弃名绝利、守戒苦行，无关乎崇高，不值得赞扬与效仿。
我们总想占有，因为如果一无所有，我们就毫无存在感。占有欲有很多变种，即便那些身无世俗财物的人，可能有的执着于知识、理念，有的执着于品德，有的执着于经验，有的执着于声名，不一而足。如果一无所有，“自我”就不复存在；所谓“自我”，就是财产、家业、品德、名誉。因为担心没有存在感，我们才执着于名声、家业、价值；之所以想放下这些，是想超越到更高层面，追逐更令人满足、更加持久的存在感。因为恐惧未来不确定，恐惧失去存在感，所以产生了执着心和占有欲。当所占有的东西不再产生满足感甚至令人痛苦时，我们便会放弃，继而执着于更悦人的东西。最能满足人心的终极之物是“神”这个名相，或神的替代品——国家。
只要你不甘心放空存在感，则必然陷入痛苦与对立——其实你即是空。甘愿栖心于空，并不是弃绝名利、砺志苦行，而是看清世界的如是真相。当我们看清真相，就能够从恐惧感中获得解脱；正是这恐惧感，滋生了执着心，进而编织出去执、出世的幻相。其实，热爱真实，才是智慧的肇始；唯心里有爱，才能有心灵的共享与交融，而弃名绝利、守戒苦行，则是一条孤绝与虚幻之路。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The “Me” Is the Possession
Renunciation, self-sacrifice, is not a gesture of greatness, to be praised and copied.
We possess because without possession we are not. Possessions are many and varied. One who possesses no worldly things may be attached to knowledge, to ideas; another may be attached to virtue, another to experience, another to name and fame, and so on. Without possessions, the “me” is not; the “me” is the possession, the furniture, the virtue, the name. In its fear of not being, the mind is attached to name, to furniture, to value; and it will drop these in order to be at a higher level, the higher being the more gratifying, the more permanent. The fear of uncertainty, of not being, makes for attachment, for possession. When the possession is unsatisfactory or painful, we renounce it for a more pleasurable attachment. The ultimate gratifying possession is the word God, or its substitute, the State.
… So long as you are unwilling to be nothing, which in fact you are, you must inevitably breed sorrow and antagonism. The willingness to be nothing is not a matter of renunciation, of enforcement, inner or outer, but of seeing the truth of what is. Seeing the truth of what is brings freedom from the fear of insecurity, the fear which breeds attachment and leads to the illusion of detachment, renunciation. The love of what is is the beginning of wisdom. Love alone shares, it alone can commune; but renunciation and self-sacrifice are the ways of isolation and illusion.
MARCH 6
