聽神談【對錯是心智基於「相對性」產生的概念】
人類「對」與「錯」的觀念一直在改變:從這個文化到那個文化,從這個時期到那個時期,從這個宗教到那個宗教,從這個地方到那個地方……甚至從家庭之間到人與人之間。某一時代許多人認為「對」的事——例如把被認為行巫術的人綁在柱子上燒死——今天卻被人認為是「錯」的。
人類「對」與「錯」的定義不僅因時代而變,也因地方而不同。在你們的星球上的某一處不合法(例如娼妓)的行為,在幾公里之外的另一地方卻是合法的。所以說,一個人是否被人認為做「錯」,不是依據他實際所做沒有關係,而是他在哪裡做。
「錯」是一種心智基於「相對性」的經驗,所產生的概念。
(“Wrong” is a conceptualization of the mind, based in Relative Experience.)
你看出你們創造「對」與「錯」的觀念,僅是為了定義你們是誰(define Who You Are)了嗎?
你看出「如果沒有這些定義——界限——的話,你們什麼都不是」了嗎?
摘自《與神對話 I 》第3章
You could tell them that people’s ideas of “right” and “wrong” change—and have changed—over and over again from culture to culture, time period to time period, religion to religion, place to place… even from family to family and person to person. You could point out to them that what many people considered “right” at one time—burning people at the stake for what was considered witchcraft, as an example—is considered “wrong” today.
You could tell them that a definition of “right” and “wrong” is a definition established not only by time, but also by simple geography. You could allow them to notice that some activities on your planet (prostitution, for instance) are illegal in one place, and, just a few miles down the road, legal in another. And so, whether a person is judged as having done something “wrong” is not a matter of what that person has actually done, but of where he has done it.
“Wrong” is a conceptualization of the mind, based in Relative Experience.
Do you see how you have created your ideas of “right” and “wrong” simply to define Who You Are?
Do you see that without these definitions—boundaries— you are nothing?