"Creative reality - call it God, truth, or what you like - comes into being, not through a technique, but only when the mind has understood itself. And do you know how difficult it is to understand oneself? It is difficult because we are dilettantes; we are not really interested. But if you are really aware, if you give your whole attention to understanding yourself, then you will find an indestructible treasure. You don't have to read a single book about philosophy, psychology, analysis, and all the rest of it because you are the total content of all humanity, and without understanding yourself, you will go on creating innumerable problems, endless miseries. To understand oneself requires, not impetuous urges, conclusions, but great patience. One must go slowly, millimetre by millimetre, never missing a step - which doesn't mean that you must everlastingly keep awake. You can't. It does imply that you must watch and drop what you have watched, let it go and pick it up again, so that the mind does not become a mere accumulation of what it has learned but is capable of watching each thing anew. When the mind is capable of looking at itself and understanding itself, then there is that creativeness of reality, and such a mind can use technique without causing misery."
J KRISHNAMURTI
As One Is
"It is difficult because we are dilettantes; we are not really interested." Why are we not interested?
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Hi Alison,
ReplyDeleteI would never be one to say I know what KM means but it hit a cord with me.
I feel that when we look at the results of our spiritual practice there is sometimes a need to dig deeper and get more specific and clear about what we are doing. EG Are we really meditating or just talking/thinking about it? Are we really making the steps required to detach from our thoughts so that we can become truer representations of ourselves? Are we up to facing the not so rosy parts of our personalities and no reacting/surpressing. What are the steps that we need to take to further create a new, much more positive reality.
These are questions that I have been asking myself recently.
Look forward to seeing you Sat night for curry!!
xx