前一集講到在「靜態守夜」階段,要現前出色斑或明點,藉由此通道進入第二注意力的層面。如 EP34 所摘:
「靜態的守夜」(restful vigil,寧靜守夜)是初步的狀態;在這個狀態下,感官處於休眠,但人仍然保有意識。就我而言,於此狀態,我總是會感知到一片紅色的光(a flood of reddish light);就像是面對太陽緊閉眼皮所看到的光。
我們暫把它類比於明、增、得三光的階段(特別是增相的部分,這是紅色的)。
接下來蘇麗卡開始教導肉體和能量體的合一。在《巫士的穿越》中,說到過錯誤的二分法:「人的二元性不是在於靈肉分離,而是肉體與能量體分離,所以兩者若能合一或者不二,兩者相互轉換理論上也是沒問題的」(見 EP39)。
現在我們可能先假定:第一注意力是肉體的主導意識;第二注意力是能量體的主導意識。那麼要讓這兩者(第一、第二注意力)合用(就是在處於第二注意力的同時,仍能保有第一注意力的邏輯理性,這有點類似大圓滿的修持方式:在不遮止六識功能的同時,能直接專注在本覺明分當中),坐姿上,就必須讓此二注意力(覺知)的中心點貼近。
雖然在唐望傳承的所謂身體中心在於臍輪或生法宮,但換成佛法修持的坐姿,依然有其相似之處。在修法坐姿上,網路上可以找到南懷瑾示範的幾種姿勢,都類同這裡所說的:讓小腿中心與身體中心(腹部)貼近的坐姿。
以唐望歷代相傳的密法「力量呼吸」的坐姿來說,它是雙膝併攏立起,雙手環抱於胸前。這裡卡氏講的應該類似這種吧。
「坐下來,背脊稍微彎曲,膝蓋靠到胸前,腳踏在地上,手臂環抱小腿,或者可以抓著手肘。讓下巴輕觸胸口。採取很短,很淺的呼吸。做短暫的呼吸至少十分鐘。」克萊拉說明:「這種呼吸反映存在與非存在的雙重力量。有規律地練習,帶著平靜與刻意,會逐漸平衡我們內在的能量。」(《巫士的穿越》)
「唐望故事」做夢篇 REVIEW-51
之後蘇麗卡開始了她教導的另一方面。她教我如何移動。她透過命令我將意識放在身體的中央開始她的指導。就我而言,中央是位於肚臍下緣的下方。
首先,我注意到在我明晰繭上第二注意力的那一點發癢。然後我感覺自己好像被折成兩半,捲進一張床單裡。當捲動結束時,我就感覺不到自己身體了。我只是一團無定形的意識,這團意識停駐在一條溝痕裡。
這時我明白了,要描述在做夢中發生的事是不可能的。蘇麗卡說,左、右邊意識(right and left side awareness)是包裹在一起的。兩者一起安住於(rest in)第二注意力被壓凹的中心的同一束裡面。為了要做夢,一個人需要〔同時〕控制明晰體(能量體)與肉體。
第一,第二注意力的聚合中心必須由其他人從外部推入(push in),或由做夢者從內部吸入(suck in)來成辦。第二,為了遣除(dislodge)第一注意力,位於身體中心(腹部)與小腿的中心,尤其是右小腿的中心,必須受到刺激,並盡可能地靠近彼此,直到〔此二處〕似乎連在一起。然後,被捆起來的感覺就會發生,第二注意力就會自動接管。
蘇麗卡以命令提出的解釋,是描述所發生的事情最有說服力的方式,因為在做夢中涉及的所有感官經驗,都不屬於我們正常的感官分類系統(感官數據清單)的一部分。
蘇麗卡還說,像雪茄般被捲起來、並被放進第二注意力凹痕中的感覺,是我將左、右邊意識合併成單一意識的結果,其中主導順序已被調換,左邊意識獲得了控制權。她要求我要足夠專注,以捕捉到這個反轉的動作;兩種注意力又會恢復平常,右邊意識取回控制權。
蘇麗卡說,首先我必須熟練任意移動的能力。她開始指導我,一次又次地在我處於「靜態守夜」狀態時睜開眼睛。我費了很大的努力才做到這一點。有一次我的眼睛突然睜開,看見蘇麗卡在我頭上若隱若現。
《老鷹的贈予》pp. 292-295,重譯
Zuleica started then on another facet of her teachings. She taught me how to move. She began her instruction by commanding me to place my awareness on the midpoint of my body. In my case the midpoint is below the lower edge of my belly button.
First I noticed the itch on the point of the second attention in my luminous shell. Then I felt as if I were being folded in two and rolled inside a sheet. When the rolling ended I could not sense my body any more. I was only an amorphous awareness. That awareness came to rest inside a ditch.
I understood then the impossibility of describing what takes place in dreaming. Zuleica said that the right and left side awareness are wrapped up together. Both of them come to rest in one single bundle in the dent; the depressed center of the second attention. To do dreaming one needs to manipulate both the luminous body and the physical body.
First, the center of assembling for the second attention has to be made accessible by being pushed in from the outside by someone else, or sucked in from within by the dreamer. Second, in order to dislodge the first attention, the centers of the physical body located in the midsection and the calves, especially the right one, have to be stimulated and placed as close to one another as possible until they seem to join. Then the sensation of being bundled takes place and automatically the second attention takes over.
Zuleica's explanation, given in commands, was the most cogent way of describing what takes place because none of the sensory experiences involved in dreaming are part of our normal inventory of sensory data.
Zuleica also said that the feeling of being rolled up like a cigar and placed inside the dent of the second attention was the result of merging my right and left awareness into a single awareness in which the order of predominance has been switched, and the left has gained supremacy. She challenged me to be attentive enough to catch the reversal motion; the two attentions again becoming what they normally are with the right holding the reins.
Zuleica said that first of all I had to perfect my command of moving at will. She began her instruction by directing me time and time again to open my eyes while I was in a state of restful vigil. It took a great deal of effort for me to do it. One time my eyes opened suddenly and I saw Zuleica looming over me.