Tradition and Revolution Dialogues with J. Krishnamurti
K: Look at the field of conflict. There is division. Where there is division there must inevitably be conflict—my family, your f ...
pleasant—I may like to be bullied, to be beaten by my wife; but that pleasure is a part of the structure of conflict. R: The nat ...
K: I want to possess her, and that is why I need her. The brain cells establish a pattern of habit and refuse to leave habit. A: ...
THE NATURE OF EXPLORATION Dialogue 15 A: All our lives we have been thinking in terms of causes, and operating on causes, findin ...
analyser has to be extremely clear-sighted in order to analyse. If his analysis is twisted, the analysis is not worth a straw. T ...
K: I tell you that analysis is not the way of understanding. Using reason, I give you the logical sequences—all that is only an ...
K: The moment you perceive something to be true, how can it return? The moment you see that the snake is dangerous, you do not g ...
K: We find that analysis and the way of the intellect are not exploration at all. It is like going partially into a tunnel. What ...
K: See the truth of it, not the logic of it. You can supply the logic later. What you thought was the door is not the door. You ...
A: We are still not free of habit. K: Because you are still insisting that the door is there. You started out saying: I know. Th ...
ORDER AND IDEATION Dialogue 16 A: The greatest hindrances to perception are ideas. What is the difference between fact and the i ...
A: I have quarrelled with my brother, and I am on my guard whenever I meet him. So I am unable to really see him; I only see an ...
K: Is that so? Is this constant preoccupation not putting the mind to sleep? A: Then why does not the mind slacken when it is no ...
A: Instead of the one act of perception we have our deep conditioning. Cultural, sociological, and anthropological conditioning ...
K: Order is safety; order is harmony. But the very search for order ends in disorder. Seeing this, I drop all formulas: I am no ...
OBJECT, KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION Dialogue 17 A: I think we should go into the question of the perception of beauty. You said the ...
K: No. We are not talking of seeing rightly or wrongly, nor of what you see—the chair, the rope, the snake—but of what perceptio ...
Is there a looking without an object, without the knowledge of the object? Of course there is. A film director came to see me on ...
R: I do not know. There are some texts in which they have said that the perception of beauty is that moment when time, name, for ...
K: I discard expression, I discard the created object, and I discard the idea that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I have ...
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