我是谁 之九

【原文】
When you don't play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do. There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of your self. As a result, your actions have far greater power. You are totally focused on the situation. You become one with it. You don't try to be anybody in particular. You are most powerful, most effective, when you are completely yourself.

"How can I be myself?" is, however, the wrong question. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how doesn't apply here because you are yourself already. Just stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are. "But I don't know who I am. I don't know what it means to be myself." If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are -- The Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

Give up defining yourself -- to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence.

想象一下，你作为一个个体时，在怎样的情况下最自在？在意识不到自己的时候最自在。几乎所有人在接受面试时都会不自在，也有许多人害怕当众演讲。为什么？因为在这些情况下，自我觉知（self awareness）最为强烈。自我觉知占据人的大脑的时候，人就会紧张，害怕，恐惧。而当你沉浸在你在做的事情的时候，忘记了自我的存在，甚至不能感知时间的时候，人是最自在的。想想你看电视的时候，想想你沉浸在你的工作或者学习或者娱乐的时候，想象那些你全身关注与自己在做的事情的时候，是不是经常忘记了自己的存在？在忘记自己存在的时候，你是不是最轻松，最自在呢？

一定是的。

现在，你要做的就是，训练自己，在做任何事情的时候，都能尽快的达到忘我的境界。没有了自我，痛苦就会消失，人的力量就会最大限度的释放。而相应带来的成就，则是不可限量的。

做到这个，就是要做到 Focus.