Public Meetings in Bombay, 1984 by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

Questions and Answers

There are several questions - whole packet of them. How do you approach a question? Is the question more important than the answer? Or does the answer lie in the question itself? So we are asking before we go into these questions, how you receive a question, how you look at a question, how you respond to a question, or are you merely seeking an answer to the question? If you are seeking an answer, the answer is more important than the question. So, we are saying it is very important how you approach a question, and in the manner, how you investigate the question, for the answer lies in the question itself not away from it. I hope this is clear, that we are both seeking to find a solution to a question, but we are saying that it is far more important to understand the nature and the content of the question. So we are both of us, you and the speaker are going to investigate the question itself, and then in understanding the question the answer is in the investigation of that question. I hope this is clear. There are several questions here and you and the speaker together are going to explore the nature of the question, and then perhaps we will be able to find the answer in the question itself. Is this fairly clear? So we are going to read these questions first.

What is beauty and why is it that we like things that are beautiful.

That's the question. So we are together going to investigate, explore, find out the question itself, the content of the question. Is this clear? The questioner asks, what is beauty. Now when you look around this hall, is it beautiful? When you look at the sky of an evening, with one star in the heavens, is that beautiful? Or when you see a marvellous sunset, full of colour, great depth, great sense of expansion, and the whole universe is filled with light and colour, is that beautiful? Or only the things that man has made are beautiful. Man has made the cathedrals, the temples, the churches and the various types of mosques all over the world. So man-made things like a painting, poem, a sculpture, a building, which are all mad-made, and therefore are they beautiful? That is, is man the measure of beauty? Or man is the measure of all things. Do we understand each other or...

We are asking to find out what is beauty. It is a very complex question and requires a great sensitivity to find out for ourselves what is beauty. You see a marvellous sunset, the early morning rise of the sun over the trees, or you see a great mountain against a clear blue sky, tender, quiet, silent, great beauty, great sense of tremendous dignity, a sense of wonder. When that takes place, that is, when you see a great marvellous thing, what happens when you look at it? When you

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