search For Peace: The Individual And Society
We need to realise the significance of the individual. Because, to bringabout a damental, religious revolution, one ast cease to think in terms of the iversal, in terms of the collective. ything that is made universal, elective, belonging to everybody, never be true in the sense of ng directly experienced by each Hividual, uninfluenced, without the petus of self-centred interest. We do sufficiently realise the seriousness this. Anything really true must be ally individual-notin the sense of f-centredness, which is very limiting which in itself is evil-in the sense t each one of us must experience for myself, uninfluenced, something ich is not the outcome of any f-centred interest or drive. Today everything is tending wards collective thought: everybody nking alike. Various governments, though they do not compel it, are quietly and sedulously working at it. Organised religions are controlling and shaping the minds of people according to their respective patterns, hoping thereby to bring about a universal morality, a universal experience. But whatever is made universal, in that sense, is always suspect, because it can never be true; it has lost its vitality, its directness, its truth. Yet, throughout the world, we see this tendency to shape and control the mind of man. And it is extraordinarily difficult to free the mind from this false universality and to change oneself without any self-interest. When the mind is completely quiet, without any illusion, without any kind of self-hypnosis, there is the coming into being of something which is not put together by the mind. First there is an awareness, a choice-less observation of all your thoughts and feelings, of everything that you do. Out of that there comes a state of attention which has no frontier, but in which the mind can concentrate, and from this state of attention there is quietness of the mind. And, when the mind is completely quiet, without any illusion or selfhypnosis, there is the coming into eing of something which is not put together by the mind. We all want to find something beyond this world of agony, tyranny, force and subjugation; this world which is so indifferent, callous, brutal. With our ambitions, our nationalisms, diplomacy and lies, we are continually precipitating the horrors of war; and, being weary of all that, we want peace. We want to find somewhere a state of quietness, of bliss, so we invent a God, a saviour, or another world which offers us the peace we want if we will do or believe certain things. But a conditioned mind, however much it may want peace, brings about its own destruction, andthe is what is going on in the world. A politicians whether of the right or ofthe left, use that word 'peace', but it hone meaning at all. What I am talking about is something far beyond all tha So, meditation is the emptying ofmind of all the things that themind hut together. If you do that you willfinthat there is an extraordinary space ithemind, and that space is freedom. Soyuz must demand freedom at the verybeginning, and not just wait, hoping have it at the end. You must seek out tsignificance of freedom in your workin your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.
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search For Peace: The Individual And Society
We need to realise the significance of the individual. Because, to bringabout a damental, religious revolution, one ast cease to think in terms of the iversal, in terms of the collective. ything that is made universal, elective, belonging to everybody, never be true in the sense of ng directly experienced by each Hividual, uninfluenced, without the petus of self-centred interest. We do sufficiently realise the seriousness this. Anything really true must be ally individual-notin the sense of f-centredness, which is very limiting which in itself is evil-in the sense t each one of us must experience for myself, uninfluenced, something ich is not the outcome of any f-centred interest or drive. Today everything is tending wards collective thought: everybody nking alike. Various governments, though they do not compel it, are quietly and sedulously working at it. Organised religions are controlling and shaping the minds of people according to their respective patterns, hoping thereby to bring about a universal morality, a universal experience. But whatever is made universal, in that sense, is always suspect, because it can never be true; it has lost its vitality, its directness, its truth. Yet, throughout the world, we see this tendency to shape and control the mind of man. And it is extraordinarily difficult to free the mind from this false universality and to change oneself without any self-interest. When the mind is completely quiet, without any illusion, without any kind of self-hypnosis, there is the coming into being of something which is not put together by the mind. First there is an awareness, a choice-less observation of all your thoughts and feelings, of everything that you do. Out of that there comes a state of attention which has no frontier, but in which the mind can concentrate, and from this state of attention there is quietness of the mind. And, when the mind is completely quiet, without any illusion or selfhypnosis, there is the coming into eing of something which is not put together by the mind. We all want to find something beyond this world of agony, tyranny, force and subjugation; this world which is so indifferent, callous, brutal. With our ambitions, our nationalisms, diplomacy and lies, we are continually precipitating the horrors of war; and, being weary of all that, we want peace. We want to find somewhere a state of quietness, of bliss, so we invent a God, a saviour, or another world which offers us the peace we want if we will do or believe certain things. But a conditioned mind, however much it may want peace, brings about its own destruction, andthe is what is going on in the world. A politicians whether of the right or ofthe left, use that word 'peace', but it hone meaning at all. What I am talking about is something far beyond all tha So, meditation is the emptying ofmind of all the things that themind hut together. If you do that you willfinthat there is an extraordinary space ithemind, and that space is freedom. Soyuz must demand freedom at the verybeginning, and not just wait, hoping have it at the end. You must seek out tsignificance of freedom in your workin your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are J Krishnamurti kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : J Krishnamurti Speaking Tree,Times of India