This was just posted on a new website called Remodeler. Please excuse the typos. I didn’t think it would be posted due to copyright issues, but it was. Good for them. It is based on the video What is Guilt by Jiddu Krishnamurti. You can view my blog entry about it here. My hope is …
May 23rd ~ To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum; experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction? You will say that …
May 24th ~ All thinking obviously is conditioned; there is no such thing as free thinking. Thinking can never be free, it is the outcome of our conditioning, of our background, of our culture, of our climate, of our social, economic, political background. The very books that you read and the very practices that you …
May 25th ~ Does not the urge of the mind to free itself from its conditioning set going another pattern of resistance and conditioning? Having become aware of the pattern or mold in which you have grown up, you want to be free from it; but will not this desire to be free conditioning the …
May 26th ~ The desire to free oneself from conditioning only furthers conditioning. But if, instead of trying to suppress desire, one understands the whole process of desire, in that very understanding there comes freedom from conditioning. Freedom from conditioning is not a direct result. Do you understand? If I set about deliberately to free …
May 28th ~ Your mind is conditioned right through: there is no part of you which is unconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say there is a part of you–the watcher, the supersoul, the atma–which is not conditioned; but because you think about it, it is within the …
May 29th ~ Inwardly, unconsciously, there is the tremendous weight of the past pushing you in a certain direction. Now, how is one to wipe all that away? How is the unconscious to be cleansed immediately of the past? The analysts think that the unconscious can be partially or even completely cleansed through analysis–through investigation, …
May 30th ~ Now, I say it is definitely possible for the mind to be free from all conditioning–not that you should accept my authority. If you accept it on authority, you will never discover, it will be another substitution and that will have no significance. . . . The understanding of the whole process …
May 31st ~ Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the fresh, innocent mind that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with experience; and it seems to me that the very essence …