Daily Quote, Saturday February 28, 2009
Good morning.
If you're not here in Halifax I have to tell you that we have a mightly big rain storm this morning. Still, the remembered pleasure of chocolate croisants will, no doubt, get me out the door at to the farmers market very shortly in a moment of total non-awareness! :-)
I'm still reading through The Beginnings of Learning and it's still incredible. I can observe myself literally just looking as I read and in the seeing of what he's saying there is understanding. I can feel what Krishnamurti is talking about when he uses the word "affection." What I'm saying is that I can feel myself reading without an interpretive framework. It's just like Laureen's observation yesterday in the comments to the quote, about the artists. Go and take a look if you didn't read it as it's wonderfully illuminating.
Have a great day wherever you are, or if the events of the day don't make you happy just look at the day without images. Like saying "thank you," I'm getting a bit more sensitive to the structure of my everyday comments. :-)
Robert
Here's the quote:
Do it, and you will see.
Questioner: Sir, if there is no effort, if there is no method, then any transition into the state of awareness, any shift into a new dimension, must be a completely random accident, and therefore unaffected by anything you might say on the subject.
Krishnamurti: Ah, no, sir! I didn't say that. [Laughter] I said one has to be aware. By being aware, one discovers how one is conditioned. By being aware, I know I am conditioned - as a Hindu, as a Buddhist, as a Christian; I am conditioned as a nationalist: British, German, Russian, Indian, American, Chinese - I am conditioned. We never tackle that. That's the garbage we are, and we hope something marvelous will grow out of it, but I am afraid it is not possible. Being aware doesn't mean a chance happening, something irresponsible and vague. If one understands the implications of awareness, one's body not only becomes highly sensitive, but the whole entity is activated; there is a new energy given to it. Do it, and you will see. Don't sit on the bank and speculate about the river; jump in and follow the current of this awareness, and you will find out for yourself how extraordinarily limited our thoughts, our feelings, and our ideas are. Our projections of gods, saviors, and Masters - all that becomes so obvious, so infantile.
Collected Works, Vol. XV - 138
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With the river, I think he's talking about relationship. Go into your relationships and rather than working from knowledge, which is the past, what you know (the river bank), use your intelligence, which is to have "sensitivity all around" and to see the right course to follow (being in the river, in the flow of it).
ReplyDeleteI have seen Krishnamurti lately use the phase skill is action to describe yoga. This might be the point where the two schools of thought (which is not a phrase we can really apply to Krishnamurti's teachings) intersect. But Krishnamurti doesn't accept the yogic version of skill in action. It's not following your dharma, it's just being aware of yourself and seeing the right thing to do; what the facts are saying not what prejudice and conditioning are saying.
A yogi in the Krishnamurti's eyes would always follow his or her intelligence, not a method or a teacher - which is still the past.