以下是1991年2月12日 Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan 在美國加利福尼亞州洛杉磯的演講摘錄。
向下滑動螢幕以檢視完整的影片講座。我們今天要談談心輪中心，心輪中心的故事非常有意思。大多數時候，人們對此一無所知。它有一些花瓣、一些能量、這個和那個 — 你可以在書中讀到，但這個心輪中心到底是什麼？心和腦之間的爭鬥是什麼？
心輪中心意味著溫暖、慈悲、仁慈、激情、甚至仇恨 — 包含世界上所有美好的事物和地球上腐爛的一切，他們都來自心輪中心。
如果你把心擺在某件事上，你的頭腦就會屈服。這就是為什麼它是最強大的中心，而且還極其危險。另一方面，這是唯一值得與之同在同活的中心。現在來看看它的生理層面：你有一顆心，它有它自己的電磁場；你可以在裡面放一個心搏器，幫助它為你跳動。它泵送整個血液，滋養你的每個器官。它負責提供你的生命線，它不斷工作，直到它疲憊並說再見。
這個中心非常持久，它由兩部分組成。一個是生理的，一個是電磁的。它是一個有自己電磁波長和組成的器官。我們說了幾百萬個這些字：「 敞開你的心扉」，「 我打從心底裡恨你」，「我的心向著你」等。
激情和慈悲
有數百萬種與心靈有關的表達方式，但我們仍然把生活搞得一團糟，主要就是因為這顆心，因為這個心的中心控制著激情。每當激情沒有被人類的直覺所控制時，它就會帶來毀滅。這是一條我無法改變的法律。我不反對激情，但在你的生活中，百分之九十，你的痛苦來自於激情，而不是來自於慈悲。 百分之九十，你對你的激情沒有直覺。
你必須有激情，但激情減掉了直覺，則是自我破壞。它可能非常具有毀滅性，以至於你會開始譴責自己。有時，過度的激情使人類的痛苦變得如此誇大，以至於人們已經癲狂。
當你感到負面時，若能說出負面的事情是一種釋放。 當你感到負面時，你若不說出來，這又變成是一種壓力。 這壓力太沈重了；我認為若是一個聖人會將它打破。當你讀取你的負面思維時，負面的頭腦是自動必要的存在，它也保護了你的生命，你能感到負面而不在負面的頭腦下行動的唯一方法，就是你能咀嚼它並消化掉它。 這樣你能理解在你身上的壓力是什麼？
激情可以是美妙的，它感動著你、它令人愉快、它讓你熱血沸騰 — 但這不是真實的，激情將永遠只是激情。 激情是去追逐些什麼，當你的現實與激情混在一起時，現實若告訴你對方錯了、或者對方妨礙到你、或者對方破壞了什麼、或者對方代表的不是什麼好消息時，那就會產生一貫性的盲目憤怒。 其次，激情對成功來說是偉大的，但因為你的激情是傾向去達到成功，你若發現某些人與你的激情不匹配時，又你的現實或你的不安全感加入其中時，你的激情只會對周遭的人形成糾纏不休的胡扯。 因此，如果你不與平等的慈悲心相匹配的話，戰爭就開始了。
分析你生活中的一切，你會發現是你的激情、你的不安全感、你的憤怒、你沒有直覺的明天，你就無法看到整個畫面，你的非整體性 — 給你帶來了痛苦。
寬容
你說我非常痛苦。你會問我：「 你是Yogi Bhajan，你是怎麼了？」 這裡什麼都是錯的，因為第一眼我就能看出錯的呀。 接著是你需要思考如何說。 第三是決定是否說出來。 第四，決定說出來是為了提升對方。 現在，我有專業職責提升任何我觸碰到、看到和感受到的人。
我自己有一個悲劇，我可以超越時間性地，在幾秒鐘內知道對方情況的根本原因。我必須擁有寬容，那你知道什麼是寬容嗎？ 這真是好幾噸的重量。夥伴們，寬容這件事不是開玩笑的。地球上最重的金屬被稱為鉑。我會回答說，你錯了；人類心智中最最沉重的東西就是人類的寬容。如果你處在寬容的階段與狀態，但你卻不喜歡它，那麼你很快會發瘋的。在生理上，它吞噬了你的副交感神經，在心智上，它會讓你變成一隻老鼠，在靈性上，你會成為一個極端的隱士。 這就是一個人必須付出的有關寬容的代價。那麼，簡單的應對方法是什麼？ 簡單的方法就是讓自己當作玩耍。
簡單的方法就是不用去容忍，而是去享受它和你無關。 如果你在那個時候感覺到自己不受賞識、對他人的負面情緒也不感到開心，那這些就與你無關，不然沒有藥可以治癒你、你不可能在生活中微笑、你會害怕每個人、你每天都會不開心、你每天晚上都會很痛苦、你會做噩夢。 你認為你的負面情境可以閉上嘴，但這是不可能的。 負面心智體能感覺到它，你自己得出結論後，你確信它，它就會成為你個人專屬的真相。
自我慈悲
在我們的錫克祈禱中，我們說：
「 Jinna veik ki andett githa。」
那些看到和看不到它的人，因為他們的偉大勞動說著：「 Wahe Guru。」 你看到了什麼，那麼你怎麼能讓它變得好像你沒有看到它一樣？ 如果醫生在某人身上看到癌症，他自己就不會成為癌症本身。 他看到了它，要麼他可以補救它，要麼他可以做出建議，要麼他可以忽略它，或者他可以感激他沒有它。
一個人在人類生活中，能享有的最高地位是自我慈悲。 我現在不是要求你們憐憫他人，我是要求你們憐憫自己、對自己慈悲，這是幸福的關鍵。通往幸福的大門是自我慈悲。
如果你有這種誤解，認為你應該要去同情他人，那你就是在愚弄自己。 你的同情心對他人來說沒有任何意義，那是你的戲劇、是你的個人行為、只對你自己有意義。 你要對自己本身具有極大的慈悲心、不要沉溺於不必要的滋擾中，不要對你的神經、心智和生活造成負擔。
人們說：「 你要有慈悲心、慈悲一點」。這意味著對某人要同情。但如果你想要有慈悲心，就要對自己有慈悲心。其它人可以處理他們自己的生活。這是你自己的生活，你應該自己處理它，這被稱為來自神的神性。
在你作為一個人的總體行為中，你學會了一件事 — 要有慈悲心、同情心。 每個宗教都教導它：對他人要有同情心、服務他人、對他人仁慈，但其實你要永遠對自己慈悲。 善待他人、幫助他人、友善他人— 所有形容詞都是可以的，但當你對自己還沒有慈悲心、同情心時，永遠不要對任何人有同情心，不然你完全是個偽君子。
虛偽意味著你不是真實的，或者當你不是真實的時候，你去假裝真實。 只有當你對自己沒有慈悲心、同情心時，它才會發生，因為第四個中心保證了要麼對自己有慈悲心、同情心，要麼對自己充滿激情。 這兩項都不允許對其它人這樣做。 激情和慈悲心是同一枚硬幣的兩面，它們是為了自我存在的。 如果我不熱衷於愛自己，我就不能真正愛任何人。 如果我對自己沒有慈悲心、同情心，我就什麼事情都不會明白，句號。
如果你對自己沒有慈悲心、同情心，你就不會精準直覺地理解對方的感受。 你的友誼不會持久、你的關係不會持久，不管是這個還是那個，都不會持續。因為如果你對生活沒有激情、熱情，對自我沒有慈悲心、同情心，你就不知道什麼是該死的生活。
心靈的語言
我們可以說話、我們可以玩遊戲、我們可以使用文字、我們可以搞外交 — 你可以維持禮貌，但請記住，心靈的語言可以在臉上讀到。 相由心生，沒有人能控制。 好吧，你可以撒謊，對方可能無法讀懂你的光環，沒關係。 但你心中的東西，你將被迫透過你的臉來展示它，你無法隱藏。
通常婚姻不持久，是因為如果你沒有找到你的激情和慈悲同情心的根源，你就永遠無法找到自己。 如果你想找到自己，你必須找到自己的根，你激情的源泉，你慈悲與同情心的源泉。 因此，心輪中心非常的重要。
Here are excerpts from a lecture given by the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan on February 12, 1991, in Los Angeles, California, USA. Scroll down to view the full video lecture.
We are going to talk today about the heart center. The story of the heart center is very funny. The majority of the time people do not know anything about it. It has some petals, some energy, this and that—you can read about that in books, but what is this heart center, and what is this fight between heart and head?
The heart center means warmth, compassion, kindness, passion, hatred—everything which is wonderful in the world and everything which is rotten on the planet. They all come from the heart center.
If you set your heart on something, your head will give in. That’s why it is the most powerful center and extremely dangerous. On the other hand, this is the only center worth living with. Now see to the physical side of it: you have a heart, its electromagnetic field is its own; you can put a pacemaker in it and help it to beat for you. It pumps the entire blood and nurtures your every organ. It is responsible for supplying your lifeline and it works constantly, till it gets tired and says goodbye.
This center is very enduring. It is made of two parts. One is physical, one is electromagnetic. It is one organ which has its own electromagnetic wavelength and composition. There are millions of words we say: “Open your heart,” “I hate you from the very bottom of my heart,” “My heart goes out to you.”
Passion and Compassion
There are millions of expressions which relate to the heart, but still we mess up our life, mostly because of heart, because this center controls passion. Anytime passion is not controlled with human intuition, it will bring destruction. It’s a law which I can’t change. I am not against passion, but ninety percent in your life, your pain comes from passion, not from compassion. And ninety percent you have no intuition with your passion.
Passion you must have, but passion minus intuition is self-destruction, period. It can be so destructive that you will start condemning yourself. Sometime, overleaping passions make human miseries so magnified, that people have gone lunatic.
When you feel negative, to say negative is a release. When you feel negative and you don’t say negative, it is a stress. It’s such a heavy stress; I think a saint will crack under it. When you read through your negative mind, which is automatic and totally essential and gives your life protection, the only way you can feel negative and not act under it, is if you can chew it and digest it. Do you understand that pressure on you?
Passion is wonderful. It moves you; it’s delightful; it pumps the blood—but it’s not true that passion will remain passion. Passion is to go after something, but when your truth mixes with it and that truth tells you that the other person is wrong or the other person is in your way or the other person is destructive or the other person is not good news, it creates a consistent blind anger. Secondly, passion is great to be successful, but when your truth or your insecurity joins it, you become a nagging nonsense to everybody, because your passion is to succeed, and you find certain people not matching up to your passion. So if you do not match up with equal compassion, war is on.
Analyze everything in your life and you will find it was your passion, your insecurity, your anger, your not having an intuitive tomorrow, your inability to see the whole picture, your non-universality—which brought you pain.
Tolerance
I am in pain, very much. You will ask me, “You are Yogi Bhajan, what is wrong with you?” Everything is wrong, because at first sight I can see the wrong. Second is to think how to say it. Third is to decide whether to say it or not. Fourth is to decide to say it to elevate the other person. Now I have a professional duty to elevate anybody I touch, see and feel.
I have a tragedy. I can know the root of the situation with the other person, beyond time, in seconds. I have to have a tolerance, and you know what tolerance is? It is a couple tons of weight. Tolerance is not a joke, folks. The heaviest thing on the planet under metals is called platinum. I say, wrong; the heaviest thing on the human mind is human tolerance. If you are in status of tolerance and you don’t enjoy it, you will go insane fast. Physically it eats your parasympathetic out, mentally it will make a rat out of you, and spiritually you will become extremely a hermit. That is the price of tolerance a person has to pay. Then what is the easy way? Easy way is to have fun.
The easy way is don’t tolerate, enjoy that it is not you. If you do not at that time glorify yourself and feel happy with that negativity which comes from another, that it is not you, there is no medicine which can cure you. There is no chance that you can smile in life. You will be scared of everybody; you will be unhappy every day; you will be miserable every night; and you shall have nightmares. You think your negativities can be shut up, it’s not possible.
The negative mind feels it, you conclude it, you are sure of it, it becomes your personal truth.
Self-Compassion
In our Sikh prayer we say,
“Jinna veik ki andett githa.”
Those who have seen and unsee it, for their great labor say, “Wahe Guru.”
You see something, then how can you make it that you have not seen it? If a doctor sees cancer in somebody, he doesn’t become the cancer himself. He sees it and either he can remedy it, or he can advise it, or he can ignore it, or he can be grateful he doesn’t have it.
The highest status which a man can enjoy in a human life is self-compassion. I am not asking you to be compassionate to others; I am asking you folks to be compassionate to yourself. This is the key to happiness. The gate to happiness is self-compassion.
If you have this misunderstanding that you should be compassionate to others, you are fooling yourself. Compassion does not mean anything to others; that is your drama, it is your act and it’s meant for you. Be extremely compassionate to yourself and don’t indulge in unnecessary nuisance and tax your nerves, your mind and your life.
People say, “Have compassion. Be compassionate” That means have compassion for somebody. If you ever want to be compassionate, be compassionate to yourself. Others can handle their life. It is your life, and you are supposed to handle it and that is called Divinity of God.
In your total behavior as a human being, you have learned one thing—to be compassionate. Every religion teaches it: be compassionate to others. Be serviceful to others, be kind to others, but always be compassionate to yourself. Be good to others, be helpful to others, be friendly to others—all adjectives are all right, but never be compassionate to anybody when you are not compassionate yourself. You are totally a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy means when you are not real or you are pretending to be real when you are not real. It will happen only when you are not compassionate to yourself, because the fourth center guarantees to be either compassionate or passionate to yourself. It does not allow this for anybody else. Passion and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and they are for the self. If I am not passionately in love of myself I cannot love anybody truly. If I am not compassionate to myself, I will understand nothing, period.
You shall not understand the other person’s feelings accurately, intuitively, if you are not compassionate to yourself, period. Your friendship won’t last, your relationship won’t last, this, that, won’t last, because if you do not have passion for life, and compassion for the self, you do not know what the damn life is.
The Language of the Heart
We can talk, we can play games, we can use words, we can be diplomatic—there are manners you can get by, but just remember, the language of the heart can be read on the face. Whatever is in your heart must show up on the face, and on that nobody has control. You can lie, fine, and the other person cannot read your aura, it’s okay. But what is in your heart, you will be forced to show it through your face and that you cannot hide.
Normally marriage doesn’t last, because if you do not find the root of your passion and your compassion, you can never find yourself. You have to find your own root, the very source of your passion, the very source of your compassion, if you want to find yourself. Therefore, the heart center is very important.
本文選自 StudentsofYogiBhajan
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