我们要探讨的话题，需要你有一颗具有深邃穿透力的心。千里之行，始于足下。如果不懂得足下之行，不懂得迈第一步，就无以致千里之远。
观照并让心灵绽放，即为善德，而心量广大，是观心的第一步。我们已经讨论过生活、权威、雄心、恐惧、贪婪、嫉妒、死亡、时间等诸多话题，如果你曾用心观察，如果你曾深入探究，如果你曾真正聆听，你会发现这些就是观心的基础。如果你雄心勃勃，那就难以观心，也许只是摆弄禅观理念，聊以自娱。如果你内心充满权威意识，被传统所羁，只懂接受、顺从，那么你将永远不懂得观心的绝伦美妙。
人们都在时间之流中追逐成功，这会阻碍心量走向广阔。你需要有一颗宽宏的心，所谓宽宏，不仅指内心宽大、空廓，而且要清空见解，放下动机，乐于付出，不求任何回报。你的付出或多或少，但必须都是出于自发，不附加条件，毫不保留。所谓宽宏、至善，就是心无傲慢，不攀援成功，不渴望声名，在每日每时每分都能放下既有成就。如果没有宽宏、至善之心，那么你就不能观照自心。只有扎根于这样的沃土，善德才会成长、绽放。
观心，就是善德的绽放。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Generosity of the Heart Is the Beginning of Meditation
We are going to talk about something that needs a mind that can penetrate very profoundly. We must begin very near because we cannot go very far if we do not know how to begin very close, if we do not know how to take the first step.
The flowering of meditation is goodness, and the generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation. We have talked about many things concerning life, authority, ambition, fear, greed, envy, death, time; we have talked about many things. If you observe, if you have gone into it, if you have listened rightly, those are all the foundation for a mind that is capable of meditating. You cannot meditate if you are ambitious—you may play with the idea of meditation. If your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty….
It is the pursuit of its own fulfillment through time that prevents generosity. And you need a generous mind—not only a wide mind, a mind that is full of space, but also a heart that gives without thought, without a motive, and that does not seek any reward in return. But to give whatever little one has or however much one has—that quality of spontaneity of outgoing, without any restriction, without any withholding, is necessary. There can be no meditation without generosity, without goodness—which is to be free from pride, never to climb the ladder of success, never to know what it is to be famous; which is to die to whatever has been achieved, every minute of the day. It is only in such fertile ground that goodness can grow, can flower.
And meditation is the flowering of goodness.
DECEMBER 30
