相信大家曾有过这样的经历：你突发洞见，在那洞明的瞬间，一切问题烟消云散；就在你洞察到问题的那一刹那，问题已经彻底止息了。先生们，明白我的话吗？你被问题所扰，你苦思冥想，费尽口舌，忧心忡忡，在思维限度内尝试了一切手段，想把问题弄明白，最终你自认黔驴技穷。此时，任何人都不能帮助你悟破问题，任何上师、任何经书均无能为力。你与问题形影相吊，走投无路。为了探究该问题，你已经竭尽全力，只好撒手，任其自然。此时，你内心不再忧虑，不再撕扯，不再跟自己叫劲：“我必须找到对策！”此时，你安静下来，就在那宁静中，你找到了答案。
这种经历，你们都曾有过吧？这其实不是大事，大数学家、科学家都遇到过，常人在日常生活中也偶尔能经历到。这意味着什么？心智已经竭尽全力去思考，已穷尽思维的边界，仍然找不到答案，所以，心静了下来——不是因为厌倦、疲劳，也不是想入静寻找答案，而是因为你已竭尽全力，心自发地安静下来。此时，你心中有一种觉知力，没有任何拣择，没有任何诉求，没有任何焦虑；当心灵进入这样的状态，就会产生洞见。仅仅这份洞见，就可以化解我们的一切问题。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：choiceless，不拣择，这是借用禅家的语汇。
所谓拣择，就是分别心，用好坏、高低、善恶……对事物做二元切分，然后选择一端作为立场。分别与拣择，是冲突与问题的根源；问题的对策，一定不在问题自身的层面上，不在二元分别与冲突中。当放下分别心与立场拣择时，问题往往就自动根除了。如，孩童为了争夺玩具而哭闹，就是卡在了拣择取舍中；但同样的问题，对于大人毫无意义，因为大人能超脱于孩童的拣择纠结之上。当然，大人也有自己更多的拣择与纠结。
At the Edge of All Thought
Has it ever happened to you—I am sure it has—that you suddenly perceive something, and in that moment of perception you have no problems at all? The very moment you have perceived the problem, the problem has completely ceased. Do you understand, sirs? You have a problem, and you think about it, argue with it, worry over it; you exercise every means within the limits of your thought to understand it. Finally you say, “I can do no more.” There is nobody to help you to understand, no guru, no book. You are left with the problem, and there is no way out. Having inquired into the problem to the full extent of your capacity, you leave it alone. Your mind is no longer worried, no longer tearing at the problem, no longer saying, “I must find an answer”; so it becomes quiet, does it not? And in that quietness you find the answer.
Hasn’t that sometimes happened to you? It is not an enormous thing. It happens to great mathematicians and scientists, and people experience it occasionally in everyday life. Which means what? The mind has exercised fully its capacity to think, and has come to the edge of all thought without having found an answer; therefore it becomes quiet—not through weariness, not through fatigue, not by saying, “I will be quiet and thereby find the answer.” Having already done everything possible to find the answer, the mind becomes spontaneously quiet. There is an awareness without choice, without any demand, an awareness in which there is no anxiety; and in that state of mind there is perception. It is this perception alone that will resolve all our problems.
OCTOBER 9
