Lets find out what this extraordinary thing called the mind is, because that is the problem and nothing else. It is the mind that creates the problem; it is the thought, the conditioned mind, the mind that is petty, narrow, bigoted, which has created beliefs, ideas and knowledge and which is crippled by its own concepts, vanities, greeds, ambitions and frustrations.
So it is the mind which has to be understood, and that mind is the `me', that mind is the self - not some higher self. The mind invents the higher self and then says it is only a tool for the higher. Such thinking is absurd, immature. It is the mind which invents all these avenues of escape and then proceeds from there to assert
To understand the quality of the mind and its immensity, there must be freedom - freedom from all conditioning, from all conclusions - because it is only such a mind that is a young mind. And it is only the young mind that can move freely, investigate, be innocent....
The mind is not sensitive if it is burdened with knowledge.....To understand the quality of the mind and its immensity, there must be freedom - freedom from all conditioning, from all conclusions - because it is only such a mind that is a young mind. And it is only the young mind that can move freely, investigate, be innocent........
The mind is the product of many yesterdays, is it not?
It is the result of a thousand influences, it is the result of tradition, it is the result of habit, it is put together by various cultures.
It knows despair and hope....
It knows the past, it is the present and it creates the future.
It has accumulated knowledge, the sciences of technology, of physics, of medicine and countless other pursuits; it is capable of extraordinary invention.
It is also capable of enquiring beyond itself, of searching for freedom and breaking through its conditioning...........
It is all these things and much more. And if the mind is not aware of itself, of the extraordinary complexities, merely concentrating on any detail, on one particularity, will destroy the totality........
Few of us are aware of the things about us. The beauty of the night, the beauty of a face, of a smile, the beauty of the river and of the cloud radiant at sunset, the beauty of moonlight on water; we are so little aware of this extraordinary beauty because we are so insensitive. To be free, sensitivity is essential.
But you cannot be free if you are crowded with knowledge........ if you do not listen rightly you will go away and say, `What on earth has he been talking about?'.
But if you listen rightly, which is an art, you will already have discovered what an extraordinary thing the mind is. It is not a matter of finding it out afterwards, but in the very course of listening you are discovering this mind.
There is all the difference between being told what an astounding thing the mind is and making the discovery for yourself.
The two states are entirely different. When you say, `I know hunger', you have directly experienced it; but the man who has never experienced hunger can also say, `I know hunger'.
The two states of `knowing' are entirely different, the one is direct experience and the other is descriptive knowledge.....
(Jiddu Krishnamurthy )
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