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Let This Inquiry Carry You All New books ........................4 Vacancies...........................4 Report on Gathering........................5 KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA March - June 2014 RS.2/- VOL. X ISSUE 1 New books ........................4 Vacancies...........................4 Report on Gathering........................5 Let this inquiry carry you all day (KFI secured recently the rights to publish The Impossible Question, which consists of seven public talks and seven dialogues that Krishnamurti held in Saanen, Switzerland, in 1970. The new edition is priced at Rs 195. Those who are looking for ‘practical hints’ in Krishnamurti’s teachings may find them in this book, and some of these are published here—Editor) ASSURE YOU one can put sensitive through starvation or Iaside the old tape, the old way fasting. One has to have regard of thinking, feeling, reacting, for what one eats. One has to the innumerable habits that one have a brain that is sensitive; has. One can do it if one really that means a brain that is not gives attention. If the thing one functioning in habits, pursuing is listening to is deadly serious, its own particular little pleasure, tremendously important, then sexual or otherwise. pp.9-10 one is bound to listen so that the Questioner: Do you think it is possible very act of listening will wipe to learn all the time? out the old. Do try it—or rather KRISHNAMURTI: When you ask do it. You are deeply interested, that question of yourself, you otherwise you would not be here. have already made it difficult. By Do listen with full attention, so putting a question of that kind that in the very act of listening you are preventing yourself from the old memories, the old habits, that very self-centredness will learning. You see the point? I am the accumulated tradition, will all prevent him from examining. But not concerned with whether I be wiped away. Page.4. he has got to listen to others, he am going to learn all the time, I’ll ONE WANTS TO find out how has got to examine, to question find out. What I am concerned to live quite a different kind of life, constantly; which means that with is: am I learning? If I am a life in which there is no violence, he has to be highly sensitive. learning, I am not concerned as in which there is complete inward He has to find out how and to to whether it is ‘all the time’—I freedom; one wants to find out whom he listens. So he is all don’t make a problem of it. The and intends giving time, energy, the time listening, pursuing, question becomes irrelevant if I thought, everything, to that. inquiring. He is discovering, and am learning. I would call such a person a with a sensitive brain, a sensitive mind, a sensitive heart—they Questioner: You can learn from serious person. He is not easily anything. put off—he may amuse himself, are not separate things—he is KRISHNAMURTI: That is, if you but his course is set. This does inquiring with the totality and the are aware that you are learning. not mean that he is dogmatic or sensitivity of all that. Find out if This is very complex: may I go obstinate, that he does not adjust. the body is sensitive; be aware of into it a little? He will listen to others, consider, its gestures, its peculiar habits. You examine, observe. He may in his cannot be sensitive physically if ‘Can I learn all the time’? seriousness become self-centred; you overeat, nor can you become Which factor is important here? MARCH 2014 JUNE 2014 Let this inquiry carry you all day ‘Learning’ or ‘all the time’? the next moment I become your education, your way of Obviously it is ‘learning’. When I inattentive. Having been attentive thinking, your conclusions, your am learning I am not concerned and knowing what inattention prejudices, without any kind of with ‘the rest of the time’— is, I struggle to make inattention condemnation or explanation the time interval and so on. I attentive. Do not do that, but or justification—just observe. am concerned only with what watch inattention, become aware When you so observe, there is I am learning. Naturally the that you are inattentive; that is all. no observer and therefore no mind wanders off, it gets tired, Stop there. Do not say, ‘I must conflict. it becomes inattentive. Being spend all my time being attentive’, Questioner: When I dream, I sometimes inattentive, it does all kinds but just watch when you are see something happening in the future, of stupid things. So it is not a inattentive. To go any further which is accurate. I dreamt that I saw you question of how to make the into this would be really quite come into this meeting and put the brown inattentive mind attentive. What complex. There is a quality of coat there and adjust the microphone; is important is for the inattentive mind that is awake and watching this was definitely a dream of what was mind to become aware that it is all the time, watching though there going to happen the next morning. is nothing to learn. That means a inattentive. I am aware, watching KRISHNAMURTI: How do you everything, the movement of mind that is extraordinarily quiet, account for that? First of all, why the trees, the flow of the water, extraordinarily silent. What has a do you give such tremendous and I am watching myself—not silent, clear mind to learn? pp. 19-21 importance to what is going to correcting, not saying this should SO THERE IS this observer happen in the future? Why? The be or this should not be—just and the thing observed; in astrologers, the fortune tellers, the watching. When the mind that is that division there is inevitably palmists, what marvellous things watching gets tired and becomes contradiction. That contradiction they say are going to happen to inattentive, suddenly it becomes is the root of all strife. you! Why are you so concerned? aware of this, and tries to force If that is the root cause of Why are you not concerned with itself to become attentive; so there conflict, then the next question the actual daily living, which is conflict between inattention and is: can you observe without the contains all the treasures—you attention. I say: do not do that, ‘me’, the censor, without all the do not see it! You know, when but become aware that you are accumulated experiences of the mind, because you have inattentive; that is all. misery, conflict, brutality, vanity, been listening here, has become somewhat sensitive—I do not Questioner: Could you describe how you pride, despair, which are the say completely sensitive, but are aware that you are inattentive? ‘me’? Can you observe without the past—the past memories, somewhat sensitive—naturally KRISHNAMURTI: I am learning it observes more, whether of about myself—not according to conclusions, and hopes, with- out all the background? That tomorrow or today. It is like some psychologist or specialist background—as the ‘me’, the looking down from an aeroplane —I am watching and I see the observer—divides you from and seeing two boats approaching something in myself. But I do not the observed. Have you ever from opposite directions on the condemn it, I do not judge it, I observed without the back- same river; one sees that they are do not push it aside, I just watch ground? Do it now, please. Play going to meet at a certain point, it. I see that I am proud—let us with it. Look at the outward and that is the future. The mind, take that as an example. I do not things objectively; listen to the being somewhat more sensitive, say, ‘I must put it aside, how ugly noise of the river, look at the lines becomes aware of certain things to be proud’, but I just watch it. of the mountains, the beauty, which may happen tomorrow As I am watching I am learning. the clarity of it all. That is fairly as well as of those which are Watching means learning what easy to do without the ‘me’, as happening now. Most of us pride involves, how it has come the past, observing. But can you give so much more importance into being. I cannot watch it for look at yourself inwardly without to what is going to happen more than five or six minutes— the observer? Do please look tomorrow and so little to what is if one can, that is a great deal— at yourself, your conditioning, actually happening now. And you 2 MARCH 2014 JUNE 2014 Let this inquiry carry you all day will find, if you go into this very has said something ugly about day’, the brain has started. But deeply, that nothing ‘happens’ at me, or something true which I if you watch, looking out of the all: any ‘happening’ is part of life. do not like.’ That is accumulation window and not saying a word to through observation, and that Questioner: You tell us to observe yourself—which does not mean accumulation is the observer. our actions in daily life, but what is you suppress the word—just When you observe without the entity that decides what to observe observing without the activity of accumulation, then there is no and when? Who decides if one should the brain rushing in, there you judgement. You can do this all observe? have the clue, there you have the the time; in that observation key.
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