大家知道，人拥有智力，还有纯粹的感受力，比如纯粹的爱、崇高感、宽宏大度。智力，负责推理、筹算、斟酌、权衡，它喜欢自问：“这值不值？能给我带来什么好处？”另一方面，你还有纯然的、非凡的感受——对邻居，对太太，对丈夫，对孩子，对广袤的蓝天，对苍茫的世界，对婆娑的树木……
当感受力与智力混到一起时，心灵就变得死气沉沉。你明白吗？当纯净的感受被智力所腐蚀，你就沦入了平庸——这是世间多数人当下的真实状态。我们的生活如此平庸，是因为我们总是工于算计，凡事都问值不值，有什么好处；不仅金钱世界如此，而且在所谓的灵性世界，也讨价还价：“我若修行此法，能否抵达彼岸？”
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Intellect Corrupts Feeling
You know, there is the intellect, and there is pure feeling—the pure feeling of loving something, of having great, generous emotions. The intellect reasons, calculates, weighs, balances. It asks, “Is it worthwhile? Will it give me benefit?” On the other hand, there is pure feeling—the extraordinary feeling for the sky, for your neighbor, for your wife or husband, for your child, for the world, for the beauty of a tree, and so on.
When these two come together, there is death. Do you understand? When pure feeling is corrupted by the intellect, there is mediocrity. That is what most of us are doing. Our lives are mediocre because we are always calculating, asking ourselves whether it is worthwhile, what profit we will get, not only in the world of money, but also in the so-called spiritual world—”If I do this, will I get that?”
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