The Impossible Question by Krishnamurti

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

2 August 1970

DIALOGUE 2

Recapitulation. Fears prevent mature growth. Do we see the effects of fear or only know about them? The difference between fear as a memory and actual contact with fear. Dependence and attachment caused by fear of man’s emptiness and nothingness. Uncovering loneliness and shallowness. The futility of escapes. ‘Who is aware of the emptiness?’

KRISHNAMURTI: Yesterday we were talking about fear and the necessity of knowing oneself. I don’t know if one sees the great importance of understanding the nature and structure of oneself. As we said, if there is no comprehension, not intellectual or verbal, but an actual understanding of what one is and the possibility of going beyond it, we must inevitably bring about confusion and contradiction in ourselves, with activities that will lead to a great deal of mischief and sorrow. So it is absolutely essential that one should understand, not only the superficial layers of oneself, but the total entity, all the hidden parts. And I hope in communicating with each other, in understanding this whole problem together, we shall be able to see, actually, not theoretically, if through self-knowledge the mind can go beyond its own conditioning, its own habits, its own prejudices and so on.

We were also talking about learning about oneself. Learning implies a non-accumulative movement; there is no movement if there is accumulation. If the flowing river ends up in a lake there is no movement. There is movement only when there is a constant flow, a strong current. And learning implies that; learning not only about outward things and scientific facts, but also learning about oneself, because ‘oneself’ is a constantly changing, dynamic, volatile being. To learn about it past experiences in no way help; on the contrary, the past puts an end to learning and therefore to any complete action. I hope we saw this very clearly: that we are dealing with a constantly living movement of life, a movement which is the ‘me’. To understand that ‘me’, which is so very subtle, there needs to be an intense curiosity, a persistent awareness, a sense of non-accumulative comprehension. I hope we are able to communicate with each other about this whole question of learning.

That is where our trouble is going to be, because our mind likes to function in grooves, in patterns, from a fixed conclusion or a prejudice, or from knowledge. The mind is tethered to a particular belief and from there it tries to understand this extraordinary movement of the ‘me’. Therefore there is a contradiction between the ‘me’ and the observer.

We were also talking about fear, which is part of this total movement of the ‘me’; the ‘me’ which breaks up life as a movement, the ‘me’ which separates itself as the ‘you’ and the ‘me’. We asked, ‘What is fear?’ We are going to learn non-accumulatively about fear; the very word ‘fear’ prevents coming into contact with that feeling of danger which we call fear. Look, Sirs, maturity implies a total, natural development of

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