如果我们没有信仰，将会怎样？我们会不会充满惊惧？我们的行为都基于信仰，比如信仰上帝、某某主义、帝国主义或宗教教条，我们自缚于信仰之茧；如果我们放下一切行为模式，就会坠入彻底的迷失感，是不是？那么，我们接纳信仰，岂不是在掩盖内在的恐惧——恐惧自己一无所是，坠入虚空，是不是？毕竟，杯子以其空为用，如果内心塞满了信仰、教条、定论，总是引经据典，那么这是一颗毫无创造力的心，只是鹦鹉学舌而已。我们恐惧虚空，恐惧孤独，恐惧停滞，恐惧未达目标，恐惧不成功，恐惧不是个角色，恐惧不能成为大人物……我们之所以如此热切、贪婪地接纳信仰，原因之一无疑是为了逃避恐惧。
但，一旦接受了信仰，我们就能明白自己吗？恰恰相反，无论宗教或政治信仰，显然会阻碍自知之明。信仰是一道屏障，我们就是透过这道屏障来审视自己。我们能不能拆掉信屏障，直接审视自己？如果我们抹除了内心抱持的诸多信仰，内心还剩下什么可以审视呢？如果我们内心不执着任何信仰，那么这颗解执去缚的心，就能看清自己的本来面目，无疑，这就是自知之明的起始。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Belief Hinders True Understanding
If we had no belief, what would happen to us? Shouldn’t we be very frightened of what might happen? If we had no pattern of action, based on a belief—either in God, or in communism, or in socialism, or in imperialism, or in some kind of religious formula, some dogma in which we are conditioned—we should feel utterly lost, shouldn’t we? And is not this acceptance of a belief the covering up of that fear—the fear of being really nothing, of being empty? After all, a cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind. To escape from that fear—that fear of emptiness, that fear of loneliness, that fear of stagnation, of not arriving, not succeeding, not achieving, not being something, not becoming something—is surely one of the reasons, is it not, why we accept beliefs so eagerly and greedily?
And, through acceptance of belief, do we understand ourselves? On the contrary. A belief, religious or political, obviously hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen through which we look at ourselves. And can we look at ourselves without beliefs? If we remove these beliefs, the many beliefs that one has, is there anything left to look at? If we have no beliefs with which the mind has identified itself, then the mind, without identification, is capable of looking at itself as it is—and then, surely there is the beginning of the understanding of oneself.
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