creation...

Creation could only occur free of fear, time, thought and therefore conflict. The gestures which have been occurring born of the human mind, the so-called civilizations, have not been creative, but merely false, temporary assertions of the platform of personality which has a stranglehold on life through humankind. They have been one frightened, deluded state after another, always asserting a so-called "new order" - always "protected" by the entertainments of wealth, tradition, religion and adherence to formulas, the violent force of war, killing and despoilment of life with which we have become all too familiar.

We must understand not just the branches of human disorder, but the very root of it. Now look, this is no light matter. Not something that you can read about here as a concept and go back to your life and think about. What I am asking is, what is the actual root of human disorder? And currently all human life is this disorder - humans are at war, despoiling the planet, unable to come together and do the right thing, and yet we talk about, "proud families", national pride, and religious righteousness. People who believe that there is a fixed order that is maintained by politics, tradition, religion or "respectability" are living a delusion. This is the assertion of a dependent mind, a conflicted mind, and such a mind is violent. So what is the root of this? Can we understand, and perhaps it would end in ourselves? Isn't the root of disorder the stranglehold of personality as it separates and maintains its separation from the fact of consciousness? That phenomenon in the human mind by which a secondary entity, the "me" has separated from the fact of consciousness and claims control? Please look at this. There is the fact... the burning "isness" of life, and then there is this sense of "me" from which a sense of ownership emerges, a sense of "control." Is this phenomenon possible? Isn't consciousness factually only one thing? It is.

The key to creation, necessarily free of this stranglehold, would rest in the same place that action would occur if this stranglehold did not exist. Action is action... so, simply living, simply being aware...awareness of the fact of creation, but necessarily with a mind which sees the actual falsness of that sense of "personality," "me," separate from "you." Awareness with a mind that sees the truth: that it IS the fact of creation. Yes, the information in your brain is slightly different from mine, but at the burning point of creation, in which each being must live, any movement of a psychological "me, separate from you," is obviously a conflict in the mind and takes that being out of the fire of creation, and into the process of misery and delusion.

Conflict is like a snare trap where any "attempt to get out of it" makes the trap tighter, more ferocious, more powerful because both the conflict and the attempt have their roots in will - in personal will. The only chance for freedom is in the instantaneous realization that consciousness itself is not based in will. There would be the intelligence required to move freely - there could be no conflict.

the actual end of confusion...

Please... the root of reaction seems so pernicious. So called "artists" full of energy and display, feel called to decry the obvious symptoms of the deluded, confused human mind, but are unable to communicate the actual end of that confusion.

They recognize that the current figurehead of human attachment and knowledge is creating havoc, and so call for its impeachment, but in the same sentiment, they call for a new leader, apparently not realizing that it is the process of dependence with its various figureheads which is the problem, and not simply the figureheads themselves. After all, who is doing the impeaching? Isn't it just a process of changing the figurehead of the process of human control, a process which by its very nature is corrupt? It's like ceaselessly changing the commander of a war vessel, expecting the end of war.

The end of confusion, war and disorder could only arise of a mind which sees the end of conflict in itself... and no leader, personality, experience or regime can bring this about.

what to do?

The question in life is not "what to do?" For who is this separate entity which is standing back from the burning fact of life that thinks it can do something about the fact? It's the "me" isn't it? And what's that? If everything is happening RIGHT NOW, then is it possible that a separate chooser can bring about order in the fact? I don't know if you see the impossiblity of that... and anything it comes up with in terms of "what to do", could only be something created by thought... an image... and that impossible separate entity throws itself into the image, and calls that action.

So... if a question is helpful... if there is a truthful question, then it would be "can life be LIVED free of conflict?" Can the root of conflict be seen and therefore dropped? Can life unfold, be born within its own astonishing accuracy and intelligence? The brilliance of this question is that firstly, you don't know. It implies the truth of the fact that action is not a product based in memory. There's a demand there for finding out... secondly, it equires an understanding of WHAT GETS IN THE WAY OF LIFE, not an image of WHAT TO DO... you see?

being free...

If you could understand what it means to be absolutely free in your situation, well that's all that matters isn't it? And wouldn't that set others free to understand freedom in their situation? Wouldn't your life be somehow deeper, somehow clearer than all of the fearful assertions upon which all disorder and violence takes place?

The pathways of action are so subtle - so immaculately interconnected... the phenomenon of "an idea" with it's "idea maker" is preposterous when it comes to the demand for action... for truthful, absolutely acurate life. The "what to do" is already done... the question is can it be lived? the notion of a separate entity with separate vital information - separate vitality... is false. All knowledge is old... all imagery is old. The way life relates is imaculate and immediate, and so the time taking, separate idea maker is a plague of resistence and delusion in the human mind, a spiraling wasteland.

So, is it possible, right now, for you and me as we read, to be totally clear about the false nature of psychological separation, and therefore to live the crisis of creation without a hint of the platform of control?

Sustaining disorder takes energy...

The energy to manifest disorder is generated by the friction of a mind which is attached. And the branches of human disorder take great amounts of energy to sustain...they are based in the belief that "no one else can come upon creativity either - so we just have to control and manipulate" If the mind were to come upon true creativity, true freedom, there would be not only the bottoming out of the platform of disorder, but also the end of the energy supply which keeps its various expressions going. So... one always seems to be asking what one can do about the disorder that is perceived in the world.

So... understand! Only a fire of understanding, of what's there when attachment and reaction is understood, could bring about the kind of change that is necessary if the insanity of humankind is to meet an end.

If there were the understanding of attachment, humans would find it literally impossible to create disorder. Such awareness would be its own totally intelligent, sensitve and creative action.

What matters...

What matters is that you and I, right now, understand what it means to be free of reaction. Not the writer telling you a theory of what it means and you accepting it or rejecting it, but for both of us, the actual understanding of this moment, the actual going through of it which requires an immediate movement free of reaction.

The abomination, the despoilment and the disorder of life, is a toxic fog of reaction, which means no whole action. Which means gestures or negligences which are not born in the truth and of the truth, but born of a mind which translates the truth , the fact, to protect a sense of control. So reaction and therefore disorder has its roots in the human mind. We know all the horrifying symtoms and expressions of this disorder, this reaction, but what is the root? That is our question.

Now before you say, "I don't react, or I'm not going to react," please look. The roots of reaction, if you but look, are the very delusion that is the "ME"... the very platform which says, "I do this or don't do that." Please look at this. Please. The "ME" is that sense of personal choice, personal control, belief, and continuation which has congealed and propagated in the human mind. It IS reaction. It necessarily sees itself as separate or different from the fact of awareness (or in it's separation romantically asserts "I am one with creation"), and so thinks it can act on awareness to change it or "maintain order". This is the churning contradiction and conflict of human life.

If you look, you will see that this apparently separate entity can be nothing but a bundle of memories claiming authority over the actual fact - the misery and conflict that is happening. It can only choose and control from the standpoint of the past, obviously, so everything it chooses and would control into being could only be of memory, and therefore necessarily at odds with what is actually happening... always perpetuating the disorder... never a creative act. That's obvious isn't it? Are you seeing the truth of this? A mind, which is in the truth of this would be like a light which sees the falseness of any movement away from the fact as "me". For such a mind, observation could only take place free of "an observer." Such a mind would be unavailable to the roots of reaction, the "me", and would therefore be an end to the fog of reaction and human disorder. There would be a life of passionate action.

some k...

Observation without reward

Questioner: "I have listened to you for many years and I have become quite good at watching my thoughts and being aware of every thing I do, but I have never touched the deep waters or experienced the transformation of which you speak. Why?"

Krishnamurti: "I think it is fairly clear why none of us do experience something beyond the mere watching. There may be rare moments of an emotional state in which we see, as it were, the clarity of the sky between clouds, but I do not mean anything of that kind. All such experiences are temporary and have very little significance. The questioner wants to know why, after these many years of watching, he hasn't found the deep waters. Why should he find them? Do you understand? You think that by watching your own thoughts you are going to get a reward: if you do this, you will get that. You are really not watching at all, because your mind is concerned with gaining a reward. You think that by watching, by being aware, you will be more loving, you will suffer less, be less irritable, get something beyond; so your watching is a process of buying. With this coin you are buying that, which means that your watching is a process of choice; therefore it isn't watching, it isn't attention. To watch is to observe without choice, to see yourself as you are without any movement of desire to change, which is an extremely arduous thing to do; but that doesn't mean that you are going to remain in your present state. You do not know what will happen if you see yourself as you are without wishing to bring about a change in that which you see. Do you understand?

I am going to take an example and work it out, and you will see. Let us say I am violent, as most people are. Our whole culture is violent; but I won't enter into the anatomy of violence now, because that is not the problem we are considering. I am violent, and I realize that I am violent. What happens? My immediate response is that I must do something about it, is it not? I say I must become non-violent. That is what every religious teacher has told us for centuries: that if one is violent one must become non-violent. So I practise, I do all the ideological things. But now I see how absurd that is, because the entity who observes violence and wishes to change it into non-violence, is still violent. So I am concerned, not with the expression of that entity, but with the entity himself. You are following all this, I hope?

Now, what is that entity who says, `I must not be violent'? Is that entity different from the violence he has observed? Are they two different states? Do you understand, sirs, or is this too abstract? It is near the end of the talk and probably you are a bit tired. Surely, the violence and the entity who says, `I must change violence into non-violence', are both the same. To recognize that fact is to put an end to all conflict, is it not? There is no longer the conflict of trying to change, because I see that the very movement of the mind not to be violent is itself the outcome of violence.

So, the questioner wants to know why it is that he cannot go beyond all these superficial wrangles of the mind. For the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, the mind is always seeking something, and that very search brings violence, competition, the sense of utter dissatisfaction. It is only when the mind is completely still that there is a possibility of touching the deep waters."

Krishnamurti's 6th public talk Ojai, 21st July 1955 from the booklet "Surely, Freedom From the Self is the True Function of Man".

understanding the end of conflict... the beginning of freedom...

Consider "the personal"... I wonder if as you read you see the demand that we look into the truth about the nature and structure of "the personal"... I'm suggesting that all disorder, corruption and misery has its origins in this most false phenomenon...

First off... if I may suggest it, don't get carried away by assumtions about what I mean when I say "the personal"... let's just look... perhaps hesitatingly. I'm not working to propagate or back up some sort of theory, concept or belief. I'm working to live truthfully, to communicate truthfully in relationship so that there can be freedom, so that all people are free of fear, free of conflict... absolutely creative. I'm suggesting that we look into - see if we can be clear about what gets in the way of this... I'm suggesting that we have to understand this, much as we have to understand war, which comes right down to the conflict within ourselves, the grinding cycle of dominance and manipulation. What prevents creative release? What prevents creative action from occuring? What is the orgin, the platform of conflict? Is it possible to see it, and for life to take place free of it?

Isn't the platform of conflict as follows: that fire in the human mind whose presensce creates and perpetuates a sense of "me"? An apparently separate psychological entity? An entity which feels that it has control? You see? There is the fact of this moment, of consciousness... and then there is this thing which says, "me, I am perceiving consciousness, and I can do something about it." Isn't that the conflictual, downward spiral of human activity? Isn't that the platform which prevents the creative, passionate response within the human organism?

I know that for thousands of years we have been conditioned to believe otherwise - that it is "our will" or so-called "divine will through us" that creates civilization. But just look and this is exposed as vain, superficial spin. Why? Because in that scenario, there are two things. There is the fact of consciousness, and then there is that "me" thing, and the "me" is going to do something about the fact of consciousness... This is insane... impossible... life is occurring right now, it is a total movement. What could this separate entity be but the past, deluding itself into a sense of "personal power"? A clump of past images attempting to maintain coherency. It's impossible. I don't know if you see the truth of that.

Most unfortunately, in our delusion, we have created a world where this separate entity does appear to "get its way," however, all one has to do is look and feel to see the falseness of this world, the contradictions and corruptions at work... see that it "gets its way" at the expense of the very foundations of its existence, tearing apart the fragile and complex web of inter-relationships.

The insanity of the personal is inherent in the fact of consciousness, so it isn't "a belief" or a "theory"... not something that "you" have to figure out. Just as in looking, or feeling, one can perceive a cut on the skin, so can one see the falseness of the personal. Seeing the truth of consciousness doesn't have anything to do with belief, or most importantly, a believer. The possibility of the end of misery rests in looking, not looking "for something", but merely looking at WHAT IS because there is no choice! Anything other than what is is a fictitious creation of the past. Action might involve such a creation, but could not be based in it as the mind is trying to do now. No... Freedom rests in understanding, in seeing, in gently questioning so that the grip of personality can find no hold... looking, seeing that indeed, it can't be "me" looking, but that the so-called observer and the observed are ONE. In such seeing, wouldn't there be no choice but for the mind to give rise to a movement which was directly responsible to the fact of the matter, and necessarily free of the past? Look and see!

Understanding war...

People... we have to understand war. Please... we can't continue to live life with the acceptance of war... careful... this doesn't mean we "reject it" either... but let's understand it, and we will see that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. In that seeing, there will be creative action IN LIFE, it wouldn't require being "against war."

The gross manifestations of war are the movement in consciousness which finds someone thinking that it is "okay to kill" to protect a sense of psychological security or a network of people who share the same sense of psychological security... a sense of control... now...look... don't just say "war is wrong", but please look into the root of war in your self - is the root of conflict understood in you!? is the root of war over inside of you? Is it understood in this very moment?! Is the movement which is: the controller, the sense of "psychological security," the "me I am separate from you" - which is fear - which is ownership - which is struggle .... is it over in you?! Otherwise, though you might never swing a fist, you are directly connected to war - to the perpetuation of every gruesome thing which is taking place in consciousness....

Consciousness is a totally interconnected organism, and the human mind's tendency to fall into a sense of "personality" pulls the mind out of meeting that immaculate tension, and into a downward spiral of destruction based in "personal safety"... "control". The human organism is co-opted into a deluded campaign to attain something which by its very nature cannot exist.

It is fashionable to blame men for the horror of humankind because they are the ones who carry out the most obvious form of murder... but the frightened woman who relies on her social structure or nationality or "family" for a sense of psychological security or safety is participating in murder. Her mind is still caught in personal reaction, which is the very essence of violence and brutality. "Personality" with its attendant fear and dependence upon inner and outer violence is the root of all murder, and personality is a fire in the human mind which knows no gender.

Don't say, "I'm gonna live without personality." You can see that that is just more reaction... more continuation... more time... more "me". Understand the fire of personality through observation... only immediate, choiceless awareness could put out the flames of personality. For if you just look, you will see that awareness itself is free of that sense of "me". And such looking is its own intelligent, creative action.

Look...

Look...

Generating reality... living... would be the "hardest" thing... the most demanding thing... not in the sense of struggle or effort... but just look... the FACT of life is immovable..."hard" ... you see!? "Harder" than your sorrow - ALWAYS! because there is no time in creation, no time for a belief, no time for a story... creation involves everything! The so-called "hardship of life". not that it doesn't exist, but to accept it in the sense of "put up with it," is an escape from action into a personal story which is conflict and contradiction...never action.

LIVING must be a ceaseless birth. So... the phenomena of corruption can only be solved IN this giving birth...

which means immediately...
which means no time...
which means no eventual success...

"Success" has to be now or never. You see? Success is a movement NOW. And so you can see that success cannot have "proof". There's no litmus test for true "sucess" or for "peace". Govenments like to say that there will be "peace" in a country once we have killed all the insurgents. Bull shit! One can't be unsuccessful now, "working towards success in the future." So true success would be the quality of mind which immediately sees the nature of the lapse into personality and simply wouldn't do it. Such a mind would be incapable of doing the wrong thing. Such a mind would be highly active, sensitive.

Yes... there will be an eventual this or that, but an eventual this or that that is free of conflict requires intelligence IMMEDIATELY. Not "what you think is intelligent" . Not "what you think is creative." These are but more escapes, more stories. The nature of intelligence and the root of disorder are missed...

Creation is always taken to be a result of will - effort ... a personal affair... as in , I am sorrowful, so I'm gonna do something or not do something about it. This stance, this waiting, this perspective of the "me" which claims authenticity is the subtle root and sickness of human life.

The possibility of order, of total action, is then at once an infinitely complex, and yet totally simple affair. Slogans, vehicles don't touch it. There is a demand for seeing, and for the birth which could only take place in that seeing.

Look. Sorrow is personal... it is the fact, to be sure, but see the end of the personal immediately, and there will be action in regard to sorrow, not more story, the "me and what I do about sorrow"... creation is your birthright and life demands it immediately. The only thing which could deny it is not seeing the falseness of the personal.

So... creation doesn't/couldn't involve a past momentum ... or any belief whatsoever as in "I have created," "I am creating" or "I will create," or "I have seen that , so now I will do something about it."

True co-operation...

The key to true co-operation is the immediate understanding of the root of disorder. If a mind is free to do the right thing, there is no choice - it will do the right thing... now... be careful... the right thing is not a matter of following a course of action... you don't "know" what the right thing is... the right thing could only be a living creation which could only unfold and generate if the mind is free to change and transform absolutely ... and such a mind must be free of a separate centre: the human tragedy of "the me", with its beliefs and preoccupations... So action cannot be about following a course of action - because what's doing the following? A separate entity. And what could the course of action be but a creation based in the past, and therefore old... an insufficient response to the true demands of the present.

Awareness itself is free isn't it?... can a brain simply stay with itself... with the fact... without that sense of "ME" claiming validity, and therefore making gestures?

the market...

In the street today, there were people enjoying the sun, watching other people, shopping, playing. People of all kinds and sorts. You wondered about sorrow... about corruption... about the anxiety of people, the interpersonal tension, about the striving of people... about what was trying to happen... what's trying to happen?... is there a universal order that we can live?

This order could only be the creation of a mind which understood reaction. You see? The fire... the stillpoint that is the explosion of existence that each brain must understand must be necessarily free of RE-action... which means, free of a secondary entity within the brain... you see? Free of an entity which sees itself as separate, and its GONNA DO SOMETHING (OR NOT) ABOUT EXISTENCE. Just look, there is the explosion and profound order that comprises the SHOWN-NESS of existence (WHAT IS is seen), And then typically, and most unfortunately, there is that nugget of stuckness in most brains which is that sense of "ME, I am separate from existence, and what am I gonna do to protect myself, furthur myself, get a sense of control..." Seen?

So, that "nugget", that centre of "control" is reaction... and anything it does is furthur reaction... This whole phenomenon is the misery, the draining unfortunateness of human life.

Now look... The truth of this, if you but look, is shown. So that whole sense of "what I'm gonna do about it," in that seeing, is void... right? Because as we have seen, that's part of reaction.

the controller...

I think it might be worthwhile to look at the nature of "the controller." In life, there is a demand for creativity in relationship. This demand is typically never met, because a centre of control sets itself up in the typical human mind, and energy goes into maintaining an image. Now this is very delicate territory... we are not suggesting that a person be "out of control", we are touching upon that phenomenon of the controller, and if you look, you will see it is a contradictory phenomenon...

For is the controller different or separate from the thing which is to be controlled? Of course not. And what could this controller be but the past? You see? The memories within a particular being working to stay coherent in a completely new present. This process of the controller is the root of human misery and disorder. It works to live in an "unchallenged" repeatable world, and such a world is delusionary, must claw apart the very fabric of existence and be defended with violence. See the truth of this and understand what constitutes action.

can we go into it together?

right now, is it possible that we come together truthfully, freely, and move together in creative exchange? Can we speak and reflect such that every aspect of our being is involved in creation... such that the root of conflict is left behind, such that we are seeing clearly, with no dependence upon belief, dogma, or a sense of control... surely those things must fall away?

If we are going to communicate, which merely means live together, what place has belief? You see? What is belief? Isn't it an idea - a creation of memory, in memory? So surely, no-thing in this brain or that brain, put together and stored up as knowledge and memory and idea can ever BE THE FACT OF WHAT IS HAPPENING? Of course not... and if we are going to communicate, live together, live truthfully and creatively, surely you can see that it must happen in the truth... not in an idea of the truth. So can we see the truth of that... the truth of this moment, and can we stay with it...go into it together? Give rise to action based in truth, not action based in memory, which is mere RE-action?

the ravine...

There was an ease of movement as the weather was warm... the first spring shoots were poking through the dead grass of winter, drinking in the sunlight. The trees were shining and you marvelled at the light and line of the forest.. even this small patch of ravine in this enormous city. Sitting on the riverbank, there was what at first seemed like enormous pain, but only from one tiny perspective... a pespective which moved itself through as you sat, hearing the river. Watching the spirited explorations of a muskrat swimming thorough the water.
In the cafe, there were students working on laptops, a business person interviewing another about "fifteen hundred and eighty-one units that they had for sale". A group of four young women, making plans to go out for dinner. The baristas seemed tired and strained. What is this burden that people carry? The quiet desperation? What is the root of it? We can take no more explanations, no more conclusions, no more "beliefs" which paste over the pain, the contradiction.
It is not possible to piece together a life that is truly creative. A truly creative life can only be born in a mind which understands and therefore has nothing to do with reaction, with choice. Because what is the chooser? You will say it is the witness, or the higher self, or God, or my inner knowing... but that is all fiction... the "chooser" can only be the past, trying to maintain itself in the present. The chooser and its process are an incomplete, contradictory phenomena which never produces action. It is a deluded process of consuption and conflict... both inner and outer.

Understanding RE-action...

Inherent in that word RE-ACTION is that sense of "again"... like RE-PEAT - and so reaction exposes itself for what it is - a repeated action. So... this is not ACTION is it? Life requires movement which is fresh and new... whole action. Typically, however, our lives are based in reaction... "THIS IS WHAT I DO, THIS IS HOW I HANDLE THIS SITUATION", we are like machines... repeating, repeating, always protecting a false sense of control, never living with a sense of universal integrity... our lives are contradictory. If we could understand RE-ACTION at its root - perhaps ACTION might be there.

Is there a movement which has never been made before?
Doesn't this require a very different mind? A mind which is free to feel, to look? Free to "not know" what is going to happen? What gets in the way of feeling, looking? Isn't it that sense of "me, I am separate, I am busy or not busy, I am the chooser, the controller?"

Can a mind come up against that? Understand that?

only love could bring order...

Only understanding what it means to love could bring true, passionate, universal order to our life. This must occur immediately... there is no authority, no course of action... you do not "know" what it means to love... you can not project that knowledge and then act it out, calling that "love". Love would be born of a mind which saw the falseness of that whole movement of knowledge as personality... in such seeing would be love. Love is immediate and requires the putting away of that sense of "me" and "you".

see the truth of this...

the catastrophe of human life is the brain's tendency to be caught in a sense of the personal - which is merely its past images claiming authority. Images - structures in the memory - claim a voice and try to take precedent over the fact of what is actually happening. The images and their process are "the personal". There is "adjustment" within and without to accommodate for this "personal". The adjustment process is the churning grind of human misery and confusion, pain, occasionally escaped by pleasure. The personal is false in that it is based in the past - it is merely images - it is the past - it is immediately at odds with the burning fact of the present...the truth. No matter what "the personal" does there is conflict, delusion and isolation. The personal IS conflict. and in the name of the personal, every kind of horrific act, abomination, negligence, disorder, dullness,and immorality is manifest. It is always trying to keep itself "alive", and so there is never true understanding and therefore never total action.

Is it possible, then, right now, for the mind to simply SEE THE TRUTH OF THIS? Doesn't consciousness itself show the truth of this without there having to be belief - more imagery? Isn't the truth of this inherent in what is?

What's happening in this question? In this seeing?

the root of the rut...

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Most brains are conditioned to translate - to exist as though the sense of the separate psychological entity is a foundational fact...

In looking, or touching, or speaking about the nature of consciousness, the typical feeling is a sense of disturbance [and an adherence to that separate foundation] [as in] :

"But how can what you are talking about help ME?"
or...
"But what should I DO ? "
or...
"What are you suggesting?" [as in "what idea do you want me to adopt?"]
or...
"The only thing I can do is try to be good."

Apparently there is this overwhelming tendency to think in a rut. [whose origin is that sense of ME] And then we say, "I will think differently." And we don't see that that "I" IS the rut!

relative order...

the human mind [apparently] has always had this black hole quality of disorder. And the movements of "relative order" which have sprung up have been just that - not order at all - just a pretension - a high - inside the black hole.

Attachment makes it into "money" or "no money."

Do you really think that your universal essential integrity can be denied to you by an external force? [money, respectability, etc.?]

The pain of seeing.
- "how closed I am"
- "How hollow I am."
- "How awkward I am"
- "How frightened I am"

Gaze flapping left and right. Anger. Incompetence. How pompous I am.

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Life is your right!

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Can we understand?

"it's like I can't stop being evil." - of course! What is the entity which is concerned about that? More attempt at control... it is TRYING TO BE GOOD. There will never be the good if there is a separate entity. It is the past trying to make itself permanent.

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In this writing, can there be UNDERSTANDING?

Understanding war?
understanding pain?
understanding conflict?
Is there a root to understanding so that life can have meaning?

[or perhaps a root to what gets in the way of understanding?]

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The best it gets is simply being. [ which means... the best it gets is understanding the fact of consciousness... the immediate fact]

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Life requires understanding.

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We have to understand the choiceless fact.
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Revolution
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Love Can organize, but you can't organize love.
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At the level of love, it is all the same.

Do it and find out...

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Can there be the complete ending of any sort of [psychological] continuity?
That's the question.

[the continued career of the separate psychological entity... the ME - the WE, the tradition of human attachment, is the consumptive misery of conflict and disorder]

What's going to take time to end continuity?

[point is, you see it must happen, and you see it must happen now]

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There is no time -
action must be now.
The "ME" makes arrangements for "the future".

In action, the arrangements are all ready made.
No choice.
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Something is alredy done about sorrow.

IT IS SORROW!

Sorrow is shown.

That's what's done about sorrow.

You can see that reaction to what is shown
- the step away,
the observer -
the "I am going to do something about sorrow,"

is impossible-

is an inward, biologically fueled spiral of consumption
which is playing with imagery.

So... what's left?

[it's not that sorrow is going to be neglected or "accepted" or "validated" - we are just going into the fact of sorrow and seeing that the separate mind is the root - what happens if we see this? What happens if the mind doesn't separate from sorrow because we see the falseness of that process? If there is only sorrow and not "me and my sorrow", what is happening there? That is what we hve to find out.]

You see?


We can't [delineate] "what's there if sorrow is understood."

Do it, and you will find out.

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Toronto To Montreal...

The train flew along the lakeshore that morning.

Seeing the lake IS life.
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A completely different way of living.
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Pain of seeing yourself conditioned.

Pain of seeing yourself in pain.
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Can you forget all the images and just love?
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If you don't understand what it means to love, you are caught in the human catastrophe. Your organs are used to perpetuate a delusion.
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Any personality constitutes disorder.
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We have to look into the nature of intelligence.
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Personal investment might turn you into a "homeless person".
Personal investment might turn you into a "financial analyst".

Both are places for a sense of control to hide.

What is a sense of control?

A tiny nugget of identification ... a stuck synapse fueled by biological energy...

A memory which won't let go ... [the past staying coherent in the present]
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most people are concerned with partial change...
adjustment to keep their sense of control alive.

And the notion of "being out of control", "wild", or "spontaneous" is still, while it might put on quite a show, still a creation of the controller - the stuck entity.

So do we see the nature of the controller? The sense of a personal, separate "I am"?
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Can reaction end?

Can, in talking, right now,
there be the understanding of re-action
and perhaps in that understanding
there is whole action?

So, we are not speaking to bring the mind from reaction to action - that means time, from one thing to another thing, but [we are speaking] to point out the fact, and to see the truth of the suggestion that in the fact there is nothing made of thought - no time.
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(Can we?)

We're going to point out the factual nature of this moment - of awareness, of isness, and we're never going to stray off into speculation, into ideation.
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The controller must kill, because any lifeform which is not of that image - that frequency - that biological energy [which means all life!] threatens its demise... that is death. [!]
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Awareness [itself] doesn't hate

Awareness doesn't love.

Awareness is - and within that action is not a separate thing
that can be done or not done.

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Toronto ...

Walking through the city in the early morning, there was a freshness that was astonishing. The light, orange and dappled, was warming. There was a sense that anything was possible. In the market, it was still too early for most of the shops to be open. You took coffee and sat on benches. In the freshness, there was also a wincing... a pain... the settling in of the arrangements from yeasterday... "I gotta open the shop." "I gotta clean the sidewalk"

forget about how things look... the only thing that matters is that you understand what it means to love.

Only love could establish right relations between you and another.

Reaction...

The possibility of a truthful, universaly creative life demands the immediate understanding of the nature of "reaction". What is reaction? I am speaking of it in the sense of a gesture which is divorced from the situation, and so does not constitute action or order. I'm suggesting that as long as there is the possibilty of reaction, there cannot be action. The beauty which emerges is that this means it doesn't matter what kind of horrible conditioning you've been through. Complete action in relationship (which is life) STILL demands complete understanding RIGHT NOW. If there is a shred of continuity, which is self protection with its correspondent reaction, true action cannot take place.