在操控欲或被操控欲的背后，有一股强迫性冲动；如果我们理解了这股冲动，也许就能从权威的摧残性影响中得以解脱。我们渴求确定，渴求正确，渴求成功，渴求多知，这种对确定与永恒的渴望，将个人经验塑造成内在权威，同时树立起社会、家庭、宗教等领域的外在权威。
但仅仅忽略掉权威，或抹去其外在符号，并没有什么意义。抛弃一种传统转而尊奉另一种，脱离这位精神领袖转而追随另一位，都只是表面文章。如果我们想明白权威的整体过程，如果我们想看清权威的内在精神机制，如果我们想理解并超越对确定感的渴望，那么我们必须具有广阔的觉知力和洞察力，获得心灵的解脱，不是解脱于终点，而是解脱于起点。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Free at the Beginning
If we can understand the compulsion behind our desire to dominate or to be dominated, then perhaps we can be free from the crippling effects of authority. We crave to be certain, to be right, to be successful, to know; and this desire for certainty, for permanence, builds up within ourselves the authority of personal experience, while outwardly it creates the authority of society, of the family, of religion, and so on.
But merely to ignore authority, to shake off its outward symbols, is of very little significance. To break away from one tradition and conform to another, to leave this leader and follow that, is but a superficial gesture. If we are to be aware of the whole process of authority, if we are to see the inwardness of it, if we are to understand and transcend the desire for certainty, then we must have extensive awareness and insight, we must be free, not at the end, but at the beginning.
JANUARY 18
