Observation

Only observation

Got a mail on 11th January, 2010. These were the contents.

Posted:Q:You tell us to observe our actions in daily life but what is the entity that decides what to observe and when? Who decides if one should observe?
Krishnamurti:Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? Do you decide and say, `I am going to observe and learn'? For then there is the question: `Who is deciding?' Is it will that says, `I must'? And when it fails, it chastises itself further and says, `I must, must, must; in that there is conflict; therefore the state of mind that has decided to observe is not observation at all. You are walking down the road, somebody passes you by, you observe and you may say to yourself, `How ugly he is; how he smells; I wish he would not do this or that'. You are aware of your responses to that passer-by, you are aware that you are judging, condemning or justifying; you are observing. You do not say, `I must not judge, I must not justify'. In being aware of your responses, there is no decision at all. You see somebody who insulted you yesterday. Immediately all your hackles are up, you become nervous or anxious, you begin to dislike; be aware of your dislike, be aware of all that, do not `decide' to be aware. Observe, and in that observation there is neither the `observer' nor the `observed' - there is only observation taking place. The `observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation; when you say, `He is my friend because he has flattered me', or, `He is not my friend, because he has said something ugly about me, or something true which I do not like,. That is accumulation through observation and that accumulation is the observer. When you observe without accumulation, then there is no judgement. You can do this all the time; in that observation naturally certain definite decisions are -

J. Krishnamurti 5th Public Talk Saanen 26th July 1970 "Fear and Pleasure" The Collected Works Vol. X

Fear

Can't Stop Plane Attacks

(Readers Letters, Mercury News, 30th December, 2009)

"What will it take to stop next airline attacker?" Queries the headline in Monday's Mercury News (28-12-2009)

That's easy: Close down all the airports, Ground all the flights. Learn to walk, if the bridges are blown up, learn how to wade or swim.

And of course, live in fear and trembling unto death.

Ed Laurie

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JKrishnamurti:

What is fear? Fear is not an abstraction, it does not exist independently, in isolation. it comes into being only in relation to something. In the process of relationship, fear manifests itself; there is no fear apartment from relationship. Now what is it that you are afraid of?

Commentaries on Living (Second Series)

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. The state of non-fear is not negation; it is not the opposite of fear nor is it courage. In understanding the cause of fear, there is its cessation; not the becoming courageous, for in all becoming there is the seed of fear. Dependence on things, on people, or on ideas breeds fear; dependence arises from ignorance, from the lack of self knowledge, from inward poverty; fear causes uncertainty of mind-heart, preventing communication and understanding. Through self-awareness we begin to discover and so comprehend the cause of fear, not only the superficial but the deep casual and accumulative fears. Fear is both inborn and acquired; it is related to the past, and to free thought-feeling from it, the past must be comprehended through the present. The past is ever wanting to give birth to the present which becomes the identifying memory of the “me” and the “mine,” the “I.” The self is the root of all fear.

The Book of Life March 31

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A Light to Oneself!

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" A light to oneself! This light cannot be given by another, nor can you light it at the candle of another. If you light it at the candle of another, it is just a candle, it can be blown out. The very investigation to find out what it means to be a light to oneself is part of meditation."

JKrishnamurti

From the book, "This Light in Oneself True Meditation"

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My Words and Your Action!

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Do not accept anything the speaker is saying. Test it out for yourself. You must become liberated not because of me but inspite of me.

JKrishnamurti

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