You cannot find truth through anybody else
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: You cannot find truth through anybody else. How
can you? Truth is not something static; it has no
fixed abode; it is not an end, a goal. On the
contrary, it is living, dynamic, alert, alive. How
can it be an end? If truth is a fixed point it is no
longer truth; it is then a mere opinion. Truth is
the unknown, and a mind that is seeking truth will
never find it, for mind is made up of the known, it
is the result of the past, the outcome of time -
which you can observe for yourself.
- Mind is the
instrument of the known, hence it cannot find the
unknown; it can only move from the known to the
known. When the mind seeks truth, the truth it has
read about in books, that 'truth' is self-projected;
for then the mind is merely in pursuit of the known,
a more satisfactory known than the previous one.
- When the mind seeks truth, it is seeking its own
self-projection, not truth. After all, an ideal is
self-projected; it is fictitious, unreal. What is
real is what is, not the opposite. But a mind that
is seeking reality, seeking God, is seeking the
known. When you think of God, your God is the
projection of your own thought, the result of social
influences. You can think only of the known; you
cannot think of the unknown, you cannot concentrate
on truth.
- The moment you think of the unknown, it is
merely the self-projected known. God or truth cannot
be thought about. If you think about it, it is not
truth. Truth cannot be sought: it comes to you. You
can go only after what is known. When the mind is
not tortured by the known, by the effects of the
known, then only can truth reveal itself. Truth is
in every leaf, in every tear; it is to be known from
moment to moment. No one can lead you to truth; and
if anyone leads you, it can only be to the known.
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Truth can only come to the mind that is empty of the
known. It comes in a state in which the known is
absent, not functioning. The mind is the warehouse
of the known, the residue of the known; for the mind
to be in that state in which the unknown comes into
being, it must be aware of itself, of its previous
experiences, the conscious as well as the
unconscious, of its responses, reactions, and
structure.
- When there is complete self-knowledge,
then there is the ending of the known, then the mind
is completely empty of the known. It is only then
that truth can come to you uninvited. Truth does not
belong to you or to me. You cannot worship it. The
moment it is known, it is unreal. The symbol is not
real, the image is not real; but when there is the
understanding of self, the cessation of self, then
eternity comes into being.
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