世界的轉(zhuǎn)化，肇生于自我的轉(zhuǎn)化，因為自我是人類生存過程的產(chǎn)物，也是人生的一部分。要想轉(zhuǎn)化自我，最關(guān)鍵的是覺知自我；如果未覺知自己的真實面目，就喪失了正確思維的根基；如果沒有自我覺知，就不能轉(zhuǎn)化。
人必須覺知自己的真實面目，而不是夢想面目——那只是你的理想，是虛幻不實的。你所能轉(zhuǎn)化的，是你的真實面目，而不是理想面目。要覺知自我，需要極其敏銳的內(nèi)心，因為你的面目經(jīng)常變化，遷流不息。為了迅速捕捉，心不得羈絆于任何教條、信仰與行為模式。如果你想領(lǐng)悟萬物，那么心靈受羈絕非好狀態(tài)。
為了認(rèn)識自我，你必須有覺知力，保持內(nèi)心警覺，從而擺脫一切信仰、一切理想，因為信仰與理想如同有色眼鏡，會污染、扭曲你的真實知覺。如果你想認(rèn)清自己的真實面目，就不能靠想象，不能將夢想信以為真，因為那不是真實的你。如果我貪婪、嫉妒、暴力，那么僅僅夢想自己不貪婪、不嫉妒、不暴力，那是沒什么價值的。不論真實的你是丑或美，邪惡或頑皮，只要看清了自己的真實面目，不帶任何扭曲，那就是善德之始。這種善德至為重要，因為它為心靈帶來自由。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365靜心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
譯按：克常用virtue一詞，漢譯為德、美德、善德、至德。克使用該詞，并非局限在行為規(guī)范、社會公德層面，而是用其本源意義?！独献印罚骸翱椎轮?，唯道是從?！保ㄖ恋碌膬?nèi)涵，是遵從大道。）這與克氏是一致的：去除虛幻與扭曲，讓心靈自由解脫，歸于自然，即為virtue。
The Untethered Mind
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential; without knowing what you are, there is no basis for right thought, and without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation.
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be. To know oneself as one is requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, because what is is constantly undergoing transformation, change; and to follow it swiftly the mind must not be tethered to any particular dogma or belief, to any particular pattern of action. If you would follow anything, it is no good being tethered.
To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, from all idealization, because beliefs and ideals only give you a color, perverting true perception. If you want to know what you are, you cannot imagine or have belief in something which you are not. If I am greedy, envious, violent, merely having an ideal of non-violence, of non-greed, is of little value…. The understanding of what you are, whatever it be—ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous—the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom.
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