所谓思想，是指什么？思想运转于什么时刻？显然，思想是神经或心理响应的产物，是感官对刺激的即时响应，或记忆库产生的心理响应。你的神经系统对感官刺激产生即时响应，此外，你记忆库里种族的、群体的、导师的、家庭的、传统的影响力也会产生心理反应——所有这些，你都称作思想。所以，思想就是记忆的响应过程，对吧？如果你没有任何记忆，也就不会产生思想；记忆体对某种体验做出响应，从而将思想转化为行动。
那么，记忆是什么？如果你观察自己的记忆，观察自己如何采集记忆，你会发现，记忆要么是有关信息、工程、数学、物理等领域的事实性、技术性的数据，要么是尚未完成、尚未圆满的人生体验，残存于心中。只要观察自己的记忆，你就会明白这一点。当一次体验完成，获得了圆满，就不会有心理残渣沉积到记忆里。只有某次人生体验未被你彻底理解，才会留下记忆残渣。因为我们总是透过旧记忆来看待当下的各种人生体验，所以我们从未真正理解人生体验，从未以崭新的心怀拥抱全新的生活，而是透过旧记忆的滤镜来看待生活。所以，很显然，我们对人生体验的响应是局限的，总是受制约的。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Memory Has No Life in Itself
What do we mean by thought? When do you think? Obviously, thought is the result of a response, neurological or psychological, is it not? It is the immediate response of the senses to a sensation, or it is psychological, the response of stored-up memory. There is the immediate response of the nerves to a sensation, and there is the psychological response of stored-up memory, the influence of race, group, guru, family, tradition, and so on—all of which you call thought. So, the thought process is the response of memory, is it not? You would have no thoughts if you had no memory, and the response of memory to a certain experience brings the thought process into action.
What, then, is memory? If you observe your own memory and how you gather memory, you will notice that it is either factual, technical, having to do with information, with engineering, mathematics, physics, and all the rest of it—or, it is the residue of an unfinished, uncompleted experience, is it not? Watch your own memory and you will see. When you finish an experience, complete it, there is no memory of that experience in the sense of a psychological residue. There is a residue only when an experience is not fully understood, and there is no understanding of experience because we look at each experience through past memories, and therefore we never meet the new as the new, but always through the screen of the old. Therefore, it is clear that our response to experience is conditioned, always limited.
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