Jiddu Krishnamurti - Relationship is a mirror
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: Self-knowledge is not according to any formula.
You may go to a psychologist or a
psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that
is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge,
comes into being when we are aware, of ourselves in
relationship, which shows what we
are from moment to moment.
- Relationship is a mirror
in which to see ourselves as we
actually are. But most of us are incapable of
looking at ourselves as we are in
relationship, because we immediately begin to
condemn or justify what we see. We
judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept,
but we never observe actually what
is, and for most people this seems to be the most
difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the
beginning of self-knowledge.
- If one is able to see
oneself as one is in this extraordinary
mirror of relationship which does not distort, if
one can just look into this mirror with full
attention and see actually what is, be aware of it
without condemnation, without
judgment, without evaluation—and one does this when
there is earnest interest—then one
will find that the mind is capable of freeing itself
from all conditioning; and it is only
then that the mind is free to discover that which
lies beyond the field of thought
- After all, however learned or however petty the mind
may be, it is consciously or
unconsciously limited, conditioned, and any
extension of this conditioning is still within
the field of thought. So freedom is something
entirely different.
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