The Order of the Star in the East was founded by the Theosophical Society in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti was made Head of the Order. On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp in Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. Below is the full text of the talk he gave on that occasion.

东方世界明星社由神智学会于1911年创立，以宣告世界导师的到来。克里希那穆提被任命为明星社的社长。1929年8月3日，在荷兰奥门举行的年度露营聚会的开幕日，克里希那穆提在3000名成员面前解散了社团。以下是他当时演讲的全文。

We are going to discuss this morning the dissolution of the Order of the Star. Many people will be delighted, and others will be rather sad. It is a question neither for rejoicing nor for sadness, because it is inevitable, as I am going to explain. You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, 'What did that man pick up?' He picked up a piece of Truth,' said the devil. 'That is a very bad business for you, then,' said his friend. 'Oh, not at all,' the devil replied, 'I am going to let him organize it.'

我们今天上午将讨论明星社的解散。 许多人会感到高兴，而其余的人会相当悲伤。 它既不是一件高兴的问题，也不是一件悲伤的问题， 因为它是不可避免的，正如我将要解释的那样。 你可能还记得魔鬼和他的一个朋友在街上散步的故事， 他们看到一个人在他们前面弯下腰，从地上捡起某个东西， 看着它，并把它装到他的口袋里。 那位朋友对魔鬼说：“那个人捡到了什么？” “他捡了一块真理”，魔鬼说。 “对你来说，那真是一件糟糕的事”，他朋友说。 “哦，一点也不”，魔鬼回答到，“我会让他把它组织起来。”

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

我坚持认为，真理是一片没有痕迹的土地， 你不能通过任何途径、任何宗教或任何门派来接近它。 那是我的观点，我绝对地、无条件地坚持这一点。 真理是无限的，是不受约束的，是不能通过任何途径而靠近的，是无法被组织的； 也不应该成立任何组织来领导或强迫人们沿着任何特定的道路前行。 如果你首先理解了这一点，那么，你会看到，组织一个信仰是多么地荒唐！ 信仰纯属个人的私事，你不能、也千万不要去组织它。 如果你这样做，它就会枯萎、僵冷；它就成了一种信念、一个门派、一种宗教，强加于他人。 —— 而这种行为，世界上每个角落的每个人正在尝试这么做。 真理被缩减、降低，被加工成玩物，送到那些软弱的人、那些暂时失意的人手中。 真理无法被降低，相反，个人必须竭力攀登，接近它。 你无法把山顶带到山谷。如果要到达山巅， 你必须穿越峡谷，爬上悬崖，无畏于绝壁。

So that is the first reason, from my point of view, why the Order of the Star should be dissolved. In spite of this, you will probably form other Orders, you will continue to belong to other organizations searching for Truth. I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this. I would make use of an organization which would take me to London, for example; this is quite a different kind of organization, merely mechanical, like the post or the telegraph. I would use a motor car or a steamship to travel, these are only physical mechanisms which have nothing whatever to do with spirituality. Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

因此，在我看来，那就是为什么明星社应该被解散的第一个原因。 尽管如此，你们可能会建立其它社团， 你们会继续属于其它寻找真理的机构。 我不想属于任何一个与灵性相关的组织，请理解这一点。 我会利用一个机构，比如，利用它把我带到伦敦； 这是一种完全不同的组织，仅仅是机械化的，就像邮递或电报。 我会利用汽车或轮船去旅行，这些仅仅是物理机制，与灵性没有丝毫的关联。 再一次，我坚持认为，任何一个组织都无法带领人走向灵性。

If an organization be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. So that is another reason why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Order, to dissolve it. .

如果一个机构为了这个目的而创立， 它就成了一根拐杖、一条软肋、一种束缚，必定会使人残废， 阻止他成长，阻碍他建立自身的唯一， 而唯一性就在于亲自发现那个绝对的、没有约束的真理。 因此，那是我决定解散它的又一个原因，而我碰巧是这个社团的负责人。

No one has persuaded me to this decision. This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

没有人劝我做这个决定。 这不是什么了不起的行为，因为，我不要追随者，我就是这个意思。 在你追随某人的那一刻，你不再追随真理。 我不关心你是否在意我的话。 我想在世界上做一件确切的事，我将坚定不移地、聚精会神地做。 我本人只关心一个基本的东西：解放人。 我渴望将他从所有的笼子里，从所有的恐惧中解放， 而不是创立新的宗教、新的门派，或新的理论、新的哲学。

Then you will naturally ask me why I go the world over, continually speaking. I will tell you for what reason I do this: not because I desire a following, not because I desire a special group of special disciples. (How men love to be different from their fellow-men, however ridiculous, absurd and trivial their distinctions may be! I do not want to encourage that absurdity.) I have no disciples, no apostles, either on earth or in the realm of spirituality. Nor is it the lure of money, nor the desire to live a comfortable life, which attracts me. If I wanted to lead a comfortable life I would not come to a camp or live in a damp country! I am speaking frankly because I want this settled once and for all. I do not want these childish discussions year after year.

那么，你自然会问我：为什么我去世界各地，不断地讲话。 我会告诉你我这样做的原因： 不是因为我想要追随者，不是因为我想要一群由特殊的弟子们组成的某个特殊的组织。 （人是多么地喜欢与他们的同胞有所不同， 不论他们之间的区别有多么可笑、荒谬和琐碎！我可不想鼓励那种荒谬。） 我没有弟子，没有使徒，无论是在地上还是在灵性领域。 不是因为金钱的诱惑，不是为了追求吸引我的、舒适的生活。 如果我要舒适的生活，我就不会来到露营地或居住在这个潮湿的国家！ 我这样坦率地讲，是因为我想彻底地解决这个问题。 我不想年复一年地进行这些幼稚的讨论。

One newspaper reporter, who interviewed me, considered it a magnificent act to dissolve an organization in which there were thousands and thousands of members. To him it was a great act because, he said: 'What will you do afterwards, how will you live? You will have no following, people will no longer listen to you.' If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient.

有一位采访我的报社记者， 认为解散一个有着数千名成员的组织是一个壮举。 对他来说，是一个重大的举动，他说：“你以后会做什么，你怎么生活？ 你将没有追随者，人们将不再听你的讲话。” 如果只有五个人会听，会真正地活着，会把他们的脸转向永恒，那就足够了。

Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves? If I speak strongly, please do not misunderstand me, it is not through lack of compassion. If you go to a surgeon for an operation, is it not kindness on his part to operate even if he cause you pain? So, in like manner, if I speak straightly, it is not through lack of real affection–on the contrary.

社团里有数千名糊涂的成员们 —— 完全地浸泡在用 “偏见” 制成的防腐药水里， 不想接受新的，却宁愿把新的转换成适合他们自己贫瘠、停滞的自我 —— 要它有什么用！？ 如果我的语气很重，请不要误解，这不是因为缺乏仁慈。 如果你去外科医生那儿做手术，即便他操刀时给你带来了痛苦，可对他而言，难道是出于不仁慈吗？ 因此，同样的方式，如果我说得太直接，那不是因为缺乏真正的感情，恰恰相反。

As I have said, I have only one purpose: to make man free, to urge him towards freedom, to help him to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give him eternal happiness, will give him the unconditioned realization of the self.

正如我所说，我只有一个目的： 使人解放，促使他朝向自由，帮助他打破一切限制， 唯有那独立，才会带给他永恒的快乐， 才会带给他无拘无束的现实。

Because I am free, unconditioned, whole – not the part, not the relative, but the whole Truth that is eternal – I desire those, who seek to understand me to be free; not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect. Rather should they be free from all fears – from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of spirituality, from the fear of love, from the fear of death, from the fear of life itself.

因为我是自由的、无边的、完整的 —— 不是部分的、相对的，而是永恒的、完整的真理 —— 我渴望那些寻求理解我的人自由。 不是追随我，给我造一个笼子，变成一种宗教，一个门派。 相反，他们应该从所有的恐惧中解放 —— 从宗教的恐惧、救赎的恐惧、灵性的恐惧、 爱的恐惧、死亡的恐惧、生命本身的恐惧中解放。

As an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in that painting, because it is his self-expression, his glory, his well-being, so I do this and not because I want anything from anyone. You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority, which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers – a miracle – transport you to this realm of eternal freedom which is Happiness. Your whole outlook on life is based on that authority.

一位艺术家画一幅画，是因为他在画的时候，感到快乐， 因为那幅画是他自身的表现、是他的光荣、他的风采， 所以我做这件事，不是因为我想从任何人手里得到任何东西。 你们习惯了权威，或权威的氛围，以为它会带领你们到达灵性。 你们认为并希望别人能够通过他的超级权力 —— 一个神迹 —— 把你传送到那永恒的、自由的、幸福的领域。 你们对生命的整个视野，都基于这种权威。

You have listened to me for three years now, without any change taking place except in the few. Now analyze what I am saying, be critical, so that you may understand thoroughly, fundamentally. When you look for an authority to lead you to spirituality, you are bound automatically to build an organization around that authority. By the very creation of that organization, which, you think, will help this authority to lead you to spirituality, you are held in a cage.

你们已经听我讲了三年，除了少数几个人，你们没有任何改变。 现在，分析我正在讲的话，严谨地分析，那么，你们就可能彻底地、根本地理解。 当你们寻找一个权威来引导你们到达灵性时， 你们必然会不自主地围绕着那个权威建立一个组织。 你们以为它会帮助那位权威人士，来领导你们到达灵性 —— 而正是这个组织，把你捉住，使你成为笼中之鸟。

If I talk frankly, please remember that I do so, not out of harshness, not out of cruelty, not out of the enthusiasm of my purpose, but because I want you to understand what I am saying. That is the reason why you are here, and it would be a waste of time if I did not explain clearly, decisively, my point of view. For eighteen years you have been preparing for this event, for the Coming of the World Teacher. For eighteen years you have organized, you have looked for someone who would give a new delight to your hearts and minds, who would transform your whole life, who would give you a new understanding; for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life, who would give you a new encouragement, who would set you free – and now look what is happening!

恕我直言，请记住， 我这么做，不是出于苛责，不是出于残暴，不是出于我对目标的热忱， 而是因为我希望你理解我所说的。 那就是你来这儿的原因， 如果我不明确地、果断地解释我的观点，那就是浪费时间。 十八年来，你们一直在为这件事做准备，为世界导师的到来而准备。 在你们组织的十八年里，你们一直在寻找某个人， 他会给你们的心灵和头脑带来新的欢乐， 会转变你们的整条生命，会给你们一种新的理解； 会把你们提升到一个新的生命层次， 会给你们一个新的鼓舞，会使你们自由 —— 而现在，看看是什么样子！

Consider, reason with yourselves, and discover in what way that belief has made you different – not with the superficial difference of the wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd. In what manner has such a belief swept away all the unessential things of life? That is the only way to judge: in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every society which is based on the false and the unessential? In what way have the members of this organization of the Star become different?

请仔细地看，亲自找原因，去发掘：这种信念以什么方式使得你们与众不同？ —— 不是佩戴某个徽章的肤浅的不同，那是微不足道的、荒谬的。 这种信念以什么方式清除了生命中所有的非本质的东西？ 那是判别的唯一法则： 在任何一个基于虚假和非本质的社会，你以什么方式使自己更自由、更伟大、更危险？ 这些明星社的成员们在哪个方式上与众不同？

As I said, you have been preparing for eighteen years for me. I do not care if you believe that I am the World Teacher or not. That is of very little importance. Since you belong to the organization of the Order of the Star, you have given your sympathy, your energy, acknowledging that Krishnamurti is the World Teacher – partially or wholly: wholly for those who are really seeking, only partially for those who are satisfied with their own half-truths.

正如我所说，你们已经为我准备了十八年。 我不在乎你们是否相信我是世界导师。 那是不重要的。 既然你们属于世界明星社这个组织， 你们就给出了你们的支持和你们的能量，承认了克里希那穆提是世界导师 —— 部分地或完全地：对那些真正寻求的人来说是“完全地”， 对那些满足于半真半假的人来说是“部分地”。

You have been preparing for eighteen years, and look how many difficulties there are in the way of your understanding, how many complications, how many trivial things. Your prejudices, your fears, your authorities, your Churches new and old – all these, I maintain, are a barrier to understanding. I cannot make myself clearer than this. I do not want you to agree with me, I do not want you to follow me, I want you to understand what I am saying. This understanding is necessary because your belief has not transformed you but only complicated you, and because you are not willing to face things as they are.

你们已经准备了十八年， 看看在你们理解的道路上，有多么困难，多么繁杂，多么琐碎！ 你们的偏见、你们的恐惧、你们的权威、你们的新教堂和老教堂 —— 所有这些，我坚持认为，都是理解的障碍。我讲得再清楚不过了。 我不要你同意我，不要你追随我，我要你理解我正在说的话。 这种理解是必需的，因为你的信念没有转变你，反而使你复杂化； 因为你，不愿意面对事物本来的样子。

You want to have your own gods–new gods instead of the old, new religions instead of the old, new forms instead of the old – all equally valueless, all barriers, all limitations, all crutches. Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else; and although you have been preparing for me for eighteen years, when I say all these things are unnecessary, when I say that you must put them all away and look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. So why have an organization?

你想拥有属于自己的神灵 —— 用新神替换旧神， 用新宗教替换旧宗教，新仪式替换旧仪式 —— 这一切，都一个样，毫无价值，全是障碍，全是缰绳，都是拐杖。 扳倒了旧等级，你们建立起新的灵性等级；打掉了旧偶像，你们塑造出新偶像。 你们都把自身的灵性放在别人手上，把自身的幸福压在别人手上，把自身的觉悟放在别人身上； 尽管你们已经为我准备了十八年， 可是当我说：所有这些东西都是多余的，当我说你们必须把它们都扔掉， 观看你们的内在，寻找觉醒、光芒、洁白、自身的清廉， 你们没有一个人愿意做。 可能有少数人，但非常非常少。那为什么还要有一个组织呢？

Why have false, hypocritical people following me, the embodiment of Truth? Please remember that I am not saying something harsh or unkind, but we have reached a situation when you must face things as they are. I said last year that I would not compromise. Very few listened to me then. This year I have made it absolutely clear. I do not know how many thousands throughout the world –members of the Order–have been preparing for me for eighteen years, and yet now they are not willing to listen unconditionally, wholly, to what I say.

为什么有假装的、虚伪的人追随我，这个真理的化身？ 请记住，我不是在说某种苛刻或不友善的话， 而是我们已经抵达了一种情景，那就是你必须如实地面对他们。 我去年说过，我不会妥协。当时很少有人听进去。 今年我已经说得彻底地清楚了。我不知道世界上有几千名 —— 明星社的成员 —— 已经为我准备了十八年， 但是，现在他们还是不愿意毫无偏见地、完整地听我所讲的话。

As I said before, my purpose is to make men unconditionally free, for I maintain that the only spirituality is the incorruptibility of the self which is eternal, is the harmony between reason and love. This is the absolute, unconditioned Truth which is life itself. I want therefore to set man free, rejoicing as the bird in the clear sky, unburdened, independent, ecstatic in that freedom.

正如我之前所说，我的目的是使人无条件地自由， 因为我坚持认为，唯一的灵性是自身的清廉，是永恒， 是理性与爱的和谐。这就是绝对的、无条件的真理，是生命本身。 因此，我想使人解放，像鸟儿在晴朗的天空中，那么欢快，毫无负担，毫无牵绊，在那自由中欣喜若狂。

And I, for whom you have been preparing for eighteen years, now say that you must be free of all these things, free from your complications, your entanglements. For this you need not have an organization based on spiritual belief. Why have an organization for five or ten people in the world who understand, who are struggling, who have put aside all trivial things? And for the weak people, there can be no organization to help them to find the Truth, because Truth is in everyone; it is not far, it is not near; it is eternally there.

而我 —— 一个你们为之准备了十八年的人，现在说： 你们必须摆脱所有这些东西，摆脱你们的复杂、你们的纠结。 这样，你们就不需要有一个基于灵性信仰的组织。 为何要有组织，要给五个或者十个人 —— 给这些理解的，正在艰苦攀登的，把所有的琐碎情都放在一边的人，成立一个组织？ 对于懦弱的人来说，没有任何一个组织能帮助他们找到真理， 因为真理在每个人身上。它不远，它不近；它永远在那儿。

Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free; nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an altar and worship it. But that is what you are doing when organizations become your chief concern.

各种组织不能使你自由。 没有任何一个人能使你自由。对组织的崇拜不能使你自由，献身于某个目标不能使你自由。 把自己融入到某个组织，把自己献给工作，不能使你自由。 你用打字机写信，但你不会把它放在神坛上，向它跪拜。 可是当组织成为你关注的重心时，你就在这么做。

'How many members are there in it?' That is the first question I am asked by newspaper reporters. 'How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.' I do not know how many there are. I am not concerned with that. As I said, if there were even one who had been set free, that is enough.

“里面有多少成员？” 这是报社记者问我的头一个问题。 “你有多少追随者？我们用他们的数量来判断你讲的是真是假。” 我不知道有多少人。我不关心那些。 正如我所说，就算只有一个人被解放，那也足够了。

Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.

再一次，你有这种观念 —— 只有某些人掌握着幸福王国的钥匙。 没有人拿着它。没有人有权力拿那把钥匙。 那把钥匙就是你自己，在那成长、净化和独立不朽的清廉中，即是永恒的王国。

So you will see how absurd is the whole structure that you have built, looking for external help, depending on others for your comfort, for your happiness, for your strength. These can only be found within yourselves.

因此，你们会看到，你们建立的整个体系是多么荒谬， 寻求外在帮助，依靠别人来获取你们的舒适、你们的幸福、你们的力量。 —— 这些东西，只能在你们自己身上找到。

You are accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within? Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? You are not serious in these things.

你已经习惯被告知你前进了多远，你的灵性状态处于哪个等级。 多么幼稚！除了你自己，谁能告诉你：你的内心是美还是丑？ 除了你自己，谁能告诉你：你是否清廉？在这些事情上，你们不严肃。

But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that real understanding there will be true friendship. Because of that true friendship – which you do not seem to know – there will be real cooperation on the part of each one. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, not because of immolation for a cause, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.

但是，那些真正渴望理解， 那些一直在观察，在寻找那永恒的、没有开始也没有结束的东西的人们， 将以更强烈的品质一起同行， 将对一切非本质的、不真实的、阴翳的事物构成威胁。 他们会汇聚，会成为火焰，因为他们理解。 这样的团体，才是我们必须建立的，而这就是我的目的。 出于这种真正地理解，才会有真正的友谊。 有了这种真正的友谊 —— 你似乎不知道 —— 每个人才能真正地合作。 这种合作不是因为权威，不是因为救赎，不是为某个目标而献身， 而是因为你真正地理解，因此能够活在永恒中。 这是一件比所有快乐、比所有牺牲更伟大的事情。

So these are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone. I am not persuaded in such things. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set man absolutely, unconditionally free.'