There is No Thinker Only Thought by J. Krishnamurti

Author:J. Krishnamurti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation America

Eleventh Talk in London

We were talking last time about meditation and beauty, and I think if we could go back into it a little, we could then go on with what I want to discuss this time.

We were saying that there is beauty, a feeling of beauty beyond the senses, a feeling not provoked by the things put together by man or by nature. It is beyond these, and if one were to pursue the inquiry into what is beauty—which is not merely subjective or objective—one would come to that same intense awareness of the feeling of beauty that one comes to through meditation. I think that meditation, the meditative mind, is absolutely essential. We went into it fairly thoroughly and saw that a meditative mind is an inquiring mind which goes through the whole process of thought and is capable of going beyond the limitations of thought.

Perhaps for some of us it is extremely difficult to meditate, and it may be that we have not thought about the matter at all. But if one has gone carefully into this question of meditation—which is not self-hypnosis or imagination or the awakening of visions and all that immature business—one comes invariably, I think, to that same feeling, to that same intensity as when the mind is capable of perceiving what is beautiful, unprovoked. And a mind that is silent, still, and in that intensity discovers a state which is not bound by time and space.

I would like to talk this time about what is the religious mind. As we have been saying from the beginning of these informal talks, we are trying to communicate with each other, we are taking a journey together. Therefore you are not listening to the speaker with prejudice, with favor, with likes or dislikes; you are listening to find out for yourself what is true. And to find out what is true, caught as one is in so much false, immature thought, hope, and despair, one must not accept anything at all of what the speaker is saying. One has to investigate, explore; and that requires a free mind—not merely the reaction of a prejudiced, opinionated mind, but a really free mind which is not anchored to any particular belief, dogma, or experience, but which is capable of following a fact very clearly and precisely. And to follow facts requires a very subtle mind. As we were saying the other day, a fact is never static, never still; it is always moving—whether it is the fact that one observes within oneself, or it is an objective fact. The observation of a fact demands a mind that is capable, precise, logical, and above all, free to pursue.

It seems to me that in this present world, with all its confusions, misery, and turmoil, the scientific mind and the religious mind are necessary. Those, surely, are the only two real states of mind—not the believing mind, not the conditioned mind, whether it is conditioned by the dogma of Christianity, Hinduism, or by any other belief or religion.

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