在禅宗的传统里，有几千个案例看起来非常不道德。有时候师父跳到弟子身上，打他，把他从窗户扔出去。而故事却说他觉醒了——当他被扔出窗外，他觉醒了。对于不了解禅宗的方法的人来说这看起来很荒谬，一个人怎么会这样觉醒？
但你必须要知道，这个弟子可能已经下了二十年工夫了——静心，工作，静心，工作。然后有一天师父发现只有一点点的无意识还残留着，薄薄一层。他观察这个弟子，但他却无法突破那薄薄的一层。
记住，当无意识非常稠密厚重的时候你可以与它斗，但当它非常纤薄的时候是很难和它周旋的。事实上，有一个片刻会出现，当它非常纤薄时你会以为它不存在了。那几乎就像透明玻璃，因为它如此透明，你无法看到它，你怎么和它斗？
只有师父能看到你还在玻璃后面。你的视线非常清晰，几乎就像没有玻璃一样，但你还在玻璃后面。在那样的时刻师父会很用力，他必须做些让你非常震惊的事。在那个震惊里那薄薄的一层被打破了。
只有当它被打破你才会知道在你眼前的是什么，在这之前不行。当它消失你就会知道，那薄薄一层是存在的——那一层是如此纤薄如此透明，你根本没办法知道。那时你会非常感激师父。
In the Zen tradition there are thousands of cases which look very immoral. Sometimes the Master jumps on the disciple, beats the disciple, throws him out of the window. And the story says he becomes enlightened — when he falls out of the window he becomes enlightened. To people who are not acquainted with the Zen methods it looks absurd. How can a person become enlightened like this?
But you must be made alert that the disciple may have been working for twenty years — meditating, working, meditating, working. And then one day the Master finds that only a thin layer of unawareness is left, a very thin layer. He watches the disciple but he cannot get through that thin layer. Remember, when the unconsciousness is very thick you can fight with it but when it is very thin it is very difficult to fight with it. In fact, there comes a moment when it is so thin that you think it is not there. It is almost like transparent glass; it is so transparent you don’t see it. Then how can you fight it?
Only the Master can see that you are still behind a glass. You are seeing very clearly, almost as if there is no glass, but still you are behind glass. In those moments the Master will be very hard. He will do something very shocking. In that shock that thin layer will be broken. And only when it is broken, not before, will you be able to know that something was there in front of your eyes. When it is gone you will understand that a thin layer was there — a thin film which was so thin and so transparent that there was no way for you to know. Then you will feel thankful to the Master.
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