在我看來，多數(shù)人急不可耐地接納并視為理所當(dāng)然的，便是信仰。我這不是抨擊信仰，我們?cè)谔接懀簽槭裁慈藗円蛹{信仰？如果能夠明白個(gè)中動(dòng)機(jī)與因緣，那么或許我們不僅能明白接受信仰的原因，而且還能從信仰中解脫。
不難看出，政治信仰、宗教信仰、國(guó)家信仰以及林林總總的各色信仰，給人類帶來分裂、沖突、混亂與對(duì)抗，這是顯而易見的事實(shí)，但我們不愿放棄信仰。世界上有印度教、基督教、佛教等信仰，各宗各派，難以數(shù)計(jì)；我們還有國(guó)家信仰、各種政治意識(shí)形態(tài)，彼此爭(zhēng)斗，總想改造對(duì)方。
顯而易見，信仰在制造分裂，使彼此水火不容。那么，我們有沒有可能放下信仰而生活？可以發(fā)現(xiàn)，唯有在與信仰的關(guān)系中省察自己，我們才能發(fā)現(xiàn)問題的答案。我們能不能生活在世上而不抱持信仰？注意，不是去變換信仰，不是用新信仰替代舊信仰，而是完全放下一切信仰，時(shí)刻都能以煥然一新的心態(tài)迎接生活。究竟而言之，這就是生活的真諦：每時(shí)每刻，能以全新的心態(tài)迎接生活中的一切，沒有過往記憶的束縛性反應(yīng)，內(nèi)心沒有沉積效應(yīng)，因?yàn)樾睦沓练e就是一道屏障，將你與真實(shí)的生活隔離開來。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Meeting Life Anew
One of the things, it seems to me, that most of us eagerly accept and take for granted is the question of beliefs. I am not attacking beliefs. What we are trying to do is to find out why we accept beliefs; and if we can understand the motives, the causation of acceptance, then perhaps we may be able not only to understand why we do it, but also be free of it.
One can see how political and religious beliefs, national and various other types of beliefs, do separate people, do create conflict, confusion, and antagonism—which is an obvious fact; and yet we are unwilling to give them up. There is the Hindu belief, the Christian belief, the Buddhist—innumerable sectarian and national beliefs, various political ideologies, all contending with one another, trying to convert one another.
One can see, obviously, that belief is separating people, creating intolerance; is it possible to live without belief? One can find that out only if one can study oneself in relationship to a belief. Is it possible to live in this world without a belief—not change beliefs, not substitute one belief for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, so that one meets life anew each minute? This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.
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