在我看来，最要紧的，唯有觉知力，亦即当下顿悟事物真伪的能力。生命中最不可或缺的要素，就是即时觉知真伪的能力，而不是智力，也不是建立在狡黠、多知与执着之上的推理能力。

其实，你肯定曾焕发过觉知力，刹那间，你顿悟了真相——比如，自由心灵不能有任何依傍归属，这就是觉知，你迅速看清了真相，无需分析，没有推理，没有任何智力造作——那只是企图延长觉知力。觉知（perception），完全不同于所谓的直觉（intuition），直觉这个词已被我们用滥，变得花巧油滑。

在我看来，生命中唯一不可或缺的，是直捷的觉知力，而不是推理，不是筹算，也不是分析。当然，你必须具备分析能力，必须拥有健康、敏锐的大脑做推理；但如果大脑被推理与分析所局限，就不能觉知真相。

如果静心深思，你就会明白：为什么你渴望归属，为什么你执着不放。如果再进一步，你会发现自己内心奴性十足，自由被扼杀，人性尊严甚为稀薄——所有这些都是心执所致。对于这些隐秘，当你刹那之间觉然于心，你就获得了自由，根本不必去奋力追逐自由。觉知力之所以重要，原因就在于此。

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

Immediate Perception

To me there is only perception—which is to see something as false or true immediately. This immediate perception of what is false and what is true is the essential factor—not the intellect, with its reasoning based upon its cunning, its knowledge, its commitments.

It must sometimes have happened to you that you have seen the truth of something immediately—such as the truth that you cannot belong to anything. That is perception: seeing the truth of something immediately, without analysis, without reasoning, without all the things that the intellect creates in order to postpone perception. It is entirely different from intuition, which is a word that we use with glibness and ease….

To me there is only this direct perception—not reasoning, not calculation, not analysis. You must have the capacity to analyze; you must have a good, sharp mind in order to reason; but a mind that is limited to reason and analysis is incapable of perceiving what is truth….

If you commune with yourself, you will know why you belong, why you have committed yourself; and if you push further, you will see the slavery, the cutting down of freedom, the lack of human dignity which that commitment entails. When you perceive all this instantaneously, you are free; you don’t have to make an effort to be free. That is why perception is essential.

SEPTEMBER 14