無論施展任何手段，思想也培育不出慈悲心。我所講的慈悲，并不是指仇恨或暴力的反義詞、對立面。我們每個人如果沒有深厚的慈悲，就會變得越來越冷酷、無人性；就會變得呆板無情，如電腦一般，只不過接受訓(xùn)練以履行某些功能；就會不斷地尋覓生理與心理的安全感，從而錯失生命中不可思議的深邃與美好，錯失生命的完整意義。

我所講的慈悲，不能從外界獲得。慈悲，不是名相，因?yàn)槊嗟谋举|(zhì)只是凝固的過去，而慈悲的本質(zhì)是活潑潑的當(dāng)下。慈悲，是動詞，不是名相，不是名詞。動詞和名詞是有區(qū)別的，動詞是活潑的、當(dāng)下的，而名詞總沉積著過去，因而是靜態(tài)的。雖然你能為名詞注入能量或動感，但這終究與活潑的、當(dāng)下的動詞是不一樣。

慈悲，并非情感，并非含糊的同情或共情。慈悲不能通思維、訓(xùn)練、控制、壓抑而培養(yǎng)出來，也不能通過友善、禮貌、文雅來滋養(yǎng)。只有當(dāng)世智思辯在根源上止息時，慈悲心才會萌發(fā)。

——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Compassion Is Not the Word

Thought cannot, by any means whatsoever, cultivate compassion. I am not using that word compassion to mean the opposite, the antithesis of hate or violence. But unless each one of us has a deep sense of compassion, we shall become more and more brutal, inhuman to each other. We shall have mechanical, computer-like minds that have merely been trained to perform certain functions; we shall go on seeking security, both physical and psychological, and we shall miss the extraordinary depth and beauty, the whole significance of life.

By compassion I do not mean a thing to be acquired. Compassion is not the word, which is merely of the past, but something that is of the active present; it is the verb and not the word, the name, or the noun. There is a difference between the verb and the word. The verb is of the active present, whereas the word is always of the past and therefore static. You may give vitality or movement to the name, to the word, but it is not the same as the verb, which is actively present….

Compassion is not sentiment; it is not this woolly sympathy or empathy. Compassion is not something that you can cultivate through thought, through discipline, control, suppression, nor by being kind, polite, gentle, and all the rest of it. Compassion comes into being only when thought has come to an end at its very root.

NOVEMBER 27