心灵能不能摆脱权威呢？所谓摆脱权威，就是解脱恐惧，不再盲从，无需仿效，因为仿效会让人机械僵硬。归根结底，善与德，并非善行的重复。一旦善行变成机械重复，就不再是真善；真善，是一种必须时刻具足的品质，如同谦恭一样。谦恭是不能培养的，若内心没有谦恭，就没有觉知力。所以，至善之心没有权威感。社会公德并非善德，因为社会容许竞争、贪婪和企图心，所以社会鼓励非德。我说的善是一种超越社会公德的东西，心中若无善，则心灵失序，真正的秩序并不是遵从模式、墨守常规。如果试图通过恪守戒律、定规而成就真善，这只能令自己失德。
除了法律之外，其他外在权威都是内在信念投射的产物，如神祇、道德规范等。对于追求领悟真善的心灵而言，权威是具有破坏力的。我们都有自己的内在权威，表现为个人的经验、知识，我们亦步亦趋，不断地重复、仿效，对此我们都心知肚明。我所说的精神权威，不是指维护秩序的法律、警察；人人内心都有精神权威，对活泼、生动的善德具有破坏力。
正如你不能培养谦恭、不能培养爱，同样你也不能培养善德。在真善中，有大美。善，是灵动不居的，若心中没有善，就失却了清晰思维的基础。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Virtue Has No Authority
Can the mind be free from authority, which means free from fear, so that it is no longer capable of following? If so, this puts an end to imitation, which becomes mechanical. After all, virtue, ethics, is not a repetition of what is good. The moment it becomes mechanical, it ceases to be virtue. Virtue is something that must be from moment to moment, like humility. Humility cannot be cultivated, and a mind that has no humility is incapable of learning. So virtue has no authority. The social morality is no morality at all; it’s immoral because it admits competition, greed, ambition, and therefore society is encouraging immorality. Virtue is something that transcends morality. Without virtue there is no order, and order is not according to a pattern, according to a formula. A mind that follows a formula through disciplining itself to achieve virtue creates for itself the problems of immorality.
An external authority that the mind objectifies, apart from the law, as God, as moral, and so on, becomes destructive when the mind is seeking to understand what real virtue is. We have our own authority as experience, as knowledge, which we are trying to follow. There is this constant repetition, imitation, which we all know. Psychological authority—not the authority of the law, the policeman who keeps order—the psychological authority, which each one has, becomes destructive of virtue because virtue is something that is living, moving.
As you cannot possibly cultivate humility, as you cannot possibly cultivate love, so also virtue cannot be cultivated; and there is great beauty in that. Virtue is nonmechanical, and without virtue there is no foundation for clear thinking.
JANUARY 16
