学习是一码事，获取知识是另一码事。学习是持续的心灵之旅，而不是知识的加法，不是搜集知识并奉为行动指南。我们多数人都热衷于搜罗知识，沉淀为记忆与理念，储存为经验，并作为行动的出发点。也就是说，我们言行的动力是知识：技术知识、经验知识、传统知识、由个人脾性而衍生的知识 ，等等。这种知识、经验与传统的沉淀，构成了我们的精神背景，我们的行动就是在这样的背景下展开的。在这个过程中，并没有真正的学习。
学习，绝不是知识的积累，而是心灵的持续前行。不知道你可曾探究过这个问题：什么是学习？什么是获取知识？学习绝不是知识的堆积。你不能把学习等同于仓储，并将这座仓库当成行动的起点。你应一边前行，一边学习，一刻不能退步、退化或堕落。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Learning Is Never Accumulative
Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another. Learning is a continuous process, not a process of addition, not a process which you gather and then from there act. Most of us gather knowledge as memory, as idea, store it up as experience, and from there act. That is, we act from knowledge, technological knowledge, knowledge as experience, knowledge as tradition, knowledge that one has derived through one’s particular idiosyncratic tendencies; with that background, with that accumulation as knowledge, as experience, as tradition, we act. In that process there is no learning.
Learning is never accumulative; it is a constant movement. I do not know if you have ever gone into this question at all: what is learning and what is the acquisition of knowledge? … Learning is never accumulative. You cannot store up learning and then from that storehouse act. You learn as you are going along. Therefore, there is never a moment of retrogression or deterioration or decline.
JANUARY 12
