克里希那穆提《生命书》新译（1月21日）：权威感腐化领袖与信众

觉知自我，是件坚苦卓绝的事。因为我们多数人都喜欢轻松、虚幻的方式，故而臆造出权威，来塑造我们的生活。这里所说的权威，可能是一个集体，比如国家；也可能是个人，如大师、救世主、精神导师。任何权威都令人目盲，令人思想匮乏。大多数人发现，思想即痛苦，所以宁愿把自己交付给权威。权威会产生权力，而权力总是集中式的，因而必彻底腐化，它不但腐化权力的行使者，也腐化其追随者。知识与经验权威，也令人堕落，不论权威摇身变为大师、议员，或者牧师。

最重要的，是你自己的生活，是你永无止息的内心冲突，而领袖或他所点化的生活模式，根本不重要。大师、牧师的权威感，会让你偏离核心议题，注意，你的核心议题是：你自己的内在冲突。

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

Authority Corrupts Both Leader and Follower

Self-awareness is arduous, and since most of us prefer an easy, illusory way, we bring into being the authority that gives shape and pattern to our life. This authority may be the collective, the State; or it may be the personal, the Master, the savior, the guru. Authority of any kind is blinding, it breeds thoughtlessness; and as most of us find that to be thoughtful is to have pain, we give ourselves over to authority. Authority engenders power, and power always becomes centralized and therefore utterly corrupting; it corrupts not only the wielder of power, but also him who follows it.

The authority of knowledge and experience is perverting, whether it be vested in the Master, his representative or the priest. It is your own life, this seemingly endless conflict, that is significant, and not the pattern or the leader. The authority of the Master and the priest takes you away from the central issue, which is the conflict within yourself.

JANUARY 21