世界的转化，肇生于自我的转化，因为自我是人类生存过程的产物，也是人生的一部分。要想转化自我，最关键的是觉知自我；如果未觉知自己的真实面目，就丧失了正确思维的根基；如果没有自我觉知，就不能转化。

人必须觉知自己的真实面目，而不是梦想面目——那只是你的理想，是虚幻不实的。你所能转化的，是你的真实面目，而不是理想面目。要觉知自我，需要极其敏锐的内心，因为你的面目经常变化，迁流不息。为了迅速捕捉，心不得羁绊于任何教条、信仰与行为模式。如果你想领悟万物，那么心灵受羁绝非好状态。

为了认识自我，你必须有觉知力，保持内心警觉，从而摆脱一切信仰、一切理想，因为信仰与理想如同有色眼镜，会污染、扭曲你的真实知觉。如果你想认清自己的真实面目，就不能靠想象，不能将梦想信以为真，因为那不是真实的你。如果我贪婪、嫉妒、暴力，那么仅仅梦想自己不贪婪、不嫉妒、不暴力，那是没什么价值的。不论真实的你是丑或美，邪恶或顽皮，只要看清了自己的真实面目，不带任何扭曲，那就是善德之始。这种善德至为重要，因为它为心灵带来自由。

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

译按：克常用virtue一词，汉译为德、美德、善德、至德。克使用该词，并非局限在行为规范、社会公德层面，而是用其本源意义。《老子》：“孔德之容，唯道是从。”（至德的内涵，是遵从大道。）这与克氏是一致的：去除虚幻与扭曲，让心灵自由解脱，归于自然，即为virtue。

The Untethered Mind

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential; without knowing what you are, there is no basis for right thought, and without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be. To know oneself as one is requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, because what is is constantly undergoing transformation, change; and to follow it swiftly the mind must not be tethered to any particular dogma or belief, to any particular pattern of action. If you would follow anything, it is no good being tethered.

To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, from all idealization, because beliefs and ideals only give you a color, perverting true perception. If you want to know what you are, you cannot imagine or have belief in something which you are not. If I am greedy, envious, violent, merely having an ideal of non-violence, of non-greed, is of little value…. The understanding of what you are, whatever it be—ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous—the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom.

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