Mary Lutyens “Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment”, which is the second volume of his biography that was published in 1983. When you later o K the reread, added a few suggestions.
The essence of the teaching of Krishnamurti is contained in the statement made in 1929 when he said: “The truth is a country without a path”. O man he can’t reach it from within organisations, through faith, through doctrines, priests, or rituals, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. You have to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the content of the mind, with observation and not with mental therapy or endoscopic self-analysis. The man has built into him like fence protection various images -religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates over the thought of the man, in his relations and in his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems because they divide one man from another. The perception of the human life is shaped by the concepts already inherent in the mind. The content of the consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all mankind. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of the human being is not on the surface, but complete freedom from the content of the consciousness, which is common to the whole of humanity. So, the man is not a separate person.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not an option. It’s fake, the claim of man, that he is free, because you can choose. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment or hope of reward. The freedom is not a motive; freedom is not the end of human evolution, but there is in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. The freedom is in the without election are aware of our everyday life and activity.
The thought is time. The thought is born from experience and knowledge, which is αξεχώÏιστα tied to the time and the past. O psychological time is the enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge, so at the time, so the man is always a slave to the past. The thought is always limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When the man becomes aware of the movement of his thoughts, he will see the division between the thinking and the thought, the observer and the observed, the εμπειÏώμενο and experience. You will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation, which is direct perception without the shadow of the past or of time. This timeless perception brings a deep radical change in the mind.
The total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that has γενήσει psychological thought, only then is there love, which is compassion, passion and intelligence.
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Freedom is pure observation
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