Jiddu Krishnamurti: Is it that we are so caught up in our own network
of problems, our own desires, our own urges of
pleasure and pain that we never look around, never
watch the moon? Watch it. Watch with all your eyes
and ears, your sense of smell. Watch. Look as though
you are looking for the first time. If you can do
that, that tree, that bush, that blade of grass you
are seeing for the first time. Then you can see your
teacher, your mother and father, your brother and
sister, for the first time. There is an
extraordinary feeling about that: the wonder, the
strangeness, the miracle of a fresh morning that has
never been before, never will be.
Be really in communion with nature, not verbally
caught in the description of it, but be a part of
it, be aware, feel that you belong to all that, be
able to have love for all that, to admire a deer,
the lizard on the wall, that broken branch lying on
the ground. Look at the evening star or the new
moon, without the word, without merely saying how
beautiful it is and turning your back on it,
attracted by something else, but watch that single
star and new delicate moon as though for the first
time. If there is such communion between you and
nature then you can commune with man, with the boy
sitting next to you, with your educator, or with
your parents. We have lost all sense of relationship
in which there is not only a verbal statement of
affection and concern but also this sense of
communion which is not verbal. It is a sense that we
are all together, that we are all human beings, not
divided, not broken up, not belonging to any
particular group or race, or to some idealistic
concepts, but that we are all human beings, we are
all living on this extraordinary, beautiful earth.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and looked out
of the window, or gone out on the terrace and looked
at the trees and the spring dawn? Live with it.
Listen to all the sounds, to the whisper, the slight
breeze among the leaves. See the light on that leaf
and watch the sun coming over the hill, over the
meadow. And the dry river, or that animal grazing
and those sheep across the hill watch them. Look at
them with a sense of affection, care, that you do
not want to hurt a thing. When you have such
communion with nature, then your relationship with
another becomes simple, clear, without conflict.
This is one of the responsibilities of the educator,
not merely to teach mathematics or how to run a
computer. Far more important is to have communion
with other human beings who suffer, struggle, and
have great pain and the sorrow of poverty, and with
those people who go by in a rich car. If the
educator is concerned with this he is helping the
student to become sensitive, sensitive to other
people's sorrows, other people's struggles,
anxieties and worries, and the rows that one has in
the family. It should be the responsibility of the
teacher to educate the children, the students, to
have such communion with the world. The world may be
too large but the world is where he is; that is his
world. And this brings about a natural
consideration, affection for others, courtesy and
behaviour that is not rough, cruel, vulgar.
The educator should talk about all these things, not
just verbally but he himself must feel it the world,
the world of nature and the world of man. They are
interrelated. Man cannot escape from that. When he
destroys nature he is destroying himself. When he
kills another he is killing himself. The enemy is
not the other but you. To live in such harmony with
nature, with the world, naturally brings about a
different world.
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