The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume 08 (1953-1955): What Are You Seeking? by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Fourth Talk in Bombay

We have been talking, the last three times we have met here, of the importance of a religious revolution. I mean by religion not dogma, not belief, not rituals. Nor does revolution consist of substituting one belief for another, but is a total revolution in our thinking, and this revolution is really the freedom from the known. I would like, if I can this evening, to go into this question because it seems to me that any activity from the known is not a change, not a radical transformation at all. It is merely a modified continuity of what has been known. Most of the political, economic, social revolutions or even the so-called scientific revolutions are always the continuity of the known.

I would like, if I can, to commune with you. I am using that word commune expressly, for it seems to me that it is not a matter of mere mental exchange of ideas, of trying to persuade one to a particular point of view, of trying to lay out a blueprint for action. To commune with each other is really quite a different thing because we must both be interested in the subject at that same time and at the same level. Communion is not possible if you are interested in something and I in something else, and we talk; then there is no communion—communion is only possible when both of us, you and I together, at the same time and at the same level, are interested not merely to listen to the verbal expression but also to commune with each other at a deeper level of consciousness over things that cannot merely be put into words. That means a great deal of insight, penetration. There is no communion possible if you are obstructing the significance by a series of screens, objections, ideals, or prejudices.

There is communion only when we both love, together at the same time, at the same level, and that love is not possible if we remain at the verbal expression or at the argumentative level. We have to use words to communicate. I think it is possible, if we are interested, if we love the thing we talk about, to go beyond the verbal expression and to commune with each other over things that are of vital importance; then that communion is neither yours nor mine, it is understanding; it is the perception of that which is real, true—which is not personal, of the group, of the nation, neither Western nor Eastern.

I think it is very important to know how to commune with each other, especially in matters that are of great significance and importance. There is no communion if we do not love the thing about which we are talking, if we do not give our whole mind and heart to the thing into which we are inquiring. Such love does not demand the effort of attention; it demands that state of easy, open loving, that attention which you pay when you are absorbed in something.

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