当你看见那些贫穷的妇人身背重物前往市场，或者看到农家孩童在泥巴里玩耍，没有其他娱乐，注定没法接受你所受的教育，没有像样的家，不洁净，衣食不足……当你观察到这些，心里有什么反应？请察觉你自己的反应，这非常重要。我来告诉你我的反应。
那些孩子没有安寝之处，父母终日劳碌，从无休暇；孩子们从不知道爱是什么，关怀是什么；父母从未与孩子们坐在一起，讲人间与天堂的美丽故事。一方面，世上有巨富人家，他们随心所欲，世间之物应有尽有；同时又有男女孩童一无所有，是怎样的社会造就了这样的环境？这究竟是怎样的社会？这样的社会是怎样产生的？你可以去发动革命，砸碎这个社会模式，但旧模式消亡的同时，新的社会模式又诞生了，旧酒换新瓶而已——人民代表们住在乡村的特供房子里，穿制服，拥特权……不一而足。每次革命后，这一幕都会上演，在法国，在俄国，在中国。有没可能创造一个没有任何腐败与痛苦的社会？唯有你我这些个体从集体中解脱，唯有我们摆脱了勃勃雄心，并领悟了爱的真谛，这样的社会才能诞生。
以上就是我灵光一现的反应。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
What Is Your Reaction?
When you observe those poor women carrying a heavy load to the market, or watch the peasant children playing in the mud with very little else to play with, [children] who will not have the education that you are getting, who have no proper home, no cleanliness, insufficient clothing, inadequate food—when you observe all that, what is your reaction? It is very important to find out for yourself what your reaction is. I will tell you what mine was.
Those children have no proper place to sleep; the father and the mother are occupied all day long, with never a holiday; the children never know what it is to be loved, to be cared for; the parents never sit down with them and tell them stories about the beauty of the earth and the heavens. And what kind of society is it that has produced these circumstances—where there are immensely rich people who have everything on earth they want, and at the same time there are boys and girls who have nothing? What kind of society is it, and how has it come into being? You may revolutionize, break the pattern of this society, but in the very breaking of it a new one is born, which is again the same thing in another form—the commissars with their special houses in the country, the privileges, the uniforms, and so on down the line. This has happened after every revolution, the French, the Russian, and the Chinese. And is it possible to create a society in which all this corruption and misery does not exist? It can be created only when you and I as individuals break away from the collective, when we are free of ambition and know what it means to love.
That was my whole reaction, in a flash.
NOVEMBER 26
