显然，一切思维都是戴镣铐的舞蹈，世间根本不存在所谓自由思维。思维绝无自由，而是心灵桎梏的产物，是我们的背景、文化、气候、社会、经济、政治背景的产物。你所读的书，你所做的修炼，都建立在上述背景中，任何思维必然是该背景的产物。
所以，如果我们能觉知——亦即当下深入参悟思维的意涵，也许就能让心灵获得解脱，而无需运用意志，无需痛下决心。因为一旦你下定决心，内心就会出现一个人格，充满渴望并信誓旦旦：“我必须解放心灵！”这个人格是我们达成目标的欲望所幻化出来的，所以冲突已经产生了。那么，我们能不能觉知思维的桎梏？只是单纯地觉知，毫无内在冲突。这种觉知力若能萌发，也许就能把问题燃烧得干干净净。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Awareness May Burn Away the Problems
All thinking obviously is conditioned; there is no such thing as free thinking. Thinking can never be free, it is the outcome of our conditioning, of our background, of our culture, of our climate, of our social, economic, political background. The very books that you read and the very practices that you do are all established in the background, and any thinking must be the result of that background.
So if we can be aware—and we can go presently into what it signifies, what it means, to be aware—perhaps we shall be able to uncondition the mind without the process of will, without the determination to uncondition the mind. Because the moment you determine, there is an entity who wishes, an entity who says, “I must uncondition my mind.” That entity itself is the outcome of our desire to achieve a certain result, so a conflict is already there. So, is it possible to be aware of our conditioning, just to be aware?—in which there is no conflict at all. That very awareness, if allowed, may perhaps burn away the problems.
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