Where Can Peace Be Found? by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundations
Published: 2014-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Can the Brain Be Totally Free?

The act of listening is very important if we are going to explore, to think together, into the whole problem of our present-day existence. One must listen very carefully, not only to what is being said but also to our own reactions to what is being said, our reactions of approval or disapproval, our sense of restrictions, our resistances, our fears, and all the complexities of our reactions to any form of stimulation.

We are very circumscribed, limited, so limited that most of us are unaware of it. Our brains have been so programmed and conditioned. We are conditioned, shaped, molded by the environment, by tradition, by religion, by the solitude of our own illusions, our own imaginations, the solitude of our own aspirations. Having listened to a great many people talk about the brain, specialists and others, one perceives that through the long process of evolution our brains are very limited. Apparently only a very small part of it acts or thinks or lives, the rest is in abeyance. We can see for ourselves without relying on experts that our life is very small. We are so concerned with ourselves, with our success, with our miseries, and all the turmoil of our own limited life, the sorrow, the pain, the anxiety, the various forms of reaction that arise from our prejudices, our biases, our tendencies. All this does condition our brain, and so we never have the awareness of the whole of life, the whole of existence that is vast, immeasurable and tremendously potent.

Inquiry by itself has very little meaning. Inquiring into ourselves, into our environment, into the state of the world merely intellectually or out of curiosity, to acquire information, has very little effect on our lives; it is a waste of time and energy. But could we inquire easily and happily into ourselves, into the quality of our own life, into the nature of our behavior, into the whole process of our thought, into the way of our thinking, why we think the way we do, why human beings who have lived on this beautiful earth for so many millennia are still what they are, unhappy, violent, ready to kill each other for some idiotic reasons?

Could we look at this whole world in which we live, the world that we have created? This society is the result of our own complex life. You are conditioned by health, by environment, by culture, by nationalism, and so on. Unless we break through all this conditioning, we will go on as we have been going on for thousands of years. Violence will go on, corruption, each one isolated, seeking his own fulfillment and pursuing his own ambitions. And where there is isolation there must be conflict! It is no good merely talking about ideas, expressions, reactions, but can we go into this with tremendous energy, vitality, and see if it is possible to break down this conditioning so that the brain will have immense capacity?

The brain

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