我們對(duì)死亡充滿恐懼。為了終結(jié)死亡恐懼喷斋，我們必須觸摸死亡——不是去觸摸思維所編織的死亡幻相控嗜，而是必須實(shí)實(shí)在在地感受死亡狀態(tài)茧彤，否則恐懼就永無止息，因?yàn)椤八劳觥边@一字眼兒制造恐懼躬审，我們甚至不想談?wù)撍劳觥?/p>
我們身體健康棘街，行為正常蟆盐，有清晰推理、客觀思維遭殉、細(xì)致觀察的能力石挂，那么讓我們?nèi)坏赜|摸死亡的真相，這可能嗎险污？身體器官因?yàn)槿沼迷潞谋杂蓿驗(yàn)榧膊。K將歸于死亡蛔糯。當(dāng)我們身體健康時(shí)拯腮，就去探索死亡的意義，這并不是病態(tài)欲望蚁飒，因?yàn)榛蛟S通過感受死动壤，我們能理解生。
當(dāng)下的生淮逻，是痛苦琼懊，是無盡的喧囂，是矛盾爬早，所以生活中充滿了沖突哼丈、苦難、混亂筛严。每天走進(jìn)辦公室醉旦，有快樂，也有痛苦桨啃、焦灼车胡、摸索、彷徨优幸，日復(fù)一日地重復(fù)吨拍，這就是我們所謂的生活褪猛，我們對(duì)此已經(jīng)習(xí)以為常网杆，我們已經(jīng)接納，我們?cè)谶@樣的生活中變老伊滋、死去碳却。
若想明白何謂生、何謂死笑旺，我們必須去觸摸死亡昼浦；亦即，每天我們必須放下已知的一切筒主。我們?yōu)樽约汗卦搿⒓胰艘约坝H友構(gòu)建了諸多心相，這些心相是在生活的快樂中、在與社會(huì)乃至萬物的關(guān)系中構(gòu)建出來的秀仲，這些心相都需放下谎势。當(dāng)死亡瀕臨時(shí)所發(fā)生的，就是一切心相灰飛煙滅虐沥。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Feel the State of Death
We are afraid to die. To end the fear of death we must come into contact with death, not with the image that thought has created about death, but we must actually feel the state. Otherwise there is no end to fear, because the word death creates fear, and we don’t even want to talk about it.
Being healthy, normal, with the capacity to reason clearly, to think objectively, to observe, is it possible for us to come into contact with the fact, totally? The organism, through usage, through disease, will eventually die. If we are healthy, we want to find out what death means. It’s not a morbid desire, because perhaps by dying we shall understand living.
Living, as it is now, is torture, endless turmoil, a contradiction, and therefore there is conflict, misery, and confusion. The everyday going to the office, the repetition of pleasure, with its pains, the anxiety, the groping, the uncertainty—that’s what we call living. We have become accustomed to that kind of living. We accept it; we grow old with it and die.
To find out what living is as well as to find out what dying is, one must come into contact with death; that is, one must end every day everything one has known. One must end the image that one has built up about oneself, about one’s family, about one’s relationship, the image that one has built through pleasure, through one’s relationship to society, everything. That is what is going to take place when death occurs.
NOVEMBER 11
