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1一月三十一日 关系就是一面镜子
自我认识不需要按照任何公式来进行。或许你可以透过心理学家或心理分析师来发现自己，但这并不是自我认识。在关系互动的过程中对自己保持觉察，就能在每个当下看到自己的真相。关系犹如一面镜子，透过它我们可以看到真实的自己。但是大部分的人都无法在关系中去看自己，因为我们会立刻对我们所看到的东西产生批判和辩解。我们会批判、评估、比较、否定和接纳，等等，但从不观察眼前的真相是什么，因为对大部分的人而言，这是最难做到的一件事，然而这正是自我认识的开始。如果能透过这面不可思议的镜子来看自己，而且是毫不扭曲地看到自己的真相，其中只有觉知而没有谴责、批判或衡量——在看的时候心里怀着高度的兴趣——那么你就会发现心自有能力解脱一切的局限，然后心就能发现超越思想的境界。
不论你有多少学问或思想，你的心永远是受限的。一颗受限的心无论扩张到什么程度，仍然在思想的局限之内。因此，解脱是截然不同的另一种状态。
January 31
Relationship is a mirror
Self-knowledge is not according to any formula. You may go to a psychologist or a psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, comes into being when we are aware, of ourselves in relationship, which shows what we are from moment to moment. Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in relationship, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge. If one is able to see oneself as one is in this extraordinary mirror of relationship which does not distort, if one can just look into this mirror with full attention and see actually what is, be aware of it without condemnation, without judgment, without evaluation—and one does this when there is earnest interest—then one will find that the mind is capable of freeing itself from all conditioning; and it is only then that the mind is free to discover that which lies beyond the field of thought. After all, however learned or however petty the mind may be, it is consciously or unconsciously limited, conditioned, and any extension of this conditioning is still within the field of thought. So freedom is something entirely different.
