所谓觉照，究竟是什么？如果我强迫内心去觉照，这其中有觉照吗？当我告诉自己：“我必须倾注觉照力，我必须控制自心，排除一切杂念！”这是觉照吗？肯定不是。当强迫自心去关注时，会发生什么？此时，内心建起了一堵防护墙，抵御其他念头侵入，你所关心的只是抗拒并排除杂念，所以根本不能觉照。事实就是如此，对吧？
要彻底理解某事物，你必须付出全然的觉照力。但很快你会发现，这是异常艰难的。因为你已经习惯于心绪涣散，你叹道：“天啊，觉照真是美妙！可是我怎样才能做到呢？”这样，你又退回到贪欲中，根本不能全然觉照。例如，当你看到一棵树、一只鸟，断言道：“这是一棵橡树，那是一只鹦鹉。”然后扭头走过，这不是觉照。在你冠名之际，觉照心已经止息了。
但，当你审视某事物，如果内心瞭然，倾注全部的觉照力，你会发现内心在发生彻底的转化，这种全然觉照，就是“至善”，心无他物可待。而通过修炼，你不能获得全然觉照力，因为各种修炼法门只是教你专注守一，换言之，教你内心建起了一道道防护墙，你躲在墙内，心无旁骛。显然，这不是觉照，而是执着守一而已。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Complete Attention
What do we mean by attention? Is there attention when I am forcing my mind to attend? When I say to myself, “I must pay attention, I must control my mind and push aside all other thoughts,” would you call that attention? Surely that is not attention. What happens when the mind forces itself to pay attention? It creates a resistance to prevent other thoughts from seeping in; it is concerned with resistance, with pushing away; therefore it is incapable of attention. That is true, is it not?
To understand something totally you must give your complete attention to it. But you will soon find out how extraordinarily difficult that is, because your mind is used to being distracted, so you say, “By Jove, it is good to pay attention, but how am I to do it?” That is, you are back again with the desire to get something, so you will never pay complete attention…. When you see a tree or a bird, for example, to pay complete attention is not to say, “That is an oak,” or, “That is a parrot,” and walk by. In giving it a name you have already ceased to pay attention….
Whereas, if you are wholly aware, totally attentive when you look at something, then you will find that a complete transformation takes place, and that total attention is the good. There is no other, and you cannot get total attention by practice. With practice you get concentration, that is, you build up walls of resistance, and within those walls of resistance is the concentrator, but that is not attention, it is exclusion.
JUNE 12
