“幸福是什么？”我们为什么这样发问？这是探索问题的正确方法吗？
我们并不幸福，否则这个世界将会迥然不同，我们的文明与文化将彻底改观。我们并非幸福之人——琐碎、痛苦、挣扎、虚荣，沉浸于各种徒然无益之物，满足于狭隘的雄心、金钱、地位。或许，我们学富五车，家财万贯，豪屋名车，儿女成群，世事洞明，但我们并不幸福。我们饱受痛苦，正因为痛苦，所以才渴望幸福，一旦有人向我们许诺幸福——无论是社会、经济或心灵的幸福，我们乐于盲从，误入歧途。
我明明痛苦，却询问幸福何在，这有什么益处呢？能帮我明了痛苦吗？我的课题是领悟痛苦，而不是追逐幸福。当我悟破了痛苦，幸福就来临了；但一旦我刻意追求，那就不再是幸福。所以，我必须明白，痛苦究竟是什么？但是，如果我动用部分心智追逐幸福，以此来逃避痛苦，我还能悟破痛苦吗？所以，为了彻悟痛苦，我必须将心与痛苦完全融合为一，不排斥，不辩白，不谴责，不比较，而是全然与痛苦在一起，去体悟痛苦。
如果我懂得如何聆听，真实的幸福就会自然呈现。我必须懂得聆听痛苦，如果能聆听痛苦，就能聆听幸福，因为幸福就是我的本来面目。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Understanding Suffering
Why do we inquire, “what is happiness”? Is that the right approach? Is that the right probing?
We are not happy. If we were happy, our world would be entirely different; our civilization, our culture would be wholly, radically different. We are unhappy human beings, petty, miserable, struggling, vain, surrounding ourselves with useless, futile things, satisfied with petty ambitions, with money, and position. We are unhappy beings, though we may have knowledge, though we may have money, rich houses, plenty of children, cars, experience. We are unhappy, suffering, human beings, and because we are suffering, we want happiness, and so we are led away by those who promise this happiness—social, economic, or spiritual….
What is the good of my asking if there is happiness when I am suffering? Can I understand suffering? That is my problem, not how to be happy. I am happy when I am not suffering, but the moment I am conscious of it, it is not happiness…. So I must understand what is suffering. Can I understand what is suffering when a part of my mind is running away seeking happiness, seeking a way out of this misery? So must I not, if I am to understand suffering, be completely one with it, not reject it, not justify it, not condemn it, not compare it, but completely be with it and understand it?
The truth of what is happiness will come if I know how to listen. I must know how to listen to suffering; if I can listen to suffering I can listen to happiness, because that is what I am.
JULY 7
