常見的「限制性偽信念」：業、輪迴、原罪、人生是苦的、人性本惡、天地不仁、肉體是骯髒的、禁慾、宿命論、一死百了、年老色衰、有錢人是貪婪的沒有靈性的、...

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

Once you understand this you have only to learn to examine the nature of your beliefs, for these will automatically cause you to feel and think in certain fashions. Your emotions follow your beliefs. It is not the other way around. I would like you to recognize your own beliefs in several areas. You must realize that any idea you accept as truth is a belief that you hold. You must, then, take the next step and say, “It is not necessarily true, even though I believe it.” You will, I hope, learn to disregard all beliefs that imply basic limitations.

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I am going to list some limiting false beliefs. If you find yourself agreeing with any of them, then recognize this as an area in which you must personally work.

1. Life is a valley of sorrows. 
2. The body is inferior. As a vehicle of the soul it is automatically degraded, tinged. You may feel that the flesh is inherently bad or evil, that its appetites are wrong. Christians may find the body deplorable, thinking that the soul descended into it — “descent” automatically meaning the change from a higher or better condition to one that is worse. Followers of Eastern religions often feel it their duty, also, to deny the flesh, to rise above it, so to speak, into a state where nothing is desired. ( “Emptiness” in Taoism, for instance. ) Using a different vocabulary, they still believe that earth experience is not desirable in itself. 
3. I am helpless before circumstances that I cannot control. 
4. I am helpless because my personality and character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past. 
5. I am helpless because I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I now have no control. I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindnesses done to others in past lives. I must accept the negative aspects of my life because of my karma. * 
6. People are basically bad, and out to get me. 
7. I have the truth and no one else has. Or, my group has the truth and no other group has. 
8. I will grow frailer, sicker, and lose my powers as I is dependent upon my experience in flesh. When my body dies my consciousness dies with it. 

Now: That was a rather general list of false beliefs.

Now here is a more specific list of more intimate beliefs, any of which you may have personally about yourself.

1. I am sickly, and always have been. 
2. There is something wrong with money. People who have it are greedy, less spiritual than those who are poor. They are unhappier, and snobs. 
3. I am not creative. I have no imagination. 
4. I can never do what I want to do. 
5. People dislike me. 
6. I am fat. (“That would be number 6.”) 
7. I always have bad luck.

These are all beliefs held by many people. Those who have them will meet them in experience. Physical data will always seem to reinforce the beliefs, therefore, but the beliefs formed the reality.

(The Nature of Personal Reality)


一些假設性的東西：西洋占星、卜卦、紫微斗數、血型、八字、風水、風俗習慣、..., 只要是人為的都值得我們去深思。

你的信念就像層層圍住你的籬笆，所以你得到的就會是籬笆的實相。因此，首要的事情就是看到這些「限制性的偽信念」。

Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.

You must first recognize the existence of such barriers — you must see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the the boundaries of your experience.

There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.

Now, separately: The Self Is Not Limited.

That statement is a statement of fact. It exists regardless of your belief or disbelief in it.

Following this concept is another: There Are No Boundaries or Separations of the Self.

Those that you experience are the result of false beliefs.

Following this is the idea that I have already mentioned: You Make Your Own Reality.

(The Nature of Personal Reality)