...门徒说：“您教给我一种苏菲的练习，一种瓦兹法练习，从那以后，我发生了很多变化，我发现了我在成长。”
而艾尔沙对他的门徒说：“我教他的练习是假的，没有人能够透过它成长。它根本不是一种技术。但他却说他在成长。他甚至对我也不老实。他不仅在欺骗自己，他也试图欺骗我相信他在成长——那种练习不可能有用。那种练习最多只能让他更加情绪化，而不是更有灵性。”
但是有很多人认为情绪就是灵性。感情和思维一样都是头脑的。而在你的头脑里面，那个被你叫作心灵的东西和你的头脑是同一回事。你很容易动感情。你可以泪流满面地哭，那些大珍珠似的眼泪——但这些都不是什么灵性。眼泪跟任何其他东西一样，都是物质的。
眼睛是身体的一部分，而感情是物质能量的一种骚乱。你在哭——当然你会感到放松，大哭一场之后你当然会感到舒畅。你会感到放松。全世界的妇女都了解这一点。她们非常了解它，它是有帮助的。她们哭泣，然后便感到放松了。这是一种宣泄，但其中并没有灵性的内容。而人们却继续混淆事物——他们继续认为那些非灵性的事物是灵性的。
人们到我这里来；他们说自从他们来了以后，他们的拙火（注释）正在升起。他们的身体里面有一些抽动，就以为自己非常非常有灵性了。拙火里面没有什么是灵性的；它是一种物质的力量。不要被它愚弄了。
又有一些人来——说他们看见光了。当他们闭上眼睛的时候，他们看见光……这无非是幻想罢了。很好，如果你能看见光了，你就会睡得好，因为你的头脑正在变得更加集中。不过这还是头脑。再好也不是灵性的。
又有一些人来——说他们看见一些景象了：吹笛子的克里希那（注释）、十字架上的耶酥、菩提树下静坐的佛陀等。他们来找我，以便我可以印证。我可以说：“是的，你已经达到了，你已经明白了，这就是灵性。”你的期望还能超过这些吗？吹笛子的克里希那，还能有什么呢？那么非凡的体验。
但这不是灵性的东西。是好梦、美梦而已。享受吧！只要不被愚弄。真是一个好梦——在你经历了那么多恶梦以后，来了个吹笛子的克里希那——享受一会儿没有什么坏处。你也可以跟地一起吹，围着他跳舞，只要不被愚弄。那并不是灵性的东西。
那么什么是灵性的呢？灵性不是一种体验。你不可能体验它。如果你在体验它，它就是某种头脑的东西，某种肉体的东西——因为你怎么能够体验你自己呢？你的存在不可能沦为一个对象。还是主体。你是主观。你能看见的每一样别的东西都不是你。你是看的人。
灵性不是一种体验。它不是一个对象；你无法观察它、看见它。你是它，是观察者，是看者。于是所有的体验都消失了。当没有什么被看见的时候，当没有对象被研究，只有觉知，广阔的、不被障碍的觉知，不被任何体验所障碍，那么你就已经成为灵性的了。你成为灵性的；灵性不是一种体验。
拙火、光、景象……都消失了。它们是很好标志，说明你在成长，但没有什么灵性的东西，真正的师傅对道路上的体验不感兴趣，他只对目标感兴趣。道路必须破经过，被超越。他只对你感兴趣，对你的纯粹的主观。没有对象，没有体验，什么也没有；当你的觉知在一片空阔的蓝天里象火焰一样燃烧的时候——甚至没有一丝微风，什么也没有，没有上帝……灵性里面没有上帝，那就是为什么佛教徒、耆那教徒从来不认为基督教、伊斯兰教、犹太传统是宗教里面最后的名词——因为他们继续议论体验、上帝、天使……他们继续着。
快乐、喜悦——他们继续谈论体验。而灵性是超越一切的。它就是超越。只有你留下来，觉知的，充分觉知的，觉醒的，其他一切都消失了。在这个完全的空里面燃烧着主观的火焰，绝对单独的，觉知的。请记住。
我并不满足于你的拙火。我对你的光也不感兴趣。我对你吹笛子的克里希那也并不感兴趣。所有你能够看见的神灵都是你的创造。把他们全都放下吧！来到一无所有的地方，一无所有。那时，只有你留在你的完全的觉知里——那有它自己的美。那是隐藏的辉煌。那是灵性的。
而在此之前，每件事情都是游戏。有肉体的游戏——性是肉体的游戏。有头脑的游戏——爱是头脑的游戏。灵性不是一种游戏。所有的事情都结束了，所有的游戏都被舍弃了，一个人回到家里，独自一人……坐在家里，没有体验。所有的体验都是障碍。
当只有觉醒留下来的时候，一个象巴哈乌丁那样的人才会对门徒感到满意。师傅们要求得那么多。他们不会把你跟那些愚蠢的幻想留在一起的，他们将不断地毁灭所有的幻想。当每样东西都被毁灭的时候，只有那个无法被毁灭的留了下来——不死。你，在你充分觉醒的状态里。
每样东西都是一个梦。有一层又一层的梦：美梦、恶心的梦、性灵的梦、非性灵的梦。但是灵性不是一场梦。灵性是已经从所有的梦中醒来的梦者。只有那时，隐藏的辉煌才流光溢彩。一切秘密的秘密才被知晓。
注释：拙火（kundalini）：瑜伽理论中指人的生命之原始能量，它蜷伏在尾椎部，当通过特殊训练后上升至脑时，可以激发悟道。克里希那（Krishna）：意译“黑天”，毗湿奴（Visnu，印度教崇拜的三大主神之一：是护持之神）的第八个化身。传说幼年时是个可爱的牧童，手持笛子
The sannyasins said:"You gave me a Sufi exercise, a WAZIFA exercise, and since then much has happened to me. I am growing."
And El-Shah said to his disciples, "I have given him a false exercise through which nobody can grow. It is not a technique at all. But he says he is growing. He is not even true to me. He is not only deceiving himself, he is trying to deceive me that he is growing -- and that exercise cannot help. At the most that exercise can make him more sentimental, not spiritual."
But many people think that sentimentality is spirituality. Emotions are as much mental as thoughts. And what you call your heart is as much in your head as your head. You can become emotional very easily. You can cry and weep with tears falling down, big pearl-like tears -- but nothing spiritual. Tears are as physical as anything else.
The eyes are part of the body, and emotions are a disturbance in the physical energy. You cry and weep -- of course you will feel relieved, you will feel relaxed after you have had a good cry. You will feel relieved. All over the world women know it. They know it well, that it helps. They cry and they weep and then they are relieved. It is a catharsis, but there is nothing spiritual in it. But people go on mistaking things -- things which are not spiritual they go on thinking they are spiritual.
People come to me; they say that since they have come their KUNDALINI is arising. They have jerks in the body and they think they have become very very spiritual. There is nothing spiritual in kundalini; it is a physical force. Don't be befooled by it.
Then people come -- they are seeing light. When they close their eyes they are seeing light... nothing but imagination. Good, you will have a good sleep if you can see light, because your mind is getting more concentrated. But it is MIND still. Good as far as it goes, but nothing spiritual.
Then people come -- they are seeing visions: Krishna playing on his flute, Jesus crucified, Buddha sitting under the bodhi tree. And they come to me so that I can certify, I can say, "Yes, you have attained, you have realized, this is what spirituality is." What more can you expect? Krishna playing flute, what more? Such an extraordinary experience.
But it is nothing spiritual. Good dreams, beautiful dreams. Enjoy! But don't be befooled. Really a good dream -- and after so many nightmares that you have lived through, Krishna playing flute -- nothing bad to enjoy for a while. You can also play the flute with him and dance around him, but don't be befooled. It is nothing spiritual.
Then what is spiritual? Spirituality is not an experience. You cannot experience it. If YOU experience it, it is something of the mind, something of the body -- because how can you experience yourSELF? Your being cannot be reduced to an object. You remain the subject. You are subjectivity. Everything else that you can see will not be you. You are the seer.
Spirituality is not an experience. It is not an object; you cannot watch and see it. YOU ARE IT, the watcher, the seer. So then all experiences disappear. When there is nothing to be seen, when there is no object to be observed, but only awareness, vast, unobstructed awareness not obstructed by any experience, then you have become spiritual. You BECOME spiritual; spirituality is not an experience.
Kundalini, lights, visions... all disappear. They are good indications that you are growing, but nothing of the spiritual. And the real master is not interested in the experiences on the way, he is interested only in the goal. The way has to be passed, transcended. He is interested only in YOU, in your absolute subjectivity, with no object, no experience, nothing; when your awareness burns like a flame in an empty sky -- not even a breeze, nothing, no God....
In spirituality there is no God, that's why Buddhists, Jainas, never think of Christianity, Mohammedanism, the Jewish tradition as the last word in religion -- because they go on talking about experiences: God, angels... they go on. Happiness, bliss -- they go on talking about experiences. And spirituality is beyond all. It is the very beyondness. Only you remain, aware, fully aware, awakened, and all else has disappeared. In this total emptiness burns the flame of subjectivity, of absolute aloneness, awareness. Remember that.
I am not satisfied with your kundalini. I am not satisfied with your lights. I am not satisfied with your krishnas playing on the flute. All gods that you can see are your creations. Drop them all! Come to the point where nothing remains, NOTHING remains. Then only are you left in your total aloneness -- and that has a beauty of its own. That is the hidden splendor. That is the spiritual.
Before that, everything is a game. There are games of the body -- sex is the game of the body. There are games of the mind -- love is the game of the mind. Spirituality is not a game. Everything finished, all games dropped, one comes back home, alone... sits in the home, no experience. All experiences are disturbances.
When only consciousness remains, only then a man like Bahauddin is satisfied with the disciple. Masters demand so much. They will not leave you with some foolish imagination, they will go on destroying all imaginations. When everything is destroyed, only that remains which cannot be destroyed -- the deathless. You, in your fully awakened state.
Everything is a dream. There are layers and layers of dreams: beautiful dreams, ugly dreams, spiritual dreams, nonspiritual dreams. But spirituality is not a dream. Spirituality is the dreamer who has awakened out of all dreams. Then only the hidden splendor is revealed. The secret of all secrets becomes known.Just Like That
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