改变心灵对世界的想法＿Ken Wapnick 演讲记录摘译

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摘要: 课程里只不断的说要与圣灵结合，因这正是你我体验与人合一的前提。与人合一，指的不是以任何外在形式或行为结合，而是你我不再把自己与他人的利益视为两回事。      改变心灵对世界的想法（摘译自Ken Wapnick 演讲记录）　　　　　　    　学徒小组初译  我一再述说的重点是，奇迹课程是一条灵修道路。它的目的，不是针对任何外在的生活方式，不在于成立狂热的宗教崇拜组织，当然也不在于组织社群或教会。它不是为了这些而存在，而是一条由个人自行选择是否参与其中的灵修道路。所以，奇迹课程中不提团体性的「结合」观念，一个字都没有。课程里只不断的说要与圣灵结合，因这正是你我体验与人合一的前提。与人合一，指的不是以任何外在形式或行为结合，而是你我不再把自己与他人的利益视为两回事。我们本来就是一体了，真正的合一就是接受我们本为一体的事实，而不是靠你我做什么。是小我要我们相信我们是分离的。   因此唯一重要的结合，及结合的唯一焦点，是心灵层次上的结合，离开我们先前与小我的结合盟约，转为与耶稣和圣灵的结合，这才是更伟大的结合。再重申一次，与圣灵的结合，是我们体验与弟兄合一的基础，共享我们同一个利益。结合的利益与目的，就是要我们从这个梦境觉醒。小我说的则是另一套：在这世界中一切非此即彼，我赢你输。我们的利益也就真的随之分裂了。   身为《奇迹课程》的学员，学会如何活在世界上，第一步就是了解我们在世上的目的不是要改变世界，不是要转化世界，不是向世界说教，当然也不是要教导世界。世界存在的目的，只是充当一个显微镜，让我们从中见到肉眼视而不见的世界。那个世界，肉眼虽看不见，却无比强大，因为它操控了我们的所作所为。  Choose to change your mind about the world   I think that what’s important, and I guess it’s a premise that underlies everything I’ve been saying so far, is that A Course in Miracles is a spiritual path. It is not a way of life in the sense of anything external. It is certainly not meant to be a cult, it is not meant to be a community, and it’s not meant to be a church. It not meant to be anything. It is a spiritual path that individual people participate in, if they choose. That’s why there’s nothing in this Course about joining in terms of groups. Absolutely nothing. There’s a tremendous amount in this Course about joining with the Holy Spirit, which then becomes the prerequisite for your experiencing a oneness with other people. This doesn’t mean about joining with them, in any kind of external form, or external behavior. It means joining with them in the sense that you no longer see your interest as separate from theirs. And this joining, which basically is an acceptance of a joining that’s already there; it’s not something that you do, because we are already joined. It’s the ego that tells us that we are separated.   So that the only joining that is important, and the only focus of that joining, is the joining in our mind; away from the ego with which we have previously joined, and now joining with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That’s the joining. That is called the greater joining. And that joining with the Holy Spirit once again becomes the basis for our experiencing our brothers and sisters as being one with us. Sharing the same interest, singular. And that interest, that goal, that purpose is to awaken from this dream. Another way of saying the same thing is that the ego has taught us in this world it’s one or the other. I win you lose. So our interests are indeed separate.   So the first step for us in learning how to live in the world as a student of the Course is to understand that the purpose now of living in this world, again, is not to change the world. It is not to convert the world, not to preach to the world, not to teach to the world. The purpose of the world is to be this microscope that allows us to look within and see this unseen world. An unseen world yet that is incredibly powerful because it determines everything we do.   转自：奇迹课程中文部 Ken Wapnick专栏 2008/7/18