克里希那穆提《生命书》新译（1月16日）：欲成就真善，需告别权威

心，能否从权威崇拜中解脱出来？解脱于权威，就是解脱于恐惧，因而心不再需要盲从。这样，就不再需要东施效颦，因为仿效会让人变得僵硬无生机。归根结底，真善、美德，并非善行的重复。一旦善行变成机械重复，就不再是真善。真善，是一种必须时刻具足的品质，如同谦恭一样。谦恭，是不能培养的；而缺乏谦恭的心，是没有学习能力的。所以，欲成就真善，必须告别权威。社会公德并不是真正的道德，因为社会容许竞争、贪婪和雄心，鼓励这些非道德的行为。我说的真善是一种超越品行规范的东西，若无真善，则无秩序，而秩序并非遵从模式、恪守定则。如果试图通过恪守戒律定规而成就真善，这只能令自己失德。

外在权威，是内在信念的物化，如法律、神、道德规范。当心灵领悟了真善，则那些权威的破坏力就暴露无遗了。我们都有自己的权威，如各自的经验、知识，我们亦步亦趋，所以总是不断地重复、仿效，因为我们轻车熟路。精神权威，不同于维护秩序的法律、警察；人人内心都有精神权威，但精神权威对于真善具有破坏力，因为真善是活泼、生动的。正如你不能培养谦恭心、不能培养爱，同样你也不能培养真善，在真善中，有一种宏大的美。真善是活泼灵动的，失却了真善，就失却了清晰思维的基础。

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

Virtue Has No Authority

Can the mind be free from authority, which means free from fear, so that it is no longer capable of following? If so, this puts an end to imitation, which becomes mechanical. After all, virtue, ethics, is not a repetition of what is good. The moment it becomes mechanical, it ceases to be virtue. Virtue is something that must be from moment to moment, like humility. Humility cannot be cultivated, and a mind that has no humility is incapable of learning. So virtue has no authority. The social morality is no morality at all; it’s immoral because it admits competition, greed, ambition, and therefore society is encouraging immorality. Virtue is something that transcends morality. Without virtue there is no order, and order is not according to a pattern, according to a formula. A mind that follows a formula through disciplining itself to achieve virtue creates for itself the problems of immorality.

An external authority that the mind objectifies, apart from the law, as God, as moral, and so on, becomes destructive when the mind is seeking to understand what real virtue is. We have our own authority as experience, as knowledge, which we are trying to follow. There is this constant repetition, imitation, which we all know. Psychological authority—not the authority of the law, the policeman who keeps order—the psychological authority, which each one has, becomes destructive of virtue because virtue is something that is living, moving. As you cannot possibly cultivate humility, as you cannot possibly cultivate love, so also virtue cannot be cultivated; and there is great beauty in that. Virtue is nonmechanical, and without virtue there is no foundation for clear thinking.

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