Perhaps, in coming to this point, we have used the conscious mind; we
have followed the argument, we have opposed or accepted it, we have
seen it clearly or dimly. To go further and experience more deeply
requires a mind that is quiet and alert to find out, does it not? It is
no longer pursuing ideas because, if you pursue an idea, there is the
thinker following what is being said and so you immediately create
duality. If you want to go further into this matter of fundamental
change, is it not necessary for the active mind to be quiet? Surely it
is only when the mind is quiet that it can understand the enormous
difficulty, the complex implications of the thinker and the thought as
two separate processes, the experiencer and the experienced, the
observer and the observed. Revolution, this psychological, creative
revolution in which the 'me' is not, comes only when the thinker and the
thought are one, when there is no duality such as the thinker
controlling thought; and I suggest it is this experience alone that
releases the creative energy which in turn brings about a fundamental
revolution, the breaking up of the psychological 'me'.
We know the
way of power - power through domination, power through discipline,
power through compulsion. Through political power we hope to change
fundamentally; but such power only breeds further darkness,
disintegration evil, the strengthening of the 'me'. We are familiar with
the various forms of acquisition, both individually and as groups, but
we have never tried the way of love, and we don't even know what it
means. Love is not possible so long as there is the thinker, the centre
of the 'me'.
(to be continued)
J. Krishnamurti
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