世人有生理恐惧。看到毒蛇、野兽，你会产生本能的恐惧，这是正常、健康、自然的。毋宁说，这不是恐惧，而是自我保护的本能欲望，所以是正常的。
而心理自我保护——亦即保持精神确定感的欲望，则会滋生恐惧。如果内心锲而不舍地追逐确定感，那么此心是了无生机的，因为生活中根本没有确定感，生活即无常。
当直接触碰到恐惧，你的神经等会做出反应。如果你不再通过言辞或其他活动逃避恐惧，则“能观心”与“所观物”亦即恐惧之间的二元分别就不复存在了。只有内心逃避恐惧时，才会把心与恐惧分割开来。但当你直接触摸恐惧，就不再有“能观”的主体，也不再有另一个客体窃窃自语：“我好怕”。所以，一旦你直接用心触摸生活，触摸任何事物，就不再有二元分别——须知，正是分别心滋生了竞争、雄心与恐惧。
所以，重要的不是“如何解脱恐惧”，如果你追寻解脱恐惧的路径、方法和修炼体系，那么你将永远深陷恐惧中。重要的是明白心底的恐惧，但唯有直接触摸恐惧，恰如直接触摸饥饿，直接触摸失业威胁，你才能看明白恐惧；唯有此时，你才会发现：所有恐惧已经止息了。对，我是说，所有恐惧已全部止息，而不是这种或那种单独的恐惧。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Contacting Fear
There is physical fear. You know, when you see a snake, a wild animal, instinctively there is fear; that is a normal, healthy, natural fear. It is not fear, it is a desire to protect oneself—that is normal.
But the psychological protection of oneself—that is, the desire to be always certain—breeds fear. A mind that is seeking always to be certain is a dead mind, because there is no certainty in life, there is no permanency….
When you come directly into contact with fear, there is a response of the nerves and all the rest of it. Then, when the mind is no longer escaping through words or through activity of any kind, there is no division between the observer and the thing observed as fear. It is only the mind that is escaping that separates itself from fear. But when there is a direct contact with fear, there is no observer, there is no entity that says, “I am afraid.” So, the moment you are directly in contact with life, with anything, there is no division—it is this division that breeds competition, ambition, fear.
So what is important is not “how to be free of fear?” If you seek a way, a method, a system to be rid of fear, you will be everlastingly caught in fear. But if you understand fear—which can only take place when you come directly in contact with it, as you are in contact with hunger, as you are directly in contact when you are threatened with losing your job—then you do something; only then will you find that all fear ceases—we mean all fear, not fear of this kind or of that kind.
MARCH 27
