我们的问题是：是否存在某种能量，不局限于思维范畴，不再来自内在冲突与心理强迫，不再来自自我实现的挫败感？你明白问题吗？希望我已表达清楚。思维只能产生星星点点的能量，且呆板机械；除非我们能发现超越思维的高品质能量，否则我们的行为就充满破坏力，无论社会变革、著书立说、纵横商界、鼓噪民族对立、投身政治活动等等，均充满破坏力。

所以，我们的问题是：是否存在超越思维的能量？我不想空谈理论，因为我们面对的是现实，用理论来掩盖现实是幼稚、不成熟的。就如同一位身患癌症、急待手术的人，辩论该用哪种手术器械是毫无益处的，你要面对事实：他必须接受手术。同样，我们的心灵必须具有现实洞察力，不再沦为思维的奴隶。归根结底，一切时间范畴内的思维都是虚构，所有的器械玩艺儿、喷气机、冰箱、火箭、探索原子与太空等，都是知识与思维的产物，所有这些都不是创造，技术发明不是创造，生产力也不是创造，思维绝无创造力，因为一切思维都是戴镣铐的舞蹈，绝无自由。只有超越思维的能量，才有创造力。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Creative Energy

Now the question is: Is there an energy which is not within the field of thought, which is not the result of self-contradictory, compulsive energy, of self-fulfillment as frustration? You understand the question? I hope I am making myself clear. Because, unless we find the quality of that energy which is not merely the product of thought that bit by bit creates the energy but also is mechanical, action is destructive, whether we do social reform, write excellent books, be very clever in business, or create nationalistic divisions and take part in other political activities, and so on.

Now, the question is whether there is such an energy, not theoretically—because when we are confronted with facts, to introduce theories is infantile, immature. It is like the case of a man who has cancer and is to be operated upon; it is no good discussing what kinds of instruments are to be used and all the rest of it; you have to face the fact that he is to be operated upon. So, similarly, a mind has to penetrate or be in such a state when the mind is not a slave to thought. After all, all thought in time is invention; all the gadgets, jets, the refrigerators, the rockets, the exploration into the atom, space, they are all the result of knowledge, thought. All these are not creation; invention is not creation; capacity is not creation; thought can never be creative because thought is always conditioned and can never be free. It is only that energy which is not the product of thought that is creative.

JUNE 5