通常我们所认知的宗教，是一堆信念、教义、仪轨、迷信、偶像崇拜、符咒，以及引导你抵达终极目标的大师，等等。究竟真理，是你的心理投射，而这投射令你愉悦，令你梦寐以求，令你确信那永生之境。所以，心深陷于这些东西，就会创造出宗教：教义、神职、迷信、偶像崇拜……当你陷入其中时，你的心就止息了。
这是求道心吗？真正的求道心，是信条问题吗？与他人的经验与主张有关系吗？或者说，难道求道之心只是遵循说教、亦步亦趋吗？你知道，仅仅遵守道德说教——做这个、别做那个，这相对容易。因为容易，所以你能仿造出一个宗教道德体系，但在这道德体系背后，潜伏着你的自我，不断膨胀、扩张、挑衅、操控。但，这是真正的道心吗？
你必须发现真理，因为真正重要的，唯有真理，而不是你的贫富，婚姻是否幸福，有没有孩子，因为这些都会有终结之时，人终归都会有尽头。所以，当你放下了所有信条，你一定会发现你已焕发出生命力，焕发出自立精神，焕发出原创力，这样你就能自心悟道，觉悟何谓真理，何谓神。而信仰，不能赋予你任何东西，信仰只会让你的心腐坏、桎梏、昏昧。唯有通过生命的活力，通过自立，心才会自由绽放。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
注：
religion
1.宗教；信仰
2.宗教信仰；宗教活动
3.宗教生活；修道生活；修行
4.一心追求的目标；虔诚的追求
以上是《21世纪大英汉词典》的释义。
克氏使用religion一词，在其本元意义上是指“虔诚的求道之心”，不关乎具体的宗教。当求道心落在具体的宗教情境里，词义就局限为“宗教”了。在原文中，只有religion一词，译文为了区分情境与词义的微妙变化，分别译作“求道心”与“宗教”。
Is Religion a Matter of Belief?
Religion as we generally know it or acknowledge it, is a series of beliefs, of dogmas, of rituals, of superstitions, of worship of idols, of charms and gurus that will lead you to what you want as an ultimate goal. The ultimate truth is your projection, that is what you want, which will make you happy, which will give a certainty of the deathless state. So the mind caught in all this creates a religion, a religion of dogmas, of priest-craft, of superstitions and idol-worship—and in that, you are caught, and the mind stagnates.
Is that religion? Is religion a matter of belief, a matter of knowledge of other people’s experiences and assertions? Or is religion merely the following of morality? You know it is comparatively easy to be moral—to do this and not to do that. Because it is easy, you can imitate a moral system. Behind that morality lurks the self, growing, expanding, aggressive, dominating. But is that religion?
You have to find out what truth is because that is the only thing that matters, not whether you are rich or poor, not whether you are happily married and have children, because they all come to an end, there is always death. So, without any form of belief, you must find out; you must have the vigor, the self-reliance, the initiative, so that for yourself you know what truth is, what God is. Belief will not give you anything; belief only corrupts, binds, darkens. The mind can only be free through vigor, through self-reliance.
DECEMBER 12
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