无论什么事物，为什么一经我们染指，就变成了问题？为什么性成了问题？为什么我们屈从于问题丛生的生活？为什么我们不能为问题划上句号？为什么我们不能放下问题，而是背负问题，日复一日，年复一年？

的确，性是一个大问题，我现在就回答。但有一个更基本的问题：为什么我们把生活过成了问题？工作、性爱、赚钱、思想、体验……这些生活事务，为什么成了问题？质言之，不正是因为我们的思维总是执着于某种僵固观点吗？

我们的思维总是从自我中心出发，再向外围发散；但我的外围，是其他人的中心据点，所以我们所触碰的任何事物都是肤浅的。但生活绝不肤浅，它要求我们完满地活着。因为我们只是肤浅地活着，所以只知道做出肤浅反应。无论我们对周围做什么，必然制造问题，这就是我们的生活，我们生活在肤浅中，浸润于浅薄问题的海洋，并陶然自足。所以，只要我们依赖周围环境，生活在肤浅中，问题就必然存在。这里所谓的“周围”，就是自我和自我感，自我感向外投射或呈现为主观理念，将自己认同于世界、国家，或心智所造作的其他事物。

所以，只要我们活在思维范畴里，生活就必然错综复杂，问题丛生。对于这一切，我们其实都明白。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

We Have Made Sex a Problem

Why is it that whatever we touch we turn into a problem? … Why has sex become a problem? Why do we submit to living with problems; why do we not put an end to them? Why do we not die to our problems instead of carrying them day after day, year after year?

Surely, sex is a relevant question, which I shall answer presently, but there is the primary question: why do we make life into a problem? Working, sex, earning money, thinking, feeling, experiencing, you know, the whole business of living—why is it a problem? Is it not essentially because we always think from a particular point of view, from a fixed point of view?

We are always thinking from a center towards the periphery, but the periphery is the center for most of us, and so anything we touch is superficial. But life is not superficial; it demands living completely, and because we are living only superficially, we know only superficial reaction. Whatever we do on the periphery must inevitably create a problem, and that is our life—we live in the superficial and we are content to live there with all the problems of the superficial. So, problems exist as long as we live in the superficial, on the periphery—the periphery being the “me” and its sensations, which can be externalized or made subjective, which can be identified with the universe, with the country, or with some other thing made up by the mind.

So, as long as we live within the field of the mind there must be complications, there must be problems; and that is all we know.

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