学习这个词具有深邃的内涵。学习分两种，对于我们多数人而言，学习就是知识、经验、技术、技巧、语言的积累；此外还有心理的学习，亦即通过经验来学习，体验当下的生活并沉淀于内心，或者从传统的、种族的、社会的经验中学习。所以，要学习如何面对生活，有两种方法：心理与生理的学习，外在与内在技巧的学习，二者并没有清晰的界线，而是重叠的。
我们这里所考察的，并不是那些通过实践所学到的技巧，通过钻研而获取的技术知识；我们所专注的是心理的学习，亦即千百年来人类所获取或遗传的那些传统、知识、经验。虽然我们称之为学习，但我怀疑这根本不是学习。我并不是在谈论技巧、语言、技术的学习，而是在问，我们是不是一直在通过心理学习，套用所学旧知识，去迎接生活的挑战？我们总是按照所沉淀的旧模式来诠释生活和新挑战，一直乐此不疲。这是学习吗？学习，不是指新知吗？不是指我不懂所以才学的东西吗？如果我只是在已知之上做累加，那么这就不再是学习了。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：There are these two kinds of learning how to meet life: psychological and physiological; outward skill and inward skill. 此句冒号后，何以心理、生理并列？不太拿得准，仅逐字对译，未求甚解。此文出处：Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti，第16卷。
Learning Is Not Experience
The word learning has great significance. There are two kinds of learning. For most of us learning means the accumulation of knowledge, of experience, of technology, of a skill, of a language. There is also psychological learning, learning through experience, either the immediate experiences of life, which leave a certain residue, of tradition, of the race, of society. There are these two kinds of learning how to meet life: psychological and physiological; outward skill and inward skill. There is really no line of demarcation between the two; they overlap.
We are not considering for the moment the skill that we learn through practice, the technological knowledge that we acquire through study. What we are concerned about is the psychological learning that we have acquired through the centuries or inherited as tradition, as knowledge, as experience.This we call learning, but I question whether it is learning at all. I am not talking about learning a skill, a language, a technique, but I am asking whether the mind ever learns psychologically. It has learned, and with what it has learned it meets the challenge of life. It is always translating life or the new challenge according to what it has learned. That is what we are doing. Is that learning? Doesn’t learning imply something new, something that I don’t know and am learning? If I am merely adding to what I already know, it is no longer learning.
JANUARY 10
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