走在路上，大自然的壮丽映入眼帘：辽阔的绿地，无垠的蓝天，远处传来孩子们的笑声，一切美得难以言传。
但除此之外，人世间还有伤痛：妇人生产的阵痛，亲人辞世的伤痛；当你心怀期待却不能如愿，则痛从中来；当国家步入式微衰落，无论全体国民还是个人，都为国运的腐朽而痛心疾首。回到家里，一室之内也有很多伤痛，如果你深入觉察内心，你会发现自己志向未酬，卑微无能，还有各种各样的无意识伤痛。
生活中也有笑声。笑，是美好的——纵情大笑，不必理由；内心深深的喜悦，无需缘故；满腔爱心，不求任何回报。可是我们鲜有这样的大笑，我们背负了太多的伤痛，生活充满了苦恼与冲突，不断地分崩离析，我们从未懂得何谓全身心的爱……
我们总想寻到某种灵丹妙药、方法秘笈，来化解生活的重负，所以从未真正面对伤痛。通过虚构幻相，通过塑造心像，通过放飞思绪，我们努力逃避，我们梦想找到某种途径，来逃避沉重的生活，当伤痛的巨浪涌来时，我们可以早早地跑开。
伤痛，是可以终结的，但并非通过任何体系或法门。如果你真正觉察了伤痛的真相，伤痛就已经化解了。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The End of Sorrow
If you walk down the road, you will see the splendor of nature, the extraordinary beauty of the green fields and the open skies; and you will hear the laughter of children.
But in spite of all that, there is a sense of sorrow. There is the anguish of a woman bearing a child; there is sorrow in death; there is sorrow when you are looking forward to something, and it does not happen; there is sorrow when a nation runs down, goes to seed; and there is the sorrow of corruption, not only in the collective, but also in the individual. There is sorrow in your own house, if you look deeply—the sorrow of not being able to fulfill, the sorrow of your own pettiness or incapacity, and various unconscious sorrows.
There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing—to laugh without reason, to have joy in one’s heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being….
We want to find a solution, a means, a method by which to resolve this burden of life, and so we never actually look at sorrow. We try to escape through myths, through images, through speculation; we hope to find some way to avoid this weight, to stay ahead of the wave of sorrow.
… Sorrow has an ending, but it does not come about through any system or method. There is no sorrow when there is perception of what is.
JULY 23
