美食祈祷与恋爱意大利文化 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 66 (146):第四境状态

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 66 (146):第四境状态  

The topic of the retreat
and its goal
is the turiya state—the elusive fourth level of human consciousness. During the typical human experience
say the Yogis
most of us are always moving beeen three different levels of consciousness—waking
dreaming or deep dreamless sleep. But there is a fourth level
too. This fourth level is the witness of all the other states
the integral awareness that links the other three levels together. This is the pure consciousness
an intelligent awareness that can—for example—report your dreams back to you in the morning when you wake up. You were gone
you were sleeping
but somebody was watching over your dreams while you slept—who was that witness? And who is the one who is always standing outside the mind's activity
observing its thoughts? It's simply God
say the Yogis. And if you can move into that state of witness-consciousness
then you can be present with God all the time. This constant awareness and experience of the God-presence within can only happen on a fourth level of human consciousness
which is called turiya.
Here's how you can tell if you've reached the turiya state—if you're in a state of constant bliss. One who is living from within turiya is not affected by the swinging moods of the mind
nor fearful of time or harmed by loss. "Pure
clean
void
tranquil
breathless
selfless
endless
undecaying
steadfast
eternal
unborn
independent
he abides in his own greatness
" say the Upanishads
the ancient Yogic scriptures
describing anyone who has reached the turiya state. The great saints
the great Gurus
the great prophets of history—they were all living in the turiya state
all the time. As for the rest of us
most of us have been there
too
if only for fleeting moments. Most of us
even if only for o minutes in our lives
have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of plete bliss
unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world. One instant
you're just a regular Joe
schlepping through your mundane life
and then suddenly—what is this?—nothing has changed
yet you feel stirred by grace
swollen with wonder
overflowing with bliss. Everything—for no reason whatsoever—is perfect.
Of course
for most of us this state passes as fast as it came. It's almost like you are shown your inner perfection as a tease and then you tumble back to "reality" very quickly
collapsing into a heap upon all your old worries and desires once again. Over the centuries
people have tried to hold on to that state of blissful perfection through all sorts of external means—through drugs and sex and power and adrenaline and the accumulation of pretty things—but it doesn't keep. We search for happiness everywhere
but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold
begging for pennies from every passerby
unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure—your perfection—is within you already. But to claim it
you must leave the busy motion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti—the supreme energy of the divine—will take you there.
当然，对我们大部分的人来说，此一状态来得快、去得也快，就像挑动你发现自己的内在完美，却又让你迅速跌回“现实”，再度倒在原先的烦恼和欲望中。几个世纪以来，人们试图借由各种外来方式抓住此种幸福的完美状态——通过药品、性爱、权力、感官刺激、积攒漂亮的东西——却无法永久保有。我们四处寻找快乐，却好比托尔斯泰故事中的乞丐，一辈子坐在一坛金子上，跟过路人讨钱，却不知财富始终在自己手中。你的财富——你的完美——已存在自己内心。若想领取，你就得远离繁乱的脑袋，舍弃自我的种种欲求，走入心的寂静。“昆达利尼莎克蒂”——神的至高能量——将带领你。