如果不能摆脱过去，就绝无自由，因为这样的心灵缺乏清新与纯真。唯有清新、纯真之心，才是自由的不羁。自由，与年岁无关，与经验无关；在我看来，自由的本质在于觉悟意识与潜意识习惯的整体机制。问题并不在于如何戒除习惯，而是如何看清习惯的整体构成。你必须观察习惯是如何形成的，因为当你节制、抗拒一个习惯的同时，又制造出一个新习惯。所以要点在于，当你彻底明白了习惯机制，新的习惯就不再滋生了。而抗拒、打压习惯，与之搏斗，反而会令习惯延续不断。当你与某种习惯搏斗时，反而在为那习惯赋予更强生命，而与旧习惯搏斗，又成了新习惯。但如果你能放下抗拒，单纯地觉知习惯的整体构成，你会发现你已经从习惯中获得了解脱，而且在这种解脱中，有一种全新的东西在发生。
只有呆滞、昏昧之心，才会制造习惯，并执迷不放。而警觉之心，时时刻刻对口头的言语，对手头的动作，对心头的意念和感受保持清醒的觉照，此时新习惯的形成就停止了。理解这一点是非常重要的，因为只要你在摧毁一个旧习惯，同时又在制造着新习惯，显然心灵永无自由。唯有自由的心灵，才能超越自我，觉察未知。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Observe How Habits Are Formed
Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the fresh, innocent mind that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with experience; and it seems to me that the very essence of freedom lies in understanding the whole mechanism of habit, both conscious and unconscious. It is not a question of ending habit, but of seeing totally the structure of habit. You have to observe how habits are formed and how, by denying or resisting one habit, another habit is created. What matters is to be totally conscious of habit; for then, as you will see for yourself there is no longer the formation of habit. To resist habit, to fight it, to deny it, only gives continuity to habit. When you fight a particular habit you give life to that habit, and then the very fighting of it becomes a further habit. But if you are simply aware of the whole structure of habit without resistance, then you will find there is freedom from habit, and in that freedom a new thing takes place.
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment—attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings—will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end. This is very important to understand, because as long as the mind is breaking down one habit, and in that very process creating another, it can obviously never be free; and it is only the free mind that can perceive something beyond itself.
MAY 31
