清海無上師以英文及德文講於美國洛杉磯國際禪三
1998.12.16-18(影帶編號#641)
問:我的表哥是死於自殺。他是我的偶像,我一直都想要像他一樣,所以我覺得蠻難過的。後來我有一個體驗,看到他出現在我內邊,告訴我他現在過得很好,結果我差點犯下同樣的錯誤,我也想自殺,因為我無法適應這個世界。後來,就在去年,上帝對我示現並告訴我說:「自殺是最笨的行為。」
答:是,我也經常這麼說。
問:可是那時我還不認識您。
答:還好有上帝告訴你。
問:上帝說我還有一個重要任務要做。我說:「如果我還有重要任務,就該有人來告訴我該做什麼。」結果兩個星期之後,我就拿到您的傳單了。拿到傳單時的感覺,就像兩星期前上帝跟我講話一樣。
答:那真是太好了!
問:其實以前我並不相信上帝,所以才更是奇特。現在我想請問您,因為我患有癲癇症,這和我整個家族有關嗎?和我家族的壓力有關係嗎?
答:沒錯,這是共業,也是遺傳的關係。
問:這讓我很沮喪,所以我才不想再活下去。
答:你是個很好的人,不要想太多。如果上帝說你沒問題,你就沒問題。你是相信上帝,還是相信自己?頭腦給我們的訊息總是偏向否定的。
問:好,現在我了解上帝了。請問我應該忍受病發的狀況嗎?因為有一次打坐時,我的癲癇又發作了。情況真的很糟糕,後來那幾天我都失去了信心。
答:我了解,但是我們要堅強起來。
問:所以,這是很平常的嗎?生命就是這樣,對嗎?
答:對,就是這樣。每個人的生命都有其困難。你有癲癇症,別人有氣喘,我們都有不同的難題,這是生命的代價。你不要這樣悲觀,凡事要保持肯定的想法。
問:我現在已經不想做和我表哥一樣的事情。
答:不行,你不能學他!他犯了一個大錯,不但錯誤而且愚蠢。自殺是一種最愚蠢的行為,你不可以學他。我們要時時追隨那些美好、肯定的典範,擁有崇高的目標、高雅的理想,千萬不可以學那麼愚蠢、糟糕又低等的思想。
問:因為您,我已戒除菸酒了。
答:你看,你已經進步很多了!
問:而且也開始吃素,這一切都是在三個星期內發生的。
答:只有三星期?那太好了,你真的很了不起!你的表現可以作為別人的好榜樣,讓他們也像你一樣戒菸、戒酒。你應該隨時做一個好榜樣,這就是你的任務。
問:可是到目前為止還是很困難,因為我身邊的事物都跟我唱反調。
答:千萬不要這樣想,懂嗎?想法要肯定!有時候我們是經過一番非常特殊的選擇後,才來到這個世界,可是一來到這裡,我們就忘記了,於是我們在天堂所作的特別選擇,變成似乎是我們生命中的障礙或負擔。但是事實上,上帝的加持會以許多不同的方式和表象呈現出來。有句英文諺語說:「最貧瘠的土壤孕育出最強壯的樹。」所以我們不應該把注意力放在我們所作的選擇上,或是放在我們自認為不利的情況上,因為這一切畢竟都是幻象。我們應該專注於我們這一生究竟要成就什麼,將心思放在我們所擁有的,而不要去管我們沒有什麼。我們沒有的東西數也數不完,但我們也擁有很多東西,有的是我們知道自己有,有的是我們有,自己卻不曉得。所以事實上,我們還有許多東西可以用。
我年輕的時候因為個子小,人們老是取笑我,當時我也覺得很難過,但是後來我遇到一些人,他們是因為我長得嬌小的緣故,而特別喜歡我,那時我才了解以前取笑我的人真是太遜了。所以事實上,生命中的每件事都有其目的。
有時候我們還沒來這個世界以前,決定用比較辛苦的方式來修行,我們說:「好,我要當矮子、胖子,或是很高的人、或是殘障的人,以便更快進步、更快找到上帝,或是幫助那些和我處境相同的人找到上帝。」但是當我們來到這裡,裝上了人類的頭腦後,就開始和別人比較,開始變得複雜,覺得自己的抉擇太差了,不過這只是頭腦的想法而已。
我們都是上帝,一旦我們回歸天國,或真正開悟時,我們的長相根本無關緊要,我們不再為它感到困擾。所以最重要是要獲得究竟的開悟,讓我們能即刻找到天國,知道這一切都不是真我。外在的美麗和不利的情況都不是我們本人,那些都不是我們,只是我們穿的衣服罷了。所以最重要是要開悟,其他事情都是次要;開悟後,一切都會隨之而來。
我忘了是不是說過這個故事:有個人非常出名,可是他是個駝子。有一天他在門口遇到未來的太太,這位女子非常美麗,而他卻是個身體畸型的人。他愛上了她,並且向她求婚。當然她看不起他。然而他說:「妳相信婚姻是天注定的嗎?」她說:「當然啦!但你為什麼說這些呢?」
他告訴那位女子:「因為我們本來就該結成夫妻,我們的婚姻在天上就已經注定好了。」她說:「你怎麼說這樣的話?」他說:「妳不記得了嗎?我們下來之前,上帝說我們當中有一人必須是個駝子,這個駝背的人本來應該是妳,但是我替妳承擔了。」我對上帝說:「主啊!女人駝背實在太悲慘了,讓我來駝背吧!」所以我才變成這樣,而妳則成為一位美麗的女子。
這位女子深受感動,並且記起他所說的話都是真的。他一定是一位聖人。後來他們結婚了,從此過著快樂的生活。所以也許你是為了某人犧牲,只是自己不知道而已。也許有一天你會遇見這個人,並提醒他想起這段因緣恩義。
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Q: My older cousin committed suicide. He was always my model; I wanted to be like him so it's been a little difficult. But then I had an experience. He appeared to me inside and told me that he was well, and then I almost made the same mistake. I also wanted to kill myself because I couldn't cope with the world. And then last year God appeared to me and said that suicide was the most stupid thing I could do. M: Yes. That's also what I've always said. Q: Yes, but at that time I didn't know You yet. M: It's good that God spoke to you like this. Q: Hes also told me that I still have an important task to do and I said, “If I still have an important task to do, then I need someone to show me the task.” And two weeks later I got Your leaflet and then I had almost the same feeling as two weeks before when God spoke to me. M: That's very good. Q: But actually before I didn't believe in God. That's what makes it so special. And now I want to ask You, because I'm also sick, I get epileptic attacks, could this have something to do with my whole family and the stress in the family? M: Yes, it is collective karma and also genetic. Q: This is kind of depressing to me. That's why I didn't want to live anymore. M: You’re a very wonderful person. You don't need to think so much. If God says you are OK, then you are OK. Do you believe God or do you believe yourself? The brain always says negative things. Q: OK, now I know Hirm, but am I supposed to just accept these attacks? Because one time during meditation I also got an attack. It was really terrible and for a few days I had no more confidence. M: I understand, but we have to be strong. Q: So this is normal and it’s just how it is, right? M: Yes, it is normal and that's how it is. Life is always difficult for everyone. You have epilepsy; other people have asthma. We all have different things. That is the price of living, OK? You must not be so sad but always think positive. Q: I don't intend to do the same thing my cousin did. M: No, you won't follow him. He made a big mistake, not only a mistake, but a stupid thing to do! That is the most stupid thing one can do. You cannot follow his example. We must always follow the higher goal, the noble ideal, which is beautiful, nice and positive. One must not follow such stupid, bad things and such low thoughts. Q: Because of You I quit smoking and drinking. M: See, you have made so much progress! Q: And I became vegetarian, and all this happened within three weeks. M: Only three weeks? That’s good. You’re wonderful! You have to be an example for other people so that they will also quit smoking and so on. You have to always be like this, to set an example, OK? That's your task. Q: Until now it's been quite difficult because everything around me is the opposite. M: You shouldn’t think like this, OK? Be positive. Sometimes we come here with a very, very special choice, but when we come here we forget. So the special choice that we made in Heaven becomes like a hindrance, a burden during our life here. But actually blessing comes in many different ways and many disguises. In English, they say something like “The strongest tree grows in the most unfriendly soil.” So we must not concentrate on the choice that we have made, or the so-called disadvantage that we think we have because after all everything is illusion anyhow, and concentrate instead on what we want to make out of our life, and what we have instead of what we do not have. There are endless things that we do not have. But there are a lot of things that we have that we know, and a lot of things that we have and we also don't know. So we have a lot more to use. When I was young, because I'm very little, people teased me and I felt very bad. But after a while, I met some other people who loved me because I'm small and I realized that the others were lousy. So actually, everything in this life has a purpose. Sometimes before we came into this world, we choose a harder way to practice. We say, “OK, I’d like to be a shorter person or a fatter person, or a very exceptionally tall person, or I want to be a handicapped person in order to pay for quicker progress in finding God, or to help other people to find God who are in the same position I am.” But when we come here, we wear this human's brain and then we begin to compare ourselves with other people. And we begin to feel complexity, and we begin to feel that our choice is too disadvantageous now. But it's just the mind that thinks like that. We are God, and when we go back to Heaven or when we’re really enlightened, it doesn't matter at all what we look like. We don't feel disturbed anymore. So the main thing is to be enlightened, deeply enlightened, so that we can find Heaven right now, so that we know that nothing is really us. Not even the outer beauty or the outer disadvantage is us. They are not us; they are just the clothes we wear. So what’s important is to be enlightened, not to be anything else, and everything else will come along. I don't remember if I told you this story: There was a very famous person who was a hunchback. One day, he met his future wife on a doorstep. She was very beautiful, but he was deformed. He fell in love with her and then he wanted her to be his wife. But she, of course, looked down upon him. So then he said, "Do you believe marriage is made in Heaven?" And she said, "Yes, but why so?" Then he said to her, “Because we're supposed to be married. Our marriage was already made in Heaven.” So she said, “How can you say something like that?" and he replied, "Don’t you remember? Before we came here God said to us that one of us would have to be a hunchback, and it was supposed to be you but then I took it over. I said to God, ‘Oh, my Lord, it’s terrible for a woman to be a hunchback. Let it be me.’ And that's why I became like this and you remained beautiful." So somehow, this touched her and made her remember that the things he said were true. He must have also been a saint, and they married and lived happily ever after. So maybe you’re sacrificing for someone and you don't even know it. Maybe you’ll meet her or him one day, and remind them of the debt. ♥ |
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