2009年3月26日 星期四

身心靈講座; A Talk: The Scientific & Medical evidence in Spirituality

BodyMindSoul Video Workshop3

身心靈大起底──最終一回:涅槃寂靜

多得多位朋友的幫忙**, 這裡上載了二月十九日晚上, 在綠色生活教育基金 Club O , 這糸列講座的最後一講的 (應該是) 全部內容.

必須說的是, 這次是同一題目中, 我自己個人感到最興奮快意的一次. 相信是因為已有了上幾次的「熱身」, 予會人士本身水平高自是不在話不 :-)

講座大綱如下:

各種宗教及靈性修練有科學根據嗎?與所謂超遠古文明有關嗎?印度教的卍和中國卍有甚麼關聯?與納粹德國的徽號是雷同巧合嗎?我沒興趣成道成佛,也需要修練嗎?「得道之人不問命」是甚麼意思?在當代靈性進化的洪流中,我們如何尋根定位呢?

參考資料:

Many Lives, Many Masters, Same Soul, Many bodies by Dr. Brian Weiss
Collective Consciousness & cultural healing by Duane Elgin
Conversation with God, Friendship with God, Communion with God by Neale Donald Walsch
The Soul & Quantum Physics> by Dr. Fred Alan Wolf
What can Science tell us about Collective Consciousness By Dr. Robert Kenny
*The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart
The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland
The Life of Rama Krishna published by Adaita Ashrama; www.adaitaasharama.org
The Hour of God by Sri Aurobindo
Raja Yoga by Swarmi Vivekananda
What the Buddha taught by Prof. Walpola Rahula (Dharma text, book not for sale)
Spontaneous fulfillment of desires by Deepak Chopra
The Energy of Prayer, No Death, no Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh
一行禪師
Awakening> by Mary Rodwell
Quantum Physics in for Radical Revision—DNA; excerpt fr the book Vernetzte Intelligenz
By Grazyna Fosar & Franz Bludorf; summarized & commented by Baerbel
The Complete guide to the Kabbalah by Will Parfitt
The Alchemist by Paolo CoehloInternal documents, Human Universal Energy

此外, 講座中提到「愛」與「懼」的能量本質, 亦在這裡表列給大家參考:

The contrasting features of “fear” vs “Love”:

L-the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals

F-the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms

L-give away all we have; holds clear, lets go, soothes & amends

F-clings to clutches all that we have; holds close, grasps, rankles & attacks

原文出自Conversation w/ God 糸列各部分, 為免失真, 在此不妄作翻譯; 留給大家細味固中意思.

網上錄音:

http://talks.hknewage.com/Thu20090219

**包括幫忙錄影設備的 Tina Li Hoffman Wong, 還有孔慶玲小姐的悉心安排.

特別鳴謝: 郭勝千 (阿千) 先生把影帶剪輯上載, 工夫不少的! (嘻嘻, 如果能用電腦特技, 去掉臉上皺紋眼袋什麼的更好啦…) 我在其他場合的講座和活動錄影, 他還在處理中, 大家多電郵給他加油吧!

2009年3月19日 星期四

My Little Wonders of my Wanders-- my life as a (bystanding) Australian-1




The 1st experience that I feel in my body upon my setting feet on this place is: Hey! My body SLOWS-s-ss-z-zzz do-w-n & that includes my brain. Everything goes slow: the bank queue, the supermarket queue, the carpark pay-up queue & people's brain waves *_* Of course I knew it & love that.

This is well exemplifed by my landlady-- the most frequent type of sentences fr her mouth is a question:
"I don't get that... ; can U say that again?"
"hmmm, I'm not sure I understand. Why is it that?"
The strangest bit is: these can come 3 days after the initial issue or 10 times after I've said the same thing, if not 20.
I'm going to take that as the best coaching & training for my endurance & patience; I surely need that for my personal aspiration :-)

There was one time when I wonder how on earth she's going to any movie cos she'll have NO chance to understand any storyline... . And indeed, once we're talking about movies when she said, "oh, I've not been to one since long; I never understand what's going on... ." :-)

Closeby the place I stay is a small park of trees & children's play area but all the time I've been there, the place looks lonely: just me & the birds. Know how it feels walking on newly lawned grass the 1st thing in the morning? Let me tell U: like walking on CLOUDS. It's springy, bouncy & WET from the morning dew. It feels so good that I can't help my urge to do that walk every other day. Evening walk? Well, it could be too chilly this time of the year.

I went to the long endless strip of beach, the Lady Robinsons Beach, along Brighton-Le-Sands a couple of times & each time a little nice surprise. This beach is way way long, extending 5-6 subsurbs, meaning quite a couple of train stations in distance. It is said that the water is too cold to swim. There's a fishing gentleman there feeding the gulls that flocks hovered at this spot & what a scene. See the strait opening at the far open end of the gulf on the picture? If U turn your head to the left, that arm of the strait opening is actually the airport & U can actually see planes landing & taking over, cool!

Let me tell U more about Australian PLANTS next time we are here :-) WM.

COMING UP: Australian plants.

身心靈講座— 反思與迥響I-2; A Talk: The Scientific & Medical evidence in Spirituality— some reflections I-2

就上次我們討論「人類文明的關鍵時刻」這話題上, 不少朋友提出重要意見, 看來應先補充完畢, 才進入下一題目.

It came rather a surprise that I received a few suggestions & comments for my last post on this topic in just a few days. Looks better that those are addressed adequately before we move on to the next subject of discussion, the notion of vegetarian diet.


1. 馬雅曆記錄到20121221, 好像聳人聽聞, 真有根據嗎? 20121222= 世界末日嗎?

The notion that known records of the Mayan Calendar ends on the 21st December 2012 is worrisome. Does it mean that the 22nd December 2012= the End of the World?


若明瞭量子力學中, 「時間」這概念的真正意思 (這兒定將再作述說), 以及人的意念與物質世界的現實之間的相互關係, 世界末日這個「小」問題, 即時変得顯淺得很:

*非得須知將來為何; 乃須尋覓活出將來.

不是嗎? 任何文獻在任何一點記錄完畢, 當中可能意義重大, 亦可能毫無意義. 我們怎麼可能憑空推算得到固中道理?

For anyone who really understands the concept of Time in the perspective of Quantum Mechanics (this will SURELY occupy a chapter in our discussion in future at this site here), as well as the relationship between Intention & Reality in its right state of affairs, it should become obvious to him/ her, with respect to this little problem of “22nd December 2012”:

*The future is NOT for us to know; the future is there for us to live into, seek & find.


The plain fact that any Calendar ends at any point could or might carry certain meaning, unless it does not J

抗拒無常並尋問意義是人之常情, 只有覺者明察秋毫, 此所謂「智者不惑」.

在此一題目上, 基本資料就是這個被認為來頭不小的「宇宙曆」, 記錄剛剛完結在多位靈性學者知道是多事之秋的時候. 理會與否是人們的自由意向, 但我有理由相信, 不可置之不理.

It is Human nature to resist changes (the Dharma Seals of Dukkha & Anicca as preached by the Buddha) & cling to meanings to cultivate our own sense of security, but these efforts are most often futile. The aware & conscious would rather look at the ‘problem’ at its very core & ‘live out’ his Reality.

The plain fact we have here is that this “Cosmic Calendar” of substantial agreed significance also happens to have a recorded end at an era opinionated by spiritual authors as extra-ordinary. The question is whether you choose to take heed of that or not; I choose to. And I think my reasons are sound ones.

其一是按某些數據模式的推算, 北極冰帽完全溶掉的時間2012 (亦有說2026). 其準繩度並非此討論的重點; 人所共知的事實是: 冰溶的最後階段可以很快而無法預測. 問題是: 任誰也無法想像得, 到一個無冰的北極是個怎樣的世界吧? 還用我在此多貧嘴嗎?

According to some projecting mathematical models on the melting pattern of the Polar regions, one estimate is that 2012 is the time of complete melt-out of the North Polar Ice Cap (some says 2026). Accuracy and margin of error is off the point of discussion here; any housewife can tell U her hands-on experience w/ frozen food that the final stage of flawing is FAST (thus UNPREDICTABLE). An iceless North Pole is beyond everybody’s wildest imagination, agreed? Do I need to drill on this further?

另一個未免「太巧合」的事: 只約是十年前, 人們也許未聞說過密宗 (即金剛乘佛教中的藏傳佛教, 亦稱喇嘛教), 或連西藏在啥地方也不知道, 緣何無端近年仁波車都在外傳佛法, 西藏問題又「突然」上了國際層面? 必要聲明的是: 我充其量只是個對各宗教教義略有涉獵的自學者, 一切官方訊息, 務必向有關方面求證, 無意在此作非正式的「代言人」. 但據我好些修煉密宗的長輩朋友的師傅們所示, 密宗之所以稱為「密」宗, 以其有別於顯宗, 他們固有的一套佛法和修持, 只到了近世才能向外傳, 上天所示下的原因是, 之前人類的精神文明還未成熟到足夠水平; 亦可以說當我們進入了水瓶座時期, 普世的內觀自省成了大氣候.

Another piece of the same cake is about Tantric (Vajrayana) Buddhism, a term which may have been unheard of to many of us some 10 years ago. Why all a sudden Rinpoches are out preaching & all the political concern about sovereignity of Tibet, whose location on a map many might even have problem to set their fingers at? The doctrines, both on spiritual ascension & bodily training, of this branch of Mahayana Buddhism have been kept strictly to insiders for about a thousand years; thus the origin of its translated name in Chinese, 密宗, which literally means The Secretive Doctrines, as opposed to 顯宗, meaning The Open Doctrines. At most only a knowledgeable self-learner of various religions, I am by all means no official spokeswoman of any sort here; one will have to consult the respective authority for that purpose. According to my many friends who are senior Tantric Buddhism practitioners, their guru’s teachings is that Humanity spirituality has previously been NOT of mature enough level to be receptive, till ONLY recently. Or one may resort our now better receptivity to the current Era of Aquarius, when many of us simply cannot resist our internal call of self-reflection.

我個人想東西傾向 「好天真, 好傻」 :-) 也無可救藥地樂觀, 所以我根本否定 「世界末日」 這個說法! 當然也因為我有其他訊息來源, 以後有機會定就這些細談. 這裡簡單的總結是: 我相信這時代是個新紀元, 只要我們當中有足夠的人這麼相信.

Born an optimist, I simply refuse, & I of course also have my reasons, to think that the world will be a goner by end of 2012. My personal belief, as well as judgment from other sources, is that there WILL BE a New Era awaiting us. The KEY issue is: if there're enough of us believing in the notions of a New Era, so it WILL BE.



關於香功 (智悟功) - 1

香功最為人所知的是練功者嗅到香氣, 是故毎當有人知道我在練香功, 必定問我香味的來源 J 我個人粗淺的看法是, 練氣功增進身體機能, 最先受惠的應是那些所謂「基層」生理糸統, 就是在各進化梯次中, 由「低等生物」(如昆蟲) 至「高度進化」的人類, 也必共有的糸統, 如血液循環或呼吸等. 有趣的是: 香功亦稱「智悟功」, 具開發大腦思維和感應的特點, 香功的動作都是上下左右對稱的, 大概這是達致左右腦能量平衡的關鍵點罷; 而中樞神經中進化梯次中最低的正是嗅覺. 由此最簡單的推論便是: 香功針對加強腦部機能, 其中進化梯次中最低的嗅覺糸統, 被直接激化, 練功者便嗅到香氣, 非源於外在環境; 也許這也解釋了, 何以各人即使在同一場所, 所嗅到的香氣也不盡相同. 一如身體的其他狀況, 何時嗅到香氣, 其性質和濃郁程度如何等, 皆受身體的狀態所影響, 不應作無謂比較.

已在不同場合多次提出, 練功要選在空曠氣場好的地方, 這是有多年練功經驗的長輩的再三叮嚀. 初學時動作未搞清楚還沒關係, 到熟習了後, 練功者的「脈輪」*時會開啟以釋放「病氣」**, 故應避免在密封的場所與陌生人一同練, 除非知道該場所有專人負責清洗氣場, 不然可能會在不知情的情況下, 吸入了別人的病氣.

* 脈輪 (Chakras) 是古印度醫學 (Ayurvedic medicine) 的概念, 一如我們的穴位經絡學說, 西方醫療主流雖未完全掌握這些概念在解剖上的根據, 但亦無法全盤否定它們在能量治療 (Energy Medicine) 方面的功能. 可以姑且粗淺地把脈輪視為身體的能量站.

就能量治療 (Energy Medicine) 這題材, 我會在此另文寫出我個人的想法.

** 「病氣」一詞出自一個西醫的口中, 看起來好像不甚恰當. 實情是, 相近的概念在各地域各古老民族中自古流傅, 完全不是新鮮事. 有經驗的針灸師可以毫無困難地形容, 病氣 (狀如濁煙, 量少) 如何沿著針從病者身體內釋出, 且還會就病因或嚴重程度不一而外象不同.

2009年3月12日 星期四

身心靈講座— 反思與迥響 1; A Talk: The Scientific & Medical evidence in Spirituality— some reflections 1

之所以有這麼一個講座實是偶然得很, 事緣與孔慶玲小姐商討, 較早前另一講座時, 不約而同的感到, 大家談論「身心靈」一詞也許有點太「濫」, 而各不知所云 J

搞這麼一個講座, 肯定的是講者學到的比聽眾多! 不是說技巧方面這種老生常談, 奇妙的是在那數個月以來, 接二連三的遇到高人, 或是指正我一些想當然的錯失, 或是證實我本來不太肯定的推論, 又或是在我屢想不通的關鍵點, 給我來個灌頂洗禮... , 每每還是在相關講座前不久, 真是奇也怪哉! 以致講座內容持續更新增多, 雖怕有失控之勢, 然而整體畫面卻愈見清晰. 到最後得 Mr Neil Gould 介紹認識了ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Research Network) Ms Mary Rodwell, 她的網址: http://www.acern.com.au/
拜讀了她的大作, 及後她慷慨提供的有關 Wave Genetics (姑且譯成「波頻基因學」吧) 的資料, 看得我張口結舌, 了然是片新天新地.

How I came up w/ giving these talks was by pure chance. Friends of spirituality do share a common feeling w/ me that the terms 'Body', 'Mind', 'Soul' have nowadays become more like empty slogans that the authentic meanings tend to be overlooked. The most miraculous bit is: masters keep turning up to teach me related knowledge that I was & am still much bewildered *_* Just a month ago or so, Ms Mary Rodwell of ACERN in Australia (The Australian Close Encounter Resources Network), introduced by a new friend I met another week earlier, sent me documents on "wave genetics", which I received w/ staring eyes o_O! Her website:

http://www.acern.com.au/

此外, 予會者的提問實大有參考價值. 我打算在這裡, 把在各場合這同一講座中俱啟發性的討論話題整理好, 公諸同好; 更歡迎大家參與.

Questions from the audience is the time I enjoyed the most! Many are very stimulating. So let me take the chance to have the questions and responses organized for open scrutiny here. So let's start w/ this 1st one here:

1. 何以見得現時是人類文明的關鍵時刻? 真是的話, 我們應何以厠身及自處?

Why say that we’re now at a critical point of Human History? What are our roles or do we find ourselves?

這問題幾乎毎場講座都要答一遍. 正正是人人都關心, 才顯示出這就我們討論的核心. 要不然大家馬照跑, 舞照跳吧.

This is one of the most frequently asked questions. “Just how do you know? We’re all fine here! So why bother?” The frequency of which this very enquiry being made indicates exactly the core position it occupies.

其實只需看看我給予會人士的參考資料 (見本文末; 當然還須細讀一下那些材料), 不難發現關於我們靈性進程這話題, 不約而同地, 以不同標題, 不同形式出現在該多本書中. 當然也因為我這個講者的選材偏好, 無法否定; 但碰巧這陣子看的資料都觸及這同一題目? 太巧合了吧?!

Yet it only takes a closer look at my reference list (see at the end), and of course more than just casual reading of those books, for the 1st question above to be self-explanatory. This VERY point that we’re now at the decisive cross-road juncture in our path of (spiritual) evolution is simply found somewhere in many of those books or addressed by the authors in one way or another.

<與神對話> 糸列中, 作者更是開宗明義地指出人類文明有哪些轉捩點:

第一個是距今三萬五千年前, 現代人種 (即生物分類學中稱為Homo Sapiens 的生物, 有別於之前的Homonids Homo Erectus, 牠們都比較接近猿猴) 的出現. 姑且不在此討論進化論罷, 以免旁生枝節; 在下一次「葷素之間」再談.

第二個是一萬年前, 人類從遊牧生活轉為農耕定居; 而城邦文明則在五千年前旦生.

三百年前的工業革命, 標誌了我們熟悉而以為「一向如此」的工商科技時代. 其實這時期只佔人類文明少於十份之一的時間.

各位作者雖則用字各異, 但所指的是同一件事: 一個範式轉移 (paradigm shift) 靈性的提升, 且是集體的提升.

The discussion is particularly explicit in the series where Mr. Walsch mentioned several points of cultural transformation:

The 1st one was about 35 thousand years ago & that’s the time of the 1st appearance of Homo Sapiens & the disappearance of Homonids & Homo Erectus. (I’ve carefully avoid the term ‘evolution’ here … .) Let’s come back to this point in our next discussion on omnivorous vs herbivorous diet.

The 2nd one was 10 thousand years back when humanity shifted from a nomadic way of life to settle in villages w/ the development of agriculture. Then there was the rise of city-states & the beginning of civilization about 5 thousand years ago.

The 3rd was what appears most natural to us, the scientific-industrial era, benchmarked by the Industrial Revolution.

Mr. Walsch described the upcoming 4th one a spiritual awakening. Although the exact wording adopted by different authors in such a description may vary, the essential meaning is the same: a paradigm shift, a different mind-set & values … an aspiration in collective consciousness.

可以肯定的是: 過程中的陣痛少不免! 當中或有人走在前方測試水溫..., 只要我們當中有足夠比例的人數 (a critical mass) 到達這靈性水平而渴望進階, 人類便會依序往前 :-)

One thing for sure: ALL authors believe that it is inevitable that this process is going to be painstaking! Some individual may choose to push the boundaries and the rate of collective (spiritual) evolution will depends on the arrival of a critical mass w/in the overall population agreeing to co-create.

另外, 我只在兩次講座中談到馬雅曆. 這是西方靈能圈子中熱爆的話題. 馬雅曆一年有十三個月, 毎月有二十日, 一年有二百六十日, 正與胎兒在母體的平均孕期, 二百六十六日非常吻合, 故被認為是「宇宙曆」.

The notion of 2012 is currently a BIG HOT topic, referring to the Maya Calender, The "Cosmic Calender". I failed to mention this in some of my previous talks. In the Calender, one year consists of 13 months of 20 days each & that makes a year having 260 days, which matches nicely w/ any ordinary gestational period in our mothers' womb of an average of 266 days.

馬雅曆現存的記錄只共有二十六萬年. 天文學家計算到馬雅曆有記錄的最後一天即是我們西曆的2016 年12 月21日. 很自然大家都在想12 月22日是個怎樣的日子呢?

What we now know about this calender is that the Mayans have records up to the 260, 000 years & NO MORE. Their one year is of shorter duration than ours & astrologists have arrived at the LAST day w/in Mayan record to be this VERY day in our calender: the 21st December, 2012. What is going to happen on the 22nd then?

講座中我談到水瓶座期, 不正是我們大家都感覺到的嗎? 過去一千年的白羊座期, 人們都忙著東征西討; 現在大家都開始關心靈性生活, 靈能提升. 還需要更多「證據」嗎?

And of course there is the point is the Era of Aquarius & that's exactly what we can feel going on for the past decade or so--- in our previous Era of Aries, people are concerned w/ conquering & occupying; now we all have this terrible urge to go inside & seek our own (spiritual) refuge. Isn't all the above self-evident?

Coming Next: 葷素之間; To go vegan or not, should we be bothered




REFERENCE – Body, Mind, Soul workshop

Many Lives, Many Masters, Same Soul, Many bodies by Dr. Brian Weiss
Collective Consciousness & cultural healing by Duane Elgin
Conversation with God, Friendship with God, Communion with God by Neale Donald Walsch
The Soul & Quantum Physics> by Dr. Fred Alan Wolf
What can Science tell us about Collective Consciousness By Dr. Robert Kenny
*The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart
The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland
The Life of Rama Krishna published by Adaita Ashrama;
www.adaitaasharama.org
The Hour of God by Sri Aurobindo
Raja Yoga by Swarmi Vivekananda
What the Buddha taught by Prof. Walpola Rahula (Dharma text, book not for sale)
Spontaneous fulfillment of desires by Deepak Chopra
The Energy of Prayer, No Death, no Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh一行禪師
Awakening> by Mary Rodwell
Quantum Physics in for Radical Revision—DNA; excerpt fr the book Vernetzte Intelligenz
By Grazyna Fosar & Franz Bludorf; summarized & commented by Baerbel
The Complete guide to the Kabbalah by Will Parfitt
The Alchemist by Paolo CoehloInternal documents, Human Universal Energy
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顧問: 郭勝千先生, Dr. Narendra Nath Datta, 林甜威先生, 謝炳燦先生, Ms Mary Rodwell