On Nature and the Environment by Krishnamurti

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

Brockwood Park, 10 September 1970

WE REALIZE THERE is a division in life, in me, in you. The you and me are many fragments. Oneself is made up of many fragments. One of the fragments is the observer and the rest of the fragments are the observed. The observer becomes conscious of the fragments, but the observer is also one of the fragments; he is not different from the rest of the fragments. Therefore you have to find out what is the observer, the experiencer, the thinker. What is he made up of, how does it come about, this division between the observer and the observed? The observer, we say, is one of the fragments. Why has he separated himself, assumed himself as the analyzer, the one who is aware, the one who can control, change, suppress, and all the rest of it. The observer is the censor … the result of the social, environmental, religious, cultural conditionings. That is, the cultural divisions have said you are different from the thing you are observing. … You are the higher self and that is the lower self, you are the enlightened and that is unenlightened. Now what has given him this authority to call himself enlightened? Because he has become the censor? And the censor says, “This is right, this is wrong, this is good, this is bad, I must do this, I must not do that,” which is the result of his conditioning, the conditioning of the society, of the culture, of the religion, of the family, of all the race, and so on.

So the observer is the censor, conditioned according to his environment. And he has assumed the authority of the analyzer. And the rest of the fragments are also assuming their authority; each fragment has its own authority, and so there is battle. And so there is conflict between the observer and the observed. To be free of this conflict you have to find out if you can look without the eyes of the censor. That is to be aware, to be aware that the eyes of the censor are the result of his conditioning. And can those eyes look with freedom, look innocently, freely?

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