Question: We live but we do not know why. To so many of us, life seems to have no meaning. Can you tell us the meaning and purpose of our living?
克里希那穆提: 現在你為什麼問這個問題？為什麼你要我告訴你生命的意義, 生命的目的？生命的意義是什麼？人生有意義嗎, 有目的嗎？不是生活在自己的目的, 它自己的意思？為什麼我們要更多？因為我們對我們的生活如此不滿, 我們的生活是如此的空虛, 如此俗氣, 如此單調, 一遍又一遍地做同樣的事情, 我們想要更多的東西, 超越我們正在做的事情。因為我們的日常生活是如此空虛, 如此枯燥, 如此無聊, 如此枯燥, 如此令人難以忍受的愚蠢, 我們說生活必須有一個更充分的意義, 這就是為什麼你問這個問題。
Krishnamurti: Now why do you ask this question? Why are you asking me to tell you the meaning of life, the purpose of life? What do we mean by life? Does life have a meaning, a purpose? Is not living in itself its own purpose, its own meaning? Why do we want more? Because we are so dissatisfied with our life, our life is so empty, so tawdry, so monotonous, doing the same thing over and over again, we want something more, something beyond that which we are doing. Since our everyday life is so empty, so dull, so meaningless, so boring, so intolerably stupid, we say life must have a fuller meaning and that is why you ask this question.
一個生活富足的人, 一個能看清事物的人, 滿足于自己所擁有的, 並不困惑;他是清楚的, 因此他不問什麼是生活的目的。對他來說, 生活就是開始和結束。我們的困難在於, 既然我們的生活是空虛的, 我們就想找到生活的目標並為之奮鬥。這樣的生活目的只能是思維, 沒有任何現實;當生活的目的是由一個愚蠢的, 沉悶的頭腦, 由一個空洞的心, 目的也將是空的。因此, 我們的目的是如何使我們的生活富裕, 而不是金錢和其他所有的東西, 但內在的豐富-這是不神秘。當你說生命的目的是要快樂, 生命的目的就是找到上帝, 當然, 尋找上帝的欲望是一種逃避生活的願望, 而你的上帝只是一個已知的東西。你只能讓你的方式對一個物件, 你知道;如果你建立一個樓梯的東西, 你叫上帝, 肯定不是上帝。現實只能在生活中被理解, 而不是在逃避。當你尋求生活的目的時, 你真的是在逃避, 而不是理解生活是什麼。生活是關係, 生活是關係中的行動;當我不理解關係, 或當關係被混淆, 然後我尋求更充分的意思。為什麼我們的生活如此空虛？為什麼我們如此孤獨, 沮喪？因為我們從來沒有看過自己和瞭解自己。我們從來不承認, 這種生活是我們所知道的, 因此應該完全和完全地理解它。我們更喜歡逃避自己, 這就是為什麼我們尋求生活的目的, 遠離關係。如果我們開始理解行動, 這是我們與人的關係, 與財產, 與信念和想法, 那麼我們將發現, 關係本身帶來了自己的回報。你不必尋求。這就像尋求愛。你能尋找愛嗎？愛不能被培養。你會發現愛只有在關係中, 而不是外在的關係, 這是因為我們沒有愛, 我們想要的生活的目的。當有愛, 這是它自己的永恆, 那麼就沒有尋找上帝, 因為愛是上帝。
這是因為我們的思想充滿了技術性和迷信的抱怨, 我們的生活如此空虛, 這就是為什麼我們尋求超越自己的目的。要找到生命的目的, 我們必須通過自己的門;有意識地或無意識地, 我們避免面對事物, 因為它們在自己身上, 所以我們希望上帝為我們打開一扇超越的門。這個關於生命目的的問題只被那些不愛的人所提出。愛只能在行動中找到, 這就是關係。Surely a man who is living richly, a man who sees things as they are and is content with what he has, is not confused; he is clear, therefore he does not ask what is the purpose of life. For him the very living is the beginning and the end. Our difficulty is that, since our life is empty, we want to find a purpose to life and strive for it. Such a purpose of life can only be mere intellection, without any reality; when the purpose of life is pursued by a stupid, dull mind, by an empty heart, that purpose will also be empty. Therefore our purpose is how to make our life rich, not with money and all the rest of it but inwardly rich - which is not something cryptic. When you say that the purpose of life is to be happy, the purpose of life is to find God, surely that desire to find God is an escape from life and your God is merely a thing that is known. You can only make your way towards an object which you know; if you build a staircase to the thing that you call God, surely that is not God. Reality can be understood only in living, not in escape. When you seek a purpose of life, you are really escaping and not understanding what life is. Life is relationship, life is action in relationship; when I do not understand relationship, or when relationship is confused, then I seek a fuller meaning. Why are our lives so empty? Why are we so lonely, frustrated? Because we have never looked into ourselves and understood ourselves. We never admit to ourselves that this life is all we know and that it should therefore be understood fully and completely. We prefer to run away from ourselves and that is why we seek the purpose of life away from relationship. If we begin to understand action, which is our relationship with people, with property, with beliefs and ideas, then we will find that relationship itself brings its own reward. You do not have to seek. It is like seeking love. Can you find love by seeking it? Love cannot be cultivated. You will find love only in relationship, not outside relationship, and it is because we have no love that we want a purpose of life. When there is love, which is its own eternity, then there is no search for God, because love is God.
It is because our minds are full of technicalities and superstitious mutterings that our lives are so empty and that is why we seek a purpose beyond ourselves. To find life's purpose we must go through the door of ourselves; consciously or unconsciously we avoid facing things as they are in themselves and so we want God to open for us a door which is beyond. This question about the purpose of life is put only by those who do not love. Love can be found only in action, which is relationship.
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