神:【恐懼會將「觀察」變成「評判」】
即使是大師們,有時也會為了重新感受覺醒的喜悅,或是為了喚醒別人,而偶爾選擇體驗脫離他們的大師之道(mastery)。這就是為什麼,你從評判的立場來看,會認為如果是「真正的大師」是不應該、也不可能會發生這些事的原因。
所以,別去評判,也不要譴責。因為你可能就在今天遇到你的大師:他們不一定會以山頂上的上師姿勢,也許是以街上的流浪婦人或公園裡的劫犯出現。事實上,他們鮮少以大師的模樣出現。以大師的模樣出現的大師很少被承認,反而常被指責。而走在你們當中,就像是你們一員的大師,往往是帶給你產生很大影響的那位。
所以,要保持警覺,因為你不知道你的大師會在哪一刻到來 ( 譯註:《聖經》也有類似此句之說 ) 。他甚至可能以你們稱為罪犯,違反了你們社會最神聖的法律和習俗,而被折磨迫害的樣子到來。
然而,在他死後,你們會試圖去記起他所說過的每個字。
如果你達到了大師之道,或只有某些時候升到了那個層次,你也一樣,可能會被你們的社會批判、譴責定罪和迫害。因為別人可能會怕你,因為他們可能會擔心你知道一些他們不知道的事,或因為你在挑戰一些他們認為他們真的知道的事。而正是恐懼將「觀察」變成了「評判」,而將評判變成了「憤怒」。
這正是我告訴過你們的:憤怒是宣佈出來的恐懼 (Anger is fear, announced.) 。
他人的憤怒是他們對於「他們是誰以及你是誰」的幻覺的一部分。
摘自《與神合一》第19章
Even Masters have been known to occasionally choose not to experience their mastery— sometimes for the joy of reawakening to it, and sometimes for the purpose of awakening others. This is why things can happen to Masters that you, in your place of judgment, do not think should or could be happening if they were “really Masters.”
Therefore, judge not, and neither condemn. For you may meet your Master this very day—as the bag lady on the street, or the mugger in the park, and not only as the guru on the mountain top. In fact, rarely so. The Master who appears as a Master is seldom acknowledged, and more often rebuked. Yet the Master who walks among you, appearing as one of you, is often the Master who makes the most impact.
So be alert, for you do not know at what hour your Master may come. He may even come as what you choose to call a criminal, disobeying the most sacred laws and customs of your society, and be crucified because of it.
Yet in the aftermath will you seek to remember every word he ever spoke.
Should you achieve mastery, or rise to that level even part of the time, you, too, may be judged, condemned, and crucified by your society. For others may be afraid of you, because they may be worried that you know something they do not know, or because you are challenging something that they think they do know.
It is fear that turns observation into judgment, and judgment into anger.
It is as I have told you. Anger is fear, announced.
The anger of others will be part of their Illusion about who they are, and who you are.