心灵瑜珈课 (11)
- 归纳法
归纳法是人类最伟大的逻辑发明之一，它是通过对各种现象的观察分析，归纳出存在于事物中的普通规律。归纳推理是一种客观思维的逻辑过程。
- 归纳法的要点
归纳推理有两个要点：第一是比较不同的现象，第二是找到这些现象之间的共同点，掌握了这两点就可以得心应手地运用这一方法了。
- 归纳法引导我们获得智慧
归纳法以理发代替蒙昧，以必然性代替偶然性，消除了人类生活中难以捉摸的成分，它能够使我们避开愚昧迷信布下的陷阱，迈入智慧的领地。
- 归纳法使我们的思维变得理性
归纳法就像一个尽忠职守的门卫，一丝不苟地看守着我们思维的大门，绝对不会让虚假、混乱的想法进入我们的思想，避免我们产生迷惑。
- 归纳法对人类社会有着重大贡献
- 知其然，也要知其所以然
- 归纳法导致成功
有些人似乎总是有着被上帝亲吻的好运气，其他人需要艰苦跋涉也不能达到的目标，他们毫不费力地就实现了。其实，这并不是什么命运之神的眷顾，只不过是因为他们掌握了一种普遍真理的精髓——归纳推理。
- 认识归纳法
归纳法虽然所向无敌，但它从不轻易降临。只有努力思考的人才能够拥有这种神奇的力量，它可以用来解决人类的一切难题，因此，认识这种规律，明白这样的真理，有着极其重要的意义。
- 自然之河，浩浩荡荡
- 浩翰宇宙的每一个角落，都充满着生命与能量，它不停地运动，却秩序井然，真是令人称奇。
- 互补短长
同性相斥，异性相吸，酸碱中和，取长补短，这是大自然的法则。人类也可以借鉴，人与人之间，具备不同才能的人可以相互吸引，相互配合，发挥自身最大的效力。
- 有所追求
内心有所渴望、有所追求，你就会在矿石中找到金子，在大海中找到珍珠，在茫茫人海中找到你所爱之人，你的追求会引导你完成这一切。
- 管窥一豹
世界之大，而我们的视野却非常有限，但借助于管中窥豹的道理，我们仍可通过局部的样式来了解整个社会。
- 一切皆有规律可循
许多人觉得冥冥中似乎有神在安排一切，其实这个神就是规律。所有的事物都有规律可循。
- 理性使我们变得聪慧
动物只有趋利避害的本能，人类却有反思过去、思考未来的理性。通过学习和思考可以提高我们的理性，理性越是强大者，他就越是聪慧。
- 借助于规律，我们可以支配一切
阿基米德说：“给我一个支点和一根足够长的杠杆，我可以撬起地球。”规律正是宇宙运行的法则，一切皆在它的控制之中。
- 个人利益与整体利益保持一致
我们每个人都是大自然共和国的公民，个人利益的总和就是这个国度的整体利益。但是两者必须协调统一起来，形成合力。个人利益与整体利益对抗的结果，只有混乱和冲突。所以我们要强调和谐与统一，个体与整体对抗的后果只有灭亡。
- 每个人心中都有理想
每个人心中都有渴望和向往，这些渴望与向往在他的脑海中画出一幅美丽绝伦的画卷。
- 理想成就现实
虽然理想看起来有些遥远，它却一直用种种恩惠回馈着人们，越是忠诚于理想的人，他的勤恳耕耘所得到的回报就越多，他就越是因此而受到激励。心中的渴望，会驱使我们采取行动，把理想变为现实。一切现实都是由精神创造而来，你越是渴望，它实现得就越快，理想终究会变为现实。
- 像鸟儿一样翱翔
远大的理想绝不等同于异想天开，理想会变成现实，只要你肯为之采取行动。像鸟儿一样打开理想的翅膀，然后你就会飞上蓝天，自由翱翔。
- 理想会导致决心、努力与勇气
理想会使你的内心变得坚定，你会因此拥有决心，即便是面对别人的嘲讽。你会为之付出努力，获得坚持下去的勇气。这一切积极的状态可以使你克服一切阻碍，把理想变为现实。
- 种下理想的种子
理想并不是水中月、镜中花，它是实实在在的，通过努力就可以达到的。把一颗种子种在土壤中，给它阳光与水分，就会发芽长大，结出累累的果实。在你的心里种下一个理想，把它当作已经存在的事实，它就会在你的精神世界里留下印记。它会种在你的潜意识当中，激发你的潜能，变成你的良好习惯。你的身体、精神将会被激发，排除种种限制条件，成为一台隆隆开动的强大机器，一切坎坷都将被碾平。
- 真理具有普遍性
真理具有普遍性，不随时间、空间而转移，不因人类的好恶而变化，只要稍加分析，就会发现真理无处不在而又本质相同，所谓“不同的真理”，其唯一的不同之处就是表达方式的不同。
- 彰显思想的力量
思想的力量是如此强大，它总是不甘于被埋没和忽视，它自然而然的要在我们的生活中唱主角。无论是在研究领域，还是在建设领域，无论是在艺术领域还是在文学领域，思想的力量无处不在，重要性不言而喻。善于彰显思想的力量者，将会因此受益匪浅。
- 活跃的思想
思想是最活跃的能量，它总是处于被激活的状态。它不停的创造，不断的改变自己，以各种方式表达。
- 思想升华为智慧
越靠近思想的核心，思想的力量也就越强；思想自身通过不断完善和升华，经受了种种严格的考验之后，无论在过去、现在还是未来，都变得永恒与普适，永恒之光笼罩着它，思想因此变成智慧。
- 智慧
智慧是思想的最高形式，智慧诞生于理性的沉思之中，在这个自我沉思的过程中，智慧得以破壳而出，成为宇宙精神对人类的启示，这种启示高于一切我们所见的东西，是最高的自然法则。智慧能够使我们变得顿悟、更有远见、更有洞察力，智慧者将主宰一切，智慧中本来就包括了天生的领导才能。
- 利用自然的法则
生活中有许多令我们称奇的事物，有许多无坚不摧的力量令我们们感到惊讶。许多人取得了看似不可能的成功，有许多人实现了自己一生渴求的梦想，许多人改变了一切，包括他自身。然而这一切其实并不神奇，只不过是世界的自然法则而已，如果能合理地运用它，我们也将成为令人惊奇的对象！
本课重点
１、归纳推理如何解释？
——归纳推理是一种客观思维的过程，它把许多看起来没有关系的各自独立的现象相互比较，然后找出它们的共同原因。
２、归纳导致了什么样的结果？
——找到统治这个世界的真理，这些真理已经成为人类历史上划时代进步的原因所在。
３、是什么主导着人的举动？
——是渴望、追求与信念：它们在很大程度上引导着一个人的成功。
４、我们怎样才能取得成功？
——我们要相信我们所渴求的终究会成为现实，接下来的就是看到它的实现。
５、有哪些伟大的传道者支持过“信念导致成功”的观点？
——耶稣、柏拉图、斯韦登伯格。
６、理想能够产生什么？
——如果我们心中怀有理想，就像在土地上播种，如果让种子茁壮地生长，它一定会生根发芽、开花结果。
７、世界上最活跃的能量是什么？
——人的思想。
８、思想升华以后会得到什么？
——智慧。
９、认识并且利用自然法则为什么如此重要？
——因为它消除了生活中变幻莫测、难以捉摸的部分，以理性、必然和真理取而代之。
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Part Eleven
Your life is governed by law - by actual, immutable principles that never vary. Law is in operation at all times; in all places. Fixed laws underlie all human actions. For this reason, men who control giant industries are enabled to determine with absolute precision just what percentage of every hundred thousand people will respond to any given set of conditions.
It is well, however, to remember that while every effect is the result of a cause, the effect in turn becomes a cause, which creates other effects, which in turn create still other causes; so that when you put the law of attraction into operation you must remember that you are starting a train of causation for good or otherwise which may have endless possibilities.
We frequently hear it said, "A very distressing situation came into my life, which could not have been the result of my thought, as I certainly never entertained any thought which could have such a result." We fail to remember that like attracts like in the mental world, and that the thought which we entertain brings to us certain friendships, companionships of a particular kind, and these in turn bring about conditions and environment, which in turn are responsible for the conditions of which we complain.
PART ELEVEN
1. Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all.
2. Induction proceeds by comparison of facts; it is this method of studying nature which has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
3. It is the dividing line between superstition and intelligence; it has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men's lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.
4. It is the "Watchman at the Gate" mentioned in a former lesson.
5. When, by virtue of this principle, the world to which the senses were accustomed had been revolutionized; when the sun had been arrested in his course, the apparently flat earth had been shaped into a ball and set whirling around him; when the inert matter had been resolved into active elements, and the universe presented itself wherever we directed the telescope and microscope, full of force, motion and life; we are constrained to ask by what possible means the delicate forms of organization in the midst of it are kept in order and repair.
6. Like poles and like forces repel themselves or remain impenetrable to each other, and this cause seems in general sufficient to assign a proper place and distance to stars, men and forces. As men of different virtues enter into partnership, so do opposite poles attract each other, elements that have no property in common like acids and gases cling to each other in preference and a general exchange is kept up between the surplus and the demand.
7. As the eye seeks and receives satisfaction from colors complementary to those which are given, so does need, want and desire, in the largest sense, induce, guide and determine action.
8. It is our privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it. Cuvier sees a tooth belonging to an extinct race of animals. This tooth wants a body for the performance of its function, and it defines the peculiar body it stands in need of with such precision that Cuvier is able to reconstruct the frame of this animal.
9. Perturbations are observed in the motion of Uranus. Leverrier needs another star at a certain place to keep the solar system in order, and Neptune appears in the place and hour appointed.
10. The instinctive wants of the animal and the intellectual wants of Cuvier, the wants of nature and of the mind of Leverrier were alike, and thus the results; here the thoughts of an existence, there an existence. A well-defined lawful want, therefore, furnishes the reason for the more complex operations of nature.
11. Having recorded correctly the answers furnished by nature and stretched our senses with the growing science over her surface; having joined hands with the levers that move the earth; we become conscious of such a close, varied and deep contact with the world without, that our wants and purposes become no less identified with the harmonious operations of this vast organization, than the life, liberty, and happiness of the citizen is identified with the existence of his government.
12. As the interests of the individual are protected by the arms of the country, added to his own; and his needs may depend upon certain supply in the degree that they are felt more universally and steadily; in the same manner does conscious citizenship in the Republic of nature secure us from the annoyances of subordinate agents by alliance with superior powers; and by appeal to the fundamental laws of resistance or inducement offered to mechanical or chemical agents, distribute the labor to be performed between them and man to the best advantage of the inventor.
13. If Plato could have witnessed the pictures executed by the sun with the assistance of the photographer, or a hundred similar illustrations of what man does by induction, he would perhaps have been reminded of the intellectual midwifery of his master and, in his own mind might have arisen the vision of a land where all manual, mechanical labor and repetition is assigned to the power of nature, where our wants are satisfied by purely mental operations set in motion by the will, and where the supply is created by the demand.
14. However distant that land may appear, induction has taught men to make strides toward it and has surrounded him with benefits which are, at the same time, rewards for past fidelity and incentives for more assiduous devotion.
15. It is also an aid in concentrating and strengthening our faculties for the remaining part, giving unerring solution for individual as well as universal problems, by the mere operations of mind in the purest form.
16. Here we find a method, the spirit of which is, to believe that what is sought has been accomplished, in order to accomplish it: a method, bequeathed upon us by the same Plato who, outside of this sphere, could never find how the ideas became realities.
17. This conception is also elaborated by Swedenborg in his doctrine of correspondences; and a still greater teacher has said, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable.
18. We are first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled, its accomplishment will then follow. This is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing on the Universal subjective mind, the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact.
19. We are thus thinking on the plane of the absolute and eliminating all consideration of conditions or limitation and are planting a seed which, if left undisturbed, will finally germinate into external fruition.
20. To review: Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind, by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all. We see people in every civilized country on the globe, securing results by some process which they do not seem to understand themselves, and to which they usually attach more or less mystery. Our reason is given to us for the purpose of ascertaining the law by which these results are accomplished.
21. The operation of this thought process is seen in those fortunate natures that possess everything that others must acquire by toil, who never have a struggle with conscience because they always act correctly, and can never conduct themselves otherwise than with tact, learn everything easily, complete everything they begin with a happy knack, live in eternal harmony with themselves, without ever reflecting much what they do, or ever experiencing difficulty or toil.
22. The fruit of this thought is, as it were, a gift of the gods, but a gift which few as yet realize, appreciate, or understand. The recognition of the marvelous power which is possessed by the mind under proper conditions and the fact that this power can be utilized, directed, and made available for the solution of every human problem is of transcendental importance.
23. All truth is the same, whether stated in modern scientific terms or in the language of apostolic times. There are timid souls who fail to realize that the very completeness of truth requires various statements -- that no one human formula will show every side of it.
24. Changing, emphasis, new language, novel interpretations, unfamiliar perspectives, are not, as some suppose, signs of departure from truth but on the contrary, they are evidence that the truth is being apprehended in new relations to human needs, and is becoming more generally understood.
25. The truth must be told to each generation and to every people in new and different terms, so that when the Great Teacher said -- "Believe that ye receive and ye shall receive" or, when Paul said -- "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" or, when modern science says -- "The law of attraction is the law by which thought correlates with its object", each statement when subjected to analysis, is found to contain exactly the same truth. The only difference being in the form of presentation.
26. We are standing on the threshold of a new era. The time has arrived when man has learned the secrets of mastery and the way is being prepared for a new social order, more wonderful than anything every heretofore dreamed of. The conflict of modern science with theology, the study of comparative religions, the tremendous power of new social movements, all of these are but clearing the way for the new order. They may have destroyed traditional forms which have become antiquated and impotent, but nothing of value has been lost.
27. A new faith has been born, a faith which demands a new form of expression, and this faith is taking form in a deep consciousness of power which is being manifested, in the present spiritual activity found on every hand.
28. The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal and reaches its highest development in man is the Universal Mind, and it behooves us to span the gulf between being and doing, theory and practice, by demonstrating our understanding of the dominion which we have been given.
29. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. The importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness, but it has arrived, and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all great discoveries is being demonstrated.
30. You ask in what does the creative power of thought consist? It consists in creating ideas, and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating, inventing, observing, discerning, discovering, analyzing, ruling, governing, combining, and applying matter and force. It can do this because it is an intelligent creative power.
31. Thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged into its own mysterious depth; when it breaks through the narrow compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of eternal light, where all which is, was or ever will be, melt into one grand harmony.
32. From this process of self contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence, and which is undeniably superior to every element, force or law of nature, because it can understand, modify, govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and therefore possess them.
33. Wisdom begins with the dawn of reason, and reason is but an understanding of the knowledge and principles whereby we may know the true meaning of things. Wisdom, then, is illuminated reason, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of Wisdom.
34. We all know many who have achieved the seemingly impossible, who have realized life-long dreams, who have changed everything including themselves. We have sometimes marveled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power, which seemed to be ever available just when it was most needed, but it is all clear now. All that is required is an understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application.
35. For your exercise this week, concentrate on the quotation taken from the Bible, "Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them"; notice that there is no limitation, "Whatsoever things" is very definite and implies that the only limitation which is placed upon us in our ability to think, to be equal to the occasion, to rise to the emergency, to remember that Faith is not a shadow, but a substance, "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Death is but the natural process whereby all material forms are thrown into the crucible for reproduction in fresh diversity.
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Study Questions with Answers
101. What is inductive reasoning?
The process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives rise to them all.
102. What has this method of studying accomplished?
It has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
103. What is it that guides and determines action?
It is need, want and desire which in the largest sense induce, guide and determine action.
104. What is the formula for the unerring solution of every individual problem?
We are to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled; its accomplishment will then follow.
105. What great Teachers advocated it?
Jesus, Plato, Swedenborg.
106. What is the result of this thought process?
We are thinking on the plane of the absolute and planting a seed, which if left undisturbed will germinate into fruition.
107. Why is it scientifically exact?
Because it is Natural Law.
108. What is Faith?
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen."
109. What is the Law of Attraction?
The Law by which Faith is brought into manifestation.
110. What importance do you attach to an understanding of this law?
It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men's lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.
