心灵瑜珈课 (12)
- 无限的思考力
宇宙是无限的，人的思考力也是无限的，因此人的创造力也是无限的。认识到这一点，你的任何目标都可以实现，一切险阻都会变成坦途。
- 消极的思想具有破坏力
消极的思想具有破坏力，它不仅会驱逐我们的快乐、自信、健康的精神状态，还会使我们的物质财富蒙受损失。因此，必须把它们从我们的思想中排除出去。
- 思考力是人类的本能
- 专注于你的理想
有许多人拥有理想，但并未获得他们的想要的成功，这并不是理想的过错，而是这些人在不停地更换他们的理想。理想不是衣服，可以今天穿这件，明天换那件，后天还要更换。如此频繁的更改目标只会耗散你的力量，让你的生活变得混乱不堪、失去意义，结果必将一无所成。
- 一位雕塑家的失败
有一位雕塑家，得到一块上好地大理石，他想雕刻一座宙斯的神像，然后还没等雕出轮廓，他又想雕刻一个美少女，刚凿了几下他又想不如换成一位运动员，如此不停地更改，结果会怎样呢？可想而知：他什么也没有雕成，而上好的原料却浪费掉了。
- 思想虽然无形，却是永恒
或许你会认为金钱和财富是世界上最宝贵的东西，拥有了它就拥有一切。然而，金山可能在瞬间崩塌，财富也会在一夜间化为乌有。世界上惟一可靠的，取之不尽用之不竭的，就是我们的思想。思想创造一切，当然包括你希望拥有的金钱与财富。思想无形，却是永恒，是最值得依靠的东西。
- 与宇宙精神保持一致
亘古以来宇宙精神已经存在，我们要做的就是调整自己思考力与之相适应。
- 冲动是魔鬼
我们常常将一时的冲动、莽撞、误打误撞看作是思想的力量的体现，其实这些只是鱼目混珠的赝品，虽然它们或多或少能产生成功的假象，让人迷醉一时，但长久来看，它们非但无益，反而有害，甚至会让你迷失了方向。
- 以积极的观念取代消极的观念
抱持消极、悲观想法的人们，最终会收获自己种下的恶果，而乐观的人收获的却是成功与快乐。
- 勿要轻信命运
有些人相信他们的命运受控于一些神秘未知的力量，甚至迷信鬼神、整日沉醉在盲目无知的精神暗潮中。他们不明白这是一种让他们变得消极、驯服、被动、失去信心的力量，最终将使他们精神耗尽，元气大伤。他们至死也不明白正是他们的信仰消耗了他们的生命。
- 另外一种失败者
另外还有一些人，他们看到了一些力量之源，并且也确实努力地进取。但遗憾的是他们却没能够坚持到底。一旦意志消退，行动随之涣散，充斥其中的能量，转瞬间就土崩瓦解。一句话，他们失之于坚持。
- 你不是一个人在战斗
- 以真理说服他人
真理无处不在，它是最好的辩论，足以让任何固执的人信服。愚蠢的强迫他人服从你，如同催眠术对受摧眠者一样，都只是暂时性的满足，虽然有一定的迷惑力，但被施术者终将觉醒，然后将施术者抛在一边。
- 精神的力量令人折服
物质的世界如过眼烟云，稍纵即逝，精神的力量永恒存在。精神力量才是真正的造物者，蕴藏着无限的魅力。精神的力量令人折服，对它的领悟越是透彻，它的力量就越是彰显出来。
- 爱的法则
爱是永恒的基本法则，在万物之中，在一切生命当中，爱无处不在。因为爱，思想被赋予了情感与活力。在爱的催化下，思想长大成熟；在爱的抚慰下，思想才能拥有永恒的力量，它创造了整个世界、整个宇宙，以及我们所能够想到的万事万物。
- 爱无所不在
- 宇宙精神的物化
我们会发现，宇宙精神不仅仅是智慧，也是物质。为什么会是这样？原因就在于宇宙精神通过我们的思想，创造着一切，这个缤纷的世界正是由此而来。
- 思想与爱的结合
思想在爱的孕育中产生，爱的抚育使思想变得强大有力。思想和爱联手，人类就会拥有不可阻挡的力量，所向无敌。这种力量就是引力法则。
- 精神世界孕育物质世界
世界上的任何事物都是先有“神”后有“形”，事物都是先在精神世界被创造出来，然后才以有形的方式展现在我们的面前，精神世界孕育物质世界，只有神形兼备才能完整。
- 用心体验引力法则
或许，你尚未了解引力法则的全能力量，还不能对它加以充分运用。只要你与自然法则协调一致，这种力量就会属于你。而要做到这一点，你必须集中你的注意力。
- 一切蕴藏在潜意识当中
入静、放松，深呼吸，仔细体验你意识深处的那股厚重的能量。专注于你的心灵，然后，深邃的思想、睿智的谈吐和一切至高的潜力都可以淋漓尽致地发挥出来。
- 入静
粗心大意的人可能会认为，“入静”非常简单而且容易实现。然而入静指的绝对不是外部环境的安静，而是指你的内心。任何一个渴望智慧、思想或者不朽成就的人，都会在内心世界里寻找那种安静祥和的状态。在这种状态下，你的潜意识将会苏醒，潜能会自发地喷涌而出。要记住，只有在绝对寂静的状态下，才能够触摸到你身体里最强大的那股力量，才能领悟到永恒不变的真理。
本课重点
１、为什么很多人奔波劳累，最终却一无所得？
——因为他们三心二意，不够专注。
２、专注的思想会有什么结果？
——专注使目标明确，行动坚定，提高效率，专注能够导致非凡的成就。
３、新生的婴儿具有思考力吗？
——有，思考力是人类与生俱来的本能。
４、最宝贵的财产为什么不是金钱或者财富？
——因为所有的金钱或者财富都是由我们的思想创造，金钱可以缺失，财富可以散去，只有思想是永恒的。
５、那位雕塑家为什么失败了？
——因为他不够专注。
６、无所不在的爱有什么作用？
——给我们的思想以动力。在爱中孕育而生的思想是战无不胜的。
７、物质世界是怎样创造的？
——由精神世界、我们的思想创造。
８、最强大的力量是怎样诞生的？
——爱与思想的结合。
９、入静以后会有什么结果？
——潜意识将会苏醒，潜能将会激发。
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Part Twelve
Part Twelve is enclosed herewith. In the fourth paragraph you will find the following statement: "You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do." If you concentrate upon the thoughts given, if you give them your entire attention, you will find a world of meaning in each sentence, and will attract to yourself other thoughts in harmony with them, and you will soon grasp the full significance of the vital knowledge upon which you are concentrating.
Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individuals must make the application, and the application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose.
The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts. If you have ever looked through the viewfinder of a camera, you found that when the object was not in focus, the impression was indistinct and possibly blurred, but when the proper focus was obtained the picture was clear and distinct. This illustrates the power of concentration. Unless you can concentrate upon the object which you have in view, you will have but a hazy, indifferent, vague, indistinct and blurred outline of your ideal and the results will be in accordance with your mental picture.
PART TWELVE
1. There is no purpose in life that cannot be best accomplished through a scientific understanding of the creative power of thought.
2. This power to think is common to all. Man is, because he thinks. Man's power to think is infinite, consequently his creative power is unlimited.
3. We know that thought is building for us the thing we think of and actually bringing it nearer, yet we find it difficult to banish fear, anxiety or discouragement, all of which are powerful thought forces, and which continually send the things we desire further away, so that it is often one step forward and two steps backward.
4. The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
5. With this as a basis you can construct an ideal business, an ideal home, ideal friends, and an ideal environment. You are not restricted as to material or cost. Thought is omnipotent and has the power to draw on the Infinite bank of primary substance for all that it requires. Infinite resources are therefore at your command.
6. But your ideal must be sharp, clear-cut, definite; to have one ideal today, another tomorrow, and a third next week, means to scatter your forces and accomplish nothing; your result will be a meaningless and chaotic combination of wasted material.
7. Unfortunately this is the result which many are securing, and the cause is self evident. If a sculptor started out with a piece of marble and a chisel and changed his ideal every fifteen minutes, what result could he expect? And why should you expect any different result in molding the greatest and most plastic of all substances, the only real substance?
8. The result of this indecision and negative thought is often found in the loss of material wealth. Supposed independence which required many years of toil and effort suddenly disappears. It is often found then that money and property are not independence at all. On the contrary, the only independence is found to be a practical working knowledge of the creative power of thought.
9. This practical working method cannot come to you until you learn that the only real power which you can have is the power to adjust yourself to Divine and unchangeable principles. You cannot change the Infinite, but you can come into an understanding of Natural laws. The reward of this understanding is a conscious realization of your ability to adjust your thought faculties with the Universal Thought which is Omnipresent. Your ability to cooperate with this Omnipotence will indicate the degree of success with which you meet.
10. The power of thought has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating, but the results are harmful instead of helpful.
11. Of course, worry, fear, and all negative thoughts produce a crop after their kind; those who harbor thoughts of this kind must inevitably reap what they have sown.
12. Again, there are the Phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and demonstration obtained at materializing séances. They throw open their mental doors and soak themselves in the most poisonous currents which can be found in the psychic world. They do not seem to understand that it is the ability to become negative, receptive and passive, and thus drain themselves of all their vital force, which enables them to bring about these vibratory thought forms.
13. There are also the Hindu worshippers, who see in the materializing phenomena which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither, and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish.
14. Telepathy, or thought transference, has received considerable attention, but as it requires a negative mental state on the part of the receiver, the practice is harmful. A thought may be sent with the intention of hearing or seeing, but it will bring the penalty attached to the inversion of the principle involved.
15. In many instances, hypnotism is positively dangerous to the subject as well as the operator. No one familiar with the laws governing in the mental world would think of attempting to dominate the will of another, for by so doing, he will gradually (but surely) divest himself of his own power.
16. All of these perversions have their temporary satisfaction and for some a keen fascination, but there is an infinitely greater fascination in a true understanding of the world of power within, a power which increases with use; is permanent instead of fleeing; which not only is potent as a remedial agency to bring about the remedy for past error or results of wrong thinking, but is a prophylactic agency protecting us from all manner and form of danger, and finally is an actual creative force with which we can build new conditions and new environment.
17. The law is that thought will correlate with its object and bring forth in the material world the correspondence of the thing thought or produced in the mental world. We then discern the absolute necessity of seeing that every thought has the inherent germ of truth in order that the law of growth will bring into manifestation good, for good alone can confer any permanent power.
18. The principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object, and therefore to master every adverse human experience, is the law of attraction, which is another name for love. This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of Philosophy, in every Religion, and in every Science. There is no getting away from the law of love. It is feeling that imparts vitality to thought. Feeling is desire, and desire is love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.
19. We find this truth emphasized wherever the power of thought is understood, The Universal Mind is not only Intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so that they form atoms; the atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules; molecules take objective forms; and so we find that the law of love is the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the Universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception.
20. It is the operation of this marvelous law of attraction which has caused men in all ages and all times to believe that there must be some personal being who responded to their petitions and desires, and manipulated events in order to comply with their requirements.
21. It is the combination of Thought and Love which forms the irresistible force, called the law of attraction. All natural laws are irresistible, the law of Gravitation, or Electricity, or any other law operates with mathematical exactitude. There is no variation; it is only the channel of distribution which may be imperfect. If a bridge falls, we do not attribute the collapse to any variation of the law of gravitation. If a light fails us, we do not conclude that the laws governing electricity cannot be depended upon, and if the law of attraction seems to be imperfectly demonstrated by an inexperienced or uninformed person, we are not to conclude that the greatest and most infallible law upon which the entire system of creation depends has been suspended. We should rather conclude that a little more understanding of the law is required, for the same reason that a correct solution of a difficult problem in Mathematics is not always readily and easily obtained.
22. Things are created in the mental or spiritual world before they appear in the outward act or event. by the simple process of governing our thought forces today, we help create the events which will come into our lives in the future, perhaps even tomorrow. Educated desire is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction.
23. Man is so constituted that he must first create the tools, or implements by which he gains the power to think. The mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it. This explains why it is so difficult for us to receive or appreciate an entirely new idea; we have no brain cell capable of receiving it; we are therefore incredulous; we do not believe it.
24. If, therefore, you have not been familiar with the Omnipotence of the law of attraction, and the scientific method by which it can be put into operation, or if you have not been familiar with the unlimited possibilities which it opens to those who are enabled to take advantage of the resources it offers, begin now and create the necessary brain cells which will enable you to comprehend the unlimited powers which may be yours by cooperating with Natural Law. This is done by concentration or attention.
25. The intention governs the attention. Power comes through repose. It is by concentration that deep thoughts, wise speech, and all forces of high potentiality are accomplished.
26. It is in the Silence that you get into touch with the Omnipotent power of the subconscious mind from which all power is evolved.
27. He who desires wisdom, power, or permanent success of any kind will find it only within; it is an unfoldment. The unthinking may conclude that the silence is very simple and easily attained, but it should be remembered that only in absolute silence may one come into contact with Divinity itself; may learn of the unchangeable law and open for himself the channels by which persistent practice and concentration lead to perfection.
28. This week go to the same room, take the same chair, the same position as previously; be sure to relax, let go, both mentally and physically; always do this; never try to do any mental work under pressure; see that there are no tense muscles or nerves, that you are entirely comfortable. Now realize your unity with omnipotence; get into touch with this power, come into a deep and vital understanding, appreciation, and realization of the fact that your ability to think is your ability to act upon the Universal Mind, and bring it into manifestation, realize that it will meet any and every requirement; that you have exactly the same potential ability which any individual ever did have or ever will have, because each is but an expression or manifestation of the One, all are parts of the whole, there is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference being one of degree.
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
Wilson
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Study Questions with Answers
111. How may any purpose in life be best accomplished?
Through a scientific understanding of the spiritual nature of thought.
112. What three steps are absolutely essential?
The knowledge of our power, the courage to dare, the faith to do.
113. How is the practical working knowledge secured?
By an understanding of Natural laws.
114. What is the reward of an understanding of these laws?
A conscious realization of our ability to adjust ourselves to Divine and unchanging principle.
115. What will indicate the degree of success with which we meet?
The degree in which we realize that we cannot change the Infinite but must cooperate with it.
116. What is the principle which gives thought its dynamic power?
The Law of Attraction which rests on vibration, which in turn rests upon the law of love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.
117. Why is this law irresistible?
Because it is a Natural law. All Natural laws are irresistible and unchangeable and act with mathematical exactitude. There is no deviation or variation.
118. Why then does it sometimes seem to be difficult to find the solution to our problems in life?
For the same reason that it is sometimes difficult to find the correct solution to a difficult mathematical problem. The operator is uninformed or inexperienced.
119. Why is it impossible for the mind to grasp an entirely new idea?
We have no corresponding vibratory brain cell capable of receiving the idea.
120. How is wisdom secured?
By concentration; it is an unfoldment; it comes from within.
