行动，能带来自由，从而解脱于因果锁链吗？过去我做过的事、有过的经验，显然在限定着我今天的反应，而今天的反应又制约着明天，这就是业力、因果的全部过程。显而易见，因果或许能产生短暂的快乐，但最终导致痛苦。
问题真正的关键在于：思想是自由的吗？因为无论思想或行动，只有是自由不羁的，才不产生痛苦和束缚，这是全部问题的关要所在。那么，有没有一种行动，与过去毫无关联？有没有一种行动，不再建立在理念之上？因为理念是过去的延续，改头换面而已，而且延续的理念会继续制约明天。这意味着，凡是固守理念的行动，就绝不是自由的；只要行动是从理念出发的，就不可避免地制造更多的冲突。
那么，有没有一种行动，不再被过去所牵缚？我们的行动，能不能摆脱昨日经验与认知的重负？只要行动是昨天的“因”所结出的“果”，就绝不是自由之行。只有在自由中，你才能发现真；而真实状况是，我们的心不自由，不能有真正的行动，只能做出反应，这种反应就成了行动的根基。所以，我们的行动并不是真正的行动，只是过去反应模式的延续而已，因为那是昨日的记忆、经验与反应所产生的“果”。
所以，问题在于，我们的心，能不能从束缚中解脱出来？
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Action Based on Idea
Can action ever bring about freedom from this chain of cause-effect? I have done something in the past; I have had experience, which obviously conditions my response today; and today’s response conditions tomorrow. That is the whole process of karma, cause and effect; and obviously, though it may temporarily give pleasure, such a process of cause and effect ultimately leads to pain.
That is the real crux of the matter: Can thought be free? Thought or action that is free does not produce pain, does not bring about conditioning. That is the vital point of this whole question. So, can there be action unrelated to the past? Can there be action not based on idea? Idea is the continuation of yesterday in a modified form, and that continuation will condition tomorrow, which means action based on idea can never be free. As long as action is based on idea, it will inevitably produce further conflict.
Can there be action unrelated to the past? Can there be action without the burden of experience, the knowledge of yesterday? As long as action is the outcome of the past, action can never be free, and only in freedom can you discover what is true. What happens is that, as the mind is not free, it cannot act; it can only react, and reaction is the basis of our action. Our action is not action but merely the continuation of reaction because it is the outcome of memory, of experience, of yesterday’s response.
So, the question is, can the mind be free from its conditioning?
NOVEMBER 21
