上一篇(「終極真相的三個聲明」)談到在日常真實生活裡,我們如何能試著去體驗生命終極真相(ultimate truth)的意識層次。這篇談「如何終止寂寞」正是一個可練習做出那三個聲明的好例子,而且神也提出了一個不但可以終止寂寞而且永遠不再寂寞的方法建議。
聽神談【如何終止「寂寞」?】
如果你正覺得寂寞,就視你的「孤獨」為一個幻覺吧!並決定你的寂寞是意謂著「你對你周遭世界的觸及參與還不夠」(you have not reached out enough to the world around you)——一個人又怎麼可能在一個「充滿寂寞的人」的世界裡寂寞呢?然後,決定重新創造自己為一個以愛和人接觸的人。
連續這樣做三天,你整個心情就會改變。
這樣做三週,你現在的寂寞將會終止。
這樣做三個月,你將永遠不再寂寞。
然後,你會明瞭你的寂寞全都是個幻覺,是完全可以由你掌控的。
甚至在牢房裡或在病床上完全被隔離的人,也能藉由改變他們內在的實相,而改變他們外在的經驗(can change their outer experience by altering their inner reality)。這可以經由與神交往融洽的一體感來做到,也正是這本書要引領你們去體驗的。因為,一旦你與內在的造物主相會,你將永遠不再需要任何外在於自己的東西來避免寂寞的感覺了。
有史以來各神秘主義者和僧侶、宗教社團和靈性皈依者,都已證明了這點。心靈之融合以及與所有創造物(意指我)一體的內在狂喜,是外在世界無法比擬的。
摘自《與神合一》第16章
If you are feeling lonely, see your "aloneness" as an illusion. Decide that your loneliness means that you have not reached out enough to the world around you—how can anyone be lonely in a world full of lonely people? Then choose to re-create your self anew as one who touches others with love.
Do this for three days and your whole mood will change.
Do this for three weeks and your loneliness of the moment will end.
Do this for three months and you will never be.
And then you will understand that your loneliness was all an illusion, totally controllable by you.
Even people who are in jail cells or in sick beds, completely isolated from others, can change their outer experience by altering their inner reality. This can be done through communion with God, the very experience to which this book is leading you. For once you have a meeting with the Creator within, you will never again need anything outside of yourself to avoid feeling lonely.
Mystics and monks, religious communities and spiritual devotees throughout all of time have proven this. The inner ecstasy of spiritual communion and Oneness with all of creation (that means Me!) is unmatchable in the outside world.