Krishnamurti used the metaphor 'Mirror' and the 'Relationship' to describe the Mind and the Division Within, the Fragmentation within. K describes the Division within as having no Relationship, when one looks into one's Mind, which is the Mirror. The Mirror itself is being broken into two, having at least a Gap or it is Fragmented, having more Gaps, if there is no Relationship ,if there is Division.
If the Mirror is not broken, that is from K's own wording, "or it can be 'as is', reflecting that which is.", then there is no problem, which is the solution he found, where it is the 'Thoughtless' state. Because, that it is the 'Thinking', which divides the Mind, the Mirror, not to have a Relationship (Division within), as K made the metaphoric of the word Mind, by using the word Mirror, instead.
Quote K:
Relationship, surely, is the mirror in which you discover yourself. Without relationship you are not; to be is to be related; to be related is existence. You exist only in relationship; otherwise you do not exist, existence has no meaning. It is not because you think you are that you come into existence. You exist because you are related; and it is the lack of understanding of relationship that causes conflict.
Now there is no understanding of relationship, because we use relationship merely as a means of furthering achievement, furthering transformation, furthering becoming. But relationship is a means of self-discovery, because relationship is to be; it is existence. Without relationship, I am not. To understand myself, I must understand relationship. Relationship is a mirror in which I can see myself. That mirror can either be distorted, or it can be 'as is', reflecting that which is. But most of us see in relationship, in that mirror, things we would rather see; we do not see what is. We would rather idealize, escape, we would rather live in the future than understand that relationship in the immediate present.
J. Krishnamurti The First and Last Freedom
Chapter 14 'RELATIONSHIP AND ISOLATION'
End Of The Quote.
But people who don't understand this Krishnamurti's explanation of the same core teaching, that the mind being fragmented, try to understand this by comparing their own experiences, where their minds are not fragmented, and fall into the superficial understanding.
This is what Krishnamurti was doing. having a small experience of relief from his problem of divided thinking, and concluding it as a Pathless solution, of that relief he gained, which is similar to amnesia, K expresses the same idea in many different ways, making a vast looking philosophy. Also he relates the same experience of Division and the solution, to that of the outside world's problems, making superficial explanations, still adding more and more to his expanding philosophy, which is nothing, but leads to much confusions in the mind of listener and reader of Krishnamurti. As well as some are inspired and getting astonished by his words, just because they could not comprehend anything of it. Some people do not go for meaningful, practical things. But they want grand pronouncement with grand words. But it is evident that Krishnamurti was not doing this with an intention of creating a grand philosophy, but he was trying merely to understand his own division, himself, of the fragmentation, by relating that to superficial division without. to the outside world' divisions.
Quote K:
Self-knowledge is not according to any formula. You may go to a psychologist or a psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge comes into being when we are aware of ourselves in relationship, which shows what we are from moment to moment. Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in relationship because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge. If one is able to see oneself as one is in this extraordinary mirror of relationship which does not distort, if one can just look into this mirror with full attention and see actually what is, be aware of it without condemnation, without judgment, without evaluation - and one does this when there is earnest interest - then one will find that the mind is capable of freeing itself from all conditioning; and it is only then that the mind is free to discover that which lies beyond the field of thought. After all, however learned or however petty the mind may be, it is consciously or unconsciously limited, conditioned, and any extension of this conditioning is still within the field of thought. So freedom is something entirely different.
What is important, then, is self-knowledge - seeing oneself as one is in the mirror of relationship. It is very difficult to observe oneself without distortion because we are educated to distort, to condemn, to compare, to judge; but if the mind is capable - which it is - of observing itself without distortion, then you will find, if you will experiment with it, that the mind can uncondition itself.
FirstTalk in Sydney, 1955
End of The Quote.
Here again, Krishnamurti is saying the same, of his 'Core' of the teaching. By 'thinking', that is by, "educated to distort, to condemn, to compare, to judge" one becomes Fragmented, having no relationship, that is not "seeing oneself as one is in the mirror of relationship."
One must be able to understand now, how Krishnamurti was expanding his 'Core of the Teaching' by using many different ways of explaining of the same, and expanding further by relating the same to that of superficial outside divisions which have no relevance at all.
Is it not a great feat by Krishnamurti, an ability to create such a vast looking philosophy, just by using his experience of his Divided thinking and a mere solution coming from subconscious, which is similar to that of amnesia, which is expressed only by 188 words as The Core Of The Teaching, and also to make stubborn adherents of his Philosophy, who call themselves as 'We don't follow Krishnamurti' and when confronted with an arguments, always quote K, without having their own ideas,coming from their own experiencing of the mind, which may not be fragmented?
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