Sense your feeling-tone 感觉基调的练习

目的 Purpose

如果你想要了解自己，想要知道自己是什麽，你可以学会跳越自己对自己所抱持的信念，而直接地感受自己。
To understand yourself and what you are, you can learn to experience yourself directly apart from your beliefs about yourself.

 

方法 Method

我要各位实际去做的是静心坐好，闭上眼睛，试著去感觉我早先提到过的你自己内的那个深藏的“感觉基调”。这件事并不难做。你对它们的存在所具有的认识，可以助你认清它们在你内的深沉节奏。你们每一个人都将以自己的方式感觉它们，所以你们不需要去操心它们应当是什麽样的感觉。你只需告诉自己，它们确实存在，它们是由生成你的血肉之躯的伟大能量所组成的。然後，就让你自己去体验。
What I would like each reader to do is to sit quiedy. Close your eyes. Try to sense within yourself the deep feeling-tones that I mentioned earlier. This is not difficult to do. Your knowledge of their existence will help you recognize their deep rhythms within you. Each individual will sense these tones in his or her own way, so do not worry about how they should feel. Simply tell yourself that they exist, that they are composed of the great energies of your being made flesh. Then let yourself experience.

 

提醒 Reminder

如果你习于静坐冥想之类术语的话，在做这椿事情的时候，试著忘掉它们。任何名词都不要用。放下一切的观念，感受自己的存在，感受自己生命力的活动。别问：“这样做对不对？” “我的感觉正不正确？” “我用的方法是不是有错？”这是本书教你的第一个练习。你不要用别人的标准。这个练习没有任何标准，你自己的感觉就是标准。
If you are used to terms like meditation, try to forget the term during this procedure. Do not use any name. Free yourself from concepts, and experience the being of yourself and the motion of your own vitality. Do not question, “Is this right? Am I doing it correctly? Am I feeling what I should feel?” This is the book’s first exercise for you. You are not to use other people’s criteria. There are no standards but your own feelings.

 

建议 Suggestion

我也不建议任何时间限制。这个练习应该是一个很享受的经验。任何发生于这种练习中的感受，你都要把它当作是自己所独有的经验来接受。这个练习会让你与自己有所接触，会把你送回给你自己。每当你感到紧张或沮丧的时候，花一点时间去感觉一下自己内在的“感觉基调”，你将发现自己安居于你自己存在的核心，无忧无惧。
No particular time limit is recommended. This should be an enjoyable experience. Accept whatever happens as uniquely your own. The exercise will put you in touch with yourself. It will return you to yourself. Whenever you are nervous or upset, take a few moments to sense this feeling-tone within you, and you will find yourself centered in your own being, secure.

 

成果 Outcome

当你试了这个练习几次之后，再进一步就是去感觉这些深层的节奏以你为中心向所有的方向放射，真相其实正是如此。这些深层的节奏会以一种我以后会设法解释的方式，透过你的实质肉身电磁性的向外辐射：就如它们形成了你的实质形象一样，它们也造就了你所知的环境。
When you have tried this exercise several times, then feel these deep rhythms go out from you in all directions, as indeed they do. Electromagnetically they radiate out through your physical being; and in ways that I hope to explain later, they form the environment that you know even as they form your physical image.

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类似内观禅坐 Vipassana 。