虔誠向道，就得過自我懲戒的生活嗎？清心寡欲，就表明你已覺悟嗎？自我折磨，是通向真諦之路嗎？心靈純潔，就得克制欲望嗎？禁欲苦行，這條路能走很遠(yuǎn)嗎？沖突手段，能帶來寧靜嗎？手段不是遠(yuǎn)比目標(biāo)更重要嗎？
目標(biāo)或許在遠(yuǎn)方，但手段是當(dāng)下實(shí)實(shí)在在的。我們必須如實(shí)領(lǐng)會現(xiàn)實(shí)真相，而不運(yùn)是用定論、空想和狡黠的辯白，來掩蓋真相。痛苦，絕非通向幸福之路。所謂情欲，我們必須去領(lǐng)會，而不是壓抑或拔高它；而另尋他物來替代它，也非良策；只要情欲還沒有被愛、被理解，則無論你做什么，無論你想出什么花招，都只是在強(qiáng)化它。用心去愛那情欲，就等于領(lǐng)會情欲。愛，即心心交融；如果心懷怨氣，或抱定某種成見、定論，你就絕沒有愛。如果你發(fā)下誓愿，去打壓情欲，又怎能用心愛并領(lǐng)悟情欲呢？發(fā)愿，是一種抗拒；而你無論抗拒什么，最終它必定會擊敗你。真相不是等你征服的，你不能向它發(fā)起猛烈攻勢；如果你想抓住真相，它反而從你手上溜走了。唯在寧靜中，真相輕輕地來，你不知不覺；凡你所認(rèn)知到的，都不是真相，那只是見解、信條（symbol）而已，因?yàn)榛糜敖^非實(shí)相。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
譯按：symbol，在宗教領(lǐng)域?qū)Ｖ附塘x、信條，見《21世紀(jì)大英漢詞典》及陸谷孫《英漢大字典》，韋氏英語詞典釋義：an authoritative summary of faith or doctrine, creed.
Understanding Passion
Is it a religious life to punish oneself? Is mortification of the body or of the mind a sign of understanding? Is self-torture a way to reality? Is chastity denial? Do you think you can go far through renunciation? Do you really think there can be peace through conflict? Does not the means matter infinitely more than the end?
The end may be, but the means is. The actual, the what is, must be understood and not smothered by determinations, ideals, and clever rationalizations. Sorrow is not the way of happiness. The thing called passion has to be understood and not suppressed or sublimated, and it is no good finding a substitute for it. Whatever you may do, any device that you invent, will only strengthen that which has not been loved and understood. To love what we call passion is to understand it. To love is to be in direct communion; and you cannot love something if you resent it, if you have ideas, conclusions about it. How can you love and understand passion if you have taken a vow against it? A vow is a form of resistance, and what you resist ultimately conquers you. Truth is not to be conquered; you cannot storm it; it will slip through your hands if you try to grasp it. Truth comes silently, without your knowing. What you know is not truth, it is only an idea, a symbol. The shadow is not the real.
APRIL 20
