Jiddu Krishnamurti - This is a very serious
question; we all want security, both physical and
principally, psychological. If we were
psychologically secure, certain, then we might not
be so concerned with physical security. The search
for psychological security is preventing physical
security.
The questioner asks: Is there absolute security for
us human beings? We must have security - like a
child clinging to its mother; if the mother and the
father do not pay enough attention to the baby, do
not give it affection and care, then the brain and
nerves of the baby are affected. The child must have
physical security. Now, why do we demand
psychological security? There is the psyche,
demanding security; but is there psychological
security at all? We want security in our
relationships - my wife, my children, the family
unit. In that attachment we think there is a certain
security, but when we find that there is no security
there we soon break away and try to find it
elsewhere.
We try to find security in a group, in the tribe -
that glorified tribe that is the nation. And yet
that nation is against another nation. Thinking that
security, psychologically, is in a person, in a
country, in a belief, in your own experience, is the
same as demanding physical security. In demanding
psychological security we have divided ourselves:
the Hindu, the Muslim, the Jew, the Arab, the
believer in Jesus, the believer in something else -
in all of them there is the demand for security.
Psychological security has been sought in these
illusions; the various illusions of being secure in
Catholicism, in Buddhism, in Hinduism, in Judaism,
Islam and so on which have created nothing but
illusory securities because they are all fighting
each other. The moment you see this you do not
belong to anything. When you see the truth that the
mind, or thought, has sought security in illusions,
that very perception brings intelligence.
One seeks security in one's belief in Hinduism and
in being a Hindu, with all the nonsensical
superstitions and gods and rituals that are
involved. But that opposes another group of people
who have different superstitions, different gods,
different rituals. These two opposing elements may
tolerate each other but they are essentially
antagonistic. There is conflict between the two and
one has sought security in the one or the other. And
then one realizes that they are both based on
illusions. To see that, is intelligence; it is like
seeing a danger.A man who is blind to danger is an
idiot, there is something wrong with him. But one
does not see the danger of these illusions in which
one seeks security. The man in whom intelligence is
in operation sees the danger. In that intelligence
there is absolute security. Thought has created all
the various forms of illusion - nationalities,
class, different gods, different beliefs, different
dogmas, different rituals and the extraordinary
religious superstitions that pervade the world - and
in them it has sought security. And one does not see
the danger of this security, of this illusion. When
one sees the danger - not as an idea but as an
actual fact - that seeing is intelligence, the
supreme form of absolute security. So there is
absolute security: it is to see the truth in the
false.
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