To be totally Alone

[Guest guest]

You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the

conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all

the rubbish it has accumulated. To be alone you must die to the past. When you

are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture,

any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who

is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocency that frees

the mind from sorrow.

We carry about with us the burden of what thousands of people have said and

the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that totally is to be alone,

and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young - not in time or age,

but young, innocent, alive at whatever age - and only such a mind can see that

which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

In this solitude you will begin to understand the necessity of living with

yourself as you are, not as you think you should be or as you have been. See if

you can look at yourself without any tremor, any false modesty, any fear, any

justification or condemnation - just live with yourself as you actually are. It

is only when you live with something intimately that you begin to understand it.

 

(Excerpt - J.Krishnamurti. Freedom from the Known, 1968)

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " wwoehr " <wwoehr wrote:

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> You are never alone because you are full of all the memories,

> all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday;

 

" You? "

 

Werner must have meant " me " .

 

Funny the word " you " was used, instead.