如何穩固你的注意力

*** 如何穩固你的注意力 ***

體驗到無思慮的覺知是非常簡單、容易，但是維持在那狀態則是困難的。看到外事外物，你仍然會起反應、會起思慮，此時要如何回到無思慮的覺知狀態呢？首先即是要改變你的注意力。
舉例來說，有一次我和家人去看某個山頂的寺廟，一路上是數不盡的階梯，到達之後大家都十分疲憊，而不得不躺下來，他們抱怨連天說：這是什麼(鬼)寺廟！我告訴我的女婿說："你有没有看到頭上罩蓬式的天花板的石雕大象，每一隻大象都有不同的小尾巴？"，他答道："母親，我們都累死了，您怎麼能看到大象的小尾巴呢？"，此時你就必須將你的注意力從疲累轉移出來，為什麼不去看這些各式各樣的小尾巴呢？(註一)

當你(平常)總是將注意力放在外面的種種，首先你也必須試著轉移你的注意力。譬如你看到這地氈，你的注意力可能跑到：它是多貴、它值多少錢。假如它是你的，則頭腦想的更是：會不會有人弄髒它、我要不要去買個保險。這些都是人們的正常反應，但假如你就觀看著它，不要去想，你將會驚訝到，你會(開始)看見它内在的美麗，你會看見這位藝術家投注在這地氈上的喜樂，以及他洋溢的才華等等。這些將充滿了你，一種清涼的鬆弛感覺將降臨你，此時你的昆達里尼會上升，你就變成穩住在你的無思慮靜觀中(註二)。所以當你看任何事物時，甚至像今天的選舉(結果)，只需靜靜地看著被選上的這個人，光是靜靜地看著他，這就會帶給他祝福，給他種種更好的(治國)構想。而你也會獲得更好的構想，如：如何使這個當選人成為一個成功的人、如何使這個國家成為一個成功的民主國家。這些構想都是從真實而來，(而非從虚幻的自我或非我來的)。當你將你的注意力從批評、反應等轉移出來，這些(好的構想)就會自然發生。 你只需要靜觀，成為一個旁觀者，就試著去靜觀每一件事。但是(大部份的)練習者並没有如此去練習，在得到自覺之後他們仍不了解應該去靜觀每一件事。當你經由你的靈開始來靜觀，你就不會看到他人不好之處，而是只會看到他人的優點。所以一旦你的靜觀狀態擴大，你會開始享受每一個人，享受你碰到的每一件事。假如你有很大的深度，甚至連一片小小的草，你也可以去享受它。

在日本，禪宗的體系發展出類似的方法，菩提達摩(Bodhidharma) 開創了這種庭院花園的藝術。在一個很小的花園内，他利用苔癬、小花、小樹等來創作，觀賞者站在高處來欣賞。當你開始看這庭院時，你的思緒會(瞬間)停止，因為當你將注意力放在這個創作品，這個令人讚嘆的庭院時，你的思緒就停止。

所以你必須去練習，去發現什麼會停止你的思緒，什麼會讓你變成靜觀的狀態。一旦你發展出此習慣，你就會優雅地將自己穩固在無思慮的靜觀狀態。然後你將開始看到霎哈嘉如何幫助你，你是如何經由霎哈嘉獲致這些，這是何等的祝福。
當你只是靜觀外在的一切，你會驚訝到這無所不在的力量(Paramchaitanya)是如何在每一個角落運作 !

註一：Shri  Mataji 在談話中提及這個故事多次，請同時參考另一譯文：大象的尾巴(上)：（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/palitana-whatever-is-deep-is-simple.html ）

註二：如何靜觀地氈？在Shri Mataji 的談話亦出現多次，此處譯文亦參考其他的談話。

註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji在Mahashivaratri Puja的談話1996-03-03. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

Now this happening of achieving thoughtless awareness is very simple and easy, but to maintain at that point is difficult, we still react and we think. Anything you see, you react. To get to that point in thoughtless awareness is first to change your attention.

Now, for example, once we were climbing a very high mountain to see one temple called Palitana – Myself, My son-in-law and My daughter. And we were really tired because we had to climb – I don’t know how many steps – and when we went up we were tired and there was a little canopy made of beautiful marble carving, so we just lay down there ourselves. They were very tired and they said : “What is this kind of a temple?” They were grudging. While I looked up and I saw lots of beautiful elephants were carved. So I told My son-in-law : “Look at these elephants, they all have tails of different types.” He said “Mummy, we are all dying, how can you see the tails of elephants?” [Sahaja Yogis laugh]. But is just to divert their attention from that tiredness, I told them that – why not see the tails of the elephant, which is very different.

So what happens that, when you are putting your attention so much to outside all the time, then you must first of all also divert your attention. For example, you see these beautifully made things here. Your attention is something else – just try to enjoy the beauty of that. See, there are beautiful carpets here, just look at them without thinking, because they don’t belong to you, so no headache, they belong to somebody else, is very good! Otherwise, if it belongs to you, you start thinking ; “Oh, My God, I have spread them here, what will happen, they have to be insured!” Or some sort of a thing like that. That’s common human reaction. But if it doesn’t belong to you, you can watch it nicely. Now you watch it and don’t think. You’ll be amazed, when you see the beauty that is put inside this, you’ll see the artist who has put his joy, his exuberance into it, and you’ll be amazed, after Realization, that, this exuberance will fill into you and a cool kind of a relaxation will come into you, and this Kundalini will rise, and you’ll become steady in your thoughtless awareness.

So whenever you look at anything, look at any beautiful thing, even say, today’s election, just watch the man who is elected. Watching him itself, gives him blessings, gives him better ideas. You get also ideas, which are coming from reality, which are there : how to make this man a successful person, or this country a successful democracy.
All these things happen when your attention is diverted from criticising, from reacting. Just you watch, become the witness, try to witness everything. It’s not so very yet practised. So far, I’ve seen, that whenever even we get our- achieve our Realization, we don’t realize that we have to witness everything. When you start witnessing through your Spirit, then you don’t see the bad points of another, but you see the good points. You just pick up the person with very good points.
So once you see that the witness state enlarges, and you start enjoying another person, you start enjoying every thing that is there, even a small blade of grass you can enjoy, if you have that capacity.

In Japan, Zen system started on these lines. And he made, Bodhidharma was the person who started it, he made a garden out of moss, different moss, and very small. Then there were little, little flowers also. And hardly about five feet of the garden, which looks like a shape of a question mark you can say. You have to go on a lift, and you reach that platform on top of a hill, or a mountain, where you see this. All little, little mosses are there, and you see, differently arranged, a beautiful garden. When you start seeing it, your thought stops, because such a marvellous thing, when you put attention to it, to its creation, your thoughts stop.
So you must practise as to find out what stops your thoughts, what makes you the witness.
Once you develop this habit, you will station yourself nicely in the thoughtless awareness. Then you start watching how Sahaja Yoga has helped you, how it has been blissful, what you have achieved through Sahaja Yoga. You will be amazed, if you just start watching it, everywhere you’ll be amazed how this Paramchaitanya acts.