Questioner: How did you learn all that you are talking about, and how can we come to know it?
问：你是如何懂得你所说的这一切的？我们要如何才能了解？
Krishnamurti: That is a good question, is it not? Now, if I may talk about myself a little, I have not read any books about these things, neither the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, nor any psychological books; but as I told you, if you watch your own mind, it is all there. So when once you set out on the journey of self-knowledge, books are not important. It is like entering a strange land where you begin to find out new things and make astonishing discoveries; but, you see, that is all destroyed if you give importance to yourself. The moment you say, "I have discovered, I know, I am a great man because I have found out this and that", you are lost. If you have to take a long journey, you must carry very little; if you want to climb to a great height, you must travel light.
So this question is really important, because discovery and understanding come through self-knowledge, through observing the ways of the mind. What you say of your neighbour, how you talk, how you walk, how you look at the skies, at the birds, how you treat people, how you cut a branch - all these things are important, because they act like mirrors that show you as you are and, if you are alert, you discover everything anew from moment to moment.
所以这个问题真的很重要，因为发现与领悟是从自我了解得来的，是从观察心智的活动得来的。你如何评价邻居、如何说话、如何走路、如何凝望天空、如何观察飞鸟、如何对待别人、如何修剪树枝，这一切都很重要，因为它们就像镜子一样反映出你的真相，如果你是机敏的，那么每时每刻你都会以全新的眼光去发现一切。
