從愛心出發

編號：866 日期：2008.8.20, 09.01,   12.06 & 22 地點：法國 性質：國際研討會 用語：英文

清海無上師以英文講於國際聚會 2008.12.06

我能把這麼多事做好，讓每個人高興，唯一的理由也許是因為我執很少或沒有我執。我一直在檢查自己，看是否有任何我執冒出來。你們的我執去不掉，或許就是因為你沒有機會與別人發生磨擦，例如沒有人檢查你、修理你，沒有人告訴你哪裡不對，因為你沒有與別人一起工作。或是你的職位非常高，在社會上是老闆或處長、經理之類，一直都是你指揮人家做事，從來沒有人跟你頂嘴；即使你是修行人，也沒有機會被別人糾正。不要感覺被冒犯，砍掉我執好嗎？

光是打坐並不夠，你必須經歷許多情況才能長大。你必須出去應付實際狀況，才能更有智慧。打坐也有幫助，但若沒有機會磨亮自己，那就沒有用。

任何人罵你，或甚至冤枉你，要感謝那個人，事實上，那可以讓你學習謙卑。即使你被誤會了，對你也好。那時你可以檢查自己，就知道自己我執有多大。如果你還是認為：「哦，我人這麼好，為什麼他會這樣說？」你整天抱怨，並開始憎恨那個人，這表示你還不好。總之，若有人以任何方式指正你，那對你真的很好。你從錯誤中學習，就會變得越來越好。

沒有人不好，只是我執不好，我執真的是每個人最大的敵人。但許多人喜歡保有它，問題在這裡。若你太聽從我執，就會忘記偉大的自性、聰明的自性、有智慧的自性，這是唯一的問題。若你不斷聽從我執，認為自己滿腹經綸等等，你就無法認識自己的真我，那就很可惜。最主要的問題在於，我執讓我們偏離自性，與真正無所不知的自性隔開。我們如果自以為了通天下事，我們就不認識自性，這是我執最大的問題。

我執是最大的敵人，有時它會破壞婚姻、破壞感情、破壞友誼，甚至破壞母子或父女之間的親情。因為我執總是會造成衝突，比方說，不想做讓父母高興、讓伴侶快樂的事，只想一意孤行，製造麻煩。如果日復一日這樣，其中一方總是找麻煩，感情當然會破裂。那時你什麼都不記得，只記得對方不好的事--不好的記憶、不好的情況、不好的事件、不好的結果，沒有任何好事，這樣感情當然不能維繫，婚姻不能繼續。

這只是就物質方面而言。若從靈性的層面來說，你當然更遠離自性。若你執著於世俗的一點知識，即使懂得不多，卻認為自己懂很多，並執著在那上面，那你就不認識你的自性。比方說照鏡子時，若有個東西擋在你面前，即使只是一層薄窗簾，你也無法照見自己；但如果那層窗簾掉下來，你就能看清自己。這就是我執的問題。它會擋在人與人之間，擋在你的自性和任何靠近你的事物之間，然後破壞、摧毀或扭曲每件事，使它不再是真實的，這真的很可惜。

我執不是我們應該保有的東西，它是我們的敵人。我們自認為知道的小知識，並不是真正的知識。我執真的很難去除，非常、非常難，它破壞世上很多事。我執引起戰爭，製造敵人與仇恨，並摧毀國家。沒有我執的人，絕不想與任何人打仗，因為他們能看透那些事毫無用處。所以我執是世上每個人最大的敵人。

動物沒有我執，例如狗就沒有我執，他們非常單純，所以無時無刻都能愛你。即使你剛剛罵過他們，當你要疼愛他們時，他們立刻搖著尾巴跑過來，他們從未留任何憎恨在心裡一秒鐘，你能看得出來。所以若你想看沒有我執的眾生，就去看看狗，真的是那樣。

大部分的動物完全沒有我執，但人類卻干預並破壞他們的本性，這就是問題所在。我們人類不僅以我們渺小的所謂世俗的知識摧毀自己，而且還破壞大自然，並殘害動物。我們迫使他們做出瘋狂的行為，我都觀察到了，而且也知道，這是真的。我不是只根據書上說說而已，真的是那樣。

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/206/index.htm

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Wisdom is really important; and ego, we have to cut it. The less ego, the better. It is a pity because we don’t really need this ego. The “I” that knows everything already, the “I” that is expert in this and specialist in that -- we don’t need all that. Because if we don’t have them, then we are more smart. We will become more intelligent, smarter, really.

The only reason I can do many things well and that everyone likes is because, perhaps, I have very little ego or none. I keep checking myself to see if any ego pops up. Perhaps the reason that your ego doesn’t go away is because you don’t have the chance to rub with other people, like no one checks you, no one fixes you; no one tells you what’s wrong with you because you don’t do anything with other people. Or, you are in a very high position outside in the society, like you are a boss or some director, manager, whatever; you are the one who tells everyone what to do all the time, and no one ever talks back at you. Also, sometimes even as a practitioner, you have no chance to be corrected by anyone else. But don’t be offended; cut that ego off. Okay?

It’s not enough that you meditate. You’ve got to be exposed to many situations to grow up. You have to go out and also react to the reality in order to have more intelligence. Meditation helps also, but if you don’t have a chance to polish it, then it doesn’t work.

If anyone at all scolds you, or even wrongly accuses you, be thankful for that person. That’s good for your humility, actually; and even if it’s not true, it’s also good for you. At that time, you check yourself out and then you know how much ego you have. If at that time you just still say, “Oh, I’m such a good person, why does he say like this and like this?” And you complain all day, and then you’ll begin to hate that person, then still it’s no good. Anyway, if someone corrects you in any way, that’s really good for you. You learn from that mistake, and you become better and better.

No one is bad, just ego is bad. Truly the egos is the worst enemy of everyone. Many people like to keep it, that’s the problem. If you listen to this ego too much, you forget your great Self, your intelligent Self, your wise wisdom Self. That is the only problem. It’s a pity if you keep listening to the ego, like you know too much and all that. Then you don’t know your real Self. The main problem is the ego separates us from our true Self, from the one who truly knows everything. If we just think we know everything about this world, then we don’t know our Self. That’s the greatest problem with the ego.

The ego is the greatest enemy. Sometimes the ego destroys a marriage, destroys a relationship, destroys a friendship, destroys the love between mother and son, or father and daughter even, because the ego causes conflict all the time—doesn’t want to do anything that is pleasing to the mother or father or pleasing to the partner, just wants to do the thing that causes trouble. Day after day like this, if a partner always causes trouble, then of course the relationship is broken. You cannot remember anything but bad things about each other—bad souvenirs, bad happening, bad events, bad result – and never good. So, of course the relationship cannot live this way, the marriage cannot continue.

This is just physically speaking. Talking about the spiritual level, of course you’re even far away from your Self. If you’re clinging to your worldly know-how a little bit, even if you don’t even know enough and you think you know a lot, and you just cling to that, then you don’t know your Self. For example, if you have something in front of you, like even just a thin curtain, you cannot see yourself through the mirror. But if that thin curtain falls down, then you can see yourself clearly. This is the ego problem. It just stands between people; it stands between your real Self and anything else that comes near you. Then it makes everything damaged or ruined or distorted; it is not the real thing anymore.

It’s a pity. This is not the thing we should keep. It’s our enemy. The little knowledge that we think we know—that is not our true knowledge. The ego is really hard to get rid of, very, very hard; and it ruins many things in this world. It causes war. It causes enemies and hatred, and ruin of nations. The people who have no ego never want to war with anyone because they can see through the uselessness of those things. So, ego is the worst enemy of everyone in this world.

Animals, they don’t have ego. True dogs, for example, don’t have any ego. They are so pure, that’s why they can love you every minute. Even if you just scold them, they come with wagging tail immediately, the moment you come and love them. They never hold any hatred within their heart for a second. You can see that. So if you want to see the egoless being, look at the dog. Truly it’s like that.

Most animals don’t have ego at all, until humans interfere and ruin their nature. That’s the problem. We humans not only ruin ourselves by our little so-called knowledge of the world, but we also ruin nature, and we also ruin animals. We force them into crazy behavior. I observed it all and I know it. It’s the truth. I’m not just telling it from books—it is truly like that.

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/206/