观心，就是将内心所累积的东西彻底清空。也许你做不到，但没关系，你只需静静聆听；一旦清空自心，你会发现一种异乎寻常的空灵，那就是自由。所以，你必须一开始就唤醒自由，而不是期待、梦求最终的解脱。你必须在工作中、关系以及一言一行中去探索自由的意义，然后你会发现，观心就是创造之境。
创造这个词，我们用得随意而轻率。画家在画布上率意涂抹油彩，亢奋异常，这是他的成就感所在，是表达自我的方式，他以此博取金钱与名声，而他称之为“创造”。每位作家也在“创作”，还有很多“创作”流派，但这些与创造毫不相关，只是生活在特定社会里心智所做的局限性反应。
我所说的创造，则完全不同。当心灵进入创造性境界，可能会表达出来，也可能无须表达，因为在这种境界，表达并没有多大价值。创造性境界不需任何动机，所以，心游于创造之境，每时每刻都在灭、生、爱、在……所有的这一切，就是观心。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
【译按】《庄子·田子方》：“老聃曰：‘吾游心于物之初。’” 此篇之题A mind in the state of creation，与庄相契。
A Mind in the State of Creation
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that—perhaps you won’t, but it doesn’t matter, just listen to this—you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.
Creation is a word that we all use so glibly, so easily. A painter puts on canvas a few colours and gets tremendously excited about it. It is his fulfillment, the means through which he expresses himself; it is his market in which to gain money or reputation—and he calls that “creation”! Every writer “creates,” and there are schools of “creative” writing, but none of that has anything to do with creation. It is all the conditioned response of a mind that lives in a particular society.
The creation of which I am speaking is something entirely different. It is a mind that is in the state of creation. It may or it may not express that state. Expression has very little value. That state of creation has no cause, and therefore a mind in that state is every moment dying and living and loving and being. The whole of this is meditation.
DECEMBER 27
