與大師同行

不管大腦裡裝的是哪種記憶，我注意到世界大多數人的腦容量很有限，但他們的身體記憶容量卻非常地驚人，你的身體記得所有一切。你曾曾曾祖母的鼻子現在正坐在你的臉上，你的身體從沒忘記過，但我很肯定你的大腦對於你的曾曾曾啥的是誰毫無概念，你的身體記得一百萬年前祖先的長相，但你的大腦卻記不得。

Whatever kind of memory the mind carries, I see a lot of people in the world are pretty low GB in their mind, but their bodies are phenomenal GB. Your body still remembers just about anything. Your great, great, great-grandmother’s nose is sitting on your face right now. Your body has not forgotten. I’m sure your mind has no clue who your great, great, great whatever was. How your forefathers looked a million years ago, your body still remembers. Your mind doesn’t.

就一代又一代、橫跨數千世代的攜帶與傳遞質量而言，身體遠比頭腦重要太多了。今天你可以這樣思考，明天換另一種方式思考。我倒是想看看你是否可以今天長這樣，明天長另一個樣—我倒是很想瞧瞧。哪怕只是改變細微的肉體特徵都需要非常大量的修行練習。

In terms of carrying and transmitting qualities from generation to generation, across thousands of generations, body is a far more significant thing than your mind. You can think one way today, think another way tomorrow. Let me see if you can look one way today, look another way tomorrow – let me see. That will need serious sadhana, to change even a small physical feature.

這就是為什麼大多數的瑜伽法都專注在身體層面。專注在頭腦層面的是”新時代”的東西，因為他們要今天就感覺良好，他們不尋求長期的轉化，轉化意味著系統性地拆除那些舊有的，改變意味著為同一事物上新漆。換個鼻子，你會看起來很不一樣，但你其實沒有任何改變；換個態度，你立刻會看起來有所不同，你會覺得你不一樣了，但事實上沒有任何改變。

That is why most of the yoga is focused towards the body. It is only new-agey stuff which is focused towards the mind because they want to feel good today. They’re not looking for long term transformation. Transformation means that which is old is being systematically dismantled. Change means repaint of the same thing. Change the nose, you will look different but nothing would have changed with you. Change your attitude you will look different suddenly, you will feel different but nothing has changed.

瑜伽不是一種化妝藝術，而是一門可以帶來轉化的科學，我們從根基著手。瑜伽修行是讓你從驚人的記憶數據中脫離出來的工具，如果一個人要轉化，鬆動這些記憶的箝制是很重要的。否則你的祖父和祖母還有他們的爸爸、媽媽們--死人是非常貪心的—他們會試圖透過你復活。你必須把死者的記憶數據留給死者，不然他們會從土裡爬出來並透過你活著。他們不應該試著活在你身上，假如他們真的成功地透過你活著，你將永遠無法活出你生命該有的樣子。

So this is not a cosmetic art, this is a transformative science. We work at the roots. The sadhana is a tool to extricate you from a phenomenal memory. The slackening of this memory is important if one has to transform. Otherwise your grandfathers and grandmothers and their fathers and their mothers – dead are very greedy people – they will try to live through you. You must leave the dead to the dead otherwise they will crawl up from the earth and live through you. They shouldn’t try to live through you. If they manage to live through you, you will never know what your life is about.

假如你允許他們佔據你的系統，你會變成一堆慾望和衝動的集合。很多時候，你會在不知不覺中活得像他們。假如你觀察你的特徵，你會發現在很多方面你正成為你父母的翻版。當你十八歲時，你想，”我永遠不要像他們一樣!”但當你四十五歲時，你坐著的樣子像你媽媽，你說話的樣子像你媽媽，你的行為舉止跟她一模一樣。而且不只你的媽媽—你的曾曾曾祖母也在你身上玩把戲。是時候了，那些已經被埋葬的應該深埋地底，這才是生命應該的樣子。那些活著的人應該要更加活躍有生機地活著，那些已經死去的人就應該徹底死透。

If you allow them to dominate your system, you will become a bundle of compulsions. In many ways unknowingly you will live like them. If you watch your own traits, you will see many things are repeating like your parents. You thought when you were eighteen, “I will never ever be like them,” but by the time you’re forty-five, you sit like your mother, you talk like your mother, you behave like her. These things are happening to you. And not just your mother – your great, great, great grandmother also is playing her own stuff. It’s time, those who are buried should stay buried. That is the way of life. Those who are alive should become more vibrant. Those who are dead should stay dead.

瑜伽修行對身體層面的看待是嚴謹的，這非常重要。身體不是只有骨頭與肌肉，它一層又一層，有五層身體重疊在一起，瑜伽修行作用在所有層上。關於前三層身體，我們可以教你一些方法讓你持續地練習。但另外兩個身體層是無法被進入的，我所能告訴你的是，問題在於那是你全然陌生的區域。停止在已知的層面糾結掙扎，你的心理狀態、你隨著情緒而發的廢話，對你而言這都屬於已知層面，你必須自己處理這些。已知的層面，你必須自己管理好，至於未知的層面，你就需要我了。

So it’s very important that the sadhana is serious about the body. Body does not mean just bones and muscle. This is a five-layered body ; the sadhana is on all levels. The first three levels of the body we can teach you some technique, and you can keep doing it. But the other dimensions of the body will not be accessible. So what I’m telling you is, the problem is the unknown terrain. Stop struggling with the known terrain. Your psychological status, your emotional nonsense this is known terrain for you. This is something that you should deal with. Known terrain you must handle. There is unknown terrain, that’s where you need me.

愛與恩典

薩古魯

Love&Grace

Sadhguru

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