事实上，不存在意识和潜意识两种状态，二者实为一种。虽然你可能把它划分成意识和潜意识，但实际上只有一种存在状态，那就是意识。意识的本质是过去，而不是当下，你只能对过往之物产生意识。比如我想表达的意思，瞬间之后你才能意识到，是吧？你瞬间后才能明白我的意思，而不能当下即知。观察你的心脑，你会发现意识总是运转于过去与未来之间，而当下只是过去通向未来的通道。

如果观察自己思维的运转，你会发现，在意识游走于过去与未来的过程中，当下是缺位的：要么，你把过去当作逃避当下的手段，因为当下是充满烦恼的；要么，你寄托希望于未来，以逃离当下。所以，大脑被过去和未来占满，当下被抛弃了。你要么谴责、抗拒现实，要么顺受并执着于现实，这种思维显然不能看清事实真相。换言之，我们的意识，总是局限于过去和思维的窠臼之内，面对现实挑战做出局限性回应。你越是按照理念和过去的局限进行回应，则你的过去越被强化 。

显然，过去因不断强化而得以延续，你延续老路，却自称走向未来。这就是我们的思维、意识的真实状态——如同钟摆一样，在过去和未来之间来回摇荡。

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

There Is Only Consciousness

There is in fact only one state, not two states such as the conscious and the unconscious; there is only a state of being, which is consciousness, though you may divide it as the conscious and the unconscious. But that consciousness is always of the past, never of the present; you are conscious only of things that are over. You are conscious of what I am trying to convey the second afterwards, are you not? You understand it a moment later. You are never conscious or aware of the now. Watch your own hearts and minds and you will see that consciousness is functioning between the past and the future and that the present is merely a passage of the past to the future….

If you watch your own mind at work, you will see that the movement to the past and to the future is a process in which the present is not. Either the past is a means of escape from the present, which may be unpleasant, or the future is a hope away from the present. So the mind is occupied with the past or with the future and sloughs off the present…. It either condemns and rejects the fact or accepts and identifies itself with the fact. Such a mind is obviously not capable of seeing any fact as a fact. That is, our state of consciousness, which is conditioned by the past and our thought, is the conditioned response to the challenge of a fact; the more you respond according to the conditioning of belief, of the past, the more there is strengthening of the past.

That strengthening of the past is obviously the continuity of itself, which it calls the future. So that is the state of our mind, of our consciousness—a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards between the past and the future.

SEPTEMBER 27