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0一月二十六日 借由自我认识来创造
自我认识是没有方法的，追求方法其实暗示着想达成某种结果，而这便是我们大部分人想要的东西。
我们追随权威——人、体系或是意识形态——因为我们想得到令自己满意的结果来建立起安全感。我们并不想了解自己，譬如我们的冲动、各种反应及思想的来龙去脉。我们宁愿追求一个能带来结果的修行体系，但追求某个修行体系，很显然就是在追求安全感和确定性，其结果必定是不了解自己。若想遵循某个方法，就必须有权威的指导者——老师、上师、救主、指导灵，等等——来保证我们达到某个结果，很显然这并不是自我认识之道。权威只会阻碍我们了解自己，不是吗？在权威或指导者的庇荫之下，你可能会暂时得到安全或幸福，但这并不是真的去了解内心的活动。权威的本质就是在阻碍完整的自我觉察，它最终一定会破坏内心的自由。心里有了自由，才会有创造力。只有透过自我认识才能产生创造力。
January 26
Creativeness through self-knowledge
...There is no method for self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result and that is what we all want. We follow authority—if not that of a person, then of a system, of an ideology because we want a result that will be satisfactory, which will give us security. We really do not want to understand urselves, our impulses and reactions, the whole process of our thinking, the conscious as well as the unconscious; we would rather pursue a system which assures us of a result. But the pursuit of a system is invariably the outcome of our desire for security, for certainty, and the result is obviously not the understanding of oneself. When we follow a method, we must have authorities—the teacher, the guru, the savior, the Master—who will guarantee us what we desire; and surely that is not the way to self-knowledge.
Authority prevents the understanding of oneself, does it not? Under the shelter of an authority, a guide, you may have temporarily a sense of security, a sense of wellbeing, but that is not the understanding of the total process of oneself. Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness. There can be creativeness only through selfknowledge.
