心，总是被外境影响，沿着固定线路思维。以往，只有宗教组织能捕获人心，如今政府基本上取代了这个角色，并试图塑造、控制人心。表面上，你能抗拒控制，似乎拥有某种话语权，但揭开表层，深入潜意识，那里潜伏着厚重的时间与传统，时刻驱策你朝某固定方向迈进。一定程度上，虽然意识能够自我控制、自我引导，但在潜意识里，你的种种企图心、尚未化解的问题、各种冲动、迷信、恐惧，在时刻伺机、蠢蠢欲动、马力十足……

心智的全部领域，都是时间的产物，是冲突与调适的产物，是未能彻悟却被迫咽下的产物。所以，我们生活在冲突中，生活就是无尽的奋争。我们痛苦，所以渴望幸福；我们暴力，所以追奉和平理想；我们冲突不断，内心就是战场。我们渴求安全，其实心知肚明：所谓安全是根本不存在的，但又不想面对这一事实。所以，一方面，我们缺乏安全感，另一方面又不懈地追逐安全感，恐惧由此而生。

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

The Mind Is the Result of Time

The mind is being influenced all the time to think along a certain line. It used to be that only the organized religions were after your mind, but now governments have largely taken over that job. They want to shape and control your mind. On the surface the mind can resist their control…. Superficially you have some say in the matter, but below the surface, in the deep unconscious, there is the whole weight of time, of tradition, urging you in a particular direction. The conscious mind may to some extent control and guide itself, but in the unconscious your ambitions, your unsolved problems, your compulsions, superstitions, fears, are waiting, throbbing, urging….

This whole field of the mind is the result of time; it is the result of conflicts and adjustments, of a whole series of acceptances without full comprehension. Therefore, we live in a state of contradiction; our life is a process of endless struggle. We are unhappy, and we want to be happy. Being violent, we practice the ideal of nonviolence. So there is a conflict going on—the mind is a battlefield. We want to be secure, knowing inwardly, deeply, that there is no such thing as security at all. The truth is that we do not want to face the fact that there is no security; therefore, we are always pursuing security, with the resultant fear of not being secure.

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