有哪些方法，我們如何才能靜心，我們如何才能經驗內在那絕對的舒適呢？
有五種方法。
第一種是透過身體的方法，透過瑜珈，透過運動。當我們的身體做某些動作或姿勢，並帶著一種韻律時，那會帶來一些的疲憊，然後心智就滑進靜心中。
這是非常有趣去了解的。假如你非常的活躍，你無法靜心。同時假如你休息得太好，你也無法靜心。但是在一種身體有適量的疲憊，但又不是太疲累，一種非常精微的平衡的狀態下，心智就滑進了靜心中。或者你的整個系統就滑進了靜心中，所以第一是透過身體。
二是透過生命能量或是透過呼吸。透過呼吸你可以靜心下來，這是我們都知道的，淨化呼吸法是最好的例子之一。在調息及淨化呼吸法之後，你坐下來靜坐，你毫不費力地就滑進了靜心中，所以呼吸技術是靜心的一個方法。
第三是透過感官的享受——透過視覺、聽覺、味覺、嗅覺及觸覺。這五種感官和五種元素相關連。
這個世界包含著五種元素，土、水、空氣、火和空間。整個宇宙也是由這五種元素不同的組合而成，而這五種元素也和我們的五官息息相關。火元素和視覺有關；嗅覺和土元素有關；味覺是水元素；聽覺和空間元素有關；觸覺則和風元素有關。你知道，假如你在水裡或在泳池裡，你的觸覺並不那麼靈敏。你有注意過這嗎？不是很多，但仍有一點。那是因為五種元素存在五種感官裡的關係。在水裡甚至有空氣的元素，但那只有一小部份，所以在宇宙中的五種元素和五種感官息息相關。在一種很深沉的靜心中，你可以去經驗任何一個感官，去超越它們，然後與之合而為一。
第四個方法是透過情緒，透過情緒你也可以靜心。
然後第五是透過理智。你只要坐著，去知道這個身體是由數百萬個細胞所組成的。啊！某種東西就在你身上發生了，某種東西就受到了刺激。
假如你去參觀太空博物館，你內在就有某種東西受到了刺激。在你進入太空博物館參觀出來後，難道你不覺得有些不一樣嗎？多少人有這種感覺過？
有些人進到太空博物館或者看了一部關於宇宙的電影，內在深處有些東西發生了。有些事情被啟動了，你無法馬上從這種經驗中脫離出來，然後馬上對人大吼大叫。那幾乎是不可能的，因為當你覺察到宇宙的浩瀚時，你的生命也馬上受到了改變。我們的生命是什麼？這個地球是什麼？這個銀河系在哪裡？你內在某個轉變就發生了，我告訴你，這只是如何透過理智，你可以超越並進入靜心的驚鴻一瞥而已。
所以透過理智、透過情緒、透過五種感官、透過呼吸和淨化呼吸法，然後透過一些對身體的巧妙操作，我們就能夠達成靜坐。（取自2012/04/21古儒吉在美國加州談靜坐的奧秘secrets of Meditation,California中的部分內文）
譯者:莊學琴老師
What are the ways and how we can meditate, how we can experience that absolute comfort within our self?
So there are five ways:
First way is through physical means; through yoga and through physical exercise. When our body does certain postures, with a certain rhythm, it brings some tiredness and then the mind slips into meditation.
It is very interesting to see. If you are very active you can’t meditate, at the same time, if you are too well rested, you can’t go into meditation. But in a state where the body has the right amount of tiredness, yet still not that tired, in that very delicate balance, the mind slips into meditation, or your whole system slips into meditation. So first is through the physical.
Second is through prana or through breath. Through breathing you can get into mediation. This we all know, Sudarshan Kriya is one of the best examples. After pranayama and Sudarshan Kriya when you sit for meditation you slip into meditation effortlessly.
So a breathing technique is one way to get into meditation.
The third is through any sensory pleasure – through sight, sound, taste, smell or touch. The five sensory organs, related to five elements.
The world is of five elements, earth, water, air, fire and ether. A different combination of these five elements is what this universe is made of, and these five elements are connected to the five senses that we have. Fire is connected with the eyes, smell with earth element, taste with water element, sound with ether element and touch is connected with air element.
You know, if you are in water or a swimming pool, you don’t feel touch so much. Have you noticed that? Not so much but a little bit, this is because the five elements are present in each one of them. There is air element even in water, but to a small degree. So these five elements in the universe are connected to the five senses. And you can go through any one of the senses to transcend them and become one in a very deep meditative state.
The fourth way is through emotions. Through emotions also you can get into meditation.
Then the fifth is through the intellect. You just sit and know that this body is made up of billions of cells. Ah! Something happens to you, something gets stimulated.
If you go into a space museum, something gets stimulated inside you. Doesn’t it make you feel somewhat different when you get into a space museum and then get out of it? How many of you have felt like that?
Someone gets into a space museum or watches a movie about the universe, something happens deep inside; something triggers. You can’t just immediately come out of such an experience and yell at somebody. It becomes almost impossible because the context of life immediately changes when you become aware of the magnanimity of the universe. That is the context for life. What is our life? What is this planet Earth, and where is this galaxy? Some shift happens within you. I tell you, this is just a glimpse of how through the intellect also you can transcend and get into a meditative state.
So through the intellect, through emotions, through the five senses, through breathing and Sudarshan Kriya and then through some physical manipulation of the body, we can attain meditation.
問：靜坐一段時間後，我開始覺察到自己的一些反應模式，像自我防衛和憤怒。我要如何才能讓自己有不同的反應呢？
古儒吉：現在，不要承認一切你想的是你的模式，就讓它們存在那兒。假如你開始認為自己的模式就是像這樣，我總是愛發脾氣，我總是愛自我防衛，那你就把自己和過去或一些模式閂在一起。所以不要去承認它們。它們昨天在那兒，然後就進到我的空間裡，那又如何。
有時候你看到天空裡烏雲來了，但是那空間並不擁有那些烏雲，它只是讓它們來，然後讓它們離開。同樣地，這些情緒來了，有時候是愉快的，有時候是不愉快的，你必須去否認與它們有關係。那是第一步。就讓它們來，讓它們走。
Q:After meditation for a while I have become aware of my patterns of reactions, such as defensiveness and anger. How do I get myself to react differently?
Sri Sri: Now disown all that you think are your patterns, let them be. If you start identifying that my patterns are like this, I am always anger, I am always defensive, then you are latching onto the past or some patterns. So disown them. They ⋯⋯were there yesterday and it came in my space,so what.
Sometimes you see dark clouds in the sky, but the space does not own them. It just allows them to come and pass away. Similarly, these emotions come, sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. You should disown them. That is the first step. Let them come and go.
問：靜坐時我要如何平息腦中的聲音呢？
古儒吉：有幾件事是你可以做的。
首先是接受它，並不要與之對抗。當你與它對抗，你會感覺不該有這些聲音，你會想要消除它。你越是想要消除，它越是會纏著你。意識或是心智的原則是，抗拒無法消除，反而助其更加成長。所以首先是放下它，不要與之對抗。
第二就像我說過的，五種方法可以幫助你靜坐。呼吸可以幫助你擺脫噪音，適當的食物對靜坐也有相當的影響，運動、姿勢和精微的情緒，良好的理解力，這些都可以幫助靜坐。
（取自2012/04/21古儒吉在美國加州談靜坐的奧秘secrets of Meditation,California中的問與答）
Q: How to quiet the voice inside my head while meditating?
Sri Sri: There are several things you can do about it.
First is accepting it and not fighting with it. When you fight with it and feel that you should not have this noise and you want to get rid of it, the more you want to get rid of it, the more it will stick to you. The principle of consciousness or mind is such that resistance does not eliminate it but makes it grow. So first is letting go and not resist it.
Second is as I mentioned, the five different ways you can get into meditation. Breathing will help you get rid of the noise. Proper food can also make an impact on meditation. Exercise, posture and refined emotions, good understanding, all these will aid meditation.
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