当你猎取知识时，灵动的学习便消失了，因为二者不相兼容，彼此冲突。学习是一种灵动状态，过往经验与知识储备已经彻底放空。知识是可以猎取的，但学习是一个永不止息的灵动过程，不是知识的累加或猎取。所以，在灵动的学习状态，心灵没有任何权威。一切知识总是自诩为权威，而心灵一旦被权威知识所包围，就失去了学习能力。唯有知识加法彻底停止下来，心灵才能真正地学习。
对于多数人来说，分清学习和获得知识，是相当困难的。通过经验、阅读、聆听，大脑积累知识，这是猎取知识并向已知仓库做加法的过程，大脑就是在知识背景中运转的。我们通常所说的学习，就是获取新信息，向已知仓库做加法的过程。但我所说的学习则截然不同，我不是指为学日增；只有不再执着于过往知识，换言之，当你看到新事物，不再用已知来做诠释的时候，你才能真正地学习。
处于学习境界的心灵，是纯真的；而只猎取知识的心灵，则被过去所腐化，因而是陈旧的、停滞的。纯真的心灵，能够迅速觉知万物，每时每刻处于敏锐的学习状态，不做知识加法，唯有这样的心灵才是成熟的。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Knowledge Assumes Authority
There is no movement of learning when there is the acquisition of knowledge; the two are incompatible, they are contradictory. The movement of learning implies a state in which the mind has no previous experience stored up as knowledge. Knowledge is acquired, whereas learning is a constant movement which is not an additive or acquisitive process; therefore, the movement of learning implies a state in which the mind has no authority. All knowledge assumes authority, and a mind that is entrenched in the authority of knowledge cannot possibly learn. The mind can learn only when the additive process has completely ceased.
It is rather difficult for most of us to differentiate between learning and acquiring knowledge. Through experience, through reading, through listening, the mind accumulates knowledge; it is an acquisitive process, a process of adding to what is already known, and from this background of knowledge we function. Now, what we generally call learning is this very same process of acquiring new information and adding it to the store of knowledge we already have…. But I am talking about something entirely different. By learning I do not mean adding to what you already know. You can learn only when there is no attachment to the past as knowledge, that is, when you see something new and do not translate it in terms of the known.
The mind that is learning is an innocent mind, whereas the mind that is merely acquiring knowledge is old, stagnant, corrupted by the past. An innocent mind perceives instantly; it is learning all the time without accumulating, and such a mind alone is mature.
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