聽神談【「必備資格」(Requirement)的幻覺如何形成】
如果有足夠的東西，你就沒有必要去做任何事來獲得任何你所想要或需求的東西了。你只要伸出手去，它就在那裡。但這並非人類決定如何看待它的方式。他們說，東西是不足夠的。所以，現在他們面對了這樣的問題：一個人要如何才能獲得足夠的東西？一個人「如何才能有資格」獲得足夠的東西？
你以為要得到那不足以分配的東西，必然會有什麼是你「必須做的事」——讓你能無爭議地聲稱得到那東西的某些事。這是你們能想出的唯一不用廝殺和爭吵而能有利自己地分配以獲得每樣東西——包括神——的方法。
你認為這就是「必備資格」(Requirement)。
你告訴了自己，達到這些要求——不論是些什麼——是「所需的代價」。直到今天，這樣的想法仍然為人們所堅信的，甚至越來越強大。你們相信，當你做了你需要做的事，你就能成為你想成為的。
如果你想要快樂，如果你想要有安全感，如果你想要被愛，那麼有些事是你必須去做的。但除非你擁有足夠的，否則你無法成為那樣。而你無法擁有足夠的除非你做了必須做的事——具備了可獲得足夠的資格。
這是你們所相信的，而由於你們相信它，所以，你們已經在你們的宇宙論裡，將「做」(doing)提升到最高的優先位置。
你們甚至說神也說，為了要進入天堂，有些是你必須去做的事。
這就是你們如何把它放在一起的。
這就是「必備資格」。
摘自《與神合一》第5章
If there were enough stuff, there would be nothing you would have to do to get whatever it was that you wanted or needed. You would just reach out and it would be there. But that is not how humans decided that it is. They said, there is not enough. So now they faced the question: How does one get enough? How does one qualify?
You imagined that there must be something that you had to do in order to get the stuff of which there was not enough— something that would allow you to lay claim to it without argument. This is the only way that you could figure out how to get everything—including God—divided in your favor without killing and squabbling.
You imagined this to be the Requirement.
You told yourselves that fulfilling it—whatever it was— is “what it takes.” That idea has held firm to this very day. If anything, it has grown stronger. You believe that when you do the things you need to do, you can be the things you want to be.
If you want to be happy, if you want to be secure, if you want to be loved, then there are things you are going to have to do. You cannot be these things unless you have enough. And you cannot have enough unless you do what it takes to get enough—to qualify for enough.
This is what you believe, and because you believe it, you have elevated doing to the highest place in your cosmology.
Even God says there is something that you have to do in order to get into heaven.
This is how you have it put together.
This is the Requirement.
