宗教常抵制了真正的宗教经验

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摘要: 你必须勇于放下自己的角色，放弃得如此彻底，不惜去面对自己对「绝佳本质」所怀的恐惧   Raj 述 若水译  你内有一绝佳本质，如此地绝佳，你为它筑起一座高墙加以保护，使它不受任何污辱、轻藐、威胁，你建筑的堡垒如此坚固，你焦思竭虑地加以维护，它逐渐变成了一道帐幕，世界再也看不到它了，连你都看不见它了。  于是，你成了「神圣堡垒的卫士」，不再是它透明的展示体，如今，你囚禁在自己的角色内，不再是祂寄身的东主（Host to God）  你内在的绝佳之境，无需你的防卫，它永恒不易，无所不能，因为它没有对立。保护它，只是徒然浪费你的时间，或者我该这么说，正是这防卫心态造出了时间，时间有如极大的投射，映在超越时空的永恒上。当你望着时钟，用这定时器来保护那无须你保护之境…..，你内在的绝佳本质依旧绝佳。  不论你认为自己做了什么事情（其实你什么也没做），丝毫改变不了你内在的绝佳本质，它总在那儿等待着你发掘它的存在，等着你心甘情愿地作为接待它的东主，让你自己成为神的自我表达。然而，你必须勇于放下自己的角色，放弃得如此彻底，不惜去面对自己对「绝佳本质」所怀的恐惧…你怕自己的绝佳本质。  如果「绝佳本质」本身会让你成为众矢之的，那么只去梦想一下「绝佳本质」则是明智之举；如果修成绝佳之境，会引起人们的嫉恨，那么修而不成，便是意料中的事。你会发现，你对它的保护，其实不是为它，而是为你自己，这是使你无法悟见它的真正原因。  你害怕「绝佳之境」，害怕自己的绝佳本质，因为你忘了这一境界本身是所向无敌的。它是天心的平安，其中不可能有任何矛盾冲突，因为那里除了上主的存在，也就是「你」的存在以外，没有其它的存在。  放弃你自己的小小角色，并不会带给你任何风险的，但除非你具体这样去做，否则你不会发现这一事实的。总而言之，你只需记得上述的话：  不论你认为自己做了什么事情（其实你什么也没做），丝毫改变不了你内在的绝佳本质，它总在那儿等待着你发掘它的存在，等着你心甘情愿地作为接待它的东主，让你自己成为神的自我表达。        "Religion is a defense against having a religious experience."   - Joseph Campbell -   Dear friends,   There is a place of Excellence in you, so excellent that you have built a wall around It to protect It from dishonor, disrespect and threat of any kind. So strong is this defense that you have built, and so laborious its maintenance, it has become the veil that hides It from the world, indeed, but covers It from you as well. "Defender of Its sanctity" is what you have become, instead of Its transparency. And now you are the hostage of your role instead of Host to God.   The Excellence in You needs no defense. It is immutable, omnipotent, because It is the absence of an opposite. Defending It has been a waste of time . . . or shall I say it has "created" time and cast it like a great projection on eternity, on timelessness. And while you watch the clock and use its measurements defending the defenseless, well . . . the Excellence in You continues to be Excellent.   The Excellence in You, unchanged by everything you are not doing but believe you are, awaits your rediscovery, your willingness to be Its host, and thus Your own as God expressed. But you must dare to quit your role, abandon it completely, even though it means that you will have to face your fear of Excellence . . . of being Excellent.   To dream of excellence is wise if Excellence, Itself, will make of you a target. And to strive for excellence without achieving it is sensible if Excellence achieved will be the cause of jealousy and hate. And so you find that your defense of It was not on Its behalf, but yours, and this is why you kept It from your sight.   You are afraid of Excellence, of being Excellence, because you have forgotten that It is Invincibility, Itself. It is the peace of Mind in which no conflict can arise because there is no claim to presence other than the Presence God is Being there as You.   There is no risk for you in forfeiting your role. It is "risk-free." But you will not discover this until you do it! And, to make it easier, remember that:   The Excellence in You, unchanged by everything you are not doing but believe you are, awaits your rediscovery, your willingness to be Its host, and thus Your own as God expressed.   Rajpur
Kingston, Washington
March 15, 2002  转自：奇迹课程中文部  Rajpur 专栏2006/9/18