sleep, the mind, the brain, because it has brought order during the day by
observing the disorder it lives in, has a quality of total freedom to observe.
So, if you observe your life as it is, see the beauty of it and the destructive
nature of confusion and see that a mind which has no formulas, which has no
principles, is free to observe and to listen, then there is freedom which is order, a
freedom that is complete, living in this world. And it is only such a mind that is
free, that knows what love is, what beauty is. It’s only such a mind being free
that can perceive what truth is.
Now, would you like to ask questions? Before you ask them, please, you are
asking the question of yourself, and we will together answer the question—
together. You ask the question and don’t wait for the speaker to answer it, but in
the very asking of that question we are both going to share the question. That is
affection, that is care, that is love; not waiting for some authority to answer it.
When the authority answers it, whether it’s the book, the guru, or anybody, you
are not seeking truth. You want confirmation, assurance. But if you ask a
question, it doesn’t matter how trivial, and you are asking it of yourself, in the
very asking of it aloud we share it together. Then it is a common problem. What
is common is communicable. Therefore we can share it together and in the
sharing there is great beauty, there is great affection. That is love, to share. Now,
sirs.
QUESTIONER: I have tried for three years but have no energy to be aware of my
reaction.
KRISHNAMURTI: The gentleman says, “I have no energy to be aware of my
problems and deal with them.” That’s right, sir? Put the question very simply,
don’t put it all complicatedly. I have no energy to deal with my problems, and
you need energy, right? Now, how do you have energy? That’s the question, isn’t
it, sir? Now, we are sharing it together, you understand? This is a really very,
very complex problem. First of all, one has to understand what energy is. We
have broken it up into many fragments: the energy that is needed to do business,
the energy that is needed to write a poem, the energy that is needed to be a good,
first-class, nongovernment scientist—not a pet thing of the government. You
need energy to understand, and that understanding has been broken up too as
intellectual understanding, verbal understanding. You have broken up your
energy as sexual energy and moral energy. So energy is broken up.
Q: What is...
K: Wait, sir; wait. I haven’t finished. Sir, look, that’s what I mean: the
callousness of people, the indifference, the brutality of this. Somebody asks a
question: ‘‘Please, how am I to tackle my problem? I haven’t the energy; please
help me. Let’s talk it over together.” (I am not helping him.) And you get up and
put your question. You are not interested in the other fellow’s problem; you are
full of your own problem, and you are ready to pop up with your problem, which
means you are totally, completely indifferent. So please listen.