当我们热衷于搜罗知识、贪得无厌，我们在经历爱心丧失、美感衰微，对暴行的敏锐也变得麻木不仁。虽然我们变得越来越专精，同时也越来越缺乏融会贯通。知识不能庖代智慧，再多的知识诠释、再多的信息累积，都不能将人类从痛苦中解放出来。当然，技术知识是必要的，科学有它的位置，但如果心灵被知识所窒息，如果痛苦的肇因被解释、漂白，那么生命就会变得空虚，毫无意义。
信息、知识虽然在不断激增，但本质上都是局限的。而智慧是无限的，智慧包涵了知识和行为之道，但我们往往紧抓住一根枝条，却以为抱住了整棵大树。通过认知局部，根本不能觉悟圆满的喜悦；智力，根本不能引导我们领悟整体，因为智力只是智慧的枝节、局部。
我们已经将智力（intellect）与感受（feeling）分裂，以牺牲感受为代价来培育智力。我们如同三条腿的怪物，一条腿远远长于另两条，所以失去了均衡。我们接受训练，以磨砺发达的智力；教育体系把我们的智力打磨得锋利、狡黠、贪婪，所以智力在生活中发挥着最重要的作用。而智慧（intelligence）比智力（intellect）宏大得多，因为智慧是理智（reason）与爱（love）的融合。但，只有具备自知之明，亦即对整体的自我有了深刻理解，我们才能拥有智慧。
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
译按：wisdom/intelligence，reason/intellect是两组同义词。
Knowledge Is Not Wisdom
In our search for knowledge, in our desires, we are losing love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruelty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less integrated. Wisdom cannot be replaced by knowledge, and no amount of explanation, no accumulation of facts, will free man from suffering. Knowledge is necessary, science has its place; but if the mind and heart are suffocated by knowledge, and if the cause of suffering is explained away, life becomes vain and meaningless….
Information, the knowledge of facts, though ever increasing, is by its very nature limited. Wisdom is infinite, it includes knowledge and the way of action; but we take hold of a branch and think it is the whole tree. Through the knowledge of the part, we can never realize the joy of the whole. Intellect can never lead to the whole, for it is only a segment, a part.
We have separated intellect from feeling, and have developed intellect at the expense of feeling. We are like a three-legged object with one leg much longer than the others, and we have no balance. We are trained to be intellectual; our education cultivates the intellect to be sharp, cunning, acquisitive, and so it plays the most important role in our life. Intelligence is much greater than intellect, for it is the integration of reason and love; but there can be intelligence only when there is self-knowledge, the deep understanding of the total process of oneself.
SEPTEMBER 17
