The means is the end - by J. Krishnamurti

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Since there's *Now* only, the " means " (which is one's activity which is

one's experience) being the " end " (which is one's activity which is

one's experience) is quite obvious!

 

Michael

 

Means and End Are One - by J. Krishnamurti

 

For the attainment of liberation, nothing is necessary. You cannot

attain it through bargaining, through sacrifice, through elimination; it

is not a thing that you can buy. If you do these things, you will get a

thing of the marketplace, therefore not real. Truth cannot be bought,

there is no means to truth; if there is a means, the end would not be

truth, because means and end are one, they are not separate. Chastity as

a means to liberation, to truth, is a denial of truth. Chastity is not a

coin with which you buy it. . .

 

Why do we think chastity is essential? . . . What do we mean by sex? Not

merely the act but thinking about it, feeling about it, anticipating it,

escaping from it—that is our problem. Our problem is sensation, wanting

more and more. Watch yourself, don't watch your neighbor. Why are your

thoughts so occupied with sex? Chastity can exist only when there is

love, and without love there is no chastity. Without love, chastity is

merely lust in a different form. To become chaste is to become something

else; it is like a man becoming powerful, succeeding as a prominent

lawyer, politician, or whatever else—the change is on the same level.

That is not chastity but merely the end result of a dream, the outcome

of the continual resistance to a particular desire. . . . So, chastity

ceases to be a problem where there is love. Then life is not a problem,

life is to be lived completely in the fullness of love, and that

revolution will bring about a new world.

 

- J. Krishnamurti