>.規律冥想的初步結果

三月十七日

 

規律冥想的初步結果

 

 

         經常的冥想開啟直覺智識的管道，讓心靈安靜及穩定，喚醒了一種欣喜若狂的感受，並帶領著修習中的瑜珈士連接至高無上的”大我”。

 

當你堅定的走在冥想瑜珈時，任何的懷疑猶豫都將被自身所淨化，你將感受走向精神階梯的步伐。

 

一個奧秘的內在聲音將帶領著你。

 

注意的聆聽祂~

 

 

17th March

 

Initial Results of Regular Mediation

 

Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling and brings the Yogic student in contact with the source of the Supreme Purusha. If there are doubts, they are all cleared by themselves when you march on the Path of Dhyana Yoga steadily. You will yourself feel the way to place your footstep on the next rung of the spiritual ladder. A mysterious inner voice will guide you. Hear this attentively.

 

>. 丹達羅斯的痛苦折磨

三月十一日

Sri Swami Sivanada

Daily Readings

丹達羅斯^註三的痛苦折磨

 

叔本華Schopenhauer^(註一)說的渴望是”用意志去活”，佛陀的說的”Tanha”，和巴坦珈里^(註二)的 Abhinivesa說的渴望是”擁有 ”。

Trishna是渴望‧包括想法和慾望上的強烈的內心渴望‧渴望是個性上的病菌，它是生命的慾望之火，它是痛苦、悲哀、不快樂、生與死的原因‧它造成錯誤的自我，和強化、膨脹自我‧

對世俗的人來說慾望永遠沒有結束的一天‧

即便有了財富和舒適仍不停息 

用不執著、拋棄、和冥想來澆滅這火焰達到永恆的喜悅‧

住在永恆的生活中‧在瑣碎的塵世生活裡勇敢地面對一切困難和磨難‧像一個有勇氣的人一樣，努力的朝著好的執著走‧

攀越過高山，越過洞穴，轟掉一個城市，或炸掉一個堡壘，這並非是真正的英雄氣概‧

控制你的心智和感覺，用自我的掌控力克服憤怒，熱情，和自我，這些才是真正的英勇行為‧

還要被激情及感覺奴役多久?

堅持你聖潔的真正天性，控制你低劣的天性和自我，這是你最重要的工作‧

 

註一：叔本華( Arthur Schopenhauer,1788~1860 )德國哲學家，對人生觀感到極度的悲觀，人稱“悲觀主義的哲學家”

註二： 撰瑜珈經的聖哲

註三：Tantalus希臘神話中的天神子，洩露了天機被罰站在河中受苦，進退不得，用來表現人無窮無盡的慾望，永遠無法得到真正滿足，永遠的困在盲目追逐裡。

 

11th March

 

The Torment of Tantalus

 

     Craving is the “will-to- live” of Schopenhauer,” tanha” of Lord Buddha, “Abhinivesa” of Patanjali Maharshi. Craving is Trishna ; it is intense inner sense-hankering; it includes thought and desires. Craving is germ of personality. It is the flame of the life of appetites. It is the cause for pain. sorrow, unhappiness and births and deaths. oIt builds the false ego. It strengthens and fattens the eg. There is no end to craving in the life of a worldly man; for this reason, he is. Despite his wealth and comforts, ever restless. Quench this flame through dispassion, renunciation and meditation and attain the bliss of the Eternal.

 

       Live for God. Boldly face all the difficulties and tribulations of this petty, earthly life. Be a man. With courage, struggle for the great Attainment. Climbing a mountain, crossing a channel, bombing a city, or blasting a fort – these are not the true acts of heroism. Controlling your mind and senses, and overcoming anger, passion and egoism by attaining self-mastery – these constitute the real heroism in man. How long will you be a slave of passion and the senses? Assert your real divine nature and your mastery over your lower nature and lower self. This is your most important duty.

 

@ 聰明反被聰明誤

 

Exhibitions of Talent Hinder Higher Aspirations!

一個聰明的人往往就壞在他的聰明點上，妨礙了他更大的抱負啊!

>邪惡原因的影響

三月七日

 

構成邪惡原因的影響

 

      讀報紙和煽情小說點燃一個人的天性，引出一個人粗野的舉動‧在腦海裡產生煽情的興奮感，讓思緒飄忽，以為這個世界是穩固、真實的，讓人忘記了真正的真實是在這些聲名和形式之上的‧不良環境，淫穢圖片，情愛的處理方式，電影院，劇院，動物配對的景象，話語間讓壞想法升起，

總之，大志者要避開這些讓邪惡的思想，和情緒感官升起的同夥，這些邪惡的組合和事物是有志者向上提升和靈性成長的最大災難。

 

 

7th March

 

Impacts that Constitute Evil Company

 

 

 

      Reading of newspapers and sensational novels kindles worldly Samaskars, causes crude movements in one’s being,  engenders sensational excitement in the mid, makes the mind outgoing , produces an impression that the world is a solid reality and makes one forget the Truth that lies underneath these names and forms. Bad surroundings, obscene pictures, plays that deal with love, cinemas, theatres, the sight of pairing of animals , words which give rise to bad ideas in the  mind, in short, anything that causes evil thoughts and sentiments constitutes evil company and therefore should be avoided and shunned by all aspirants. The effects of evil company and association with undesirable persons and things are highly disastrous to one’s upward progress and spiritual growth.

 

>. 不可分割的對立性

三月四日

 

不可分割的對立性

 

 

愉快和痛苦，得到和失去，活著和死去，善和惡是同一枚錢幣的正反兩面，有好就有壞，有生就有死，它們是相關連的‧

 

無知的人想要在世界一切都快樂，這是天真的和簡單的想法

 

歡樂和痛苦，活著和死亡是不能被分割，互相連接的‧

 

如果妳不想要痛和死亡，放棄感官的享樂，不要過度的使用身體

 

 

 

4th March

 

Inseparable Pairs of Opposites

 

 

      Pleasure and pain, gain and loss, life and death, good and evil are the obverse and reverse sides of the same coin. Evil can not exist without good; life, without death. They are relative terms. Ignorant people want everything happiness in this world; this is simply puerile. Pleasure and pain, life and death are inseparably linked together. If you do not want pain and death, give up sensual pleasures and existence in physical limitations.

>.感官享受後的悲慘劇~

三月六日

 

感官享受後的悲慘劇

 

感官的享樂伴隨著多種的缺點

‧

它跟隨著罪惡，痛苦，虛弱，執著，奴隸心態，意志薄弱，嚴重消耗和掙扎，不良的生活習慣，渴望，加重慾望和心理煩躁不安。

 

因此，避開感官的享受‧

 

去尋找來自一個永恆不變的，無限的，和至高的喜悅世界‧

 

 

6th March

 

Troupe of Sorrows Attendant Upon Each Sensuous Enjoyment

 

            Sensual enjoyment is attended with Various defects. It is attended with various sorts of sins, pains, weaknesses, attachments, slave mentality, weak will, severe exertion and struggle, bad habits, cravings, aggravation of desires and mental restlessness. Therefore shun all sorts of sensual enjoyments. Look out for an unchangeable, infinite and supreme happiness which must come from a Being in whom there is no change.

 

>.真正的自由和無法解脫的無知陷阱

三月三日

 

真正的自由和無法解脫的無知陷阱

 

        印度教和佛教皆一致認為Avidya(無知)是所有痛苦的根源.它造成眾多的問題。

 

人類已喪失和宇宙合一的天性‧現在人類發展出以自我中心的生活，將個人的喜好凌駕在社會福祉之上；發展了佔有欲和將每一個人視為自己的潛在敵人。

人依附著自然，依附著鄰居，簡而言之, 人類所依附的都是稍縱即逝的事物，人變成一個被分割的不完整的個人，被懷疑，恐懼，苦惱所折磨著‧

 

這個世界存在著不斷的恐懼‧

 

藉由信仰或宗教可以克服恐懼，它是失敗和死亡的解藥

 

我們不能用幻覺麻醉我們自己來驅散懷疑

而是需要用智慧來擺脫恐懼,得到真正的自由.

 

 

3rd March

 

True Freedom and the Inextricable Snares of Ignorance

 

  Hindu and Buddhist thinkers, with a singular unanimity declare that Avidya (ignorance) is the source of or anguish and all our trouble. Man’s nature of oneness with the living universe is lost. He develops an egocentric view of life and puts his individual preference above social welfare; He develops an acquisitive instinct and looks upon every other being as his potential enemy. He clings to nature, to his neighbors, in short, to everything, which is evanescent. He becomes a divided being, tormented by doubt, fear, suffering. There is a split in his oneness. The world lives in incessant fear. Religion is the conquest of fear, an antidote to failure and death. We cannot dispel out doubts by drugging ourselves with illusions. True freedom from fear is gained by Wisdom.