智力训练并不能产生智慧。只有智力与情感和谐而行,智慧才能产生。智力与智慧是有巨大差别的。智力,只是独立于情感之外的思维力。当撇开情感,在某特别领域内训练智力,你可能拥有杰出的智力,但并不拥有智慧,因为智慧中包含内在的感受力和理性力,这两种能力同时呈现,强烈而和谐。
而现代教育对生活提出层出不穷的诠释、五花八门的理论,旨在开发人的智力,但缺乏和谐的爱。所以,我们培养出狡黠的心智,来逃避冲突,所以我们满足于科学家与哲学家给出的诠释。心智,亦即智力,满足于走马灯式的理论诠释;而智慧则不然:为了觉悟生活,我们必须在行动中达到心与灵彻底的和谐圆融。
——克里希那穆提《生命书:365观心日课》(The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti)
Unity of Mind and Heart
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. There is a vast distinction between intellect and intelligence. Intellect is merely thought functioning independently of emotion. When intellect, irrespective of emotion, is trained in any particular direction, one may have great intellect, but one does not have intelligence, because in intelligence there is the inherent capacity to feel as well as to reason; in intelligence both capacities are equally present, intensely and harmoniously.
Now modern education is developing the intellect, offering more and more explanations of life, more and more theories, without the harmonious quality of affection. Therefore we have developed cunning minds to escape from conflict; hence we are satisfied with explanations that scientists and philosophers give us. The mind—the intellect—is satisfied with these innumerable explanations, but intelligence is not, for to understand there must be complete unity of mind and heart in action.
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