Chapter 10 Chapter 9 The Tantric Method of Awareness and Nonjudgment

Bombay, India, March 25, 1973 Scripture: At the beginning of a sneeze, at times of terror, at times of anxiety, at times of emotional conflict, when fleeing for life in war, at times of extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, or Be aware intermittently."Pure" as taught by others is an impure to us; in real existence, don't see things as pure or impure. Life is a paradoxical truth.To reach the near you have to travel to the far, and that which has been achieved you have to reach again.Nothing is lost.Man remains natural, man remains pure, man remains innocent, he just forgets it.That purity is not disturbed, that innocence is not destroyed, only a deep forgetfulness exists.

You are already the one to be achieved.In essence, there is nothing new to be achieved, you just have to discover, to unravel, to open that which is already there, so spiritual endeavors are difficult and easy, I say both, If you can understand, it is very simple, but it is also very difficult, because you have to understand that which has been completely forgotten, that which is obvious.You are never aware of it, it is like your breath, it goes on, uninterrupted, you don't need to be aware of it, your awareness is not needed, it is not a basic requirement, you You can forget it or remember it, the choice is yours.

"Saha world" and "Nirvana"; "world" and "liberated state of consciousness", they are not two things, they are just two attitudes, two choices, and you can choose one of them.You can be in the world because of a certain attitude, but just by changing the attitude, the same world becomes nirvana, the same world becomes absolute bliss, you remain the same, everything remains the same, Just a change of focus, a change of emphasis, a change of choice, that's easy.Once absolute bliss is achieved you will be amused, once it is known you will not be able to understand why you have been missing it in the past, how could you have missed it, it has always been there, just waiting to be To be watched.It has always been yours.

Buddha will laugh, anyone who has achieved it will laugh, because the whole thing seems ridiculous, you are looking for something that has never been lost.The whole effort is absurd, but this kind of thing happens only when you achieve it, so those who have achieved it say it is very easy, but the ones who have not achieved it say it is the most laborious, the most difficult, really Yes, not only difficult, but most impossible. It is important to remember that the methods we will discuss are spoken by those who have achieved them.They look too simple, but they are that simple.To our minds, things that simple don't attract, because if the technique is so simple and the house is so close, if you are already in it, if the technique is so simple and the home is so close, you will think yourself is ridiculous.If so, why do you keep missing it?Instead of feeling ridiculous about your own ego, you might think that such a simple method cannot help.

That's a scam.Your mind will tell you that these simple methods cannot help, it will tell you that they are so simple they cannot achieve anything.How can such a simple method be used to achieve "the divine being", to achieve "the absolute" and "the ultimate"?How can they be of any help?Your ego will say: they cannot be of any help. Remember another thing: the ego is always interested in difficult things, because when things are difficult it has a challenge, and if you can overcome that difficulty, your ego will feel fulfilled.The ego is never attracted to anything simple -- never!If you want to give your ego a challenge then you have to design something that is difficult, if something is easy then there is no appeal because even if you can conquer it the ego will not be satisfied.There is nothing to conquer in the first place because it is that simple. The ego asks for difficulty -- there are obstacles to be crossed, some peaks to be conquered, and the more difficult that peak, the more comfortable your ego will feel.

Because these techniques are so simple, they will not have any appeal to your mind.Remember that what is attractive to your ego cannot help you grow spiritually, only that which causes unattractiveness to your ego can be a help towards transformation, but this is how it happens: if some teacher says this Or that is very difficult, very laborious, and only after many, many lifetimes is it possible for you to have any glimpse at all, and then your ego will feel good. These techniques are very simple, right now, right here and now, that can happen, but then there is no contact with your ego.If I say, right now, right here, at this moment, you can achieve what a human being can, without wasting a single moment, right here, right now, you can become a Buddha, a Christ , or a Krishna, then there is no contact with your ego.You say, "This is impossible, I have to go somewhere else to find it." These techniques are so simple that you can achieve all that is possible for human consciousness at any moment you decide to achieve it.

When I say these techniques are simple, I mean many things, first of all, the spiritual explosion is not caused by anything, it is not a causal phenomenon, if it is caused by something, then it must take time, because If that cause is going to happen, time is needed, and if time is needed, then it cannot be the case, it cannot happen in this moment, then you have to wait until tomorrow, or until another life; the next moment is needed.If anything is causal, then the cause has to happen, after the cause the effect will follow.If there is no cause, you cannot have immediate effect, time is needed, but spiritual happening is not a causal phenomenon, you are already in that state, just remember it.It is not a causal phenomenon.

It's like: someone wakes you up in the morning and you don't recognize that you are there, suddenly you may not even recognize who you are, on sudden awakening from deep sleep you may Not being able to recognize the place, the time, but all of a sudden, you can, and as you become more alert, you become more able to recognize who you are, where you are, and what is happening, it's not a It is a matter of cause and effect, it is just a matter of alertness, and as alertness grows you will be able to recognize who you are.All of these techniques are for growing awareness that you are already the person you want to be, you are already where you want to be.

You have reached your home, in fact you have never left it, you have always been there, but you are dreaming, sleeping, you can sleep here and dream, and in your dream you can move Go anywhere, you can go to hell, heaven, or anywhere.Have you ever observed that whenever you are dreaming, one thing is certain: you are never in the room where you sleep, have you observed that fact?You can be anywhere, but you are never in the same room, not in the same room where you sleep, because you are already there, you don't need to dream it, dreaming means you have to go away. You may sleep in this room, but you will never dream of this room, you are already there without the need.The mind is always wanting that which is not, that which is not, so the mind runs around, it may go to London, New York, Calcutta, the Himalayas or anywhere, it may go anywhere, but it never It will be here, it will go anywhere, but it will never be here, and you are here, that's how it is.You are dreaming, but your divine being is here; you are "the one," but you have been on a long journey, and each dream begets a new train of dreams, and each dream begets new dreams, and you Go on dreaming, dreaming, dreaming.

All these techniques are just to make you alert so that you can come out of your dream and go back to where you have always been, to a state that you never missed, actually you couldn't miss it, it is yours nature.It is your being, so how can you miss it?These techniques are just to help your awareness grow more, to help it become more intense, and with intense awareness everything changes.The greater the awareness, the less likely it is to dream, and you become more and more alert to "that which is real".The less awareness you have, the more you float into the dream, so the whole phenomenon is: a non-alert mind is the world, and an alert mind is nirvana.Not alert, you are "what you seem to be";

Be alert, you are "what you are". So the whole question is how to change your non-alert mind into an alert mind, how to become more aware, how to get out of sleep and dreaming, that's why techniques can help, even an alarm clock can help -- —Just one man-made design, just one alarm clock.If that alarm clock goes on, it can help you, take you out of your dream, but you can also cheat it, you can even dream it, then the whole thing is over; when the alarm clock is ringing, you can dream, you can Dream around an alarm clock, you can dream that you enter a temple and the clock is ringing, in this way you cheat the alarm clock, which could break your sleep, but you make it the dream itself, You make it part of your dreams. If you can make it part of your dreaming, if it can be sucked into a dreaming process, then it cannot help you.You can dream anything, then it will not look like an alarm clock, it will become something else.It becomes: you have entered a temple and the bell is ringing, then you don't need to wake up, you have changed the noise, the real thing, into a dream, and a dream cannot be disturbed by another dream , it can only be helped by another dream.These techniques are artificial in a way, they are all just designs to help you out of the dream, but you can also make them part of your dream, then you miss the point, then you miss the point point!Try to understand this because this is very basic and once it is understood it will help, otherwise you will continue to deceive yourself. For example, I say, "Take a risk and become a disciple." It's just a design to break your old identification, your old name will become as if it belongs to someone else, and then you can be more detached Looking at your past, you can become a witness; you are distant, a distance is created, I give you a new name and a new robe, just to create that distance, but You can make it part of your dreaming, then you miss the whole point.You can still think in the old way, you can say that the old person, X, has become a disciple, and you can feel: "I have become a disciple, but I am still the same; I have changed. My clothes, my name, but I'm still the old." The old is still going on, so the disciple is just something added to the old, it's not discontinuous, it's It is continuous, and if it is continuous, if the old "you" becomes a disciple, if "you" changes your clothes and your name, you miss the point. "You" must die, you must not be the old, you must feel that the old is dead, you must feel that this is not a growth from the old, it is not continuous with the old, then this Design will help, this alarm clock will work, this technique will work, then you haven't missed the point.All these tricks are: you can miss them, you can use them, it depends on the situation, but it is good to remember that these tricks are just tricks, if you understand the spirit of it, maybe you can do without any tricks become alert. For example, an alarm clock may not be needed, go deep into it, why do you need an alarm clock?Why do you need an alarm clock if you want to wake up at three in the morning?Deep down, you know that you can deceive yourself; Deep down, you know that if you really got to wake up at three, you'll wake up at three without an alarm clock, but with an alarm clock, responsibility is pushed Dropped, so that you don't have to be responsible; this way, if things go wrong, the alarm clock should be responsible, so you can sleep easily, since you have an alarm clock, you can not be disturbed to sleep. But if you really want to get up at three o'clock in the morning, you will get up at three o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock is not needed, the intensity of wanting to get up will make that happen.Sometimes the will to get up at three o'clock is so strong that you can't fall asleep at all, you don't need to get up, you've been up all night.But to sleep well, the alarm clock is needed, so that you can sleep peacefully, but you can cheat, when the alarm clock goes off, you can cheat, you can dream about it. These techniques can help only because your intensity is too low. If you are really intense, then you can be alert without any technique, but if your intensity is not enough, even with technique, you will start When dreaming, there are many possibilities: the first possibility is that you don’t believe that such a simple technique can be of any help, this is the first thing, then you will catch up with the technique.Second, you may think it will take a very, very long process, you may think it will come gradually, but there are some things that can happen only immediately, they never come gradually. I remembered that the neighbor asked Mulla Nasruddin to go and wish his son a birthday, so he said: "Son, I hope you live a hundred and twenty years and three months." Everyone said "another three months" "It's all weird.The son asked: "Why? One hundred and twenty years, that's all right, but why add another three months?" So Mulla Nasruddin said: "I don't want you to die so suddenly. You died suddenly at the age of one hundred and twenty? I didn't want you to die so suddenly, so I added three months." But anyway, even if you add three more months, you will die suddenly. Whenever you are about to die, you will die suddenly. Every death is a sudden death. No death is gradual, because You are either alive or dead, there is no gradual process, one moment you are alive, the next moment you are dead, there is no time difference. Death is sudden, samadhi is sudden, spiritual explosion is sudden!It is like death, it is more like death than life, it is sudden, it can happen at any moment.These techniques can help if you are ready, these techniques will not gradually bring you to samadhi, in fact they will gradually bring you to a ready position so that it can happen immediately, remember This characteristic: they prepare you so that samadhi can happen immediately. These techniques are not samadhi techniques, they are techniques that prepare you and then samadhi can happen, how you use these techniques is up to you, so don't think it takes a lot A long process, because that might just be a ruse.The mind says: it will take a long time, then you can delay, you can say, "I will do it tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow." You can go on delaying forever, a mind that delays is always going on Delay, the question is not whether you will do it tomorrow, but only that you will not do it today, that's all.Tomorrow will be today again, and the same mind will say: "Okay I'll do it tomorrow." Remember, you never put off for years, you put off for a day, because if you put off for years, you cannot deceive yourself, you say, "It's just a matter of one day, it's just that today I don't do it, tomorrow I will Will do it." That gap is so small that you never feel like you're putting it off forever. Tomorrow will never come, it has always been today, and the mind that thinks of tomorrow will always think of tomorrow, but tomorrow will never come, it never came, and it will never come , all you have is this moment, don't go on delaying, now we're going to get into this technique. First trick: At the beginning of a sneeze, at times of terror, at times of anxiety, at times of emotional conflict, when fleeing for life in war, at times of extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, or Be aware intermittently. It seems simple enough: be "uninterruptedly aware" when you start sneezing, when you're frightened, when you're anxious, or before you're hungry, or after you're hungry. There are many things that have to be understood, like Something as simple as sneezing can be used as a design, because no matter how simple they may seem, they are very complex, and the inner workings are a very delicate thing, every time you think you are about to sneeze , to become aware, the sneeze may not come at all, it may just disappear, because sneezing is an involuntary action, it is unconscious, involuntary. You cannot sneeze voluntarily, you cannot do it with will, how can you do it?How helpless man is!You can't even will a single sneeze, no matter how much you try, you can't do it, just one sneeze, such a small thing, but you can't will it, it's involuntary, it's not Willpower is needed, it doesn't happen because of your thoughts, it happens because of your whole organism, your whole body. The second thing: when you become alert, when the sneeze is coming; you cannot make it come, but when it comes, if you become alert, it may not come, because you bring something new Into that process: alertness.It may go away, but when the sneeze goes away and you are alert, there is a third thing.First, sneezing is involuntary, and you're bringing in something new: alertness.When alertness comes, the sneeze may not come, if you are really alert it will not come, it may not happen at all.And then the third thing happens, the energy that was going to be released through the sneeze, where does it go now?It goes to your awareness.Suddenly there is a flicker, there is a flash, and you become more alert, and the energy that is going to be thrown by sneezing will go to alertness, and suddenly you become more alert. In that shining moment, in that shining moment, even enlightenment is possible, that's why I say these things are so simple that they seem absurd, the promises they give seem too much, just by sneezing, How can a person become enlightened?But a sneeze is not just a sneeze, you are totally involved in it. Anything you do or anything that happens to you is a total involvement.Observe again: whenever a sneeze is happening, you are totally involved in it with your whole body, your whole mind, not just your nose that is happening; every fiber, every cell of your body is involved in it.There is a subtle trembling, a subtle wobble spreading throughout the body, after a sneeze, the whole body becomes concentrated, when that sneeze happens, the whole body relaxes, but it is difficult to bring alertness into it, if You bring alertness into it and it will not happen, and if it happens you will know that alertness is not there, and that is why you have to be alert. "When the sneeze starts..." because if it's already started, it's too late, the arrow has been shot, you can't change it anymore, the process has started, the energy is ready to be released, it can't Blocked, can you stop a sneeze halfway?How can you stop halfway?By the time you're ready, it's already happened, and you can't stop it halfway. Right at the beginning, be alert, when you feel the emotion coming, be alert, close your eyes and be meditative, and focus all your awareness right where you feel the emotion that is going to sneeze In that place, right at the beginning, be alert, the sneeze will go away, and that energy will be shifted into more alertness.Because when you sneeze the whole body is involved, the whole mechanism is involved (it is a process that emits energy and you are alert in this moment), so there will be no mind, no thought, no meditation. When sneezing, thinking stops, so many people like to "inhale into the nose", it unburdens them and makes their minds feel more relaxed, because at that moment, thinking stops, inhaling into the nose makes them Glimpse "no thought", through the breath into the nose, when the sneeze comes, they are not their mind, they become the body, in that moment the mind disappears, but it feels good. If you are used to inhaling into the nose, it is difficult for you to get rid of it. It is a deeper habit than smoking, and smoking is nothing compared to it.It runs deeper, because smoking is conscious, while sneezing is unconscious, letting go of inhalation is more difficult than letting go of smoking, smoking can be changed, substitutes can be found, but inhalation has no substitute. Sneezing is a phenomenon so unique to the body that the only other thing comparable to it is the act of sex.Those who think in terms of physiology say that sex is just sneezing through the sex organs, there is a similarity between them, that is not 100% true, because there is more involved in sex, there is a greater Things get involved in sex, but at the beginning, right at the beginning, the similarity is there. Throw something out of your nose and you feel relief; throw something out of your sex organs and you feel relief, both are involuntary, you cannot enter into sex with your will, if you Try and you will be a loser, especially a man, because what has a man's sex organs to do?It's active, you can't will it, and if you try, the more you try, the more impossible it becomes.It can happen, but you can't make it happen, and that's why sex has become a problem in the West, which has developed knowledge about sex in this half century, and everyone has become so conscious of it that sex becomes increasingly impossible. If you are alert, sex will become impossible, if a man is alert when making love, then, the more alert he is, the more difficult it will be to make love, he will become unable to get an erection, it cannot be controlled by the will , if you use will control, you will lose it.The same method, the same technique can be used in sex.Right in the beginning, when you feel the erection coming to you and it hasn't come, you just feel the vibration, at that moment, become alert; the vibration will be lost, and the same energy Will turn to alert. Tantra has used this, it has tried many ways, a beautiful woman is there as an object of meditation and the suitor, the meditator sits in front of that naked woman and meditates on her body, her body. The figure, her proportions, wait there for the first emotion of his sexual center, and when that emotion arises, he closes his eyes and forgets about the woman, he closes his eyes, he becomes Awareness of that emotion, then sexual energy is transformed into alertness (awareness). He was allowed to meditate on the naked woman, but as soon as the emotion was felt he had to stop, and then he had to close his eyes and go into his own emotion and become aware there, which Same as you do when you sneeze.Why does this sparkle happen?Because the mind is not there; the basic thing is: if the mind is not there and you are alert, you will have Satori -- you will have the first glimpse of Samadhi. (Note: Satori is short-lived samadhi.) Thought is a hindrance, so in any way if thought disappears, that will happen, but thought has to disappear, only then awareness will exist.Thoughts can disappear even in sleep, thoughts can disappear when you become unconscious, thoughts can disappear when you take a certain drug.The thought disappears, but after the thought disappears, there is no alertness to be aware of the phenomenon hidden behind the thought, so I define meditation as the consciousness without thought.You can become thoughtless and unconscious, then there is no point, you can be thoughtful and conscious, you are already that. Put these two things together: "consciousness" and "mindlessness".When they meet, meditation happens, meditation happens.You can try it with very small things, because nothing is really small, even sneezing is a cosmic phenomenon.In Existence, nothing is great, and nothing is small. Even a tiny atom can destroy the whole world. Even a sneeze, a very tiny phenomenon, can transform you. So don't see things as small or big, nothing is small and nothing is big, and if you have penetrating eyes, very small things are extremely important.The universe is hidden between atoms, and between universes and atoms, you cannot say which one is greater and which one is smaller. Even if there is only one atom, it is a universe in itself, and the largest universe is only But atoms, so don't think big or small, just try, don't say, "What can happen in a sneeze? I've been sneezing all my life and nothing happened." Bringing this technique in, just "at the beginning of the sneeze, at the moment of fright..." When you feel afraid, when you are afraid to enter, just when you feel afraid to enter, become awareness, fear is It will disappear. With alertness there can be no fear. When you are alert how can you be afraid?You are afraid only when you lose your awareness.In fact a coward is not a man who is afraid, a coward is a man who is lethargic, and a brave man is a man who can bring his alertness into that moment of fear, and with alertness the fear disappears. In Japan they train their samurai to be alert; the basic training is alertness, and everything else is secondary: kendo, archery, everything is secondary.One thing is known, it is said that the great Zen Master Rinzai never succeeded, never succeeded in his archery, never hit the heart, his arrows always missed, never reached that Correct point, and everyone knows he is a great shooter, so someone asked: "Lin Zhai never managed to hit any target, that target was always missed, how can he be known as a great shooter? He His arrows never hit the right point, so how can he be known as a great archer?" Lin Zhai's followers said: "What we value is the beginning rather than the result. We don't worry about whether the arrow will reach the end. What we worry about is when the arrow starts its journey. What we worry about What matters is Lin Zhai himself. When the arrow leaves the bow, he is vigilant, and that is all we worry about, not the result, which is irrelevant." Lin Zhai had a student who was a great archer himself and never missed his target. He came to learn archery from Lin Zhai, so some people said: "Who do you want to learn from? He is not a master, he Not even a disciple, he is a loser, and you are a great master, you ask Lin Zhai for advice?" The archer said, "Yes, because I succeeded in technique, but in my consciousness In other words, I am a loser, he is a loser technically, but as far as his consciousness is concerned, he is the shooter, he is the master, because when the conciseness leaves, he is alert, the point is There." This shooter, he is technically a master, but he has to study under Lin Zhai for several years, and his hit rate is 100% every day, Lin Zhai will say: "No, you are a loser, technically It was quite right that the arrow went away, but you weren't there, you weren't alert, and you shot that arrow in your slumber." In Japan they train their samurai to be alert first and everything else is secondary.If a samurai can be alert, he is a brave man.During the Second World War, everyone felt that they were no match for the Japanese samurai. Their bravery was unparalleled. Where did it come from?Physically they are not strong, but in their consciousness, in their alertness, fear cannot enter. They are not afraid. Whenever fear comes, they try the method of Zen.This passage says, "In times of fear, in times of anxiety..." When you're anxious, when you're plagued by anxiety, you try it.How to do?What do you usually do when you are anxious?how do you do itUsually you try to work it out, you try all kinds of different things, and then you get more and more involved, and you create a bigger mess because anxiety cannot be solved through thinking, it cannot be solved through Thinking and being dissolved, because thinking itself is an anxiety, so by doing this you are helping the anxiety to grow even more.You don't get out of anxiety by thinking, you go deeper into it, this technique says: don't do anything about anxiety, just be alert, just be alert! I'm going to tell you an old anecdote about another Zen master, his name was Bukeyu, who lived alone in a cave, completely alone, but during the day, or even at night, he sometimes He would shout: "Bukyu."—his own name, and then he would say: "Yes, I am here." While there was no one around at that time, his disciple proudly asked him: "Why did you call you Named himself Bookyu, and said: Yes, sir, I am here." He said, "Whenever I enter into thought, I have to remember to be alert, so I call myself by the name Bookyu. When I Called my name Boukyu and said yes sir, that thought and anxiety went away while I was here." Then for the last two or three years he never called his own name and never answered : "Yes, sir, I am here." The disciples asked: "Master, why haven't you done this lately?" He said: "Now Bukhyu is always there, he is always there, so there is no need , I used to miss him a lot, and sometimes the anxiety would take hold of me, cover me, and then Boukyu would disappear, so I had to remember Boukyu and then the anxiety would go away." Try this, it is a very beautiful thing, try it with your own name, when you feel deep anxiety, just call your name and answer, "Yes sir, I am here." Then Feel the difference, the anxiety will go away, at least for a moment you will have a glimpse of what is beyond the cloud, and that glimpse will be deepened, once you know that if you become alert, the anxiety will not be there, it will go away, You will know yourself deeply, you will know deeply your inner workings. "...in times of emotional conflict, in times of flight in war, in times of extreme curiosity, in times of hunger, be uninterrupted awareness." You can use anything, the hunger is there, you have to be alert, when you feel hungry, what do you do?what happened?当你感觉到饥饿，你从来没有将它看成某种发生在你身上的事，你变成那个饥饿，你觉得："我在饥饿。"真正的感觉是："我是饥饿"，但你"不是"饥饿！你只是意识到饥饿，它是某种发生在边缘的东西，你是中心，而你觉知到饥饿，它是一个客体，而你是主体，你是一个观照，你不是饥饿，是饥饿发生在你身上。当饥饿不在那里的时候，你在那里；当饥饿消失的时候，你还是会在那里，所以饥饿是一个偶发事件，它发生在你身上。 变成警觉的，那么你就不会与它认同，如果你感觉饥饿，要觉知那个饥饿的存在，看着它、与它相会、面对它，那么将会发生什么？当你变得越警觉，你将会感觉到那个饥饿变得越遥远；你越不警觉，你就觉得它越靠近；如果你不警觉，你会刚好在中心的地方感觉到："我是饥饿。"如果你变得警觉，饥饿就会被抛开；饥饿在那里，而你在这里；饥饿是一个客体，而你是一个观照。 绝食是因为这样而被使用的、是为了这个技巧而被使用的，绝食本身没有意义，如果你不是用饥饿来做这个技巧，绝食是愚蠢的，它是一个愚笨的行为，它是没有用的。你可以饿好几个月，但是仍然与饥饿认同，仍然感觉"我是饥饿的"。那是没有用的、有害的，不需要绝食，你每一天都能够感觉到它，但是可能有困难，所以绝食或许会有帮助。 平常我们在饥饿之前就用食物来填满我们自己，在现代的世界里，根本不需要去感觉饥饿，你有固定的用餐时间，时间到了你就用餐，你从来不问身体是否感觉饥饿，在固定的时间，你就用餐，饥饿并没有被感觉到，你或许会说："不，一点钟的时候，我才会感到饥饿。"那或许是一个假的饥饿，你感觉到它是因为那是一点钟，因为那是你用餐的时间。那一天你可以玩一个把戏，叫你太太或你先生把钟拨快，使那个钟在十二点的时候显示出一点，你将会感觉到饥饿，或者它已经慢了一个小时，当刚好两点的时候，时钟上显示出一点，那么你就会感觉到饥饿，你看了时间，然后就感到饥饿，这是人造的、虚假的，它不是真实的。 所以绝食或许会有帮助，如果你绝食，那么有两三天的时间你会感觉到一个假饥饿，唯有在三、四天之后你才会感觉到真的饥饿，你的身体将会要求，而不是头脑在要求；当头脑在要求，它是假的；当身体在要求，它是真的；当它是真的，而你变得觉知，你就变得跟你的身体完全不同。饥饿是一个身体的现象，一旦你能够感觉到饥饿不同于你，而你是它的一个观照，你就超越了身体。 但是你可以使用任何事情，这些只是例子，这个技巧可以使用在很多方面，你可以设计你自己的方式，但是要坚持一件事，如果你用饥饿来作为尝试，那么至少要用饥饿做三个月，唯有如此，有一天你才不会跟你的身体认同。不要每天都在改变设计，因为对于任何技巧而言，深入是需要的。 所以，选择任何东西，做上三个月，坚持下去，应用这个技巧，继续使用它，一直要记住，在开始的时候要觉知，到了中间，那将会很困难，一旦"你是饥饿"那个认同被感觉到，你就无法改变它，你可以在心理上改变，你可以说："不，我不是饥饿，我是观照。"但那是假的，那是头脑在说话，而不是一个感情的经验。只要试着在开始的时候觉知，然后记住，你不要说："我不是饥饿。"头脑就是会这样欺骗，你可以说："饥饿在那里，但我不是饥饿，我不是身体，我是婆罗门。"你什么都不要说，任何你所说的都将会是假的，因为你是假的。 诵念着"我不是身体"将不会有所帮助。你一直在说："我不是身体。"因为你知道你是身体，如果你真的知道你不是身体，那么说："我不是身体"又有什么用呢？那是没有用的，那将会看起来很愚蠢。要觉知，然后那个"我不是身体"的感觉就会在那里，但那将不是一个思想，那将是一个感觉，那将不会在头里面被感觉到，那将会在你整个人被感觉到，你将会感觉到那个距离——身体离得很远，而我是完全不同的，甚至连将两者混合的可能都没有，你无法如此。身体是身体，它是物质，而你是意识，它们可以生活在一起，但是它们从来不混合，它们无法混合。 Second trick: 其他教导的"纯"对我们是一个不纯。在真实的存在里，不要把东西看成纯或不纯。 这是坦陀罗最基本的讯息之一，很难去设想它，因为它是纯粹非伦理的、非道德的。我不是说它是不道德的，因为坦陀罗并不顾虑到道德或不道德，坦陀罗说它是不相关的，这个讯息是要帮助你成长而超越纯和不纯、超越分裂、超越二分法、超越二分性。坦陀罗说，存在是非二分的，它是一体的，所有的区别都是人造的——记住，所有的区别。这样的区别是人创造出来的：好与坏、纯与不纯、道德与不道德、美德与罪恶，所有这些观念都是人创造出来的，它们是人的态度，它们不是真实的。什么是不纯的，而什么是纯的？它依你的解释而定；什么是道德的，而什么是不道德的？它依你的解释而定。 尼采曾经说过，所有的道德都是一种解释。所以某件事在这个国家可能是道德的，但是在邻近的国家可能就变成不道德；某件事在佛教讲起来可能是道德的，但是对印度教讲起来可能是不道德的；对基督教讲起来是道德的，但是对耆那教讲起来可能是不道德的；或者，某些事对老一辈的人讲起来是道德的，而对年轻一辈的人讲起来是不道德的，它要看情形而定，它是一个态度，基本上它是一个虚构的东西，然而事实就是事实，赤裸裸的事实就是事实，它既不是道德的，也不是不道德的，它既不是纯的，也不是不纯的。 想一想，如果地球上没有人类，那么什么是纯的而什么是不纯的，每一样东西都将会存在，只是"存在"，没有什么东西会是纯的，也没有什么东西会是不纯的；没有什么东西会是好的，也没有什么东西会是坏的，有了人，头脑就进入了，头脑会划分，它说"这"是好的，而"那"是坏的，这个划分不仅在世界创造分裂，这个划分也在划分者里面创造出分裂，如果你划分，你也是在那个划分里面被分裂了，不论你对世界做什么，你也同时对你自己这样做。 最伟大的西达瑜珈（SiddhaYoga）大师之一那罗帕 （Naropa）说："一寸之隔，地狱和天堂就被分开了。"一寸之隔！但是我们一直在划分、一直在冠以名称、一直在谴责、一直在辩护。注意看存在赤裸的事实，而不要冠以名称，唯有如此，坦陀罗的教导才能够被了解，不要说好或坏，不要将你的头脑带进事实，当你将你的头脑带进事实，你就创造出一个虚构之物，那么它就不是一个事实，它就不是一个真实的存在，它是你的投射。这段经文说："其他教导的纯对我们是一个不纯，在真实的存在里，不要把东西看成纯或不不纯。" "其他教导的纯对我们是一个不纯。"坦陀罗说："对其他教导而言是非常纯的东西、是美德的东西，对我们来讲是一项罪恶性，因为他们所谓纯的概念会划分，因此，对他们来讲，某些东西就变得不纯了。" 如果你称一个人为圣人，那么你就创造出了罪人，那么你就必须去谴责某个地方的某一个人，因为，没有罪人，圣人无法存在，然后再看看我们所有努力的荒唐、我们一直试着去摧毁罪人，我们设想和希望世界上没有罪人，只有圣人，这是荒谬的，因为圣人没有罪人不能够存在，他们是同一个钱币的另一面。你无法只摧毁钱币的一面，它们都将会存在，罪人和圣人两者都是同一件事的重要部分，如果你摧毁罪人，圣人将会从世界上消失，但是不要害怕，让他们消失，因为事实上他们是没有任何价值的。 罪人和圣人两者都是同一个解释的一部分，都是同一个朝向世界态度的一部分，在那个解释或态度之下，一个人会说："这是好的，那是不好的。"而你不能够说："这是好的"，除非你说："那是坏的"，要去定义那个好的，你需要那个坏的，所以那个好的要靠那个坏的而存在，你的美德要依靠罪恶而存在。你的圣人是不可能的，他们不能够没有罪人而存在，所以他们必须感谢罪人，如果没有罪人他们就不能够存在，在跟他们关联之中，在跟他们比较之下，不管他们是多么谴责罪人，他们都是同一个现象的一部分，唯有当圣人消失，罪人才能够从世界上消失，在这之前是不可能的，当没有美德的观念，罪恶就不会存在。 坦陀罗说：事实是真实的，而解释是不真实的，不要解释，在真实的存在里，不要把东西看成纯或不纯，为什么呢？因为纯和不纯是我们加诸于真实存在之上的态度。尝试这个技巧，这个技巧是费力的，它是不容易的，因为我们非常倾向于二分式的思考，我们奠基于、根入于二分性的思考，以致于我们甚至没有觉知到我们的谴责和辩护。如果某人开始在这里抽烟，你或许尚未有意识地感觉到任何东西，但是你就开始谴责，在你内在深处，你就开始谴责，你或许看起来有谴责、或许看起来并没有谴责；你或许没有看着那个人，但是你已经在谴责。 这是困难的，因为那个习惯已经根深蒂固，你继续藉着你的姿势、藉着你坐的姿势、藉着你站的姿势来谴责和辩护，而你甚至没有觉知到你在做什么。当你对某人微笑，或是当你不对某人微笑，当你注意看着某人，或是当你不看他，你只是在忽视某人，你到底在干什么？你是在把你的态度强加上去，你说某一样东西是美的，那么你将必须把另外某一样东西谴责成丑的，这个二分的态度同时也在分裂你，所以在你里面将会有两个人。 如果你说某人在生气，而生气是不好的，那么，当你生气的时候你要怎么办？你将会说这是不好的，那么就会有困难，因为你说："这是不好的，在我里面的这个生气是不好的。"那么你就开始将你自己分裂成两个人：一个不好的人、邪恶的人和另外一个好人、一个圣人。当然你一定会跟你里面的那个圣人认同，所以那个魔鬼、那个撒旦、那个你里面的罪恶就被谴责，你被一分为二，那么就有经常的争斗和冲突，那么你就不能够成为一个个人，你将成为一个群众，你将成为一个分裂而反对它自己的处所。如此一来将不会有和平、不会有宁静，你将只会感觉到紧张和痛苦，这就是你所感觉到的，但是你不知道为什么。 一个分裂的人无法保持平和，他怎么能够保持平和呢？要把你的魔鬼放在那里呢？你必须摧毁它，然而它就是"你"，你无法摧毁它，你并不是两个，真实的存在只有一个，但是由于你分裂的态度，你将外在真实的存在划分，因此，内在也一样被划分，所以每一个人都和他自己在抗争，那就好像你在跟一双手抗争，你用你的左手和你的右手抗争，而那个能量是同一的。我在我的右手，也在我的左手，我在两者里面流动，但是我用一双来反对另一双，我用我的右手来反对我的左手，然后我就创造出一个冲突、一个假的争斗；有时候我会欺骗我自己说右手战胜了，而左手失败了，但这是一个欺骗，因为我知道我在两者里面，任何时候我都可以将左手提起而将右手放下，我在两者里面，两双手都是我的。 所以，不管你认为你将你的圣人抬得多么高，而将你的魔鬼贬得多么低，你要知道，在任何片刻，你都能够改变那个地位，你能够改变到使圣人下降而使魔鬼抬头，那会产生恐惧和不安全感，因为你知道没有什么东西是确定的，你知道在这个片刻你是多么具有爱心，在这个片刻你将你的恨压下去，但是你害怕，因为在任何片刻，恨将会浮现，而爱将会被压下去，它在任何片刻都可能发生，因为你在两者里面。 坦陀罗说不要分裂，要不分裂，唯有如此，你才能够胜利。要如何才能够不分裂？你必须不要谴贵，不要说"这个"是好的，"那个"是坏的，只要取消所有纯和不纯的概念。注意看这个世界，但是不要说它是什么，要成为无知的，不要太聪明，不要冠以名称，保持沉默、不谴责、不辩护，如果你能够对世界保持沉默，渐渐地，这个沉默将会深入内在，而如果这个分裂不在外在，这个分裂将会从内在的意识消失，因为两者是一起存在的。 但是这对社会来讲是危险的，所以坦陀罗被压抑，这是危险的！没有什么东西是不道德的，也没有什么东西是道德的；没有什么东西是纯的，也没有什么东西是不纯的，东西就像它们本然的样子，一个真正的坦陀罗行者将不会说贼是不好的，他会说他是一个贼，就这样而已，而且藉着使用"贼"这个字，但在他的头脑里面没有谴责，这个"贼"只是一个事事，而不是一个谴责，如果某人说："这里有一个伟大的圣人。"他会说："是的！他是一个圣人。"但是没有评价在里面，他不会说："他是好的。"他会说："是的！他是一个圣人，而那个人是一个贼。"就好像"这"是一朵玫瑰，而"那"不是一朵玫瑰；"这"棵树是高的，而"那"棵树是矮的；晚上是暗的，而白天是亮的；但是没有比较。 然而这是危险的，如果没有谴责一件事而赞美另一件事，社会就不能够存在，社会无法存在！社会是靠二分性而存在的，那就是为什么坦陀罗被压抑，它被认为是反社会的，但其实它不是反社会的，它不是！那个非二分的态度是超越的，它不是反社会的，它是超越的，它是超出社会之外的。 尝试这个：进入世界，不要带有任何价值观，只要看自然的事实，某一个人是这样，而另外一个人是那样，然后渐渐地，你就会在你里面感觉到不分裂，你的两极将会会合在一起，你的"坏"和你的"好"将会会合在一起，它们会合并成一个，而你将会变成一个整体，将不会有什么东西是纯的，也不会有什么东西是不纯的，要知道有那个真实的存在。 "共他教导的纯对我们是一个不纯"，坦陀罗说："对别人来讲是基本的东西，对我们来讲是有毒的。"比方说，有基于非暴力的教导，他们说暴力是不好的，非暴力是好的。坦陀罗说：非暴力是非暴力，暴力是暴力，没有什么是好的，也没有什么是不好的。 有基于无欲的教导，他们说无欲是好的，而性是不好的，坦陀罗说：性就是性，无欲就是无欲，这个人是无欲的，而那个人不是，但这些都只是简单的事实，没有价值判断附加在它们上面，坦陀罗永远不会说无欲是好的，它永远不会说一个无欲的人是好的，而那个停留在性里面的人是不好的，坦陀罗不会这样说，坦陀罗接受事情本然的样子，为什么呢？只是为了要在你里创造出一个整体。 这是一个在你里面创造出一个整体的技巧，这是一个使你里面有一个完整的存在、使你里面不分裂、不冲突、不对抗的一个技巧，唯有如此，才可能有宁静。一个想要从一个地方移动到另一个地方去反对什么东西的人将永远无法保持平和，他怎么能够保持平和呢？一个内在自己分裂的人、跟自己抗争的人，他怎么能够胜利呢？That is impossible.你是两者，所以是谁要去赢呢？没有一个会赢，而你将会输，因为你将会在抗争当中不必要地散发你的能量，这是在你里面创造出"一个整体"的技巧，让价值观消失，不要判断。 耶稣曾经说过："不要论断人，以免你被论断。"但是犹太人不可能了解这个，因为整个犹太人的观念都是道德指向的："这是好的，而那是不好的。"耶稣在他的教导里说："不要论断"，他是以坦陀罗的口吻来说的，如果他被谋杀、被钉死在十字架上，那是因为他有一个坦陀罗的态度："不要论断"。 所以不要说一个妓女是好的，谁晓得？不要说一个清教徒是好的，谁晓得？到了最后，他们两者都是同一个游戏的一部分，他们互相作为对方的基础，他们基于相互的存在，所以耶稣说："不要论断。"而这段经文意味着："不要论断人，以免你被论断。 如果你不判断，不采取任何道德观，只是观察事实本来的样子，而不按照你自己的意思来解释它们，那么你就不能够被判断，你就完全被改变了，那么你就不需要被任何神圣的力量来判断，没有需要！你自己已经成为神圣的，你自己已经成为神；成为一个观照，不要成为一个判断者。