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（建议懂英文的读者参看后面所附英文原文。作者 Eckhart Tolle 开悟后从一个直接认知的角度重看基督）
（译文来自 tieba.baidu.com/p/753424649?pn=2）
切勿执着任何一个文字。如果“临在”对你更有意义的话，你可以用它取代“基督”。基督就是你的神的本质，或东方所称的“大我”。基督和临在之间唯一的差别在于，基督指的是你内在常驻的神性，而无关乎你意识到它的存在与否。临在意谓着你觉醒了的神性，或神的本质。
如果你明白了在基督里没有过去或未来的矛盾，许多有关基督的误解和错误的信念都会厘清。用过去是或未来是来陈述基督，是犯了用法上的矛盾。耶稣过去是。他是一个活在两千年前的人，他体现了神性的临在，他的真性。所以他说，“在亚伯拉罕过去是之前，我是。”他没有说，“在亚伯拉罕诞生之前，我已经存在了。”这句话。如果这样说的话，就意谓着地仍然在时间和形相身份的向度里。在一个以过去式开头的句子里，使用现在式的我是，指出了一个激进的转变：一个在时间向度中的不延续。这句话像禅修的话头一样，含有深刻的意义。耶稣的用意在于以直接的方式，而不是迂回的思想，传递临在和自我体现的意义。他超越了受制于时间的意识向度，进入了无时间性的境域。永恒的向度从此进入世界。永恒当然不是无止境的时间，而是指没有时间。这一来，耶稣这个人就变成了基督，变成了一个纯意识的载具。那么神在圣经里的自我定义又是什么？神说过，“我曾经是，未来也永远是。”这句话吗？当然没有。这样说无异把实相交给了过去和未来。神说，“我是即我是。”这里没有时间，只有临在。
基督“再临”是人类意识的转化，是从时间转换至临在，从思考转换至纯意识。不是一个男人或女人要来的意思。万一“基督”真的在明天以一个人身回来的话，他或她除了对你说：“我就是真理。我就是神性的临在。我就是永生。我就在你里面。我就在这里。我就在当下。”此外还能说什么？
千万不要把基督人格化。不要把基督变成一个有形相的身份。梵天、圣母、悟道的大师、和那些为数极少的真实的的人，并不因人格而与众不同。反之，缺少了一个可以攀缘、可以护卫、可以豢养的虚假自我，他们比之于一般的凡夫俗子更单纯、更平凡。在一个我执冥顽不灵的人眼里，他们根本不足为道，甚或对他们视若无睹。
如果你被一位悟道的导师所吸引，那是因为你内在已经有了足够的临在，才能识出另一个人的临在。不认得耶稣和佛陀的人不知多少，正如趋从假上师者如过江之鲫一样的多。小我执见大我执便趋之若骛。黑暗无能辨识光明，唯光能识光。不要相信光在你的身外，或者相信它只能以一个特定的形相来临。如果只有你的师傅才是神的化身，那么你又是谁？任何一种排外都是形相认同。形相认同意谓着我执，无论它掩饰得多么天衣无缝。
利用师傅的临在，来反映你超越名相的身份。让自己变得更深刻地临在。你很快就会体认到，在临在里没有“我的”或“你的”之分。临在就是一。
共修团体对于强化你的临在之光，也会有助益。一个团体在临在状态下凝聚在一起，会产生一个很强的集体磁场。这么做不仅会提升每一个成员的临在度，也帮助他们摆脱了集体人类意识以心智为主导的现况。这么做也使得个人更容易进入临在的状态里。然而，除非有一个以上的成员，已经如实的安住在那个状态里，并且稳住磁场的波动，我执的心智便会轻而易举地故态复发，因而破坏了小组努力的成效。共修团体固然极具价值，不过它并不足以成事。你千万不能依赖它。此外，除了在你学习临在的意义和做练习的过渡阶段，也不要对导师或师傅产生依赖之情。
英文原文来自：baytallaah.com/bookspdf/51.pdf
CHRIST: THE REALITY OF YOUR DIVINE PRESENCE
Don't get attached to any one word. You can substitute "Christ" for presence, if that is more meaningful to you. Christ is your Godessence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.
Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you realize that there is no past or future in Christ. To say that Christ was or will be is a contradiction in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived two thousand years ago and realized divine presence, his true nature. And so he said: "Before Abraham was, I am." He did not say. "I already existed before Abraham was born." That would have meant that he was still within the dimension of time and form identity. The words I am used in a sentence that starts in the past tense indicate a radical shift, a discontinuity in the temporal dimension. It is a Zen-like statement of great profundity. Jesus attempted to convey directly, not through discursive thought, the meaning of presence, of self-realization. He had gone beyond the consciousness dimension governed by time, into the realm of the timeless. The dimension of eternity had come into this world. Eternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but no time. Thus, the man Jesus became Christ, a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God's self-definition in the Bible? Did God say "I have always been, and I always will be?" Of course not. That would have given reality to past and future. God said: No time here, just presence.
The "second coming" of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If "Christ" were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this: "I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I
am within you. I am here. I am Now."
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Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars, divine mothers, enlightened masters, the very few that are real, are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or, more likely, not see them at all.
If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another. There were many people who did not recognize Jesus or the Buddha, as there are and always have been many people who are drawn to false teachers. Egos are drawn to bigger egos. Darkness cannot recognize light. Only light can recognize light. So don't believe that the light is outside you or that it can only come through one particular form. If only your master is an incarnation of God, then who are you? Any kind of exclusivity is identification with form, and identification with form means ego, no matter how well disguised.
Use the master's presence to reflect your own identity beyond name and form back to you and to become more intensely present yourself. You will soon realize that there is no "mine" or "yours" in presence. Presence is one.
Group work can also be helpful for intensifying the light of your presence. A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals. However, unless at least one member of the group is already firmly established in it and thus can hold the energy frequency of that state, the egoic mind can easily reassert itself and sabotage the group's endeavors. Although group work is invaluable, it is not enough, and you must not come to depend on it. Nor must you come to depend on a teacher or a master, except during the transitional period, when you are learning the meaning and practice of presence.
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