我們每個人都面臨著無數(shù)問題，要想理解這些問題，最重要的是自知之明。但自我覺知是一件最困難的事，同時也是人生的要事。自我覺知并不意味著與世隔絕、逃避紅塵，也不意味著撤出關(guān)系，離群索居。有人認(rèn)為，只有通過隔絕塵世，排除喧囂，或者參訪心理學(xué)大師、僧侶神父，或者苦讀經(jīng)卷典籍，我們才可以深刻地、徹底地、完全地認(rèn)知自我。毫無疑問，這些看法都是錯誤的。

顯然，自我覺知就是人生進(jìn)程，而不是目標(biāo)。為了覺知自我，你必須在實(shí)際行動中領(lǐng)悟自己，而行動就是關(guān)系。覺悟自我，并不在隔絕與遁世中，而是在關(guān)系中——與社會、與夫人、與丈夫、與人類的各種關(guān)系中。不過，若想看清你內(nèi)心的反應(yīng)模式，你需要有異常警覺的心，需要有敏銳的知覺力。

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

Self-Knowledge Is a Process

So, to understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the most difficult things, self-awareness—which does not mean an isolation, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, completely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowledge through a book.

Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a keenness of perception.

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