不知你可曾思考过智力的本质是什么？在某个层面上，智力及智力活动是适宜的；但一旦智力干扰了纯净感受，你便开启了平庸的生命模式。所以，明白智力的职能，觉知纯净的感受，使二者不相互混淆、相互损伤，这需要非常清明、敏锐的觉知力。
所以，智力的职能是探询、分析、搜索，但因为我们渴求内在安全感，对生活充满了恐惧与焦虑，所以我们急于达成定论并坚守之。我们执着于一个定论，并迈向另一个定论。而我认为，这样的心智、这样的智力，其实是定论的奴隶，已经丧失了思考与探索的能力。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The Function of the Intellect
I do not know if you have considered the nature of the intellect. The intellect and its activities are all right at a certain level, are they not? But when the intellect interferes with that pure feeling, then mediocrity sets in. To know the function of the intellect, and to be aware of that pure feeling, without letting the two mingle and destroy each other, requires a very clear, sharp awareness….
So the function of the intellect is always, is it not, to inquire, to analyze, to search out; but because we want to be secure inwardly, psychologically, because we are afraid, anxious about life, we come to some form of conclusion to which we are committed. From one commitment we proceed to another, and I say that such a mind, such an intellect, being slave to a conclusion, has ceased to think, to inquire.
SEPTEMBER 18
