Awareness of thought:-
Can you be aware of your thinking without judging it. Try this for at least a minute or for few seconds, then you will realize how difficult it is to be aware of our own thinking.
Now the question is why one should aware of his/her own thinking:-
I feel thinking is the root cause of all psychological or human problems. Thought creates problems when it is in a certain pattern and awareness is the tool which breaks the patterns of our thought structure and put thought into its right place. These patterns are created by many influences or ideals, readings, society and our education, religions or our sacred books...etc(May be a mail like this). If you take scientific world, the knowledge is based on enquiry but where as if one comes to his own life it is about believing or having faith in something. So the simple thing is realizing the fact that we believe in something or there are so many ideas in one's life, which are never questioned, as this questioning distracts one's psychological security.
What is the difficulty in being aware:-
Is awareness about your thought is difficult or you are making it difficult. If you are watching National Geographic channel, sometimes you see the video of deer which is drinking water in the pond. You can observe that they are alert and attentive very naturally because there is danger of being killed by a wild animal. So here I would like to emphasize "natural". There is no sense of achievement or competition in that alertness of a deer its not will power even. It's body and its mind very naturally support that alertness. The danger in our life is, in the absence of this awareness, thought takes it's most destructive form. Realizing this danger is the key not how to stop thinking. The moment you try to operate on your thought it creates another problem.
This mail is not about deer or tiger it's about awareness of thought or paying attention to thought don't get carried away by the example. In youtube you can get a video of a deer and you can feel the alertness of a deer by watching it.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Innocent mind
The beauty of a kid lies in his innocent mind; you can't hurt a innocent mind psychologically. They have no preoccupied opinions, so their mind is ready to learn and they will lose this beauty as they grow older, because of competition and comparison. When they love what they are doing, they will never fail. Of course there is no success or failure when you love something. I think nature has given great beauty to every kid; only thing we have to do is to protect that quality in our kids.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
keep this in mind
The main objective of JK is to break all conditioning and set man free. This conditioning has been created by our society, education, religions ...etc. So you can not put JK as an authority and accept him, you have to question and doubt in order to find out what is truth.
These teachings are not something which I can read and I hope something is going to happen in my life. It needs your own perception and realization of facts, to bring a radical change in our lives. That perception demands a great deal of attention and sensitivity, still it is effortless.
Wise thing is to understand what I am now. When you love something you can observe the ob sense of effort. This is real learning I feel. JK is showing something which we have ignored almost. With out understanding about you, there is no way that one can live happily in this world. I must understand my sorrow completely in order to be happy.
1) Through negation you have to come to positivity. That means by looking
at false as false inside myself, there is a possibility of change
inside myself. By understanding what is not love, you will come to what
love is.
2) Thinking will never solve human problems, where as action which is born
out of perception of a fact will solve all our problems.
3) You must be a light to yourself. Through his books and talks K is just
describing or trying to show you something. Now it is absolutely your
work to realize those facts for yourself. The description is not the
described.
These teachings are not something which I can read and I hope something is going to happen in my life. It needs your own perception and realization of facts, to bring a radical change in our lives. That perception demands a great deal of attention and sensitivity, still it is effortless.
Wise thing is to understand what I am now. When you love something you can observe the ob sense of effort. This is real learning I feel. JK is showing something which we have ignored almost. With out understanding about you, there is no way that one can live happily in this world. I must understand my sorrow completely in order to be happy.
1) Through negation you have to come to positivity. That means by looking
at false as false inside myself, there is a possibility of change
inside myself. By understanding what is not love, you will come to what
love is.
2) Thinking will never solve human problems, where as action which is born
out of perception of a fact will solve all our problems.
3) You must be a light to yourself. Through his books and talks K is just
describing or trying to show you something. Now it is absolutely your
work to realize those facts for yourself. The description is not the
described.
American culture
They have certain kind of order in their lives due to imposed rules. Rules of the government or rules of the church ... etc.
Obviously you can see good result when you have proper rules for traffic on the road. I think by seeing the success of those rules they put some rules on their lives itself, for example
1) you must think positively
2) you must be polite to others
3) you must be successful and you should work hard….etc
So the order in their daily living is the result of imposed rules not through understanding. Obviously those rules will bring conflict, and now the present generation is looking for freedom which is just opposite of those rules.
So they are going for freedom from something, not for the freedom of thought.
This is my personal understanding
Obviously you can see good result when you have proper rules for traffic on the road. I think by seeing the success of those rules they put some rules on their lives itself, for example
1) you must think positively
2) you must be polite to others
3) you must be successful and you should work hard….etc
So the order in their daily living is the result of imposed rules not through understanding. Obviously those rules will bring conflict, and now the present generation is looking for freedom which is just opposite of those rules.
So they are going for freedom from something, not for the freedom of thought.
This is my personal understanding
Saturday, April 17, 2010
what iscorruption?
Corruption starts in human mind and reflects outside, which is the result of the present society. So it's wrong to think, by changing the society
human mind can not be changed, this has been proved through various efforts put by man. Where as if you want to change the human conditioning the best tool will be education(in it's pure sense).
question:-
Thanks for the email. We certainly need meaningful education for all to make people act in an enlightened manner, and reconcile their personal goals with public good. At the same time, if we do not create the right incentives for good behaviour, and ensure penalties for bad behaviour, many people continue to put personal greed above public good. Society is a much more powerful educator than a class room. That is why we need to focus on education as well as a governance system which nurtures integrity and punishes corruption.
answer:-
With great respect towards you I want to question you?
When you said right incentives, why one needs reward or punishment to do something good. It's not the case between a mother and a child.
sir, I don't know weather you are aware of it or not, the best thing is when you speak, your consciousness effects the other who is listening.
Not only you when somebody stands for something, he really effects the entire society. Change always comes with one or two human beings, the rest will follow them. It's not a massive movement rather a individual's vision or perception of truth which brings change.
The writer is somebody who has seen that change in his life through J Krishnamurti. Through centuries we have seen innumerable parties, leaders, charities and so on and so on. But the result is in front of our eyes. The answer is in self knowledge (Spiritualiry or simply knowing about yourself).
Real spirituality is something which acts like a fire to wipe out all your beliefs, hopes and innumerable gods so that you will question with a open mind Real spirituality is a revolution within not outside. Which is not evolution. It is a tool to break the human conditioning.
But it has been corrupted by ugly guru's who are coining money.
The reason writing this mail is, I have seen tremendous change in my life through krishnamurti readings. Now my life is effortless and without conflict.
I unweared the ego, selfishness, fear and anxiety the rest by looking at them, not by running away from them. A selfish person is always dangerous to your party and to the society. This danger is always there from ancient kings to nowadays politicians, but we have ignored it alot. I am talking about that education.
human mind can not be changed, this has been proved through various efforts put by man. Where as if you want to change the human conditioning the best tool will be education(in it's pure sense).
question:-
Thanks for the email. We certainly need meaningful education for all to make people act in an enlightened manner, and reconcile their personal goals with public good. At the same time, if we do not create the right incentives for good behaviour, and ensure penalties for bad behaviour, many people continue to put personal greed above public good. Society is a much more powerful educator than a class room. That is why we need to focus on education as well as a governance system which nurtures integrity and punishes corruption.
answer:-
With great respect towards you I want to question you?
When you said right incentives, why one needs reward or punishment to do something good. It's not the case between a mother and a child.
sir, I don't know weather you are aware of it or not, the best thing is when you speak, your consciousness effects the other who is listening.
Not only you when somebody stands for something, he really effects the entire society. Change always comes with one or two human beings, the rest will follow them. It's not a massive movement rather a individual's vision or perception of truth which brings change.
The writer is somebody who has seen that change in his life through J Krishnamurti. Through centuries we have seen innumerable parties, leaders, charities and so on and so on. But the result is in front of our eyes. The answer is in self knowledge (Spiritualiry or simply knowing about yourself).
Real spirituality is something which acts like a fire to wipe out all your beliefs, hopes and innumerable gods so that you will question with a open mind Real spirituality is a revolution within not outside. Which is not evolution. It is a tool to break the human conditioning.
But it has been corrupted by ugly guru's who are coining money.
The reason writing this mail is, I have seen tremendous change in my life through krishnamurti readings. Now my life is effortless and without conflict.
I unweared the ego, selfishness, fear and anxiety the rest by looking at them, not by running away from them. A selfish person is always dangerous to your party and to the society. This danger is always there from ancient kings to nowadays politicians, but we have ignored it alot. I am talking about that education.
what is getting hurt?
Dear Fridns,
If you are facing difficulty in understanding the mails, I recommend reading "Freedom from the Known" by JK.
When I have an image about myself, that I am a good, kind and intelligent human being or whatever it might be.Somebody comes along and says you are a fool or some unpleasant thing, I say I got hurt.
Now the question is what is getting hurt?
Is it the image that I created about myself?
If you are facing difficulty in understanding the mails, I recommend reading "Freedom from the Known" by JK.
When I have an image about myself, that I am a good, kind and intelligent human being or whatever it might be.Somebody comes along and says you are a fool or some unpleasant thing, I say I got hurt.
Now the question is what is getting hurt?
Is it the image that I created about myself?
Can thought solves all our problems?
Dear Friends,
I got benefited by reading J Krishnamurti, but I haven’t read keeping benefits in mind, it just happened.
So I just want to introduce you to the teachings of JK.
K: - We assume that thinking will solve our problems, but we have never gone into the whole issue of what thinking is. So long as I remain a Hindu, a Christian, or what you will, my thinking must be shaped by that pattern; therefore, my thinking, my whole response to life, is conditioned. So long as I think as an Indian, a German, or whatever it is and act according to that petty, nationalistic background, it inevitably leads to separation, to hatred, to war and misery. So we have to inquire into the whole problem of thinking. There is no freedom of thought because all thought is conditioned. There is freedom only when I understand that all thought is conditioned and am therefore free of that conditioning—which means, really, that there is no thought at all, no thinking in terms of Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, German, or what you will, but pure observation, complete attention. In this, I think, lies the real revolution—in the immense understanding that thought does not solve the problem of existence. Which does not mean that you must become thoughtless? On the contrary. To understand the process of thinking requires not acceptance or denial but intense inquiry. When the mind understands the whole process of itself, there is then a fundamental revolution, a radical change, which is not brought about through conscious effort. It is an effortless state, out of which comes a total transformation.
Through understanding of our own thinking, thought comes to its right place. It ceases "naturally" in certain areas (naturally through understanding, not through effort). Because the effort maker (who is trying to control thought) is not different from thought process. Understanding thought is the most difficult thing for us, because it demands a mind which observes itself, without condemnation or justification.
I got benefited by reading J Krishnamurti, but I haven’t read keeping benefits in mind, it just happened.
So I just want to introduce you to the teachings of JK.
K: - We assume that thinking will solve our problems, but we have never gone into the whole issue of what thinking is. So long as I remain a Hindu, a Christian, or what you will, my thinking must be shaped by that pattern; therefore, my thinking, my whole response to life, is conditioned. So long as I think as an Indian, a German, or whatever it is and act according to that petty, nationalistic background, it inevitably leads to separation, to hatred, to war and misery. So we have to inquire into the whole problem of thinking. There is no freedom of thought because all thought is conditioned. There is freedom only when I understand that all thought is conditioned and am therefore free of that conditioning—which means, really, that there is no thought at all, no thinking in terms of Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, German, or what you will, but pure observation, complete attention. In this, I think, lies the real revolution—in the immense understanding that thought does not solve the problem of existence. Which does not mean that you must become thoughtless? On the contrary. To understand the process of thinking requires not acceptance or denial but intense inquiry. When the mind understands the whole process of itself, there is then a fundamental revolution, a radical change, which is not brought about through conscious effort. It is an effortless state, out of which comes a total transformation.
Through understanding of our own thinking, thought comes to its right place. It ceases "naturally" in certain areas (naturally through understanding, not through effort). Because the effort maker (who is trying to control thought) is not different from thought process. Understanding thought is the most difficult thing for us, because it demands a mind which observes itself, without condemnation or justification.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)