推薦一本書：A NEW EARTH --- Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

ECKHART TOLLE

A NEW EARTH

Awakening to

Your Life's Purpose


這本書是幫助認知自己，剖析外界的非宗教心理學範疇的書籍，語氣平和，由淺入深，就像是一種觸及靈魂的談心，也是一本我看了很多遍的書。

下麵是目錄和節選：


We cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement,

that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them. This is exactly what the ego does. Ego identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can’t let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of “negative growth.”

In the early stages of many so called romantic relationships, role playing

is quite common in order to attract and keep whoever is perceived by

the ego as the one who is going to “make me happy, make me feel special,

and fulfill all my needs.” “I'll play who you want me to be, and you'll play

who I want you to be.” That's the unspoken and unconscious agreement.

However, role playing is hard work, and so those roles cannot be sustained

indefinitely, especially once you start living together. When those roles slip,

what do you see? Unfortunately, in most cases, not yet the true essence of

that being, but that which covers up the true essence: the raw ego divested of

its roles, with its pain body, and its thwarted wanting which now turns into

anger, most likely directed at the spouse or partner for having failed to

remove the underlying fear and sense of lack that is an intrinsic part of the

egoic sense of self. What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and

intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to

another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do

with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. The Spanish language

is the most honest in regard to conventional notions of love: Te quiero means

“I want you” as well as “I love you.” The other expression for “I love you,” te

amo, which does not have this ambiguity, is rarely used – perhaps because

true love is just as rare.



In the human dimension, you are unquestionably superior to your

child. You are bigger, stronger, know more, can do more. If that dimension is

all you know, you will feel superior to your child, if only unconsciously. And

you will make your child feel inferior, if only unconsciously. There is no

equality between you and your child because there is only form in your

relationship, and in form, you are of course not equal. You may love your

child, but your live will be human only, that is to say, conditional, possessive,

intermittent. Only beyond form, in Being, are you equal, and only When you

find the formless dimension in yourself can there be true love in that

relationship. The Presence that you are, the timeless I Am, recognizes itself

in another, and the other, the child in this case, feels loved, that is to say,

recognized.



To love is to recognize yourself in another. The other's “otherness”

then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the

realm of form. The longing for love that is in every child is the longing to be

recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of Being. If parents

honor only the human dimension of the child but neglect Being, the child

will sense that the relationship is unfulfilled, that something absolutely vital

is missing, and there will be a buildup of pain in the child and sometimes

unconscious resentment toward the parents. “Why don't you recognize me?”

This is what the pain or resentment seems to be saying.



It may be shocking when you realize for the first time that there is

something within you that periodically seeks emotional negativity, seeks

unhappiness. You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to

recognize it in another person. Once the unhappiness has taken you over, not

only do you not want an end to it, but you want to make others just as

miserable as you are in order to feed on their negative emotional reactions.

In most people, the painbody has a dormant and an active stage.

When it is dormant, you easily forget that you carry a heavy dark cloud or a dormant volcano inside you,

depending on the energy field of your particular painbody. How long it remains dormant varies from person to person: A few

weeks is the most common, but it can be a few days or months. In rare cases

the painbody can lie in hibernation for years before it gets triggered by some

event.



The pain body needs your unconsciousness. It cannot tolerate the light of Presence.





CONTENTS

Chapter One

The Flowering of Human Consciousness – 6

Evocation..................................................................................................6

The Purpose of This Book........................................................................8

Our Inherited Dysfunction........................................................................10

The Arising New consciousness..............................................................12

Spirituality and Religion..........................................................................14

The Urgency of Transformation...............................................................16

A New Heaven and a new Earth...............................................................18

Chapter Two

Ego: The Current State of Humanity – 19

The Illusory Self......................................................................................20

The Voice in the Head.............................................................................22

Content and Structure of the Ego.............................................................24

Identification with Things........................................................................25

The Lost Ring...........................................................................................26

The Illusion of Ownership........................................................................29

Wanting: The Need for More....................................................................31

Identification with the Body.....................................................................33

Feeling the Inner Body.............................................................................34

Forgetfulness of Being.............................................................................35

From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight...............................................36

The Peace that Passes All Understanding................................................37

Chapter Three

The Core of Ego – 39

Complaining and Resentment..................................................................40

Reactivity and Grievances.......................................................................42

Being Right, Making Wrong....................................................................43

In Defense of an Illusion..........................................................................44

Truth: Relative or Absolute?....................................................................45

The Ego Is Not Personal..........................................................................46

War Is a Mindset.....................................................................................

48

Do You Want Peace or Drama? ...............................................................49

Beyond Ego: Your True Identity .............................................................50

All Structures are Unstable.......................................................................51

The Ego's Need to Feel Superior..............................................................52

Ego and Fame...........................................................................................52

Chapter Four

RolePlaying:

The Many Faces of the Ego 54

Villain, Victim, Lover...............................................................................55

Letting Go of SelfDefinitions..................................................................

56

Preestablished

Roles................................................................................57

Temporary Roles.......................................................................................58

The Monk with Sweaty Palms..................................................................59

Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness..................................................59

Parenthood: Role or Function? ................................................................60

Conscious Suffering.................................................................................63

Conscious Parenting.................................................................................64

Recognizing Your Child...........................................................................65

Giving Up Roleplaying............................................................................

66

The Pathological Ego................................................................................68

The Background Unhappiness...................................................................70

The Secret of Happiness............................................................................71

Pathological Forms of Ego........................................................................73

Work – with and Without Ego...................................................................75

The Ego in Illness......................................................................................77

The Collective Ego....................................................................................77

Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality.......................................................79

Chapter Five

The PainBody

80

The Birth of Emotion.................................................................................81

Emotions and the Ego................................................................................83

The Duck with a Human Mind..................................................................85

Carrying the Past.......................................................................................85

Individual and Collective...........................................................................87

How the PainBody

Renews Itself.............................................................89

How the Painbody

Feeds on Your Thoughts............................................90

How the painBody

Feeds on Drama.........................................................91

Dense Painbodies......................................................................................

93

Entertainment, the Media, and the PainBody...........................................

94

The Collective Female Painbody..............................................................

95

National and Racial Painbodies................................................................

97

Chapter Six

Breaking Free 99

Presence.....................................................................................................100

The Return of the PainBody.....................................................................

102

The Painbody

in Children.........................................................................103

Unhappiness...............................................................................................105

Breaking Identification with the Painbody...............................................

106

“Triggers”...................................................................................................108

The PainBody

as an Awakener..................................................................110

Breaking Free of the PainBody.................................................................

112

Chapter Seven

Finding Who You Truly Are 113

Who you Think you are..............................................................................114

Abundance..................................................................................................116

Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself.......................................117

Chaos and Higher Order.............................................................................118

Good and Bad.............................................................................................119

Not Minding What Happens.......................................................................120

Is That So?..................................................................................................121

The Ego and the Present Moment .............................................................122

The Paradox of Time...................................................................................124

Eliminating Time.........................................................................................125

The Dreamer and the Dream.......................................................................127

Going Beyond Limitation...........................................................................128

The Joy of Being.........................................................................................130

Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego......................................................130

As Without, So Within................................................................................132

Chapter Eight

The Discovery of Inner Space 135

Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness.......................................137

Falling Below and Rising Above Thought.................................................138

Television...................................................................................................139

Recognizing Inner Space...........................................................................141

Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? .......................................................143

Right Action..............................................................................................144

Perceiving Without Naming......................................................................144

Who Is the Experiencer? ..........................................................................146

The Breath.................................................................................................147

Addictions..................................................................................................149

Inner Body Awareness...............................................................................150

Inner and Outer Space................................................................................151

Noticing the Gaps.......................................................................................153

Lose yourself to Find Yourself....................................................................153

Stillness.......................................................................................................154

Chapter Nine

Your Inner Purpose 155

Awakening..................................................................................................156

A Dialogue on Inner Purpose.....................................................................158

Chapter Ten

A New Earth 167

A Brief History of Your Life......................................................................169

Awakening and the Return Movement.......................................................170

Awakening and the Outgoing Movement...................................................172

Consciousness............................................................................................174

Awakened Doing........................................................................................175

The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing................................................176

Acceptance.................................................................................................177

Enjoyment..................................................................................................177

Enthusiasm.................................................................................................180

The Frequencyholders..............................................................................

183

The New Earth Is No Utopia.....................................................................184

Notes...........................................................................................................186

About the Author........................................................................................189

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