心灵独立，不是一门孤独哲学，而是对社会整体架构的革命——不仅超越当前的社会，而且还超越法西斯等各种高度组织化的残暴强权社会。心灵独立，意味着对强权影响力的深刻觉知。
先生，你可曾注意到那些演练的士兵？他们不再是正常人，他们已变成机器。那些站在烈日下演练的士兵，就是你我的儿子，这一幕发生在此处，也发生在美国、苏联以及世界各处；不仅发生在政府领域，而且还发生在道场，诸如修道院、寺庙、修行会社、团体，它们都在运用骇人的权力体系。
唯没有任何皈依的心灵才能独立。心灵独立是不能培育的境界，你明白吗？当你明白了这一点，你就从社会中解脱了，不再有长官、主席邀你赴宴。在独立心灵中蕴涵着谦恭，唯有独立的心灵才能懂得爱，而不是坐拥权力的人。那些雄心勃勃的人，无论是虔诚信徒还是普通人，都不懂得什么是爱。如果明白了这一点，你就拥有了圆满的生活、圆满的行动。通过自我觉知，心灵的独立自然来临。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：本篇选自1961年1月26日在印度新德里公开演讲后的问答录，文中的“此处”是指印度。在印度，修行高深的宗教人士受到政府的尊崇，所以克氏讲，一旦告别宗教皈依，就没有长官请你赴宴了。
To Be Alone
To be alone, which is not a philosophy of loneliness, is obviously to be in a state of revolution against the whole setup of society—not only this society, but the communist society, the fascist, every form of society as organized brutality, organized power. And that means an extraordinary perception of the effects of power.
Sir, have you noticed those soldiers rehearsing? They are not human beings any more, they are machines, they are your sons and my sons, standing there in the sun. This is happening here, in America, in Russia, and everywhere—not only at the governmental level, but also at the monastic level, belonging to monasteries, to orders, to groups who employ astonishing power.
And it is only the mind which does not belong that can be alone. And aloneness is not something to be cultivated. You see this? When you see all this, you are out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to dinner. Out of that aloneness there is humility. It is this aloneness that knows love—not power. The ambitious man, religious or ordinary, will never know what love is. So, if one sees all this, then one has this quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes through self-knowledge.
MARCH 12
