如果我心存动机刻意为善，还能修得善果吗？基于该动机之上，必产生追求善的欲望冲动；只有把求善的欲望彻底放空，才能有真善。

善，是坏与恶的对立面吗？在对立面中，一方总蕴含着另一方的种子。内心贪婪，所以才树立理想：不贪婪。如果心中追逐这个理想，努力变得不贪婪，那么这依然是贪婪，因为心在贪求理想。贪婪，意味着渴求、攫取、扩张；心一旦发现贪婪是得不偿失的，就开始渴求知足常乐，但深层动机是一样的：修成某种境界，猎取某个目标。当心中渴求无欲则刚时，贪欲之根依然深扎于心底。

所以，善，不是恶的对立面，而是一种迥然不同的境界。那是一种什么境界？显然，善是不包含动机的，因为一切动机都是以自我为基础的，是唯我主义的内心活动。我们所谓的善，是指什么？当全然地觉照万物，我们心中就有善。觉照中不含任何动机，因为如果你动心去追逐觉照，哪里还有什么觉照呢？如果你专心致志地获取猎物，不论该猎物是善是恶，这都不是觉照，而是心神涣散，是分裂。在全然觉照中，自在无为，不追逐，不抗拒，唯有此时，才是真正的善。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Goodness Has No Motive

If I have a motive to be good, does that bring about goodness? Or is goodness something entirely devoid of this urge to be good, which is ever based on a motive?

Is good the opposite of bad, the opposite of evil? Every opposite contains the seed of its own opposite, does it not? There is greed, and there is the ideal of nongreed. When the mind pursues nongreed, when it tries to be nongreedy, it is still greedy because it wants to be something. Greed implies desiring, acquiring, expanding; and when the mind sees that it does not pay to be greedy, it wants to be nongreedy, so the motive is still the same, which is to be or to acquire something. When the mind wants not to want, the root of want, of desire, is still there.

So goodness is not the opposite of evil; it is a totally different state. And what is that state? Obviously, goodness has no motive because all motive is based on the self; it is the egocentric movement of the mind. So what do we mean by goodness? Surely, there is goodness only when there is total attention. Attention has no motive. When there is a motive for attention, is there attention? If I pay attention in order to acquire something, the acquisition, whether it be good or bad, is not attention—it is a distraction. A division. There can be goodness only when there is a totality of attention in which there is no effort to be or not to be.

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