Please we are looking at it together
Your own consciousness
Which is you
Fear
And with it naturally goes hatred
Where there is fear there must be violence
Aggression
The tremendous urge to succeed
Both in the physical world as well as in the psychological world
Fear has many factors, which we'll go into when we are talking about fear
And the constant pursuit of pleasure
Pleasure of possession
Pleasure of domination
The pleasure of money, which gives power
The pleasure of a philosopher with his immense knowledge
The guru which is circus
Pleasure again has innumerable forms
And there is then also
Sorrow
Pain
Anxiety
The deep sense of abiding
Endless sense of loneliness
And not only the so-called personal sorrow
But also the enormous sorrow of mankind has brought about through wars
Through neglect
Through this endless sense of conquering one group of people by another
And in that consciousness there is the racial group content
And ultimately there is death
This is our consciousness
Beliefs
Certainties
And uncertainties
Great sense of anxiety
Loneliness
Sorrow
And endless misery
This is the fact
And we say this consciousness
Is mine!
Is that so?
Go to the Far East, the Near East,
India, American, Europe
Anywhere you go where human beings are
They suffer
They're anxious
Lonely
Depressed
Melancholic
Struggling conflict
Same like you
Similar like you
So is your consciousness different from the another?
I know it's very difficult for people
May we logically accept this
Which intellectually verbally says
That is so
Maybe
But to feel this total human sense of that there is no humanity except you
You are the rest of mankind
That requires great a deal of sensitivity
It's not a problem to be solved
It isn't, 'I must accept that I'm not an individual
And how am I to feel this global human entity?'
Then you've made it into a problem
And the brain is ready to solve the problem
Do this
Don't do that
Go to a guru
You know all the circus that goes on
But if you really look at it
With your mind
With your heart
With you whole being
Totally aware of this fact
Then you have broken the program
It is naturally broken
But if you say 'I will break it'
You are again back in the same pattern
I wonder if you understand
Shall I go over it again?
Is it necessary for the speaker to repeat this?
But please don't accept this because the speaker feels this
To him this is utter reality
Not something verbally accepted
Because it's pleasant
But it is something that is actual
Then if that is so
Which is logically
Reasonably
Sanely, examine and you'll see
It is so
But the brain which has been accustomed to
This program of the individuality is going to revolt
Which you are doing now
Which is, the brain is unwilling to learn
Where as the computer is willing to learn
Because he has nothing to loose
Here we are frightening of losing something
And if you don't understand this
We'll go into it over and over again
But a serious person confronting the world situation
The world catastrophe
The terror
The atom bomb
The endless competition between nations
That is destroying human beings
That's destroying us
Each one
And the decision comes
When you perceive the truth that you are not an individual.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
excerpt from the 2nd Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, 14th July, 1981
Learning That Transforms Consciousness

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