OSHO《觉察》书摘

Life is the goal and awareness is the methodology, the technique to attain it.

生命是目的，而覺察是達到生命的方法。

If you want to get rid of this whole misery of being born and dying again and again, if you want to get rid of the wheel of birth and death, you will have to become absolutely alert. You will have to reach higher and higher into consciousness.

如果你想擺脫生死輪迴的痛苦，如果你想終止這個輪子的轉動，你非得有絕對的警覺不可，你的意識必須愈來愈提升。

Consciousness goes inward, unconsciousness goes outward. Unconsciousness makes you interested in others—things, people, but it is always the others. Unconsciousness keeps you completely in darkness; your eyes go on being focused on others. It creates a kind of exteriority, it makes you extroverts. Consciousness creates interiority. It makes you introverts; it takes you inward, deeper and deeper.

意識是往內的，無意識是往外的。無意識會使你的注意力朝向外在的人事物，讓你完全處於黑暗當中，使你的目光焦點總是在別人身上，你整個人是外向的。意識使你變得內斂，帶著你日漸深入內在。

It is a question of being alert, not of effort.

改變的關鍵在於警覺，而非努力。

Because when awareness becomes perfect, this world—this world that you have created out of your mind—simply disappears; another world becomes revealed to you. Maya disappears, the illusion disappears—the illusion is there because of your sleep, your unconsciousness.

因為當覺知變得完整時，那個由頭腦所創造出來的世界就不見了，另一個世界對你展開，馬雅（Maya）消失，幻象消失，幻象是因你的昏睡、你的無意識而存在的。

This world that you see around you is not the real world. Not that it doesn’t exist—it exists—but you are seeing it through a screen of sleep. An unconsciousness is in between; you look at it, you interpret it in your own way; you are just like a drunkard.

你周圍所見的這個世界並不是真實的，不是說它不存在，它存在，但是你隔著一層昏睡的簾幕看它，你和它中間夾著無意識。當你看著它的時候，你是用自己的方式在解釋你所看到的，就像是一名醉漢。

This simple feeling of oneself, that one is, creates a center—a center of stillness, a center of silence, a center of inner mastery. It is an inner power. And when I say “an inner power,” I mean it literally. That is why the buddhas talk about “the fire of awareness”—it is a fire. If you begin to be aware, you begin to feel a new energy in you, a new fire, a new life. And because of this new life, new power, new energy, many things that were dominating you just dissolve. You don’t have to fight with them.

這個單純的感覺自己——我「是」的感覺會創造出一個中心，一個如如不動、寧靜的中心，一個自我主宰的內在中心，那是一種內在的力量。當我說「內在的力量」時，我是說真實的力量，那正是為什麼佛陀談到「意識之人」，那確實是一種火焰。當你開始覺察，開始去感受你裏面新的能量、新的火焰、新的生命，以及由於這個新生命而來的新力量、新活力，許多過去宰製你的事情會直接消融，你不需要和它們角力。

You have to fight with your anger, your greed, your sex, because you are weak. So really, anger, greed, and sex are not the problems, weakness is the problem. Once you begin to be stronger inside, with a feeling of inner presence—that you are—your energies become concentrated, crystallized on a single point, and a self is born.

因為你的虛弱無力，你必須和你的憤怒，還有你的貪婪、你的性欲奮戰。憤怒、貪婪、性欲都不是問題，你的虛弱無力才是問題。當你的內在開始茁壯之時，你心中感覺到自己的在，你的能量會凝聚、結晶在一點上，於是會有一個自己（Self）誕生。

Ego is a false notion of something that is not there at all. “Self” means a center that can promise. This center is created by being continuously aware, constantly aware. Be aware that you are doing something—that you are sitting, that now you are going to sleep, that now sleep is coming to you, that you are falling. Try to be conscious in every moment, and then you will begin to feel that a center is born within you; things have begun to crystallize, a centering is there. Everything now is related to a center.

「自我」並不具真實性，「自己」則是一個可以承諾的中心，這個中心藉由持續不斷的覺察所生。當你在做某件事時，例如你正坐著，或你正要去睡覺，你注意到自己逐漸有睡意，接著意識到現在你正進入睡眠之中。試著在每一個片刻裏保持意識，於是你裏面開始會有一個中心產生，事情開始透明起來！因為你有一個中心，現在所有的事情都跟這個中心相連。

This has to be discovered, and awareness means the method to discover this innermost core. The more unconscious you are, the further away you are from yourself. The more conscious, the nearer you reach to yourself. If the consciousness is total, you are at the center. If the consciousness is less, you are near the periphery. When you are unconscious, you are on the periphery where the center is completely forgotten. So these are the two possible ways to move.

這就是你要去發現的，覺察是去發現內在最核心深處的方法。你愈無意識，你離自己愈遙遠；你愈有意識，就是朝自己愈靠近。在意識到達百分之百的時候，你活在自己的中心；當意識較微弱時，你活在靠近表層的附近，或是當你無意識時，你活在表層的地方，完全忘了自己的中心，所以說，你的意識有這兩種可能的移動方式。

The Western approach is to think about a problem, to find the causes of the problem, to go into the history of the problem, into the past of the problem, to uproot the problem from the very beginning. To uncondition the mind, or to recondition the mind, to recondition the body, to take out all those imprints that have been left on the brain—this is the Western approach.

西方的做法是去思索問題，剖析肇因的所在，回到過去，從最源頭處探討事情的根源。無論是解除頭腦的制約，或是重整頭腦、重整身體，將留在腦中的一切銘印拿掉，這些都屬於西方的方式。

When you are thinking along a certain line, the very direction of it makes certain things possible—absurd things also possible. Once you have taken human problems seriously, once you start thinking about man as a problem, you have accepted some premise, you have taken the first step wrongly.

當你沿著某種思路思考時，這特定的思路將可能造成特定的結果——包括荒謬的結果。要是你將人類的問題看得很嚴肅，錯將人當成是問題在看待，你等於是在依循某種前提看人，那麼你的第一步就踏錯了。

The East has a totally different outlook, first, it says no problem is serious. The moment you say no problem is serious, the problem is almost 99 percent dead. Your whole vision changes about it. The second thing the East says is that the problem is there because you are identified with it. It has nothing to do with the past, nothing to do with its history. You are identified with it—that is the real thing. And that is the key to solving all problems.

東方的觀點就完全不是那麼回事。第一，東方認為沒有什麼問題是嚴肅的。當你這麼想的時候，百分之九十九的問題已經沒有了，因為你看待的眼光改變了問題本身。第二，東方認為問題之所以會產生，是因為你對它的認同。問題與過去無關、與歷史無關，你對它的認同才是真的重點，那即是解決一切問題的關鍵。

You are pure consciousness. When the cloud of anger comes around you, just watch it—and remain alert so that you don’t get identified. The whole thing is how not to become identified with the problem. Once you have learned it … then there is no question of having “so many problems”—because the key, the same key will open all the locks. It is so with anger, it is so with greed, it is so with sex. It is so with everything else that the mind is capable of.

你是純粹的意識，當憤怒的雲朵飄近你的身邊時，只要看著它，並且保持警覺，不讓自己認同它。整個重點就是如何不對問題產生認同，只要你學會了這件事……就不會有「問題一大堆」的情形，因為同一把鑰匙將可以打開全部的鎖：生氣的鎖、貪婪的鎖、性的鎖、一切頭腦能夠製造的鎖。

The past and its conditionings do exist—but they exist either in the body or in the brain; they don’t exist in your consciousness because the consciousness cannot be conditioned. Consciousness remains free—freedom is its innermost quality, freedom is its nature.

過去以及過去的制約確實存在，不過，它們若不是在你的身體裏，就是在你的大腦裏，不會存在你的意識當中，因為意識是無法被制約的。意識一直都是自由的，自由即是它最深處的本質，自由是它的天性。

Witnessing is a revolution. It is a radical change from the very roots. It brings a totally new human being into existence, because it takes your consciousness out of all the conditionings. Conditionings are there in the body and in the mind, but consciousness remains unconditioned. It is pure, always pure. It is virgin; its virginity cannot be violated.

觀照是一項大變革，從根本上造成轉變。嶄新的人類將因此誕生，因為觀照能把你的意識從所有的制約當中抽離出來，你的身體與頭腦會帶有制約，但意識不會受制約。意識是純淨的，永遠的純淨；也是聖潔的，它的聖潔不容褻瀆。

Witnessing will not change your conditioning. Witnessing will not change your body musculature. But witnessing will give you an experience that you are beyond all musculature, all conditioning. In that moment of beyondness, in that moment of transcendence, no problem exists—not for you.

觀照不會改變你的制約，觀照不會改變你身體的肌肉，不過，觀照將會讓你體會到你是超越身體、超越一切制約的。在你到達彼岸的時候，在那超越的時刻，一切問題都不存在，「對你」而言不存在。

Once you reach the center, you start enjoying whatsoever happens on the surface. So the whole thing is not to fight on the surface, but rather slip into the center. Then there is mastery, and not a control that has been forced, a mastery that happens spontaneously when you are centered.

當你到達自己核心的時候，你開始享受表面上所發生的一切，所以重點不在於和表面對抗，而是深入核心當中，那才是真正的主宰，而不是強迫性的控制，那是當你歸於中心時，自然而然所產生的主宰。

Watch and discriminate. This is what in the East they call vivek, discrimination—you discriminate continuously. Keep on discriminating—a moment comes when you have eliminated all that you are not. Suddenly, in that state, you for the first time face yourself, you encounter your own being. Go on cutting all identities that you are not—the family, the body, the mind. In that emptiness, when everything that was not you has been thrown out, suddenly your being surfaces. For the first time you encounter yourself, and that encounter becomes the mastery.

去觀察，仔細地區分清楚，這就是東方人所說的：「味味克」（vivek）意思是「明辨」，你無時無刻不在明辨，不斷地去做這件事，直到一個片刻來臨，當你已經將所有「不是你」的東西完全剔除，就在那個當口，你將會首次面對你自己，和自己的存在相遇。只要不斷去斬除那些不是你的身分；家庭、身體、頭腦，在清空一切之後，所有的「不是你」都被丟出去了，你的存在會立即顯露出來，你頭一次和自己相遇，從此之後便由你來統轄一切。

THE MOMENT YOU START SEEING YOUR FAULTS, THEY START DROPPING LIKE DRY LEAVES. Then nothing else has to be done. To see them is enough. Just to be aware of your faults is all that is needed. In that awareness they start disappearing, they evaporate.

當你一看到自己的錯誤時，那些錯誤就會象乾枯的葉子一般散落，然後，就不需要再做什麼，看清楚它們就足夠了。只要覺察到你所做的錯事，那就夠了，就在你的覺察當中，它們開始消失、揮發。

One can go on committing a certain error only if one remains unconscious of it. Unconsciousness is a must to go on committing the same errors, and even if you try to change, you will commit the same error in some other form, in some other shape.

只有當一個人沒有意識到自己的錯誤時，才會一再犯同樣的錯。無意識是重蹈覆轍的必需要件，就算你試著想改變，也只是換個形式或樣子去犯同一個錯誤，你只是換湯不換藥。

Become more alert, more conscious. Just go deeper and deeper into yourself till you find the center of your being. You are living on the periphery, and on the periphery there is always turmoil. The deeper you go, the deeper the silence that prevails. And in those experiences of silence, light, joy, your life starts moving into a different dimension. The errors, the mistakes, start disappearing.

讓自己變成警覺、有意識的，往自己的內在一直不斷地深入，直到你發現你存在的核心。你住在表層的地方，那裏是使你痛苦的地方。當你進入自己愈深，愈多的寧靜將會散佈開來，在那些寧靜、光明、喜悅的體驗之中，你的生活開始進入一個不一樣的次元，曾有的失誤與錯誤開始消失不見。

So don’t be worried about the errors and the mistakes and the faults. Be concerned about one single thing, one single phenomenon. Put your total energy into one goal, and that is how to be more conscious, how to be more awakened.

所以不用擔心那些失誤與錯誤，只要關心一件事、一個現象，將你的能量投注在一個目標，那就是要如何更有意識，要如何更覺醒。

You will forget it again and again. You will get involved in some thought, some feeling, some emotion, some sentiment—anything will distract you from the watcher. Remember, and run back to your center of watching.

你將會一再地忘記這件事，你將會陷入某個想法、感覺、情緒、心情當中，隨便什麼事都會干擾你的觀照。記住，立刻回到觀照的中心。