[ 昨天 → 去蕪存菁 ]
昨天,當然沒有完全消失!
昨天,只是經過了消化和排泄!
Intelligence crucially involves memory;
inability to make use of acquired information
and past experience is a severe limitation on
performance of mental and practical tasks alike.
( A. C. Grayling )
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden,
knowledge of the past is the safest and the
surest emancipation.
( John Acton )
去蕪存菁需要智慧,需要懂得如何判斷優劣,
需要尊重優質思想,同時需要歧視劣質思想!
愚昧的人擁抱虛偽,擇惡固執,結果消化不良、排泄不良;
追求智慧的人擇善固執,不斷學習如何消化和排泄。
換言之,活在當下其實就是追求智慧,和虛偽劃清界線,
進行個人的「自我心理治療」self-therapy!
Be strong enough to hold on,
be strong enough to let go,
and be wise enough to decide
what to hold on and what to let go.
( Jason Ling )
至於高層次的放下,是認識自己並且進行自我批判之後,
將「我 I」去蕪存菁,從囚牢裡釋放出來,
除去種種錯誤的認知、成見、不良的心態和意識形態,
甚至除去不良的習慣,
返璞歸真,回歸「心靈 soul」,讓「心靈」主持大局,
讓去了「蕪」的「我 ego」應付一般社會關係。
參考:《「我」I 》《我 ego》(一)《我 ego》(二)
「放下」是解決過去的問題,是去蕪存菁,
是清理遺留在腦裡的蕪,因為那些是廢物、垃圾。
低層次的「放下」只是去舊蕪,
由於依然讓「我 ego」主持大局,
所以會不斷產生新蕪,需要不斷花時間處理新蕪。
中層次的「放下」,開始回應心靈,
願意讓「我 ego」和「 心靈 soul」共同主持大局,
所以亦會產生新蕪,亦需要去新蕪。
高層次的「放下」,讓「心靈 soul」主持大局,
清理遺留在腦裡舊有的垃圾之後,
拒絕再產生新蕪,並且不斷學習,吸收別人的菁,
簡而言之,就是「去蕪存菁兼吸更多的菁」。
思考的過程如下:
☆ 去舊蕪 → 「我 ego」主持大局 →
不斷產生新蕪,需要不斷處理新蕪 → 低層次的放下
☆ 去舊蕪 → 「我 ego」和「心靈 soul」共同主持大局
→ 中層次的放下
☆ 去舊蕪 → 讓「心靈 soul」主持大局 → 不再產生新蕪
→ 高層次的放下 → 活在當下
一般讓「我 ego」主持大局的人,
難以放棄「擁有」to have 的心態,
所以要求他們「放下」物質,往往是一件困難的事情,
但鼓勵他們「放下」錯誤的概念,反而比較容易。
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!
Who will I be
when I have nothing left to hold on to?
Who will I be
when I stand before you with empty hands?
Please help me to gradually open my hands
and to discover that I am not what I own.
( Henri J.M. Nouwen )
On the surface,
you may still be happy when it’s sunny
and not so happy when it’s rainy;
you may be happy at winning a million dollars
and unhappy at losing all your possessions.
Neither happiness nor unhappiness, however,
go all that deep anymore. They are ripples
on the surface of your Being. The background
peace within you remains undisturbed regardless
of the nature of the outside condition.
( Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks, p.67 )
Throughout history, there have been women
and men who, in the face of great loss, illness,
imprisonment, or impending death, accepted
the seemingly unacceptable and thus found
“the peace that passeth all understanding.”
Acceptance of the unacceptable
is the greatest source of grace in this world.
( Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks, p.71 )
簡而言之,活在當下就是追求智慧,然後運用智慧去蕪存菁,
通俗的說法就是學習大腸的智慧,存菁之後去蕪,排泄,屙屎!
去蕪存菁就是太初的道,而道就是神,所以屙屎絕對是神聖的,
屙完屎之後說一聲感謝主,是讚美主,絕對不是褻瀆!