世人有生理恐懼忧陪。看到毒蛇近范、野獸嘶摊，你會(huì)產(chǎn)生本能的恐懼，這是正常评矩、健康叶堆、自然的。毋寧說斥杜，這不是恐懼虱颗，而是自我保護(hù)的本能欲望，所以是正常的果录。
而心理自我保護(hù)——亦即保持精神確定感的欲望上枕，則會(huì)滋生恐懼。如果內(nèi)心鍥而不舍地追逐確定感弱恒，那么此心是了無生機(jī)的辨萍，因?yàn)樯钪懈緵]有確定感，生活即無常返弹。
當(dāng)直接觸碰到恐懼锈玉，你的神經(jīng)等會(huì)做出反應(yīng)。如果你不再通過言辭或其他活動(dòng)逃避恐懼义起，則“能觀心”與“所觀物”亦即恐懼之間的二元分別就不復(fù)存在了拉背。只有內(nèi)心逃避恐懼時(shí)，才會(huì)把心與恐懼分割開來默终。但當(dāng)你直接觸摸恐懼椅棺，就不再有“能觀”的主體，也不再有另一個(gè)客體竊竊自語：“我好怕”齐蔽。所以两疚，一旦你直接用心觸摸生活，觸摸任何事物含滴，就不再有二元分別——須知诱渤，正是分別心滋生了競爭、雄心與恐懼谈况。
所以勺美，重要的不是“如何解脫恐懼”递胧，如果你追尋解脫恐懼的路徑、方法和修煉體系赡茸，那么你將永遠(yuǎn)深陷恐懼中缎脾。重要的是明白心底的恐懼，但唯有直接觸摸恐懼坛掠，恰如直接觸摸饑餓赊锚，直接觸摸失業(yè)威脅，你才能看明白恐懼屉栓；唯有此時(shí)舷蒲，你才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)：所有恐懼已經(jīng)止息了。對(duì)友多，我是說牲平，所有恐懼已全部止息，而不是這種或那種單獨(dú)的恐懼域滥。
——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Contacting Fear
There is physical fear. You know, when you see a snake, a wild animal, instinctively there is fear; that is a normal, healthy, natural fear. It is not fear, it is a desire to protect oneself—that is normal.
But the psychological protection of oneself—that is, the desire to be always certain—breeds fear. A mind that is seeking always to be certain is a dead mind, because there is no certainty in life, there is no permanency….
When you come directly into contact with fear, there is a response of the nerves and all the rest of it. Then, when the mind is no longer escaping through words or through activity of any kind, there is no division between the observer and the thing observed as fear. It is only the mind that is escaping that separates itself from fear. But when there is a direct contact with fear, there is no observer, there is no entity that says, “I am afraid.” So, the moment you are directly in contact with life, with anything, there is no division—it is this division that breeds competition, ambition, fear.
So what is important is not “how to be free of fear?” If you seek a way, a method, a system to be rid of fear, you will be everlastingly caught in fear. But if you understand fear—which can only take place when you come directly in contact with it, as you are in contact with hunger, as you are directly in contact when you are threatened with losing your job—then you do something; only then will you find that all fear ceases—we mean all fear, not fear of this kind or of that kind.
MARCH 27
