Idle musings: Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation. Seeing the problem and attempting to fix it, is akin to employing a fox to protect the chickens. ~Krishnamurti
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You can never understand what you are.
Understanding is only more thought hoopla.
When the need to change oneself, the world, anything is absent……..the need for any transformation is absent. This absence cannot be achieved, cannot be cultivated, cannot be experienced cannot be reached and thus cannot be made into an objective to be attained.
And that is why the mind cannot establish a relationship with it, for it is not of the domain of mentation.
We listen with hope and fear; we seek the light of another but are not alertly passive to be able to understand. If the liberated seems to fulfill our desires we accept him; if not, we continue our search for the one who will; what most of us desire is gratification at different levels.
We do not desire gratification at different levels. The very desire for gratification whether it is of the liberation type or sensual or physical….is the very sense of a “we” or “me”.
What is important is not how to recognize one who is liberated but how to understand yourself.
The positing of a “how” is to have a apriori issue to be resolved.
An issue can only exist for an entity.
And it’s back to the same round and round the mulberry bush.
Author: Sandeep