Becoming

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ALL BECOMING IS DISINTEGRATION:

 

The mind has an idea, perhaps pleasurable, and it wants to be like

that idea, which is a projection of your desire. You are this, which

you do not like, and you want to become that, which you like. The

ideal is a self-projection; the opposite is an extension of what is;

it is not the opposite at all, but a continuity of what is, perhaps

somewhat modified. The projection is self-willed, and conflict is the

struggle towards the projection.... You are struggling to become

something, and that something is part of yourself. The ideal is your

own projection. See how the mind has played a trick upon itself. You

are struggling after words, pursuing your own projection, your own

shadow. You are violent, and you are struggling to become nonviolent,

the ideal; but the ideal is a projection of what is, only under a

different name.When you are aware of this trick which you have played

upon yourself, then the false as the false is seen. The struggle

towards an illusion is the disintegrating factor. All conflict, all

becoming is disintegration. When there is an awareness of this trick

that the mind has played upon itself, then there is only what is.

When the mind is stripped of all becoming, of all ideals, of all

comparison and condemnation, when its own structure has collapsed,

then the what is has undergone complete transformation. As long as

there is the naming of what is, there is relationship between the

mind and what is; but when this naming process -which is memory, the

very structure of the mind- is not, then what is is not. In this

transformation alone is there integration.

 

J.Krishnamurti THE BOOK OF LIFE FEB 2