为了我们爱做的事，我们是否应该忽略对父母的责任？
Questioner: For the sake of what we love to do should we forget our duty to our parents?
问：为了我们爱做的事，我们是否应该忽略对父母的责任？
Krishnamurti: What do you mean by that extraordinary word 'duty'? Duty to whom? To your parents, to the government, to society? If your parents say it is your duty to become a lawyer and properly support them, and you really want to be a sannyasi, what will you do? In India to be a sannyasi is safe and respectable, so your father may agree. When you put on the ascetic's robe you have already become a great man, and your father can trade on it.
克：你如何解释“责任”这个伟大的字眼？对谁的责任？对父母的责任吗？对政府与社会的责任吗？如果你的父母说做律师并且适当支持他们的想法是你的责任，然而你真正的希望是做一名放弃一切的出家人，你怎么办？在印度，做一名出家人是安全而且受尊敬的，所以你的父亲还可能同意，你一旦穿上修道者的道袍，你立刻变成伟大的人物，因此你的父亲还可能善加利用这个头衔。
But if you want to work with your hands, if you want to be a simple carpenter or a maker of beautiful things of clay, then where does your duty lie? Can anyone tell you? Must you not think it out very carefully for yourself seeing all the implications involved, so that you can say, "This I feel is the right thing for me to do and I shall stick to it whether my parents agree or not"?
但是如果你想用双手工作，如果你想做个单纯的木匠，或是做用黏土制造美丽东西的人，那么你的责任何在？别人能告诉你吗？你是否必须自己把事情想通，想清楚，了解它包含的所有意义，然后你就可以说：“这件事我认为自己很适合去做，我要坚持它，不论父母是否赞成”？
Not merely to comply with what your parents and society want you to do, but really to think out the implications of duty; to see very clearly what is true and stick to it right through life, even though it may mean starvation, misery, death - to do that requires a great deal of intelligence, perception, insight, and also a great deal of love.
并非只是顺从父母及社会希望你做的事，而是真的想通责任的意义是什么，把真相看得非常清楚，并且在一生中坚持到底，即使那可能会带来饥饿、悲惨及死亡。为了做到这一点，你必须有智慧、觉察力、洞察力以及极大的爱。
You see, if you support your parents merely because you think it is your duty, then your support is a thing of the market place, without deep significance, because in it there is no love.
你明白，如果你护持父母只因为你认定那是你的责任，那么你的护持只是市场上的交易行为，而没有真实的意义，因为其中并没有爱。
Think on These Things, Chapter 15
《人生中不可不想的事》，第15章
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