克里希那穆提《生命书》新译（5月18日）：超越文字

为了获得相互理解，我们切不可陷入文字障。因为每一个文字——譬如“神”，对你有着特定含义，但对我可能代表了迥然不同的定义，或者毫无意义。所以，除非双方都有相互理解的意愿，而且能超越文字障，否则彼此沟通就近乎不可能。“自由”这个词，通常意味着从某种桎梏中解脱出来，一般指解脱于贪婪、嫉妒，解脱于民族主义，解脱于愤怒，等等。但，自由还有另外的意义——生命的自在逍遥，我认为，理解这一意义是非常重要的。

心智虽包罗万象，但归根结底是由一堆文字构成。那么，心能否摆脱嫉妒？试验一下，你会发现，诸如神、真理、憎恨、嫉妒等文字对内心有着深刻的影响力。那么，你能不能从神经和心理层面上把这些词摆脱掉呢？如果不能摆脱，你就难以直面真实的嫉妒。当你能够直面内心真实的嫉妒，真相本身反而能为你迅速发力，远比努力对治更迅捷。但只要你总想追逐“不嫉妒”的理想，以此摆脱嫉妒，你就会陷入心神散乱，因为那不是面对真实的内心，“嫉妒”这个名相反而让你偏离了真相。

人的认知过程都是通过文字进行的，一旦我把文字标签贴给内心的感受，那种感受就被定格并延续。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Going Beyond Words

To understand one another, I think it is necessary that we should not be caught in words; because, a word like God, for example, may have a particular meaning for you, while for me it may represent a totally different , or no formulation at all. So it is almost impossible to communicate with each other unless both of us have the intention of understanding and going beyond mere words. The word freedom generally implies being free from something, does it not? It ordinarily means being free from greed, from envy, from nationalism, from anger, from this or that. Whereas, freedom may have quite another meaning, which is a sense of being free; and I think it is very important to understand this meaning.

… After all, the mind is made up of words, amongst other things. Now, can the mind be free of the word envy? Experiment with this and you will see that words like God, truth, hate, envy, have a profound effect on the mind. And can the mind be both neurologically and psychologically free of these words? If it is not free of them, it is incapable of facing the fact of envy. When the mind can look directly at the fact which it calls “envy,” then the fact itself acts much more swiftly than the mind’s endeavor to do something about the fact. As long as the mind is thinking of getting rid of envy through the ideal of non-envy, and so on, it is distracted, it is not facing the fact; and the very word envy is a distraction from the fact.

The process of recognition is through the word; and the moment I recognize the feeling through the word, I give continuity to that feeling.

MAY 18