《生命之书》| 美德没有权威1/16

《生命之书》| 美德没有权威1/16 

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我真正关心的只有一件事，那就是如何使人类得到解脱。我要把人们从所有的牢笼和恐惧之中解放出来。

——克里希那穆提[印度]

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作者 | 克里希那穆提

翻译 | 衣旭升

美德没有权威

Virtue has no authority

>>1月16日<<

2:45美德没有权威来自生命是一场创意之旅

心智能够从权威中解放出来——那意味着从恐惧中解放出来——从而它不再追随他人吗？如果不再追随的话，那么让人变得机械的模仿就结束了。归根结底，美德——道德——不是对善良事物的重复；它一变得机械，它就不再是美德了。美德是某种必须随时随地发生的事情，就像谦逊一样；谦逊无法被培养，并且一个不谦逊的心智不能够学习。所以，美德没有权威。社会的道德根本不是道德；它是不道德的，因为它认可竞争、贪婪和野心，所以社会是在鼓励不道德。美德是某种超越道德的东西。没有美德就不存在秩序，而秩序不是按照某种模式、按照某种准则。遵循某种准则，通过约束自己以实现美德的心智，给自己制造出不道德的问题。

Can the mind be free from authority, which means free from fear, so that it is no longer capable of following? If so, this puts an end to imitation, which becomes mechanical. After all, virtue, ethics, is not a repetition of what is good. The moment it becomes mechanical, it ceases to be virtue. Virtue is something that must be from moment to moment, like humility. Humility cannot be cultivated, and a mind that has no humility is incapable of learning. So virtue has no authority. The social morality is no morality at all; it’s immoral because it admits competition, greed, ambition, and therefore society is encouraging immorality. Virtue is something that transcends morality. Without virtue there is no order, and order is not according to a pattern, according to a formula. A mind that follows a formula through disciplining itself to achieve virtue creates for itself the problems of immorality. 

当心智寻求理解“真正的美德是什么”时，诸如上帝、永恒等等心智具体化的某种外在权威——除了法律之外——就会具有破坏性。我们拥有我们自身作为经验、作为知识的权威，我们在尽力遵循它们；我们都知道，存在这种持续的重复和模仿。每个人都有的心理上的权威——不是法律和维持秩序的警察的权威——在破坏美德，因为美德是某种活着的、运动着的东西。就像你不可能培养谦逊，你不可能培养爱一样，美德也无法被培养；此中蕴含着巨大的美。美德不是机械性的；没有美德，清晰思考就失去了基础。

An external authority that the mind objectifies, apart from the law, as God, as moral, and so on, becomes destructive when the mind is seeking to understand what real virtue is. We have our own authority as experience, as knowledge, which we are trying to follow. There is this constant repetition, imitation, which we all know. Psychological authority— not the authority of the law, the policeman who keeps order—the psychological authority, which each one has, becomes destructive of virtue because virtue is something that is living, moving. As you cannot possibly cultivate humility, as you cannot possibly cultivate love, so also virtue cannot be cultivated; and there is great beauty in that. Virtue is non-mechanical, and without virtue there is no foundation for clear thinking.