Fwd: J. Krishnamurti - And the very seeing is the doing and the learning.

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ThePowerOfSilence , viorica w <viorica@z...>

wrote:

 

 

Q: I am confused about what path to follow. There are so many gurus

and self-appointed teachers. Some of them have amazing and

attractive personalities. They seem to speak with authority. They

walk and talk with such confidence.

 

 

 

A:

 

There are so many gurus in the world, the hidden ones and the open

ones. Each of them promises that, through conformity to a certain

system or method, the mind will arrive at that realization of what

truth is; but no system or method – which implies imitation,

conformity, following, and thereby fear – has any significance

whatever for a mind that is enquiring into this whole question of

life, a question which needs such a delicate, highly sensitive

intelligent mind.

 

The guru is supposed to know and you not to know. He is supposed

to be far advanced in evolution and has therefore immense knowledge.

And you, who are down below, are gradually going to come to that

highest form of knowledge. This whole hierarchical system - which

exists not only outwardly in society but also inwardly and among the

so-called gurus - is obviously, when one is enquiring into what is

truth, an illusion.

 

There is no path to truth. There is not your path or my path.

There is no Christian way to it, or Hindu way to it. A 'way' implies

a static process to something which is also static. There is a way

from here to that next village, the village is firmly there, rooted

in the buildings, and there is a road to it. But truth is not like

that, it is a living thing, a moving thing and therefore there can

be no path to it, neither yours nor mine nor theirs.

 

To proceed with this problem, to learn, to see, there must be the

quietness of a mind that is not broken up, that is not torn apart,

that is not tortured. If I want to see something very clearly, the

tree, or the cloud, or the face of a person next to me, to see

clearly without any distortion, the mind must not be chattering,

obviously. The mind must be very quiet to observe, to see. And the

very seeing is the doing and the learning.

 

 

 

(J. Krishnamurti)

 

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