我遭受痛苦，心中极度烦恼。于是，我对痛苦产生了想法：我得做点什么，得忌讳点什么，总之得想法转化痛苦。实际上，内心的见解、定式、理念如同屏障，让我看不清事实真相，因为理念与思维定式就是逃避现实的避风港。当身处巨大危险之际，你会立即行动，无需理念；你绝不会首先塑造理念，然后按理念行动。
思维定式，是逃避事实、逃避行动的手段，我们的心因此变得怠惰、慵懒。当我们看清了心智的上述构造——不是别人揭示出来，而是自己看明白，那么我们能不能面对事实，比如面对我们内心的暴力？人类充满了暴力，我们选择了暴力的生活方式，比如战争等。虽然人类永无休止地谈论非暴力，特别是在东方，但我们根本不是和平之人，而是暴力之徒。非暴力是一个理念，可用于政治目的——那有另外的意义，但终归那只是空理念，而不是真的。因为人类不能面对暴力现实，所以发明了非暴力理想，而理想会阻碍人去应对现实。
归根结底，我暴力，我愤怒，这是事实。看清了事实，又何需理念呢？重要的不是对愤怒有什么想法，而是面对真实的愤怒。就如同饥饿，饥肠辘辘之际，原本没什么理念，一旦产生了该吃什么的念头，饕餮口福就支配了你。唯有面对事实，行动不再被理念支配时，才能有真正的行动。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Face the Fact
I’m in sorrow. Psychologically, I’m terribly disturbed; and I have an idea about it: what I should do, what I should not do, how it should be changed. That idea, that formula, that concept prevents me from looking at the fact of what is. Ideation and the formula are escapes from what is. There is immediate action when there is great danger. Then you have no idea. You don’t formulate an idea and then act according to that idea.
The mind has become lazy, indolent, through a formula which has given it a means of escape from action with regard to what is. Seeing for ourselves the whole structure of what has been said, not because it has been pointed out to us, is it possible to face the fact: the fact that we are violent, as an example? We are violent human beings, and we have chosen violence as the way of life—war and all the rest of it. Though we talk everlastingly, especially in the East, of nonviolence, we are not nonviolent people; we are violent people. The idea of nonviolence is an idea, which can be used politically. That’s a different meaning, but it is an idea, and not a fact. Because the human being is incapable of meeting the fact of violence, he has invented the ideal of nonviolence, which prevents him from dealing with the fact.
After all, the fact is that I’m violent; I’m angry. What is the need of an idea? It is not the idea of being angry; it’s the actual fact of being angry that is important, like the actual fact of being hungry. There’s no idea about being hungry. The idea then comes as to what you should eat, and then according to the dictates of pleasure, you eat. There is only action with regard to what is when there is no idea of what should be done about that which confronts you, which is what is.
AUGUST 23
