它们就像靠左行走一样。有美国你是靠右行走——没有问题。如果规则被遵守——靠有，那好。如果规则被遵守，靠左，那也好。两种都一样，但其中一种必须被遵守——如果你有两种规则，那就会有交通阻塞，就会有困难——不必要的困难。 当你与他人生活在一起时，生活必须遵守某些规则。那些规则不是宗教，不是道德，不是神性，它们只是人造的，人必须觉知到这一点，人必须了解它们的相对性；它们是形式。 你不必打破所有的规则，没有必要，因为你会陷入不必要的麻烦，那样你不但成不了一个桑雅生，你会变成一个罪犯。记住那个！桑雅生不是战士，桑雅生不是罪犯，桑雅生知道规则仅仅是一场游戏。他不对抗它们，他超越它们，他越过它们，他使自己不受它们影响。他为他人而遵守它们，但他不会变成一种自动机器。他始终有自觉和完全的警醒。自觉就是目标。 那就是为什么庄子说："因此聪明的古人并没有立下适用于一切的尺度。"他们真的没有立下任何尺度。他们尝试过，用许多途径和方法，来使你觉醒。你睡得很沉，我能听见你的鼾声！如何弄醒你？如何把你推向觉知？当你觉醒时，规则就不需要了，你仍然遵从规则但你知道不需要规则。你没有变成罪犯，你超越了，成为一个桑雅生。 秋天的潮汐来了。成千上万支奔腾的水流湍急地注入了黄河。水涨河阔，隔河相望，看不清对岸的牛马。河伯喜笑颜开，得意洋洋地想着，天下之美，已经让他占尽了。他顺流东行，来到了北海，他越过茫茫的波涛遥望东面无边无际的地平线，他的脸色变了。望着汪洋大海，他回过神来对海神感叹道："俗话说得对。听了许多道理，就以为他比任何人都懂得多。我就是这样一个人哪。现在我才亲眼看到了他们所说的浩瀚无边！"海神答道："你能对一只井底的青蛙谈论大海吗？你能对一只蜻蜓谈论冰冻吗？你能对一位哲学博士谈论生活方式吗？"