要获得心灵的自由，无需任何手段。通过交易、奉献、去除等手段，你得不到自由，因为自由是不能收买的，那些手段只能换到市场上的货品，而不是真实的自由。真理是不能买卖的，也没有通向真理之路；即便有什么路径的话，其终点也不是真理，因为路径和目标是一回事，不能分开。如果以禁欲苦行为手段，来追求解脱和真理，那是排斥真理，因为禁欲不是买卖真理的硬币。
为什么我们如此看重禁欲？所谓性，究竟指什么？不仅指性行为，而且还包括关于性的浮想、感受、期待、逃避——这都是我们的问题。我们的问题是沉溺于觉受，渴求多多益善。请观察自己，而不是观察邻居。为什么你满脑子充斥着性？只有心中有爱，才有纯洁；如果心里没有爱，则没有纯洁，此时所谓的贞洁无欲，不过是披了纯洁外衣的淫欲而已。追逐纯洁，是梦想变成另一副面目，如同变成权威、成功人士一样，比如杰出律师、政客等等，但这种变化只在同一层面打转。这不是纯洁，只是你描绘出梦幻目标，持续克制欲望，以修成果位。
所以，若心里有爱，就不再有贞洁问题，生活也不再是问题，你沐浴在圆满的爱中，全然地生活。这样的变革，将带来全新的世界。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Means and End Are One
For the attainment of liberation, nothing is necessary. You cannot attain it through bargaining, through sacrifice, through elimination; it is not a thing that you can buy. If you do these things, you will get a thing of the marketplace, therefore not real. Truth cannot be bought, there is no means to truth; if there is a means, the end would not be truth, because means and end are one, they are not separate. Chastity as a means to liberation, to truth, is a denial of truth. Chastity is not a coin with which you buy it….
Why do we think chastity is essential? … What do we mean by sex? Not merely the act but thinking about it, feeling about it, anticipating it, escaping from it—that is our problem. Our problem is sensation, wanting more and more. Watch yourself, don’t watch your neighbor. Why are your thoughts so occupied with sex? Chastity can exist only when there is love, and without love there is no chastity. Without love, chastity is merely lust in a different form. To become chaste is to become something else; it is like a man becoming powerful, succeeding as a prominent lawyer, politician, or whatever else—the change is on the same level. That is not chastity but merely the end result of a dream, the outcome of the continual resistance to a particular desire….
So, chastity ceases to be a problem where there is love. Then life is not a problem, life is to be lived completely in the fullness of love, and that revolution will bring about a new world.
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