In the previous posts, I have analyzed how Krishnamurit's Mind is Fragmented. And due to that reason, how Krishnamurit was suffering, and as the cause of this Division within, which give rise to doubt, fear, insecurity, etc. Then how did Krishnamurti, came to the solution of Thoughtless, which he named as Unknown and how K concluded this as Pathless, as he could not see the Path he went through, due to the same reason for which he could not see the Mind attributes which constitutes the Gaps, the Division. So it is evident that the ignorance of the attributes of the Gaps, which could not be detected by K, made Krishnamurti to declare the 'Thoughtless' as Pathless.
This is the Core of the Teaching of Krishnamurti, the Fragmentation and how to end it. The rest of the teaching is based on this Core, and how Krishnamurti was trying to relate the Division within to without, to the superficial divisions of the outside world, which have noting to do with the inner divisions.
Since this explanations relating to outside world's divisions, which are superficial, constitute K's 99.9% of his discourses, when we consider that the 'Core' of his teaching can be expressed in a paragraph, having a few lines.
This 'Core' of the teaching was expressed by Krishnamurti himself in a few lines in a paragraph, which I have highlighted in 'Bold' letters below, in one of his summations of his teaching as requested by his biographer Mary Lutyens.
Quote:
The Core of the Teachings
Written by Krishnamurti in 1980 at the request of his biographer Mary Lutyens.
The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said, “Truth is a pathless land”. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. 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 has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. 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 humanity. So he is not an individual.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.
Source : J.Krishnamurti ONLINE
End Of the Quote.
What is astonishing here, in the Krishnamurti's summing up of his teaching, as the 'Core', also constituting a little more than half of it, as a superficial explanation of his core of teaching, in trying to relate the teaching to the outside things, having no relevance. The highlighted 'bold', is the Core, which has a few lines of three para, having 188 words, 916 characters.
But many say, that after reading and listening to Krishnamurti for years, that they find it difficult to understand him. Yes, it would be the case, if one does not have the same Fragmented mind as K, or if one having a Whole mind, and first to understand one's whole mind in complete, by Bhavana (Buddhist mind Development), and with that understanding of the Whole to understand and acknowledge the Fragmentation of the mind.
So What is this Core of the Teaching having 188 words? it is the same thing which I have already explained. That is Krishnamurti's mind is fragmented, causing insecurity, doubt, fear and suffering. Without having a choice, and not knowing how to end the fragmentation, when one remains aware of the suffering, it get ended, due to subconscious solution given by the mind, just like amnesia, which Krishnamurti concludes as Pathless.
The 'Core of the Teaching', which constitutes of 188 words, is true for Krishnamurti, and would be partially or nearly be true for a few people, who have similar fragmented minds. But it will not be wholly true for, even to any one having fragmented mind, as no two people having Fragmented minds will be similar in their fragmentation, as it would be a very rare coincidence, if it to be so.
So in the future posts I would be mainly dealing with this Superficial explanation of without, in trying to relate the factual inner division to that, which are erroneous. Also I would be dealing with some factual explanation of the Fragmentation within, as Krishnamurti had taken different examples to explain the same, other than taking Tree, Birds, flowers and Door, as examples.
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