Meeting Life: Writings and Talks on Finding Your Path Without Retreating From Society by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Philosophy, Body; Mind & Spirit, Self-Help, Occultism
ISBN: 9780062505262
Google: C_pCPgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0062505262
Publisher: Arkana
Published: 1991-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

A Quality of Mind That Knows No Separation

BOMBAY, INDIA, JANUARY 1968

It seems to me that the first thing to understand—in this chaotic and rather mad world—is how to listen to the conclusions, descriptions and analyses that people offer with regard to the problems that we all have. We have so many problems. Not only in this deteriorating country, but also throughout the world, human beings are faced with extraordinarily complex problems. The experts, the intellectuals, the gurus, the theologians, the priests, offer explanations, each according to their particular conditioning, their particular belief and so on. And the more one is confused, the more one is in sorrow, the more one seeks, then the more one wants comfort, security or clarity. There are those who offer security and clarity, and I think it is wise to learn how to listen to what is offered by them (how to listen, not only to them, but also to the speaker), because we are so gullible, we want to accept, we want to be deceived, we want to be hypnotized by words, we want an easy way out of our confusion and sorrow. We are eager—most unfortunately—to accept, especially from those who, according to a formula, explain how to meet the crisis that exists throughout the world; their formulas vary according to their conditioning, according to the culture in which they have been brought up.

Human beings throughout the world have been conditioned according to formulas and concepts for thousands of years and when life—which is a movement—demands your total attention you cannot give it, for you are functioning and thinking according to a formula, whether given by Shankara or Marx or Lenin, or the latest guru that you have. So one has to ask: why is it that human beings throughout the world live by formulas? I do not know if you have ever questioned why you always live at the conceptual level, why you always formulate an ideology and attempt to live and think at that level; whereas actuality is something entirely different. Actuality is the daily living which has nothing whatever to do with concepts; that is the first thing to realize. One has to scrap completely all the formulas, all the methods; one has to rethink the whole thing anew; one can no longer be a Hindu, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim. As a human being—living in this country, in this dreadful town with all its miseries, squalor, dirt—one can no longer think in terms of formulas if one is to live a life every minute that is complete, total.

Living is relationship. You cannot be related to another according to a formula—you understand? It is very simple. You have to live, you have to go to your office or factory and labour, strive; but if you try to live according to an image or formula, established by your ancient teachers, you are not related at all—you are merely living according to an idea. It is the same in a Communist

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