When Think On These Things, Chapter 20/ Krishnamurti
摘自《人生中不可不想的事》，第20章 /
克里希那穆提著
如果你對一件事非常熱愛, 你會覺得很難把它付諸實行嗎? 如果你熱愛打板球,你會投入你的全部身心去打, 不是嗎? 你會說他很難嗎? 只有當你對某件事沒有完全正確的感受時, 你才會說很難將它付諸實行, 你並不愛他.
對一件你所愛的事情你會懷著熱情去做, 其中必定有喜悅. 然後不論你的父母和社會怎麼說都不重要了! 但是如果你在做你認為正確的事情,感受不到快樂與自在, 那麼你對他的興趣就是虛假的、不真實的, 所以他會變得無比困難, 你會說很難把它付諸實施, 去做你所愛的是過程當中當然會有困難, 但是你不會太在乎他, 因為那就是生命的一部分, 你知道我們已經把困難變成了一種哲學, 我們認為努力奮鬥和抗爭都是美德.
我不是在談論通過努力和奮鬥而來的嫻熟, 而是那份對做一件事情的人, 除非你心中有這樣的愛, 活著不要和僵化的傳統以及社會抗爭, 因為缺少了愛, 你的抗爭就是沒有意義的, 也只會帶來更多的傷害, 然而如果你深深的感受到什麼是正確的, 因而能夠獨立於世, 那麼你來自於愛的行動就會擁有不尋常的意義, 就會充滿生命力和美.
you feel very strongly about something, do you consider it difficult to put it into action? When you are keen to play cricket, you play it with your whole being, don't you? And do you call it difficult? It is only when you don't totally feel the truth of something that you say it is difficult to put it into action. You don't love it. That which you love you do with ardour, there is joy in it, and then what society or what your parents may say does not matter. But if you are not deeply convinced, if you do not feel free and happy in doing what you think is right, surely your interest in it is false, unreal; therefore it becomes mountainous and you say it is difficult to put it into action.
In doing what you love to do there will of course be difficulties, but that won't matter to you, it is part of life. You see, we have made a philosophy of difficulty, we consider it a virtue to make effort, to struggle, to oppose.
I am not talking of proficiency through effort and struggle, but of the love of doing something. But don't battle against society, don't tackle dead tradition, unless you have this love in you, for your struggle will be meaningless, and you will merely create more mischief. Whereas, if you deeply feel what is right and can therefore stand alone, then your action born of love will have extraordinary significance, it will have vitality, beauty.
You know, it is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline
