Sri Bruce/Krishnamurti

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Beautiful Krishnamurti dialogue Bruce. Simple, direct, and precisely

to the point! Thanks for sharing.

Two Eyes - One Sight!

Love to all

Harsha

Bruce Morgen

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Question: I am contaminated by society. How am I to be free of that

contamination? K: Surely, the question is not how to be free of

that contamination, for then you merely create another conflict,

another problem. The 'I' is not contaminated by society; it is the

contamination. The 'I' is a thing that has been put together through

conflict, through envy, through ambition and the desire for power,

through agony, guilt, despair. And is it possible for that 'I' to

dissolve itself without conflict? These are not theoretical or

theological questions. If one is at all serious about understanding

oneself, one sees that any effort to dissolve the 'I' has a motive;

it is the result of a reaction, and therefore still part of the 'I'.

So what is to be done? One can see the fact and not do a thing about

it. The fact is that every thought, every feeling, is the result of

society with its ambitions, its envies, its greeds; and this whole

process is the 'I'. The very act of seeing this process in its

entirety is its dissipation; you do not have to make an effort to

dissipate it. To see something poisonous is to leave it alone. J.

Krishnamurti, June 10, 1962, London, England

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:11:00 -0400 "Harsha" <harsha-hkl writes:

> Beautiful Krishnamurti dialogue Bruce. Simple, direct, and precisely

to the

> point!

 

Yes, at his best that was

Krishnaji's most remarkable

skill.

> Thanks for sharing.

 

My privilege and joy to do so.

> Two Eyes - One Sight!

 

Yes, there is only One!

> Love to all

> Harsha

 

V'yimru, omayn -- Bruce

 

 

 

Bruce Morgen [editor]

Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:14 AM

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Question: I am contaminated by society. How

am I to be free of that contamination?

 

K: Surely, the question is not how to be free of

that contamination, for then you merely create

another conflict, another problem. The 'I' is not

contaminated by society; it is the contamination.

The 'I' is a thing that has been put together

through conflict, through envy, through ambition

and the desire for power, through agony, guilt,

despair. And is it possible for that 'I' to dissolve

itself without conflict?

 

These are not theoretical or theological questions.

If one is at all serious about understanding oneself,

one sees that any effort to dissolve the 'I' has a

motive; it is the result of a reaction, and therefore

still part of the 'I'. So what is to be done? One can

see the fact and not do a thing about it. The fact is

that every thought, every feeling, is the result of

society with its ambitions, its envies, its greeds; and

this whole process is the 'I'. The very act of seeing

this process in its entirety is its dissipation; you do

not have to make an effort to dissipate it. To see

something poisonous is to leave it alone.

 

J. Krishnamurti, June 10, 1962, London, England

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