Life &
Death are one unit.
Our bodies are living and dying simultaneously. Now then... Man has violated that sacred balance of Life & Death by believing in images of goodness. When the mind feels a disturbance, it must understand the fact that any disturbance IS, in fact, itself. The reason there is a disturbance is that is means it is necessary to learn about itself through Pure Awareness (and nothing else). When we watch a thing with our whole being, that is Pure Energy that is watching the nature of this emotional state. It is not trying to correct what is being studied. Since we are the subject, we can't intervene without causing a division which must cause conflict between “what I feel that I dislike” = fact and the opposing wish or desire of how I would like to feel= a belief/image of myself. The “image” that I make of myself (regardless if that image is flattering or not) is still an image, which is fiction masquerading as “truth” – which is the opposite of what I really feel.
Our bodies are living and dying simultaneously. Now then... Man has violated that sacred balance of Life & Death by believing in images of goodness. When the mind feels a disturbance, it must understand the fact that any disturbance IS, in fact, itself. The reason there is a disturbance is that is means it is necessary to learn about itself through Pure Awareness (and nothing else). When we watch a thing with our whole being, that is Pure Energy that is watching the nature of this emotional state. It is not trying to correct what is being studied. Since we are the subject, we can't intervene without causing a division which must cause conflict between “what I feel that I dislike” = fact and the opposing wish or desire of how I would like to feel= a belief/image of myself. The “image” that I make of myself (regardless if that image is flattering or not) is still an image, which is fiction masquerading as “truth” – which is the opposite of what I really feel.
The
suppressed feeling boil and fester and so there is a the duality
between Fact & Fiction. The belief was born out of fear. The fear
of being fully observant, sensitive and wholly aware of being
disturbed, cause a fracture in the mind. The mind chooses a Fiction
to hide from its pain. But in choosing the hide in the Fictitious
state of mind, there is no peace of mind. Peace can only come when
the mind is whole. As long as the mind seeks shelter,
psychologically, it will never find real peace. Therefore, conflict
must end/die naturally, without any force. When one observes a fact,
that observation is not opposing it It
simply sees the truth of what it feels. There is no struggle or
fiction to observe. There is no agenda or motive to fulfill a desire.
One is simply learning about the mind, holistically (without a
controller). One can watch their “controller” and see how it
deceives itself. This is not a system you can memorize and implement.
We pretend that certain words are holy or sacred. All words come from
memory. The eternal cannot be captured by the mind of man. However,
we all have the capacity to “Holistically Observe” the
limitations of our psyches. In seeing the fact as a fact, there is no
longer opposition to the fact. The total awareness of how believing
operates and that it can never bring order or peace, free the mind
from confusion and conflict.
The
only thing that makes a disturbed state of mind continue in that
state is its struggle against it through the identification with the
opposite “ideal” or “future salvation”. There is no salvation
in the future. Either you see now what you are, or you pretend to see
it and continue to be at war with yourself. Your relationship to your
own mind is the way you are related to others. If you lie to
yourself, well you must do that with everyone, as well. If you are
secretly in conflict and unaware that you are, the evidence shows in
your relationship the things, people and ideas. If you can see that
all efforts to live up to any “ideal” is futile, then you are
free from conflict and you are no longer contributing to the conflict
in the whole world. But if you hide from yourself, then that will
cause destruction to yourself and to others (in one form or another).
And
finally, is it possible not be psychologically hurt nor to hurt
another?
Yes it
is possible, I am doing it. But, that can't help you, I'm afraid. No
person can give clarity or wisdom to another person. Wisdom is seldom
talked about. It has been taken for granted (or believed) that
“Wisdom” is merely a matter of living for a long time. No true.
Time has nothing at all to do with real “Wisdom”.
“Wisdom”
cannot be achieved or sought after for itself. A thing that is sought
after is based on what you know. So one is only seeking a modified
version of the past/known. For eons people have sought the impossible
endeavor. The Ego wants to be absolutely powerful (in other words –
limitless). Thought is memory and psychological time.
What
is psychological time?
One is
angry. That is a fact. The mind responses to the fact by desiring to
“detach” from that feeling. There is “what I feel”. Fear of
what I feel wants to move away from the fact by seeking something
that the mind presumes to be “better” than the fact (the truth).
Psychological time is introduced by “the desire to not be that
fact”. So we are encouraged to “believe in any set of comforting
words that you like”. That harder you concentrate on those words
and tell yourself that they are the truth, you will eventually escape
from your emotional anxiety. So the concept or belief that one is
trying to emotionally become takes time to attain. To go from anger
to compassion by way of approximating oneself to an image is an
impossibility. The preoccupation to achieve a state of Nirvana,
within the psyche, is the endless game of
psychological-hide-and-seek.
Psychological
Time means that I may be disturbed now but I will concentrate on
becoming the opposite of that. However, the opposite born out of the
same root memory is merely the same content with a different face on
it. For example, when one divides oneself by chasing after the “image
of what I want to become” one is destroying the essence of ones
ability to perceive reality. Once the mind can't see itself as it
really is, it is a contradiction. The contradiction began the moment
you become emotionally attached to an image in order to avoid
observing your emotional responses. The image is a fabrication that
is opposing a disturbing truth. So image, born out of memory, covers
up the present fact. That is violence to push away the truth and
replace it with a lie and treat that lie as if it were the truth.
That is being in a perpetual state of contradiction.
Reality
is Truth and it simply Is! Whereas, this like/dislike emotional
reaction wants to dictate to Reality/Truth what its version of
“reality” is. So when you create an image about yourself in order
to become “better” than you are, you are at odds within yourself
(and therefore with the world, as well).
The Universe/Cosmos IS PERFECT ORDER and is Reality/Fact. So when the mind opposes Reality within itself by refusing to “Holistically Observe” all of its emotional responses (regardless if I like them or not), it is also against the Universe and the underlying Energy that animates all living things. This is why most of humanity is in psychological pain. The more pain there is, the more people increase that pain by blindly “believing” harder and harder in “non-realities” better known as beliefs.
A real
thing does not require being believed in. It does not require praise
nor worship. You don't need to beg it for a “better life”. When
there is psychological pure alertness to the whole movement of ones
emotional responses, “Wisdom” comes into being. Something unknown
takes place when the mind quietly watches itself – there is a
non-mechanical learning unfolding. There is space without a “Center”
to perceive “what I feel” until that feeling has told its
complete story and naturally ends. The death of fragmentation is the
birth of wholeness. But, wholeness cannot be pursued.
Meeting this extraordinary thing, death
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Now take the question of death which is an immense problem to most people. You know death, there it is walking every day by your side. Is it possible to meet it so completely that you do not make a problem of it at all? In order to meet it in such a way all belief, all hope, all fear about it must come to an end, otherwise you are meeting this extraordinary thing with a conclusion, an image, with a premeditated anxiety, and therefore you are meeting it with time.
- Freedom from the Known,75
J. Krishnamurti
To Investigate The Fact Of Your Own Anger
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To investigate the fact of your own anger you must pass no judgement on it, for the moment you conceive of its opposite you condemn it and therefore you cannot see it as it is. When you say you dislike or hate someone that is a fact, although it sounds terrible. If you look at it, go into it completely, it ceases, but if you say, 'I must not hate; I must have love in my heart', then you are living in a hypocritical world with double standards. To live completely, fully, in the moment is to live with what is, the actual, without any sense of condemnation or justification- then you understand it so totally that you are finished with it. When you see clearly the problem is solved.
Freedom from the Known,56
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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