毫无疑问，毁灭中蕴含着新生，不是吗？唯有在死亡中，新事物才能萌发。这不是安慰你，也不是什么理念，等你相信、玩味，或理性地检验然后接纳，因为那样的话，你会把理念当成另一种精神安慰，就如同你相信转世，相信生命能在来世延续，云云。
但，事实真相是，凡是延续不断的东西，都不能重生，不能自新。所以，在日常的自我舍离中，才有自新，才有重生，其实这就是永生。所以，永生就在死亡中——不是你恐惧的那种死亡，而是旧有的定论、记忆、经验，也就是你所执着的“自我”的终结。分分秒秒，“我执”幻灭，这其中有永恒，有永生，有某种需要体验之物——这需要用心体验，而不是凭空猜想，四处宣扬，如同人们迷信转世之类玩意儿那样。
当你不再恐惧，在每分每秒，都有“自我”死亡，从而有新生，此时你已经敞开心灵，迎接未知。实相，即未知；死亡，也是未知。但，如果因为相信来世重生续命等等荒诞之词，我们就称颂死亡何其美丽，何其绝妙，那都是虚幻不实的。真实不虚的是，看清死亡的真相——死亡就是“自我”的终结，唯“自我”幻灭，才有自新，有重生，而不是延续不断。因为凡是延续的东西，终将腐烂；而那些有自新力的东西，才是永恒的。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
In Death Is Immortality
Surely, in ending there is renewal, is there not? It’s only in death that a new thing comes into being. I am not giving you comfort. This is not something to be believed or thought about or intellectually examined and accepted, for then you will make it into another comfort, as you now believe in reincarnation or continuity in the hereafter, and so on.
But the actual fact is that that which continues has no rebirth, no renewal. Therefore, in dying every day there is renewal, there is a rebirth. That is immortality. In death there is immortality—not the death of which you are afraid, but the death of previous conclusions, memories, experiences, with which you are identified as the “me.” In the dying of the “me” every minute there is eternity, there is immortality, there is a thing to be experienced—not to be speculated upon or lectured about, as you do about reincarnation and all that kind of stuff….
When you are no longer afraid, because every minute there is an ending and therefore a renewal, then you are open to the unknown. Reality is the unknown. Death is also the unknown. But to call death beautiful, to say how marvelous it is because we shall continue in the hereafter and all that nonsense, has no reality. What has reality is seeing death as it is—an ending; an ending in which there is renewal, a rebirth, not a continuity. For that which continues decays; and that which has the power to renew itself is eternal.
NOVEMBER 16
