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我們每一個人無形當中都把"我"和"我的生命狀況"混淆了，變成同一件事。
沒有一個觀念，沒有一句話，沒有一個念頭，沒有一個定理，是完全成立，而且普世不破的…這是因為我們人本身所使用的邏輯，是在對的比較上所成立的，當然會有這種限制。 [所有見解都是邪見]
萎縮
對我們一般人來說，生命就是一個停不下來的強迫思考。
我們人，本來是單純﹑誠懇﹑爽快﹑舒暢的，就像放鬆的手。但是透過種種念頭和情緒，反而受到了萎縮。長期下來，我們就變成一個萎縮體，念著痛﹑不安﹑憂鬱﹑焦慮.... ，就像緊握不放的拳頭。
每一個瞬間，要或不要，都是兩難。兩難，不管怎麼解答，都會帶來萎縮，只是萎縮多少的問題。這麼說，我們的生活不可能不是萎縮。
這是因為一般人還落在「我」的境界，而這個「我」自然會去抓資訊、抓知識，甚至抓經驗。這些知識、經驗本身就是餵養「我」的養料。有些知識，「我」會接受。有些知識，「我」不接受，甚至反對。這些反應不只一直讓「我」存在，還可以強化「我」。我們人有時反彈和抵抗越大，把對方推向敵方，才讓「我」更能能夠生存。也就是說，反彈越大，「我」的觀念越強化。
我們仔細觀察，從早到晚，我們面對每一個人、每一件事、每一個東西、每一個狀況，我們會再加一層說明、解釋、評價、結論。比如說，我們在路上碰到一個人，接下來，念頭就不斷的開始飄——這個人上回在哪裏見過，他今天穿什麼衣服，他看來氣息不錯，他可能還會記得我們上次見面說了什麼？……就連一個很單純的東西，比如看到一棵樹，我們都會立即加上高、低、大、小、茂密、瘦弱、那一種樹……的描述，不放過任何一個貼標籤的機會。這是我們每個人從早上一張開眼，到睡覺前最後一個念頭，都離不開的不斷的歸納和分別。
我們每一個人本來一出生就已經對"不愉快"上癮了。我們雖然希望快樂﹑想要圓滿。但是腦本身造出了"我"，"我的投射"，這種架構本來就要靠著造出更多分裂﹑區隔﹑磨擦﹑對立，才可以生存。所以，我們每一個人不可能真的就這麼輕鬆放過自己，讓自己就永遠快樂。同樣，也不可能那麼輕鬆放過別人的。
但多數人，都認為自己才懂得愛，還因為身邊親愛的人沒有同樣的體會而心灰意冷。常常講別人不懂什麼是愛的人，自己反而要注意、要反省。反過來，只有愛自己。（包括全部制約組合的無常的我，再包括永恆無形無相的大我），才是永恆的愛。
努力，本身就是跟生命對立。
臣服
這符合宇宙最基本的運作法則-- 愈抵抗，愈真實；愈抵抗，愈延續。反過來說，不要抵抗，讓生命輕輕鬆鬆的存在。突然間，生命會變得友善，對我們友好。
最有意思的是，連大多數稱為修行人都人，依然在透過"動"，比如說努力的追求，在靜坐下功夫或苦修，想"作為"或"成為"聖人或是成道的人。
其實，我們從生出來到離開，不斷地活在"動"﹑"成為"的前景，反而忽略掉了更重要的—"不做"，也就是輕輕鬆鬆的存在。
任何東西(例如說"注意力")，濃縮到一個點上，不斷地縮小﹑不斷地集中，直到一個極限的地步，自然就跳出了時空。
這個瞬間要透過讓步﹑放棄﹑臣服﹑容納﹑ 不做…所找回來的。
我們不妨試試看，在這時候，就接受"自己沒辦法接受"吧。容納自己認為不可能容納的。甚至，接受這個抵抗﹑接受內心的反彈—"OK，反正我作不到"。... 這麼做，會發現原本很大的情緒起伏，頓時平緩了許多。
我選擇這個瞬間。
而我只可能選擇這個瞬間。
讓我自由選擇，我還是只會選擇這個瞬間。
醒覺
醒覺後，自然會發現，人間是瘋狂的。是在一個無意識的昏迷當中。但是，我這裏還是要強調，就算如此，人間有人更可愛的部份。所以，一個人就是醒覺過來，也只能勇敢地走下去，順應着這個人間的舞台來演變。也可以完成一些任務。但是，再也不會被這個世界帶走了。
修行離不開念頭的死亡。我們也就可以理解，為什麼一般人會想要很刺激、很冒險的極端經驗。比如說鬼屋、高空彈跳、雲霄飛車，可以讓人達到同樣的無私狀態，從人間跳出來。也就是達到念頭死亡的境界。當然，也有人會想用酒精和藥物來達到同樣的無思。
一個人只要平安，生命就已經脫胎換骨。命運也轉變了。之前所面對的種種不順的事，透過內心的寧靜，再加上外在的平安，自然會發現——生命順和不順，都還是念頭所帶出來的。活在每一個瞬間，沒有什麼叫作順或不順。奇妙的是，這樣展現對每一個瞬間。突然，外在的生命也就順了。甚至，連順不順，我們也不再追求了。瞬間和瞬間當中，只剩下平安。
找到空檔，我們接下來對人生也就自然看開，對任何念頭也不會那麼重視。甚至，對人生也不會再有什麼期待。同時會發現，生命不需要承擔任何責任，也不需要呈現任何樣子。相對的，別人也不用對我們承擔任何責任，也不用呈現任何我們要求的樣子。其實，我們的要求也不見得合理，還離不開我們主觀的期待。講白一點，我們管不了那麼多的。要管的，也不見得重要或合理。任何「管」，也。還只是反映「我」帶來的一個大妄想。
進入到瞬間，「這裏！現在！」，自然讓我們每一個細胞、每一個部位、每一個角落，達到跟生命最完整的共振。只有透過生命所帶來的喜樂，我們才可以把身心內的每一個障礙或結，震動開來。也只有透過它，我們才可以把身體每一個脈輪打通。每一個脈輪打開的過程，會讓喜樂再更加倍，甚至會大到佔領我們所有的意識。
人生最大的目的，是作為橋梁，連通兩個世界—有形有相的世界，以及無形無相的世界。
我們認為在幫助其他生命，這本身就是一個大妄想。是站在一個「我」的觀念去歸納、分別好壞、生存不生存而來的。先找回自己，醒覺，比較踏實。醒覺後，該怎麼做會清楚的。任何「做」，因為從內心最寧靜中出發，它本身就會創造，會友善，對人類的展現就會有直接的影響。有趣的是，即使不做、不動，一個醒覺的人的生命場，也都可以轉變這個世界了。這麼說，我們人生活着最大的目的，也只是輕輕鬆鬆讓這宇宙的光明照進來吧。不要對它或任何形式在生出任何抵抗，也就完成這個大任務了。
什麼都不知道，我每一步都是最後一步。
什麼都不知道，我的心突然寧靜了。沒有雜亂或煩惱好談的。
什麼都不知道，我就可以輕輕鬆鬆地看着人間，並體會到一切人間的變化。什麼都不知道，我可以輕輕鬆鬆地決定不再理會它，不再參與這個遊戲。
什麼都不知道，生命跟我也不再分離了。
The Wise Heart - Jack Kornfield
The universe if made of stories, not atoms. - Muriel Eukeyser
Thoughts make a good servant, but a poor master.
Grasping and clinging arise from the delusion of scarcity, an inability to sense our wholeness and life's abundance. Aversion and hatred arise from a misguided search for security, from the mistaken belief that hatred can make us safer. And at the root of delusion itself is the illusion of a separate, limited sense of self.
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure - Nietzsche
Speak with kindly motivation. Speak what is true and helpful, speak in due season and to the benefit of all. - The Buddha
The problem with the world is that we draw our family circle too small. - Mother Teresa
A guide for those on the path
There is no separation between inner and outer, self and other. Tending ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.
If you want to live a life of balance, start now. Turn off the news, meditate, turn on Mozart, walk through the trees or the mountains, and begin to make yourself a zone of peace. When I return from a long retreat or from traveling for months, I'm amazed that the news is pretty much the same as when I left. We already know the plot, we know the problems. Let go of the latest current story. Listen more deeply.
The world does not need more oil or energy or food. It needs less greed, less hatred, less ignorance.
Seeing misery in those who cling to views, a wise person should not adopt any of them. A wise person does not by opinions become arrogant. How could anyone bother those who are free, who do not grasp at any views? But those who grasp after views and opinions wander about the world annoying people. - Buddha
The natural flow of these awakened qualities comes from inner peace. When conciousness is peaceful and open, we rest in equanimity. As our peaceful heart meets other beings, it fills with love. When this love meets pain, it transforms itself naturally into compassion. And when this same openhearted love meets happiness, it becomes joy. In this way, the radiant abodes spontaneously reflect and connect the whole of the world.
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
Giving
For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?...
And what is fear of need but need itself?
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?...
You often say, 'I would give, but only to the deserving.'
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you. And he who has deserved to fill his cup from your little stream...
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life -- while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
Joy and Sorrow
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, ''Joy is greater than sorrow,'' and others say, ''Nay, sorrow is the greater.''
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Houses
...Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and becomes a host, and then a master?
... Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.
It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls should crack and fall down.
...For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of the night.
Crime and Punishment
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.
But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,
So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,
So teh wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.
Like a possession you walk together towards your god-self.
You are the way and the wayfarers.
And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stong.
Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stong.
Pain
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
