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1、Yoga The Alpha and the Omega Vol 10Discourses on the Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliTalks given from 01/05/76 am to 10/05/76 amEnglish Discourse series10 ChaptersYear published:During the early 1980s it was planned to publish the Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega volumes as Yoga: The Science of the Soul. Only
2、the first three volumes were actually published, the title stayed as Alpha and Omega for the other seven volumes.Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10Chapter #1Chapter title: Dropping the artificial mind1 May 1976 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 7605010ShortTitle: YOGA1001Audio: YesVideo: NoLength: 9
3、8 minsNOW BEGINS THE LAST SECTION OF PATANJALIS SUTRAS, KAIVALYA PADA.1. THE POWERS ARE REVEALED AT BIRTH, OR ACQUIRED THROUGH DRUGS, REPEATING SACRED WORDS, AUSTERITIES, OR SAMADHI2. THE TRANSFORMATION FROM ONE CLASS, SPECIES, OR KIND, INTO ANOTHER, IS BY THE OVERFLOW OF NATURAL TENDENCIES OF POTEN
4、TIALITIES.3. THE INCIDENTAL CAUSE DOES NOT STIR THE NATURAL TENDENCIES INTO ACTIVITY; IT MERELY REMOVES THE OBSTACELS - LIKE A FARMER IRRIGATING A FIELD: HE REMOVES THE OBSTACLES, AND THEN THE WATER FLOWS FREELY BY ITSELF.4. ARTIFICIALLY CREATED MINDS PROCEED FROM EGOISM ALONE.5. THOUGH THE ACTIVITI
5、ES OF THE MANY ARTIFICIAL MINDS VARY, THE ONE ORIGINAL MIND CONTROLS THEM ALL.MAN IS ALMOST MAD - mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because hes not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires, and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be the
6、re because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop: that is the greatest problem to be faced, encountered.The problem is that you have something and you are seeking it. Now how can you find it? You are too occupied with seeking, and
7、 you cannot see the thing that you already have. Unless all seeking stops, you will not be able to see it. Seeking makes your mind focus somewhere in the future, and the thing that you are seeking is already here, now, this very moment. That which you are seeking is hidden in the seeker himself: the
8、 seeker is the sought. Hence, so much neurosis, so much madness.Once your mind is focused somewhere, you have some intention. Immediately, your attention is no longer free. Intention cripples attention. If you are intently looking for something, your consciousness has narrowed down. It will exclude
9、everything else. It will include only your desire, your hope, your dream. And to realize that which you are you need not have any intention; you need attention, just pure attention: not intending to go anywhere, unfocused consciousness, consciousness here-now, not anywhere else. This is the basic pr
10、oblem: the dog is chasing its own tail. It gets frustrated; it becomes almost mad because each step, and nothing comes into its hands - only failure, failure, failure.Just the other day a sannyasin told me that he was now feeling frustrated. I became tremendously happy. Because when you feel frustra
11、ted, something opens within you. When you feel frustrated, if really frustrated, then future disappears. Future can exist only with the support of expectation, desire, intention. Future is nothing but intentionality. I became tremendously happy that one man was frustrated.Fritz Perls, one of the ver
12、y perceptive men of this century, has said that the whole work of the therapist is nothing but skillful frustration, creating frustration.What does he mean? He means that unless you are really frustrated with your desires, hopes, expectations, you will not be thrown back to your own being. A real fr
13、ustration is a great blessing. Suddenly you are, and there is nothing else. The sannyasin said, I am feeling frustrated. It seems that nothing is happening. I have been doing all sorts of meditations, all sorts of group therapies, and nothing is happening. Thats the whole point of all meditations an
14、d all group therapies: to make you aware that nothing can happen. All has happened already. In deep frustration, your energy moves back to the source. You fall upon yourself.You will try to create new hope. Thats why people go on changing their therapists, their therapies, their Masters, gurus, reli
15、gions. They go on changing because they say, Now I am feeling frustrated here; somewhere else, I will again sow new seeds of hope. Then you will be continuously missing. If you understand, the problem is: how to throw you upon yourself, how to frustrate you in your desires. Of course, it has to be v
16、ery skillful.Thats what I am doing here. If you dont have any desires, first I create them. I give you hope. I say, Yes, soon something is going to happen - because I know that desire is there, but not full-fledged. It is there hiding in a seed form; it has to sprout, it has to flower. And when the desire flowers, those flowers are of frustration.Then suddenly you drop the whole nonsense, th
