我们都是在不胜枚举的派系、宗教以及各种迷信与恐惧中长大的，心灵已被紧紧束缚。所以，问题在于：我们的心灵能否突破自我，进入全新状态？
内心老气横秋，本质上是被权威所困缚。我说的不是律法意义上的权威，而是指外在或内在的传统权威、知识权威、经验权威、寻找并保持安全感的方法权威。归根结底，这些权威都是内心孜孜以求的，是逃避烦恼的安全港湾。
这种权威，可能是强加给自己的权威理念，或对神的所谓虔诚信念，而对于真正道者，实际上这些都是虚幻不实的，因为理念并非事实，而是虚构。神就是虚构的，或许你信神，但那终究是虚构的。如果真想发现神性，你必须彻底粉碎虚构的心象，因为老气横秋的心充满惊惧，充满企图，恐惧死，恐惧生，恐惧关系，有意或无意中不停地追逐永恒，追逐安全。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（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
