RE: J.K.: On Being - Ramana On Being

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" Be as You are " - Ramana

" Just be " - Ramana

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Nisargadatta [Nisargadatta ]On

Behalf Of Werner Woehr

Friday, April 29, 2005 1:21 PM

Nisargadatta

J.K.: On Being

 

 

Look, sirs: most of us are petty people, with very shallow minds;

and the thinking of a narrow, shallow mind can only lead to further

misery. A shallow mind cannot make itself deep; it will always be

shallow, petty, envious. What it can do is to realize the fact that

it is shallow, and not make an effort to alter it. The mind sees that

it is conditioned, and has no urge to change that conditioning,

because it understands that any compulsion to change is the result of

knowledge, which is partial; therefore it is in a state of

perception. It is perceiving what is. But generally what happens?

Being envious, the mind exercises thought to get rid of envy, thereby

creating the opposite as non-envy; but it is still within the field

of thought. Now, if the mind perceives the state of envy without

condemning or accepting it, and without introducing the desire to

change, then it is in a state of perception; and that very perception

brings about a new movement, a new element, a totally different

quality of being.

You see, sirs, words, explanations and symbols are one thing,

and being is something entirely different. Here we are not concerned

with words, we are concerned with being - being what we actually are,

not dreaming of ourselves as spiritual entities, the Atman and all

that nonsense, which is still within the field of thought, and

therefore partial. What matters is being what you are - envious - and

perceiving that totally; and you can perceive it totally only when

there is no movement of thought at all. The mind is the movement of

thought - and it is also the state in which there is complete

perception, without the movement of thought. Only that state of

perception can bring about a radical change in the ways of our

thinking; and then thinking will not be mechanistic.

 

J. Krishnamurti

 

 

 

 

 

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