现在来看这个美丽的故事，它必须一步一步地被了解。
列子赴齐，半路折返。路遇伯昏瞀人，因问缘何而归。
齐是列子所在国家的都城，列子去国都却半路折返。回来时遇到了伯昏瞀人，伯昏瞀人是一位道家老师父，一个真正到家的人。
老人家问：“你怎么回来了？”
列子说：“我被吓到了。”
注意听，因为没有人像道家人那样对这些现象穿透得如此之深。
“是什么？”老人家问。
“我去十家餐馆吃饭，五家都优先为我服务。”
现在来看。他说：“我去十家餐馆吃饭，有五家优先为我服务......因为这个被吓到了。”为什么这样会吓到你？事实上，你应该很高兴，人们都认为你与众不同，卓而不凡，你是特例，是VlP，优先于别人为你服务。但列子是一个道家弟子，他知道这是危险的。当人们开始认为你是个特殊人物，那就是危险。
危险是什么？危险在于你可能再次踏上小我之旅，自我陶醉；危险在于他们可能再次唤醒你的野心；危险在于他们不会允许你放松，不会允许你成为你自己。当别人赋予你重要性，他们就开始了对你的掌控。那就是控制别人的全部艺术。当你想要控制一个人你会怎么做？你会让他感觉自己非常重要。你会说：“你真伟大。”当你说“你真伟大”的那一刻，你的力量就盖过了他。现在，如果他想保持伟大，就必须有你的认可，他的伟大依赖于你。如果你反对他，那他还伟大什么？是你让他伟大的——现在你掌握了那个关键。
这是一种微妙的方式，他会成为你的奴隶。所以每当有人夸张地赞美你，你要小心了！他正在试图把你捏在自己手心里，一旦你允许了，就很难摆脱。
头脑非常愿意玩这样的游戏，哪怕有些时候别人是在说谎，但它也满足了你的小我，你会接受的。你可以试试。对一个丑女人说：“你非常漂亮！”她甚至不会说：“我不漂亮，打住！我只是平平常常而已。”要是你对一个丑女人说她是世界上最漂亮的女人，她也会接受的，她不会说：“不，别骗我。”一旦她接受了，她就被骗了。现在她在你的掌控中，她会总是想起你，屈从于你，因为你是唯一一个说她漂亮的人。
你是唯一一面让她照见美的镜子——其它所有的镜子都说她丑陋，现在，她不能没有你了。她会执著于你，她会成为你的佣人，你的奴隶——但她无法承受失去你。
记住，每当你被抬举成一个重要人物你就危险了，危险！如果你不是非常警觉，使小我在所有的层面上都消失，那就会有危险。这件事发生的时候列子一定还是一个弟子，还不是一个师父。师父可以应对任何情况，弟子还不能，他必须非常警觉，因为危险还存在，他还没有到家。有无数个让你迷失的可能。
“我去十家饭馆吃饭，有五家都优先服务于我。”
“如果只是这样，你怎么会被吓到？”老人家问。
“当一个人的内在还不是非常整合，有时某些东西会外泄形成一种光晕，它会压迫别人的心，使别人以他为荣，甚至超过敬老爱贤，这会使他陷入困境。”
这是一个非常伟大的洞见，在此之前从来没有人这样说过——哪怕是帕坦迦利，他完整地绘出了意识的地图，哪怕是他也不曾说过这样的话。此功归于道家。
他说：“当一个人的内在不够整合......”
通常你以为，当一个人非常整合他会有一个光环。不，这是不对的，光环来自某种泄漏。你的整合度还不是十分绝对地完整，所以能量才会泄漏并创造出一个光环，你周围有一种微妙的磁吸力。当然，每当你与别人接触，他们会被你影响。你的光环就像一种令人陶醉的东西，他们会直接被你迷倒。在他们眼里你魅力十足，吸引力超强，但道家说，那只是表明你还没有真正变得平凡，你还在渴望着什么。在某个地方，小我还存在，因为只有透过小我你内在的能量才会泄漏。
“当一个人的内在不够整合......”
他们所说的“内在整合”是什么？当小我不存在，你就与整体整合为一。
当小我存在，你就没有与整体整合为一体。当小我存在，你是分裂的；当小我存在......事实上，小我有很多——你是一个人群，内在持续不断地在争斗。每一个小我都试图比别人更强大，所以挣扎、争斗从来没停止过。在那样的争斗中，你的能量开始外流：它变成一种光环。
记住，这不是出现在佛佗或老子或椰酥身上的光晕。光晕出现在佛佗身上，但那不是能量的外泄——不。他的整个存在都变得如此光芒万丈，哪怕透过他的身体你也能看到微妙的光线。就像房子里点亮的灯，哪怕透过窗帘你也能看到里面没有黑暗。那不是一种泄漏，那是一种完全不同的品质。你怎么才能分辨出其中的不同呢？
当你与佛佗接触，他的存在不会压迫你的心脏，事实上，他的临在使你更自由。他不会把你变成奴隶，他会把你变成大师。他的在不会成为对你的束缚，而是一种自由：他会让你解脱。
当能量外泄，它会变成一种非常具有压迫性的能量，那几乎就是暴力。就像有人手里拿着剑跳到你身上，迫使你屈服。这些话是对的。当你与一个佛接触，他的能量不外泄，没有泄漏，臣服会发生，但不是被迫臣服。
当你靠近一个还没真正整合的人，他透过灵修创造了一种很强的能量场，能量在外泄，那么屈服会发生，但不是臣服。
你变成一个奴隶，一个模仿者。你的个体性被碾碎，被摧毁，你成了一个副本。
记住，这一点会永远对你有帮助。只与不把你变成副本的师父同行，和他在一起有更多自由，哪怕是臣服也会给你个体性，追随他你不会变成追随者，和他在一起你会拥有更多更多的自由。他使你如此自由，他给你无比的自由——甚至比你给自己的还多。他不会给你外在的约束，他给你内在的觉知，透过觉知你会开花。你没有被压抑，没有被强迫，无与伦比的事会发生，但那是自然的发生，完全的自发。
Now this beautiful story. It has to be understood step by step.
LIEH TZU WAS GOING TO CH'I BUT TURNED BACK HALF WAY. ON THE ROAD HE MET PO-HUN WU-JEN WHO ASKED HIM WHY HE HAD TURNED BACK.
Ch'i was the capital of the kingdom where Lieh Tzu lived, so he was going to the capital of his nation but turned back in midjourney. When he came back, he met Po-hun Wujen. Po-hun Wujen was an old Taoist Master, a man who had really arrived. So the old man asked 'Why have you come back?'
Lieh Tzu said 'I WAS ALARMED BY SOMETHING.'
Listen carefully, because nobody has gone so deeply into these phenomena as the Taoists.
'WHAT WAS IT?' asked the old man.
'I ATE AT TEN INNS AND AT FIVE THEY SERVED ME FIRST.'
Now look. He says 'I ATE AT TEN INNS AND AT FIVE THEY SERVED ME FIRST... that alarmed me.' Why should it alarm you? In fact it should make you very delighted, that people are recognising that you are extraordinary, that you are exceptional, that you are a VlP; you are being served before others. But Lieh Tzu is a disciple of Tao; he understands that this is dangerous. When people start thinking that you are exceptional, there is danger.
What is the danger? The danger is that you may move again on an ego-trip; the danger is they may again give you an ambition; the danger is that they will not allow you to relax and to be yourself. When people give importance to you, they start dominating you. That's the whole art of manipulating people. When you want to manipulate a person what do you do? You make him feel very important. You say 'You are simply great.' And the moment you have said 'You are simply great', you have become powerful over him. Now, if he wants to maintain his greatness, he will have to consider you; now his greatness will depend on you. If you go against him, then what about his greatness? You have made him great -- now you have the key.
Now, in a subtle way, he will become your slave. So whenever somebody comes and exaggerates about you, beware! He is trying to catch hold of you, and once you allow it, it will be difficult to go back home.
Mind wants to play these games very much. Even when sometimes a person is saying a lie but it is fulfilling to your ego, you accept it. You can try it. Say to an ugly woman 'You are very beautiful' and even she will not say ‘l am not. Stop all this nonsense! I am just plain and homely.' If you say even to an ugly woman that she is the most beautiful woman in the world she will accept it, she will not say 'No, don't deceive me.' Once she accepts it, she is deceived. Now she will be in your power; now she will always have to think about you and concede things to you, because you are the only person who has made her beautiful.
You are the only mirror in which she has looked beautiful -- all other mirrors were saying that she is ugly, now she cannot afford to lose you. She will cling to you, she will become a servant to you, she will become a slave to you-but she cannot afford to lose you.
Remember, whenever you are being made important there is danger. Danger! If you are not so alert that ego has disappeared from all the layers of your being, there is danger. And Lieh Tzu must have been a disciple when this happened, he was not yet a Master. A Master can afford to be in any situation; a disciple cannot afford to, he has to be very alert because still there are dangers, still he has not arrived. There are tremendous possibilities of getting lost.
'I ATE AT TEN INNS AND AT FIVE THEY SERVED ME FIRST.'
'IF THAT IS ALL, WHY SHOULD YOU BE ALARMED?' asked the old man.
'WHEN A MAN'S INNER INTEGRITY IS NOT FIRM, SOMETIMES, SOMETHING OOZES FROM HIS BODY AND BECOMES AN AURA, WHICH, OUTSIDE HIM, PRESSES ON THE HEARTS OF OTHERS; IT MAKES OTHER MEN HONOUR HIM MORE THAN HIS ELDERS AND BETTERS, AND GETS HIM INTO DIFFICULTIES.'
This is a very great insight. Nobody has ever mentioned it -- not even Patanjali who has completely covered the map of consciousness, not even he has mentioned it in this way. The credit goes to the Taoists.
He is saying 'WHEN A MAN'S INNER INTEGRITY IS NOT FIRM...'
Ordinarily you think that a man has an aura when his integrity is very firm. No, it is wrong; the aura comes from some leakage. Your integrity is not absolute yet, so your energy starts leaking and it creates an aura, a subtle magnetism around you. Of course, whenever you come in contact with others they will be impressed. Your aura will function like an intoxicant; they will simply be impressed. You will have a very charismatic effect on them, but Taoists say that it simply shows that you have not yet become really ordinary, you are still hankering for something. Somewhere, the ego is still there, because only through the ego do your inner energies leak out.
'WHEN A MAN'S INNER INTEGRITY IS NOT FIRM...'
And what do they mean by 'inner integrity'? When there is no ego, you are integrated with the whole.
When there is ego, you are not integrated with the whole. When there is ego, you are split; when there is ego.... In fact, there are many egos -- you are a crowd and there is a constant fight inside. Each ego tries to be more powerful than the others and there is a continuous struggle, and in that struggle your energy starts flowing out: it becomes a sort of aura.
Remember, this is not the aura that happens to a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or to Jesus. An aura happens to Buddha, but that aura is not energy coming out -- no. His whole being has become so luminous, that even from his body you can see the subtle rays of his luminosity. It is as if a lamp is burning in a house and even through the curtains you can see that there is no darkness inside. It is not a leakage, it has a totally different quality to it. And how will you make out the difference'?
When you come in contact with the Buddha, his presence does not press your heart; in fact, his presence makes you more free. His presence does not turn you into slaves, his presence turns you into Masters. His presence does not become a binding on you, but becomes a freedom: he liberates.
When the energy comes out, it becomes a very repressing force. It is almost violent. It is as if somebody has jumped upon you with a sword in his hand and forces you to submit. These words are good. When you come in contact with a Buddha whose energy is not oozing out, who has no leakage left, surrender happens, but there is no submission in surrender.
When you come in close contact with a person who is not yet really integrated and he is creating great energy through his SADHANA and the energy is leaking out, submission happens, but there is no surrender.
You become a slave, you become an imitator. Your individuality is crushed and destroyed, you become a carbon copy.
Remember, this will help you always. Only keep company with a Master with whom you don't become a carbon copy, with whom freedom is possible, with whom even surrender gives you individuality, following whom you don't become a follower, with whom you earn more and more freedom. He makes you so free, he gives you tremendous freedom -- more than you can give to yourself. He does not give you a discipline, he gives you awareness, and through awareness you flower. You are not repressed, you are not forced; great things happen, but they happen naturally, spontaneously.
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