你渴望蝶变，故而引发恐惧；你渴望有所成就，渴望实现梦想，并抱守为精神支柱，由此孕育了恐惧。
那种“无有恐怖”的心态，并不是恐惧已被制伏，不是恐惧的对立面，也不是心怀勇猛。要想止息恐惧，唯有明了恐惧的根源，而不是让自己变得更勇敢，因为在所有的“变”中，都潜伏着恐惧的种子。依赖物，依赖人，依赖理念，都会滋生恐惧。依赖，生于无明，生于缺少自知，生于内在匮乏。恐惧，导致心神不定，阻碍了彼此的沟通与领会。
通过自我觉知，我们始可发现并理解恐惧的起源，不止表层原因，而且包括内心的深层根源，以及沉积的恐惧。恐惧，既有先天本具的，又有后天获得的；恐惧与过去息息相关，要让思维感受解脱于过去的桎梏，我们必须通过当下觉悟过去。过去，总想在当下重生，从而让当下融入“自我”记忆。
所以，“我执”是一切恐惧之源。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The Root of All Fear
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
The state of nonfear is not negation, it is not the opposite of fear nor is it courage. In understanding the cause of fear, there is its cessation, not the becoming courageous, for in all becoming there is the seed of fear. Dependence on things, on people, or on ideas breeds fear; dependence arises from ignorance, from the lack of self-knowledge, from inward poverty; fear causes uncertainty of mind-heart, preventing communication and understanding.
Through self-awareness we begin to discover and so comprehend the cause of fear, not only the superficial but the deep causal and accumulative fears. Fear is both inborn and acquired; it is related to the past, and to free thought-feeling from it, the past must be comprehended through the present. The past is ever wanting to give birth to the present which becomes the identifying memory of the “me” and the “mine,” the “I.”
The self is the root of all fear.
MARCH 31
