法律的慈悲

摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》
第九章“理想、个人、宗教、科学与法律”

你们国家的法律说，直到被证明有罪之前你们都是清白的。那么，在法律的眼中，你们每个人都是清白的，直到被证明犯了罪。通常必须要有人作证，还要有其他的考量。配偶往往不能相互指证，时机和动机也必须要成立。

可是，在宗教的世界里，你们已经被原罪玷污：“该隐的记号”已象征性地印在你们的额前。你们来自一个得罪了上帝的族类。因为你们被自动定了罪，所以必须做好事、受洗、相信基督或做别的事才能获得救赎。

按照其它宗教的说法，你也许由于本性中的“下流欲望”而被“羁留人间”，被迫“生死轮转”，被罚无数个轮回，直到被“净化”为止。正如我之前说的，按照心理学与科学的说法，你是一个由各种元素和化学物聚合而成的生命体，被一个偶然形成的宇宙无目的地孵化出来。而你被赐予了这样的生命——在你进化的过程中，所有“原始兽性” 的欲望一直在其中蠢蠢欲动、伺机表现，并逐渐削弱你的控制。

因此，亲爱的读者，请用仁慈些的眼光去看待这个国家的法律现状吧——因为它至少以法定的形式信任你的清白，而不论法律有多少缺陷，它也在保护你，比如说，使你免受宗教中更狂热的戒律之害。

宗教戒律讲的是罪孽，不论你有没有犯罪行为，宗教观念通常认定了一个人是有罪的，直到被证明清白。即使你事实上并没有犯罪，但至少在内心是有罪的——因此，你当然要为之受惩罚。罪孽可以是从玩牌到性幻想的任何事。你们就是有罪的生物。有多少人相信这一点呢？

你生来就对自己的善具有固有认知。你生来就对自己在宇宙里的正当性具有内在认知。你生来就渴望实现你的能力，渴望在这个世界里前进和行动。这些假定就是我所说的自然律的基础。

你生来就有爱心，你生来就有慈悲心，你生来就对自己和世界感到好奇。这些特性也属于自然律。你生来就知道自己拥有独一无二的切身存在感，它寻求自己以及他人的圆满。你生来就在追求理想的实现。你生来就在追求为生命的品质增值，为生命增添特质、能量与能力，这是只有你这个人能贡献给世界的。你生来就在追求一种独特的存在状态，与此同时也促进了这个世界的价值完成。

所有这些品质和特性都是自然律赋予你的。你们是一个合作的族类，也是一个有爱心的族类。你们的误解、犯罪与暴行虽然很真实，但很少是故意作恶，却是由于严重误读了善的本质，误用了善的实现手段。大多数人在内心的某部分都明了这一点。你们的社会、政府和教育系统，全都建立在人性不可靠的坚定信念上。“你无法改变人性。”这样一个声明理所当然地认为人性是贪婪的，本质上是掠夺者、谋杀犯。你们按照自己的信念行动。你们成为所认为的自己。你们个人的信念变成了社会的信念，但二者永远是相互影响的。

我们很快就会开始讨论一种更美好的群体实相之形成——当越来越多的个人开始接触自己的真正本质时，才会出现的一种实相。那时，我们不再会有那么多惊弓之鸟和狂热分子，而在某种程度上，每一个参与者都将亲眼目睹“理想”成为现实。

The law in your country says that you are innocent until proven guilty. In the eyes of that law, then, you are each innocent until a crime is proven against you. There usually must also be witnesses. There are other considerations. Often a spouse cannot testify against the other. Opportunity and motive must also be established.

In the world of religion, however, you are already tainted by original sin: "The mark of Cain" is symbolically upon your foreheads. You come from a species that sinned against God. Automatically condemned, you must do good works, or be baptized, or believe in Christ, or perform other acts in order to be saved or redeemed.

According to other religions, you may be "earthbound" by the "gross desires" of your nature, "bound to the wheel of life," condemned to endless reincarnations until you are "purified." As I have said before, according to psychology and science, you are a living conglomeration of elements and chemicals, spawned by a universe without purpose, itself accidentally formed, and you are given a life in which all the "primitive and animalistic" drives of your evolutionary past ever lurk within you, awaiting expression and undermining your control.

So, dear reader, look at the law as it stands in this country with somewhat more kindly eyes than you have before ? for it at least legally establishes a belief in your innocence, and for all of its failings, it protects you from the far more fanatical aspects, say, of any religion's laws.

Religious laws deal with sin, whether or not a crime is committed, and religious concepts usually take it for granted that the individual is guilty until proven innocent. And if you have not committed a crime in fact, then you have at least sinned in your heart ? for which, of course, you must be punished. A sin can be anything from playing cards to having a sexual fantasy, You are sinful creatures. How many of you believe that?

You were born with an in-built recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe. You were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in the world. Those assumptions are the basis of what I will call natural law.

You are born loving. You are born compassionate. You are born curious about yourself and your world. Those attributes also belong to natural law. You are born knowing that you possess a unique, intimate sense of being that is itself, and that seeks its own fulfillment, and the fulfillment of others. You are born seeking the actualization of the ideal. You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

All of these qualities and attributes are given you by natural law. You are a cooperative species, and you are a loving one. Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken toward its actualization. Most individual people know that in some inner portion of themselves. Your societies, governments, educational systems, are all built around a firm belief in the unreliability of human nature. "You cannot change human nature." Such a statement takes it for granted that man's nature is to be greedy, a predator, a murderer at heart. You act in accordance with your own beliefs. You become the selves that you think you are. Your individual beliefs become the beliefs of your society, but that is always a give-and-take.

Shortly we will begin to discuss the formation of a better kind of mass reality ? a reality that can happen as more and more individuals begin to come in contact with the true nature of the self. Then we will have less frightened people, and fewer fanatics, and each person involved can to some extent begin to see the "ideal" come into practical actualization. 

编译： Laujenny婷/     美编：周周

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