创造力和技巧是不能调和的。也许你的钢琴技法已臻完美，却未必有音乐创意；也许你的琴键技巧光耀群伦，而你未必是音乐大家；也许你擅长丹青，可以极其灵巧地在画布上挥洒，但你却未必是有创意的画家；也许你掌握了雕塑技法，能在石头上雕出人脸、肖像，但你未必是创作大家。创造是第一位的，而技术不是；我们的生活充满烦恼，原因就在于此。我们拥有技术——运转体系的力量，建房子，修桥梁，装马达，育儿女——我们精通这些技术，但我们的心灵与大脑仍空洞无物。人都是一流的机器，我们懂得如何出色地运转这架机器，却不爱生机勃勃的东西。或许你是一个出色的工程师，是个钢琴手，能用优美的英语、马拉地语或其他语言写作，但创造力并非来自技术。如果你内心有东西需要表达，就能创造出自己的风格；但如果你言之无物，即便有着美妙的风格，你所写的也只是传统套路，老调重弹而已。

所以，当我们失去了内心的歌，就会去追逐歌星，讨教歌唱技巧，但心中没有歌。所以我才说，心中的歌，才是最重要的；歌唱的喜悦，才是最重要的。当我们拥有生命的喜悦时，技巧可以无中生有，可以创造自己的技法，不必苦学发声，不必打造风格。当你拥有喜悦时，目之所触，都是美，都是艺术。

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

Empty Techniques

You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique, and that is why we are miserable all our lives. We have technique—how to put up a house, how to build a bridge, how to assemble a motor, how to educate our children through a system—we have learned all these techniques, but our hearts and minds are empty. We are first class machines; we know how to operate most beautifully, but we do not love a living thing. You may be a good engineer, you may be a pianist, you may write in a good style in English or Marathi or whatever your language is, but creativeness is not found through technique. If you have something to say, you create your own style; but when you have nothing to say, even if you have a beautiful style, what you write is only the traditional routine, a repetition in new words of the same old thing….

So, having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your own technique, you won’t have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art.

  NOVEMBER 4