In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is without motive freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. So he is not an individual.įreedom is not a reaction: freedom is not choice. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. 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 philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. " Truth is a Pathless land." The statement below was originally written by Krishnamurti in 1980 The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said:
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