Inward Revolution: Bringing About Radical Change in the World by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2017-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

Can there be an inward, and therefore

an outward, revolution?

First of all, I would like to say how important it is to find out for oneself what learning is, because apparently all of you have come here to learn what somebody else has to say. To find out one must obviously listen, and it is one of the most difficult things to do. It is quite an art, because most of us have our own opinions, conclusions, points of view, dogmatic beliefs and assertions, our own peculiar little experiences, our knowledge, which will obviously prevent us from actually listening to another. All these opinions and judgments will crowd in and hinder the act of listening.

Can you listen without any conclusion, without any comparison and judgment, just listen as you would listen to music, to something that you feel you really love? Then you listen not only with your mind, with your intellect, but also with your heart; not sentimentally—which is rather terrible—or emotionally, but with care, objectively, sanely, listen with attention to find out. You know what you think; you have your own experiences, your own conclusions, your own knowledge. For the moment at least, put them aside. That is going to be rather difficult because you live on formulas and words, on speculative assumptions, but when one is trying to find out, to inquire really very seriously into the whole problem of existence, one has obviously to put aside any projection of particular little idiosyncrasies, temperaments, conclusions, and formulas. Otherwise, obviously, one can’t investigate, learn together. And we are going to learn together because, after all, the word communication means to have something in common around which we can cooperate, which we can think over together, share together, create together, understand together. That is what communication really means: to have something in common which we can think together, understand together. It is not that the speaker explains and you merely listen, but rather that we understand together what truth is, what living is, and the complex problems of our daily activities. We are going into all that.

To really investigate, to learn together implies that there is no authority. The speaker is sitting on a platform, but he has no authority. He is sitting on a platform merely for convenience, and that doesn’t give him any authority whatsoever. Please let’s understand very clearly that we are examining together, learning together. The implication of “together” surely is that we both must be serious, we both must be at the same level, with the same intensity, with the same passion; otherwise, we will not meet each other. If you are deeply interested in a problem and another is not, there is no communication at all. There is verbal understanding, but a verbal explanation is never the thing. So the description is never the described. And as we are going to find out together, we must be serious, because this is not an entertainment, this is not something that you can discuss by arguing, opposing one opinion against another.

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