【问与答】要保持觉察，最好的方法是什么？

Question: What is the best way in which to maintain the attitude of awareness?

问：要保持觉察的态度，最好的方法是什么？

Krishnamurti: I am going on to that tomorrow or after tomorrow, or next week, more fully, but I will briefly explain.

克里希那穆提：关于这个问题，明天或者后天，或者下周，我会更加详尽地讨论，但是现在我先简要解释一下。

First of all, it is not a question of maintaining. Have you ever been in a room with a snake? Your attention, your whole intense concentration is maintained naturally through fear of being bitten. You don’t say, “How am I to maintain my attention?” Awareness is that approach to life with your whole mind and heart in perfect harmony. That only arises when there is a crisis that demands your instant attention, your whole interest.

首先，这不是一个保持的问题。你可曾与一条蛇共处一室？由于害怕被咬到，所以你自然保持全神贯注，保持高度的全然的关注。你不会说：“我要如何保持注意力？”觉察就是那样一种生活态度，你的整个头脑和内心处于完美的和谐之中。当危机出现，需要你即刻投入关注和全部注意力时，那种觉察才会出现。

Now, you are not interested in what I am talking about. Most people are not interested; that is why these questions arise. I know it by your faces and by the questions. If you are interested, intent to find out, not between the opposites, but the significance of things, only at that moment is there awareness. You will find out the answer immediately. I assure you it is awfully simple; don’t make this awareness so complicated. I have heard so many explanations of what to me is a very simple thing, and how complicated it is made year by year because your mind is so burdened with knowledge and you are only talking out of your knowledge, and applying that awareness to that knowledge.

而现在，你对我说的话不感兴趣。大多数人都不感兴趣；那就是这些问题会被提出的原因。从你们脸上的表情和这些问题，我得知了这一点。如果你感兴趣，想要弄清楚，不是从对立面中寻找，而是弄清事情的意义，只有此刻，才会有觉察。你会立即发现答案。

I assure you it is awfully simple; don’t make this awareness so complicated. I have heard so many explanations of what to me is a very simple thing, and how complicated it is made year by year because your mind is so burdened with knowledge and you are only talking out of your knowledge, and applying that awareness to that knowledge.

我向你保证，这极其简单；不要把觉察弄得太复杂。我听说过太多的解释，用来说明一些对我来说非常简单的事情，这些解释年复一年变得愈加复杂，因为你的头脑是如此被知识所负累，你讲话时只会从知识中提取内容，并应用那些知识去理解觉察。

Please forget everything that you have learned, read in books, and approach what I am saying very simply, freshly, frankly. Then you will see that it is utterly simple. There is awareness only when your whole being is awake and questioning—your whole being is mind as well as heart, not merely mind or merely heart—and when you approach everything in that way, then there is no problem or solution or ways of conquering or disciplining. Then you are acting from your whole being, spontaneously, naturally, without conflict, without effort.

请忘掉你学过的一切，你从书中读到的一切，非常简单地、清新地、坦诚地来看我说的话。然后你就会发现觉察极其简单。只有当你的整个存在——你的整个存在是头脑以及内心，而不仅仅是头脑或者内心——都清醒，都在质询，觉察才会出现，当你用那样的方式面对一切时，就不会再有问题或者解决办法，也不会有战胜或者修炼的方式。此时你是从你的整个生命出发，自发地、自然地行动，没有任何冲突，也无需任何努力。

The Art of Listening, Third Talk at Ommen, July 29, 1933

《倾听内心的声音》之“完满的行动并非来自选择”