Krishnamurti - 1983 by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

3rd Public Talk

Shall we continue with what we were talking about the day before yesterday? I think we ought to, if I may point out seriously, that you are not seeking help from the speaker. There is no help outside of ourselves. If that is clearly understood that no political or religious or every type of guru with their systems and theories, trying to help people, or trying to do good – we have had all those things before during the last millennia upon millennia. So there is no help from outside. There is no, if I may use the word – the Christian word – salvation – it is rather an ugly word – outside, through anybody, through any system, through any theological concept, either of the Communist or the Democratic and so on. So one has to completely rely on oneself. Totally be responsible for ourselves – what we do, what we think, and not blame all that we do on others, or the environment, or on heredity, or on genetic process. We have played with all those things endlessly in different forms. We have pursued every kind of philosophy. And we have great faith in something or other. That is always something outside – a symbol, a person, a conclusion, an idea. And they have all failed because after millennia upon millennia we are what we are now. It is not the past generation that has produced the chaotic world, they have helped, but we are also adding to it.

So if we could together bear that in mind – no book, no theory, no person, no symbol, including the speaker. I am not excluding the speaker because one has to be very careful not to be influenced by him, not to be stimulated by him, not to rely perhaps on his clarification. And if that is absolutely, fundamentally clear, that there is no outside help to discover what we are, what human beings have become after all these centuries of evolution – brutal, violent, you know the whole business. You cannot blame it on anybody, or go back to the past and try to find out the various causes and there are multiple causes, and we can quarrel over those causes endlessly. But the fact remains: we are what we are now, after millennia of evolution, thousands of years of evolution. So if that is clear as two friends talking over together, we are two friends, actual friends. That is what the speaker feels about friends. And we can talk about things, neither influencing each other, nor dominating each other, having no faith in each other, but as two friends who have known each other for some time who are discussing, talking over the human problem, because that is far more important than the technological problem. The psychological problems, unless they are resolved, always overwhelm the technological issues, problems – right? You may have a marvellous technological world, mechanical world, the computer, but the human psyche overcomes the computer.

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