地獄、罪與魔鬼（Hell, Sin & the Devil）

 

地獄、罪與魔鬼

KWTC，1996

你為什麼開始吸毒？又為什麼你現在有時候會偷竊、欺騙、說謊，而且仍然想要吸毒？

你知道為什麼嗎？因為你的心（mind）不在你這裡。你的靈（spirit）不受你的指揮。你無法面對挑戰來臨的時刻。只要你沒有面對挑戰的時刻，並且贏得它，你就活在地獄裡。那就是原來地獄的意思。你與魔鬼一起生活。沒有什麼魔鬼。魔鬼就是當我們沒有自己純淨的意志（pure will）的時候。就變成 De-will（失去意志）。那自然也沒有什麼天堂了。天堂就是當我們的靈性處於高昂的狀態。即 Chardi Kalaa（昂揚、高昂的靈性狀態）。

問： 除了「罪人（sinner）」之外，有沒有更好的翻譯？

YB： 「罪人」的意思，是當你覺得自己已經沉淪了。罪人，是一種自我宣告（self-proclamation）。罪人，就是一種宣告：「我做錯了。」

我不知道什麼叫做「錯」。因為對每一個人來說，「錯」都有不同的定義。對基督徒而言，吃豬肉和牛肉都可以，這裡面沒有罪。對印度教徒而言，吃牛肉就是一種罪。對穆斯林而言，吃豬肉就是一種罪。

所以，我不知道什麼叫做罪。對穆斯林來說，在某一天把一隻可憐的小羊或山羊帶來，割斷牠的喉嚨，是在神面前的一種功德（merit）。對佛教徒而言，那卻是最糟糕的一種行為。

所以，你們的恐懼是非常沒有根據的。當有恐懼時，就有痛苦，就有報復，就有不安全感。那裡沒有自我（self）Dharma（道法）講的就是一個自我。當出售的不是你的自我 Self，那麼你就在道法 Dharma 之中。

你們有跟上我，聽懂我的意思嗎？

當你不需要別人的欣賞（appreciation），也不會貶低自己（depreciate yourself）去換取別人的欣賞時，你就在神的國度裡。這是一句非常有價值的話。

Hell, Sin & the Devil

KWTC, 1996

Why did you start taking drugs? And why do you sometimes steal, cheat, and lie now, and still try to take drugs? Do you know why? Your mind is not with you. Your spirit is not at your command. You cannot face the time of the challenge. As long as you do not face the time of the challenge and win it, you live in hell.

That's what hell means. You live with the devil.

There's no devil, Devil is when we do not have our pure will. De-will. There's no heaven. Heaven is when we are high in spirit. Cherdhi Kalaa.

Question: What would be the better translation, rather than saying sinner?

YB: Sinner means when you feel you are sunk. Sinner is a self-proclamation.

Sinner is a proclamation. "I have done wrong."

I don't know what is "wrong." For everybody there's a different definition of wrong. For a Christian, he can eat a pork and beef both; there's no sin in it. For a Hindu, eating beef is a sin. For a Muslim to eat pork is a sin.

So, I do not know what is a sin. For a Muslim, taking a poor lamb or a goat on a certain day and cutting its throat is a merit before God. For a Buddhist, it's the worst of its kind.

So your fears are very unfounded. When there's fear, there's pain, there's vengeance, there's insecurity. There's no self. Dharma is a self. When sale is not of the self, then you are in Dharma. Are you with me?

When you don't need appreciation and you don't depreciate yourself to get apprecia-tion, you are in the Kingdom of God. This is a very valuable sentence.

本文選自 The Science of Keeping Up 雜誌

Ｖol. Ⅳ.   No.1

清理心靈垃圾（Garbage Cleaning）

 

清理心靈垃圾（Garbage Cleaning）

每天早晨，你所面對的第一場挑戰，就是在黎明甘露時刻起身，進入冥想。

什麼是冥想？

冥想時，潛意識會開始釋放累積的污垢，而你則持續唱誦你的曼陀羅（Mantra），無論是：

唵嘛呢叭咪吽 Om Mani Padme Hum……
向濕婆致敬 Om Namah Shivaya……

或是耶穌啊主耶穌「Jesus、Jesus、Jesus、Jesus……」

 

我並不在乎你念的是什麼，也不論你的信仰是什麼。重要的是，透過持續的唱誦，這些內在累積的垃圾最終都會消散，而你便重新恢復清淨。

如果潛意識長期阻塞，無法清理，它就會把所有垃圾傾倒進無意識（unconscious）之中。

當無意識充滿了這些垃圾，它便會成為你的夢魘。於是，你將不得不與那些如幽靈般糾纏的念頭、扭曲的人格特質，以及受其影響的個性共同生活。

Garbage Cleaning

The first confrontation you do every morning is when you rise at the ambrosial hour and you meditate. What is a meditation? The subconscious lets the dirt go and you chant your mantra, whatever. Om maneh padmeh om...om na shivaya... Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. I don't care what you say, whatever your faith is. Finally this garbage disappears and you are clean.

If the subconscious is clogged up, it will deliver all the garbage into the unconscious. Then the unconscious becomes your nightmare, and you have to live with haunted thoughts, haunted character and personality.

本文選自 The Science of Keeping Up 雜誌

Ｖol. Ⅳ.   No.1

聲音的忠告（SOUND ADVICE）

 

聲音的忠告（SOUND ADVICE）

神存在於每一個人之中。小偷與聖人擁有同等接近神的機會，毫無差別。普拉那（生命能量）就是普拉那（生命能量）。但是，教導你如何放大普拉那（生命能量）力量的人，就是 Guru（上師）。

那宇宙性的聖言（Word）一直都存在。一切都源自於聲音。甚至連呼吸都是聲音。

而這個聲音就是 Sohung。吸氣與吐氣共同形成 Sohung 的聲音。因此，一切誕生的生命，都是由聖言（Word）而生。

甚至《聖經》也說：

「太初有道，道與神同在，道就是神。」

（In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God.） 

那麼，什麼是「道詞語（Word）」？道，就是聲音。

任何由左脈與右脈所投射出的能量，最終都會經由中脈而流出。現在請特別留意。

你永遠不會在任何一本書裡讀到這些內容。請理解生命的源頭。

一切生命，都因為聲音而存在。

凡是活著的生命，都一定會發出聲音。

每一個聲音，都會創造生命。

聲音創造生命（Sound Creates Life）

所有活著的生命，都會產生聲音。每一個聲音，都會創造生命。

當你創造出一種屬於人的聲音、一種活著的聲音時，聲音有高頻的、有寂靜的，也有人類的、生命的聲音，我們稱之為「活的聲音」。任何生命在發出聲音時，左脈與右脈都會將它投射，並經由中脈送出。

這也就是所謂的中樞神經系統（Central Nervous System）。當你說話時，你是在使用自己的生命。如果你的話沒有產生作用，那麼你就失去了那一部分的生命力。

人有四種說話的方式：有人是無意識地說話；有人是潛意識地說話；有人是有意識地說話；還有人是超意識地說話。一共有四種。

四種說話方式（Four Ways of Speaking）

當你無意識地說話時，你表達的是自己的情緒、感受、神經質、缺陷、限制與不安全感。這些全部都儲存在你的無意識之中。

當你潛意識地說話時，你會成為一個操弄者、一個小偷、一個欺騙者。你操控別人，不誠實，不在乎得失，只想贏得當下，只想讓當下留下印象。

這稱為：

「立即合理化（Immediate Rationalization）。」

這樣的人，永遠無法忠於更大的生命藍圖。他們的人生也永遠無法真正真實。他們可能歷經六次離婚、七次婚姻、二十八段戀情。這些，全都是潛意識在運作。你不能責怪任何人。它就是在那裡，只因為它就是擺在那裡。

當你有意識地說話時，你所說的事情，便會發生。它真的會發生。

而當你從超意識、從自己最高的本我說話時，你所說出的話，就會成為宇宙運作的指引。此時，阿卡西紀錄（Akashic Record）都必須依照這個方向開始移動。明白嗎？

聲流（Sound Current）

你的語言、說話、發聲，都會形成不同層次的力量場。當你誦念 Mantra（真言） 時，它是一種心智波（Mental Wave）。

Man 代表心智（Mind）。

Tra 代表 Trang（波）。

Trang，就是波動。

因此，Mantra 就是一道心智的波。當你持續誦念它時，它會形成 Sutra（經線／導引通道）。一股心智波的速度，就像把一顆球放進大砲裡，填入火藥後發射出去。大砲會給它方向、角度與距離。最後，它會命中目標。因此，大多數的 Mantra 都具有 Sutra。這就是所謂的：聲流（Sound Current）。

人體中的能量流，由左脈與右脈 — 也就是正極與負極 — 共同產生一股中性的能量流，稱為中脈。它形成 Mantra（真言），也就是一種心智投射。接著，它進入 Sutra（導引通道），經由這條通道，精準地命中目標。因此，真正圓滿真言修持的人，擁有極大的力量。

因為，他的心智與他的中性本我（Neutral Self）已經成為一體。你是否見過有些療癒者，幾乎什麼都沒做？他們只是說：「把這杯水喝下去。」真正起作用的，並不是水。而是，他們在水上所說出的話，以及，他們投射進水中的力量。它就會發揮作用。你明白嗎？

工具（Tools）

因此，不要以為那些不停唱誦的佛教修行者瘋了。你見過他們嗎？「Ong… Ong… Ong……」你可能會想：「這個人在浪費時間。」不。他一點也沒有浪費時間。他是在有意識地培養自己的心智力量。他不是傻子。他只是在使用一種工具。就像你使用念珠、玫瑰念珠一樣。每一種宗教，都有工具。目的，是避免人活得愚昧。它們，全都是工具。一個人可以成就聖言詞語（Word）的圓滿。

摩西能夠將海水分開。因為他說出了話。聖言詞語（Word）的力量，是無限的。

它沒有任何界限。

祈禱（Prayer）

為什麼我們要祈禱？因為我們感覺自己並不完整。明白嗎？當你感覺自己非常無助時，你就會祈禱。祈禱，是一種帶著痛苦的專注。是一種為了提升自己而集中的意識。也就是：「Beam me up！（請把我提升上去！）」這就是祈禱。

祈禱，其實就是在說：「請把我帶離這裡。」當你無法承受眼前的現實，或無法面對現實時，你希望被提升。這，就叫做祈禱。祈禱本身沒有任何錯。它就像一條小魚，請求老鷹把自己帶起來，因為水中的氧氣已經不足。

祈禱，是我們內在的一股力量。它使我們向未知請求提升。已知，有權利伸手向未知。而如果已知，以極高的覺知抵達未知，未知便沒有拒絕的能力。它只能同意。這就是宇宙的法則。

這就是：無限法則（Law of Infinity）。無限法則就是：當局部與整體重新連結時，整體必然接受局部。因為，它們本來就是同一個存在。

聖言詞語（Words）

請理解，祈禱與 Guru（上師）的話語並不相同。Guru 的話語，就是一段被精準安排好的祈禱。它不可能落空。它就像一枚導引飛彈。絕不會失手。因為，其中每一個字詞的排列組合，都精密得像電腦程式一般。它一定能命中無限。你唯一要做的，就是專注。

如果我說：

Aad Guray Nameh
Jugad Guray Nameh
Sat Guray Nameh
Siri Guru Dev Eh Nameh
Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa
Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh

對你而言，或許聽起來像一句玩笑。但是，它甚至可以停止整個宇宙。為什麼不能？那是經過無數歲月專注所累積出的力量。這就是聖言詞語（Word）的力量。有些話，是在絕望中說出的。有些話，是呼喚。有些話，是祝福。還有一些話，則像精密程式般設計完成。就像電話號碼一樣。自我覺察，就是區域號碼。後面的數字，就是住家的電話。你明白嗎？

例如：

(505) 753-6341。

753-6341 是個人號碼。

505 是區域號碼。

最前面的 1，則代表電信系統。

人的祈禱也是如此。只要你知道號碼，也知道區域號碼，你就一定能接通。

三位一體真言（Trikuti Mantra）

問：我們一直唱誦「Wahe Guru」。為什麼不只念「Ru」，直接專注於光呢？

【編註：梵文中，Gu 代表黑暗，Ru 代表光明。】

YB：因為它是一個 Trikuti Mantra（三位一體真言）。Wahe Guru 並不是任何人的私人真言。它也不只是錫克的真言。數千年前，聖哲 Patanjali（帕坦加利） 在《Push Puran》中預言了 Guru Nanak 的來臨，也預言了 Wahe Guru 真言的力量。

他如此寫道：

Waah yantee kar yantee
Jag dut patee
Aadik it waahaa
Brahmaa deh trayshaa guru
It wha-hay guru

（Patanjali，《Push Puran》）

意思是：「偉大的宏觀本我、創造本我，一切穿越時間而創造萬物的偉大存在。Guru 的這些面向：梵天（Brahma）、毗濕奴（Vishnu）、濕婆（Mahesh/Shiva），這就是 Wahe Guru。」

帕坦加利描述的是宇宙的整體性。

他說，這是真正屬於那位：創造者、組織者、以及引領者的真言。Traysha Guru，就是生命的三種面向，也就是我們所稱的神。真正的力量，落在 Wa-he Guru 的 he 音。不是 Wa，也不是 Guru。而是：Wa-he Guru。這才是正確的發音。

（編註：he 發音近似英文 hay。）

神與 Guru（God & Guru）

YB：神就是神。神屬於所有人。Guru 的工作，是把神帶到你的生命中。披薩到處都有。但送到你家，才是最好的。Guru 就像送達的人。

問：所以 Guru 就是把神送來的工具嗎？

YB：不是工具。是傳遞者（Deliverer）。神就是神。神既不是正，也不是負。神是中性的。Guru 則是主動的，負責將神帶給你。這就是差別。

問：我一直聽人談神，也談 Guru。可是我一直不太理解。

YB：神就是神。Guru 就是 Guru。當你真正找到 Guru，你自然就會找到神。有一句很美的話：「我感恩我的 Guru，因為是 Guru，使我與神相遇。」

事情就是如此簡單。

問：有沒有什麼方法，可以讓我更理解？

YB：就算你一直問到半夜，答案仍然一樣。神就是神。神是無限的。神屬於所有人。

屬於罪人。也屬於聖人。屬於錯的人。也屬於對的人。屬於一切生命。神就在每一個人之中。小偷與聖人，都擁有同樣接近神的權利。沒有任何差別。普拉那（生命能量）就是普拉那（生命能量）。但是，真正教導你如何放大普拉那（生命能量）力量的人，就是 Guru（上師）。

SOUND ADVICE

God is in everybody. A thief has equal access to God as a saint has.

There is no difference. Pranas are pranas.

But who teaches you how to magnify the prana is the Guru.

That universal Word is still prevalent.

Everything comes from the sound.

Even the breath is sound.

And the sound is Sohung. Inhale and exhale creates the sound, Sohung. So everything that is born is born of the Word. Even the Bible says, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God." What is the Word? The Word is sound. Any projection which is made by the ida and pingala when projected out comes through the shushmana.

Now pay attention. You will never read this in any book. Understand the source of life. Everything which lives, lives because of sound. Everything that lives must create a sound. Every sound must create life.

Sound Creates Life

Everything which lives creates sound.

Every sound creates life. When you create a human sound or a living sound there are high sounds, there are silent sounds and there are human sounds, living sounds we call them. When anything living creates a sound the ida and pingala project it through shushmana.

It is called the central nervous system.

When you speak you use your life, and if it does not make the mark you have lost that portion of life. People speak consciously, people speak unconsciously, people speak subconsciously, and some speak supreme consciously. How many are there? Four ways of speaking.

Four Ways of Speaking

When you speak unconsciously, you represent your emotions, your feelings, your neurosis, your handicaps, your shortcomings, and your insecurities.

They are all stocked in the unconscious. When you speak subconsciously, you are a con-person, you are a thief, you are a cheat, you manipulate, you are dishonest, you do not care for harm or gain. All you want is to win the moment or impress the moment. It is called "immediate rationalization." Such people are never true to a bigger picture; they are never real in their lives. They have to go through six divorces, seven marriages, twenty-eight love affairs. It is all subconscious.

You cannot blame anybody for this. It is there because it is there.

When you speak consciously, that which you speak about happens. That happens. When you speak super consciously, from the supreme self of you, that becomes the guiding line for the universe. Then the akashic record has to move with that angle. Understood?

Sound Current

There are different expressions of the force field of your talking or speaking or uttering. When you speak mantra it's a mental wave. Man means mind, tra means trang. Trang means the wave. It is a mental wave. When you recite it, it is in sutra. The velocity of a mental wave is projected as if you would take a ball and put it in a can-non, put gun powder in it, and fire; the cannon gives it a direction, angle, and length. It reaches the aim. That's why the majority of mantras have sutra in them. It's called sound current.

The human current, ida and pingala, positive and negative, creates a neutral current which is called shushmana. It creates a mantra, which is a mental projec-tion, and it goes into a sutra. That means it goes through the channel to hit the aim. So those who perfect their mantras have that supreme

power, because then their mind and their neutral self become the same.

Have you seen some people heal who actually do very little? They may say,

"Take this water." The water has nothing to do with it. It is what they spoke over it, what they projected into it. It works. Do you understand?

Tools

So don't think these Buddhists who you see chanting are insane. Have you seen them? Ong ong ong... You may think, "Why is this guy wasting his time?" No, he's not wasting his time.

He is projectively developing his mental powers. He's not an idiot. He's using a tool, like you use beads, a rosary. In every religion you find there are tools so that man may not be a fool. These are all tools.

One can have perfection of the Word. Moses could split water. He spoke. The power of the Word is infinite. There is no limit to it.

What is a prayer? Words. It is a bunch of words. And what are you? Words.

You are words.

Prayer

Why do we pray? We are not feeling complete. Do you understand? You do prayer when you feel very handicapped.

Prayer is painful concentration, when you concentrate for the upliftment — "Beam me up!" That's prayer. Prayer is nothing but asking, "Beam me up.

Take me out of here." When you can't stand the fact, or face the facts, you want to be beamed up and that is called prayer. There is nothing wrong in a prayer, it is a simple little fish asking the eagle to pick her up because water is not having enough oxygen.

Prayer is a power within ourselves to ask to be beamed up by the Unknown.

Known has the right to reach out to the Unknown. If known reaches the Unknown in a very conscious way, Unknown has no power but to agree.

That's the deal. It's the Law of Infinity.

The Law of Infinity is when a part reaches to the whole and connects to the whole, the whole has to accept the part. Because it is the same thing.

Words

Understand between a prayer and the Guru's words: the Guru's Word is the prescribed prayer. It cannot miss. It is a guided missile. It won't miss. It can't.

Because the permutation and combination of the words is so computerized, that it will hit the Infinity, doesn't mat-ter. All you have to do is concentrate.

If I say "Aad guray nameh, jugad guray nameh, sat guray nameh, siri guru dev eh nameh.

Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh." Looks like a joke to you, but it can stop the universe. Why not? It is years of concentrated self. Why not? That's the power of the Word. Some words are in desperation. Some words are call-ing. Some words are this, some words are that. Some words are very computer-ized. Like a tele-phone! Self-consideration is the area code. The rest is the residence number. Do you understand?

Why is a number (505) 753-6341 or whatever that may be? 753-6341 is the personal number, 505 is the area code to reach it here, and 1 is the company billing number. There's no difference with the human prayer. If you know the number, and you know the area code, you get it.

Trikuti Mantra

Question: Sir, we chant, "Wahe Guru." Why do we not just chant, "ru" and focus right on the light? [Ed.: In Sanskrit, gu means darkness and ru means light.]

YB: It is a trikuti mantra. Wahe Guru is not anybody's personal mantra, it is not a mantra only of the Sikhs, either.

Patanjali, thousands of years ago, when he wrote the future of the world, in what is called Push Puran, he predicted the future about Nanak. He predicted the power of the mantra Wahe Guru by saying in his own words:

Waah yantee kar yantee

Jag dut patee

Aadik it waahaa

Brahmaa deh trayshaa guru

It wha-hay guru

(Patanjali, Push Puran)

"Great macroself, Creative Self, All that is creative through time, all that is the Great One. These aspects of the Guru:

Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh (Shiva): That is Wahe Guru."

Rishi Patanjali explained the totality of the Universe. He said that this is the mantra of the One who creates, the One who organizes, the One who delivers. Traysha Guru: three aspects of life which is called God. The sound is wahe guru. The force is at the he' not at the wa', not at the 'guru?' Wa-he Guru. It is complete.

Wa-he Guru. That is the correct pronunciation. [Ed.: 'he' sounds like 'hay'.]

God & Guru

YB: God is God and God is for all.

Guru delivers it. Pizza is everywhere, home delivery is best. That is Guru.

Question: So, Guru is a delivery vehicle for God?

YB: Deliverer. God is God. God is not positive, not negative, God is neutral.

But Guru is positive and delivers. That is the difference.

Q: I guess I don't understand. For years I've heard people talk about God and Guru. I hear Guru used many different ways and I don't really under-stand.

YB: The question is, God is God. Guru is Guru. Once you've got the Guru, you'll get God. There's a very beautiful saying, let us put it this way, Ram Guru, God, (Guru) do no karey kis kay lago bhai (whose feet I touch) balhari guru apney ram deeo mila-ay

"I'm grateful to my Guru who got me the God." It is a very simple thing.

Q: Is there something that I can do to understand this better?

YB: Well, you can keep on asking until midnight, I am telling you what right is. God is God.

God is Infinite. God belongs to everybody. It belongs to a sinner. It belongs to a pious per-son. It belongs to a wrong per-son. It belongs to a right per-son. It belongs to everything.

God is God. God is in every-body. A thief has equal access to God as a saint has. There is no difference.

Pranas are pranas. But who teaches you how to magnify the prana is the Guru.

本文選自 The Science of Keeping Up 雜誌

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