克里希那穆提《生命书》新译：游心于创造之境（12月27日）
冥想，就是清空内心所沉积的一切。也许你根本做不到，但没关系，你只需静静地听。如果你能做到，你会发现内心有一种异乎寻常的空灵，这种空灵，就是解脱。所以，你必须一开始就追求解脱，而不是守株待兔，梦求最终的解脱。你必须在工作中、关系以及一言一行中去探索解脱的意义，然后你会发现，冥想就是创造。
创造这个词，我们用得随意且轻松。画家在画布上率意涂抹油彩，亢奋异常，这是他的成就感所在，是表达自我的方式，他以此博取金钱与名声，而他称之为“创造”。每位作家也在“创作”，有很多“创意”写作学校……但这些不过是心智处于特定社会里所做的条件反应，与创造毫不相关。
我所说的创造，则截然不同。心灵进入创造性状态，这种状态可能会表达出来，也可能无须表达，因为在这种状态，表达并没有多大价值。创造性状态不需任何缘由，所以，游心于创造之境，每时每刻，灭、生、爱、在……所有的这一切，就是冥想。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
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《庄子 • 田子方》：“老聃曰：‘吾游心于物之初。’”
A mind in the state of creation，与“游心于物之初”完全契合。
A Mind in the State of Creation
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that—perhaps you won’t, but it doesn’t matter, just listen to this—you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.
Creation is a word that we all use so glibly, so easily. A painter puts on canvas a few colours and gets tremendously excited about it. It is his fulfillment, the means through which he expresses himself; it is his market in which to gain money or reputation—and he calls that “creation”! Every writer “creates,” and there are schools of “creative” writing, but none of that has anything to do with creation. It is all the conditioned response of a mind that lives in a particular society.
The creation of which I am speaking is something entirely different. It is a mind that is in the state of creation. It may or it may not express that state. Expression has very little value. That state of creation has no cause, and therefore a mind in that state is every moment dying and living and loving and being. The whole of this is meditation.
DECEMBER 27
