聆听，是一门不易把握的艺术，但在聆听中蕴含着美与深邃的领悟。在聆听之际，我们带着各自的本真，或深或浅，同时也总附带着先入之见，或特定立场。我们并非单纯地聆听，而总是被我们的思想、定论、偏见的滤网所干扰。
要真正地聆听，你的心必须回归宁静，从紧张的驰求中解脱，有轻松的觉照力。这种机敏而恬淡无为的状态，可以让你超越文字定论，听到弦外之音。语言是令人困惑的，它只是交流的外在工具；要超越语言噪音，进入心心交融，必须用内心的机敏和恬淡去聆听。心怀仁爱的人也许能聆听，但真正的聆听者是极为罕见的。我们多数人都在追逐结果，达成目标，我们永远都在求胜、征服，所从未真正地聆听。只有在真正的聆听中，你才能听见语言的交响。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Beyond the Noise of Words
Listening is an art not easily come by, but in it there is beauty and great understanding. We listen with the various depths of our being, but our listening is always with a preconception or from a particular point of view. We do not listen simply; there is always the intervening screen of our own thoughts, conclusions, and prejudices….
To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention. This alert yet passive state is able to hear what is beyond the verbal conclusion. Words confuse; they are only the outward means of communication; but to commune beyond the noise of words, there must be in listening an alert passivity. Those who love may listen; but it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there is no listening. It is only in listening that one hears the song of the words.
JANUARY 3
