Truth and Actuality by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788187326182
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Amazon: 0060648759
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1980-09-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 : DIALOGUE II

“Are you facing in yourself what actually is going on? And can you observe another without the past—without all the accumulated memories, insults, hurts—so that you can look at another with clear eyes?”

Questioner (1): You were going to speak on what is creation; could you say something about creative intelligence?

Q (2): Is there any reality in the belief in reincarnation? And what is the nature and quality of the meditative mind?

Q (3): What is the difference between denial and suppression of habits?

Q (4): You were saying that for the mind to function sanely one must have great security, food and shelter. This seems logical. But it seems that in order to try and find a way to having this security one encounters the horrors and the difficulties which make things so hard and impossible sometimes. What is the right action in this connection?

Krishnamurti :I don’t quite follow this.

Q: How are we to live to have this basic security without taking part in all the horrors that are involved in it?

Krishnamurti :You are asking, what is correct action in a world that is chaotic, where there is no security and yet one must have security. What is one to do? Is that the question?

Q (5): I have a question which, when I ask it of myself, I always come up against a wall. I say, “I am the observer” and I would like to see the whole of the observer. I cannot see the whole of the observer because I can only see in fragments. So how is the observer to see the whole of the observer unless there is no observer? How can the observer see the observer with no observer?

Krishnamurti :How can one see the whole of the observer and can the observer watch himself as the observer. Is that the question?

Q (6): This is about the state of mind in observation. Now when a situation occurs, what holds one to the observation that the observer is not different from what is observed? There seems a lack of attention at the moment, at that point; but that attention requires a tremendous vitality that we don’t have.

Krishnamurti :Have I understood the question rightly? We do not have enough energy to observe wholly. Is that it?

Q: Yes.

Krishnamurti :Now which of these questions shall we talk over together?

Q (7): May I ask a question? Can an act of willpower—I think you call it an act of friction—can this generate the vitality or the passion?

Krishnamurti :Can will generate sufficient energy to see clearly? Would that be right?

Q: Yes.

Q (8): What happens to the brain and the process of thought during hypnosis? For medical reasons we use hypnosis. What is the process of thought in that particular case?

Krishnamurti :We have got so many questions. What shall we begin with? The observer?

Q: Yes.

Krishnamurti :To see the whole of the observer one needs energy and how is that energy to be derived? How is that energy to be acquired? And will that

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