当你不再为情绪冠名，那会怎样呢？你更直接地审视自己的情绪、觉受，此时，你与情绪的关系已迥然不同，就如同静观一朵花而无心于花名，你促使自己凝视着它，一切焕然一新。当你不再为人群贴标签，就会促使自己审视每一张面庞，而不是把他们视为一个群体。所以，你内心会更敏锐，更善于观察，更富有领悟力，有更深的同情心，更深沉的爱。但如果你把他们视为一个群体，这一切就都终结了。
如果你不再贴标签，那么每一个感受产生之际，你都有觉察；但当你贴上一张标签，感受与标签还有分别吗？还是说，恰是那张标签唤醒了内心的感受？
如果我不为感受冠名，也就是说，不因为那名字而起心动念，不像多数人那样按照言语、意象和符号来思维，那么会怎样呢？显然，心，不再囿于“能观心”（the observer）；心，不再按照名字、符号、意象来思维，就不再有“能思之心”（the thinker）与“所思之念”（the thought）的分别。此时我心宁静——并非人为压制出来的宁静，而是自然归于宁静。当归于真正的宁静，此时内心浮起的感受，就可当下处理。而当我们为感受冠名时，反而强化了那感受，使之延绵不断，并储存到自我中心；为了强化或传达那些感受，从那个中心，我们又源源不断地产出更多标签。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Do Not Name a Feeling
What happens when you do not name? You look at an emotion, at a sensation, more directly and therefore have quite a different relationship to it, just as you have to a flower when you do not name it. You are forced to look at it anew. When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as a mass. Therefore you are much more alert, much more observing, more understanding; you have a deeper sense of pity, love; but if you treat them all as the mass, it is over.
If you do not label, you have to regard every feeling as it arises. When you label, is the feeling different from the label? Or does the label awaken the feeling? …
If I do not name a feeling, that is to say if thought is not functioning merely because of words or if I do not think in terms of words, images, or symbols, which most of us do—then what happens? Surely the mind then is not merely the observer. When the mind is not thinking in terms of words, symbols, images, there is no thinker separate from the thought, which is the word. Then the mind is quiet, is it not?—not made quiet, it is quiet. When the mind is really quiet, then the feelings that arise can be dealt with immediately. It is only when we give names to feelings and thereby strengthen them that the feelings have continuity; they are stored up in the center, from which we give further labels, either to strengthen or to communicate them.
MAY 13
