![]() The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security-religious, political, personal. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said, “Truth is a pathless land”. Written by Krishnamurti in 1980 at the request of his biographer Mary Lutyens. And that he himself should never be put in the position of authority – he constantly denied the role of "Guru". Krishnamurti insisted that there are no authorities when it comes to these teachings, no interpretations of them. Krishnamurti's many public talks, his dialogues with various public figures and private individuals have been recorded and widely published as books, tapes, CDs, DVDs so it is possible to go to the well-spring, the source of "the teachings" directly. ![]() To use Krishnamurti's own words, it is a "choiceless awareness". Such awareness does not choose its object it is not limited by what one might want to see, not diverted by any disturbance. Justification, condemnation, analysis, all reactions to it are merely forms of escape, and as such they distort the clarity of observation. One has to be aware of, for example, violence at the moment it arises. ![]() To undertake this inner journey implies observation of oneself an observation which is balanced, penetrating and deeply honest. ![]() Thus the resolution of human problems lies in self enquiry, which, as it brings about transformation in the mind, naturally will bring about a transformation in society. He maintained that there is no separation between the outer and the inner, between thought and the manifestations of thought as society, between the "individual" and humanity as a whole. Unceasingly he pointed out the real possibility of ending sorrow and all conflict, both in the world around us and within us. Krishnamurti discussed, for over 60 years until his death in 1986, love, death, religion, meditation, sorrow all the fundamental issues of life. ![]()
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