为了明白何谓影响力，为了理解经验、知识的影响力，内在与外在动机的影响力，为了发现何谓真实、何谓谬误，为了发现所谓谬误的真相，我们需要拥有深刻的洞察，需要对事物的真实面目有深刻的领悟。毫无疑问，上述全部过程，就是禅那观心。
在生命中，在日常生活中，观照自心是至关重要的，就如同美一样不可或缺。去觉知美，感受万物，感受丑与美，这是生活中不可或缺的课业——观赏婆娑嘉木，仰望夜晚的美丽星空，远眺远方的地平线上夕阳西下，彤云聚积，所有这些都是觉知美，都是禅观之道，都是生活中的必需课业，因为这都是生活，正如上班、吵架、痛苦、无尽的压力、焦虑、深深的恐惧、爱、饥饿……这都是生活。
影响力、痛苦、日常压力、权威观点、政治活动等等，所有这些都是生活，理解了生存的全部过程，使自己的心灵从中解脱，这就是观心。如果你真正理解了生活，那么你就一直处于禅观境界，时时静思，而又不是思绪囿于某件事上。觉知了生存的整体过程，用心观察，平静地探索，从中解脱出来，这就是观心。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Meditation Is Essential to Life
To understand this whole problem of influence, the influence of experience, the influence of knowledge, of inward and outward motives—to find out what is true and what is false and to see the truth in the so-called false—all that requires tremendous insight, a deep inward comprehension of things as they are, does it not? This whole process is, surely, the way of meditation.
Meditation is essential in life, in our everyday existence, as beauty is essential. The perception of beauty, the sensitivity to things, to the ugly as well as to the beautiful, is essential—to see a beautiful tree, a lovely sky of an evening, to see the vast horizon where the clouds are gathering as the sun is setting. All this is necessary, the perception of beauty and the understanding of the way of meditation, because all that is life, as is also your going to the office, the quarrels, miseries, the perpetual strain, anxiety, the deep fears, love, and starvation.
Now the understanding of this total process of existence—the influences, the sorrows, the daily strain, the authoritative outlook, the political actions, and so on—all this is life, and the process of understanding it all, and freeing the mind, is meditation. If one really comprehends this life then there is always a meditative process, always a process of contemplation—but not about something. To be aware of this whole process of existence, to observe it, to dispassionately enter into it, and to be free of it, is meditation.
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