追逐权力、职位、权威、雄心等等，都是自我的不同表现形式。觉悟自我，是至关重要之事，相信你我对此已确信无疑。如果我能多说几句，那就让我们认真对待这一课题吧，因为我认为，如果你我作为独立的个体，而非群体，不落入某些阶层、社会和气候的分野中，从而能够觉悟自我，并付诸行动，则必将产生真正的革命。而变革一旦群体化、高度组织化，反而会成为我执心的避风港。反之，作为独立个体的你我，如果能心怀仁爱，在日常生活中切实觉悟自我，就会产生重大的革命。

你可知道，我所说的自我是指什么？我所谓的自我，就是你的理念、记忆、定论、经验、各种有名无名的意图心、刻意修成什么或逃避什么、潜意识里种族、群体、个体、族群的记忆沉淀……等等这一切的总和，投射于外就是你的言行，投射于内就是你的品德。对于这一切，你不停地追逐，这就是自我，竞争欲、成功欲就包含在其中。

以上全部过程，就是自我。其实我们明白，当面对自我时，我们视之为“恶”，我故意用了“恶”这个字，因为自我是分裂的，是自闭的。自我的活动无论看起来多高尚，都是与整体的分离与隔绝，这一点其实我们都明白。此外我们还知道，非凡体验发生在自我止息之际，此时无任何的努力与有为。唯有心中有爱，这一境界才会来临。

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

What Is the Self?

The search for power, position, authority, ambition, and all the rest are the forms of the self in all its different ways. But what is important is to understand the self and I am sure you and I are convinced of it. If I may add here, let us be earnest about this matter; because I feel that if you and I as individuals, not as a group of people belonging to certain classes, certain societies, certain climatic divisions, can understand this and act upon this, then I think there will be real revolution. The moment it becomes universal and better organized, the self takes shelter in that; whereas, if you and I as individuals can love, can carry this out actually in everyday life, then the revolution that is so essential will come into being ….

You know what I mean by the self? By that, I mean the idea, the memory, the conclusion, the experience, the various forms of namable and unnamable intentions, the conscious endeavor to be or not to be, the accumulated memory of the unconscious, the racial, the group, the individual, the clan, and the whole of it all, whether it is projected outwardly in action, or projected spiritually as virtue; the striving after all this is the self. In it is included the competition, the desire to be.

The whole process of that is the self; and we know actually when we are faced with it, that it is an evil thing. I am using the word evil intentionally, because the self is dividing; the self is self-enclosing; its activities, however noble, are separated and isolated. We know all this. We also know that extraordinary are the moments when the self is not there, in which there is no sense of endeavor, of effort, and which happens when there is love.

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