来做一朵傻瓜花儿吧！

“好，听我说，”赛斯继续用那严肃而有力的语气说。“你不需要那么努力。如果你信任内我，你就会像花朵一样生长。花朵正确地生长，它不需要努力生长，也不会对自己说，‘在明晚暮色降临前，我一定要长高两英寸，所以请帮帮我吧！’花儿就是花儿，它允许自己生长，并确信它是它自己，而一切万有的精神就在它之内。

“好，善就像生长的花朵一样自然。然而，如果一朵花在阳光照耀下停止了生长，如果它开始思考，并且说，‘等等！我应该向左边生长，还是应该向右边生长？阳光照在我身上是好事吗？或者在阳光下成长对我来说太简单了，所以我应该尝试在黑暗中成长？我应该向右长两英寸，还是向左长两英寸？我一定要努力成长！我一定要发展自我和理智，我一定要努力够到太阳，太阳就是上帝，我一定要努力工作，因为如果我不奋斗，就不会成功——而我一定要成功！’

“但是，在我们理智又认真的花儿旁边，还有一朵傻瓜花儿！这朵傻瓜花儿站着，感受着照在它脸上的阳光，张开它的叶子说，‘这就是太阳，它在我里面是好的；它是成长之灵，我会追随它并给它自由；我不在乎我是向右长还是向左长，因为全然信任我内在的灵，所以我知道我将正确地生长。’

“它就这样生长着，我们的傻瓜花儿，它从内在成长。它是完美的，它是强壮的，但在它旁边的是我们理智又灵性的花儿。而这朵花说，‘又来了！下午三点钟，阴影就来了，阴影是邪恶的，阳光逐渐消失，黑夜就要来了，黑夜是邪恶的；我一定要想想怎样才能最好地击败这些敌人……但我很容易失败，我的能力很容易发挥不了，我很容易不成长！’

“看呐，到了早上，太阳升起，我们发现了什么？我们的傻瓜花儿在晨光中盛开，而我们的另一朵花却有一片叶子像这样（赛斯的一只手垂在椅子扶手上），另一片叶子像这样（他的另一只手臂伸向空中），而且低垂着头，还在思索善与恶的本质，而不信任它内在的生命力之灵；所以也没有倾听内在的声音……反而时时刻刻在质疑：‘我应该走哪条路呢？我该接受阳光还是雨水？那些是邪恶的力量吗？’它一遍又一遍地告诉自己，成长是困难的，死亡是容易的。它一而再、再而三地告诉自己——用抽象的语言——为善是困难的，作恶是容易的。而那是个骗局！”

“傻瓜花儿呢，”乔尓怀疑地问，“它只是自然地站在那里，接受它应得的——它有责任试着开导它那似乎陷入混乱的花族兄弟吗？”

“它的确开导了，”赛斯回答，“它通过以身作则来开导，因为另一朵花应该会看到说，‘我的花族兄弟怎么会在阳光下长得这么美呢？’

“好，要明白我只是在打个比方，”赛斯说，“我不是在告诉你们任何人，理智是错的，或者你们不应该使用它。就像任何老师一样，我只是选了一个例子。但是，我们傻瓜花儿的存在本身就是一个例子，因为我要告诉你们——用我能告诉你们的最简单说法——你们可以信任内在自发的自己。用你们的话来说，它是一切万有之灵。它知道如何成长。它让你从胎儿长成大人，这一切都不需要你的努力，也不需要你时时刻刻打断它说，‘你长得还好吗？我左边的脚趾长对了，还是长错方向了？’如果非要你发言才行，身体就永远不会正确地成形：你会花那么多时间来下决定……”

“即使我们感受到了自发性，”乔尓继续说，“我们可以选择基于自发性来作出反应吗？”

“你跟着自发性走！”赛斯回答。“除非你是个孩子，否则你进不了天国！除非你是喜悦的，除非你活在心灵的信任里，否则你不是完整的。一个小孩子可以引导他们的反应，因为心灵的自发性知道一切万有……一切万有并不威严！一切万有不是'成人'！一切万有并不浮夸！一切万有是，而且在‘是’当中产生……创造力。当你的理智跟随你存在的自发性时，你就能够允许理智完全的自由。

“只要你是有意识的，你就在跟随自发的自己，不管在哪一世，或哪一个存在。但要在灵性上进化，你必须有意识地与自发的自己结合，喜悦而放纵地结合。

“好，我的朋友，”赛斯对着乔尔咧嘴一笑，“鲁柏特别不喜欢引用基督教圣经里的话，其实也不喜欢引用基督教的例子，但我想对你说：有一段引述跟田野里的百合花有关。现在你不信任自发的自己，你就像田野里的百合花——又是我们的花儿——突然开始担心它们会吃不饱，没有衣服穿，不被支持，不被庇护；还担心它们赖以生存的营养可能会被夺走。你应该相信你是被支持和维护的……用你们的话说：被上帝，被生命力之灵或一切万有所支持的。倘若你不相信这一点，你就隔离了自己。

“好，这就是我今晚给你的直接答案，我的年轻人，但你可以找到你自己的答案……在你自发的自己之中，在倾听你内心一切万有的声音之中！”

“Now, listen to me,” Seth continued in that grave, powerful tone. “You need not try so hard. If you trust the inner self, then you grow as a flower grows. The flower grows correctly, and it does not strive to grow, and it does not say to itself, ‘I must grow two inches, so help me, by tomorrow night at twilight!’ A flower is, and it allows itself to grow, and it is sure of its Is-ness and of the spirit of All That Is within it.

“Now, goodness is as natural as a flower that grows. If a flower stopped when the sun was shining down upon it, however, and if it began to consider and said, ‘Wait! Should I grow to the left, or should I grow to the right? Is it good that the sun shines down on me, or is it too easy for me to grow in the light of the sun, and therefore should I attempt to grow instead in the darkness? Should I grow two inches to the right, or two inches to the left? I must strive to grow! I must develop an ego and an intellect, and I must try to reach that sun that is God and I must work hard because if I do not strive, I shall not achieve—and I must achieve!’

“But, beside our intellectual, conscientious flower is an idiot of a flower! And the idiot of a flower stands and feels the sun upon its face and opens up its leaves and says, ‘This is the sun, and it is good within me; it is the spirit of growth, and I'll follow it and give it freedom; and I care not whether I grow to the right or to the left, for in perfect trust with the spirit within me, I know I shall grow correctly.’

“And so it grows, our idiot flower, and it grows from within. And it is perfect and it is strong, but beside it is our intellectual and spiritual flower. And this flower says, ‘Again! Three o'clock in the afternoon, the shadows are coming and the shadows are evil, and this sun is fading, and the night is coming, and the night is evil; and I must consider how best I can confound these adversaries…and it is easy to fail and not use my abilities and not to grow!’

“And lo and behold, in the morning the sun rises, and what do we find? Our idiot flower in full bloom in the morning sun and our other flower with one leaf like this [Seth drooped his hand over the chair arm] and one leaf like this [his other arm stuck up in the air] and head down, still considering the nature of good and evil and not trusting the spirit of vitality which is within it; and therefore, not listening to the inner voice…but questioning at every point and at every hour: ‘In which way shall I go? Shall I accept the sunlight or the rain? Or are these evil forces?’ And telling itself over and over again that to grow is difficult and to die is easy. Telling itself over and over and over—in metaphysical terms, now—that to be good is difficult and to be evil is easy. And that is a deception!”

“The idiot flower,” Joel asked skeptically, “that just stands there naturally and accepts its due—does it have a responsibility to try to enlighten his brother flower which seems to be caught in confusion?”

“It does indeed,” Seth replied, “and it does by its example, for the other flower should look and say, ‘How is it that my brother flower grows so beautifully in the sunlight?’

“Now, understand that I am speaking simply for an analogy,” Seth said, “and I am not telling any of you that the intellect is wrong, or that you should not use it. Like any teacher, I am simply choosing an example. But the existence of our idiot flower is, in itself, an example, for I will tell you—in the simplest terms that I can tell you—that you can trust the inner spontaneous self. It is, in your terms, a spirit of All That Is. It knows how to grow. It grew you from a fetus to an adult, and it did so without your striving, and without your stopping it at every moment to say, ‘Are you growing right? Is my left toe growing correctly or is it growing in the wrong direction?’ If you would have had your say, the body never would have been formed correctly: you would have taken that much time to make up your minds…”

“Even though we feel the sense of spontaneity,” Joel pursued, “do we have the option to react in view of it?”

“You go along with it!” Seth answered. “Unless you are a child, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven! Unless you are joyful, unless you live in trust of spirit, you are not whole. A little child shall lead them because the spontaneity of spirit knows All That Is…All That Is is not dignified! All That Is is not ‘adult’! All That Is is not pompous! All That Is is, and in Is-ness comes…creativity. You can allow your intellect full freedom when it follows the spontaneity of your being.

“You follow the spontaneous self as long as you are conscious, in whatever life, or whatever existence. But to evolve spiritually, you must consciously join with it, joyously and with abandon.

“Now, my friend,” Seth grinned at Joel, “Ruburt is not given to quoting from the Christian Bible or, indeed, of using Christian examples, but I will say this to you: There is a quote having to do with the lilies of the field. Now when you do not trust in the spontaneous self you are like lilies in the field—our flower again—who suddenly begin to worry that they will not be fed, nor clothed, nor supported, nor sheltered; and that the nutriments from which they take their existence might be taken away from them. You are supposed to believe that you are supported and sustained… by God, in your terms: by a spirit of vitality, or All That Is. To the extent that you do not believe this, you cut yourself off.

“Now, that is my immediate answer to you this evening, my young man, but you can find your own answers…in your own spontaneous self and [in] listening to the voice of All That Is within you!”

——摘译自《与赛斯对话》卷一