Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Skills of Watching Flowing Videos of Life

Born 26 February 1973 in Bombay, India Scripture: In a mood of extreme desire, leave undisturbed. This so-called universe looks like a juggling act, a film show, be happy and see it that way. oh!Beloved, look not to pleasure nor to pain, but to something in between. Goals and desires exist in me as they exist in others, so accept and allow them to be transformed. The original mind is like a mirror, it is pure, it remains pure, but dust may accumulate on it.That purity is not lost, dust cannot destroy that purity, but that purity may be covered, this is the case with the mind in general - covered with dust, the original mind hidden behind the dust remains pure, it does not become To be impure, that is impossible, if it can become impure, then there is no way to get that purity again, which itself is pure, just covered with dust.

Our mind is the original mind plus dust, the Buddha mind plus dust, the divine mind plus dust, and once you know how to remove its covering, how to restore it from the dust, you will already know All that is worth knowing, you have achieved all that is worth achieving, and all these techniques concern is how to free your mind from the dust that must accumulate every day, which is natural, like a traveler Walked many, many ways, collected a lot of dust, many, many lifetimes, you are a traveler, you have traveled a long way, collected a lot of dust. Before we get into these techniques, there are a number of points that must be understood, one of which is that East and West are fundamentally different in their attitude towards inward transformation, Christianity holds that evil has occurred in the very Nothing has happened to man himself, nothing can happen to man's being itself, man's being remains absolutely pure, free from sin, so, in the East man is not condemned, he is not something degraded , on the contrary, he maintained the holiness that has always been the case, and the gathering of dust is natural, and the dust must gather, so there is no sin, only false identification.

We become identified with the mind, identified with the dust, our experiences, our knowledge, our memories are dust, whatever you know, whatever you have experienced, whatever your past is, is dust, back to original A mind means regaining its purity, without experience, without memory, without the past. The whole past is dust, but we identify with the past, not with the consciousness that has always been the present, think of it in this way: whatever you know is always of the past, and you are in the present, at this time Here all your knowledge is dust, "knowing" is your purity, "knowledge" is dust.The ability to know, the energy to know, this is your primordial nature, and on that knowing you accumulate knowledge, that knowledge is like dust.Here and now, this moment, you are absolutely pure, but you are not identified with this purity, you are identified with the past, with the accumulated past, so basically all meditation techniques are removing yourself from the past Methods are all methods of putting yourself into this place.

Buddha was looking how to recover this purity of consciousness, how to be free from the past, because unless you are free from the past you will remain in chains, you will be a slave.The past weighs on you, because of the past, so the present is never known, the past is known to you, now is a very short moment, because of the past, so you keep missing it, because of the past, you Continue projecting into the future, the past is projected into the future, and both are false, the past is no longer there, the future is not yet, neither is, and the "yes" is hidden between these two "nos" between.

Buddha was searching, he visited teacher after teacher, he did a lot of searching, he went to many teachers, he went to all the famous teachers, he taught them, he let them work on him, he cooperated fully, he Regulated himself in many ways, but he was not satisfied, and his difficulty was that the teachers were interested in the future, in a certain state of liberation after death, in a certain state of liberation after the end of life.They were interested in some god, some nirvana, some moksha, some liberated state, some future place, and Buddha was interested in the here and now, so in fact they didn't meet, he told every teacher: "I'm interested in the here and now, in how to be total, whole, pure here and now." And they'll say, "Use the 'this' method, do the 'this', and if you do it right, in the Someday in the future, in a certain life in the future, in a certain state in the future, you will achieve it."

He left every teacher sooner or later, and then he tried it himself, what did he do?He did a very simple thing, once you know it, it's so simple and obvious, but when you don't know it, it's so laborious and so difficult, it seems impossible.He does only one thing: he stays in the present moment, he forgets his past, he forgets his future, he says, "I'm going to be here and now, I'm going to just be." If you can be, Even just for a single moment, you already know the taste, the taste of your pure consciousness, and once you have tasted that taste, you will never be able to forget it, and then that taste, that taste will follow you , that taste will become a metamorphosis.

There are many ways to shed your past, to throw away the dust and look into the mirror of your own mind.All of these techniques work in different ways, but each requires a deep understanding, which must be remembered.These techniques are not mechanical because they are to uncover consciousness, they are not mechanical things, you can use these techniques mechanically, if you use them mechanically, you may get some kind of mind But you will not be original innocence, you may get some kind of stillness, but that stillness is manufactured, and that is also of the dusty part of the mind, not of the original plane.Do not use them mechanically, a deep understanding is needed before they can help to uncover your true nature.

First trick: In a mood of extreme desire, leave undisturbed. "In the mood of extreme desire, be undisturbed." When desire grabs you, you are disturbed, of course, that's natural, desire grabs you, then your mind starts to shake, and then there are many waves Continue to move on the surface, desire pulls you into a certain place in the future, and the past also pushes you into a certain place in the future, you will be disturbed, and you will not be able to be at ease, because desire exists, so you will not be at ease ( dis-ease: ill). This passage: "In a mood of extreme desire, be undisturbed." But how to be undisturbed?Desire means disturbance, so how can you not be disturbed?And in the mood of extreme desire!You will have to do certain experiments, only then will you be able to understand what it means.You are angry, anger takes hold of you, you are momentarily mad, entangled, you have lost your normal senses, and suddenly, remember not to be disturbed, as if you were undressing, inside, you Become naked, free from anger and become naked, naked, the anger will still be there, but there is a point in you, that point is undisturbed.

You will know that anger is around, it is like a fever, it is there, parts around are shaken, around is disturbed, but you can watch him, if you can watch it, you will not be affected disturb.Become a witness to it and you will be undisturbed. This undisturbed point is your original mind.The original mind is not disturbed, it is never disturbed, but you never pay attention to it, and when anger comes, you become identified with anger, you forget that anger is something other than you, you become with It becomes one, you start acting through it, you start doing something through it. There are two things that can be done. In anger you will be violent against someone, the object of your anger, and then the person will move to another object. The anger is only between you and the other person.I am here, anger is there, you are there, you are the target of my anger, I can step from anger to two levels, or I can go to you, then you become the center of my consciousness, become me target of anger, then my mind becomes centered on you, on the person who insulted me, and that is the first way you can come out of anger.There is another way: you can go to yourself, you don't go to the person who you feel provokes the anger, you go to the person who feels the anger, you go to the subject and not to the object.

Normally you go all the way to the object, and if you go to the object, the dusty part of your mind is disturbed, and then you will feel that the 'me' is disturbed.If you move inward, to the center of your own being, you will be able to watch that dusty part of your mind, you will be able to see that dusty part of your mind disturbed, but "I am not disturbed", you can use any desire, Any bother, come experiment with this. A sexual desire comes to your mind, your whole body is occupied by it, you can move to that sexual object, to the object of your desire, which may or may not be there, you can also move to the imaginary goals, but in doing so, you will be more and more disturbed.The farther you are from your center, the more disturbed you are, indeed, the distance of deviation is always proportional to the disturbance, the farther you are from the center, the more disturbed you are, the closer you are to the center, the more disturbed you are. The less disturbed you are, the less disturbed you are if you stay in the center.

In a typhoon there is a center that is undisturbed -- in a typhoon of anger, in a typhoon of sex, in a typhoon of any desire, right in the center there is no typhoon, and without a center of tranquility, Typhoons cannot exist.Anger cannot exist without something in you beyond anger. Remember: nothing can exist without the opposite, the existence of the opposite is needed, it cannot exist without the existence of the opposite, if there is no immobile center in you, then There cannot be any movement, if there is no undisturbed center in you, then no disturbance can happen to you, analyze it, and observe it, if there is no absolutely undisturbed center in you, how can you feel until you are disturbed?You need a comparison, and you need two points to compare against. For example, if a person is sick, he feels sick because there is absolute health in a certain place, point, or center within him, so he can compare.You say your head hurts, how do you know this headache?If you are just a headache, you cannot know it, you must be some other person, something else, or the watcher, the witness, and he can say, "My head hurts." This pain can only be felt by something that is not this pain, if you are sick, have a fever, you can feel it, because you are not the fever, the fever cannot feel that there is a fever, someone beyond it is needed Yes, a polarity is required.When you are in anger, if you feel that you are angry, it means that there is a point in you that is still undisturbed, it can become a witness, maybe you are not paying attention to that point, that is another One thing, maybe you don't see yourself at that point, that's another thing, but it's there, it's always there in its pristine purity. This passage says, "In a mood of extreme desire, be undisturbed." What can you do?This technique is not in favor of repression, this technique is not saying, when in anger, suppress it and remain undisturbed, no!If you suppress, you will create more disturbance, and if the anger is there and the effort to suppress is there, the disturbance will be doubled.When anger arises, close your door, meditate on that anger, let that anger exist, you remain undisturbed, but don't repress it, repressing is easy, expressing is easy, we do both, if the situation Allowed, we show that if it is convenient and not dangerous to you, we show that if you can hurt others and others cannot hurt you, you will show anger, if it is dangerous, if others Can hurt you more, and if your boss, or anyone you're mad at is stronger than you, suppress it.Both expressing and repressing are easy, but witnessing is difficult, witnessing is neither, it is neither repressing nor expressing.It is not manifestation because you are not expressing it to the target of anger, it is not repression, you let it manifest, in a vacuum, you meditate on it. Stand in front of a mirror and express your anger, and be a witness to it, you are alone, so you can meditate on it, do whatever you want, but do it in a vacuum, if you want to hit someone , then you hit the sky; if you want to be angry, you are angry; if you want to scream, you scream; but do it alone.Remember yourself, you are looking at all this, one point of all these dreams, then it becomes a psychodrama, you can laugh, it will become a deep smoldering outpouring for you, and then you will feel liberated from it, and not only liberated from it, you will gain something through it, you will mature, growth will come to you, so you will know, Even when you are in anger there is an undisturbed center in you, now try to uncover this center more and more, it is easier to uncover it when you are in desire. That's why Tantra is not against desire, it says: Be in desire, but remember the undisturbed center.Tantra says: even sex can be used, to enter sex is to remain undisturbed, to be a witness, to continue to be a deep watcher, whatever happens, it is happening around you, you are just a bystander . This technique can be very useful, many benefits can be generated through it, but it will be difficult because when you are disturbed you forget everything.You may forget that you have to meditate, so try it this way: don't wait for the moment when the anger happens to you, don't wait for the moment!Just close the room, think about some of your previous anger experiences, recall it, re-enact it, it will be easier for you, re-enact it, do it again, live it again, don't just remember it, re-enact it Live it, remember what you said when someone insulted you, how you reacted to it, re-reacted, re-acted. You may not know that the mind is just a recording device, and now scientists say - it's a scientific fact - that if you stimulate your memory centers with electrodes, they start to recall, say, you were angry, that event It's recorded in the order it happened, it's like a recording in your head, if it's touched by an electrode, it will start playing again, and you'll feel the same thing again, and your eyes will turn red , your body will start shaking and getting hot, and the whole thing will start over again, when the electrodes are removed, it stops, and if you give it energy again, it starts again from the beginning. Now they say the mind is a recording machine, you can act out anything, but don't just remember, live it again, start feeling the experience again, the mind will get the concept again, the event will come to you, you will Will re-live it, and while re-living it, remain undisturbed.From the past, it was easy because now it has become a game, the real situation no longer exists, if you become able to do this, then when the angry situation actually happens, when the real situation When it happens, you can do it, do it with every desire, do it with every desire. This re-enactment of the past does a lot, everyone has scars in his head, unhealed wounds, if you re-enact them, you will be relieved, if you can access your past and Do the unfinished business and you will be free from the burden of the past, your mind will be fresher and the dust will be thrown away.Recall something in the past that you still feel unresolved: you wanted to kill someone, you wanted to love someone, you wanted this and that, and those things are still unfinished, and those unfinished things are like clouds clouded your mind. It affects your being, and everything you do, the clouds have to be dispelled, the time tunnel has to go back.Recapture those unfulfilled desires, re-live those wounds that are still fresh, they will be healed, you will become more whole, and through the above, you will learn how to remain The trick to not being interrupted. "In a mood of extreme desire, be left undisturbed." Godziford uses this technique a lot, he creates situations, but to create situations requires a school, you can't do it alone, He had a small school in Fontainebleau, where he was a foreman, and he knew how to create situations.He'll go into a room where a group of people are sitting in meditation and he'll do things that make you angry and he'll do it so naturally you don't think the situation was created for you, but it's a design .Someone will say something to insult you, and then you will be disturbed, and everyone will help to increase the disturbance, and then you will get angry, and when you are at the point where you are going to explode, Godziford will shout: "Remember! Keep leave undisturbed." A situation can be created, but only in a school where many people work on themselves.When Godzford shouts, "Remember! Stay undisturbed." Only then do you know that this is a created situation, that the disturbance cannot suddenly disappear, cannot disappear immediately, because it has a physical root, and you The glands in your body have put toxins into the blood and your body has been affected. Anger doesn't go away right away, even when you know you've been lied to, no one's insulting you, no one's really kind to you, and even then, it's hard for you to do anything, the anger is already there, your body is full of it, but, suddenly Suddenly, your temperature cools down, only in the body, in the peripheral part, the anger is still there, suddenly the part of you in the center cools down, and you know that there is a point inside you, that point is undisturbed, so you start Laugh, your eyes are red with anger, your face is violent, animal-like, but you start laughing, and now you know two things: an undisturbed point and a disturbed surrounding. You can help, your family can become a school, you can help each other, friends can become a school, they can help each other, you can decide with your family, the whole family can decide to say now is going to be a father or The mother creates a situation, and then the whole family creates that situation together, when the father or mother gets very angry, and everyone starts laughing and saying, "Keep completely alone." You can help each other, and that experience is Great, once you know that in a hot situation there is a cooling center inside you that you will not be able to forget, then in any hot situation you will be able to remember it, you will be able to recall it Get it back, get it back. In the West, there is a technique, a healing technique that is being used, it's called "psychodrama," and it helps, and it's also based on techniques like in the scriptures, and in psychodrama, you just act , you just play a game, and at the beginning, your mind starts to work, because your mind and your body work automatically, they work automatically! So, if you see an actor acting in a psychodrama, if you see him in an angry situation and really angry, you might think he's just acting, but that's not the case, he could be really angry, it could be It's not a performance at all, he's obsessed with that desire, with that interruption, with that feeling, with that mood, and if he's really obsessed, that's the only way his performance will look good. lifelike. Your body has no way of knowing if you're playing a game, or if you're playing for real, maybe sometimes in your life, you've observed yourself, you're just playing with anger, and you don't know when it turns into anger It's real, or, you're just playing, and you don't feel sexual, you're just playing with your wife or your girlfriend or your husband, and then, all of a sudden, it becomes real and the body takes over , the body is deceived, the body cannot know whether it is real or not, especially with sex it is more so, if you imagine it, your body will think it is real. Sex is one of the most imaginary centers in the body, so just by imagining you can have an orgasm, you can trick the body.In a dream, you can have a sexual outlet, even in a dream, the body can be tricked.You are not having sex with anyone, you are only having sex in a dream, in your imagination, but the body releases sexual energy and even a deep orgasm can be felt, what is going on?How the body is tricked, the body has no way of knowing what is real and what is not, once you start doing something, the body thinks it is real and starts acting in a real way. Psychodrama is a technique based on this type of approach.You are not angry, you are just acting angry and then you get into it.But psychodrama is beautiful because you know you're just acting out and then, in the surrounding part, the anger becomes real and you hide behind it and watch it so you know you're not bothered, But the anger is there, the disturbance is there; the disturbance is there, but you are not disturbed. The feeling of these two forces working together takes you beyond, and then in real anger, you can feel it too, and once you know how to feel it, you can feel it in real situations.Use this technique, it will change your whole life, once you know how to remain undisturbed, the world is not a sea of ​​misery for you, then nothing can create any chaos in you, then nothing can really hurt you, then there is no suffering for you, and once you know it, you can apply it to another thing. Godzford used to do it a lot, he'd be able to change his face at any moment, he'd laugh, he'd smile, he'd make you look happy, and then, all of a sudden, he'd be mad for no reason, He is said to be very good at it.If people sat close to him, one on one side, he could be angry with one half of his face and smile with the other half, and one of them would say, "What a beautiful person God is." And the other Will say, "What an ugly man he is." He will look at one person with a smile on one side while looking angrily at the other. Once you can separate your center from the surroundings, you can do it, once that center is completely separated, once you can remain undisturbed in anger, in desire, you can play with desire, with anger Play, play with Disturbance. The technique is to create in you the sense of "two extremes" that exist and the two opposite extremes that exist, and once you become aware of this polarity, you become yourself for the first time Master, otherwise, others are your masters and you are just a slave.Your wife knows it, your son knows it, your father knows it, your friends know it, you can be pushed and pulled, you can be interrupted, you can be made happy and unhappy if someone else can make you happy and unhappy Make you unhappy, you are not a master, you are just a slave, someone else can master, just a gesture, he can make you unhappy; just a little smile, he can make you happy. So you are just at the mercy of someone else, who can do anything to you, if that is the case, then all your reactions are just a reaction to someone else, not your own actions, you are just reacting; If someone insults you, you are angry, and your anger is not an active act, it is an induced reaction.If someone appreciates you, you start to feel good, great, and it's a reaction, not an automatic action. The Buddha was passing through a village where some people had gathered, who opposed him and insulted him. After hearing what they had said, the Buddha said, "I must go to another village in time. So, can I go now? If you have already Say whatever you have to say and if it's over then I can go or if you have more to say to me I'll be here when I get back and you can come and tell me ." Those people were amazed, they couldn't understand, they insulted him, they insulted him with bad words, but Buddha was indifferent, so they said, "But we are not telling you something, we are insulting you, insulting you." Buddha said : "You can do this, but if you want any reaction from me, you come too late. If you said these things to me ten years ago, I would have reacted, but now I have learned how to do it on my own. Act (not react to what others do), now I am my own master, you can't force me to do anything, so you have to go back, you can't bother me, now nothing can bother me because I already know My own center." Knowing this center, or knowing this foundational center, makes you a master, otherwise you are a slave, and a slave of many, not just one master, but many masters.Everything is a master and you are the slave of the whole universe, obviously you are going to have trouble, there are so many masters pulling you in so many directions and levels, you are never together, you are not one.Because of being pulled on so many levels, you are in excruciating pain, and only being master of yourself can transcend pain. Second trick: This so-called universe looks like a juggling act, a film show, be happy and see it that way. "This so-called universe looks like a trick, a film show, be happy and see it that way." This whole world is like a play, so don't take it too seriously, seriousness will take you Get into trouble, you will get into trouble, don't take it seriously, nothing is serious!This whole world is just a play. If you could see the whole world as a play, you would regain your primordial consciousness.Dust gathers because you are too serious. That seriousness creates difficulties. We are so serious that even when we are watching a play we gather dust.Go to a movie theater and watch the people watching the movie, don't look at the screen, forget about the movie, don't look at the screen, just look at the audience in the lobby, some will cry, some will cry, some will laugh, some will be sexually aroused, just watch Look at those people, what are they doing?What is happening to them?There is nothing on the screen, just photographs—photographs of light and shadow, and the screen is empty.How did they get excited?They are sobbing, crying, and laughing, those pictures are not just pictures, and those videos are not just movies, they have forgotten that it is just a story, they look at it seriously, it has "become alive"!it is real"!It happens everywhere, not just in movie theaters.Notice the life around you, how is it? There are many people living on this earth.Right where you sit, at least ten corpses were once buried there, and they were as serious as yours, and now they are no more, where did their lives go?Where did their problems go?They were fighting, fighting for a little piece of land, and the land still exists, and they no longer exist. I'm not saying their problems aren't problems, they are problems, just like your problems are problems too.They are "serious", questions of life and death, but where do their questions go?If the entire human race disappears one day, the earth will still exist, the trees will still grow, the rivers will still flow, the sun will still rise, and the earth will not feel any lack or surprise where humans have gone. Look at that vast space, look back, look forward, look at all the layers of your being, look at all the layers of your life, it seems like one long dream, everything that you think is serious at this moment , the next moment, it may become useless, and you may not even remember it. Think back to your first love, what a serious thing it was, life depended on it, now you don't remember it at all, it's forgotten.Anything you think your life depends on today will be forgotten.Life is a flow, nothing stays, it's like a moving film, everything changes into everything else, but when you feel it's very serious and you're disturbed, this technique says : "This so-called universe looks like a trick, a film show, be happy and see it that way." In India we don't call this world God's creation, we call it a game (leela), the idea of ​​a game is very beautiful, because creation seems to be serious, Christian or Judaic gods are very serious, even if there is only one For disobedience, Adam was thrown out of Eden, and not only he was thrown out, but because of him, the whole world was implicated, he was our father and we suffered because of him.God seems so serious that we cannot disobey him, and if we disobey him, he will "revenge" and that retaliation is so long. It seems that sin should not be so serious. In fact, Adam committed that sin because of God's own stupidity. God the Father told Adam, "Stay away from that tree - the tree of knowledge, and don't eat of its fruit." This prohibition becomes an invitation, it is the law of psychology, and in that great garden only the tree of knowledge becomes attractive because it is forbidden.Any psychologist will say that God made a mistake, and if the fruit of that tree is not edible, it is better not to talk about it at all, so that it is impossible for Adam to approach the tree, and the whole human race will remain. In the garden, but this "don't eat" statement or command creates trouble, this "don't" creates the whole trouble. Because Adam disobeyed, so he was thrown out of heaven, that revenge seems very long, Christianity said: Jesus was crucified only to atone for our sins, to atone for the sins committed by Adam, so the concept of the whole history of Christianity stays in Two people - Adam and Jesus, Adam sinned, Jesus suffered to atone for our sins and was crucified, he suffered so that Adam's sins could be forgiven, but God still didn't seem to forgive him, Jesus was crucified On the cross, but humanity continues to suffer in the same way. The idea of ​​God as a father is ugly and serious, the Indian idea is that God is not a creator, God is just a player, it is not serious, it is just a game, there are rules, but they are the rules of the game, You don't have to take it too seriously, there is nothing sinful, only wrong.You suffer because of mistakes, not because God punishes you.You are suffering because you are not following the rules, not God is punishing you.整个游戏的观念给予生命一个戏剧性的色彩，它变成一出长剧，这个技巧就是以这个观念作为基础："这个所谓的宇宙看起来好像是一个变戏法、一个影片的展示，要快乐，而且要以这样来看它。" 如果你不快乐，那么你是把事情看得太严肃了，不要试着去找出如何变快乐的任何方法，将这整个生命看成一个神秘、看成一个故事。它是一个故事，一旦你以这样的方式来看它，你就不会不快乐，不快乐是由于太过于严肃的缘故。用七天的时间去尝试，用七天的时间，只要记住一件事：整个世界只是一出戏，这样做之后，你将会有所改变；你将不会再一样；只要七天！你不会损失很多，因为你没有任何东西可以损失。 你可以尝试，用七天的时间，将每一样东西看成一出戏、看成一个表演，这七天将会使你瞥见你的佛性，以及你内在的纯净，一旦你有了那个瞥见，你就不再一样了，你将会是快乐的，但是你无法想象什么样的快乐会发生在你身上，因为你从来不知道任何快乐，你只知道各种不快乐的程度。有时候你不快乐的程度比较深，有时候比较浅；当你不快乐的程度比较浅的时候，你就称它为快乐，你不知道快乐是什么，因为你无法知道。当你把世界看得很严肃，你就无法知道快乐是什么，唯有当你奠基于"世界只是一个游戏"这个态度上，快乐才会发生。 所以，试着以一种非常欢乐、庆祝的方式来做每一件事，试着去"表演"——不是真的。如果你是一个先生，你就"扮演"一个先生；如果你是一个太太，你就成为剧中的太太，使它成为一个游戏，当然，这个游戏是有规则的，任何游戏都需要规则，结婚是一个规则，离婚也是一个规则，但是不要对它们太严厉，它们都是规则，而一个规则产生出另外一个规则。离婚的不好，因为结婚是不好的，一个规则产生出另外一个规则，但是不要将它们看得太严厉，而要看看你的生活品质如何很快地改变。 今天晚上回家，跟你太太、先生或小孩相处，就好像你在扮演剧中的一个角色，然后欣赏它的美。如果你扮演一个角色，你会试着去把它做好，但是你不会受打扰，因为那是不需要的，你会扮演你的角色，然后去睡觉，但是要记住，那只是一个角色。用七天的时间，继续遵循这种态度，那么快乐就会发生在你身上，一旦你知道快乐是什么，你就不需要进入不快乐，因为你可以选择。 你的不快乐是因为你选择了一个错误的态度来面对生命，如果你选择了一个正确的态度，你就能够快乐。佛陀非常注意，正确的态度"，什么是正确的态度？原则在哪里？对我来说，原则就是：使你快乐的态度就是正确的态度，关于这一点没有客观的原则。使你不快乐和悲惨的态度就是错误的态度，这个原则是主观的，你的快乐就是原则。 The third trick: oh!所钟爱的，不要注意在欢乐上，也不要注意在痛苦上，而要注意在这两者之间。 "喔！所钟爱的，不要注意在欢乐上，也不要注意在痛苦上，而要注意在这两者之间。"每一件事都是有极性的，而头脑由一极移到另一极，它从来不停留在中间，你曾经知道过任何既非快乐亦非不快乐的片刻吗？你曾经知道过任何既非这个亦非那个，当你只是在两者之间，当你只是在中间，当你就在中间的片刻吗？头脑很快地由一端移到另一端。如果你是快乐的，迟早你会移到不快乐，而且你会移动得很快，快乐将会消失，然后你就变成不快乐。 如果你觉得很好，迟早你会觉得不好，没有一个点让你停留在两者之间，你很快地从这一点移到那一点，就好像一个古老时钟的钟摆，你从左边移到右边，从右边移到左边，那个钟摆继续在摆动。这是一个秘密的法则：当钟摆跑到左边，它看起来似乎是跑到左边，但它是在聚集要跑到右边的动量，当它跑到左边，这是在聚集能量、聚集动量要跑到右边；当它跑到右边，它是在聚集动量要跑到左边，因此，所显示出来的并不是整体。当你正在变成快乐，你是在聚集动量去成为不快乐，所以每当我看到你在笑，你就已经离哭泣不很远了。 在印度的乡村里，母亲知道这个，所以当一个小孩子开始笑得太过分，她们会说："停止他，否则他将会哭。"它一定是如此，如果一个小孩子太高兴，下一步就只能不高兴，所以她们阻止他，否则他将会变得不高兴，但是同样的情形可以应用到它的反面，这一点是不为人所知的，如果一个小孩子在哭，而你试着去阻止他，你不只是阻止他的哭泣，你同时阻止了他的下一步，如此一来，他就不能够快乐了，当一个小孩子在哭，要让他哭，帮助他哭得更多，为的是当哭泣结束，他就已经聚集了动量，现在他能够移到右边，他能够快乐。 现在心理分析学家说：当一个小孩子在哭泣或是在尖叫，不要阻止他，不要试着去说服他，不要转移他的注意力，不要试着去使他的头脑集中在另外的地方，不要贿赂他，使他停止，不要做任何事，只要在他旁边保持沉默，让他哭泣、尖叫，为的是使他能够很容易进入快乐，否则他将既不能够哭泣，也不能够快乐，我们就是都变成这样，我们什么事都做不好，我们的微笑不热心，我们的眼泪也不尽心，每一件事都是混乱。 但这是头脑自然的法则，它从一端移到另一端，这个技巧就是要去改变这个自然的法则："喔！所钟爱的，不要注意在欢乐上，也不要注意在痛苦上，而要注意在这两者之间。"我们可以选择任何两极，而去尝试就停留在两者之间，你要怎么做才能够停留在两者中间？你要怎样去处于两者中间？有一件事：当痛苦存在，你能做什么？当痛苦存在，你想要去逃离它，你不想要它，你试着去远离它，你的努力是：走到另一个极端——成为快乐的、成为欢欣的。 当快乐来临的时候，你怎么做呢？你的努力就是去执著于它，为的是让另外一端可以不要进入。你执著于它！当快乐来临的时候，你执著；当痛苦来临的时候，你逃避。这是自然的态度，如果你想要改变这个自然的法则，而且超越它，那么，当痛苦来临的时候，不要试着去逃避，跟它在一起，你将会扰乱整个自然的运作过程。当你头痛，停留在头痛，闭起你的眼睛，静心冥想那个头痛，跟它在一起，不要做任何事，只要成为一个观照，不要试着去逃避。 当快乐来临，当你觉得在某一个片刻特别高兴，不要执著于它，闭起你的眼睛，成为它全部的一个观照，执著或逃避对于一个覆盖着灰尘的头脑而言是自然的，如果你保持观照，迟早你将会掉在两者之间，因为自然法则就是移到两极，移到相反的极端，如果你保持观照，你就会停留在两者之间。 佛陀将他的整个哲学称为"玛吉姆尼卡亚"（Majjhim Nikaya）——中道，是由于这个技巧的缘故，他说：永远停留在中间，不管两极如何，永远停留在中间，藉着观照，一个人可以停留在中间，当你失去了你的观照时，你或者变成执著，或者变成排斥，如果你排斥，你就会跑到另外一个极端；如果你执著，你就会试着去停留在这个极端；但是你永远不会在两者之间。只要成为一个观照，不要排斥。头痛存在，接受它，它以一个事实存在，就好像一棵树存在，就好像房子存在，就好像夜晚存在，头痛也存在，接受它，闭起你的眼睛，不要试着去逃避它。 当你是快乐的，接受那个事实，不要执著于它，不要试着不去变成不快乐，不要试着去做任何事。如果不快乐来临，就让它来临；如果快乐来临，也让它来临；只要成为一个站在山上的观照者，只要看着事情：早晨来临，然后晚上来临；日升，然后日落；夜晚降临、星星出现，然后太阳再度升起，而你只是一个在山上的观看者，你无法做任何事，你只是看。早晨来临，你注意到那个事实，现在你知道晚上将会来临，因为傍晚跟随着早晨。当晚上来临，你注意到那个事实，而你知道早晨将会来临，因为早晨跟随着晚上。 当痛苦来临，你只成为一个观照者，你知道痛苦来临，而迟早它将会走，相反的极端将会来临。当快乐来临，你知道它将不会永远停留，不快乐将会停留在某一个地方，它将会来临；你保持是一个观照者，如果你能够观看而不要有吸引，也不要有排斥，你将会落在两者的中间，一旦那个钟摆停留在中间，你就首度地能够看到这个世界是什么。 当你在移动，你无法知道世界是什么，你的移动混乱了每一样东西，一旦你不移动，你就能够注视这个世界。人生第一次，你知道了真实的存在是什么，一个不动的头脑知道真实的存在是什么，一个移动的头脑无法知道真实的存在是什么。你的头脑就好像一个照相机，你继续移动和拍照，但是任何你所照的都是一片混乱，因为照相机不能够动，如果照相机在动，照片将只是一片混乱。 你的意识由一个钟摆移动到另外一个钟摆，而任何你所知道的事实都只是一片混乱、一个恶梦，你不知道什么是什么，每一样东西都混乱了，错过了。如果你停留在中间，而那个钟摆已经停止，如果你的意识集中在一个焦点、归于中心，那么你就知道真实的存在是什么，唯有一个不动的头脑才能够知道"真理"是什么，"喔！所钟爱的，不要注意在欢乐上，也不要注意在痛苦上，而要注意在这两者之间。" 第四个技巧： 目标和欲望存在于我里面就好像存在于别人里面一样，所以，接受，让它们被转变。 "目标和欲望存在于我里面就好像存在于别人里面一样，所以，接受，让它们被转变。"这个技巧能够非常有帮助，当你在生气，你总是认为你有正当的理由；但是当别人生气，你总是在批评。你的疯狂是自然的，而别人的疯狂是"异常的"，任何你所做的都是好的，而即使它不是好的，它也是"需要去做的"，你总是会为它找到某种合理化的解释。 别人也是这样做，但是当别人这样做的时候，你就不会给他同样合理化的解释，如果你生气，你说那是为了要去帮助别人；如果你不生气，别人一定会被毁灭，他一定会养成一个坏习惯，所以惩罚他是"好的"，那是为他"好"；但是当某人对你生气，同样的合理化解释就不适用了，他的生气是"疯的"，他是"坏的"。 我们采用双重标准：一个标准给自己，另一个标准给其他每一个人；这种双重标准的头脑将会永远处于深深的悲惨之中，这种头脑是不公正的。除非你的头脑是公正的，否则你无法瞥见真理，唯有公正的头脑能够脱离这种双重标准。耶稣说："不要对别人做你不喜欢别人对你做的事。"这意味着需要一个类似的标准，这个技巧是基于一个标准的概念： "目标和欲望存在于我里面，就好像存在于别人里面一样……"你不是例外的，虽然每一个人都认为他是例外的。如果你认为你是例外的，那么你就要知道每一个平凡的头脑都这样认为，"知道一个人是平凡的"是世界上最不平凡的。 有人问史史奇关于他的老师："史史奇，你的老师有什么特别？"史史奇是一个禅师，所以他说："唯一我永远不能忘记的是，我从来没有看过一个认为他自己很平凡的人，他只是很平凡，而那就是最不平凡的事，因为每一个平凡的头脑都认为他是例外的，不平凡的。" 但是没有一个人是不平凡的，如果你知道这个，你就变成不平凡了，每一个人就好像其他每一个人一样。围绕着你的欲望跟围绕着其他每一个人的欲望都是同样的，但是你把你的性称做爱，而把别人的爱称做性。任何你所做的，你都保护它，你说它是好的，所以你才做它，而同样的事由别人来做就"不一样了"。 世界上每一个政府都称它的军事机构为"防卫"机构，那么是谁在攻击？如果每一个人都在防卫，那么谁是侵略者？如果你读历史，你无法找出任何一个侵略者，当然，打败的一方就被证明是侵略者，打败的一方总是被证明是侵略者，因为他们无法写历史，历史是由胜利的人所写的。 没有一个人是不同的！一个宗教的头脑知道每一个人都是相同的，所以如果你给你自己合理化的解释，请你也给别人同样的合理化解释；如果你批评别人，那么对你自己也要使用同样的批评，不要创造出双重标准，单一标准将会完全改变你的存在，因为只用一个标准，你就变成公正的，当你变公正，你就能够直接看到真实存在本然的样子。"目标和欲望存在于我里面就好像存在于别人里面一样，所以，接受，让它们被转变。"接受它们，然后它们就会被转变（改变）。 我们是怎么做的呢？我们接受说目标和欲望存在于别人里面，任何错误的都存在于别人里面，而任何正确的都存在于你里面，那么你怎么能够被改变？你已经被改变，你认为你已经很好，而其他每一个人都很坏，世界需要改变，而不是你需要改变，那就是为什么总是有领导者、社会运动和先知，他们不断从屋顶上叫喊着要改变世界，要创造一个革命，而我们一直在革命又革命，但是到头来还是没有什么改变。 人类还是维持一样，地球还是停留在原来的悲惨之中，只有外表和标签改变，但是悲惨依然继续。问题不在于如何去改变世界，世界并没有什么不对，是你不对，问题在于如何自己改变自己。"如何改变自己"是宗教的诉求，"如何改变其他每一个人"是政治的，但是政客认为他没有问题，事实上，他是整个世界应该怎么样的模范，他是模范！他是理想！改变整体要靠他。 一个具有宗教性的人在其他每一个人里面所看到的任何什么，他都同时在他自己里面看到。如果有暴力，他立刻怀疑，是否那个暴力也存在于他里面，如果有贪婪？如果他在哪一个地方看到贪婪，他的第一个反应就是：同样的贪婪有没有在他里面？他追寻越多，就越发现他是所有罪恶的泉源，那么，问题就不在于如何改变这个世界，问题在于如何改变自己。当你接受单一标准时，那个改变就开始了，你就已经在改变了。 不要谴责别人，我的意思不是说要谴责你自己，不！只是不要谴责别人，而如果你不谴责别人，你对他们会有很深的同情，因为你也有同样的问题，如果某人犯下一个罪恶，犯下一个社会的眼光中看起来是罪恶的罪恶，你就开始谴责他，而从来没有想到，在你里面也有犯同样罪恶的种子。如果某人犯了谋杀罪，你就谴责他，但你不也是一直在想杀人吗？潜在的种子不也是一直在那里吗？一个杀人者在一个片刻之前也不是一个杀人者，一个片刻之后，谁知道会怎样？你或许也会变成一个杀人者，所以不要谴责他，宁可接受他，那么你就会感觉对他有一个深深的同情，因为任何他所做的，人都可能做，你也可能做。 一个不谴责的头脑会有怜悯，一个不谴责的头脑会有深深的接受，他知道人类就是这样，而我也是这样，那么整个世界就变成你自己本身的一个反映，它就变成一面镜子，那么每一张脸对你来讲都变成一面镜子，你在每一张脸里面看到你自己。 "目标和欲望存在于我里面就好像存在于别人里面一样，所以，接受，让它们被转变。"接受形成转变，这是难以了解的，因为我们总是在拒绝它，没有人会认为他自己是贪婪的。你有性欲，但是你拒绝它，没有人要去感觉他自己是有性欲的。你在生气，你有愤怒，但是你拒绝它，你创造出一个假面具，而且你试着去为它辩护，你从来没有感觉你是愤怒的，或者你就是愤怒。 然而拒绝从来不会改变任何事情，它只是压抑，而那个被压抑的就变得更强而有力，它进入到你的根部，进入到你深处的无意识，然后它开始从那里产生作用，从那个无意识的深处，它变得更强而有力，这样一来，你更无法接受它，因为你甚至没有意识到它。"接受"把一样东西带上来，不需要压抑。 你知道你是贪婪的，你知道你有愤怒，你知道你有性欲，那么就以自然的事实来接受它们，不要有任何谴责，不需要去压抑它们，它们会来到头脑的表面，而它们可以很容易地从头脑的表面被抛弃，当它们在表面，你总是会觉知到它们，但是当它们在潜意识里，你就不会觉知到。一个你有觉知到的病是可以治愈的，一个你没有觉知到的病是无法被治愈的。 将每一样东西都带到表面来，接受你的人性，也接受你的兽性，任何存在的东西都要毫无谴责地接受它，它在那里，要觉知到它。贪婪存在，不要试着去使它变成非贪婪，这你是做不到的，而如果你试着使它变成非贪婪，你将只是在压抑它，你的非贪婪将只是另外一种形式的贪婪，而不是另外的东西，不要试着去将这改变成其他的东西，你无法改变它，如果你试着想要去改变贪婪，你会怎么做呢？如果透过贪婪而能够达到某种进一步的贪婪，那么贪婪的头脑就会被非贪婪的理想所吸引。 当某人说："如果你留下你所有的财富，你将会被允许进入我神的王国。"那么你将甚至可以抛弃你所有的财富，那么，进一步的贪婪就变得可能，这是一项交易，贪婪不必去变成非贪婪，贪婪是要被超越的，你无法改变它。 一个暴力的头脑怎么能够变成非暴力？如果你强迫你自己变成非暴力，这将是对你自己的暴力。你无法将一个改变成另外一个，你只能觉知和接受，按照贪婪本然的样子来接受它，接受并不是意味着不需要去改变它，接受只是意味着你接受事实，接受自然的事实，按照事情本然的样子来接受，然后进入生命，清楚地知道贪婪是存在的，做任何你在做的，记得很清楚说贪婪是存在的，这个觉知将会改变你，它能够改变你是因为当你有知，你无法贪婪；当你有知，你无法生气。要愤怒、要贪婪、要暴力的话，不觉知是一个基本需要，就好像你不会有知地服下毒药，就好像你不会有知地将你的手放进火焰，在不知不觉当中，你会将你的手放在火焰上，如果你不知道火焰是什么、火是什么，你会将你的手放进它里面，但是如果你知道火会烧人，你就不会将你的手放进它里面。你的"有知"越成长，贪婪就越变成是一个火，愤怒就越变成是毒素，它们就会变得不可能，不必有任何压抑，它们就消失了。当没有任何非贪婪的理想，而贪婪能够消失，它不有它本身的美；当不必使你变成非暴力，而暴力能够消失，它就有它本身的美。 否则一个非暴力的人具有深度的暴力倾向，那个暴力是隐藏的，从他的非暴力，你也可以瞥见他的暴力，他会以一种极为暴力的方式将他的非暴力强加在他自己身上，以及强加在别人身上，这么一来，那个暴力已经变微妙了。 这段经文说：接受就是蜕变，因为透过接受，觉知才变得可能。