自我觉知，是无路可循的。追寻某种方法，必然意味着渴求某种结果，这是人人所期待的。我们追寻权威，即便不是人物权威，也是体系权威、理念权威，因为我们都渴望权威保佑，获得某种令人满意的结果，为我们赋予安全感。实际上，我们根本不想真正了解自己，不想理解自己的冲动与反应、思维的全部过程、意识与无意识；只要某个体系向我们承诺了好结果，我们就宁愿去追逐该体系。我们之所以追逐体系，只是渴望从中获得安全感、确定感，显然这不能让人真正理解自己。当遵从某种方法时，我们必然接受权威——老师、导师、大师、救世主——权威们保证：只要追随他们，我们必将如愿。可以肯定，这绝不是自我觉知的正确方法。
心里若装着权威，就会阻碍对自我的认知。在权威、导师的庇护下，你也许能获得暂时的安全与幸福，但这不能让你认知全面的自我。在本质上，权威会阻碍对自我的完全觉知，所以会从根本上摧毁自由。心灵唯有在自由解脱之中，才有创造；唯有通过自我觉知，心灵才能自由创造。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365静心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Creativeness Through Self-Knowledge
… There is no method for self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result — and that is what we all want. We follow authority — if not that of a person, then of a system, of an ideology — because we want a result that will be satisfactory, which will give us security. We really do not want to understand ourselves, our impulses and reactions, the whole process of our thinking, the conscious as well as the unconscious; we would rather pursue a system that assures us of a result. But the pursuit of a system is invariably the outcome of our desire for security, for certainty, and the result is obviously not the understanding of oneself. When we follow a method, we must have authorities — the teacher, the guru, the savior, the Master — who will guarantee us what we desire; and surely that is not the way to self-knowledge.
Authority prevents the understanding of oneself, does it not? Under the shelter of an authority, a guide, you may have temporarily a sense of security, a sense of well-being, but that is not the understanding of the total process of oneself. Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness. There can be creativeness only through self-knowledge.
JANUARY 26
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