事實上，不存在意識和潛意識兩種狀態(tài)讶迁，二者實為一種。雖然你可能把它劃分成意識和潛意識核蘸，但實際上只有一種存在狀態(tài)巍糯，那就是意識。意識的本質(zhì)是過去客扎，而不是當下鳞贷，你只能對過往之物產(chǎn)生意識。比如我想表達的意思虐唠，瞬間之后你才能意識到，是吧惰聂？你瞬間后才能明白我的意思疆偿，而不能當下即知。觀察你的心腦搓幌，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)意識總是運轉(zhuǎn)于過去與未來之間杆故，而當下只是過去通向未來的通道。

如果觀察自己思維的運轉(zhuǎn)溉愁，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)处铛，在意識游走于過去與未來的過程中，當下是缺位的：要么拐揭，你把過去當作逃避當下的手段撤蟆，因為當下是充滿煩惱的；要么堂污，你寄托希望于未來家肯，以逃離當下。所以盟猖，大腦被過去和未來占滿讨衣，當下被拋棄了。你要么譴責式镐、抗拒現(xiàn)實反镇，要么順受并執(zhí)著于現(xiàn)實，這種思維顯然不能看清事實真相娘汞。換言之歹茶，我們的意識，總是局限于過去和思維的窠臼之內(nèi)，面對現(xiàn)實挑戰(zhàn)做出局限性回應辆亏。你越是按照理念和過去的局限進行回應风秤，則你的過去越被強化 。

顯然扮叨，過去因不斷強化而得以延續(xù)缤弦，你延續(xù)老路，卻自稱走向未來彻磁。這就是我們的思維碍沐、意識的真實狀態(tài)——如同鐘擺一樣，在過去和未來之間來回搖蕩衷蜓。

——克里希那穆提《生命書：365觀心日課》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

There Is Only Consciousness

There is in fact only one state, not two states such as the conscious and the unconscious; there is only a state of being, which is consciousness, though you may divide it as the conscious and the unconscious. But that consciousness is always of the past, never of the present; you are conscious only of things that are over. You are conscious of what I am trying to convey the second afterwards, are you not? You understand it a moment later. You are never conscious or aware of the now. Watch your own hearts and minds and you will see that consciousness is functioning between the past and the future and that the present is merely a passage of the past to the future….

If you watch your own mind at work, you will see that the movement to the past and to the future is a process in which the present is not. Either the past is a means of escape from the present, which may be unpleasant, or the future is a hope away from the present. So the mind is occupied with the past or with the future and sloughs off the present…. It either condemns and rejects the fact or accepts and identifies itself with the fact. Such a mind is obviously not capable of seeing any fact as a fact. That is, our state of consciousness, which is conditioned by the past and our thought, is the conditioned response to the challenge of a fact; the more you respond according to the conditioning of belief, of the past, the more there is strengthening of the past.

That strengthening of the past is obviously the continuity of itself, which it calls the future. So that is the state of our mind, of our consciousness—a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards between the past and the future.

SEPTEMBER 27