Sue

这段跟勇气擦边的，参考一下：

The root meaning of the word value is strength. It comes from the word valour. Strength is not a value. It becomes a value when it is the opposite of weakness. Strength - not of character which is the result of the pressure of society - is the essence of clarity. Clear thinking is without prejudices, without bias;it is observation without distortion. Strength or valour is not a thing to be cultivated as you would cultivate a plant or a new breed.It is not a result. A result has a cause and when there is a cause it indicates a weakness; the consequences of weakness are resistance or yielding. Clarity has no cause. Clarity is not an effect or result; it is the pure observation of thought and its total activity. This clarity is strength.

价值这个词的原意是力量，起源于英勇这个词。力量不是一种价值。有了虚弱这个对立面它才成为一种价值。力量，并不是来源于社会压力的一种品质，它的本质是清澈。清晰的思考不带偏见，没有倾向，是没有扭曲的观察。力量或者英勇不是可以培养的东西，就像培养一株植物或者一个新品种那样。它不是一个结果。一个结果会有一个原因，如果有原因那就说明有软弱；软弱的后果就是抗拒或者顺从。清澈没有原因，清澈不是一种效果或者结果；它是对思想及其所有活动的纯然观察。这种清澈就是力量。

Sue

刚刚读到一段，很受启发，拿来与你分享：

　　你有没有非常安静地坐着不动过？你试试看，静静地坐着，背脊挺直，然后觉察你的心念在做些什么。不要去控制它，不要去阻止它从一个念头跳到另一个念头，或是从一件有趣的事跳到另一件有趣的事，你只需要注意你的心念是如何活动的。你什么也不必做，只要观察它，就像坐在河岸边上观看河水流过一样。在河水中有好多东西，游鱼、落叶、死掉的动物；但是河水是一直活动的，你的心念就像它一样，永远不肯安定，像蝴蝶般从一件事飞舞到另一件事上。
　　假如你听到一首歌，请问你是怎么听的？也许你喜欢这个歌者，他也许有一张很好看的脸，也许你领悟了他唱的歌词含义，但是在这一切事物的深处，譬如当你深入听一首歌时，你其实是在听音与音之间的寂静，不是吗？同样的，你也可以试试非常安静地坐着，没有烦躁不安，不要移动双脚，而只是觉察心念。这是一件很好玩的事，如果你把它当成一件好玩的事、一件有趣的事，你会发现，你不需要任何努力，就能使心念安歇下来。然后所有的压抑、审判和评估就消失了。心处在这种安静的状态，它必定是静止的，然后你就会明白什么是喜悦。你知道喜悦是什么吗？它就是欢笑，对万事万物都感觉快乐，没有任何原因的快乐，同时能感受生活的喜悦，也能直接深入于另一张脸孔，而没有一点恐惧。
　　你有没有真的看过一个人的脸？你可曾深入于你的老师、你的父母、大官、仆人、穷人的脸，然后看看会怎么样？大部分的人都害怕直接看着别人的脸，别人也不喜欢我们那样去看他们，因为他们害怕。没有人想剖露自己，我们都把自己武装起来，藏身在多重的神秘、痛苦、渴求和期望的背后。非常少数的人能直接深入于你的脸孔且面带微笑。
　　微笑及快乐是非常重要的，因为如果一个人的心中缺少一首歌，生活就变得极为乏味了。你可以从一间庙拜到另一间庙，从某一个丈夫或妻子转换到另一个，寻找新的老师或上师。但是如果你得不到内心的喜悦，生命的意义就很小了。寻找内心的喜悦不是一件容易的事，因为我们大部分人的不满都是极为浮面的。
　　你明白不满是什么意思吗？了解不满是很困难的事。因为大部分的人把不满导向了某一个特定的方向，因此它被抹杀了。也就是说，我们惟一关心的其实是把自己安置在一个安全的地位，有着稳定的利益和声望，以为这样就可以不被干扰了。这种情况在家庭、学校都有，老师不想被打扰，因此他们总是依循成规。但是人一旦真的感到不满时，一定会开始探索、质疑，于是就一定会有波动。可是只有从真正的不满之中，才有创新的才能。
　　你知道创新的才能是什么吗？只有当你不被强迫去做一些事情时，你才具有主动创造的能力，但并不一定是什么伟大的事，伟大的事可能以后才会发生。当你在种一棵树，发出自然的善心，对一个背负重物的人微笑，从路中移开一块石头，或是在路中抚慰一只动物，主动创造的力量便展开了。如果你想了解创造力这个不平凡的东西，你就必须从这种生活小事开始做起。只有当你心中存有很深的不满时，你才会采取主动，从主动中再产生创造的才能。
　　不要害怕不满足，你要滋养它，直到火星变成火焰，然后你就能永远对所有的事都不满——对你的工作、家庭、追求金钱、地位、权力等传统感到不满足，然后你才会真正开始思考、醒悟。但是等你年长之后，你会发现维持这种不满的精神是非常困难的。你有孩子要养育，还要考虑工作上的需求，你的邻居及社会的意见都在左右你，不久你就开始失去不满的火焰。当你感觉不满时，你会打开收音机，你去寻找灵性上师，你做祭供，你参加俱乐部，你喝酒，追求女人，你去做任何可以消灭不满的火焰的事。但是缺少了这种不满的火焰，你就永远不会有主动创造的才能。要寻找真理，一定要对旧有的秩序做一番革新。但是你的父母愈有钱，你的老师的工作愈稳定，他们就愈不希望你革新。
　　创造力并不只是绘画或写诗而已，这些都是好事，但是意义不大。重要的是，你必须彻底不满。这种彻底不满乃是主动力开始产生，一旦它成熟时，就变成了创造力。这是发现真理、上帝惟一的道路，因为具有创造力的境界就是上帝。所以一个人一定要具备这种不满，但是其中含着喜悦，你明白吗？人一定要彻底地不满，但是却不抱怨，而是带着欢乐、喜悦和爱。会不满的人大部分是极为乏味的，他们总是抱怨某件事不对劲，不是希望处在较好的环境，就是希望情况有所不同，因为他们的不满是很肤浅的。而那些完全不知道不满的人，他们的精神早已死了。
　　如果你能从年轻时就革新，在你年长时，还能保持你的不满，并带着喜悦的活力及深挚的情感，那么你不满的火焰就会带来不寻常的意义，因为它会累积，它会创造，它会为你的生命带来新的东西。为了达到目的，你必须有完善的教育，这不只是准备考试或向成功的目标迈进，而是帮助你思考并且给你空间的教育，这儿所说的空间，不是一个大一点的卧室或高一点的屋顶，而是让你的思想成长的空间，使你的思想不被任何信仰或恐惧所捆绑。

Sue

英文原文给你参考一下：

THIS MATTER OF CULTURE CHAPTER 5

HAVE YOU EVER sat very quietly without any movement? You try it, sit really still, with your back straight, and observe what your mind is doing. Don`t try to control it, don't say it should not jump from one thought to another, from one interest to another, but just be aware of how your mind is jumping. Don't do anything about it, but watch it as from the banks of a river you watch the water flow by. In the flowing river there are so many things - fishes, leaves, dead animals - but it is always living, moving, and your mind is like that. It is everlastingly restless, flitting from one thing to another like a butterfly.
     When you listen to a song, how do you listen to it? You may like the person who is singing, he may have a nice face, and you may follow the meaning of the words; but behind all that, when you listen to a song, you are listening to the tones and to the silence between the tones, are you not? In the same way, try sitting very quietly without fidgeting, without moving your hands or even your toes, and just watch your mind. It is great fun. If you try it as fun, as an amusing thing, you will find that the mind begins to settle down without any effort on your part to control it. There is then no censor, no judge, no evaluator; and when the mind is thus very quiet of itself, spontaneously still, you will discover what it is to be gay. Do you know what gaiety is? It is just to laugh, to take delight in anything or nothing, to know the joy of living, smiling, looking straight into the face of another without any sense of fear.
     Have you ever really looked anybody in the face? Have you ever looked into the face of your teacher, of your parent, of the big official, of the servant, the poor coolie, and seen what happens? Most of us are afraid to look directly into the face of an- other; and others don't want us to look at them in that way, because they also are frightened. Nobody wants to reveal himself; we are all on guard, hiding behind various layers of misery, suffering, longing, hope, and there are very few who can look you straight in the face and smile. And it is very important to smile, to be happy; because, you see, without a song in one's heart life becomes very dull. One may go from temple to temple, from one husband or wife to another, or one may find a new teacher or guru; but if there is not this inward joy, life has very little meaning. And to find this inward joy is not easy, because most of us are only superficially discontented.
     Do you know what it means to be discontented? It is very difficult to understand discontent, because most of us canalize discontent in a certain direction and thereby smother it. That is, our only concern is to establish ourselves in a secure position with well-established interests and prestige, so as not to be disturbed. It happens in homes and in schools too. The teachers don't want to be disturbed, and that is why they follow the old routine; because the moment one is really discontented and begins to inquire, to question, there is bound to be disturbance. But it is only through real discontent that one has initiative.
     Do you know what initiative is? You have initiative when you initiate or start something without being prompted. It need not be anything very great or extraordinary - that may come later; but there is the spark of initiative when you plant a tree on your own, when you are spontaneously kind, when you smile at a man who is carrying a heavy load, when you remove a stone from the path, or pat an animal along the way. That is a small beginning of the tremendous initiative you must have if you are to know this extraordinary thing called creativeness. Creativeness has its roots in the initiative which comes into being only when there is deep discontent.
     Don't be afraid of discontent, but give it nourishment until the spark becomes a flame and you are everlastingly discontented with everything - with your jobs, with your families, with the traditional pursuit of money, position, power - so that you really begin to think, to discover. But as you grow older you will find that to maintain this spirit of discontent is very difficult. You have children to provide for and the demands of your job to consider; the opinion of your neighbours, of society closing in upon you, and soon you begin to lose this burning flame of discontent. When you feel discontented you turn on the radio, you go to a guru, do puja, join a club, drink, run after women - anything to smother the flame. But, you see, without this flame of discontent you will never have the initiative which is the beginning of creativeness. To find out what is true you must be in revolt against the established order; but the more money your parents have and the more secure your teachers are in their jobs, the less they want you to revolt.
     Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little in itself. What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth, what is God, because the creative state is God.
     So one must have this total discontent - but with joy. Do you understand? One must be wholly discontented, not complainingly, but with joy, with gaiety, with love. Most people who are discontented are terrible bores; they are always complaining that something or other is not right, or wishing they were in a better position, or wanting circumstances to be different, because their discontent is very superficial. And those who are not discontented at all are already dead.
     If you can be in revolt while you are young, and as you grow older keep your discontent alive with the vitality of joy and great affection, then that flame of discontent will have an extraordinary significance because it will build, it will create, it will bring new things into being. For this you must have the right kind of education, which is not the kind that merely prepares you to get a job or to climb the ladder of success, but the education that helps you to think and gives you space - space, not in the form of a larger bedroom or a higher roof, but space for your mind to grow so that it is not bound by any belief, by any fear.

Sue

为什么我们不经检验地接受了那些“必然”“不可避免”“理所当然”的概念、观念、标准和生活方式呢？

还是我们的心智已经十分老朽，不再保持年轻的新鲜活力？

Sue

真正敏感的心灵，是不会迷茫的，选择不再存在，清晰是它的特质。

还在迷茫，因为还在相当程度上是迟滞的，钝怠的，你说呢？有迷惑没有看清，而那迷惑是什么呢？或者来源于哪里呢？