克里希那穆提《生命书》新译（1月18日）：解脱于起点

操控欲或被操控欲的背后，都有一股强迫性冲动，如果我们理解了这股冲动，也许我们就能从权威所制造的破坏性效果中得以解脱。我们渴求确定，渴求正确，渴求成功，渴求通晓万物，这种对确定与持久的渴望，将个人的经验塑造成内在权威，同时树立起社会、家庭、宗教等领域的外在权威。

仅仅忽略权威，或者抹去其外在符号，并没有什么意义。抛弃一种传统，尊奉另一种；脱离这位精神领袖，追随另一位，都只是表面文章。如果我们明白了权威的全部机制，如果我们看清了权威实际是内在心象，如果我们理解并超越了对确定感的渴望，那么我们已经具有了广泛的觉知和洞见，我们已经解脱，不是最终获得解脱，而是解脱于起点。

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

Free at the Beginning

If we can understand the compulsion behind our desire to dominate or to be dominated, then perhaps we can be free from the crippling effects of authority. We crave to be certain, to be right, to be successful, to know; and this desire for certainty, for permanence, builds up within ourselves the authority of personal experience, while outwardly it creates the authority of society, of the family, of religion, and so on.

But merely to ignore authority, to shake off its outward symbols, is of very little significance. To break away from one tradition and conform to another, to leave this leader and follow that, is but a superficial gesture. If we are to be aware of the whole process of authority, if we are to see the inwardness of it, if we are to understand and transcend the desire for certainty, then we must have extensive awareness and insight, we must be free, not at the end, but at the beginning.

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