痛苦，是遭遇悲伤，是心灵漂泊不定，是彻底的孤独感。人世间有死亡的痛苦，有不能自我实现的痛苦，有不被人认可的痛苦，有爱别人却不被爱的痛苦。人间的痛苦数不胜数，在我看来，如果人们不能弄明白痛苦，则️世间的冲突、苦难以及日常的腐烂败坏就永无止境。

有些痛苦，我们具有清晰的意识；还有些痛苦，我们是无意识的，表面上看不出任何根源和直接起因。多数人都看得到意识层的痛苦，也知道如何应对：为了逃避痛苦，我们痴迷于宗教信仰；或者把痛苦文饰得理所当然；或者吸毒，抚慰自己的心智，麻醉自己的肉体；或者沉迷于文字概念，沉迷于嬉戏和肤浅的娱乐。我们用尽所有手段，但都不能逃脱意识层里的痛苦。

此外，还有无意识痛苦，千百年来人类传承不辍。一直以来，人类不断寻求灵丹妙药，以攻克这异乎寻常的痛苦、烦恼与苦难。但，即便我们获得了肤浅的快乐，拥有了梦想的一切，但在潜意识深层，痛苦的根源一直潜伏着。所以，当探讨终结痛苦时，我们是指在意识和无意识里结束一切痛苦。

为了终结痛苦，我们必须保持异常清明、异常简单之心。简单，不仅是一种理念；要做到简单，需要高度的智慧和敏锐。

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

Conscious Sorrow and Unconscious Sorrow

Sorrow is … grief, uncertainty, the feeling of complete loneliness. There is the sorrow of death, the sorrow of not being able to fulfill oneself, the sorrow of not being recognized, the sorrow of loving and not being loved in return. There are innumerable forms of sorrow, and it seems to me that without understanding sorrow, there is no end to conflict, to misery, to the everyday travail of corruption and deterioration….

There is conscious sorrow, and there is also unconscious sorrow, the sorrow that seems to have no basis, no immediate cause. Most of us know conscious sorrow, and we also know how to deal with it. Either we run away from it through religious belief or we rationalize it, or we take some kind of drug, whether intellectual or physical; or we bemuse ourselves with words, with amusements, with superficial entertainment. We do all this, and yet we cannot get away from conscious sorrow.

Then there is the unconscious sorrow that we have inherited through the centuries. Man has always sought to overcome this extraordinary thing called sorrow, grief, misery; but even when we are superficially happy and have everything we want, deep down in the unconscious there are still the roots of sorrow. So when we talk about the ending of sorrow, we mean the ending of all sorrow, both conscious and unconscious.

To end sorrow one must have a very clear, very simple mind. Simplicity is not a mere idea. To be simple demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity.

JULY 14