Questioner: What is the real way to build up character?
問：怎么樣才能加強自己的個性？
Krishnamurti: To have character means, surely, to be able to withstand the false and hold on to the true; but to build character is difficult, because for most of us what is said by the book, by the teacher, by the parent, by the government is more important than to find out what we ourselves think. To think for oneself, to find out what is true and stand by it, without being influenced, whatever life may bring of misery or happiness - that is what builds character.
?克：一個能夠排除錯誤并且固守真理的人，就是有個性的人。但是加強個性是很困難的事堂氯，因為對我們大部分人來說，遵照書本牌废、老師以及父母所說的話咽白，是比發(fā)現我們自己的想法更重要的。一個有獨立思考能力的人鸟缕，他發(fā)現真理并且護持它晶框，不論生命帶來的是不幸或快樂都不受影響，這樣才能加強個性懂从。?
Say, for instance, you do not believe in war, not because of what some reformer or religious teacher has said, but because you have thought it out for yourself. You have investigated, gone into the question, meditated upon it, and for you all killing is wrong, whether it is killing to eat, killing out of hatred, or killing for the so called love of one's country. Now, if you feel this very strongly and stick to it in spite of everything, regardless of whether you go to prison or are shot for it, as you may be in certain countries, then you will have character. Then character has quite a different meaning, it is not the character which society cultivates.
比如說授段，你不相信戰(zhàn)爭能帶來真正的和平，不是因為一些其他人士這么說過番甩，而是因為你已經有了自己的思考侵贵。你探究、深入這個問題缘薛，深思熟慮窍育，對你而言，殺害是錯的宴胧，無論是為了吃還是因為仇恨漱抓，或是為了愛國家。現在恕齐，你強烈地認識到這點辽旋，并且無論如何都堅持到底。無論是否會因此入獄檐迟，或是被槍殺补胚，畢竟你身在某個國度。那么追迟，你就是有個性的人類溶其。這樣的話，個性有著非凡的意義敦间，那不是社會所賦予的意義瓶逃。
But, you see, we are not encouraged in this direction; and neither the educator nor the student has the vitality, the energy to think out and see what is true, and hold to it, letting the false go. But if you can do this then you won't follow any political or religious leader, because you will be a light unto yourself; and the discovery and cultivation of that light, not only while you are young but throughout life, is education.
但是你知道束铭，從來沒有人鼓勵我們朝這個方向走，老師和學生都沒有這份活力及精力去發(fā)現什么是真理厢绝，然后維持在那種狀態(tài)中契沫，讓錯誤自動消除∥艉海可是如果你能夠做到這一點懈万，你就不會跟隨任何政治或精神領袖，因為你就是自己的光明了靶病。如何發(fā)現和培養(yǎng)這種內在的光明会通，不是等到年老，而是從年輕就開始娄周，這才是教育涕侈。?
選自《人生中不可不想的事》
