说克2020-3-3
I can see that tracing one fear, one expression of fear, comes to a central issue. Take one of your fears and go into it very deliberately, watching it; see if you can watch it, if you can objectify it and remain with it and not escape from it. Look at it, go into it step by step and you find the root. Then take another fear: Are the roots different? Or is there only one root with different branches, like a tree? If I can understand that one root completely, then it is finished, whether the fear of death, of loneliness, of losing my job, fear of my not being able to give a talk the day after tomorrow, fear of falling ill. Are they the various movements of this central fear? For me, there is only one fear, the root of it, like an expanding tree. And if the mind can go into that deeply, into the very complex root system, then to examine particular fears has no value.
Now, can the mind—listen to this—look not at the various expressions of the root but the whole root system? It can observe that root system completely only when the mind is not concerned with solving a particular fear. I am afraid of what my wife is going to say, of losing my job, of not being able to fulfill myself in some blasted little work. And I examine each of these fears and I come to the root thing, which is the desire, the will to be, the will to assert. And this desire to be, this demand in that root system for existence, is the factor that brings the various other fears. So can my mind look at this fear, live with it, not try to change it? Because the moment I exert will or choice upon it, my mind is working from confusion, from a conclusion, trying to go beyond it, therefore conflict, and conflict feeds fear.
关于desire那句，与中国古话“无欲则刚”有点儿类似，所以不难理解。
克这段话的重点，除了对恐惧进行追根溯源（原文是trace），另一重点是人面对恐惧的反应。人面对恐惧的本能反应包括：
认同（identification）：就是沉浸其中。这两月的瘟疫以及后果，我们都亲历过，或正在亲历中。
逃避（escape）：假装恐惧不存在，沉迷于游戏、聊天、烟酒、赌钱等等。
压抑（suppression）：压入潜意识深层，粉饰，假装恐惧不存在，对外人做若无其事状。
还有一种，就是抗拒、宣战，试图改变、改造之，就是佛家讲的对治，这大约是强化、固化恐惧，为恐惧充电的最快方法。
除了以上最本能的反应，克给我们示范了他的无为法，stay with the fear without trying to changing it. 以下是原文和我的草译：
remain with it and not escape from it. 与恐惧待在一起，不逃避。
It can observe that root system completely only when the mind is not concerned with solving a particular fear. 唯有内心不再纠结于解决某个恐惧，心才能全然地察知恐惧的根系。
So can my mind look at this fear, live with it, not try to change it? Because the moment I exert will or choice upon it, my mind is working from confusion, from a conclusion, trying to go beyond it, therefore conflict, and conflict feeds fear.
所以，我的心能不能注视着恐惧，与恐惧在一起，而不试图改变它？因为，一旦我对恐惧运用意志或选择，实际上我的心是运转在困惑之中的，是从某个结论出发，试图超越恐惧，反而导致内心的冲突，而冲突恰恰在滋养恐惧。
所以，恐惧之所以迟迟不能化解，是因为我们根本没有勇气去面对它，总想编织一个厚厚的保护层把它包起来，作为防护墙，假装它不存在，装给外人看，这就是逃避和压抑的心理机制。因为有保护层包着，所以恐惧是流动不出来的。
而沉浸、抗拒，都是为恐惧充电的方法。
克所展示的无为法，无路径，很难把握，但值得参悟、尝试一下，是吧？
谢谢@DaDa @阿布 。
影符：没错。因为恐惧引发痛苦，所以认同恐惧，承认恐惧的立场是合理的。普通人应对恐惧的模式有逃避和压抑，这一点也随处可见。把抗拒恐惧之说与佛家对治烦恼之法，两者等同，肯定是个幼稚的错误。。。。。。肝硬化患者，禁止喝酒，避免腹水和肝昏迷，这就是有效的行为干预。每一种行为均有后果，即使是不信教，不信克师者的智商正常者也会认同。同样，不杀生，不偷盗，不邪淫，不妄语的行为模式也抗拒了恶行，以此便可以规避了短寿，暴亡，贫穷，婚姻事业破败的后果。可以说，这是成长初阶的有为法，禁止了罪大恶极，身心剧痛，必须的。连日常生活幸福也不具备，情商智商极低，这类人何以观心？。。。。。所以，克师说的观心法，并非针对福薄智障者。克师的听众，不是吸食大麻的嬉皮士。吹嘘无因无果，无法无天，邪淫滥交的印度外道奥修，不照样在美国就地伏法吗？。。。。。。先立规范，后破执着，此为正道。
@影符 ，克的话也有情境和前提，比如时间，他偶尔提醒，那是心理时间，不是钟表时间；比如恐惧/安全，是心理安全感，特别是潜伏在信仰、定式、记忆中的安全感，不是生理安全感，比如基本的衣食住行与防护。此时如果用钟表时间反驳他，他的话自然就不成立了。
类似，我说到压制、对治的类比时，可能触发了您对“对治”的认识与记忆。但肝硬化喝酒、杀生、偷窃……那些并不是我的意思，可能是您沿着自己过去的参悟所做的阐发与投影。
其次，同一个佛学术语，不同宗派比如净土宗与禅宗，就会有非常不一致的解释，显然我们不是为了辨析概念，也不是辩经。而是在读书、读帖的同时，观察自己内在的反应，亦即观心。比如，您看到“对治”二字的反应，我看到“幼稚的错误”的反应，这才是最宝贵的。
多谢您的大段回复，不能表情，文字代表一下 [ 握手 ]
