提问：在这里聆听你的教诲时，我似乎都明白了。但离开后，我依然不明白，尽管我很想努力运用你的教诲。

克答：你真正聆听的，是你自己的内心，而不是演讲者。如果你只聆听演讲者，那么他在引领你，左右着你的理解，这是一种可怖、可恶的方式，因为你已经树立了权威级次。

所以，此时此地，你真正在做的，是聆听你自己。当你观想演讲者所描绘的画面时，你所看到的实际是你自己的心像，而不是演讲者描绘的画面。如果这一点已经很清楚，当你审视自己说：“我看清了真实的自己，但我无为处之，不想修正它。”那么你的问题反而终结了。但如果你说：“我看清了自己的本来面目，我必须改变！”然后根据自己的理解而努力改造自己，这种做法与运用教诲是风牛马不相及的。

但，如果演讲者在台上讲，而你聆听自己的心声，那么在这聆听之中，有一种澄明，有一种敏锐；在这聆听之中，心会变得健全、强大，既非顺从，也非抗拒，而是变得活力四射、能量充沛。只有这样的人，才能创造新一代，才能创造新世界。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

译按：人们阅读经籍、聆听教诲时，不是在接受神谕、开示、点化，而应觉察自己内在的心像和声音。比如，信仰中的权威崇拜，或许是因为内在的惶惑、恐惧而将自己绑缚于经卷、大师之上，从而获得慰藉、归宿与安全。此时应聆听、审视的，是内心对慰藉、归宿、安全感的本能诉求，这是最真实的心像与心声，而经卷教诲不过是一把精神拐杖、一个引子、一面镜子。在这样的聆听与审视中，若参破了这层安全感以及下面隐藏的惶惑与恐惧，则如同乌云散去，心头自有清明澄澈，豁然开朗，之前被困住的能量即奔涌而出。

Listening to Yourself

QUESTIONER: While I am here listening to you, I seem to understand, but when I am away from here, I don’t understand, even though I try to apply what you have been saying.

KRISHNAMURTI: … You are listening to yourself, and not to the speaker. If you are listening to the speaker, he becomes your leader, your way to understanding—which is a horror, an abomination, because you have then established the hierarchy of authority.

So what you are doing here is listening to yourself. You are looking at the picture the speaker is painting, which is your own picture, not the speaker’s. If that much is clear, that you are looking at yourself, then you can say, “Well, I see myself as I am, and I don’t want to do anything about it”—and that is the end of it. But if you say, “I see myself as I am, and there must be a change,” then you begin to work out of your own understanding—which is entirely different from applying what the speaker is saying….

But if, as the speaker is speaking, you are listening to yourself, then out of that listening there is clarity, there is sensitivity; out of that listening the mind becomes healthy, strong. Neither obeying nor resisting, it becomes alive, intense—and it is only such a human being who can create a new generation, a new world.

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