On Love and Loneliness by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Saanen, 18 July 1978

PLEASE, WE ARE going into something which is perhaps rather difficult. I don’t know where it is going to lead us. It may become a little more complex, so please give a little attention.

You know, when you have a small child with you, you listen to its cries, you listen to its words, its murmurs. You are so concerned you listen; you may be asleep, but the moment he cries you wake up. You are attentive all the time because the child is yours, you must care for it, you must love it, you must hold it. You are so tremendously attentive that even though you are asleep, you wake up. Now, with that same quality of attention, affection, care, you give to every movement of that child, could you watch the mirror which is yourself? Not me, you are not listening to me; you are listening with that extraordinary concentrated affection and care to the mirror which is yourself, and to what it is telling you. Will you do it?

We are asking why human beings have become so mechanical. Mechanical habit obviously produces disorder because energy functioning always within a narrow limit is struggling to break through, which is the essence of conflict. Do you understand what the mirror is saying?—not me, there is no speaker here. Can you observe with care, with attention, with a feeling of great affection, what you are listening to?

We are talking about disorder. We live in a disorder of habits, of beliefs, of conclusions, of opinions. This is the pattern we live in, which naturally, being limited, must create disorder. Now, when one is in disorder, to seek order is wrong, because the mind that is confused, unclear, in seeking what is order will also be confused, will also be uncertain. That is clear. But whereas, if you look into disorder, if you understand the disorder in which you live and the causes of the movement of disorder, in the very understanding of it, order naturally comes—easily, happily, without any compulsion, without any control. The mirror is telling you that you can discover the causes instantly—not verbally, intellectually, or emotionally—of this movement of disorder in oneself and why it comes about, if you give attention, the same attention that you give to a small, defenceless child. That is having an insight into disorder.

What is the root of disorder? There are many causes of disorder: comparison, comparing oneself with another, comparing oneself with what one ‘should be’, imitating an example, some saint; conforming, adjusting to something you think is beyond that which is. There is always conflict between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. To compare is the movement of thought: I was this, or I was happy and some day I will be happy again. This constant measurement between ‘what has been’ or ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’, this constant evaluation brings conflict. That is one of the basic reasons of disorder.

Another cause of disorder is operating from the past.

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