how can the mind stop working against itself?

Dear All,

Questioner: You were saying there is conflict, which is all the actions of the mind, and this conflict destroys the sensitivity and the energy and the passion of the mind itself. So the mind dulls itself by conflict, by working against itself.

Krishnamurti: So your question becomes: how can the mind stop working against itself?

Questioner: Yes.

Krishnamurti: Is this question one more condemnation, justification, escape, one more of these interfering activities of the mind which makes it work against itself? If it is, then it breeds conflict. Is this question trying to get rid of conflict? If it is, it is more conflict, and you are forever in this vicious circle. So the right question is not how to end conflict but to see the truth that where passion and sensitivity are, conflict is absent. Do you see this?

Questioner: Yes.

Krishnamurti: So you can no longer be concerned with the ending of conflict; it will wither away. But it will never wither so long as thought is nourishing it. What is important is the passion and the sensitivity, not the ending of conflict.

My Understanding:
Whenever somebody tells me some fact about life (like psychological effort to become something breeds conflict), my immediate reaction will be how can I reach that particular state(how can I end that conflict), but in asking "HOW" I am missing out my own responsibility to understand and absorb that fact. If you watch carefully that "HOW" is an escape from my action. So can we stop the question "HOW" completely through the understanding of this fact? when it is stopped naturally not by effort, my mind is ready to understand the fact on it's own. It is not interested in the end result rather interested in going deep into the fact. Then I think I am loving that problem, and as a result it reveals itself for me.

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with Love,
G. Prasad.