如果我們沒有信仰，將會怎樣？我們會不會充滿驚懼？我們的行為都基于信仰，比如信仰上帝、某某主義、帝國主義或宗教教條，我們自縛于信仰之繭；如果我們放下一切行為模式，就會墜入徹底的迷失感，是不是？那么，我們接納信仰，豈不是在掩蓋內在的恐懼——恐懼自己一無所是，墜入虛空，是不是？畢竟，杯子以其空為用，如果內心塞滿了信仰、教條、定論，總是引經據典，那么這是一顆毫無創(chuàng)造力的心，只是鸚鵡學舌而已。我們恐懼虛空，恐懼孤獨，恐懼停滯，恐懼未達目標，恐懼不成功，恐懼不是個角色，恐懼不能成為大人物……我們之所以如此熱切、貪婪地接納信仰，原因之一無疑是為了逃避恐懼。
但，一旦接受了信仰，我們就能明白自己嗎？恰恰相反，無論宗教或政治信仰，顯然會阻礙自知之明。信仰是一道屏障，我們就是透過這道屏障來審視自己。我們能不能拆掉信屏障，直接審視自己？如果我們抹除了內心抱持的諸多信仰，內心還剩下什么可以審視呢？如果我們內心不執(zhí)著任何信仰，那么這顆解執(zhí)去縛的心，就能看清自己的本來面目，無疑，這就是自知之明的起始。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Belief Hinders True Understanding
If we had no belief, what would happen to us? Shouldn’t we be very frightened of what might happen? If we had no pattern of action, based on a belief—either in God, or in communism, or in socialism, or in imperialism, or in some kind of religious formula, some dogma in which we are conditioned—we should feel utterly lost, shouldn’t we? And is not this acceptance of a belief the covering up of that fear—the fear of being really nothing, of being empty? After all, a cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind. To escape from that fear—that fear of emptiness, that fear of loneliness, that fear of stagnation, of not arriving, not succeeding, not achieving, not being something, not becoming something—is surely one of the reasons, is it not, why we accept beliefs so eagerly and greedily?
And, through acceptance of belief, do we understand ourselves? On the contrary. A belief, religious or political, obviously hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen through which we look at ourselves. And can we look at ourselves without beliefs? If we remove these beliefs, the many beliefs that one has, is there anything left to look at? If we have no beliefs with which the mind has identified itself, then the mind, without identification, is capable of looking at itself as it is—and then, surely there is the beginning of the understanding of oneself.
FEBRUARY 14
