If man is transformed inwardly by a mutation of his psyche, it will appear soon on the list of those unfortunate creatures who live a million years or more and then disappear, having failed to adapt . The question remains unanswered whether the evolution of man from monkey was actually a step toward the survival of the species or stage. Only time will tell.
The origin of all problems big or small, lies in the psyche of the individual.
For more than one million of years that man has existed on this planet, his knowledge of the outside world has changed considerably, he increased his power and ability to cope with natural disasters. Internally, in his conscience, man has not changed much. It is very similar to primitive man - fearful and uncertain, forming groups (religious and national), fighting and preparing for war, seeking benefits and hating your neighbor. He is now able to go to the moon and communicate across the globe in minutes, but he still finds difficult to love his neighbor and live in peace. Modern man is brutal, selfish, violent, greedy and possessive like primitive man they were a million years , although it is now able to hide behind nice words and noble thoughts.
This unbalanced development of human beings has led to the edge of his own destruction. It is on the verge of nuclear war, in an imminent global extinction. The power that gave him a growing knowledge was not associated with intelligence and vision appropriate. Why? Why have we not evolved psychologically? Is it because we have not turned our attention inward to understand our minds, our thoughts, our feelings? We are so happy, so dazzled by our deeds, our "progress" in our outer world, we have completely neglected the inner world of our consciousness. humans primitive hatred could have little extent, the power of modern man makes far more devastating and we see the disastrous consequences every day around us.
Better organization of society we might seem to be the answer to this problem. But this is only an illusion deeply rooted. It may be objected, of course, good organization of life everyday, but you can not build a peaceful and nonviolent with millions of individuals who are violent, aggressive and selfish, no matter how you take it. If you have a communist society, you have the violence of communism. If you are a capitalist society, you have the violence of capitalism. You can somehow channel violence, but she always manifest elsewhere. There have been movements of revolutions but the tyranny of man by man has not ceased, it only took other forms.
A truly peaceful, nonviolent, is possible only if the individual becomes psychologically, fundamentally. Any other changes and superficial and temporary. It will never solve the problems, we will only deal for a time, in some cases. Society is what man is. Similarly that a copper bar is characterized by the atoms that constitute it, well a society is characterized by individuals who compose it. All the problems we see in society today reflect the problems of the psyche of the individual. That is why we must concern ourselves with the inner transformation of man and not just the external organization of society.
The individual changes only when changes his conscience. Virtue is not practiced.
All religions have failed in trying to change man. Had they succeeded, we would not have as cruelty, war and hatred. We must examine why religions have failed to change the man and learn from them. According to its essence, every religion has prescribed a path, a set of virtues and vices to be observed to avoid. And man has fought for thousands of years to follow, but it did not work. The practice of virtuous acts does not change by itself the consciousness of man. Practicing kindness premeditated never create a virtuous consciousness. It becomes a matter of effort, finding a purpose in life, a method for self-satisfaction. At the same time, if the heart is good, that goodness will be expressed in every act, every thought, word and deed. It is not then a question of practice. Similarly we can not practice non-violence, as it is aggressive, hateful, violent internally. Otherwise, non-violence becomes a facade, a hypocritical, the manifestation of a calculation. Only by observing the causes of violence in each and eliminating them (not by force but through understanding) that can overcome violence. And when we put an end to the violence we have not need to practice non-violence. Only a lazy mind needs to be disciplined!
So, virtue can not be performed or to be grown. is a state of mind, a consciousness which is reached when there is self-knowledge, understanding, clarity and vision. It can not be achieved by voluntary effort. It requires insight. And this insight is through observation, reflection, through sensitive attention. It is the perception of the truth that frees the consciousness of his ignorance and illusions. It is ignorance that causes the disorder in the psyche. The property must be spontaneous otherwise it is not good. Any change in the external behavior of man, through fear, coercion, discipline, conformity, imitation, and the propaganda does not represent a real change in his consciousness and is both superficial and contradictory.
The truth, liberation and enlightenment can only be acquired through others.
Since time immemorial, man depends on a Guru, a religion or a book to show him the path. Krishnamurti showed that the truth is a pathless land, and no Guru, no way, no belief, no book can take you there. It must be his own light and not seek its light from another. The role of a Guru is simply to show is the individual himself to learn. And the ability to learn is far more important than teaching. In this area, nobody can really teach anything to anyone. Everyone must arrive at the truth by himself and he must begin to know each other. It is impossible to find the true answer to any serious question without first understanding the functioning of its own thought processes, packaging that has been gained from his own experiences, traditions, culture, religion, etc. ... Our beliefs, our opinions, findings, our prejudices prevent us from seeing things in their true perspective because it damages our vision. should be aware of this fact and to question every conclusion that comes to mind because she could not represent the truth. The process of learning takes place when we look at ourselves in this manner with the intent to seek the truth and not just satisfaction. And we must live in this state of research, questioning and doubt throughout his life, without trying to achieve.
What we can receive from the other is a thought, a question, but exploration must be suitable for everyone. Unless you discover the truth for yourself, it does not belong to you, this is a description of the truth. That's what makes the difference between the Buddha and Buddhist philosophy professor. The first is the insight into current consciousness, while the latter has only the description. The man often took the symbol, the word, the concept for the real thing. The true Christian is one who lives by the Sermon on the Mount (and you can do this if you have the Christ consciousness) and not one who simply goes to church to perform all the rituals. A true Buddhist is one who participates in the consciousness of the Buddha and not the one who obeys the Buddhist church. All churches, all organized religions have only succeeded in reducing the great truth to a simple system, a symbol, a ritual. What matters is not the dress, etiquette, but the content of consciousness within. The role of the teacher (Guru) is similar to that of a lamp on the road. We must not sit down and worship the light, we must walk. Krishnamurti constantly emphasized accept or reject what he said was of little importance, it is only when we us ask, examine it and discover for ourselves that all this has value. Since truth and liberation are things to discover for themselves through their own research, any organization that tries to spread "the truth" by a belief, a compliance or that propaganda can not culminate in a future fitness of the mind of the individual and therefore make it slave. A sensible research requires a release of all beliefs, prejudices, hasty conclusions and packaging. It requires a deep self-knowledge. Since truth can not be organized and propagated spiritual organizations that try to do is worthless.
Intellectual understanding is not a real understanding.
We are often satisfied with an intellectual answer to a question and that concludes our research. In this case, intellectual understanding becomes an obstacle to discovering the truth. It is easy to see intellectually that we should not worry when his child is sick. This concern does not help the child. What would help him would be to get a doctor. But this argument logical erase Does our concern? Knowing that anger is a vice prevents us he put us in anger? The truth is much deeper than just simple logic or reason and intellectual answer is incomplete. So an intellectual understanding is insufficient. It may be useful in some cases but it remains superficial. This understanding can be guaranteed by means of the book example, but it's just a thought pattern for the memory and it should not be confused with the truth.
So if intellectual understanding is a limited thing, then what that reveals the truth? To do this, everyone must observed and observe its own process of thinking like a true scientist observes a phenomenon. It does not involve his will, he observes without choice, without leaving his desire to interfere in its observation. When we look this way, in a neutral and passive attention, without desire to quickly form an opinion or a conclusion, while tentative, patiently and with skepticism, to be understood and to understand life, then only we can discover what is true and what is false and the false tomb itself without effort or will. Ignorance then dissolves in the light of understanding.
Without this passionate but objective investigation of itself, its findings, beliefs, attachments, desires and motivations, relate intellectually to a group, to a theory or belief and embrace a cause which she finally ie, has very little value. It is equally foolish to say "my country is the best because I am born." Nevertheless it is this implicit nationalism.
It is tragic that have never been educated to look at us really. We have only been educated to learn about the outside world and deal somehow with his problems. Thus we form knowing much about the outside world but being completely ignorant of ourselves, our desires, ambitions, values and views on life. We can be very competent in our jobs but we are totally embarrassed when we must discern whether the pleasure called happiness, if the desire and attachment are the same thing as love, and why the differences between men become inequalities. There is no question in joy, love, nonviolence and humility, enterprise.
They support research, self-knowledge and understanding, which purifies our consciousness by releasing strong opinions, beliefs or systems of thought. If we look clearly through a careful study and careful that the pursuit of pleasure does not lead to happiness, then our vision of pleasure turns to the source and we abandon the pursuit of pleasure without any effort, sacrifice or punishment. It appears natural austerity completely different from the one we needed the practice. Also if you noticed by his own observation and research, we have not essentially different from other human beings, we share with them the same problems of fear, insecurity, envy, violence, loneliness, pain and selfishness that operates in our consciousness at all, then we would not feel so different from others. In our ignorance we attribute great importance to superficial differences, such as belief, belonging, knowledge, capability, which are only acquired. We did not ask why we are so important, why we let them divide men, when in fact we share the same consciousness. If you take away a man's comfort, possessions, status, beliefs and knowledge, and that you look into his conscience, is it really different from another human being? As caste, color, faith of a human being does not change the composition of his blood that our gains are mentally or material does not change the content of our consciousness. If we do not we stop to see the reality of this, we really discover the fundamental unity of mankind. Ignorance divides us, not differences.
Conclusion
captive Humanity is a great illusion. She thinks she can solve its problems through legislation, policy reforms and social progress of science and technology, through greater knowledge, greater affluence, more power and control. All this may indeed solve some problems, but these are temporary and superficial problems. They have the same effect as aspirin will not cure the disease. We will continue to create new problems to one side and try to solve the other, to maintain the illusion of "progress". And we have little time, as the disease progresses dizzily, ready to remove the man if man does not become internally by a mutation of his psyche, it will appear soon on the list of these unfortunate creatures who live a million years or more and then disappear, because they could adapt . The question remains unanswered whether the evolution of man from monkey was actually a step toward the survival of the species or stage. Only time will say.
Professor P. Krishna, Rector of the Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi (translated by Mrs. Rubagire) in June 1996. ( 15 years already! And it does not work out ...)
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