克里希那穆提《生命书》新译：你信的神不是真神（12月18日）

信仰神的人，永远不能发现神。如果你敞开内心，拥抱实相，那就不必去信仰实相；如果你敞开内心，拥抱那未知之境，那也不必去信仰未知。究竟而言，信仰是一种自我保护，只有心量卑微者才信仰神。看看战争中飞行员的信仰吧，他们说：当他们抛弹轰炸时，神在陪伴他们。所以，当你杀人时，当你盘剥人时，你却信神。你一面崇拜神，一面继续无情地强取豪夺，拥护军队，可你却声称自己相信仁慈、悲悯与友善……

只要心里有信仰，那么心里就容不下未知。你不能思考未知，因为未知非头脑可思量。思维心，是过去所塑造的，是昨天的产物，这样的心怎么能敞开接纳未知呢？它只能把幻相投射给未知，但投射是虚幻不实的。所以，你信的神，不是真神，而是你自心造作、自我陶醉的幻相。只有思维心觉悟了自己的全过程，并息止下来，才能见到实相。只有当内心完全空明，才能接收未知。只有当内心觉悟了关系的内涵——与财产的关系，与人的关系，只有心与万物建立了正确的关系，心才会清净澄明。如果心不能觉悟关系中冲突的全过程，心就不能从中获得解脱。

唯有内心全然宁静，全然恬淡，不再投射，不在向外驰求，彻底寂然……唯此时，永恒才会显现。

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

Your God Is Not God

A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs! So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army—yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness….

As long as belief exists, there can never be the unknown; you cannot think about the unknown, thought cannot measure it. The mind is the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday, and can such a mind be open to the unknown? It can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your God is not God—it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification. There can be reality only when the mind understands the total process of itself and comes to an end. When the mind is completely empty—only then is it capable of receiving the unknown. The mind is not purged until it understands the content of relationship—its relationship with property, with people—until it has established the right relationship with everything. Until it understands the whole process of conflict in relationship, the mind cannot be free.

Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still—only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being.

DECEMBER 18