《生命之书》 事实是我们是暴力的 6/28

整个的世界陷入了暴力、战争中；我们贪得无厌的社会结构本身在本质上就是暴力的。...

我们都看到终止暴力的重要性。而我，作为一个个体，要如何摆脱——不只是表面上摆脱，而是完全地、完整地、从内心里摆脱——暴力呢？如果非暴力的理想不会将心智从暴力中解放出来，那么对暴力原因的分析会帮助化解暴力吗？

We all see the importance of the cessation of violence. And how am I, as an individual, to be free of violence—not just superficially, but totally, completely, inwardly? If the ideal of nonviolence will not free the mind from violence, then will the analysis of the cause of violence help to dissolve violence?

毕竟，这是我们面临的主要问题之一，不是吗？整个的世界陷入了暴力、战争中；我们贪得无厌的社会结构本身在本质上就是暴力的。而如果你和我作为个体要摆脱——完全地、从内心里摆脱，而不是表面上或口头上摆脱——暴力，那么一个人要如何着手而不变得以自我为中心呢？

After all, this is one of our major problems, is it not? The whole world is caught up in violence, in wars; the very structure of our acquisitive society is essentially violent. And if you and I as individuals are to be free from violence—totally, inwardly free, not merely superficially or verbally—then how is one to set about it without becoming self-centered?

你理解这个问题，是吧？如果我的关切是将心智从暴力中解放出来，而我进行约束以便控制暴力并且把它变成非暴力，毫无疑问那会带来以自我为中心的思想和行为，因为我的心智一直聚焦于摆脱一个事物从而获得其它某个东西。然而我看到了心智完全从暴力中解放出来的必要性，那么我要怎么办呢？毫无疑问，它不是一个“一个人如何不暴力”的问题；事实是我们是暴力的，因而提出“我要怎样不暴力”的问题只是制造理想，理想在我看来是完全徒劳的。但是，如果一个人能够看到暴力进而了解它，那么或许存在完全化解它的可能。

You understand the problem, do you not? If my concern is to free the mind from violence and I practice discipline in order to control violence and change it into nonviolence, surely that brings about self-centered thought and activity, because my mind is focused all the time on getting rid of one thing and acquiring something else. And yet I see the importance of the mind being totally free from violence. So what am I to do? Surely, it is not a question of how one is not to be violent. The fact is that we are violent, and to ask “How am I not to be violent?” merely creates the ideal, which seems to me to be utterly futile. But if one is capable of looking at violence and understanding it, then perhaps there is a possibility of resolving it totally.当他进入我的屋内时，我禁不住对自己说：“这绝对是菩萨无疑了”。

——纪伯伦（Kahlil Gibran，1883-1931）

克里希那穆提是我知道的唯一能完全摒弃自我的人，和他相识是人生最光荣的事！

——亨利·米勒（Henry Miller ，1891-1980）

他（克里希那穆提）是我所见过的最美的人类。

——乔治·萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw,1856-1950）

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