Questioning and doubting is good rather than blindly believing something, stating that. What I understood in my life is, the root cause of all the misery in the world is self-centered activity of human mind, it is simple to observe as long as we don't add ifs and buts to it, or divide, analyze and make it more and more complex problem.
Now my question to all of us is what should be the action to stop this self-centered activity. This mind which is consumed only with self security can destruct anything, and it is very much evident by looking at the present society, the ugly wars, poverty, utter violence, authority..etc. Am I not living with such a mind, if yes who is going to change me or you? the society is waiting for me to change and in turn I am waiting for the society to change, so it takes never ending time.
How do you solve this problem? If you say this is human nature we can't change there is nothing further to go, but if you think there might be an action we can perform, we can discuss together. Please don't think this is not related to this you, this is common to everyone, because such a mind can be danger to all our plants, children, the whole of our existence. You may ignore it but it won't ignore us, can you see the truth of this matter?
Why I am writing is there are innumerable social organizations, thinkers, philosophers, religions, gurus, charity works, political / social reformers...etc all they seemed to be failed as we look at the present society and they are there from the past centuries. Seeing all this what I understood is, this charity and social work is necessary but not sufficient. The root of all misery exists in human mind it creates the society, and you also living with it, now the question is who is going to clean it?, which might be the most complex education that one can take up.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Solitude indicates a fresh mind
In the life we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so many influences, so much knowledge, so many memories of so many experiences, so much anxiety, misery and conflict that our mind become duller and duller, more and more insensitive, functioning in a monotonous routine. Are we ever alone? Or are we carrying with us all the burdens of yesterday? There is a rather nice story of*monks walking from one village to another and they come upon a young girl sitting on the bank of a river, crying. And one of the monks goes up to her and says, `Sister, what are you crying about?' She says, `You see that house over there across the river? I came over this morning early and had no trouble wading across but now the river has swollen and I can't get back. There is no boat.' `Oh,' says the monk, `that is no problem at all', and he picks her up and carries her across the river and leaves her on the other side. And the*monks go on together. After a couple of hours, the other monk says, `Brother, we have taken a vow never to touch a woman. What you have done is a terrible sin. Didn't you have pleasure, a great sensation, in touching a woman?' and the other monk replies, `I left her behind*hours ago. You are still carrying her, aren't you?' That is what we do. We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind. it is only when we give complete attention to a problem and solve it immediately - never carrying it over to the next day, the next minute that there is solitude. Then, even, if we live in a crowded house or are in a bus, we have solitude. And that solitude indicates a fresh mind, an innocent mind.
This content I have copied from www.jkrishnamurti.org
This content I have copied from www.jkrishnamurti.org
Our Responses are conditioned
What is the importance that you give to know about yourself? If you buy a new TV in your home you have to go through the manual and slowly you have to learn one by one operation. If you don't learn there is no use for that TV, it merely exists in your home as a decorative item. The same is happening with us, we merely exist without any beauty in life.
One has to start learning from his/her day to day life, from little things, things like the way you talk, walk, relate to others...etc. In that learning we can discover that our responses are very much conditioned by books, religions, society, parents, ugly guru's who are coining money, our own knowledge....etc. In that very learning or silent observation the conditioning of the mind wipes out, but if you fight against your conditioning that effort or struggle brings another form of conditioning. So we always move one conditioning to another conditioning, we are never able to dissolve them, so that we can live with a free mind, which is not dependent on outside authority to resolve the problems of life.
It is very difficult for us to be aware of our own thinking, just to be aware, because in that awareness life flowers. It is difficult for us because the moment we start doing something we want some result out of it, we want to achieve something out of it. We never know how to observe or look at something without any motive or goal, we trained in such a way our life is full of motives, goals, success stories. We never know that when there no motive, goal there is attention in your observation, as only the mind without motive can stay in the present.
The motive is to become something; there is always striving, struggle in life which is preventing us to live the present moment. We are not living we are dragging our life, day after day year after year. It is so sad that we don't utilize our extraordinary intelligent mind, we depend on others and soon we will become slaves to some guru, book, ideal and this slavery continues till the end of our life. If you have any problem you instantly turn towards your dependency, and you are never realizing that this dependency brings lots of pain and suffering.
All our responses are conditioned that is what has been said above, is that true? Can you observe your day to day life and find out answer for yourself? That single moment in life in which you say, yes this is a fact and this is actually happening in my life has a great effect than reading thousands of books.
A day with complete happiness in your heart and intelligence in your mind is better than a struggled life of hundred years.
One has to start learning from his/her day to day life, from little things, things like the way you talk, walk, relate to others...etc. In that learning we can discover that our responses are very much conditioned by books, religions, society, parents, ugly guru's who are coining money, our own knowledge....etc. In that very learning or silent observation the conditioning of the mind wipes out, but if you fight against your conditioning that effort or struggle brings another form of conditioning. So we always move one conditioning to another conditioning, we are never able to dissolve them, so that we can live with a free mind, which is not dependent on outside authority to resolve the problems of life.
It is very difficult for us to be aware of our own thinking, just to be aware, because in that awareness life flowers. It is difficult for us because the moment we start doing something we want some result out of it, we want to achieve something out of it. We never know how to observe or look at something without any motive or goal, we trained in such a way our life is full of motives, goals, success stories. We never know that when there no motive, goal there is attention in your observation, as only the mind without motive can stay in the present.
The motive is to become something; there is always striving, struggle in life which is preventing us to live the present moment. We are not living we are dragging our life, day after day year after year. It is so sad that we don't utilize our extraordinary intelligent mind, we depend on others and soon we will become slaves to some guru, book, ideal and this slavery continues till the end of our life. If you have any problem you instantly turn towards your dependency, and you are never realizing that this dependency brings lots of pain and suffering.
All our responses are conditioned that is what has been said above, is that true? Can you observe your day to day life and find out answer for yourself? That single moment in life in which you say, yes this is a fact and this is actually happening in my life has a great effect than reading thousands of books.
A day with complete happiness in your heart and intelligence in your mind is better than a struggled life of hundred years.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Love
is not emotion
is not sentiment
is not opposite of hate
is not ambition
is not attachment
is not something which can be described in words
is not when there is division between me and not me
is not self centered activity
is not in the scope of thinking
is not where self is present
is not where there is effort or struggle to become something psychologically
The very act of negating what is false in oneself is nature of love, it negates even
at the cost of death also. We are good at finding what is false in other not in ourselves. When you clean your mind with great passion and intelligence then
GOD will be working for you, but you can’t do this to invite GOD, this is my understanding so don’t take it as granted observe your life for yourself.
When you say I love you, you don't love at all as when you are, love is not
Love is being nothing yet with out love life has no meaning, life becomes very superficial
Only when this love flowers in human hearts, there is an end of poverty, corruption, confusion, violence and all the madness of the present society, so what I am writing is not some kind of dream or illusion but it's purely practical
and rational.
is not sentiment
is not opposite of hate
is not ambition
is not attachment
is not something which can be described in words
is not when there is division between me and not me
is not self centered activity
is not in the scope of thinking
is not where self is present
is not where there is effort or struggle to become something psychologically
The very act of negating what is false in oneself is nature of love, it negates even
at the cost of death also. We are good at finding what is false in other not in ourselves. When you clean your mind with great passion and intelligence then
GOD will be working for you, but you can’t do this to invite GOD, this is my understanding so don’t take it as granted observe your life for yourself.
When you say I love you, you don't love at all as when you are, love is not
Love is being nothing yet with out love life has no meaning, life becomes very superficial
Only when this love flowers in human hearts, there is an end of poverty, corruption, confusion, violence and all the madness of the present society, so what I am writing is not some kind of dream or illusion but it's purely practical
and rational.
Disorder
There is disorder in our society and the root for this disorder in the world is in human mind, after all it is the one which creates the society. We ignored or unaware of this simple fact and we try to bring order in society not in our lives, if one can bring order and peace in his life, he can effect his surroundings. Disorder is basically misunderstanding about day to day life...
1) Accepting authority in the form of guru's, books, religions, our own inner
authority (unpurified knowledge) to know about ourselves.
2) Never knowing the futility of effort and struggle to become something
psychologically
3) Never understanding deeply the basic components of day to day life like fear,
desire, love, attachment, relationship, pleasure...etc
4) Never knowing the power of questioning, doubting
5) Not understanidng Love is not attachment
6) Never looking at life with simple mind, which is not confused.
7) Never knowing true security lies in intelligence, love not in money, power,
position..etc
8) Never aware of incessant chattering going on in our minds.
9) Never observing or looking at something with a silent and still mind.
10) Never understanding competition, comparision makes us dull and more
aggressive, violent human beings.
11) Never observing how thought is diving human beings on the basis of me and
not me.
12) The unknown fear about death, never knowing the beauty and vitality of
death.
13) Never realizing suffering is common to all humanity it is not personal.
And there are N number of misunderstandings about day to day life because of which the present society is like this, as long as we don't correct our lives doing social reform is meaningless. Understanding my disorder brings natural and effortless order in my life not my effort to bring order.
1) Accepting authority in the form of guru's, books, religions, our own inner
authority (unpurified knowledge) to know about ourselves.
2) Never knowing the futility of effort and struggle to become something
psychologically
3) Never understanding deeply the basic components of day to day life like fear,
desire, love, attachment, relationship, pleasure...etc
4) Never knowing the power of questioning, doubting
5) Not understanidng Love is not attachment
6) Never looking at life with simple mind, which is not confused.
7) Never knowing true security lies in intelligence, love not in money, power,
position..etc
8) Never aware of incessant chattering going on in our minds.
9) Never observing or looking at something with a silent and still mind.
10) Never understanding competition, comparision makes us dull and more
aggressive, violent human beings.
11) Never observing how thought is diving human beings on the basis of me and
not me.
12) The unknown fear about death, never knowing the beauty and vitality of
death.
13) Never realizing suffering is common to all humanity it is not personal.
And there are N number of misunderstandings about day to day life because of which the present society is like this, as long as we don't correct our lives doing social reform is meaningless. Understanding my disorder brings natural and effortless order in my life not my effort to bring order.
Conflict-2
Why do we have conflicting desires? Means a desire to have something and an opposite desire which says don't. Is not that opposite desire springs from self protective mechanism of thought? Can there be happiness or joy as long as the mind is seeking security in its action or assurance for safety before acting?
The morality of the present society is immorality, when society tells you must suppress your desires whey are you accepting them? The man who revolt against suppression ends up in craving for desires which is also dangerous, so can you find out a state of mind in which there is neither suppression nor longing for desires. Whatever such a mind does is sane, it may involve in physical relationship, earning money...whatever but not killing or hurting another. Because when there is neither craving nor suppression there is freedom and wisdom in your action.
When you accumulate psychological knowledge like how to live, how to act ...etc, this knowledge also breeds conflict. Knowledge goes with ignorance, I can listen to somebody, read a book but questioning, doubting is mandatory, which purifies the intake. I hope you are doing the same with my mails too.
How do you break it ( out of intelligence ), that is by seeing the damage that a conflict can cause to our mind. If you don't break it one has to live in perpetual conflict till the end of life, which is not living at all.
Please understand for yourself conflict deteriorates your mind, it can make extraordinary intelligent mind into a shallow, limited and useless thing, conflict is such a dangerous thing to live with, you can't fight against conflict as the very fight is another conflict, you can end conflict only through understanding and learning about conflict and how it takes birth in your mind.
The morality of the present society is immorality, when society tells you must suppress your desires whey are you accepting them? The man who revolt against suppression ends up in craving for desires which is also dangerous, so can you find out a state of mind in which there is neither suppression nor longing for desires. Whatever such a mind does is sane, it may involve in physical relationship, earning money...whatever but not killing or hurting another. Because when there is neither craving nor suppression there is freedom and wisdom in your action.
When you accumulate psychological knowledge like how to live, how to act ...etc, this knowledge also breeds conflict. Knowledge goes with ignorance, I can listen to somebody, read a book but questioning, doubting is mandatory, which purifies the intake. I hope you are doing the same with my mails too.
How do you break it ( out of intelligence ), that is by seeing the damage that a conflict can cause to our mind. If you don't break it one has to live in perpetual conflict till the end of life, which is not living at all.
Please understand for yourself conflict deteriorates your mind, it can make extraordinary intelligent mind into a shallow, limited and useless thing, conflict is such a dangerous thing to live with, you can't fight against conflict as the very fight is another conflict, you can end conflict only through understanding and learning about conflict and how it takes birth in your mind.
What is getting hurt?
Dear Friends,
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?
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