觉知，是心灵涵容万物的状态——飞过天空的鸦群，树上绽放的花朵，坐在前面的人们，他们衣服的色泽……一切了然于心，历历分明，这需要你静心端详，敏锐观察，比如树叶的轮廓，树干的形状，旁人的头型，他们的活动。心量广大，觉知万物，从觉知中产生真正的行动——这就是觉知生命的整体。如果只拥有局部觉知力，或觉知力片段，或碎片化的觉知力，如果追逐觉知力，且从局限的觉知中获取人生经验，这只会让心灵变得平庸、桎梏、狭隘。而通过觉知每一丝念头、每一缕感受，绝不施加限制，让每一个念头与感受自由绽放，从而对生命的整体产生觉知——这与专注是迥然不同的，因为专注只是一种约束性的能力。让心念或感受自由绽放，这需要觉照，而不是专注。

我所讲的心念的绽放，是指给心念自由，静观念头与感受的变化。任何事物，要获得绽放，必须拥有自由与光明，你不能束缚，不能强加任何价值，不能断言：“这是对的，那是错的。这个应当存在，那个应当消失。”这样就制约了心念的绽放。只有在觉知中，心念才能充分绽放。所以，如果你能深入参悟，你将发现，心念的绽放就是止息。

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

Let a Thought Flower

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything—the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing—being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing. To be extensively aware and from there acting—that is to be aware of the totality of one’s own being. To have a mere sectional capacity, a fragmentation of capacity or capacity fragmented, and to pursue that capacity and derive experience through that capacity which is limited—that makes the quality of the mind mediocre, limited, narrow. But an awareness of the totality of one’s own being, understood through the awareness of every thought and every feeling, and never limiting it, letting every thought and every feeling flower, and therefore being aware—that is entirely different from action or concentration that is merely capacity and therefore limited.To let a thought flower or a feeling flower requires attention—not concentration.

I mean by the flowering of a thought giving freedom to it to see what happens, what is taking place in your thought, in your feeling. Anything that flowers must have freedom, must have light; it cannot be restricted. You cannot put any value on it, you cannot say, “That is right, that is wrong; this should be, and that should not be”—thereby, you limit the flowering of thought. And it can only flower in this awareness. Therefore, if you go into it very deeply, you will find that this flowering of thought is the ending of thought.

JUNE 19