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我們這充滿創造力的宇宙
問：關於我們是這充滿創造力的宇宙中的一股充滿創造力的力量，您會給我們什麼教導，使我們能夠記得，或者意識到這一點？
埃克哈特：覺醒的過程有兩個方面，或者說兩個向度。一個是發現內在的源頭，也就是你的本質。然後，將它越來越多地帶入你的日常生活中 – 好讓你的生活充滿那寧靜。隨著你的生活逐漸被那寧靜充滿，你的自我慢慢開始消褪。你代表著一個不一樣的能量場 – 就好像有從另一個次元來的東西通過你進入這世界。
隨之而來的是“覺醒的做”，我有時會這樣稱呼它，而最重要的，是在這所有“覺醒的做”之下的基礎。這世界到處都是在“做”的人，但大多數都是“無意識的做”。它來自於不快樂的狀態，或者製造更多不快樂的情形。我們第一個任務是把那個次元，那另一個次元，帶到這個世界上。在你日常的生活中，試試看臨在是否可以流入那些最瑣碎的事情 – 傾聽別人時，走路時，等等。臨在指的是接受當下的一切，與當下的外在形式和諧一致，將它作為一個靈性練習。你越是與當下的外在形式合作，流經你的能量越多。
根植於日常生活中的臨在對我們來說非常重要。這個基礎就是對當下的如是(is-ness)的持續不斷的接納。經由接納，臨在越來越多地升起。正如你們的老師所說的，你與當下時刻合作。帶入一個“是”。跟隨著這個“是”，臨在進入了。你必須先達到對如是的接納 – 不是針對世界局勢 – 僅限於接納你自己的現實情況。過一陣子，你將會注意到臨在有另一個方面。臨在不僅僅是靜止不動 – 它也有動態的層面。這正是“覺醒的做”進入的層面。
首先它將改變你與別人相處的方式。有一天，有些事情會想要被完成。你也許感覺到這是你需要做的事。突然你就知道了你需要做什麼。它來自於內在，或者來自於外在 – 某些你生命中的情境。然後，“覺醒的做”開始發生。這個做不是自我的做，自我的做是無論你做什麼都只是一個達到目的的手段。而在“覺醒的做”之中有很深的愉悅。這裡面沒有對達成的極度渴望，但實際上你卻達成得更多 – 因為在做的過程之中有那麼多快樂，而結果會自己照看自己。一個完全不同的做升起了，它不是被慾望所驅使。而通常情況下人們會想：“我必須達成這個”。
當臨在通過你行動，它不再是基於慾望，它是基於歡樂。它不需要任何東西，因為你就來自於富足。這個行動不是設計來滿足你的，不是要給你添加點什麼。這個行動來自於你已身處其中的富足 – 所以並不存在任何需要。
障礙會出現，特別是如果你所做的與這現實世界背道而馳 – 你可能會發現障礙。同時你也可能會發現有巨大的力量在幫助你。
障礙也許會以不合作的人或事來顯現，但巨大的力量也會流入你的行動之中，它會在很多方面幫助你。恰巧在合適的時間，遇到合適的人，發生恰到好處的事情。當障礙出現，它們不會被看作是敵人。自我總是將阻礙它的行動方案的任何障礙都看成是敵人。
一個障礙如其所是地被接納，你與它合作 – 而不是反對它。你可以選擇處理它，或者先接受它的能量然後轉變它。它將融入你所要做的事情之中。你在困難的情境或是不合作的人身上再也看不到敵人。每一件事都如其所是地被擁抱，被接納，然後它被轉化了。這不像是你在做這件事，你成了這個做的媒介。它通過你發生。當這個力量想來，它就會來。
在那個發生在我身上的轉化出現之後的幾年，我的外在生活沒有發生什麼事情 – 然後，漸漸地，人們跑來問我問題。有一些行動，一些演講在發生。回答突然就來了，那樣的情形持續了幾年。我知道有一個力量在這裡，但因為某些原因它沒能夠到達很多人。這種情況還沒有發生。那時也挺好，人們每周來一到兩次問些問題。接著這裡開個工作坊，那裡開個工作坊，然後是比較大規模的。
有一次我在英國薩默塞特小鎮的一個鄉村教堂裡，那教堂空無一人 – 突然，有些詞從我裡面蹦了出來：“利用我吧”，“我想要加速”。我不知道我在和誰說話。也不知道這些詞從哪裡來。好像是那意識在傾聽。起初什麼也沒發生，我回家了。幾個星期之後，我清晨起來，知道我必須離開英國搬到北美西岸。我也不清楚為什麼。這僅僅是個開端，最後寫作在那裡開始了。那個加速發生了。那時我還不知道這就是我曾經請求的加速的一部分。然後事情越來越快。要小心你所請求的。
我完全不覺得是我做了這些事情。我只是隨順它。我是作為一個人在演說嗎？不，那是意識通過這個頭腦在發表演講，來表達對此時此刻最有幫助的東西。所以為它服務吧。你正身處在這服務之中。拋棄那個你作為單獨的個體必須去“做”任何事情的念頭。無論它想要在這世界顯現的是什麼，對它保持開放，然後“覺醒的做”會通過你發生。每一個所謂的“個體”在這世界都有獨特的作用。當你越不礙手礙腳，當你能夠將臨在帶入日常生活中，那麼它究竟想要在這個世界顯現什麼的答案就將通過你而出現。
與它共舞是一趟絕妙的冒險旅程。現在有很多東西想要穿透過來。它並不在人們之間做選擇，它不會說“你是特別的，我打算選擇你”。無論何時當一個人對它變得透明，它就穿透。它不會問：“你是誰？你有哪些證書？”，它也不會問：“你有怎樣的個人經歷？你值不值得？”。它是永恆的臨在。它對你過去的歷史毫無興趣，也不在意你是否是最高尚的人。無論在哪裡，只要有敞開，光就會照射進來。
Our Creative Universe
Q: What kind of guidance would you offer to people to remember, or be aware that we are a creative force in a creative Universe?
ET: The awakening process has two aspects, or two dimensions, to it. One is the finding the Source within, as yourself. Then, [there is] bringing that into your life more and more – so that your daily life becomes interspersed with that Stillness. As your life becomes interspersed with that Stillness, the ego then begins to fade. You embody a different energy field – as if something from another dimension were coming through you into this world.
The most essential thing is the foundation for all subsequent “awakened doing”, as I sometimes call it. The world is full of people who are doing, but it’s mostly unawakened doing. This comes out of unhappy states, and creates more unhappy states. Our first task is to bring that dimension, the other dimension, into this world. With your normal everyday life, see if Presence can flow into the smallest things – listening to another person, walking from here to there, and so on. Presence implies acceptance of whatever is, in the Now, in alignment with the form of the Now, as a spiritual practice. The more you are aligned with the form of the Now, the more this energy comes through.
It’s vital for us to be grounded in the Presence of everyday life. The foundation is continuous acceptance of the is-ness of Now. Through that, Presence arises more and more. You work with the present moment, as your teacher so-to-speak. Bring a “yes” to it. With that, the Presence comes. You have to first come to an acceptance of the is-ness of things – not the world situation – just your limited reality. After a little while you will notice that there is another aspect to Presence. It’s not just still – there’s also a dynamic aspect to Presence. That’s where “awakened doing” comes in.
First it changes the way in which you deal with others. One day, something else wants to be done that needs doing. You might perceive it as something that you need to do. Suddenly you know what it is that you need to do. It comes from within, or it comes from without – some situation in your life. Then, “awakened doing” begins to happen. That doing is not the egoic doing, where whatever you do is a means to an end. There is deep enjoyment in the doing. There is not an excessive desire to achieve, but you achieve actually more – because there’s so much enjoyment in the doing that the end result looks after itself. A very different kind of doing arises, that is not motivated by desire. The normal way is thinking “I need to achieve this”.
As Presence moves through you, it’s not based on desire anymore, it’s based on enjoyment. It’s not based on wanting or needing anything, because you’re coming from fullness. The action is not designed to fulfill you. It’s not designed to add something to you. The action is coming out of the fullness in which you already dwell – so there’s no neediness in it.
Obstacles arise, as they will, especially if you do things that go against the conditioning of the world – you may find obstacles. You also may find enormous power helping you.
Obstacles may come in the form of uncooperative people, or situations, but enormous power will also flow into what you do and help you in many ways. Just the right thing, just at the right moment, just the right person. When obstacles do arise, they are not regarded as enemies. The ego regards any obstacle to its course of action as an enemy.
An obstacle is accepted for what it is, and you work with it – not against it. Or you work around it, or you take its energy and turn it around. It becomes incorporated into what you have to do. You don’t see any more enemies in the form of unhelpful situations, uncooperative people. Everything is embraced for what it is, accepted for what it is, and transformed. It’s not so much that you are doing it, you become a vehicle for the doing. It happens through you. The power comes when it wants to come.
For several years after the shift that happened to me, there was not much happening externally – and after that, gradually, people came to ask questions. There was some doing, some speaking happening. Answers were suddenly coming, and that lasted for several years. I knew somewhere that there was a power here, but it’s not reaching many people for some reason. It wasn’t happening yet. It was fine, people would come once or twice a week and ask questions. A workshop here, a workshop there, and then big spaces.
I was once in a country church in England, in a small village in Somerset, and the church was completely empty – and suddenly the words came out of me that said “Use me”, and “I’d like acceleration please”. I don’t know who I was talking to. The words, where they came from, I don’t know. The Consciousness was listening, it seems. At first nothing happened and I went back home. A few weeks later, I woke up knowing that I had to leave England and move to the west coast of North America. I did not know why. That was the beginning, and eventually the writing started there. That was the acceleration happening. I did not know [at the time] that it was part of the acceleration that I had asked for. And then things accelerated more and more. Be careful with what you ask for.
I don’t have the sense that I am “doing” any of this. I just go with it. Am I speaking as a person? No, its Consciousness speaking, using this mind, to express what is most helpful for this moment. So be in the service of that. You are in the service of that. Get rid of the idea that you have to “do” anything as a separate entity. Be open to what it is that wants to be done in this world, then conscious doing happens through you. Every so-called “individual” has a different function in this world. The more you get out of the way, you do it by bringing Presence into everyday life, then the answer of what it is that wants to be done comes through you.
It’s a wonderful adventure to be aligned with that. There is a lot that wants to come through at this time. It doesn’t choose between people, it doesn’t say “You are special, I’m going to choose you”. Whenever a person becomes transparent to it, it comes through. It doesn’t ask “Who are you, what are your credentials?” It doesn’t ask, “What is your personal history? Are you worthy?” It’s timeless Presence. It’s not interested in your past history, whether you were the most virtuous person. Wherever the opening is, the light comes through.
