你只有一个认知工具——心智，也就是大脑。要发现事物的真相，你必须明白心智的运转方式。如果心智是扭曲的，你就不能正确地看世界；如果心是局限的，你就觉察不到无限。心智是觉察事物的工具，为了如实觉察，心智必须保持诚实，必须清除一切束缚、一切恐惧。
心智也须放下知识，因为知识会迷惑心智，扭曲事物。心智拥有虚构、想象、猜测、思索的巨大能力，我们必须放下这些能力，心才能归于清澈、简单。因为唯有纯真之心——遍历世间沧桑，却依然不为知识、经历所累，唯有这样的心灵，才能发现超越脑力智力的境界。否则，你的发现，必然被你的经验所染色，而经验是心灵束缚的产物。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：英文中的mind是指大脑及其思维力，而中国古人认为心才是思维主体，当代汉语中约定俗成以“心智”代指思维、智力，所以汉译中才出现“……心智，也就是大脑”这样略带错乱感的句子。
Knowledge Diverts the Mind
You have only one instrument, which is the mind; and the mind is the brain also. Therefore, to find out the truth of this matter, you must understand the ways of the mind, must you not? If the mind is crooked you will never see straight; if the mind is very limited you cannot perceive the illimitable. The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear.
The mind must also be free of knowledge, because knowledge diverts the mind and makes things twisted. The enormous capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to think—must not this capacity be put aside so that the mind is very clear and very simple? Because it is only the innocent mind, the mind that has experienced vastly and yet is free of knowledge and experience—it is only such a mind that can discover that which is more than brain and mind. Otherwise, what you discover will be colored by what you have already experienced, and your experience is the result of your conditioning.
OCTOBER 14
