自性意味著無為與臣服

True Nature Means Non-doing and Surrender

活在當下是一種臣服的型式，也就是帶有覺察的擁抱一切經驗。 如果我正感受到某種不喜歡的感覺，那麼便擁抱這份感覺、及我不喜歡這份感覺的事實。而不是采取一種預設立場以排拒負面的感受。

To be where we are really is a form of surrender to whatever is happening. And that surrender is an awareness that embraces whatever our experience is. If I am feeling something and I see that I don’t like it, then I embrace that I am feeling something and I embrace the fact that I don’t like it. I don’t take the position that I shouldn’t have a negative response to what I am feeling.

這暗示著我們存在的本質中帶有某種信任。通常我們不具備這層信任，所以總是想把東西握在我們手裡，捏成我們想要的樣子。自性告訴我們，尚有其他選擇，那就是與我們的自性同在，允許內在經驗的自由進出，並展現事物本然的樣子。

This implies a certain trust and confidence in our nature. Usually we don’t have that trust, so we want to take things into our own hands and twist them and turn them the way we want them to be. True Nature shows us that we have another option, which is to align with it in allowing our experience to be what it is.

What it Means to Surrender

自性從不干涉我們也沒有刻意的操弄，衪不會催逼我們也不試著抓住任何東西，衪只是放鬆與自在，完全的覺察與擁抱當下，感受一切，而這樣的感知便是臣服！

So you can see from everything that has been said thus far that True Nature really doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t push and it doesn’t hold on to anything. It simply relaxes, effortlessly, and is present with full awareness, embracing the immediacy of feeling and sensing our experience. That is the sense in which surrender is meant.

這並不是說我們有一個”臣服”可做，臣服並不是一個可以籍由”做為”來達成的事，臣服基本上意味著”無為”，不操弄內在升起的一切經驗，也就是不管你自己！

It’s not that we are going to do something: “Okay, now I am going to surrender.” What are you going to do to surrender? I have never seen anybody surrendering. Nobody ever surrenders. Surrender means basically nondoing. It means not doing anything to what is arising in our experience. It means leaving ourselves and our experience alone.

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不取不拒, 不跟隨不對抗
不干涉意思不是停止干涉，而是，當我們在干涉時，只要覺察自已在干涉，並從源頭看見干涉到底在做什麼，通常這樣就足夠讓它停止，你不會有想要刻意讓它停止下來的感受，它只是自然而然就停止了！

Remember that ceasing to meddle doesn’t mean that you do something to sop. Just being aware that you are meddling—and seeing what meddling does—is usually sufficient for it to stop by itself. You won’t have the feeling that you are stopping it; it just stops.


From "Hands Off Your Experience," a chapter of "The Unfolding Now," segment titled “True Nature Even Response to Our Meddling,” ch. 2, p. 28