如何进入觉照状态?觉照力是不能通过说服、比较、奖励或惩罚等手段培育的,这些手段都是运用强制力。只有消融恐惧,才是觉照之始。
只要你拥有实现理想、追逐成功的冲动,则内心必然充满挫败、扭曲与冲突,因而必有恐惧感。你可以传授专注的法门,但觉照是没法传授的,恰如你不能把“免于恐惧的自由”传授于人。一旦你领悟到恐惧的起源,恐惧就消泯了。所以,当学生周围弥漫着幸福的氛围,当他拥有了安全感、轻松感,当他领悟到无私之行与爱偕行的时候,觉照心就自动萌发了。爱心从不做比较,故而你不再心生羡慕,也不再扭曲内心、改变自己。
——克里希那穆提《生命书:365观心日课》(The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti)
Elimination of Fear Is the Beginning of Attention
How is the state of attention to be brought about? It cannot be cultivated through persuasion, comparison, reward, or punishment, all of which are forms of coercion. The elimination of fear is the beginning of attention.
Fear must exist as long as there is an urge to be or to become, which is the pursuit of success, with all its frustrations and tortuous contradictions. You can teach concentration, but attention cannot be taught, just as you cannot possibly teach freedom from fear, and in understanding these causes there is the elimination of fear. So attention arises spontaneously when around the student there is an atmosphere of well-being, when he has the feeling of being secure, of being at ease, and is aware of the disinterested action that comes with love. Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of “becoming” cease.
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