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一个无神论者与神的对话 - My Conversation with God 2012-12-14 10:16:20
本人生长在一个没有宗教自由的国度,靠着文化和科学的哺育,成长为一个具有正常人格的人,和任何宗教信徒一样,有良知和罪恶感,但没有神明观。当宗教信徒向他们的神明祈祷时,本人用独特的打坐冥想方式清理自己的思绪,反省过失,蓄精养锐。此习惯已保持多年,偶尔也能做到瑜伽三摩地的寂定心境,但从未有过更高境界的神奇,直到不久前,本人在打坐时经历了一次神奇, 一次OBE (out-of-body experience),灵魂脱离了躯体,和神明邂逅。 以下就是这段邂逅的真实记录:

The building is a stone gallery strengthened by a buttress on each side. A wooden door, tightly hinged to the wall, is smoothly heavy. Inside the gallery, there are vault columns made of granite on each side to bear the load, small rooms diced up behind the vault columns, doors closed, a sentinel with a spear in hand at the door front, guarding the obvious secrets inside.  There is a candle lamp hanging on each column, lighting up the Gargoyle underneath. The gallery, just like any earthly shrine, is constructed by the simple geometric and physical rules, symmetrically grandiose. There are surprisingly no displays of religious symbols of any kind. I walk on the smooth stone floor, which bears the invisible footprints of prior saints, feeling emotionally glorified and a little bit atheistically defiant, simultaneously. The hall is filled with enchanting sound, like spa music, meditatively soothing. An incarnated figure sits on a raised marble platform, lanky, frivolous in disposition, dressed in an ancient Roman Toga. His face hidden in the shadow formed by the background luminescent light, high in frequency on EM Spectrum by naked eyes, creating an ultra violet light glare, my eyes squinted. Realizing that I am encountering the highest sacred, I am ritualistically horrified and kinesthetically paralyzed. I know the brightness behind him is the eternity, the infinity of the universe and the place for afterlife if there is one. My grandma’s smile flashes in my mind. I shiver and close my eyes.

“Your Mighty…” My throat dry, voice cracked, searching with the little sanity left for appropriate replacement of “My Lord” to maintain the minimum dignity as an atheist and to show my ultimate respect for him. God reads my mind, says friendly: “You may sit.”

I sit in the middle of the room, on the floor, one leg overlapping the other, my usual meditating position.

“You aren’t a Theist,” God continues, “you can call me Mite, just like the nicknames Mike or Joe. ”
He raises his right arm up in the air and folds the hand into a fist, slowly unfolding his fingers, one at a time. When the last little finger unfolds, a dove appears in his palm! He says with a teasing smile, “I’ve earned my name, haven’t I?”

I am visibly mused, though not sure if this is a sleight of hand magician trick or a real miracle. The ice is quietly broke by him and I regain my composure: “Yes, Mite, you deserve the name. “

I quickly search my brain data storage to compose a few questions that I believe are not only mostly intriguing to Atheists like me but also to the human beings as a whole. This is a millennial chance to have a direct dialogue with God, but I have to lay out the questions intelligently to demonstrate that we the human do have the threshold of intelligence required to communicate with God.

I collect the scattered strings of my thoughts and take a deep breath, start my question, the easiest one in my mind:
“You are incarnated now and are as palpable to me as the marble, why not stay this way so that the doubt about your existence which has confounded human beings for thousands of years can be annihilated once and for all? ”

“A boring question,” he says, but his voice resonates briskly and euphorically, not bored to my ears.

“I have been asked this question for billions of times over thousands of solar cycles and I have repeated myself each time. But the message never gets across. It is like analogy of the lighthouse. The lighthouse is built to mark coastal lines and to guide navigation at night. The light, not the generator underneath, needs to be seen. The supernatural being shall stay beyond entity and sense, void and empty, concrete material and metaphysical abstraction, perception and knowledge, science and literature, time and space, all possible human recognitions and attainments, to maintain his supremacy and ultimate control not only over human beings that, by the way, is just a small pocket of activities, but the infinite universe created by him.”
Mite pauses and notices that I am starting to lose it. He resumes his talk in a conversational mode: “There are also practical reasons for me to stay out of incarnation. It may cause confusions and strife and probably wars. Stay beyond perception and recognitions is the best precautions to be not taken advantaged of ethnically and racially by human vices. Humans shall keep imagining me to their preferences. Will you marry a girl of different race?”

“Probably not,” I answer honestly, I love my wife though her moaning and groaning sometimes drive me insane. “So you encourage different holly incarnations likes Jesus, Buddha or Allah and many more to people’s likings?”

Mite says: “I acquiesce.”

(To be continued)

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作者:神经节 留言时间:2012-12-15 18:37:54
信仰而已,有的人表面上是虔诚的基督徒,实际中整容;变性;强烈表现出对上帝的不满。
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作者:随笔归来 留言时间:2012-12-15 12:36:47
阿妞只管来本人这儿挑毛病,本人不反驳,就像以前说过的一样,咱俩太知根知底了,交锋碰不出火花。 没有趣味。
但本人得说你两句,在牧人那儿高喊封老穆的博克权,很不合你的身份,一个唯一可以解读美国精神的万维右翼博客里,其他右派(男女都算上)没有你那么深刻。竟然象暴徒一样高喊: “打死他”(当然不是原话)。 不能不说是讽刺,估计你成功了。老穆象孙猴一样被打入五指山,这次恐怕一时半会儿出不来了。 你们胜利了。 他老穆究竟犯了什么罪? 不过是他的“哈哈”, 可这是他一贯的结束词,并不是这次加的。
就是现加的,并不违法,不违美国的法,更不关加拿大的事。 奥巴马并没宣布国殇,对吧?
对于你们来说,老穆是品味不高,可对于别人来说,比如本人,那些个婆婆妈妈的大老娘们整天的刻意耀阔, 耀幸福,耀善良等让人恶心。 那又怎么样,没有人给本人这个道义权利去呼吁封他们的博,本人绕着走就是了。 你就为什么不能为她们做出表率? 很多人,包括一些老爷们都是以你马首是瞻的。

三思!!
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作者:阿妞不牛 留言时间:2012-12-14 21:10:59
Hahaha, good piece. I'm amused.
这是一篇有关人文的好博文,英文很道地,cute,humorous and classical.其实和宗教没有直接的关系,既不试图劝人皈依,也不试图挑战神灵。(沁霈没有感觉冒犯就是证明)但是并没有说明宗教和科学并存的合理性,至少这个段子还没有,或许是续篇的内容。期待中。。。
宗教和科学并存,在俺看来,是人类自从原始时代就开始的。人类发现火,立即从对火的神秘的敬畏到崇拜到利用,类人猿的脑子里就几乎同时出现两个概念:畏惧与好奇,到尝试烧烤过的肉到用火来驱赶兽类到取暖烧鸡,到崇拜感谢火神或者神火,这不就是灵与肉,宗教与科学的起源与晶核吗?
火种终极来源于哪里?宗教的问题。
火究竟是什么?科学的探索。
对这样的问题和探索,上帝和爱因斯坦,都不会也不应该发火。
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作者:随笔归来 留言时间:2012-12-14 19:15:02
沁霈,
给你赔罪, 上回山月歌也说该英文博应该附中文翻译。 也曾想试试,可把自己写的东西翻译成中文比想象的要难的多。 甚至会破坏原文。 比炒夹生饭还要难许多。一偷懒,直接丢出来了。 象所有和你同样想法的读者赔罪, 会设法把导言加长,尽可能的用中文体现中心思想,给读者提供方便。
不生气,好不?!

本文是一个无神论者的世界观和宗教观,是一篇有关人文的博文,其实和宗教没有直接的关系,既不试图劝人皈依,也不试图挑战神灵。只是说明宗教和科学并存的合理性。瞧,一着急,泄露天机了。
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作者:han_feng 留言时间:2012-12-14 19:05:33
Your experience is interesting. Keep going.
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作者:沁霈 留言时间:2012-12-14 18:41:52
随笔,建议你附上中文翻译,便于像我这样英文不好的人阅读。你这样全是英文,不是欺负人嘛!

我大致看了一下,虽然不完全看懂,但知道了大概。这是一个不平常的奇遇,以我理解,这可能是一个幻觉,也许就是人们常说的未知领域。但至少可以说明,你正在探索有神的境界。很高兴看到你有这番思考。不过,我不赞成你以这种方式,以我的经验,最好是走捷径。所以,我建议你去教会,或者借助圣经,让神来找你,这样就简易多了。

愿神祝福你!
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作者:随笔归来 留言时间:2012-12-14 18:40:12
哈哈,
记得本人来美后的第一个暑假去纽约打工,住在法拉盛,同屋檐下住着一北京哥们儿,笃信了基督教,跟本人谈圣经。别的都记不住了,只记得他眉飞色舞的神情: “自打信了基督教,我是财源滚滚,忙不过来!”
本人至今无法皈依任何宗教,细想起来可能和这句话有关系。
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作者:逍遥津 留言时间:2012-12-14 18:28:08
有意思。还要细读。

最近夜里我也常常鼻子睁着眼闭着,似梦似醒地见到许带有大理石厨房的屋子,里面住着一些叫着Mike 和Joe的人,他们都是我的tenants。有一个叫Mite 人对我说:"rent 还要降。"

隨笔老弟,看来洒家是没有救了哈?
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作者:随笔归来 留言时间:2012-12-14 17:38:36
虎兄好。
多谢来访。
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作者:TigerForest 留言时间:2012-12-14 15:18:56
欢迎随笔兄归来。
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作者:随笔归来 留言时间:2012-12-14 11:17:38
嗨,
寄兄久违,看到你真高兴!
都回来了, 左翼的食人宴可以开始了。 呵呵。
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作者:寄自美国 留言时间:2012-12-14 10:59:43
随笔兄,归来好。英文更好!
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