今天在搜尋跟 duality 二元性相關的文字，有一篇居然是落在講「音樂」的文章類別之下，勾起了我的好奇心。（HIK 出身於音樂家世家，也是一位音樂家喔！）
這篇文章雖然從講音樂開始，但一路講到了二元性，又講到 “Unlearning”。關於 Unlearning，中文沒有直接對應的詞句，但在神祕主義的觀點中，是內在發展的一個重要歷程，這個字在「靈性發展地圖」一書中，翻譯成「拋棄所知」。
其中一段很有意思，節錄出來與大家分享，HIK 說：
「因此，神祕主義者採取另一種方式。他們學習到另一種路徑，那就是消抹自我，換句話說，拋棄一個人已知的那些東西。在東方，人們首先要學習的，就是如何成為一位門徒。他們第一個學習的，不是神是什麼，或生命是什麼。他們首先得學習如何好好當一個門徒。有人可能會覺得，這樣的話，他就會喪失他的個體性。但什麼是個體性？難道不是你所蒐集的一切嗎？什麼叫做你的想法、你的觀點？他們只不過是蒐集而來的知識罷了。這些知識必須被拋棄。
一個人該如何拋棄所知？你可能會說，頭腦的特性就是會把你所學的一切深鑿其上，那要怎麼才能拋棄那些？『拋棄所知』就是去完整你的知識。看到一個人，說『這個人很壞』，這是學習。若能看得更遠，認出這個人也有一些好的地方，這就是拋棄所知。當你能在一個你曾認為是壞的人身上看到好，你就做到拋棄所知了。你把那個打結解開了。你曾說『我討厭他』，這是學習。然而你若能說『噢不，我可以喜歡他，我可以同情他』當你這麼說的時候，你是用兩隻眼睛在看。一開始，你用單眼觀看來學習，然後你學著怎麼用雙眼來看。這使你的觀點完整。
所有我們在這個世界所學習到的一切，都只是不完全的知識，當這些被其他的觀點連根拔起時，我們才能獲得完整的知識。這就叫做神祕主義。為什麼它叫神祕主義？因為它無法被語言述說。文字只能展現它的一面，但其另一面是超越文字的。
整個顯現 (manifestation) 都是二元性的，這二元性使我們具有才智，而在二元性的背後是合一 (unity)。若我們沒有凌駕二元性，而向合一前進，我們就無法到達那個我們稱之為靈性 (spirituality) 的完美。」
天啊我今天超級勤奮地把整段翻譯出來了！哈哈哈！祝大家週末愉快喔！
原文節錄：
Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound and Music
22. Spiritual Attainment by the Aid of Music
“Mystics therefore have adopted a different way. They have learned a different course, and that course is self-effacement or, in other words, unlearning what one has learned. They say in the East that the first thing that is learned is to understand how to become a pupil. They do not first learn what God is, or what life is. The first thing to learn is how to become a pupil. One may think that in this way one loses one’s individuality. But what is individuality? Is it not that which is collected? What are one’s ideas and opinions? They are just collected knowledge. This should be unlearned.
How can one unlearn? You would say that the character of the mind is such that what one learns is engraved upon it, and how then can one unlearn it? Unlearning is completing knowledge. To see a person and say: “That person is wicked” – that is learning. To see further, and recognize something good in that person – that is unlearning. When you see the goodness in someone whom you have called wicked, you have unlearned. You have unravelled that knot. You have once said: “I hate that person’- that is learning. And then you say: “Oh no, I can like him, or I can pity him.” When you say that, you have seen with two eyes. First you learn by seeing with one eye; then you learn to see with two eyes. That makes sight complete.
All that we have learned in this world is partial knowledge, and when this is uprooted by another point of view, then we have knowledge in its completed form. That is called mysticism. Why is it called mysticism? Because it cannot be put into words. Words will show us one side of it, but the other side is beyond words.
The whole manifestation is duality, the duality which makes us intelligent, and behind the duality is unity. If we do not rise beyond duality and go towards unity, we do not attain the perfection which is called spirituality.”