千百年来，世人在与社会的关系中精心构建出语言，所以，文字与语言是个体与社会的生存形态。比如此刻，为了交流，我需要记忆，需要文字，我必须会英语，你也必须会。语言是世世代代积淀而成的，文字不仅在社会关系中得到发展，而且还是社会关系中相互应对的工具，所以是必不可少的。问题在于，经历了千百年的漫长努力，人类才构建出这套符号语言形态，我们能当下抹除文字障吗？
语言文字的形成历经千百年，已成为心灵的桎梏。为了获得解脱，我们究竟需要时日，还是必须当下清空？或许你会说：“一定需要时间，不能当下完成。”这意味着你需要时日，需要改造、延续旧模式，直至走投无路的地步。这条路走得通吗？因为内心恐惧、懒惰、松懈，我们会说：“何必自寻烦恼？那太难了！”或者说：“我不知所措。”所以你明日复明日，拖延再拖延。所以，那些文字障改头换面，延续不断——你必须看清这个真相。
事实上，觉知任何事物的真相，都是当下顿悟，无需时日。所以，能不能在发问的这一刻，就当下突破？心，能否看清文字障，瞬间领悟文字的含义，从而从时间陷阱中解脱出来？这样的体验你肯定有过，只是对多数人非常稀有而已。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Perception of Truth Is Immediate
The verbal state has been carefully built up through centuries, in relation between the individual and society; so the word, the verbal state is a social state as well as an individual state. To communicate as we are doing, I need memory, I need words, I must know English, and you must know English; it has been acquired through centuries upon centuries. The word is not only being developed in social relationships, but also as a reaction in that social relationship to the individual; the word is necessary. The question is, it has taken so long, centuries upon centuries, to build up the symbolical, the verbal state, and can that be wiped away immediately?
…Through time are we going to get rid of the verbal imprisonment of the mind, which has been built up for centuries? Or must it break immediately? Now, you may say, “It must take time, I can’t do it immediately.” This means that you must have many days, this means a continuity of what has been, though it is modified in the process, till you reach a stage where there is no further to go. Can you do that? Because we are afraid, we are lazy, we are indolent, we say, “Why bother about all this? It is too difficult”; or “I do not know what to do”—so you postpone, postpone, postpone. But you have to see the truth of the continuation and the modification of the word.
The perception of the truth of anything is immediate—not in time. Can the mind break through instantly, on the very questioning? Can the mind see the barrier of the word, understand the significance of the word in a flash and be in that state when the mind is no longer caught in time? You must have experienced this; only it is a very rare thing for most of us.
MAY 20
