When I know that I can have that capacity, then the problem ceases to be. But because I have not the capacity, I want to be shown. So I create the Master, the guru, the Saviour, someone who is going to save me, who is going to help me. So I become dependent on them. Whereas if I can have that capacity of resolving, understanding, the question, then it is very simple, then I am no longer dependent. This does not mean I am full of self-confidence. The confidence which comes into being through the self, the `me', does not lead anywhere; because that confidence is self-enclosing. But the very question `Can I have the capacity to discover reality?' gives one an extraordinary insight and strength. The question is: not that I have capacity - I have not the capacity - but `can I have it'? Then I shall know how to open the door which the mind is everlastingly closing, by its own doubts, by its own anxieties, fears, by its experiences, knowledge.
So when the whole process is seen, the capacity is there. But that capacity is not to be found through any particular pattern of action. I cannot comprehend the whole through the particular. Through a particular analysis of a special problem I shall not comprehend the whole. So, can I have the capacity to see the whole, not to understand one particular incident, one particular happening, but to see the whole total process of my life, with its sorrows, pains, joys, the everlasting search for comfort? If I can put that question in earnestness, then the capacity is there.
And with that capacity I can deal with all the problems that arise. There will always be problems, always incidents, reactions; that is life. Because I do not know how to deal with them, I go to others to find out, to ask for the way to deal with it. But when I put the question `Can I have the capacity?', it is already the beginning of that confidence which is not the confidence of the `me', of the self, not the confidence which comes into being through accumulation, but that confidence which is renewing itself constantly, not through any particular experience or any incident, but which comes through understanding, through freedom, so that the mind can find that which is real.
当我知道我有能力的时候,问题就消失了。但是因为我没有能力,我就想要得到指点。所以我创造了主,创造了上师,创造了救世主,创造可以拯救、可以帮助我的人。所以我变得依赖他们。然而如果我有解决问题、了解问题的能力,那么那就是非常简单的,而我也不再依赖。
这并不意味着我充满着自信。来自自己——“我”的信心,不会通往任何地方,因为那样的信心是自我封闭的。但是正是这个问题——我有能力发现真相吗——给了一个人特别的顿悟和力量。问题不是我有没有能力——而是我能有吗?然后我将知道如何打开心门,它一直被自己的怀疑、焦虑、恐惧、经验和知识封闭了。
所以当全部过程被了解的时候,能力就在那里。但是通过任何特定模式的动作,是无法找到那种能力的,我不能通过个例而来了解整体。经由针对特定问题的分析,我无法了解全部的情形。所以我有能力看到整体的状况吗——不是了解一个特定的事件,一件特别的事情——而是看到生活中的所有过程,它的哀伤,它的痛苦,它的欢喜,它永远追寻安慰的心理?如果我能认真地问自己那个问题,那么能力就在那里。
有了那种能力,我能处理所有的问题。生活中总是有各种问题,总是发生一些事,有各种反应,这就是生活。因为我不知道如何处理这些问题,所以我就去找别人帮忙,向他们请教处理问题的方法。但是当我问自己这个问题:我能有这种能力了吗?这时候,就已经是信心的开始,不是“我”的信心,自己的信心,不是借着累积产生的信心,而是每天反省自身的信心,不是通过任何的特别经验或任何事情,而是经过了解,通过自由,所以心才能发现什么是真实的。
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