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0一月二十三日 自我认识只有过程，没有结尾
若想了解我们每一个人都有的各种问题，就必须发展出自我认识的能力，而自我觉察是世上最困难的一件事。认识自己并不需要摆脱关系，活在孤立的状态里。你不能借由遗世孤立的修行来认识自己，也不能借由心理咨询、与僧人谈话或是阅读一些书籍来认识自己。自我认识很显然是一个永无止境的过程，若想真的认识自己，就必须在行动中、互动关系里觉察自己。你只能在关系互动的过程中，而非孤立退缩的状态里发现自己的真相。关系指的就是你跟社会、妻子、丈夫、兄弟或别的人互动。若想发现自己的反应是什么，你的心必须保持警觉，敏于观察。
January 23
Self-knowledge is a process
So, to understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the most difficult things, self-awareness—which does not mean an isolation, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, completely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowledge through a book. Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a keenness of perception.
