Learning Is Never Accumulative

作者：克里希那穆提

Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another.

学习是一回事，获取知识是另一回事。

Learning is a continuous process, not a process of addition, not a process which you gather and then from there act.

学习是一个持续的过程，不是一个增加的过程，也不是你收集之后再行动的过程。

Most of us gather knowledge as memory, as idea, store it up as experience, and from there act.

大多数人将知识收集起来作为记忆、观点，像经验一样储存起来，然后再开始行动。

That is, we act from knowledge, technological knowledge, knowledge as experience, knowledge as tradition,

也就是说，我们基于知识、技术性知识，经验性知识，传统知识，

knowledge that one has derived through one's particular idiosyncratic tendencies;

以及从某种特殊倾向中衍生出来的知识再行动；

with that background, with that accumulation as knowledge, as experience, as tradition, we act.

在那种背景下，有了知识、经验、传统的累积，我们就行动。

In that process there is no learning.

在那种过程中，不涉及学习。

Learning is never accumulative; it is a constant movement.

学习从来不是积累式的，而是持续的活动。

I do not know if you have ever gone into this question at all: what is learning and what is the acquisition of knowledge?

我不知道你们是否想过这个问题：学习是什么，什么又叫获得知识？

Learning is never accumulative.

学习从来不是积累式的。

You cannot store up learning and then from that storehouse act.

你无法把学习储存起来，随后在仓库开始采用。

You learn as you are going along.

你边进行边学习。

Therefore, there is never a moment of retrogression or deterioration or decline.

因此，学习从来没有倒退、恶化和衰败的时候。