动物是残暴的，而人是从动物进化而来，所以也是暴力的，诸如暴烈、愤怒、嫉妒、羡慕、操控、挑衅，以及追逐权力、地位、名誉等，这些都成了人类生活的一部分。有史以来无数次战争充分说明，人类是充满暴力的，于是人类又发明了一种理念——非暴力。

当一国与邻国发生真实的暴力冲突，并演化成战争时，人人裹挟其中，个个酷爱暴力。那么，如果事实上你心存暴力，另一方面又怀抱非暴力理想，这样你便陷入了冲突。你总想变得非暴力——这种努力本身就是一种暴力；你修炼自心，消除暴力倾向——这种方式本身也是冲突与摩擦。所以，当你内心潜伏着暴力，同时又抱持非暴力理想，那么本质上你是暴力的。

最要紧的，是看清自己内心的暴力，而不是努力变得不暴力。请看清自己暴力的真面目，不诠释，不克制，不征服，不压抑，而是用心观察，如同第一次看着它，不带任何想法。我已经解释过，以纯真之心观察一棵树，就是审视这棵树，不预装任何心像——心像即是名相。同样，你应不预设任何心像，去观察自己的暴力，不掺杂任何意念活动，宛如第一次省察。这样你就是以纯真之心，观察内心的暴力。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Realize You Are Violent

The animal is violent. Human beings who are the result of the animal, are also violent; it is part of their being to be violent, to be angry, to be jealous, to be envious, to seek power, position, prestige and all the rest of it, to dominate, to be aggressive. Man is violent—this is shown by thousands of wars—and he has developed an ideology which he calls nonviolence….

And when there is actual violence as a war between this country and the next country, everybody is involved in it. They love it. Now, when you are actually violent and you have an ideal of nonviolence, you have a conflict. You are always trying to become nonviolent—which is a part of the conflict. You discipline yourself in order not to be violent—which, again, is a conflict, friction. So when you are violent and have the ideal of nonviolence, you are essentially violent.

To realize that you are violent is the first thing to do—not try to become nonviolent. To see violence as it is, not try to translate it, not to discipline it, not to overcome it, not to suppress it, but to see it as though you are seeing it for the first time—that is to look at it without any thought. I have explained already what we mean by looking at a tree with innocence—which is to look at it without the image. In the same way, you have to look at violence without the image that is involved in the word itself. To look at it without any movement of thought is to look at it as though you are looking at it for the first time, and therefore looking at it with innocence.

JUNE 25