何謂感受？感受與思維相似，感受就是感官覺(jué)受。我看到一朵花，內(nèi)心有所感應(yīng)：喜歡或不喜歡。喜惡是由我的思維所支配的，而思維則是記憶背景下的回應(yīng)。所以，我說(shuō)“我喜歡那朵花”或“我不喜歡那朵花”，“我喜歡這種感受”或“我不喜那種感受”。
那么，愛(ài)與感受相關(guān)嗎？顯然，感受是喜憎、善惡、美味等等感官覺(jué)受。這些感受與愛(ài)有關(guān)嗎？
你可曾觀(guān)察過(guò)你家邊的街道？你可曾觀(guān)察過(guò)你居家的生活方式，譬如坐臥言談？你可曾注意過(guò)你尊崇的圣人們？對(duì)他們而言，一提到激情就等于性，所以他們打壓激情，從而排斥美——把激情與美棄若敝屣。所以，你把愛(ài)連同感覺(jué)統(tǒng)統(tǒng)拋棄了，因?yàn)槟惆底运尖猓骸拔液?jiǎn)直成了感覺(jué)的囚徒，成了性欲的奴隸，我必須斬草除根。”所以你把性視為嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題。
當(dāng)你理解了感受——不是部分理解，而是全面地領(lǐng)悟，當(dāng)你真正整體上明白了感受，你就會(huì)懂得什么是愛(ài)。當(dāng)你能看見(jiàn)綠樹(shù)之美，當(dāng)你能看見(jiàn)微笑之美，當(dāng)你能看見(jiàn)小城墻外落日之美，全然看見(jiàn)而無(wú)遺留，那時(shí)你就會(huì)懂得什么是愛(ài)。
——克里希那穆提《生命書(shū)：365觀(guān)心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The Totality of Feeling
What is feeling? Feeling is like thought. Feeling is a sensation. I see a flower and I respond to that flower; I like it or dislike it. The like or the dislike is dictated by my thought, and the thought is the response of the background of memory. So, I say, “I like that flower,” or “I do not like that flower”; “I like this feeling” or “I do not like that feeling.” …
Now, is love related to feeling? Feeling is sensation, obviously—sensation of like and dislike, of good and bad, of good taste and all the rest of it. Is that feeling related to love? …
Have you watched your street, have you watched the way you live in your houses, the way you sit, the way you talk? And have you noticed all your saints whom you worship? For them passion is sex, and therefore they deny passion, therefore they deny beauty—deny in the sense of putting those aside. So, with sensation you have put away love because you say, “Sensation will make me a prisoner, I will be a slave to sex-desire; therefore I must cut it out.” Therefore you have made sex into an immense problem….
When you have understood feeling completely, not partially, when you have really understood the totality of feeling, then you will know what love is. When you can see the beauty of a tree, when you can see the beauty of a smile, when you can see the sun setting behind the walls of your town—see totally—then you will know what love is.
MAY 9?
