世間鮮有能享受萬(wàn)物之人。當(dāng)看到落日、滿月、美人、嘉木、飛鳥(niǎo)、曼舞時(shí)，我們內(nèi)心的喜悅甚為稀薄。我們并未真正享受任何事物，只是掃一眼，心里生出淺淺的歡愉或興奮，而我們卻把這膚淺感覺(jué)稱(chēng)作喜悅。實(shí)際上，喜悅是非常深邃的東西，我們必須深入內(nèi)心，領(lǐng)略生命的喜悅。
當(dāng)我們老去時(shí)，雖還渴望享受，但韶華已逝；我們還想享受其他感覺(jué)——激情、情欲、權(quán)力、地位，這些都是生活中的尋常之物，雖然膚淺，但不應(yīng)被譴責(zé)，也無(wú)需辯白，你只需理解并為它們賦予適當(dāng)?shù)奈恢?。如果你譴責(zé)它們毫無(wú)價(jià)值，淪于感官，無(wú)聊且缺乏靈性，那樣就破壞了生活的完整。
為了覺(jué)知喜悅，你必須深入自心。喜悅，不止于感官覺(jué)受；要感悟喜悅，需要極其精妙之心，但不是精致的自我，執(zhí)著地搜羅——這樣的自我，這樣的我執(zhí)之人，根本不能理解喜悅，因?yàn)橄矏偸菬o(wú)我的。你必須領(lǐng)悟生命非凡的喜悅，否則生活將變得渺小、瑣碎、膚淺——出生、學(xué)習(xí)、痛苦、生兒育女、盡責(zé)任、賺錢(qián)、些許的智力歡愉，然后死去。
——克里希那穆提《生命書(shū)：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
One Must Go Deep to Know Joy
Very few of us enjoy anything. We have very little joy in seeing the sunset, or the full moon, or a beautiful person, or a lovely tree, or a bird in flight, or a dance. We do not really enjoy anything. We look at it, we are superficially amused or excited by it, we have a sensation that we call joy. But enjoyment is something far deeper, which must be understood and gone into….
As we grow older, though we want to enjoy things, the best has gone out of us; we want to enjoy other kinds of sensations—passions, lust, power, position. These are all the normal things of life, though they are superficial; they are not to be condemned, not to be justified, but to be understood and given their right place. If you condemn them as being worthless, as being sensational, stupid, or unspiritual, you destroy the whole process of living …
To know joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires extraordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not. One has to understand this extraordinary thing; otherwise, life becomes very small, petty, superficial—being born, learning a few things, suffering, bearing children, having responsibilities, earning money, having a little intellectual amusement and then to die.
JULY 2
