我们都是在无数的宗派、宗教以及迷信与恐惧中成长起来的，我们的心包裹了重重束缚。我们的问题是：心，能否突破束缚，从而进入全新状态？……内心老气横秋，本质上都是因为被权威所困缚。我所讲的“权威”一词，不是律法意义上的权威；我使用该词，是指外在或内在的精神影响力，表现为传统、知识、经验、手段，用以寻觅并保持安全感。这些东西都是心所孜孜以求的，是能为自心赋予安全、免除干扰的所在。
这样的权威，可能是强加给自己的理念，对神的所谓虔诚信念，实际上对于真正的求道者而言，这些理念都是虚幻不实的。理念，并非事实，而是虚构。神，就是虚构的；你可能信奉神，但神终究是虚构。如果真想发现神，你必须彻底粉碎虚构的心象。老气横秋的心，充满欲望同时又充满惊惧：恐惧死，恐惧生，恐惧关系，有意或无意之中，不停地追逐持久，追逐安全。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
The Old Mind Is Bound by Authority
The problem then is: Is it possible for a mind that has been so conditioned—brought up in innumerable sects, religions, and all the superstitions, fears—to break away from itself and thereby bring about a new mind? … The old mind is essentially the mind that is bound by authority. I am not using the word authority in the legalistic sense; but by that word I mean authority as tradition, authority as knowledge, authority as experience, authority as the means of finding security and remaining in that security, outwardly or inwardly, because, after all, that is what the mind is always seeking—a place where it can be secure, undisturbed.
Such authority may be the self-imposed authority of an idea or the so-called religious idea of God, which has no reality to a religious person. An idea is not a fact, it is a fiction. God is a fiction; you may believe in it, but still it is a fiction. But to find God you must completely destroy the fiction, because the old mind is the mind that is frightened, is ambitious, is fearful of death, of living, and of relationship; and it is always, consciously or unconsciously, seeking a permanency, security.
JANUARY 17
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