當我們談到靈性體時，顯然是指某種心智領域之外的東西。那么，那個“我”，是這樣的靈性體嗎？如果是靈性體，那么“我”必然超越一切時間，因而不能重生或延續(xù)；思維不能思量它，因為思維來自時間量度的范疇，思維來自昨天，是一種連續(xù)活動，是過去對當下的回應，所以本質上思維是時間的產(chǎn)物。如果思維能夠思量那個“我”，那么“我”就是時間的一部分，因而“我”就沒有從時間中解脫，所以“我”不是靈性體，這是顯而易見的。
所以，“我”、“你”，只是一種思維的方便，你想知道這種思維過程是否能獨立于肉體而延續(xù)，并轉世、重生到新的肉體。好，我們再進一步。凡是在時間里延續(xù)的東西，能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)真實嗎？須知，真實是超越時間與量度之外的。那個“我”，是一個思維心體，能夠常新嗎？如果不能，那么思維必然有終結。任何在時間里延續(xù)的東西，本質上必有毀壞；凡能延續(xù)的東西，都不能自新。只要思維通過記憶、欲望、經(jīng)驗而延續(xù)，就絕不能自新。所以，凡落在時間維度里延綿不斷的，皆不能感悟真實。也許你會重生一千次，但你永不能覺悟真實，因為只有自舍，即止息自我，心靈方能自新。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
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這應是有人請教來世重生，克氏所做的開示。不易懂，譯得也吃力……
The “I”，就是問道者口中的那個轉世重生的“我”，并非第一人稱，所以加引號，加定冠詞。中文譯作“那個‘我’”，反復出現(xiàn)，別嫌絮叨，否則就混同于第一人稱了。
心理時間（Psychological Time，即內心積淀的過去的經(jīng)驗、信念、思維模式等，亦即“已知”），是克氏的一個重要概念，Eckhalt Tolle在其名著《當下的力量》（The Power of Now）中有大篇幅闡發(fā)，但不知為何在他的幾本書均未提克氏的名字。
方便：“佛教語，謂以靈活方式，因人施教?！币陨厢屃x出自《漢語大詞典》。A process of thought約略是此義，即思維的權變方式，比“思想方法”、“思維過程”似略好。
此節(jié)題目原譯作“唯自舍者可自新”，lee兄建議“方死方生”，簡捷而典雅，大善！
Only That Which Dies Can Renew Itself
When we talk of a spiritual entity, we mean by that something that is not within the field of the mind, obviously. Now, is the “I” such a spiritual entity? If it is a spiritual entity, it must be beyond all time; therefore, it cannot be reborn or continued. Thought cannot think about it because thought comes within the measure of time, thought is from yesterday, thought is a continuous movement, the response of the past; so thought is essentially a product of time. If thought can think about the “I,” then it is part of time; therefore, that “I” is not free of time, therefore it is not spiritual—which is obvious.
So, the “I,” the “you” is only a process of thought; and you want to know whether that process of thought, continuing apart from the physical body, is born again, is reincarnated in a physical form. Now go a little further. That which continues—can it ever discover the real, which is beyond time and measurement. That “I,” that entity which is a thought-process—can it ever be new? If it cannot, then there must be an ending to thought. Is not anything that continues inherently destructive? That which has continuity can never renew itself. As long as thought continues through memory, through desire, through experience, it can never renew itself; therefore, that which is continued cannot know the real. You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
