真理，是终极、绝对、凝固的吗？我们希望真理是绝对的，那样我们就可以庇护于真理羽翼下；我们希望真理是永久的，那样我们就可以执住不放，从中发现幸福。
但，真理是绝对、持续、可以反复体验的吗？当体验重现时，那只是记忆培育出来的，不是吗？在宁静时刻，我体验到某种真，但是如果我把它存为记忆，紧抓不放，使之绝对、凝固，那还是真吗？真，是记忆的积淀与延续吗？抑或，唯有内心全然宁静时，才能发现真理吗？心，不再困缚于记忆，不再培育记忆并当作认知中枢，而是用心去觉知关系中、日常活动中自己的每一言、每一行，时时刻刻看清言行的真相，无疑这就是观心（meditation）之法。
心，唯在宁静中才能产生领悟。心，只要尚未觉知自己，就难归宁静。而通过任何形式的修炼，通过追寻古圣今贤，都不能驱散内心的无明，因为信仰只能使人抗拒真相，隔绝真相。心一旦与真相隔绝，就不能回归宁静。我内心有形形色色、彼此冲突的东西，构成了那个“自我”；唯有明白了内在“自我”的全部过程，宁静才会呈现。因为这是一项艰苦卓绝的课业，所以我们求助他人，学习各种窍门，我们称之为冥想、观心，但心智的这些把戏不是观心。观心，是自我觉知的开始；如果没有观心，也就没有自我觉知。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：36观静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The Way of Meditation
Is truth something final, absolute, fixed? We would like it to be absolute because then we could take shelter in it. We would like it to be permanent because then we could hold on to it, find happiness in it.
But is truth absolute, continuous, to be experienced over and over again? The repetition of experience is the mere cultivation of memory, is it not? In moments of quietness, I may experience a certain truth, but if I cling to that experience through memory and make it absolute, fixed—is that truth? Is truth the continuation, the cultivation of memory? Or, is truth to be found only when the mind is utterly still? When the mind is not caught in memories, not cultivating memory as the center of recognition, but is aware of everything I am saying, everything I am doing in my relationships, in my activities, seeing the truth of everything as it is from moment to moment—surely, that is the way of meditation, is it not?
There is comprehension only when the mind is still, and the mind cannot be still as long as it is ignorant of itself. That ignorance is not dispelled through any form of discipline, through pursuing any authority, ancient or modern. Belief only creates resistance, isolation, and where there is isolation, there is no possibility of tranquillity. Tranquillity comes only when I understand the whole process of myself—the various entities in conflict with each other which compose the “me.” As that is an arduous task, we turn to others to learn various tricks, which we call meditation. The tricks of the mind are not meditation. Meditation is the beginning of self-knowledge, and without meditation, there is no self-knowledge.
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