不知大家是否清楚：我们都生活在矛盾中。我们高谈和平，却为战争而磨刀霍霍；我们阔论非暴力，本质上却充满暴力；我们高谈善，而自己乏善可陈；我们阔论爱，但内心却充满企图心、竞争欲，无情地追逐效率。所以，我们生活在重重矛盾中，而矛盾所催生的行为，只能催生挫折和更多的矛盾。
先生们，要知道，所有思维都是片面的，绝不周全。思维，是发自记忆的响应，而记忆总是片面的，因为记忆是经验的产物，思维是经验束缚下的心智的反应。一切思维、一切经验、一切知识，必然是片面的，所以思维力并不能解决我们的问题。面对问题，可能你努力保持理智和逻辑，但如果观察自心你会发现，思维总是被你所处的环境、出生的文化、享用的饮食、所处的气候、所读的报纸、日常生活的压力与影响力等所制约。
所以，我们必须明白：思维是记忆的反应，而记忆体是机械僵死的。知识，从来都是不完整的，一切思维都产生于知识，因而是局限的、片面的，绝非自由的，所以根本不存在自由的思想。但我们可以去发现自由——心灵的自由无关乎思想，而是单纯地觉察内心的一切冲突，觉察一切外在影响力不断地冲击我们的内心。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
There Is No Freedom of Thought
I do not know if it is clear to each one of us that we live in a state of contradiction. We talk about peace, and prepare for war. We talk about nonviolence, and are fundamentally violent. We talk about being good, and we are not. We talk about love, and we are full of ambition, competitiveness, ruthless efficiency. So there is contradiction. The action that springs from that contradiction only brings about frustration and further contradiction….
You see, sirs, all thought is partial, it can never be total. Thought is the response of memory, and memory is always partial because memory is the result of experience, so thought is the reaction of a mind that is conditioned by experience. All thinking, all experience, all knowledge is inevitably partial; therefore, thought cannot solve the many problems that we have. You may try to reason logically, sanely, about these many problems, but if you observe your own mind you will see that your thinking is conditioned by your circumstances, by the culture in which you were born, by the food you eat, by the climate you live in, by the newspapers you read, by the pressures and influences of your daily life….
So we must understand very clearly that our thinking is the response of memory, and memory is mechanistic. Knowledge is ever incomplete, and all thinking born of knowledge is limited, partial, never free. So there is no freedom of thought. But we can begin to discover a freedom which is not a process of thought, and in which the mind is simply aware of all its conflicts and of all the influences impinging upon it.
SEPTEMBER 12
