YOURSELF
J.Krishnamurt § Compiled by : Pradeep Apte
YOU are an ORDINARY HUMAN BEING
· You want to live in PEACE and WITHOUT CONFLICT
· To realize this requires great INTELLIGENCE
You realize that you are a strange contradictory mixture of:
· Violence and gentleness
· Greed and generosity
· Hatred and affection
To overcome the conflict of opposites you seek
· Truth or god
· The eternal,
· The immeasurable, the unknown
Not finding what you seek you cultivate faith in
· God
· Saviour
· System
· Idea
In this IDENTIFICATION with the cultivated you miss what you seek and remain what you are
How can then one live
· Sanely, logically , rationally and
· WITHOUT ANY CONFLICT ?
You yourself have to find the answer , there is...
· NO guide
· NO teacher
· NO authority
There are only THREE things
· Yourself
· The World
· Your relationship with another
· NOTHING ELSE !
Realize this as a FACT
· Doing so you are totally responsible for yourself and the world
· Nobody else!
To awaken the INTELLIGENCE that frees from conflict ALL outward imposed authority HAS TO BE DEMOLISHED. And INTELLIGENCE is to perceive the
· False
· Illusory
· Not actual
· Not to merely assert but discard the false COMPLETELY
Whatever you seek, the eternal, timeless or god you could
· Invent
· Pretend
· Quote
· But the fact remains that YOU DON'T KNOW
You are lonely, afraid and perceive a disorder, which is
· Acceptance of authority
· Imitating
· Competition
· Social morality
UNDERSTAND this disorder and COMPLETELY deny it then you can
· Bring order in your life
· Be alone without the burden of memory
Can you live without the SELF ?
· Find out
· Not as an idea but actually
· It should be your passion
THOUGHT completely dominates youil
SERIOUSLY question its role and utility
THOUGHT has done all the wrong things through Identification with
· Name
· Form
· Idea
· Country
· Experience
· Sensation
Is this IDENTIFICATION required at all ?
OR
· Is there a way of living without identification, sensations fully awakened ?
· That would wipe out the self !
It would be a tremendous thing to be
· Alive biologically
· Without identification
· Without the self
Do you feel non-identification would mean death and fear it ?
Are you afraid of being nothing ?
But NOTHINGNESS is not a thing
· It is quite a different state of mind
· It is a state of death while there is living
Identification is the root of self with thought and all the rest of it. This is an absolute FACT. See it like a deadly Cobra !
When identification is completely out there is no
· Callousness
· Indifference
· Brutality
· THEN RELATIONSHIP IS REAL
Deep down into yourself there is this sense of
· Loneliness
· Isolation
This loneliness and isolation is a cause of considerable
· Agony
· Despair
· YOU SEEK AN ESCAPE FROM THIS
This deep urge is everlastingly seeking fulfillment through
· Books, writing
· Music, art
· Work, activity
· OR ANY OTHER FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT
· Position, power
· Honors, prestige
· God, drink
NO ESCAPE will satisfy this urge
· It has to be understood and gone beyond
· Beyond it would be an ALONENESS which is entirely different from LONELINESS
On the surface you may practice Discipline
· Mind control
· Concentration
· OR Talk of peace and the like BUT all this is nonsense unless you understand this deep urge driving you
As this want is always changing its understanding is slippery and elusive
· Pursue it down to the depths of your mind and go BEYOND IT
Then there can be a ALONENESS which is
· Attention
· Motionless
· Absolutely still
· Not dead
· Active
· Activity itself
Only such a mind is
· Creative
· Loving
· Intelligent
· AND CAPABLE OF ENDING CONFLICT
Thought CANNOT
· Penetrate deeply into problems of human relationship
· Enter something totally new
Thought CAN
· Explain the new
· Organize the new
· Communicate the new
Thought is
· The Word
· The Symbol
· The Image
· And NONE of these are NEW
Thought being old can only reform the old structure into a new pattern based on the old
All that thought achieves is a MODIFIED CONTINUITY and things remain as they are
Thought is divisive and fragmentary and whatever it does will be divisive and contradictory
Thought may explain philosophically or religiously the new and necessary social structure
· BUT in it will always be the SEED of destruction, of war and of violence
Thought is NOT the way to the new, only MEDITATION opens the door to that which is everlastingly new
MEDITATION is not a trick of thought. It is the seeing of the futility of thought and the ways of the intellect
Intellect and thought are fragmentary perception, necessary for operating anything mechanical
While MEDITATION is a seeing of the whole.
Intellect can operate only in the known, making life mechanical and routine
· We try to escape from this monotony only to fall back into the known
This change within the known is no change at all as it is a product of thought which is always old
MEDITATION is a flight from the known.
There is only one freedom : it is from the known
And beauty and love lie in this FREEDOM
.
J.Krishnamurt § Compiled by : Pradeep Apte
YOU are an ORDINARY HUMAN BEING
· You want to live in PEACE and WITHOUT CONFLICT
· To realize this requires great INTELLIGENCE
You realize that you are a strange contradictory mixture of:
· Violence and gentleness
· Greed and generosity
· Hatred and affection
To overcome the conflict of opposites you seek
· Truth or god
· The eternal,
· The immeasurable, the unknown
Not finding what you seek you cultivate faith in
· God
· Saviour
· System
· Idea
In this IDENTIFICATION with the cultivated you miss what you seek and remain what you are
How can then one live
· Sanely, logically , rationally and
· WITHOUT ANY CONFLICT ?
You yourself have to find the answer , there is...
· NO guide
· NO teacher
· NO authority
There are only THREE things
· Yourself
· The World
· Your relationship with another
· NOTHING ELSE !
Realize this as a FACT
· Doing so you are totally responsible for yourself and the world
· Nobody else!
To awaken the INTELLIGENCE that frees from conflict ALL outward imposed authority HAS TO BE DEMOLISHED. And INTELLIGENCE is to perceive the
· False
· Illusory
· Not actual
· Not to merely assert but discard the false COMPLETELY
Whatever you seek, the eternal, timeless or god you could
· Invent
· Pretend
· Quote
· But the fact remains that YOU DON'T KNOW
You are lonely, afraid and perceive a disorder, which is
· Acceptance of authority
· Imitating
· Competition
· Social morality
UNDERSTAND this disorder and COMPLETELY deny it then you can
· Bring order in your life
· Be alone without the burden of memory
Can you live without the SELF ?
· Find out
· Not as an idea but actually
· It should be your passion
THOUGHT completely dominates youil
SERIOUSLY question its role and utility
THOUGHT has done all the wrong things through Identification with
· Name
· Form
· Idea
· Country
· Experience
· Sensation
Is this IDENTIFICATION required at all ?
OR
· Is there a way of living without identification, sensations fully awakened ?
· That would wipe out the self !
It would be a tremendous thing to be
· Alive biologically
· Without identification
· Without the self
Do you feel non-identification would mean death and fear it ?
Are you afraid of being nothing ?
But NOTHINGNESS is not a thing
· It is quite a different state of mind
· It is a state of death while there is living
Identification is the root of self with thought and all the rest of it. This is an absolute FACT. See it like a deadly Cobra !
When identification is completely out there is no
· Callousness
· Indifference
· Brutality
· THEN RELATIONSHIP IS REAL
Deep down into yourself there is this sense of
· Loneliness
· Isolation
This loneliness and isolation is a cause of considerable
· Agony
· Despair
· YOU SEEK AN ESCAPE FROM THIS
This deep urge is everlastingly seeking fulfillment through
· Books, writing
· Music, art
· Work, activity
· OR ANY OTHER FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT
· Position, power
· Honors, prestige
· God, drink
NO ESCAPE will satisfy this urge
· It has to be understood and gone beyond
· Beyond it would be an ALONENESS which is entirely different from LONELINESS
On the surface you may practice Discipline
· Mind control
· Concentration
· OR Talk of peace and the like BUT all this is nonsense unless you understand this deep urge driving you
As this want is always changing its understanding is slippery and elusive
· Pursue it down to the depths of your mind and go BEYOND IT
Then there can be a ALONENESS which is
· Attention
· Motionless
· Absolutely still
· Not dead
· Active
· Activity itself
Only such a mind is
· Creative
· Loving
· Intelligent
· AND CAPABLE OF ENDING CONFLICT
Thought CANNOT
· Penetrate deeply into problems of human relationship
· Enter something totally new
Thought CAN
· Explain the new
· Organize the new
· Communicate the new
Thought is
· The Word
· The Symbol
· The Image
· And NONE of these are NEW
Thought being old can only reform the old structure into a new pattern based on the old
All that thought achieves is a MODIFIED CONTINUITY and things remain as they are
Thought is divisive and fragmentary and whatever it does will be divisive and contradictory
Thought may explain philosophically or religiously the new and necessary social structure
· BUT in it will always be the SEED of destruction, of war and of violence
Thought is NOT the way to the new, only MEDITATION opens the door to that which is everlastingly new
MEDITATION is not a trick of thought. It is the seeing of the futility of thought and the ways of the intellect
Intellect and thought are fragmentary perception, necessary for operating anything mechanical
While MEDITATION is a seeing of the whole.
Intellect can operate only in the known, making life mechanical and routine
· We try to escape from this monotony only to fall back into the known
This change within the known is no change at all as it is a product of thought which is always old
MEDITATION is a flight from the known.
There is only one freedom : it is from the known
And beauty and love lie in this FREEDOM
.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
“The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve.”
{The First and Last Freedom, The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve, page 113}
{The First and Last Freedom, The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve, page 113}