我们来探讨一下，你所说的“转世”究竟指什么——是探讨问题的真相，而不是探讨你的转世信仰，也不是有人宣扬或你导师讲的转世。
毫无疑问，能让你解脱的是真相，而不是你的定论、见解。当你说“我将重生”时，你必须明白那个“我”究竟是什么。那个“我”是灵性体吗？那个“我”是延续的吗？那个“我”独立于记忆、经验和知识之外吗？那个“我”，要么是灵性体，要么只是意念所思；要么超越于时间之外——我们称之为灵性，非时间可量度，要么局限于时间之内，属于记忆与思维的范畴；除此之外，不可能是其他。
我们来看看，那个“我”是否超越了时间的量度？希望你明白这话的意思。我们探究一下，那个“我”在本质上是否灵性体？我们所说的“灵性”，是指某种不能被约束的存在，不是心识的投射，不在人的思维范畴内，永远不会消亡。当我们说灵性体时，显然是指某种超出心智范畴的东西。那么，那个“我”是这样的灵性体吗？如果是，则它必然超越一切时间，因而不能重生，不能延续。凡是在时间里延绵的东西，都不能新生。只要人的思想通过记忆，通过欲望，通过经验而延续，就绝不能自新。所以，凡是在时间里延续的东西，都不能明瞭实相。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
What Is Reincarnation?
Let us find out what you mean by reincarnation—the truth of it, not what you like to believe, not what someone has told you, or what your teacher has said.
Surely, it is the truth that liberates, not your own conclusion, your own opinion…. When you say, “I shall be reborn,” you must know what the “I” is…. Is the “I” a spiritual entity, is the “I” something continuous, is the “I” something independent of memory, experience, knowledge? Either the “I” is a spiritual entity or it is merely a thought process. Either it is something out of time, which we call spiritual, not measurable in terms of time, or it is within the field of time, the field of memory, thought. It cannot be something else.
Let us find out if it is beyond the measurement of time. I hope you are following all this. Let us find out if the “I” is in essence something spiritual. Now by “spiritual” we mean, do we not, something not capable of being conditioned, something that is not the projection of the human mind, something that is not within the field of thought, something that does not die. When we talk of a spiritual entity, we mean by that something that is not within the field of the mind, obviously. Now, is the “I” such a spiritual entity? If it is a spiritual entity, it must be beyond all time; therefore, it cannot be reborn or continued…. That which has continuity can never renew itself. As long as thought continues through memory, through desire, through experience, it can never renew itself; therefore, that which is continued cannot know the real.
