入门前的练习：12种相互对应的特质

1. 沉默 – 表达
   • 沉默：在正确的时机保持安静，守护真理与生命。
   • 表达：在必要时用言语传达智慧和指导。
   • 重点：应该在正确的时间和地点保持沉默或说话。如果说几句话可以挽救一个人，就必须发声。
2. 敞开 – 稳定
   • 敞开：向真、善、美、神性敞开心灵，让神圣意志通过自己流动。
   • 稳定：面对诱惑、压力或外界干扰，保持内心稳定与自主，不受影响。
   • 重点：既保持柔软与敞开，又能保持灵魂的自主，坚定不被外界扰乱。
3. 臣服 – 引领
   • 臣服：臣服于内在神圣智慧，让神性指引行动。
   • 引领：把较高智慧传递给他人，以爱的力量引领他人，但不破坏他们的自由意志。
   • 重点：既不盲目屈从，也不滥用权力，行动由神性指导。
4. 谦卑 – 自信
   • 谦卑：你是整体的一部分。你内在的神性遍布整个宇宙，对这神性，你要保持谦卑。
   • 自信：信任你内在的智慧。
   • 重点：谦卑于宇宙的神圣秩序，但不妥协于人性的低级欲望或世俗权力。对更高的真理保持谦卑，对较低的力量保持自信。
5. 接纳 – 明辨
   • 接纳：允许命运带给你的一切，接纳生活中的匮乏与挑战。
   • 辨识：分清真伪与善恶，不被无知者对你的态度所影响。
   • 重点：接受让心灵安宁，辨识力让行动正确。
6. 战斗 – 和平
   • 战斗：积极捍卫真理，以便让神性意识显现在地球上。
   • 和平：不陷入无谓和愚蠢的争论。
   • 重点：能够战斗，也能保持内心和平。
7. 果决 – 审慎
   • 果决：在各种可能中，以清晰专注、超越个人小我的心，毫不犹豫地做出决定。
   • 审慎：用耐心和智慧审视决定，避免冲动。
   • 重点：选择时要具备判断力和决策力。果断不是鲁莽，慎重不是拖延，两者结合才是正确行动。
8. 小心 – 勇敢
   • 小心：保护自己和他人不受伤害。
   • 勇敢：面对危险不退缩，敢于行动。
   • 重点：行动时要有安全意识并敢于面对风险。谨慎不是怯懦，勇敢不是鲁莽。
9. 创造（不执着于物质） – 掌握
   • 创造：在地球上生活，需要具备创造财富或资源的能力，但不要执着于它们。它们只是流经你，服务于你的使命，提供给需要的人。
   • 掌握：能管理、守护并善用财富与资源，以完成你的使命。
   • 重点：不贪婪也不轻视所拥有的资源。
10. 自由（不牵绊于关系） – 忠诚
    • 自由：不被任何人或特定关系所牵绊。不是去爱一个特定的人，而是爱那个人的内在神性。
    • 忠诚：忠于朋友、导师、同修，是忠于他们的内在神性与共同的神圣使命，而非盲目崇拜和依附。
    • 重点：超越依附与崇拜。
11. 不惧死亡 – 珍惜生命
    • 视死如归：明白生命本质不灭，内心不惧死亡。
    • 珍惜生命：尊重自己的身体，活在喜悦与当下。
    • 重点：超然又珍爱生命，不会冒险损害自己。
12. 爱 – 超然的爱
    • 爱：具体地关怀、温暖每一个人和事物。
    • 超然的爱：无分别心地爱众生，不干涉他人的灵性成长。
    • 重点：既有情感关怀，也能超越个人执着，尊重每条灵魂的道路。

12 Pairs of Corresponding Qualities

1. Silence – Expression

• Silence: Remaining quiet at the right moments, protecting truth and life.
• Expression: Using words to convey wisdom and guidance when necessary.
• Key Point: One should remain silent or speak at the right time and place. If a few words can save someone, one must speak up.

2. Openness – Stability

• Openness: Opening the heart to truth, goodness, beauty, and divinity, allowing divine will to flow through oneself.
• Stability: Maintaining inner stability and autonomy when facing temptations, pressures, or external interference, remaining unaffected.
• Key Point: Maintaining both softness and openness while preserving the soul’s autonomy, staying firm and undisturbed by external forces.

3. Surrender – Leadership

• Surrender: Surrendering to inner divine wisdom, allowing divinity to guide actions.
• Leadership: Transmitting higher wisdom to others, leading others with the power of love while not destroying their free will.
• Key Point: Neither blindly submitting nor abusing power; actions are guided by divinity.

4. Humility – Confidence

• Humility: You are part of the whole. The divinity within you pervades the entire universe; maintain humility toward this divinity.
• Confidence: Trust the wisdom within you.
• Key Point: Be humble before the universe’s sacred order, but don’t compromise to humanity’s lower desires or worldly power. Maintain humility toward higher truth, confidence toward lower forces.

5. Acceptance – Discernment

• Acceptance: Allow everything that destiny brings you, accept life’s scarcity and challenges.
• Discernment: Distinguish between truth and falsehood, good and evil, without being influenced by ignorant people’s attitudes toward you.
• Key Point: Acceptance brings peace of mind, discernment makes actions correct.

6. Fighting – Peace

• Fighting: Actively defending truth so that divine consciousness can manifest on Earth.
• Peace: Not engaging in meaningless and foolish arguments.
• Key Point: Being able to fight while maintaining inner peace.

7. Decisiveness – Prudence

• Decisiveness: Among various possibilities, making decisions without hesitation with a clear, focused mind that transcends the personal ego.
• Prudence: Examining decisions with patience and wisdom, avoiding impulsiveness.
• Key Point: Having both judgment and decision-making ability when choosing. Decisiveness is not recklessness, prudence is not procrastination; combining both leads to correct action.

8. Caution – Courage

• Caution: Protecting oneself and others from harm.
• Courage: Not retreating when facing danger, daring to act.
• Key Point: Having safety awareness while daring to face risks when acting. Caution is not cowardice, courage is not recklessness.

9. Creation (Non-attachment to Material) – Mastery

• Creation: Living on Earth requires the ability to create wealth or resources, but don’t be attached to them. They merely flow through you, serving your mission, providing for those in need.
• Mastery: Being able to manage, protect, and use wealth and resources well to fulfill your mission.
• Key Point: Neither being greedy nor despising the resources you possess.

10. Freedom (Non-attachment to Relationships) – Loyalty

• Freedom: Not being bound by any person or specific relationship. Not loving a specific person, but loving that person’s inner divinity.
• Loyalty: Being loyal to friends, teachers, and fellow practitioners means being loyal to their inner divinity and shared sacred mission, not blind worship and attachment.
• Key Point: Transcending attachment and worship.

11. Fearlessness of Death – Cherishing Life

• Fearlessness of Death: Understanding that the essence of life is indestructible, having no fear of death in the heart.
• Cherishing Life: Respecting one’s body, living in joy and the present moment.
• Key Point: Being transcendent yet cherishing life, not taking risks that would harm oneself.

12. Love – Transcendent Love

• Love: Specifically caring for and warming every person and thing.
• Transcendent Love: Loving all beings without discrimination, not interfering with others’ spiritual growth.
• Key Point: Having both emotional care and the ability to transcend personal attachments, respecting each soul’s path.