There Is Neither Good Nor Bad, Only Love
We have to observe obviously, not only our lives but also what is going on around us-the isery, the conflict, the violence, the traordinary sense of despair, the arrow, the meaningless existence nat one leads. And to escape from at we resort to all kinds of fanciful, sectarians beliefs. Gurus are multiplying like mushrooms all over the world. They e bringing their own particular fancy, eir traditions and imposing it on cheers; that is not religion. That is sheer owsense, traditional acceptance of hat has been, what is dead and put to different words and different rcumstances. So it becomes very important, it seems to me, not only that we must bring Doubt a change in the world outside us, t also a total revolution psychologically, inwardly. That seems to me the most urgent and necessary thing. That change will bring about naturally and inevitably, a change in the social structure, in our relationship, in our whole activity of life. Understand conflict To understand conflict, we must understand relationship, and the understanding of relationship does not depend on memory, on habit, on what has been or what should be. It depends on choice-less awareness from moment to moment, and if we go into it deeply, we shall see that in that awareness there is no accumulative process at all. The moment there is accumu emulation, there is a point from which to examine, and that point is conditioned; and hence, when we regard relationship from affixed point, there must be pain here must be conflict. I wonder if there is such a thing as evil? Please give your attention, go with me, let us enquire together. We say there is good and evil. There is envy and love, and we say that envy is evil and love is good. Why do we divide life, calling this good and that bad, thereby creating the conflict of the opposites? Not that there is no envy, hate, brutality in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, love, but why do we divide life into the thing called good and the thing called evil? Is there not actually only one thing, which is a mind that is inattentive? Surely, when there is complete attention, that is,when the mind is totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or good; there is only an awakened state. Goodness then is not a quality, novirtue, it is a state of love. When therlove, there is neither good nor bad, this only love. When you really love somebody,you are not thinking of goor bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is the cessation of complete attention, of lothat there comes the conflict betweerwhat i am and what i should be. Then that which i am is evil, and that whicshould be is the so-called good. You watch your own mind and you will see that the moment the mind ceases to think in terms of becoming something, there is a cessation of actwhich is not stagnation; it is astate of total attention, which is goodness. (Courtesy: KFI.)
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There Is Neither Good Nor Bad, Only Love
We have to observe obviously, not only our lives but also what is going on around us-the isery, the conflict, the violence, the traordinary sense of despair, the arrow, the meaningless existence nat one leads. And to escape from at we resort to all kinds of fanciful, sectarians beliefs. Gurus are multiplying like mushrooms all over the world. They e bringing their own particular fancy, eir traditions and imposing it on cheers; that is not religion. That is sheer owsense, traditional acceptance of hat has been, what is dead and put to different words and different rcumstances. So it becomes very important, it seems to me, not only that we must bring Doubt a change in the world outside us, t also a total revolution psychologically, inwardly. That seems to me the most urgent and necessary thing. That change will bring about naturally and inevitably, a change in the social structure, in our relationship, in our whole activity of life. Understand conflict To understand conflict, we must understand relationship, and the understanding of relationship does not depend on memory, on habit, on what has been or what should be. It depends on choice-less awareness from moment to moment, and if we go into it deeply, we shall see that in that awareness there is no accumulative process at all. The moment there is accumu emulation, there is a point from which to examine, and that point is conditioned; and hence, when we regard relationship from affixed point, there must be pain here must be conflict. I wonder if there is such a thing as evil? Please give your attention, go with me, let us enquire together. We say there is good and evil. There is envy and love, and we say that envy is evil and love is good. Why do we divide life, calling this good and that bad, thereby creating the conflict of the opposites? Not that there is no envy, hate, brutality in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, love, but why do we divide life into the thing called good and the thing called evil? Is there not actually only one thing, which is a mind that is inattentive? Surely, when there is complete attention, that is,when the mind is totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or good; there is only an awakened state. Goodness then is not a quality, novirtue, it is a state of love. When therlove, there is neither good nor bad, this only love. When you really love somebody,you are not thinking of goor bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is the cessation of complete attention, of lothat there comes the conflict betweerwhat i am and what i should be. Then that which i am is evil, and that whicshould be is the so-called good. You watch your own mind and you will see that the moment the mind ceases to think in terms of becoming something, there is a cessation of actwhich is not stagnation; it is astate of total attention, which is goodness. (Courtesy: KFI.)
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 , of India