真,只能在每一个当下中发现;真,并不是连续的。而人的心智是时间的产物,只能在时间范畴里运转,所以虽然渴望探索真理,却不能发现何谓真。
要想认知心智,实际上心智必须自知,因为除了此心,别无“自我”,就如同金刚品性,与金刚石浑然一体,不可分割。若想理解心智,不能按照别人的理念进行解读,你必须观察自己的心智整体上是如何运转的——推理、欲望、动机、雄心、追求、嫉妒、贪婪、恐惧……一旦你认清了心智的全部运转过程,那么心智就获得了自我超越,此时你的心将焕然一新,这一全新境界将为你赋予非凡的激情,这是一种巨大的生命热能,能为你带来深刻的内在精神革命。仅这种内在革命,就能转化这个世界,而任何政治或经济体系却无能为力。
——克里希那穆提《生命书:365观心日课》(The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti)
Inward Revolution
What is true can only be found from moment to moment, it is not a continuity, but the mind which wants to discover it, being itself the product of time, can only function in the field of time; therefore it is incapable of finding what is true.
To know the mind, the mind must know itself, for there is no “I” apart from the mind. There are no qualities separate from the mind, just as the qualities of the diamond are not separate from the diamond itself. To understand the mind you cannot interpret it according to somebody else’s idea, but you must observe how your own total mind works. When you know the whole process of it—how it reasons, its desires, motives, ambitions, pursuits, its envy, greed, and fear—then the mind can go beyond itself, and when it does there is the discovery of something totally new. That quality of newness gives an extraordinary passion, a tremendous enthusiasm that brings about a deep inward revolution: and it is this inward revolution which alone can transform the world, not any political or economic system.
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