close

宗教常抵制了真正的宗教經驗

提交者: 奇蹟課程中文部 日期: 2006/9/18 23:37:19 閱讀: 427


摘要: 你必須勇於放下自己的角色,放棄得如此徹底,不惜去面對自己對「絕佳本質」所懷的恐懼

關鍵字: 宗教經驗



Raj 述 若水譯


你內有一絕佳本質,如此地絕佳,你為它築起一座高牆加以保護,使它不受任何污辱、輕藐、威脅,你建築的堡壘如此堅固,你焦思竭慮地加以維護,它逐漸變成了一道帳幕,世界再也看不到它了,連你都看不見它了。






於是,你成了「神聖堡壘的衛士」,不再是它透明的展示體,如今,你囚禁在自己的角色內,不再是祂寄身的東主(Host to God






你內在的絕佳之境,無需你的防衛,它永恆不易,無所不能,因為它沒有對立。保護它,只是徒然浪費你的時間,或者我該這麼說,正是這防衛心態造出了時間,時間有如極大的投射,映在超越時空的永恆上。當你望著時鐘,用這計時器來保護那無須你保護之境…..,你內在的絕佳本質依舊絕佳。





不論你認為自己做了什麼事情(其實你什麼也沒做),絲毫改變不了你內在的絕佳本質,它總在那兒等待著你發掘它的存在,等著你心甘情願地作為接待它的東主,讓你自己成為神的自我表達。然而,你必須勇於放下自己的角色,放棄得如此徹底,不惜去面對自己對「絕佳本質」所懷的恐懼你怕自己的絕佳本質。





如果「絕佳本質」本身會讓你成為眾矢之的,那麼只去夢想一下「絕佳本質」則是明智之舉;如果修成絕佳之境,會引起人們的嫉恨,那麼修而不成,便是意料中的事。你會發現,你對它的保護,其實不是為它,而是為你自己,這是使你無法悟見它的真正原因。





你害怕「絕佳之境」,害怕自己的絕佳本質,因為你忘了這一境界本身是所向無敵的。它是天心的平安,其中不可能有任何矛盾衝突,因為那裡除了上主的存在,也就是「你」的存在以外,沒有其他的存在。





放棄你自己的小小角色,並不會帶給你任何風險的,但除非你具體這樣去做,否則你不會發現這一事實的。總而言之,你只需記得上述的話:





不論你認為自己做了什麼事情(其實你什麼也沒做),絲毫改變不了你內在的絕佳本質,它總在那兒等待著你發掘它的存在,等著你心甘情願地作為接待它的東主,讓你自己成為神的自我表達。








 "Religion is a defense against having a religious experience."




- Joseph Campbell -




Dear friends,




There is a place of Excellence in you, so excellent that you have built a wall around It to protect It from dishonor, disrespect and threat of any kind. So strong is this defense that you have built, and so laborious its maintenance, it has become the veil that hides It from the world, indeed, but covers It from you as well. "Defender of Its sanctity" is what you have become, instead of Its transparency. And now you are the hostage of your role instead of Host to God.




The Excellence in You needs no defense. It is immutable, omnipotent, because It is the absence of an opposite. Defending It has been a waste of time . . . or shall I say it has "created" time and cast it like a great projection on eternity, on timelessness. And while you watch the clock and use its measurements defending the defenseless, well . . . the Excellence in You continues to be Excellent.




The Excellence in You, unchanged by everything you are not doing but believe you are, awaits your rediscovery, your willingness to be Its host, and thus Your own as God expressed. But you must dare to quit your role, abandon it completely, even though it means that you will have to face your fear of Excellence . . . of being Excellent.




To dream of excellence is wise if Excellence, Itself, will make of you a target. And to strive for excellence without achieving it is sensible if Excellence achieved will be the cause of jealousy and hate. And so you find that your defense of It was not on Its behalf, but yours, and this is why you kept It from your sight.




You are afraid of Excellence, of being Excellence, because you have forgotten that It is Invincibility, Itself. It is the peace of Mind in which no conflict can arise because there is no claim to presence other than the Presence God is Being there as You.




There is no risk for you in forfeiting your role. It is "risk-free." But you will not discover this until you do it! And, to make it easier, remember that:




The Excellence in You, unchanged by everything you are not doing
but believe you are, awaits your rediscovery, your willingness
to be Its host, and thus Your own as God expressed.




Rajpur
Kingston, Washington
March 15, 2002









文章地址: http://accim.org/jj/modules/article/view.article.php?c21/326

回朔地址: http://accim.org/jj/modules/article/trackback.php?326



arrow
arrow
    全站熱搜

    玄禾 發表在 痞客邦 留言(2) 人氣()