克里希那穆提《生命书》新译（2月4日）：自我发展的契机

等级制度为人们提供了绝佳的个人发展的机会。可能你渴望兄弟情谊，但如果你追求精神的卓越成长，怎么会止步于兄弟情谊？你可能不屑于世俗头衔，但如果在精神世界里你追逐大师、救世主、导师，岂不是依然怀抱世俗心？在精神成长、领悟真谛、觉悟神性的过程中，我们内心能有等级分别心吗？真爱，绝无分别心。不管你有无爱心，但精神成长是以爱为归宿，切勿在爱心不足时就踏上漫漫精神之旅。如果你知道自己无爱心，那么全然觉知这一事实而心无旁骛，你就可能转变自己。但如果你执着地构建大师与门徒之间的分别、修为有成和修为无果之间的分别、救星与罪人之间的分别，那么这些都是对爱的否定。投机取巧者，总是在黑暗与虚幻之中寻觅快乐的猎场，但到头来反而被取巧心所耍弄。

神性或曰实相与你之间的鸿沟，是你自己妄造出来的，是执着于已知、确定与安全的思维心所臆造的。这条鸿沟不能架桥跨越，没有任何仪轨、戒律，供奉能够渡你通过这条鸿沟，也没有任何救世主、大师、导师能够消灭鸿沟，引领你抵达真实之境。这道鸿沟根本不是横亘于你与真实世界之间，其实这道鸿沟就是你内在的分别心。

重要的是要理解，与日俱增的内在冲突皆因欲望而生。而只有通过自我觉知，时时觉知我执心，这份理解才能产生。

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

Opportunities for Self-Expansion

… Hierarchical structure offers an excellent opportunity for self-expansion. You may want brotherhood, but how can there be brotherhood if you are pursuing spiritual distinctions? You may smile at worldly titles; but when you admit the Master, the savior, the guru in the realm of the spirit, are you not carrying over the worldly attitude? Can there be hierarchical divisions or degrees in spiritual growth, in the understanding of truth, in the realization of God? Love admits no division. Either you love, or do not love; but do not make the lack of love into a long-drawn-out process whose end is love. When you know you do not love, when you are choicelessly aware of that fact, then there is a possibility of transformation; but to sedulously cultivate this distinction between the Master and the pupil, between those who have attained and those who have not, between the savior and the sinner, is to deny love. The exploiter, who is in turn exploited, finds a happy hunting-ground in this darkness and illusion.

… Separation between God or reality and yourself is brought about by you, by the mind that clings to the known, to certainty, to security. This separation cannot be bridged over; there is no ritual, no discipline, no sacrifice that can carry you across it; there is no savior, no Master, no guru who can lead you to the real or destroy this separation. The division is not between the real and yourself; it is in yourself.

… What is essential is to understand the increasing conflict of desire; and this understanding comes only through self-knowledge and constant awareness of the movements of the self.

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