The Nature of the New Mind by Krishnamurti

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

28 February

I would like this evening to talk over with you, or rather communicate to you, a rather complex problem. To communicate, one has not only to listen with one’s ears, but also to see with one’s eyes; and really to communicate, one has not only to see with one’s eyes, to hear with one’s ears, but also to see and feel with one’s mind and heart. Because one sees much more with one’s mind—much more rapidly, much more quickly—than the eyes see; and the mind hears much more quickly, with greater precision, than the ear. And to feel, one must see and hear not only with one’s mind, but also with one’s heart, that is, be very sensitive. Most of us, unfortunately, have become insensitive through our education, through modern life, through everyday turmoil, the ugliness and the despair of life, the routine, the boredom, and senseless existence.

And to listen, to see, demands that the mind be astonishingly precise and sharp, that there must be a great sensitivity not only to the word, but to the feeling, to the beauty of something that you hear to be true, and that the mind be equally sensitive when you hear something false, something not right. As most of us are so indifferent, have no time or patience to consider deeply, to investigate profoundly, we resort to the quickest way of communication, that is, just hear a few words and oppose them or agree with those words, opinions, or terms: we deny or accept. This is what we generally do. But when we are discussing something that demands not only that the ear pay attention, but also that the mind and the heart be at attention, sensitivity is necessary if we would communicate together something that demands careful attention.

We are not going to talk about something. ‘About something’ is always an idea. I talk about politics, about religion, about a particular problem. But the ‘about’ is the idea—about politics, about a particular problem, about a particular issue. But when we are communicating together, when we are in communion together, there is no such thing as the ‘about’; there is no idea. You and I are in communion directly, here in the world, seeing, feeling, and the mind listening much more, non-argumentatively, neither accepting nor denying. If you accept or deny, you are not in communion. We must establish communion. And, to establish communion, we must not talk ‘about’ something because always the ‘about’ is the unessential: the word, the opinion, the belief, the dogma. But, if there is communion between the speaker and the listener, then both will go through the words, the terminology, the opinions, the ideas, and come to something which will have tremendous significance to both. What I wanted to talk about—again ‘about’—what I wanted to commune with you, which is the better word, is the nature and significance of meditation.

First of all, the word ‘meditation’ naturally evokes certain images, certain reactions, pleasant or unpleasant. And, as we are

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