MA7879D3 - 你能够理解什么是「宗教生活」吗? home
第三次公开讨论会
印度 马德拉斯(金奈)
1979年1月11日

1:18 As we said the last time that we met here the day before yesterday, this is a dialogue, a conversation between two friends who want to talk over any problem, any issue they have. So, what would be the relevant and worthwhile question to ask, and out of that perhaps a right answer can come. What shall we talk about this morning? 1:18 就如我们上次在这里见面时说过的 ——也就是前天—— 这是一次「对话」, 一次两个朋友之间的交谈 ——他们想要去讨论他们所遇到的 任何难题、任何问题。 所以,我们应该问些什么 切身相关的、 有价值的的问题呢? 从这样的问题之中 或许就会产生出正确的答案了。 那么今天早上,我们要来谈些什么呢?
1:58 Q:Sir, most people believe in things like god, religions, astrology, numerology, and the like. They spend a lot of time, money, their material resources, believing that these things will, they will be amply rewarded for their efforts. How to save them? 1:58 提问者:先生,绝大多数人会相信诸如神明、 宗教、占星学、命理学等等这样的东西。 他们花费了大量的时间、金钱, 和他们的物质资源, 并且相信这些东西将会…… 他们将会因自己的努力而得到丰厚的回报。 我们要如何才能拯救这些人?
2:24 Q:Sir, in this existence only at the point of death all our accumulations come to an end. So, unless we understand death very deeply any amount of effort on our part to end the psychological memory would be absolutely futile. 2:24 提问者:先生,在这个世上, 只有当到了死亡的时刻, 我们所有的积累物才会终结。 所以除非我们非常深刻地理解了「死亡」, 否则无论我们自己做出多少努力 来试图结束心理上的记忆 ——这都是彻底徒劳无用的。
2:39 K:Right. 2:39 克:没错。
2:42 Q:Can we discuss the relationship between time and awareness? 2:42 提问者:我们能否来讨论一下「时间」和「觉察」的关系?
2:46 Q:You have often urged people to be free of violence, but I really wonder what we could do if we are faced with a practical problem. Like, say, somebody attacking you, when you are defenceless, so shouldn't you have to retaliate with violence? 2:46 提问者:你经常敦促人们要摆脱暴力, 但我其实很想知道 当我们面临一个实际的问题时, 我们又会怎么做呢。 比方说,在你毫无防备的时候, 有人过来打你, 那时你难道不应该用暴力来反击他吗?
3:04 K:Right, sir. 3:04 克:好的,先生。
3:06 Q:What is clear thinking so that I can find a lot of energy? 3:06 提问者:什么是「清晰的思考」, 由此使得我可以获得巨大的能量?
3:13 Q:Can we discuss the relationship between time and awareness? 3:13 提问者:我们能否来讨论一下 「时间」和「觉察」的关系?
3:30 K:I have understood, sir. What is the relationship between time and awareness. 3:30 克:我已经知道了,先生。 「时间」和「觉察」的关系是什么。
3:41 Q:Sir, can we discuss the relationship between truth, actuality and reality? 3:41 提问者:先生,我们是否可以来讨论一下 事实、现实和「实相」之间的关系?
3:48 K:The relationship between actuality and reality. Just a minute, sir. 3:48 克:现实和「实相」之间的关系。 稍等一下,先生。
3:52 Q:It is pointed out that listening is the way of life, but the quality of listening, or observation, which you point out indicate a feeling that it is beyond the mind. 3:52 提问者:你向我们指出了, 那就是「聆听」是生活之道, 然而,你向我们指出的 那种「聆听」或者「观察」的品质, 它暗示了一种超越头脑的感受。
4:04 Q:I have a problem, sir. 4:04 提问者:我还有一个问题,先生。
4:07 K:Thank goodness! (Laughter) 4:07 克:谢天谢地!(笑声)
4:13 Q:Meditation as generally understood is taking some time apart from our daily activities and concentrating the mind on some form, or some name, or some idea. Sir, I have practised it for years and I have found that it has had absolutely no effect on my life or on curbing any of my evil tendencies. Well, sir, could we explore the possibility of making one's daily life, entire waking life, including the time we spend on our activities, into one continuous form of meditation? 4:13 提问者:通常意义上所理解的“冥想”, 它指的是:除了我们的日常活动之外, 抽出一些时间来让头脑专注于 某种形式的事物, 或者某个名字,或者某个念头。 先生,我已经练习了这种“冥想”有很多年了, 然而我却发现 它对于我的生活完全没有任何作用, 也无法抑制住任何我身上「恶」的习性。 所以,先生,我们能否来探索一下 这种可能性: 那就是把我们自己的日常生活、 整个清醒状态下的生活, 包括我们花费在各种活动上的时间, 转变为一种持续不断的冥想形式?
4:54 Q:Sir, is not the observation in itself an instantaneous action? Can we discuss about it? Any observation is instantaneous. 4:54 提问者:先生,「观察」本身难道不是一种 瞬间即刻的行动吗? 我们能否来讨论一下它? 即任何「观察」都是即刻的行动。
5:02 K:Now, sir. Now we have had so many questions I am quite lost. 5:02 克:好了,先生。现在我们已经有了 这么多的问题,我都已经糊涂了。
5:07 Q:Krishnaji, maybe this question would cover a lot of them. We seem to be interested in a religious life, but it seems that culture and tradition get in the way. One wonders how we can live with culture and tradition or can one live with culture and tradition? 5:07 提问者:克里希那吉,或许这个问题可以涵盖 上述很多的问题。 我们似乎对宗教生活感兴趣, 然而文化与传统似乎阻碍了我们。 我想知道我们如何才能够 带着文化与传统生活, 或者说,我们能否与文化和传统生活在一起?
5:28 K:Can one live a religious life, in daily life, without tradition. Is that it? 5:28 克:我们能否在日常生活中 过一种宗教性的生活而不带着传统? 是这个问题吗?
5:36 Q:And culture, yes. 5:36 提问者:还有文化,是的。
5:37 K:Without tradition. I don't quite follow your question. 5:37 克:没有传统。 我不是很明白你的问题。
5:41 Q:It seems that we are interested in a religious life, but we are not able to get anywhere because we are so involved with tradition and culture, and how do we live with tradition and culture, or does that have any part in religious life? 5:41 提问者:我们似乎对宗教生活很感兴趣, 然而我们却无法达到任何成果, 因为我们是如此地陷入于 传统与文化中,那么我们要如何才能 带着传统与文化生活,或者说: 传统与文化是否在宗教生活中占有一席之地?
5:54 K:Has tradition and culture any part in religious life? Do you want to discuss that? 5:54 克:传统与文化是否在宗教生活中 占有一席之地? 你们想要来讨论这个吗?
6:08 Q:No. 6:08 提问者:不想。
6:12 K:No? 6:12 克:不想吗?
6:15 Q:As we have been talking about, when there is deep profound interest and care thought won't interfere. Is that interest and attention free of thought, sir? 6:15 提问者:就如我们已经讨论过的, 当有了深刻浓厚的兴趣与关心, 思想就不会干涉介入了。 那么这种兴趣与关注是不是 超脱于思想的,先生?
6:30 K:I can't hear it. Would you please speak a little louder, sir? 6:30 克:我听不到。 先生,你可以讲得更大声一点吗?
6:39 Q:I heard you saying when there is profound interest thought won't interfere. Is that interest free of thought, sir? 6:39 提问者:我听你说:当有了浓厚的兴趣, 思想就不会干涉介入进来了。 那么这种兴趣是不是超脱于思想的,先生?
6:55 K:Is this a problem to any of you, all this? Just a minute, sir, there are so many questions. 6:55 克:这对你们中任何人来说是一个问题吗, 所有这些问题? 稍等片刻,先生,我们这里有太多问题了。
7:08 Q:We are full of problems. 7:08 提问者:我们充满了各种问题。
7:10 K:Perhaps if we could take the question: what place has tradition and culture in a religious life? Would you like to discuss that, would that be worthwhile? I think perhaps if we could go into that question and answer deeply that enquiry, perhaps we could include all the other questions in it. May we do that? Yes, sir? What would you think is culture? No, not theoretically, actually, what does culture mean? 8:05 The word 'culture' means to grow, to cultivate, to develop, to expand, to flower, to be, and so on, or to become. Have you had culture in that sense in your life? To grow, to develop the intellect, the mind, the heart, all the very, very subtle senses, and so on, that's part of culture. So that is what we mean by culture. Do we agree to that? To the meaning of that word, would you agree to all that? No? 7:10 克:我们或许可以来看看这个问题: 「传统」与「文化」在宗教生活中 占据什么样的地位? 你们想要来讨论一下它吗? 你们觉得这个问题值得讨论吗? 我认为我们或许可以来探讨一下这个问题, 去深入地回答 这个询问,然后也许我们可以 把所有其他问题也带进去。 我们可以这么来做吗? 可以吗,先生? 你们认为「文化」是什么呢? 请注意,不是理论上的,而是实际地讲, 「文化」的意思是什么呢? 8:05 「文化」这个词的意思是“去成长”、“去培养”、 “去发展”、“去扩展”、“去开花绽放”、 “去成为”,等等,或者“去变成”。 而在你们的生活中, 你们有过这种意义上的“文化”吗? 去成长、去发展智性、头脑、心灵, 所有这些都是从极其微妙精微的意义上讲的, 等等,这就是文化的一部分。 所以这就是我们所说的「文化」的意思。 我们同意这一点吗? 关于这个词(文化)的意思, 你们都同意它吗? 不同意?
9:08 Q:Yes. 9:08 提问者:同意的。
9:09 K:Right. And what do you mean by tradition? Go on, sir. Tradition implies, doesn't it, values, beliefs, dogmas, rituals, handed down from generation to generation, handed over from father to son, to son, to son. There is the tradition of the Upanishads, the Gita, handed down, what the writer meant, and it has been handed down in this country, or in various other countries, and that is what we call tradition. Is that right? 9:09 克:很好。然后,你们所说的「传统」 又是什么意思呢? 继续下去,先生。 「传统」不就意味着 各种价值观、信仰、 教条、仪式吗? ——它们一代又一代地传下来, 从父亲传给儿子,再传给孙子,再传给曾孙。 我们有着那些传下来的《奥义书》的传统、 《薄伽梵歌》的传统—— 它们是那个作者的观点想法, 而它们已经在这个国家(印度) 或者其他各国被传下来了, 而这就是我们所谓的“传统”。 对吧?
10:11 Q:Tradition, I think, is the preservation of culture as well. 10:11 提问者:我认为「传统」也意味着保留维持那些「文化」。
10:15 K:Preservation of culture as well. Which means culture being values, beliefs, rituals, gods, concepts, principles, ideals, all that has been handed down and you have marvellously preserved it. Is that it? As you cultivate a beautiful garden where flowers grow, there is shadow, sunlight, beauty, and you preserve that. And tradition means also to hand it down - concepts, beliefs, and so on. And also please bear in mind that word means treason, betrayal. Right? So, what has tradition and culture to do with a religious life? Go on, sir. 10:15 克:保留维持「文化」。 这意味着那些「文化」就是 各种价值观、信仰、宗教仪式、 神明、概念、准则、理想, 所有这些东西已经被传下来了, 而你们极好地保存了它们。 是这样吧? 就像你去栽培一个美丽的花园 ——那里生长着鲜花, 那里有着阴影、阳光、美, 然后你会维护这个花园。 而传统同样也意味着 将那些东西传下去—— 包括各种概念、信仰,等等。 此外,也请牢记在心: 那就是「文字词语」意味着谋反、背叛。 对吧? 所以,传统与文化, 它们和宗教生活有什么关系呢? 继续,先生。
11:39 Q:Is it the religious life that is being betrayed by tradition? You say tradition is treason, the meaning of tradition is treason. What is being betrayed? 11:39 提问者:是不是「传统」背叛了宗教生活? 你说传统就是“谋反”, 传统的意思就是“谋反”。 那么它背叛了什么东西呢?
11:51 K:What do you mean by betrayal? When you are functioning with a deep, ingrained, conditioned mind - right? - as most people who are traditionalists, how can they betray? They are betraying the present. No? Are you interested in all this? Or is it a nice cool morning, and we can sit quietly together under the trees? You understand my questions, sirs? What has tradition and culture to do with a religious life, and what do we mean by a religious life, so we can expand it, shall we? Are you interested in all this? What do you consider is life? Your life, what is your life? Come on, sirs, let's... Two friends talking over together, what do you mean by your life, my life? 11:51 克:你所说的“背叛”是什么意思呢? 当你带着一个 根深蒂固的、深受制约的头脑而运作时, ——对吧? —— 因为绝大多数人都是传统主义者, 人们还怎么可能去“背叛”呢? 他们正在背叛「当下」。 难道不是吗? 你们对这一切感兴趣吗? 还是说:这是一个美好而又凉爽的早晨, 我们终于有机会可以在树下 一起安静地坐会儿了? 你们明白我的问题吗,先生们? 传统与文化,它们和宗教生活有什么关系呢? 而我们所说的“宗教生活”又是什么意思? 然后我们才可以去扩展它,是吧? 你们对这一切有兴趣吗? 你们认为「生活」是什么呢? 你的生活,你的生活是什么呢? 来吧,先生们,让我们 让我们像两个朋友一样 一起来讨论它, 你所说的“你的生活”、“我的生活”, 它是什么意思呢?
13:22 Q:(Inaudible) 13:22 提问者:(听不清的声音)
13:25 K:Sir, I am asking a question, sir, if you would kindly listen to it. What do we mean by a life? 13:25 克:先生,我正在问一个问题, 先生,请你认真听好它。 我们所说的“生活”,它是什么意思?
13:35 Q:A relationship with others. 13:35 提问者:与他人的关系。
13:38 K:You say it is a relationship with another, intimate or not intimate, neighbour, and so on. But what is that relationship? What is that life that you daily live? Come on, sir. What's your life? For god's sake! 13:38 克:你说生活就是“与他人的关系” ——不管是亲密的还是不亲密的关系, 还是和邻居的关系,等等。 然而,那种关系又是什么呢? 你每天所过的那种生活,它又是什么呢? 加油啊,先生。看在上帝的份上, 你的生活是什么呢?
13:57 Q:We want something, sir. 13:57 提问者:我们想要某些东西,先生。
13:58 Q:An act of living in harmony and understanding. 13:58 提问者:它是一种生活在 和谐与了解中的行动。
14:03 K:Oh, sir, what is your daily life, actually, not theoretical. 14:03 克:噢,先生,(我问的是)你的日常生活是什么? 实际的日常生活,而不是理论上的。
14:08 Q:A bundle of experiences. 14:08 提问者:一大堆的经验。
14:13 K:Is that it, a bundle of experiences, your life? 14:13 克:是这样吗,一大堆的经验,这就是你的生活?
14:17 Q:Eating and sleeping, sir. (Laughter) 14:17 提问者:生活就是“吃饭和睡觉”,先生。(笑声)
14:27 K:All right. Eating, sleeping, and what else? Look at your life, sir, for god's sake, talk factually not theoretically. 14:27 克:好吧。吃饭、睡觉,还有什么呢? 看看你自己的生活吧,先生, 看在上帝的份上,实事求是地讲吧, 不要空谈理论。
14:41 Q:And work. 14:41 提问者:还有工作。
14:42 Q:Fight, conflict. 14:42 提问者:斗争、冲突。
14:44 K:A most extraordinary generation! 14:44 克:真是最奇特的一代人!
14:47 Q:It's searching for pleasure, many kinds of pleasure, based on sensations, pleasant, unpleasant. That's what my life is. 14:47 提问者:生活就是寻求快感, 各种各样无数的快感——基于感官的快感, 快乐的、不快乐的。 这就是我的生活。
14:55 K:Yes, so your life - your life, sir, your life is based on pleasure, pain. You see, how we are avoiding to face our life, our daily life, aren't you? 14:55 克:是的,所以你的生活 是你的生活, 先生,你的生活就是基于快感和痛苦的。 你瞧,我们是如何回避去面对生活的, 我们自己的日常生活,不是吗?
15:32 Q:Yes, my life. 15:32 提问者:是的,我的生活。
15:33 Q:It's a continuity in time. 15:33 提问者:生活就是一种“时间中的延续”。
15:34 K:Sir, sir, don't invent something. Your daily life, sir. 15:34 克:先生,请注意先生,不要去发明某些东西。 去看看你自己的日常生活,先生。
15:40 Q:It is a compulsion to complete, to satisfy, to alleviate pain. 15:40 提问者:它是一种强迫,强迫自己去完成、 去满足、去减轻痛苦。
15:46 Q:Facing problems, sir. 15:46 提问者:生活就是去面对各种问题,先生。
15:51 K:Facing problems. What are those problems? 15:51 克:面对各种问题。 这些问题是什么呢?
15:55 Q:Changes. 15:55 提问者:无常。
15:59 K:Changes. That is, sleep, wake up, work, sex, what else? Don't you know your life? 15:59 克:无常。 换句话说 就是:睡觉、醒来、工作、做爱, 还有其他什么吗? 你们难道不清楚自己的生活吗?
16:14 Q:Hatred. 16:14 提问者:还有「仇恨」。
16:16 K:Hating. 16:16 克:憎恨。
16:17 Q:Jealousy. 16:17 提问者:嫉妒。
16:19 K:Go on, sir, your life. 16:19 克:继续,先生,这是你的生活。
16:20 Q:Profit. 16:20 提问者:利益。
16:21 Q:Creating problems. 16:21 提问者:制造出各种问题。
16:23 Q:Constant search. 16:23 提问者:持续不断的寻找。
16:25 Q:And then in the field of work you have problems. 16:25 提问者:然后在工作的领域,你也会有各种问题。
16:30 K:Is this your daily life, sir? 16:30 克:这就是你的日常生活吗,先生?
16:33 Q:At the mundane level it is subsistence, and at the spiritual level it is questioning ourselves, who am I and what God is. 16:33 提问者:从世俗层面来讲,生活就是维持生计, 而从灵性层面来讲,生活就是“质疑我们自身” ——我是谁?什么是「神」?
16:46 Q:Sir, it is a constant search for pleasure. 16:46 提问者:先生,生活就是不断地去寻找快乐满足。
16:51 K:Sir, I am asking you, you repeat the same thing, sir. Find out what the others say. 16:51 克:先生,我正在问你, 而你在重复同样的东西,先生。 先去搞清楚别人已经说过的东西吧。
16:58 Q:My life is based on pleasant sensations. 16:58 提问者:我的生活是基于各种快乐的感觉的。
17:02 K:You have said that, sir. You've said pleasant sensations, avoiding pain, work, seeking something more and more, physical pain, and what else? 17:02 克:这个你已经说过了,先生。 你们已经说过了:各种快乐的感觉, 回避痛苦,还有工作, 寻求某些东西,追求越来越多, 还有身体上的痛苦,还有什么来着?
17:23 Q:Searching the ego. 17:23 提问者:寻求「自我」。
17:28 Q:Competition. 17:28 提问者:竞争。
17:30 K:I think you don't know your own life. 17:30 克:我认为你们并不了解自己的生活。
17:33 Q:Following a routine in which I have already committed myself to. That's my honest answer, sir. 17:33 提问者:遵循某种我已经投身于它的例行公事。 这是我真诚的回答,先生。
17:40 K:It is neither honest or dishonest, what is the actual fact? 17:40 克:这不是真诚或不真诚的问题。 而是:实际上 事实是什么?
17:46 Q:Violence. 17:46 提问者:暴力。
17:48 Q:And going for a goal. 17:48 提问者:追求某个目标。
17:50 K:I give up! You are really the most extraordinary generation of people! 17:50 克:我放弃了! 你们真的是最为奇特的一代人!
18:00 Q:Experiencing continuously, from moment to moment, continuously. 18:00 提问者:生活就是持续不断地去经验, 一刻接一刻、连续不断地去体验。
18:05 K:Are you doing that? incredible! You don't know your own daily life. 18:05 克:你正在这样做吗? 真是难以置信! 你们竟然不知道自己的日常生活是什么。
18:20 Q:Sir, it is expecting something out of the other and expecting something from you now. 18:20 提问者:先生,生活就是期望从别人那里获得些什么, 而我们现在就在期望从你这里获得一些东西。
18:25 K:You are expecting something from me, you are expecting from another, dependence, attachment, pain, annoyance, anger, irritation, sorrow. You know all this, don't you? This is your daily life: going from 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock to the office and coming back in the evening exhausted, and so on, so on - is that your life? Going to the temple and doing some kind of noise with the bell and doing puja, doing yoga, is that your life? 18:25 克:你们正在期望从我这里获得一些东西, 你们也期望从别人那里获得一些东西, 依赖、执著、痛苦、 烦恼、愤怒、生气、悲伤。 你们都清楚所有这些,不是吗? 这就是你们的日常生活: 早上九点或十点去办公室上班, 然后晚上回来,累得精疲力尽, 等等,等等 ——这不就是你的生活吗? 去神庙里,然后用钟/铃发出某种声响, 做印度教礼拜,做瑜伽, 这不就是你的生活吗?
19:10 Q:Study. 19:10 提问者:还有「学习」。
19:13 K:Study. If you have books. Please, is that your life? 19:13 克:学习。是的,如果你有那些书的话。 请注意,这些就是你的生活吗?
19:31 Q:Let's proceed. 19:31 提问者:我们还是继续讲下去吧。
19:33 K:I want to, sir, how can I proceed? 19:33 克:我也想这么做,先生, 可我又怎么能够继续下去呢?
19:35 Q:We agree. 19:35 提问者:我们同意你。
19:36 K:You agree to this? 19:36 克:你们同意它们吗?
19:38 Q:Yes. 19:38 提问者:同意的。
19:40 K:I'll ask that gentleman out there - do you agree to this, sir? 19:40 克:我想要问问在那里的一位先生 ——你同意它吗,先生?
19:45 Q:Just one point, sir. 19:45 提问者:我只想说一点,先生。
19:48 K:Yes? 19:48 克:你说?
19:49 Q:May I submit that I am existing as a part of the whole, and I see I am the whole myself. 19:49 提问者:我是否可以说 我是作为整体的一部分而存在的, 我看到我自己就是那个「整体」。
19:59 Q:Sir, what is obvious doesn't need our acknowledgement, so let's proceed. 19:59 提问者:先生,那些显而易见的东西并不需要 我们的承认,所以我们还是继续讲下去吧。
20:03 K:Right. That we say, that is our life. Then what do you mean by religion, a religious life? You tell me. What is religion to you? 20:03 克:好吧。所以我们说:这些东西就是我们的生活。 然后,你们所说的“宗教”、“宗教生活”又是什么意思呢? 你们来告诉我吧。 对你们来说:宗教是什么?
20:24 Q:Morality. 20:24 提问者:道德。
20:25 Q:Just a word, I think. 20:25 提问者:我认为只要这一个词就够了。
20:27 K:Morality, just a word. 20:27 克:道德,只要这一个词。
20:30 Q:Not to be angry, not to be envious, to be peaceful. 20:30 提问者:不要愤怒,不要嫉妒,保持平静。
20:37 K:Sir, I said, what do we mean by 'religion,' the word. Sir, the word itself, what does 'religion' mean to you, the word? Not what it implies, the meaning, the significance of the word. 20:37 克:先生,我说的是: 我们所说的“宗教”是什么意思? 是这个词的意思。 先生,是这个词本身的意思,对你来说, “宗教”这个词意味着什么呢? 不是它暗示了什么, 而是这个词的含义、这个词的意义。
21:00 Q:The brain. 21:00 提问者:大脑。
21:01 Q:Holding together. 21:01 提问者:团结在一起。
21:02 Q:Relationship with the divine. 21:02 提问者:和“神圣存在”的关系。
21:05 K:Relationship with the divine - how do you know about the divine? You see, you are so incredible. The word 'religion' comes from, etymologically, from various Latin, Greek, which meant originally to tie, to bind. Now they are denying that etymological meaning, they have given a new meaning to the word 'religion.' Which is - if you are interested in it - it means to gather all your energy. That's all they mean. Do you understand, sir? 21:58 To gather all your energy to enquire, to find. Right? Not all the nonsense of temples, rituals, and all this either, sir, what you have put on your head. You see, how you all agree? Would you agree to that - the meaning of the word! That means gathering every particle of energy that you have to enquire into what is truth and what is reality, to enquire into what is meditation, to enquire into why human beings live the way we are living, to enquire if there is an end to sorrow, to enquire into what is love, whether one can live without any effort and control - all that is implied in that word. 23:26 So we are asking, you are putting the question whether tradition, culture can live, is it possible to have tradition, culture for a religious life. Do you understand now? I say - I say, tradition and culture has no place in religion. Right? What, sir? 21:05 克:和“神圣存在”的关系 ——可你如何知道那个“神圣存在”呢? 你瞧,你们都是那么的不可思议。 “宗教”这个词,它来自于…… 从语源上讲, 从各种拉丁语、希腊语的源头查证, 它(宗教)最初的含义是“联结”、“捆绑”。 不过现在,人们否定了这种词源学上的含义, 他们赋予了“宗教”这个词一种新的含义, 那就是——如果你们对此感兴趣的话—— 它的意思是“聚集起你全部的能量”。 这就是他们的意思。 你理解了吗,先生? 21:58 聚集起你全部的能量去探询、去发现。 对吧? 而不是所有那些神庙啊、 宗教仪式啊之类的荒谬之物, 也包括这些东西,先生 ——你们涂抹在额头的标记。 你瞧,你们怎么会都同意呢? 你们会同意它吗 ——也就是“宗教”这个词的意思! 它意味着要聚集起 你所拥有的每一个能量粒子, 去探询 什么是真理、什么是「实相」, 去探询 什么是「冥想」, 去探询 为什么人类 会像我们现在这样子生活, 去探询 苦难是否可以终结, 去探询 什么是「爱」, 以及人是否能够 没有任何努力和控制地生活 ——所有这些东西都包含在这个词中。 23:26 所以我们正在问: 你正在提出这个问题: 传统、文化是否可以存活延续下去? 对于「宗教生活」而言, 我们是否可能拥有传统、 拥有文化呢? 你们现在明白了吗? 而我说——我认为:传统和文化 在宗教中是没有一席之地的。 对吧? 你在说什么,先生?
24:25 K:I don't follow. Sir, if you want to talk, answer the question, please say it loudly, kindly. 24:25 克:我听得不太清楚。 先生,如果你想要讲话或回答问题, 请说得大声一点,拜托了。
24:36 Q:Question, and to have order are means of culture, by using it we arrive and go on exploring. It's part of the culture, that's not coming to guidelines. I think it is right to use culture, use development. From there, start. 24:36 提问者:我的问题是:建立秩序是「文化」的手段, 通过运用这种手段, 我们才能达到并继续探索。 它是文化的一部分,它并不会成为指导方针。 所以我认为利用「文化」、利用这种发展成长 是正确合理的。 我们可以从那里出发并前进。
24:59 K:Sir, religious life implies also having no authority. 24:59 克:先生,宗教生活同样意味着“没有权威”。
25:06 Q:No authority. 25:06 提问者:没有权威。
25:08 K:Sir, I am saying something. Having no authority of any kind, no spiritual authority. Right? 25:08 克:先生,我这还没说完呢。 没有任何的权威,没有任何灵性上的权威。 对吧?
25:20 Q:The development... 25:20 提问者:那种发展成长
25:21 K:You go on, sir, you go on and I will go on, it will be all right, sir. (Laughter) A religious life implies being a light to yourself. Which means, no outside authority, except law, policeman, taxes, that's a different matter - if you have to pay taxes or if you want to deceive the government by not paying tax, and so on. We are talking about having no spiritual authority including me, the speaker. Have you any authority, spiritual authority? Have you, sirs? 25:21 克:你继续讲吧,先生, 你先讲,然后我再继续讲, 这样也行,先生。 (笑声) 「宗教生活」意味着:你要成为自己的光。 它的意思就是:没有外部的权威 ——除了法律、警察、税收, 那就是另一回事了 ——如果你不得不纳税, 或者你想要欺骗隐瞒政府, 去偷税漏税,等等。 但我们在谈论的是 没有灵性上的权威 ——也包括我,包括这个演讲者的权威。 你们有任何权威吗? 灵性上的权威。 你们有吗,先生们?
26:28 Q:No, sir. 26:28 提问者:没有,先生。
26:29 Q:In the sense that we don't take it as an authority but as a suggestion for us to experiment and see whether that method holds good for us. 26:29 提问者:我们说“没有”的意思是: 我们并不把它当成权威,而只是作为一种建议, 我们可以去试验,然后看看 那种方法是否适用于我们。
26:43 K:Have you done it, sir? 26:43 克:那你这么做了吗,先生?
26:47 Q:Yes, sir. 26:47 提问者:做了,先生。
26:50 K:Have you experimented and found what? 26:50 克:你是否尝试过了,然后又发现了什么呢?
26:58 Q:It is slightly useful, some methods suggested by the... 26:58 提问者:它还是有一点用的, 某些人建议了一些方法
27:02 K:Has it in your life? 27:02 克:它是否在你的生活中扎根了呢?
27:05 Q:For example, meditation... 27:05 提问者:举个例子,拿冥想来说……
27:08 K:Have you found it in your life? 27:08 克:你在自己的生活中发现那个东西了吗?
27:10 Q:To some extent. 27:10 提问者:在某种程度上发现了。
27:14 Q:I'm on the way. 27:14 提问者:我还在路上。
27:16 K:When? (Laughter) Sir, you are just asking some... You are not being serious, are you, sir? 27:16 克:那么什么时候到达呢?(笑声) 先生,你只是在问一些 你并不是很认真,你是认真的吗,先生?
27:29 Q:Not as an authority but a suggestion for us to experiment. 27:29 提问者:不是把它作为一个权威, 而只是作为一种我们可以去尝试的“建议”。
27:38 K:You know, sir, what we mean by authority? 27:38 克:你瞧,先生,我们所说的“权威”是什么意思呢?
27:42 Q:To blindly accept. 27:42 提问者:盲目地去接受。
27:46 K:Oh, not in the least, sir. 27:46 克:噢,真是差得十万八千里,先生。
27:48 Q:Authority implies blind acceptance. 27:48 提问者:权威暗示着盲目的接受。
27:50 K:No. Please kindly listen to what the other person has to say before you... Authority comes from the word 'author,' one who originates something. You understand, sir? One who originates an idea, a concept, a belief, a statement of his own experience, and so on, he is the author, not merely the writer. (Laughs) But he is the author, and from that word authority comes. Now, you have the Upanishads, the Gita, and various... the Bible, and so on, the Koran, and so on, they become your authority. Have they? You see, you don't even... Have they in your life? 27:50 克:不对。请你友好地听完对方 要说的东西,然后再 “权威(Authority)”这个词 源自于“创始人(author)”这个词, “创始人”就是开创某些东西的人。 你听懂了吗,先生? 也就是某个开创了某种理念、某种概念、 某种信仰,陈述了他自己经验 等等的人, 他是创始人, “author”指的不仅仅是作家。 (笑) 他是那个创始人,然后从这个词(author)就演变出了 “权威(authority )”这个词。 你瞧,你们有着《奥义书》、《薄伽梵歌》, 以及各种……《圣经》等等, 还有《可兰经》,等等这些, 而它们变成了你们的权威。 对吧? 你瞧,你们甚至都不愿意 可它们在你的生活中扎根了吗?
28:55 Q:You seem to be the author for new ideas. 28:55 提问者:你似乎就是某些新理念的创始人。
29:04 K:Do you follow a guru? 29:04 克:你们会追随某个古鲁吗?
29:07 Q:I don't. 29:07 提问者:我不会。
29:10 K:You don't. But do you? You see, you are so frightened to answer. You have had various gurus, Mahatma, Mr. Gandhi, and so on, all the way from the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd century, down to the present. And where are you having been led for these thousands of years, where are you? Do you want to be still led? 29:10 克:你不会。那么你们其他人呢? 你看,你们都是如此害怕回答这个问题。 你们已经有了各种古鲁,圣雄,甘地先生, 等等,一直以来 从6世纪开始,然后是5世纪、4世纪、3世纪, 一直到现在为止。 而现在,你们达到什么层次了呢? 在被指引了几千年之后,你们达到何种层次了呢? 你们是不是仍旧想要被指引呢?
29:49 Q:No. 29:49 提问者:不想了。
29:51 Q:(Inaudible) 29:51 提问者:(听不清的声音)
29:53 K:I give up. 29:53 克:我只好放弃了。
29:58 Q:Could we approach it in a different way since you are giving up, sir? 29:58 提问者:先生,既然你都放弃了, 我们是不是可以换种不同的方式来处理这个问题呢?
30:03 K:I can't, sir, you don't respond, you don't find out for yourself! 30:03 克:我没法这么做,先生,你并没有作出回应, 你并没有自己去发现它!
30:12 Q:Krishnaji, I think in the beginning most people do need some guide, or guru, or teacher. 30:12 提问者:克里希那吉,我认为在一开始的时候, 绝大多数人还是需要某个指导、古鲁或者老师的。
30:21 K:There is no beginning and no end. 30:21 克:并不存在什么“开始”和“结束”。
30:23 Q:They are at a level when they do, Krishnaji, and then maybe through expansion, and... 30:23 提问者:他们需要达到一定的水平,才能开始去做, 克里希那吉,然后他们或许可以扩展,然后
30:31 K:I have heard you, madame, I understand. At the beginning you need a guru, later on you can throw him overboard. 30:31 克:这位夫人,我已经听到你的话了, 我明白你的意思。 在开始的时候,你需要一个古鲁, 而之后,你就可以把他扔到九霄云外去了。
30:39 Q:No, it can be a book, a... (inaudible) 30:39 提问者:不,它也可以是一本书, 一个……(听不清的声音)
30:41 K:Yes, madame, I understood. First, I need somebody to help me to walk. I need a mother, a father to cling to when I am a baby, to cling to their skirt, to their trousers, or whatever it is. So, when one is ignorant, inexperienced, not thinking, you need somebody to help you to think, to clear away your ignorance, and so on. So, we say, at that state we need a guru - right? - later on we don't need it. 30:41 克:是的,夫人,我理解你的意思。 首先,我需要有个人来帮助我学会走路。 当我还是一个婴儿时, 我需要依靠母亲或父亲, 我要紧紧抓住他们的裙角、裤子 或者无论什么东西来学走路。 所以,当你还处于无知、 缺乏经验、也没有什么思考的阶段时, 你需要某个人来帮助你思考, 来消除掉你的愚昧无知 等等。 于是我们说:在这种状态下,我们还是需要古鲁的 ——对吧?—— 但之后我们就不需要他了。
31:19 Q:You can do it. 31:19 提问者:因为你自己可以做到它了。
31:21 K:Yes, you don't need it. 31:21 克:是的,所以你不再需要他了。
31:23 Q:(Inaudible) 31:23 提问者:(听不清的声音)
31:25 K:Yes, madame, you don't need it. Are you in that position? 31:25 克:是的,这位夫人,你不需要他了。 可你现在达到这个水平了吗?
31:36 Q:Sir, are we to deny that there is some spiritual force connected with a person of an elevated consciousness? I feel benefit to me in my spiritual life and that I call as a guru. I mean when I read your lectures and notes in the house I don't find the same meaning and the same spirit as I feel in your presence. 31:36 提问者:先生,我们难道要否定存在着某种 与那个“高阶意识”的人联系在一起的灵性力量吗? 在我的灵性生活中,我感觉这种灵性力量 对我是有所助益的,而我会将其称为“古鲁”。 我的意思是,虽然我曾在家中 阅读了你的演讲和笔记, 但我并没有找到那种当你在我面前时 我所感受到的文字话语的意义和精神。
32:04 K:I am not your guru, thank god, or anybody's guru. 32:04 克:我并不是你的古鲁, 谢天谢地,我也不是任何人的古鲁。
32:09 Q:No, no, I'll call you as a non-guru, sir, but that the whole (inaudible) in your presence. 32:09 提问者:不,不是这个意思, 我不会把你称为“古鲁”的,先生, 而是在你面前, 会有那种完整的……(听不清的声音)。
32:26 K:Sir, you asked a question: can tradition and culture exist, or co-exist, with a religious life? And we said very carefully: tradition - apply it, sir, find out! - tradition means handing down certain authoritarian statements, certain values, rituals, principles, conclusions, and so on. That's what tradition means. And that word also means betrayal, treason. 'Culture' means to develop, to grow the mind, your heart to flower, to have beauty in your life, all that means culture. 33:34 And a life which we live now daily, is constant struggle, work, gathering money, having influence, having pain, suffering a great deal, insensitive to everything about us, and only sensitive to our own little problems, and so on, and on, and on. That is what we call living. And religion as it is explained, means gathering your whole energy to enquire into what is truth and what is reality. Now, do you want to go into all this? 32:26 克:先生,你问了一个问题: 传统和文化能否存在于 或者说它们能否与宗教生活共存? 而我们非常小心仔细地说过了:传统 ——去实践它,先生,去发现它! —— 传统就意味着把某些东西传下去 ——某些权威的言论, 某些价值观、宗教仪式、准则、 结论,等等。 这就是「传统」的意思。 此外这个词也意味着“背叛”、“谋反”。 “文化”则意味着发展, 让你的头脑、心灵成长, 去开花绽放,让你的生活中拥有「美」, 所有这些就意味着“文化”。 33:34 而我们现在所过的这种生活, 我们的日常生活, 它是持续不断的奋斗、工作, 积聚钱财,获得影响力,经历痛苦, 巨大的苦难, 对我们周围的一切事物都麻木不仁, 而只对我们自己那些卑微琐碎的问题敏感, 等等,等等。 这就是我们所谓的“生活”。 而就如我们所解释过的, 宗教则意味着:聚集起你全部的能量 去探询 什么是真理,什么是「实相」。 而现在,你们想要来探究这一切吗?
34:27 Q:Yes, sir. 34:27 提问者:是的,先生。
34:30 Q:No, before we go into that, we have seen what religion is, we have seen what religion is, and it's gathering our energy, all our energy to enquire. We have seen what tradition is, we have seen what culture is, let us see what life is and then go ahead. Let us enquire into what life is, what living is. 34:30 提问者:不,在我们探究它之前, 我想说:我们已经明白了什么是宗教, 我们已经看到了宗教是什么,它是聚集起 我们的能量、我们所有的能量去探询。 我们也看到了“传统”是什么, 我们也明白了“文化”是什么, 那么我们能否再来看看“生命”是什么, 然后再继续深入探究呢? 让我们来探询一下什么是生命,什么是生活。
34:58 K:Enquire, sir, enquire what living is into your life. 34:58 克:探询,先生,探询生活是什么, 就是要探询你自己的生命。
35:02 Q:How? We haven't enquired into what living is; we have enquired into what culture is, what tradition is, what religion is, but not what life is. 35:02 提问者:那要怎么探询呢? 我们还没有探询过什么是“生活”; 我们已经探询过了 什么是“文化”,什么是“传统”, 什么是“宗教”,但还没有探询过 什么是“生命”。
35:15 K:Sir, I am telling you. What is your life? 35:15 克:先生,我在跟你说的是: 你自己的生命是什么?
35:17 Q:My life is my life, that is all. What is life, that is what I am asking. What is life, what is living? 35:17 提问者:我的生命就是我的生活, 仅此而已。 但我在问的是:「生命」是什么? 什么是「生命」? 什么是「生活」?
35:25 K:Are you asking what life should be? 35:25 克:你是想要问“「生命」本应该是什么”吗?
35:28 Q:Yes, what is life. What is life, just tell what. We have said, religion is gathering all our energy to enquire. 35:28 提问者:是的,「生命」是什么。 什么是「生命」,只需要告诉我它是什么就行。 我们已经说过:宗教就是聚集起 我们全部的能量去探询。
35:38 K:You want to know what life is. 35:38 克:你想要知道什么是生命。
35:39 Q:What living is. 35:39 提问者:什么是生活。
35:41 K:Just a minute, sir, I understand your question. 35:41 克:稍等一下,先生,我明白你的问题。
35:43 Q:Yes. 35:43 提问者:好的。
35:45 K:You want to know what life is independent of our suffering, of our pain, of our anxieties, of our grabbing, greed, you want to know what life is. 35:45 克:你想要知道什么是「生命」 ——也就是那种去除掉了 我们的苦难、痛苦、 焦虑、攫取、 贪婪的生命,你想要知道这种“生命”是什么。
35:58 Q:Yes, that, please answer. 35:58 提问者:是的,就是这个,请回答它。
36:02 K:How will you find out? You see, you're wandering... 36:02 克:你这样又如何去发现它呢? 你瞧,你又偏离了……
36:06 Q:We must find out, you and I. You and I will find out now what living is. Let us enquire what life is. What religion is we have seen. 36:06 提问者:我们必须要发现它,你和我。 你和我 现在就要去发现“什么是生活”。 让我们来探询一下什么是生命。 我们已经明白了什么是宗教。
36:15 K:Sir, don't repeat, sir. I understand that. 36:15 克:先生,请别再重复了,先生。 我明白你的意思。
36:18 Q:Yes. 36:18 提问者:好的。
36:20 K:How will you find out what life is? If you remove all the colouring, all the attributes, and all the rest of it, will you first remove it to find out? 36:20 克:你要怎么去发现 什么是生命呢? 如果你移除掉了生活所有的色彩、 所有的属性,等等这一切, 你又怎么去发现它呢? 你是要先移除掉这些东西,然后去发现吗?
36:34 Q:Let us do. You and I will do it. 36:34 提问者:让我们这样来做一下吧。 你和我 将会来做这件事。
36:39 K:You want to know what life is and we are saying you can only find what life is, which may be eternal, which may be nonsensical, which may be extraordinary, only when we understand our living, daily living, and from that daily living understand the beauty of life. So, if you want to enquire into pure life, go ahead and do it. 36:39 克:你想要知道 什么是生命, 而我们说:要发现什么是生命 ——这种生命也许是永恒的、 也许是无意义的、 也许是非凡卓越的—— 但只有当我们了解了我们的生活、 我们的日常生活 从这种日常生活中, 我们才能了解生命之美。 所以,如果你想要探询纯粹的生命, 那就这样去做吧。
37:10 Q:Sir, religion has tried to deliver us from what we have just described, we might say the failure of life. Now, there has been some error that has been communicated since the dawn of time, across all efforts. Can we attack that error? Because we must be reproducing it if we continue to suffer. 37:10 提问者:先生,宗教试图拯救我们脱离 我们刚才所描述的那些东西 ——我们或许会将其称之为“生命的败笔”。 然而,在所有的努力中, 一直都存在着某种错误, 这种错误从古代一直流传至今。 我们能够去抨击这种错误吗? 因为如果我们继续这样子受苦, 我们就必然会重蹈覆辙。
37:31 K:Look, sir: you say you start with error. 37:31 克:你瞧,先生: 你说你们是从“错误”开始的。
37:41 Q:That is our tradition, an error. What is that error? 37:41 提问者:那就是我们的传统,它是一个错误。 这个错误是什么呢?
37:45 K:Yes. Or rather, sir, you can say, what is the original sin. 37:45 克:明白了。 或者更确切地说,先生,你可以说: 那个「原罪」是什么呢?
37:50 Q:What's the original sin, yes. 37:50 提问者:那个原罪是什么,对。
37:51 K:It is the same thing, we are back into some kind of... Sir, we have described what tradition is. Are you free of that tradition? Because otherwise you can't proceed to find out what a religious life is. Because one must be free to climb great heights. If you want to go to the Everest you must throw away all your burdens and carry very little. So, I am asking, we are asking you, courteously, if you have thrown away your traditions. 37:51 克:它们是同一回事, 我们又返回到了某种 先生,我们已经描述过了 什么是传统。 那么你摆脱掉那种传统了吗? 因为否则的话,你就无法进一步去搞清楚 什么是「宗教生活」。 因为我们必须要先自由,然后才能攀登高峰。 如果你想去攀登珠穆朗玛峰, 你就必须扔掉你所有的重负,轻装上阵。 所以我正在问,我们正在问你, 礼貌地问你: 你有没有丢弃掉你的传统呢?
38:40 Q:Yes, sir, I have. 38:40 提问者:丢掉了,先生,我已经丢弃掉了。
38:42 K:Traditions being nationality, your caste, your beliefs, your rituals, going to the temples - all that, have you thrown it away? 38:42 克:「传统」指的就是国籍、 你的种姓、你的信仰、 你的宗教仪式,去参拜神庙 ——等等所有这些东西, 你把它们都扔掉了吗?
39:05 Q:Yes, sir. 39:05 提问者:扔掉了,先生。
39:06 Q:No, sir. 39:06 提问者:没扔掉,先生。
39:07 K:No? No. Then how can you find out what a religious life is when you are blind? So, you want to find out what a religious life is and yet won't leave your little enclosure. Right? See your own tragedy, sirs. And you are slaves to certain things, and you say, 'I must find freedom' - you won't let that go to find it. So what shall we do? 39:07 克:没扔掉? 果然没扔掉。 那么,当你依然盲目,你又怎么可能去发现 什么是「宗教生活」呢? 所以,你想要去发现 什么是「宗教生活」, 然而却不愿意离开你那小小的“围场”。 对吧? 看看你自己的悲剧吧,先生们。 你们是某些事物的奴隶, 然后你说,“我必须要找到自由” ——你不肯放下那些东西然后去发现它。 所以我们该怎么做呢?
39:59 Q:We are caught by the crocodile, sir. 39:59 提问者:我们被“鳄鱼”咬住了,先生。
40:07 K:Crocodile? (Laughter) Like a donkey tied to a post, it can't go very far, you are tied to your tradition, and you want to enquire into something that demands a mind that is capable, a heart that can really love. Without that, freeing yourself from your tradition, your culture, your belief, how can you find out anything? You can repeat what the Gita said, or the Upanishads, or some other book, what value has it? I was told the other day some of the gurus now give lectures, or talks on the Gita. Is that right? 40:07 克:鳄鱼?(笑声) 就像一头驴被拴在一根柱子上, 它是无法走得很远的, 而你们已经被“拴在了”传统上, 而你们想要去探询的那个东西 这种探询需要一个有能力的头脑, 一颗真正能去「爱」的心灵。 如果你没有让自己摆脱掉传统、 文化、信仰, 你又如何能够去发现任何东西呢? 你可以去重复《薄伽梵歌》、《奥义书》 或者其他书籍中所说的东西, 但这又有什么价值呢? 前几天,有人告诉我说: 有几位古鲁最近正在讲课, 或者说 是在讲解《薄伽梵歌》。 有这回事吗?
41:22 Q:Yes. 41:22 提问者:有。
41:23 K:Yes. And there are hundreds and thousands go and listen to it. What value has it? What are we all playing at, sirs? Apparently one doesn't see one's own tragedy. Right, sir? So, what shall we do? I can go on talking, I'll become another one of those people who read, who lecture on the Gita, and you will all sit down and shake your head and say, 'Yes, marvellous.' 41:23 克:好的。 然后有成千上万的人跑过去听它。 这有什么价值呢? 你瞧我们都在玩些什么游戏啊,先生们? 很显然,我们并没有看到自身的悲剧。 是吧,先生? 所以,我们该怎么做呢? 我可以继续讲下去, 但我将会变成他们中的一员 ——那些诵读、讲授《薄伽梵歌》的人, 然后你们都会坐下来, 点点头,然后说,“的确如此,讲得太棒了”。
42:19 Q:I think, most of us know our own tragedy, we understand that, but we can't be bothered to do anything about it. Too lazy, we don't want to see the truth. 42:19 提问者:我认为我们大多数人都知道自己的悲剧之处, 我们明白它,但我们却懒得对此采取任何行动。 我们太懒惰了,我们并不想要看见真理。
42:32 K:What, I can't hear sir, from... Somebody who hears, will you tell me? 42:32 克:你说什么,我听不到,先生, 有没有人听到他说什么了, 可以告诉我吗?
42:39 Q:He says that most of us know our tragedy, we see it, but we're too lazy to do anything about it. 42:39 提问者:他说我们大多数人都明白 自己的悲剧所在, 我们看到了它,但我们太懒了, 以至于不愿为此做任何事情。
42:48 K:One sees the tragedy, the misery, the confusion, the uncertainty and we are too lazy to clear it up. Is that it? 42:48 克:我们看到了这种悲剧性、 这种不幸、这种困惑、 这种不确定性,但我们太懒惰了, 以至于不愿意去消除掉它。 是这个问题吗?
42:58 Q:Yes. 42:58 提问者:是的。
42:59 K:Then please take some vitamins... (laughter) put some guts into you and wake up. 42:59 克:那就请你们吃一点维生素吧……(笑声) 鼓起勇气,让自己活跃起来。
43:09 Q:That's the problem. 43:09 提问者:这就是我们的问题所在。
43:11 K:It's not a problem, sir, if you want to do something, you do it! You wanted to come here and you woke up early and you took all the trouble to come here, you have enough energy to do something when you want to do it. But we don't apparently want to do this. 43:11 克:这并不是一个问题,先生, 如果你想要做某件事情,你就会去做它! 你想要来这里, 于是你会很早起来,然后不辞辛劳地来到这里, 当你想要做某件事的时候, 你就会拥有足够的能量去做它。 但很显然,我们并不想要去做这件事。
43:31 Q:Sir, do you communicate that the scriptures won't help us to know ourselves, our mind, the things of our mind? 43:31 提问者:先生,你是在传达这个意思吗: 那就是宗教经典 并不能帮助我们知晓我们自己、 知晓我们的头脑、以及我们头脑中的事物?
43:42 K:Would it not help us if we read the scriptures and other books to understand ourselves? Please, I'll answer that - please listen, you have asked that question, sir, please listen. To understand yourself must you read somebody else to tell you about what you are? If you read what they tell you what you are, you are conforming to their idea of what you are. Right? You understand what I am saying? 43:42 克:阅读宗教经典 和其他书籍,这是否有助于我们了解自己? 请注意,我会来回答它 ——请听好了, 先生,既然你已经问了这个问题, 那就请听好吧。 要了解你自己,难道你必须要阅读别人的著作 让他们来告诉你“你是什么”吗? 如果你阅读了他们所告诉你的 关于“你是什么”的答案, 你便会去遵从符合他们所说的 那种“你是什么”的观点。 对吧?你明白我在说的东西吗?
44:25 Q:(Inaudible) 44:25 提问者:(听不清的声音)
44:28 Q:Oh, god! 44:28 提问者:噢,天哪!
44:31 K:You haven't even listened. For god's sake, what kind of people are you! 44:31 克:你们甚至都没有在听。 看在上帝的份上,你们都是些什么人啊!
44:37 Q:Please go on, please. 44:37 提问者:请继续讲下去吧,好吗。
44:44 K:Look, sir, if I tell you what you are, and you try to understand yourself according to what I have said, have you understood yourself? 44:44 克:你瞧,先生,如果我告诉你“你是什么”, 然后你试图根据我所说的话 来了解你自己, 这样子你能了解你自己吗?
44:59 Q:No, sir. 44:59 提问者:不能,先生。
45:00 K:Or are you imitating what I say, what you think you are. So can you stop reading about what you are and find out for yourself what you are, what actually you are, isn't that much more simple, much more practical? 45:00 克:还是说,你是在模仿我所说的东西? 然后你认为自己就是那个样子。 所以你能否不要再去读那些 关于“你是什么”的书籍, 而是亲自去发现“自己是什么”、你实际的模样, 这难道不是要简单得多、实用得多吗?
45:22 Q:Sir, even if we were to give up reading books... 45:22 提问者:先生,即使我们放弃阅读书籍
45:26 K:Wait, sir, I am coming to that. Can you first realise, if I may suggest, that our minds have become so imitative - right? - do you realise that, sir? Conforming, obeying, so that we are never original, find out for ourselves. So, can you put away what the psychologists have said, what your Gita has said, what other books have said, and say, 'Look, I am going to find out for myself'? Won't you do that? No, you won't, because if you follow others you think that is the easiest way to solve life, and you have followed for millennia, and you are still where you are. Right? 45:26 克:等等,先生,我马上就会来讲这个。 如果我可以建议下的话:你能否先意识到这一点: 那就是 我们的头脑已经变得如此具有模仿性 ——对吧? —— 你意识到这一点了吗,先生? 我们在遵从,我们在服从,所以我们 从来没有「原创性」,从来没有自己去发现。 所以,你能否丢弃掉那些心理学家说过的东西, 那些你们的《薄伽梵歌》说过的东西, 还有其他书籍说过的东西,然后说, “瞧,我要自己去发现它”。 你会这么做吗? 不,你不会,因为当你追随别人, 你会觉得这就是解决生命问题的 最轻松容易的方式, 你们已经追随别人追随了几千年了, 可现在你们仍旧是老样子。 是吧?
46:37 Q:Sir, habit excludes creativity, and the brain and the mind are locked into patterns of habit, so people will... we will not respond to the fresh, obviously. We are speaking about de-habitualising the mind, are we not? 46:37 提问者:先生,习惯阻碍了创造性, 大脑和头脑已经被困在了习惯的模式中, 所以人们就会…… 我们显然就难以去回应崭新的事物了。 我们正在谈论的是让头脑“去习惯化”, 不是吗?
46:55 K:Yes. I'll show it to you. That means, the word is not the thing, the description is not the described, the word 'tree' is not the actual fact. So when I explain it is an explanation, but not the actual thing that is happening. Right? First of all, forming habits, both physical as well as psychological habits, is a thoughtless repetition. Right? Why do we form habits? 46:55 克:说的没错。我会向你来展示这一点。 这意味着,文字词语并不是它所指的东西, 「描述」并非被描述的事物, “树”这个字并不是 那个实际存在的(树的)事实。 所以当我解释它的时候, 那只是一种「解释」, 而不是那个正在发生的实际的事物。 对吧? 首先,培养习惯 ——不管是外在身体上的习惯, 还是心理上的习惯—— 它都是一种没有思考的「重复」。 是吧? 为什么我们要培养习惯?
47:55 Q:Escapism. 47:55 提问者:逃避主义。
47:57 K:No, sir. 47:57 克:不是的,先生。
47:59 Q:In order to be safe. 47:59 提问者:为了获得安全。
48:02 K:Sir, please, just listen, sirs, you are all so quick to answer something which is, I am asking you, if you will kindly listen - why does the brain, your brain form habits? 48:02 克:先生,拜托了,请听好,先生们, 对于某些问题,你们全都回答得太快了, 因为这些问题都是……我正在问你们, 如果你们愿意好好听一下的话—— 为什么大脑,为什么你的大脑要去养成习惯?
48:18 Q:It is convenient. 48:18 提问者:因为那样会方便很多。
48:20 Q:For convenience sake. 48:20 提问者:是为了方便的缘故。
48:22 K:That's right. He says, for convenience, for comfort, for following daily certain routine, both physically as well as mentally, psychologically. Why? Because the mind has found the habit convenient, it hasn't to work anew again, and so habit is formed, which means routine, a machine. The piston engine has a marvellous habit. (Laughs). Right? You understand, it is a marvellous habit, the piston engine. So our minds have become piston engines - repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. Because that way you think is the easiest and the most comfortable way of living. 49:26 Right? So habit is formed, good habit, bad habit. Which is, the brain refuses to think anew, to work afresh. Right? Isn't this so obvious, isn't it? I am describing, you do it actually, watch your own brains. So habits are formed, which is the tradition. Habit is a tradition. There is nothing holy or unholy about it, it is just tradition. And once caught in that, the brain refuses to let go. If it lets go it immediately forms another habit and it pursues that. So one has to question why the brain operates this way. You understand all my... 48:22 克:这就对了。 这位提问者说:是为了方便,为了舒服, 为了去遵循每日的例行公事 ——既包括外在身体上的, 也包括思想智力上的、心理上的。 为什么呢? 因为头脑发现「习惯」是很方便的东西, 有了习惯,它就不需要再重新去工作了, 于是习惯就被养成了, 它意味着某种例行程序,就像机器一样。 活塞发动机就有着 极好的习惯(笑)。 对吧? 你们懂的,那是一种绝妙的习惯,活塞发动机。 所以我们的头脑已经变成了“活塞发动机” ——不断地重复、重复、再重复。 因为你觉得这是一种 最简单轻松、最舒服的生活方式。 49:26 对吧? 所以习惯就被养成了 ——不管是好的习惯还是坏的习惯。 也就是说,大脑拒绝 去重新思考,去焕然一新地工作。 是吧? 这难道不是显而易见的事吗,对吧? 我正在描述它,而你可以实际地去做它, 去观察下你们自己的大脑。 所以习惯被培养起来了,而习惯就是「传统」。 习惯就是一种“传统”。 对它来说并不存在什么 “神圣”或“不神圣”,它只是传统。 而一旦大脑陷入于其中, 它就不肯放下这个习惯了。 如果它放下了这个习惯, 它就会立即培养起另一个习惯, 然后去执行那个习惯。 所以我们必须要去质疑 为什么大脑要以这样的方式运作。 你们理解我所有这些
50:46 Q:Why does the brain refuse? 50:46 提问者:为什么大脑不肯放下呢?
50:50 K:I'm going to... Have you followed up to now, what I have said, sir? 50:50 克:我正要来讲这个……先生,到目前为止, 你是否跟上了我所说的东西?
50:55 Q:Yes, sir. 50:55 提问者:跟上了,先生。
50:56 K:Forgive me asking you a direct question. You see, you interrupt all the time and I lose... So we are saying, why does the brain form habits, which is tradition whether it is 10 days old or 10,000 years old, why does it do it? You understand? You have a leader of non-violence in this country, and he established a certain principle, or whatever you like, and then the brain says, 'All right, I'll accept that, and I will follow that.' Which is tradition, which is habit, and you don't like to call it habit, you say you have principles - we are following a principle. 52:02 So, I am asking why the brain does this constantly: you relinquish this habit, pick up that habit, and then throw that away and a new habit. Why? Just think it, sir, don't answer quickly, enquire, go into yourself, look at your brain, why does it do it. Doesn't it do it because - listen quietly, sir - the brain can only function in security. Because it is secure in a habit, it is secure in a tradition, it is secure in a belief, it is secure in an illusion. So the brain demands at all times to be secure whether it is false, whether it is real, whether it is absurd, whether it is superstitious - you understand? 53:11 It says, please, I can only operate where there is complete security. So it forms habits, thinking that it will give it security. Right? You have understood this? No, not description (laughs), the actual fact. Then is there such security? That is, forming a habit, living in it, breaking it up with a new habit, and then following it, breaking it up, another habit. That is, the brain wanting security but never investigating into the security it thinks it has in habits. Are you following this? 54:07 No, sir, you are not, otherwise you wouldn't put on this thing, sir. That's a habit we have, the 'naamam,' you know. So, I am asking - we are saying, there is a security not in habit. Right? I wonder if you understand this. I am going to show it to you. When the brain sees that this habit-forming is the most dangerous way of living - you understand? - what it does? You understand, sir? I don't think you do. It is the habit to call yourself a Hindu. Right? And that habit is most dangerous, because on your border there is the Muslim. 55:23 Right? And on the other border there is the communist. Which is their habit, and it is the other habit, and your habit, so you have got three habits, and there will be constant wars. So, when the brain realises any formation of habit, or the continuance of habit is the most dangerous way of living, which is, when it comprehends the danger of the sequence of a habit, the very perception of it is intelligence. The brain then has this intelligence, which is total security. It is not habit, it is not tradition, it is not one habit after another, but the perception, the seeing logically, sanely, the consequences of habits. 56:26 And when it sees the consequences it says, 'Right, finished.' I wonder if you understand this. 50:56 克:请原谅我问了你这么直接的问题。 你瞧,你们一直在打断我, 害得我都没思路了 所以我们正在说:为什么大脑会 养成习惯? 习惯就是「传统」 ——不管那是只有十天的“传统”, 还是延续了一万年的传统, 为什么大脑要去养成习惯? 你们理解了吗? 在这个国家(印度)里,你们有着一个“非暴力”的领袖, 他已经确立了某种道德/行为原则, 或者无论你们喜欢把它称为什么, 然后大脑说: “好了,我会接受这种原则,我将会遵守它。 ” 而这就是「传统」,这就是习惯, 但你们并不喜欢把它称为「习惯」, 你说你们有着这些原则 ——我们正在遵守这种原则。 52:02 所以我正在问:为什么大脑要不断地做这样的事: 你放弃了这个习惯,然后捡起了另一个习惯, 接着把另一个习惯也扔了, 又去培养了新的习惯。 为什么要这样呢? 先好好想想,先生,不要很快回答它, 去探询,去探究一下你自己, 去观察下你的大脑,为什么它要这么做。 它这样做是不是因为…… ——请安静地听一下,先生—— 大脑只能够在「安全」中才能运转。 因为它在「习惯」之中感到安全, 它在「传统」之中感到安全, 它在信仰、错觉中感到安全。 所以大脑始终需要有安全 ——不管这种安全是虚假的 还是真实的, 也不管它是不是荒谬的、迷信的 ——你们理解了吗? 53:11 它说:求你了,我只能够在彻底安全的情况下运作。 由此它便养成了一些习惯, 并认为这些习惯能够带给它安全。 对吧? 你们理解它了吗? 不,这可不是什么「描述」(笑), 而是确切的事实。 然而,是否存在这种“安全”呢? 也就是说,养成一个习惯,生活在这种习惯中, 然后用新的习惯来打破替代原有的习惯, 接着遵循这个新习惯,再打破它, 建立另一个习惯。 换句话说,大脑想要「安全」, 但却从未去探究过 那种它认为自己在习惯中所获得的「安全感」。 你们理解这些了吗? 54:07 不,先生,你没有理解,否则的话你是不会 在脸上抹涂这种东西的,先生。 这就是一种我们的习惯, “naamam”——你们懂的。 所以我正在问 ——我们正在说: 「安全」并不存在于习惯中。 对吧? 我不知道你们是否理解了它。 我将会向你们来展示这一点。 当大脑看到这种习惯的养成 是最为危险的生活方式时 ——你理解了吗? —— 那么它会怎么做呢? 你明白了吗,先生? 我认为你还没明白。 把你自己称作印度教徒, 这就是一种习惯。 对吧? 而这个习惯是最危险的, 因为在你国家的边境上还有穆斯林。 55:23 对吧? 而在另一条边境上还有共产主义者。 而这些也是他们的“习惯”, 所以存在着其他人的习惯,和你的习惯, 所以你们就有了三种习惯, 于是我们彼此之间就会有持续不断的战争。 所以,当大脑意识到任何习惯的养成 或者习惯的延续 都是最危险的生活方式时, 也就是说,当大脑理解了 习惯所引发的连续事件的危险性以后, 这份洞察就是「智慧」。 那时大脑就有了这种智慧, 而这种智慧才是「绝对的安全」。 它并不是习惯,它并不是传统, 它并不是一个接着一个的习惯, 而是洞察和「看见」 ——逻辑地、理智地看见 「习惯」所造成的后果。 56:26 而当它看到了那些后果, 它就会说,“好了,结束它吧”。 我不知道你们是否理解了这一点。
56:35 Q:Yes, sir. 56:35 提问者:理解了,先生。
56:41 K:Will you do it? That is, not to be a Hindu, or a Muslim, or anything. You are a human being. This human being has this extraordinary capacity to create an illusion, and in that illusion, like temples, like churches, and all the rest of it, create, live in that illusion, and say, 'I find security there.' Right? And there is the other which says there is security in Islam, and so there is a battle. And it destroys itself. You follow all this? So, will you, seeing this, throw away your illusions, throw away your habits because you see the reason, the logical sequence of forming habits? 56:41 克:那么你会这样去做吗? 也就是说,不要成为一名印度教徒, 或者穆斯林,或者任何东西。 你仅仅是一个「人」。 而人类有着 这种特别的能力,他能够创造出错觉, 在这种错觉中——比如那些神庙、 教堂,等等这些东西, 创造出错觉,并生活在这种错觉之中, 然后说,“我在那里找到了‘安全’。 ” 对吧? 而另一个人则说在伊斯兰教中才会有安全, 于是他俩之间就会发生战争。 所以这种“安全”,它摧毁了自身。 你们听懂所有这些东西了吗? 所以,当你看到了这一切后, 你会丢弃掉你的各种错觉吗? 你会丢弃掉你的种种习惯吗? 因为你看到了那种习惯养成的原因, 以及养成习惯所引发的、 合乎逻辑的连续事件。
57:51 Q:Sir... 57:51 提问者:先生……
57:52 K:Have you understood? 57:52 克:你们理解了吗?
57:54 Q:Sir, what you described, on the level you describe things to me referring very much to the contents of illusion, but the mind itself is a form of habit so in effect you are asking us, you are leading to the question: can we throw away this psychological mind? Can we pursue that? 57:54 提问者:先生,你的描述, 就你向我描述事物的那个层次而言, 你大多指的是错觉的各种内容, 然而头脑本身就是某种形式的“习惯”, 所以实际上,你是在问我们, 你引出了这个问题: 那就是我们能否抛弃掉这个“心理头脑”? 我们可以来追踪探讨一下它吗?
58:19 K:Yes. You are saying the mind is itself a habit. 58:19 克:可以的。 你说头脑 它本身就是一个习惯。
58:28 Q:The mind orients its words to its safety, towards its security. 58:28 提问者:头脑会将它的语言文字导向自身的安全, 导向自身的安全感。
58:32 K:The mind itself orients towards a habit. 58:32 克:头脑本身会导向某个习惯。
58:38 Q:No. The mind orients its words to security, psychological security is a habit. 58:38 提问者:不。头脑会将自己的语言文字 导向安全——那种心理上的安全感—— 而这就是一种习惯。
58:45 K:Yes, that's... when I use the... Sir, you see, the mind, what do you mean by the word 'mind'? I know - we know what the word 'brain' means. Right? What is the mind? What is your mind, sir? Ask it. Please ask, demand, challenge, what is your mind. 58:45 克:是的,这就是…… 当我使用 先生,你瞧,头脑, 你所说的“头脑”这个词是什么意思呢? 我知道——我们都知道 “大脑”这个词是什么意思。 对吧? 那么 「头脑」又是什么呢? 你的头脑是什么呢,先生? 请询问一下它。 请你去询问一下、要求一下、挑战一下: 你的「头脑」是什么。
59:11 Q:Sense of... (inaudible) 59:11 提问者:某种感觉……(听不清的声音)
59:15 K:You see, you don't even ask! You don't put your guts in it to ask this question: what is your mind by which you live? 59:15 克:你瞧,你甚至都没有去询问! 你并没有全身心投入地去问这个问题: 你依靠它而生活的这个「头脑」, 它是什么呢?
59:28 Q:Thoughts. 59:28 提问者:各种思想。
59:39 K:Don't look at me, sirs. I am not your mind. 59:39 克:不要看着我,先生们。 我并不是你们的头脑。
59:51 Q:May I respond, sir? 59:51 提问者:我可以来回答一下吗,先生。
59:53 K:Yes, sir. 59:53 克:可以,先生。
59:56 Q:It is a modification, a formation of force, of the total force that you are, into certain forms. 59:56 提问者:头脑是一种力量的改造和塑造, 它将完整的力量 ——也就是「你」——塑造成某些形式。
1:00:12 K:Are you saying, if I may interpret what you are saying, your mind is your senses - right? - your emotions, your sensory responses, your beliefs, your desire for security, the confusion, the sorrow, the misery - all that is your mind, which is, your consciousness is that. That is, your consciousness is the content. The content is sorrow, pain, and all the rest of it. Now, that's what we say is the totality of your mind. Out of this totality you can invent a super-consciousness, you can invent a final divine consciousness, Buddhic consciousness, and Krishna consciousness, and banana consciousness. (Laughter) 1:01:18 You can invent anything you like. And the more superior, the more gullible you become. So, we are saying, can you observe your consciousness? Are you aware of your own mind? Sorry, I've got a cramp. You don't have to bother about it. Are you aware of your own mind? Are you aware of your own reactions? It is twenty five to nine, sir. Sir, you respond with one particular sense, don't you? You understand? Either the response, sexual response, which is the particular, or response to your taste, to your smell, to your touch. Please listen to this. 1:02:51 That is, we generally operate along one particular sensory response. Right? Tasting, smelling, hearing, touching. Now, can you respond all this together? You understand my question? Understand the question first. When you respond only with one particular sense in that response there is division, breaking up. Right, sir? Now, we are asking, can you respond wholly, with all your senses? Have you ever tried it, or is this something new? Something new. 1:00:12 克:你是不是在说 ——如果允许我解释下你的话—— 你的「头脑」就是你的各种感觉 ——对吧? —— 你的各种情绪、你的感官反应、 你的信仰、你对安全的渴望、 你的困惑、痛苦、 不幸——所有这些就是你的「头脑」, 也就是说:你的意识就是「头脑」。 换句话说:你的意识就是意识的内容。 那些内容就是悲伤、痛苦,所有这些东西。 而现在,我们说:这些东西就是 你头脑的全部内容。 你可以脱离所有这些内容, 去发明出某种“超意识”, 你可以发明出某种“终极神圣意识”, 佛性意识、奎师那意识, 和“香蕉意识”(笑声), 1:01:18 你可以发明出任何你喜欢的东西。 而那个东西越是高级, 你们就越容易上当受骗。 所以我们在说: 你能否观察一下你的意识? 你觉察到自己的头脑了吗? 不好意思,我有点抽筋了。 但你们不用为我操心。 你是否觉察到了自己的头脑? 你是否觉察到了自己的种种反应? 现在已经八点三十五分了,先生。 先生,你只会用某一种感官作出反应,不是吗? 你明白了吗? 要么是某种性方面的反应 ——这是一种特定的反应, 要么是味觉上的反应、 嗅觉上的反应、 触觉上的反应。 请听好了。 1:02:51 也就是说,我们通常 都是以某种特定的感官反应来运作的。 对吧? 味觉、嗅觉、听觉、触觉。 那么,你能否将所有这些集中在一起 去作出反应呢? 你理解我的问题了吗? 首先去搞清楚这个问题。 当你只用某一种感官去作出反应, 那种反应中就会存在分裂、存在碎片化。 对吧,先生? 而现在,我们在问:你能否动用你全部的感官、 去完全完整地作出反应呢? 你是否曾经尝试过它, 还是说 这对你来说是某种新的东西? 某种全新的事物。
1:04:00 Q:No, sir. 1:04:00 提问者:没有尝试过,先生。
1:04:01 K:You don't understand? 1:04:01 克:你不理解吗?
1:04:03 Q:Yes. 1:04:03 提问者:不理解。
1:04:06 K:You don't understand. 1:04:06 克:你还没有理解。
1:04:08 Q:All the senses... 1:04:08 提问者:所有的感官……
1:04:10 K:You haven't even listened. Understand the question first, sir. We have so far responded with one of the senses. Right? We are saying, is there a response with all the senses? 1:04:10 克:你甚至都没有在听。 首先,请你理解这个问题,先生。 迄今为止,我们都是用 某一种感官来作出反应的。 对吧? 而我们在说:是否存在着一种反应, 它是用所有的感官来作出的反应?
1:04:35 Q:Sir, it seems to me you are leading to something else. The supra-sense is the sense of I. 1:04:35 提问者:先生,在我看来, 你正在引出某种其他事物。 那种“超感官”的自我意识。
1:04:41 K:No, no, absolutely... you have gone off! 1:04:41 克:不,不对,完全…… 你已经跑题了!
1:04:44 Q:Have I? 1:04:44 提问者:我跑题了吗?
1:04:45 K:Yes, sir. Forgive me. 1:04:45 克:是的,先生。请原谅我这么说。
1:04:47 Q:Please put me up. 1:04:47 提问者:那就请容忍下吧。
1:04:49 K:Can you look at the sea - the sea - with all your senses: the tasting, the smelling, the touching, the feeling, - with all of that? When you do that there is no centre from which you are holistically responding. I wonder if you've understood this. 1:04:49 克:你能否看着那片大海 ——大海——运用你全部的感官: 味觉、嗅觉、触觉、感情, ——运用所有这些东西去看大海? 当你这么做的时候,是没有一个 你由此出发去作出完整反应的「中心」的。 我不知道你们是否理解了它。
1:05:14 Q:We do that when we are playing with a child. 1:05:14 提问者:当我们和孩子一起玩耍时, 我们就会这样做。
1:05:18 K:You are off with the child! You don't even do it for yourself and you talk about the child. Have you ever tried this? 1:05:18 克:你说什么孩子,那就跑题了! 你甚至都没有亲自去做一下, 却在谈论什么孩子。 你是否曾经尝试这样去做过?
1:05:36 Q:Occasionally we see. 1:05:36 提问者:我们偶尔会这样去看。
1:05:38 K:Look at that tree, sir. Wait a minute. Look at that beautiful tree with all your senses: touch it, smell it, taste it - you know, you can't, of course - but with the feeling of all that. 1:05:38 克:看着那棵树,先生。请稍等一下。 去看着那棵美丽的树, 用你全部的感官去看: 去触摸它,去闻它的气味, 去品尝它 ——当然了,你们知道这不可能—— 但你们要用所有这些感觉去看。
1:06:01 Q:There is the complete cessation of the past, actually there is only observation, actually in the moment. In the moment there is only observation. 1:06:01 提问者:那时「过去」就会完全终止, 事实上存在的只有「观察」, 在那一刻实际上只存在「观察」, 在那个时刻,只有「观察」。
1:06:20 Q:Sir, the use of one sense is still conditioned by a central experience, - you have just said, the centre - so if you synthesise all of the senses, you will still be conditioned by that centre. 1:06:20 提问者:先生,只使用一种感官(去看) ——这仍旧是被那个中心的经验所制约的 ——也就是你刚才所说的那个「中心」—— 所以如果你将所有的感官 综合在一起,你仍然会被那个「中心」所制约。
1:06:33 K:Have you tried it, sir? 1:06:33 克:先生,你尝试过它了吗?
1:06:44 Q:I've tried it and thought gets in the way. 1:06:44 提问者:我曾经尝试过它, 但思想却总是会妨碍我。
1:06:47 K:Ah, you can't, sir, you can't try, do it, and you will find out thought does it. 1:06:47 克:啊,先生,你不可能这么做, 你不能去“尝试”,而是要去做它, 然后你就会发现: 思想会去做这件事。
1:06:54 Q:But... 1:06:54 提问者:但是……
1:06:56 K:You see, sir. You want to try something, the other fellow is saying. Don't try what the other fellow is saying, but see what you are doing, that you are responding partially, either hearing, seeing, tasting, touching - partially. I say, don't respond partially, but respond totally with all your senses. 1:06:56 克:你瞧,先生。 你想要去尝试别人所说的某些东西。 不要去尝试别人所说的东西, 而是要看到 你自己在做什么, 那就是:你只是在局部地作出反应, 要么只是听到、要么只是看到、 要么只是品尝到、要么只是触摸到 ——只是部分的反应。 而我说,不要去局部地作出反应, 而是要运用你所有的感官去作出完整完全的反应。
1:07:30 Q:Sir, my difficulty is this: you are right, it works. However, I cannot conceptualise it in your terms. 1:07:30 提问者:先生,我的困难就在于: 你是对的,它有用。 然而,我却无法按照你的说法 来将其概念化。
1:07:41 K:No, I don't want... You see, you have introduced concept. That means you... 1:07:41 克:不,我并不想要…… 你瞧,你又引入了「概念」。 这意味着你
1:07:49 Q:But I have said that it works, sir. 1:07:49 提问者:但我说了,它是有用的,先生。
1:07:55 K:When you make a concept you are not listening. Have you given up your gandhism? Have you given up your principles, ideals, and concepts, which are all habits. Right? Give one up easily. Try, see what happens. 1:07:55 克:当你创造出一个概念的时候, 你就没有在聆听了。 你们是否放弃了「甘地主义」? 你们是否放弃了你们的原则、 理想和各种概念呢 ——它们全都是「习惯」。 对吧? 去简单轻松地放弃掉一个习惯吧。 去试一试,看看会发生什么。
1:08:32 Q:But, sir, when we give up concepts, what you talk about we would just hear the sounds, we would not understand what you mean. 1:08:32 提问者:可是先生,当我们放弃了那些概念, 那么对于你所谈论的东西, 我们所听到的可能就只是一些“声音”了, 我们将无法理解你话语的意思。
1:08:41 K:I don't understand, sir, I can't hear you. 1:08:41 克:你在说什么,先生? 我听不到你说的话。
1:08:43 Q:When we have no concept, what you talk would be just sounds for our ears. 1:08:43 提问者:当我们没有了概念, 你所谈论的东西 将只是我们耳朵听到的声音。
1:09:02 K:One has explained very carefully how concepts are formed, ideas are formed. The speaker makes a statement, and from that statement you draw a conclusion. You don't listen to the statement without conclusions. Just listen. That's one of our habits, which is, you listen to something, instantly you form an idea, a conclusion. Now, break that habit, which means: listen. Now, I will make a statement and please listen, don't make an abstraction of it, an idea of it, or say, 'How am I to do it,' just listen. 1:10:08 Which is, when sorrow ends completely there is love. Don't draw a conclusion, don't say, 'What do you mean by sorrow, what do you mean by ending? ' - you follow? - all that... Just listen and find out why you form a conclusion, which is a habit. So, you have wandered away from the act of listening. The question was put: can tradition, culture co-exist with a religious life? We went into that very carefully. We said, culture, tradition cannot possibly exist with a religious mind. 1:11:38 If one is to find out what is truly a religious life one must abandon totally tradition, totally any form of culture as it is understood. Which means a free mind, a mind that is not caught in Christianity, in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, or in some other sect and guru - none of that. That means total freedom. And in that freedom there is tremendous energy because there is no conflict, no struggle, nothing. Right, sirs. 1:09:02 克:某人(指克氏自己)已经非常仔细地解释了 各种概念是如何形成的,各种观念是如何形成的。 演讲者作出了某种陈述, 而你从这种陈述中得出了结论。 你并没有不带结论地来聆听这种陈述。 你没有单纯地去聆听。 这是我们的习惯之一,那就是: 你听到了某些东西, 然后你便立刻形成了某种观念、某个结论。 而打破这个习惯,这意味着:你只是听。 现在,我将会做出某种陈述, 请你们听好,而不要把它变成一种抽象概念, 把它变成一个观念, 或者说,“我要怎么去做它呢”,只是去聆听。 1:10:08 也就是说,当「苦」彻底止息以后, 那时就会有「爱」。 但不要因此而得出结论, 不要说,“你所说的「苦」是什么意思, 你所说的「止息」又是什么意思? ” ——你理解了吗?——所有那些 只是单纯地去听,然后去搞清楚 为什么你要形成某个结论 ——它是你的一种习惯。 所以,你已经偏离了「聆听」这个行为本身。 你们提出了这个问题,那就是: 传统、文化 它们能否与宗教生活共存? 而我们非常小心仔细地探究了它。 我们说:文化、传统 是不可能与宗教心灵共存的。 1:11:38 如果某人要去发现 什么是真正的宗教生活,那他就必须 完全地舍弃传统, 完全地抛弃任何形式的、人们通常所理解的“文化”。 这意味着一颗自由的心灵,一颗并不受限于基督教、 佛教、印度教、伊斯兰教, 或者某个其他教派和古鲁的心灵 ——不受缚于任何这类事物。 它意味着「完全的自由」。 而在那种自由中,就有着巨大的能量, 因为那时没有了冲突、没有了斗争,只有「空无」。 就讲到这里吧,先生们。
🢁