Look with Intensity

作者：克里希那穆提

It seems to me that learning is astonishingly difficult,as is listening also.

We never actually listen to anything because our mind is not free; our ears are stuffed up with those things that we already know,

so listening becomes extraordinarily difficult.

I think — or rather, it is a fact — that if one can listen to something with all of one's being,with vigor, with vitality,

then the very act of listening is a liberative factor, but unfortunately you never do listen, as you have never learned about it.

After all, you only learn when you give your whole being to something.

When you give your whole being to mathmatics, you learn;

but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it become merely a process of accumulation.

To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

If you want to learn about a leaf — a leaf of the spring or a leaf of the summer — you must really look at it, see the symmetry of it, the texture of it, the quality of the living leaf.

There is beauty, there is vigor, there is vitality in a single leaf.

So to learn about the leaf, the flower, the cloud, the sunset, or a human being, you must look with all intensity.

官方翻译

对我而言，学习是一件无比困难的事，聆听也是；

我们从未倾听过任何东西，因为我们的心不自由，我们的耳朵塞满了我们已知的事物，

因此聆听变成了一件尤为困难的事。

我想——或者说这是一个事实——如果有人可以用生命、用精力、活力去倾听某物，

那么这种倾听行为就是一种释放因素，但很不幸的是，你永远无法倾听，因为你从没来没有了解它。

毕竟，你只有在把全部生命都投入到某物上，你才能了解它。

当你把全身心投入到数学上，那么你在学了；

但如果你处于矛盾的状态，当你不想学但却被迫要学，那它就只变成了一个积累的过程。

学习如同读一本有着数不清字数的小说，它需要你的全神贯注，而不是矛盾的关注。

如果你想了解一片树叶——春天或是夏天的绿叶——你必须真的去观察它，看它对称的外形，它的质地，以及鲜活绿叶的特点。

这一片叶子里蕴含了美、精力和活力。

因此，若想了解一片叶子、一朵花、一朵云、落日或一个人，你都必须要注以强烈的感情去观看。