The individual creates the group or society

One fine day he and his friend are talking to each other and here is the conversation. H - He HF - His Friend HF : Where are you coming from? H : I am coming from the park; today I joined the “DYAN” group. This group contains a small group of people who gathers in the park and does meditation, yoga and discuss about social reform. I am feeling satisfied by joining this group. HF : Is not satisfaction a hindrance to deep understanding about something? Is not the revolution of an individual has greater significance than collective revolution? H : But all the revolutions in the world are collective. HF : I don’t think so, the energy for those revolutions has been spread out from an individual, it may be Bhudha, Marx, Hitler, Tagore, Girban, Galib…etc. Some of them might have destroyed or brought peace to society, but they all took birth from the explosion of an individual’s insight into the disorder of human life. Even your “DYAN” group has also came from an individual’s mind isn’t it? H : There are so many youngsters doing charity work collectively, do you say it is wrong? HF : Yes and No! H : How come yes and no, it should be either yes or no? HF : They are wrong, when they are easily getting satisfied by just joining, (or) by doing some little work and think they did marvelous job (or) waiting for an article to come in the news paper or television about their group (or) when they compare with what they have done with what other group has accomplished. To put it simply when you don’t die to the good that you have done to others the self becomes strong. They are not wrong, only even though they are working collectively each group member is exerting his own energy to understand the issue and try to have new insights about the problem, the individual should not get carried away by the group. He must have capacity to question his own understanding as well as the group. I am not saying he should be in conflict with the group, but the mind should not be slave to any other, the other might be a group, religious organization, guru, ideology, ideal…etc. In one of the meeting Jaya Prakash Narayan quoted like this “When a human being is working and the desire for fame or recognition are absent GOD will be along with him” http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

You can act only in the present

Once I read the statement “The present is eternal” and also “The present contains the past and future” how true it is even when I am writing this mail or while you are reading this mail. This moment is turning itself into past which is nothing but past or history and also I can’t take journey into future until the present moment turning itself into past. So the entire life cycle of a human being exists in the present moment, how well it is said by JK that “You can act only in the present”. Once the brain realizes the immense significance of present moment as a fact, not as an idea, theory or some intellectual concept but as a fact then the state of mind enters into a different level, in which there is no time interval between idea and action. This state is gifted by nature to every new born kid, we destroy that state, and we tell them before acting think about consequences from the society. Also human being has put constant effort to take control over future happiness. The outward things I can plan and execute to certain extent but all the problem is when I want to plan my inward state of mind for future. But inwardly the past and future are non facts; the fact is only present moment. Most unfortunately human mind is incapable to stay in the present moment, because we are caught in becoming somebody. Life will be miserable if the present is just a means to enter into the future, because all life is a single present moment, which means being not becoming. Psychologically time is the enemy of change. Can fear exists in a mind which is living in the present moment? Don’t put effort to stay in the present, but observe that your mind is imagining about future or recollecting past memories.

http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

To be unprotected and innocent

The entire way of life of a human being can change with a single perception. Insight into the working nature of ourselves mind by us will definitely bring revolution within. For this insight to happen, you must live with yourself by yourself happily. Unfortunately we can not stay alone with ourselves, if we are alone for sometime we will get bored, that means your mind is showing resistance to face itself as it is. In the present society it is dead easy to run away from you, the most benefited industry by this escape is entertainment industry; it may be media, movies, sports, drink, smoke, now a days internet…etc. But the question is why the mind is not interested to stay with itself? Is it because inwardly I don’t want to face the fact that my mind is shallow, dull, occupied with fear, confused however outwardly I am rich, more sophisticated but inward poverty I don’t want to face? One of the reason is present education system doesn’t teach a child the beauty of self learning. Doesn’t it give you extraordinary energy if you suddenly realized that you are always protecting yourself inwardly and it is causing immense suffering? To be unprotected intellect is real living; only the unprotected, innocent one is near to that which is eternal. The desire to move away from fact is sorrow, facing the fact and watching the fact with an innocent mind alters the fact which is happiness.

http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

You are the rest of mankind

One pleasant evening he and his friend went to a lake park, to sit down and share thoughts and have nice time. After sitting for a while and watching birds, the sheet of water in the lake and people walking, laughting, talking a nice conversation has started between him and his friend.

H - He HF - His Friend

H : Today morning I read the news paper and it is painful to see what is happening in the world.
HF: Why? What happened?
H : All the corrupted politicians, cunning corporate businesses, former suicides paper is full of sad news.
HF: So you say they are all responsible for the sorrow in the world not you?
H : How can I be responsible, I am no way related to all that.
HF: I may be right or wrong, but please listen to me patiently; I feel you
and me are also responsible if there is disorder in our life.
H : What do you mean by disorder?
HF: It's simple, if I have worries in life, fear in life, trying to repeat
yesterday's pleasure, if I am following, obeying other human being
then my life is in disorder.
H : How can you say that, worries and fears are common in life.
HF: I don't think so; our minds are conditioned in such a way. We never
put a question to ourselves can I live without them, even if someone
put that question there is lack of seriousness. We are all caught in a
race to become somebody, somebody whose photo will come in the news
paper, somebody when he walks everybody will say there he is, somebody
who has power and position. This desire to become somebody is there in
ancient kings to present modern man. A life with full of joy and
happiness has been oppressed by this desire to become somebody.
H : But without becoming what is life? It has no meaning.
HF: The politician that you read about is also a human being like you and
me. He is also living with fear about his opposition, he is acquiring
money, land because they give him certain feeling of being secured,
and they give him feeling of being somebody.
H : So do you say what he is doing is correct?
HF: No, What I am saying is we are equivalent to that politician. The
factors like fear, confusion, and desire to be secure are driving his
life and our lives too.
H : So what is your solution to this problem?
HF: No, the question is, do you have clarity about the problem? or you are
only interested in the solution and don't have the patience to look at
the problem. If I don't like the part of understanding the problem,
I create more problems out of a single problem.

http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

Change in you is change in society

The mere anguish to change the society only creates further confusion and misery. The one who wants to change the society must have very clear understanding about what is wrong with present society or with our day to day life. Only through negation one can come to positivity, to negate you must know what is wrong with present society. The best thing is to look at yourself as an outsider and see what is wrong with you, without any desire for change. Because desire to change prevents learning about yourself, if there is no desire to become somebody and you are watching yourself there is self learning, only this self learning brings revolution within. Start with simple things like in a day you are afraid of one thing or the other, question yourself is that fear in mind necessary? Why I am afraid? What I am afraid of?

Whenever your mind is forcing you to take some action to change society, ask yourself do you have clear and simple perception about the problem. The perception is correct when it reduces the complexity of the problem not when it increases it. Most of us don't have the patience to look at the problem without any desire for solution. The mind which is interested only in the end result may find a solution, but that solution is time binding and also it gives more energy to the problem and increases the complexity of the problem. A clear and simple perception is only possible when the mind is not divisive in itself; most of our minds are divided by nation, religion, caste, ideology, color, language...etc. Peace and happiness are global things but man out of his greed and ignorance reduced them as personal, and it is the root cause of all human sorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlNRH2fYoO4
http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

Be a light to yourself

Happiness in our heart is directly related to the process of learning. There is immense happiness when you are learning something independently and there is no end result to achieve. Only when the count of people who are in the process of learning increases we can see change in the society.
We can say our lives are in danger if we are simply living based on beliefs, admiring or following others. Day to day life is a book from which all other ideologies, theories, philosophies, sacred books has born. So the person who can learn from the relationships in day to day life can only live a comfortable, simple and happy life.
The person whose brain is caught in words of a guru, ideologies, philosophies, sacred books or a mail like this will only struggle till the end of life, because it ignored learning from day to day life. Books and words are just sign boards if you worship them you can not take the journey.

http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known

Change in you is change in society

The mere anguish to change the society only creates further confusion and misery. The one who wants to change the society must have very clear understanding about what is wrong with present society or with our day to day life. Only through negation one can come to positivity, to negate you must know what is wrong with present society. The best thing is to look at yourself as an outsider and see what is wrong with you, without any desire for change. Because desire to change prevents learning about yourself, if there is no desire to become somebody and you are watching yourself there is self learning, only this self learning brings revolution within. Start with simple things like in a day you are afraid of one thing or the other, question yourself is that fear in mind necessary? Why I am afraid? What I am afraid of?

Whenever your mind is forcing you to take some action to change society, ask yourself do you have clear and simple perception about the problem. The perception is correct when it reduces the complexity of the problem not when it increases it. Most of us don't have the patience to look at the problem without any desire for solution. The mind which is interested only in the end result may find a solution, but that solution is time binding and also it gives more energy to the problem and increases the complexity of the problem. A clear and simple perception is only possible when the mind is not divisive in itself; most of our minds are divided by nation, religion, caste, ideology, color, language...etc. Peace and happiness are global things but man out of his greed and ignorance reduced them as personal, and it is the root cause of all human sorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlNRH2fYoO4
http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known