赛斯自序——个人实相的制造 The Manufacture of Personal Reality

赛斯在一开始就道破个人实相是什么。由于我们太认同生活经验，而分不清事件和思想之间的关系。“心智” + “精神” + “有意识的思想与感受” + “无意识的思想与感受”产生了生活经验；而生活经验又一再的反复加强本身的某某信念。是否能发现，那始终还是得自己发现，并自己为自己负责任。

“       经验与体会是“心智”、“精神”、“有意识的思想与感受”以及“无意识的思想与感受”的产品。这几样东西加起来就形成你个人所知道的实相。因此，你并不会受到外来的、不可抗拒的、或是强加于你的外界环境所左右。由于你太过将自己与组成你生活经验的那些实质事件连接在一起，使得你往往很难分辨，彷佛是发生在外界的事件和令它们发生的那些思想、期待、或渴望。

如果在你最切身的思想里有着非常强烈的负面特质，而这些负面性的因素又真的在你与更充实的生活间形成了障碍物，你还是经常的视而不见，一迳看了过去而不知有这些障碍的存在，直到有一天你真正认识到它们是障碍为止。话说回来，甚至是障碍也都有其存在的理由。如果这些障碍是你自己造的，那么就只有你才能决定是否要将它们辨认出来，并且找出它们之所以能存在其背后的理由与情况。”

“      Experience is the product of the mind, the spirit, conscious thoughts and feelings, and unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the reality that you know. You are hardly at the mercy of a reality, therefore, that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you. You are so intimately connected with die physical events composing your life experience that often you cannot distinguish between the seemingly material occurrences and the thoughts, expectations and desires that gave them birth.

If there are strongly negative characteristics present in your most intimate thoughts, if these actually form bars between you and a more full life, still you often look through the bars, not seeing them. Until they are recognized they are impediments. Even obstacles have a reason for being. If they are your own, then it is up to you to recognize them and discover the circumstances behind their existence.  ”

发现的方法就是自我审察或问问身边的朋友。当发现某某信念时，我常会觉得尴尬；有时真的有点难接受。

“      如果你去细细审查一下自己有意识的思想，你会发现这种审查可以告诉你很多关于你自己内心深处的心态、意图和期望，并且还常常导致你去直接面对自己的挑战及难题。你的思想，在经过你细细的探讨之后，会让你明白你到底走向何处。它们会清清楚楚的点明一个真相，那不是：所有存在于世间的事事物物原来全都是先存在于思想及感受里。除此之外，别无其他法则。  ”

“      An examination of your conscious thoughts will tell you much about the state of your inner mind, your intentions and expectations, and will often lead you to a direct confrontation with challenges and problems. Your thoughts, studied, will let you see where you are going. They point clearly to the nature of physical events. What exists physically exists first in thought and feeling. There is no other rule.   ”

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