觉醒的生活 (译文）作者：Adyashanti (附英文原文 The Awakened Way）

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（Adyashanti自1996年开始作心灵导师。他的教学被比为早期的一些中国禅师和印度一元现实导师。）

觉醒的生活是什么样子？

当世界在努力解决它的问题，和你周围的人也做着同样的事，你却不。当你周围的人在努力琢磨出它，试图抵达，试图“到达那里”，试图变得值得，你却不。当每个人认为觉醒是盛大的，高贵的，光环笼罩的东西，对你则不是。当每个人此时此刻跑离这个生活时，试图到达那里，你却不。在每个人与其他人，与其他大部分人，从他们自己开始，争论着，你不。在每个人都如此肯定当某事不同于现在时，幸福就会到来，你知道它不会。当其它每个人在试图取得完美状态并把它抓住不放时，你不。

当你周围的每个人对各种事情有一大堆想法和信念时，你没有。路途上的每个人都在奔向那里，你没到达任何地方。每个人在爬山，你在山脚下卖登山靴子，希望如果他们爬上去并走下来，他们或许会累极了而不去再爬。当其他每个人在看下一本书，下一个老师，下一位大师，以求得知什么是真实的，得到通往觉醒生活的秘密钥匙，你不。你没有钥匙，因为没有锁把钥匙放入。

当你以觉醒的方式活着你所是的自己，简单做你所从来都是的自己，你实际非常简单。你基本上坐在那里纳闷，这所有的大题小作是关于什么。

当每个人坐在那里说，“我希望那发生在我身上，”你记得你曾那样过。你记得你没找到一个解决办法。你记得那个有问题的想法本身搞出那所有的一切。

当你做你所是的自己，当你过着觉醒的生活，没有人要宽恕，因为无论如何，都没有怨恨。

你存在的真理不渴求幸福；它实际上根本不在乎。它不渴求爱，不是因为你充满爱，而是因为它就是不渴求爱。它很简单。它不寻求被知道，被看得很高，或被理解。当你以觉醒的方式活着你所是的自己，对你来说不再有理念。你已走出整个苦难轮回，变更轮回；你不感兴趣。

你发现自己在一种好奇的生活中。你在你所在之处找到自己。不在我所在之处，在你所在之处。在你真的所在之处。在我们真的所在之处。它是一个好奇的地方（特别是在开始），不被任何东西驱使----快乐或不快，帮助或伤害，爱或恨。唯一让你移动的（我无意把这说得有诗意）与移动树上叶子的是同一东西。就只因为风向那边吹。所以你总知道做什么。风向那边吹，你就向那边走。你不再问问题。你不再评估风为什么向那个方向吹，因为你知道你不知为什么。你知道你不能知道为什么。从未有过一片叶子知道风为什么在那天那个时刻向那边吹。那微风改变着你生活的方位，从每一时刻到每一时刻到每一时刻，就因为生命在向那个方向移动。当你活着觉醒的自己时，你与它移动的方向没有争执，因为它与你是同一的。

你知道微风总在那里，从一开始，它也不只为特别的人专有。如果你在你生活的某一点注意到，你知道那是因为你没在听，或因为你认为你必须在你能听到之前先琢磨出什么，或因为你认为在必须有某种结论后，你才能深深地听，没有预期目的地听，没有希望更好将来地听，才会感觉到那个移动。

你们许多人知道我在讲什么。

真理从不解释它那个时刻为什么向那个方向移动。如果你问，它不会给你任何信息。那如同一片叶子问风，“你为何此刻向那个方向吹？”这个问题对风来说没有任何意义。

但你与真理移动的路途----无论那路途是什么，你都不再争执了。你不再与它争执。你不再试图把它琢磨出来。玛丽没琢磨出来。佛没琢磨出来。拉玛那(Ramana)没琢磨出来。他们没有一个把它琢磨出来。他们只变为那。简单。普通----如同叶子一样普通。

当你活在你觉醒的存在中，以觉醒的方式活着时，任何层面的权力对你都不是什么。它没意思。控制另一个人的权力没有兴趣。智能能力没兴趣。控制你自己的力量没兴趣。人们想给你的权力对你来说没意思----不是因为它不应该。你想用它来做什么？你看到你不想用它来做任何事情。

你认识到，在你存在的真理中，你是整体本身，但你没兴趣用那个知识去做任何什么事情。

终于，你认识到你真的不想改变任何人，不是因为你不应该想改变他们，只因为你不想。你可能不想在每个人周围，但你仍然不想改变他们。

这没什么理念----它是理念的结尾。这没什么神圣，它是神圣的结尾。它是完整的开始。这没什么要取得的成就，因为它是不可取得的。它只是你存在真理本身。它只是存在本身。你不能获得已然如此的东西。任何地方都没有人能告诉你什么时候或为什么，或你会丢掉到什么程度的非真理，当你丢掉时，你会丢掉，一般在其它一切都行不通时。

当你以真正觉醒的方式活着时，活在你觉醒的存在中，你孤单，并终于舒服于孤单。你孤单，但你根本不孤独，因为唯一能与你在你所在的地方相遇的，唯一能与你100%相遇的，从来只有你自己。任何他人都不能与你那样完全相遇----或许能相遇90%，或许95%。除了你，没有人能与你完全相遇。当你终于与自己完全相遇，你就不需要任何他人为你那样做了。然后你孤单，比你曾想象过的更孤单。而奇怪的是---非常奇怪---你更联接，更亲近，更与万物合一。更。你从未想过那两个能以任何形式在一起：完全孤单与完全合一。你从未猜到结果会如此，但它确是如此，它从来都如此。

最后，你就只活在你真的是的那个觉醒方式中。你不再会把现实存在形成图像。即使当它发生时，你不会形成一个图像，因为你知道他们只是图像，灰尘而已。它昨天是的样子今天不会是同样。

The Awakened WayWhat is it like to live an awakened life?

While the world is trying to solve its problems and everyonearound you is engaged in the same, you’re not. While everybodyaround you is trying to figure it out, trying to arrive, trying to“get there,” trying to be worthy, you’re not. While everyone thinksthat awakening is a grand, noble, halo-enshrouded thing, for youit’s not. While everybody is running from this life right now, inthis moment, to try to get there, you’re not. Where everybody hasan argument with somebody else, mostly everybody else, startingwith themselves, you don’t. Where everybody is so sure thathappiness will come when something is different than it is now, youknow that it won’t. When everybody else is looking to achieve theperfect state and hold on to it, you’re not.

When everybody around you has a whole host of ideas and beliefsabout a whole variety of things, you don’t. Everyone on the path isgetting there; you haven’t gotten anywhere. Everyone is climbingthe mountain; you’re selling hiking boots and picks at the foot inthe hope that if they climb it and come back down, they may be tooexhausted to do it again. When everybody else is looking to thenext book, to the next teacher, to the next guru to be told what’sreal, to be given the secret key to an awakened life, you’re not.You don’t have a key because there’s not a lock to put it in.

When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simplywhat you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basicallysit around wondering what all the fuss is about.

When everyone is sitting around saying, “I hope that happens tome,” you remember when you did that. You remember that you didn’tfind a solution to that. You remember that the whole idea thatthere was a problem created all of that.

When you’re being what you are, when you’re living the awakenedlife, there’s nobody to forgive, because there’s no resentmentheld, no matter what.

The truth of your being doesn’t crave happiness; it couldactually care less. It doesn’t crave love, not because you are sofull of love, but because it just doesn’t crave love. It’s verysimple. It doesn’t seek to be known, regarded highly, orunderstood. When you’re living what you are in an awakened way,there’s no ideal for you anymore. You’ve stepped off the entirecycle of suffering, of becoming; you’re not interested.

It’s a curious life you find yourself in. You find yourself…where you are. Not where I am, where you are. Where you really are.Where we really are. It’s a curious place to be (especially in thebeginning) not to be driven by anything—pleasure or displeasure,helping or hurting, loving or hating. The only thing that will moveyou (and I don’t mean to be too poetic about this) is the samething that moves a leaf hanging from a tree. It’s simply becausethe breeze blows that way. So you always know what to do: Thebreeze blows that way, and that’s the way you go. You don’t askquestions anymore. You don’t evaluate why the breeze is blowingthat way because you know that you don’t know why. And you know youcan’t know why. There’s never been a leaf anywhere that knows whythe wind blows that way on that day at that moment. That breezechanges the orientation of your life, moment to moment to moment,simply because that’s the way life’s moving. And when you’re livingin your awakened self you have no argument with the way it’s movingbecause it is the same as you are.

And you know that the breeze was always there, from the verybeginning, and that it wasn’t reserved for special people. If youdidn’t notice it at some point in your life, you know it wasbecause you weren’t listening, or because you thought you had tofigure something out before you could listen, or because youthought there had to be some conclusion before you could justlisten so deeply, so without agenda, so without hope of a betterfuture that you would feel the movement.

Many of you know what I’m speaking of.

Truth never explains why it’s moving that way at that moment.And if you ask, it won’t give any information. It would be like aleaf asking the wind, “Why are you moving that way right now?” Thequestion doesn’t make any sense to the wind.

But your argument with the way the truth would move—whateverthat way is—is no longer there for you. You’re no longer arguingwith it. You’re no longer trying to figure it out. Mother Marydidn’t figure it out. Buddha didn’t figure it out. Ramana didn’tfigure it out. None of them figured it out. They just became That.Simple. Ordinary—in the same way a leaf is ordinary.

When you’re living in your awakened being and living in anawakened way, power on any level is not an issue for you. It’s notinteresting. The power to control another human being is notinteresting. Intellectual power is not interesting. The power tocontrol yourself is not interesting. The power that people want togive you is not interesting to you—not because it shouldn’t be;it’s just not. What would you want to do with it? You see thatthere’s nothing you want to do with it.

You realize, in the truth of your being, that you are thetotality itself, but you have no interest whatsoever in doinganything with that knowledge, with using that knowledge.

Finally, you realize that you really don’t want to changeanybody, not because you shouldn’t want to change them, because youjust don’t. You might not want to be around everyone, but still youdon’t want to change them.

None of this is an ideal—it’s the end of ideals. None of this isholiness; it’s the end of holiness. It’s the beginning ofwholeness. None of this is something to achieve, because it’s notachievable. It’s simply what is in the truth of your being. It’sjust what is. You can’t attain what’s naturally so. And nobodyanywhere can ever tell you when or why, or to what degree you’lllet go of untruth; you will let go when you let go, usually whennothing else works.

When you’re living in the awakened way, in the awakened beingthat you are, you’re alone, and you’re finally comfortable with it.You’re alone, but you’re not lonely at all, because the only onewho was ever supposed to meet you where you are—the only one whoever could meet you where you are one hundred percent—was you.Nobody else could ever fully meet you where you are—maybe ninetypercent, maybe ninety-five. Nobody can meet you fully but you. Whenyou finally do, then you don’t need anybody else to do it for you.Then you’re alone, more alone than you could ever imagine. Andstrangely—very strangely—you are more connected, more intimate,more at one with everything. More. And you would have never thoughtthat those two could in any way be together: total aloneness andtotal oneness. You would have never guessed that that’s the way itwould end up. But it does, and it always has.

And finally, when you’re just living in the awakened way thatyou really are, you’ll never form an image again of what it’s like.Even as it’s happening, you won’t form an image because you’ll knowthey’re all images, dust. The way it was yesterday won’t be the wayit is today.