When we are aware of ourselves, it is not the whole movement of living, a way of exposing the ego, the ego?
The I; The SAME, is a very complex process that can be discovered only in the relationship, in our daily activities, in the way we talk, how we judge, how we calculate, how we censor others and ourselves. All that reveals the conditioned state of our own thinking. It's not important; So, realize this whole process?
Only by perception; From moment to moment and what is true, there is the discovery of the timeless and the eternal. Without self-knowledge, we cannot find the eternal. When we don't know ourselves; the eternal becomes a mere word, a symbol, a speculation, a dogma, a belief, an illusion through which the mind can escape. But if one begins to understand the I; in all its various daily activities, then, by the work of that understanding itself and without any effort, the unnamed and the timeless comes into existence. But the timeless is not a reward for self-knowledge. You cannot try to obtain the eternal; Well, the mind cannot acquire it. It manifests itself, only when the mind is still; and the mind can be still only when it is simple, when it no longer accumulates, condemns, judges or weighs. Only the simple mind can understand the real; not so the mind full of words, knowledge and information. The mind that analyzes and calculates is not a simple mind.
Know Himself
Without knowing himself; Whatever you do, the state of meditation is not possible. I understand by knowing oneself, knowing each thought, each mood, each word, each feeling; to know the activity of one's own mind, not the Supreme Self, the great Self. There is no such thing; the Higher Self, the Atma, remains within the field of thought. Thought is the result of our conditioning, it is the response of our memory; both the ancestral and the immediate. If we have not established first; in a profound and irrevocable way, that virtue that comes when we know ourselves, the mere attempt to meditate is totally deceitful and absolutely useless. Please, it is very important that those who are serious understand this. Since if they don't, their meditation and factual living would be like being divorced, separated, so widely separated that; Even if one can meditate, he will adopt positions indefinitely for the rest of his life, and will not look beyond his nose. Any posture you adopt, whatever you do, will not make any sense at all. It is important to understand; which is this to know oneself: Simply, be attentive, without option or preference, to the I, which has its origin in a bundle of memories; just be aware of it without interpreting it, just observe the movement of the mind. But that observation is impeded when; Through observation, one merely accumulates ideas about what to do, what not to do and what to achieve. If we proceed like this, we put an end to the living process that is the movement of the mind centered on the I. That is, I have to observe and see the fact; the factual, what it is. If I observe that observation with an idea, with an opinion; as I DO NOT, which are the responses of memory, then the movement of what is is hindered and blocked; Therefore, there is no learning.
The creative vacuum
Can't you hear this (The creative void) in the same way as the earth receives the seed, and see if the mind is capable of being free, empty? The mind can be empty, only by understanding its own projections, its own activities; not from time to time, but from day to day and from moment to moment. Then, the answer will be found, it will be seen that the change comes without being asked. It will be seen that the state of creative emptiness is not something that can be cultivated; is there, comes mysteriously and without any invitation. And only in that state, there is a possibility of renewal; of something new happening, an internal revolution.
Self knowledge
The right thinking comes with self-knowledge. If we do not understand ourselves, our thinking is baseless; Without our own knowledge, what we think is not true. Me and the world are not two different entities with separate problems; Me and the world, we are one. My problem is the problem of the world. I can be the result of certain tendencies, of environmental influences, but in the main I am not different from another. Internally we are all very similar: We are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition, etc. Our beliefs, hopes and aspirations have a common base in all. We are all one, we are one humanity, although the artificial frontiers of the economy, politics and prejudice divide us. If I kill another, I am destroying myself. One is the center of the Total; If he does not understand himself, he cannot understand reality. We have an intellectual knowledge of this unit, but we maintain knowledge and feeling in different sections; consequently, we never experience the extraordinary unity of the human being.
The relationship is a mirror
Self-knowledge is not according to some formula. One can go to a psychologist or a psychoanalyst to find out about oneself, but that is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge arises when we are attentive to ourselves in the relationship, which reveals what we are from moment to moment. The relationship is a mirror in which we can see ourselves as we really are. But few have the ability to look at each other as we are in the relationship; because we immediately begin to censor or justify what we see. We judge, evaluate, compare, deny or accept; but we never truly observe what it is, and for most people this seems the hardest thing to do. However, only this can start self-knowledge. If in this extraordinary mirror of the relationship; which deforms nothing, we can see ourselves as we are, if we simply have the ability to look with full attention in this mirror and really see what it is. Be attentive to it without condemning, judging, or evaluating; and one looks like this when there is a serious interest, we will find that the mind can free itself from all its conditioning. Only then, is it free to discover what lies beyond the field of thought. In the end; however erudite or insignificant the mind is, it is consciously or unconsciously, limited, conditioned, and any extension of this conditioning remains within the field of thinking. Thus, freedom is something completely different.
Krishnamurti
Source: Light Seed
The still Mind, the Simple Mind by Krishnamurti
