Learning Is Not Experience

作者：克里希那穆提

The word learning has great significance.

There are two kinds of learning.

For most of us learning means the accumulatiton of knowledge, of experience, of technology, of a skill, of a language.

There is also psychological learning, learning through experience,

either the immediate experiences of life, which leave a certain residue, of tradition, of the race, of society.

There are these two kinds of learning how to meet life：psychological and physiological; outward skill and inward skill.

There is really no line of demarcation between the two; they overlap.

We are not considering for the moment the skill that we learn through practice, the technological knowledge that we acquire through study.

What we are concerned about is the psychological learning that we have acquired through the centuries or inherited as tradition, as knowledge, as experience.

This we call learing, but I question whether it is learning at all.

I am not talking about learning a skill, a language, a technique, but I am asking whether the mind ever learns psychologically.

It has learned, and with what it has learned it meets the challenge of life.

It is always translating life or the new challenge according to what it hs learned.

That is what we are doing. It that learning?

Doesn't learning imply something new, something that I don't know and am learning?

If I am merely adding to what I already know, it is no longer learning.

官方翻译：

学习这一词有着极大的意义。

有两种学习方法。

对大多数而言，学习意味着知识、经验、技术、技能和语言的积累。

还有一种心理上的学习，即通过体验学习。

可能是传统、家族和社会生活留下的某种直接经验。

有两种学习方式去面对生活：心理上的和生理上的；外在技巧和内在技巧。

两者之间没有分界；还有重叠部分。

我们现在要考虑的不是通过练习学会技巧，以及通过学习学会技术知识。

我们关心的是，几个世纪以来，我们通过传统、知识和经验习得或继承下来的心理学习。

我们把这叫做学习，但是我怀疑它算不算学习。

我不是在说要学习一门本领，一种语言，一种技术，而是在说思维可否进行心理上的学习。

学习之后并用其所学挑战生活。

据其所学，它总是在转变生活或者新的挑战。

那就是我们在做的。那是学习吗？

学习不就是意味着新事物，那些我不知道而正在学的事物吗？

如果我仅仅是把它加入我已知的事物中，这就不是在学习了。