社会等级结构为人们提供了自我膨胀的绝佳机会。可能你渴望手足情，但如果你追求精神世界里鹤立鸡群，则哪里有手足情？你可能不屑于世俗头衔，但如果你尊奉精神世界的大师、救世主、上师，这岂不依然是世俗心？在精神成长、领悟真谛、觉悟神性的过程中，你能有等级和分别心吗？爱，绝无分别。你要么充满爱心，要么毫无爱心；如果没有爱心，切莫把爱奉为目标，踏上漫漫修持之旅。当你明白自己心里没有爱，当你全然觉知这一事实而不加拣择，你内心就可能发生转化。但如果你执着地构建大师与门徒的分别、觉悟者和未悟者的分别、救星与罪人的分别，那么这都是对爱的抹煞。投机取巧者，总是在黑暗与虚幻之中寻觅快乐的猎场，但到头来反而被取巧心所耍弄。

神性或曰实相与你之间的鸿沟，是你自己妄造出来的，是执着于已知、确定与安全感的思维心所臆造的。这条鸿沟是不能跨越的，任何仪轨、修炼、供奉都不能将你渡到彼岸，任何救世主、大师、上师都不能消除鸿沟，引领你证悟实相。这道鸿沟根本不是横亘于实相与你之间，其实在你内心。

重要的是要明白，与日俱增的冲突皆因欲望而生；只有通过自我觉知，时时觉知我执心的脉动，觉悟才能萌发。

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

Opportunities for Self-Expansion

… Hierarchical structure offers an excellent opportunity for self-expansion. You may want brotherhood, but how can there be brotherhood if you are pursuing spiritual distinctions? You may smile at worldly titles; but when you admit the Master, the savior, the guru in the realm of the spirit, are you not carrying over the worldly attitude? Can there be hierarchical divisions or degrees in spiritual growth, in the understanding of truth, in the realization of God? Love admits no division. Either you love, or do not love; but do not make the lack of love into a long-drawn-out process whose end is love. When you know you do not love, when you are choicelessly aware of that fact, then there is a possibility of transformation; but to sedulously cultivate this distinction between the Master and the pupil, between those who have attained and those who have not, between the savior and the sinner, is to deny love. The exploiter, who is in turn exploited, finds a happy hunting-ground in this darkness and illusion.

… Separation between God or reality and yourself is brought about by you, by the mind that clings to the known, to certainty, to security. This separation cannot be bridged over; there is no ritual, no discipline, no sacrifice that can carry you across it; there is no savior, no Master, no guru who can lead you to the real or destroy this separation. The division is not between the real and yourself; it is in yourself.

… What is essential is to understand the increasing conflict of desire; and this understanding comes only through self-knowledge and constant awareness of the movements of the self.

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