如果我心系慈悲、仁爱和真正的神圣感，那么这种感觉应如何传递出去呢？请用心领会。如果我通过麦克风，通过宣传机器传送给他人，说服他人，但他的心依然是空虚的。虽然理念的火焰在他脑中燃烧，但他只是鹦鹉学舌，恰如你们不断学舌：“我们必须友好、善良、自由……”政客们、社会党人等都在高谈这样的空话。所以，任何形式的强制——无论多么细微，都不能产生美，不能带来仁善与慈悲的绽放。明白了这一点，个人能做什么呢？
心怀慈悲的人，与固守集体与传统的人之间是什么关系？我们应怎样去探索二者的关系？不是理论空谈，而是实实在在弄清楚。墨守成规的人，内在的仁善永远不能绽放出来。你必须拥有自由不羁的心灵，而唯有理解了嫉妒、贪婪、企图心、权力欲等全部问题，心灵的自由才会来临。当心灵从那些桎梏中获得解放，某种非凡的东西——亦即所谓本性将获得自由绽放。这样的人才有慈悲心，才明白何谓爱，而不是在道德上鹦鹉学舌。
所以，仁善的绽放不会发生在社会范畴，因为社会永远是腐败不堪的。唯有明白了社会的整体结构与过程，并从中获得解脱，从而具有独立品性的人，才能获得仁善本性的独立绽放。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Transmitting Compassion
If I am concerned with compassion, … with love, with the real feeling of something sacred, then how is that feeling to be transmitted? Please follow this. If I transmit it through the microphone, through the machinery of propaganda, and thereby convince another, his heart will still be empty. The flame of ideology will operate, and he will merely repeat, as you are all repeating, that we must be kind, good, free—all the nonsense that the politicians, the socialists, and the rest of them talk. So, seeing that any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not bring this beauty, this flowering of goodness, of compassion, what is the individual to do? …
What is the relationship between the man who has this sense of compassion, and the man whose mind is entrenched in the collective, in the traditional? How are we to find the relationship between these two, not theoretically, but actually? … That which conforms can never flower in goodness. There must be freedom, and freedom comes only when you understand the whole problem of envy, greed, ambition, and the desire for power. It is freedom from those things that allows the extraordinary thing called character to flower. Such a man has compassion, he knows what it is to love—not the man who merely repeats a lot of words about morality.
So the flowering of goodness does not lie within society, because society in itself is always corrupt. Only the man who understands the whole structure and process of society, and is freeing himself from it, has character, and he alone can flower in goodness.
NOVEMBER 29
