Our burning planet and warring world

Yes Ken was sharing so much information and humor about life not having just one source of wisdom, or spiritual knowledge for human beings to follow or believe in. Some really wise sayings about many non conditioned artists and wise human beings inquiring all over our burning warring planet. In his own way Ken saw the truth that many others have pointed out significant things about real silence, and the UNDOING of the societal produced self in learning the art of inquiry and not going to one human source in life for everything regardless of how much truth that source, that inquiring human being revealed to us in their own life. It is not that all wells, all human beings as inquirers, do not see that insightful wells sometimes go dry, like a bad day for a scientist, or athlete. Ponder on these things for yourselves.

See too it is the truth that learning human beings sometimes turn off their own insights and turn to the mechanical nature of thought for new technical inventions in the unknown fields of religion and spirituality that only insane human despots can organize people in and like the insane billionaires, and organizers in the Heritage foundation, and men like Vlad Putin, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. They all three represent, the spearhead movements, similar to ISIS, and the Taliban, and Ayatollahs in Iran that are all the most insane terrorist fundamentalist human beings on the planet. Much like HAMAS, ISIS, and the Taliban only more powerful. So supremely corrupted by power that they all have become the new Fascist leaders of Movements much like the NAZIā€™s in PRE- world war II Germany, in their lives as well. All three are willing to or actually are committing genocide on their own fellow human beings all over the world. All three are involved with many criminals in their own nations in overtaxing their own poorer citizens and serving wealthy or insane extremists who are criminals like them. Meanwhile cutting taxes on the wealthy, and passing double standards in their own laws for, females, and the rich and the poor that serve the rich.

Meanwhile lying about serving many of the most insane wealthy oligarchs in their own nations to accrue great wealth and power. Nationalist cults like MAGA MIGA and MRGA are led by the most poisonous insane dishonest leaders. They are merely boys cults, and psychologically cancerous movements of the not educated rightly anti science masses, on planet earth today. Those three nations leaders left alone to their personal megalomania and greed for kingly power in life, can end most life on our planet. A certainty if they are not stopped. They are all certifiably insane human beings much worse than any single insane terrorist in life because of their seemingly absolute power to destroy all disagreements from anyone, in their own criminal like lives, accumulating great kingly powers in their own deteriorating nations. If that kingly power is not thwarted world war three or environmental destruction is imminent . Mankind in general is in deep trouble globally while only a tiny few are intentionally marching them down a path to their combined, nationalistic vile movements of organized mass suicide, and eventual planetary destruction, and possible extinction.
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Can The Crude Mind Become Sensitive?: Listen to the question, to the meaning behind the words. Can the crude mind become sensitive? If I say my mind is crude and I try to become sensitive, the very effort to become sensitive is crudity. Please see this. Donā€™t be intrigued, but watch it. Whereas, if I recognize that I am crude without wanting to change, without trying to become sensitive, if I begin to understand what crudeness is, observe it in my life from day to day -the greedy way I eat, the roughness with which I treat people, the pride, the arrogance, the coarseness of my habits and thoughts -then that very observation transforms what is.

Similarly, if I am stupid and I say I must become intelligent, the effort to become intelligent is only a greater form of stupidity; because what is important is to understand stupidity. However much I may try to become intelligent, my stupidity will remain. I may acquire the superficial polish of learning, I may be able to quote books, repeat passages from great authors, but basically I shall still be stupid. But if I see and understand stupidity as it expresses itself in my daily life- how I behave towards my servant, how I regard my neighbor, the poor man, the rich man, the clerk- then that very awareness brings about a breaking up of stupidity. The Book Of life Feb. 3

Early Works, circa 1930

Life itself has no system, for it is always in movement; always growing and striving. To systematize it, therefore, is to bind it and so negate its vital quality. For this reason pure reason can never understand; nor can its anti-thesis, which is pure sentiment, ever understand. Strength is needed for understanding, but sentimentality is always weak. J. Krishnamurti Early Works, circa 1930


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Surely, a man who is understanding life does not want beliefs. A man who loves, has no beliefs- he loves. It is the man who is consumed by the intellect who has beliefs, because intellect is always seeking security, protection; it is always avoiding danger, and therefore it builds ideas, beliefs, ideals, behind which it can take shelter. What would happen if you dealt with violence directly, now? You would be a danger to society; and because the mind foresees the danger, it says "I will achieve the ideal of non-violence ten years later which is such a fictitious, false processā€¦ To understand what is, is more important than to create and follow ideals because ideals are false, and what is is the real. To understand what is requires an enormous capacity, a swift and unprejudiced mind.

It is because we donā€™t want to face and understand what is that we invent the many ways of escape and give them lovely names as the ideal, the belief, God. Surely, it is only when I see the false as the false that my mind is capable of perceiving what is true. A mind that is confused in the false, can never find the truth. Therefore, I must understand what is false in my relationships, in my ideas, in the things about me because to perceive the truth requires the understanding of the false. Without removing the causes of ignorance, there cannot be enlightenment; and to seek enlightenment when the mind is unenlightened is utterly empty, meaningless. Therefore, I must begin to see the false in my relationships with ideas, with people, with things. When the mind sees that which is false, then that which is true comes into being and then there is ecstasy, there is happiness. The book of Life Feb.8

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Questioner: All right. So one observes, one becomes very sensitive, very watchful, and then what? Is that all there is, just marvelling forever at perfectly commonplace things? I am sure that everybody does this all the time, at least when they are young, and there is nothing earth-shaking about it. What then? Isnā€™t there some further step than just this observation that you talk about?

Krishnamurti: You started this conversation by asking about beauty, by saying that you do not feel it. You also said that in your life there is no beauty and so we are inquiring into this question of what beauty is, not only verbally or intellectually but feeling the very throb of it.

Questioner: Yes, that is so, but when I asked you I wondered if there isnā€™t something beyond the sensitive looking you describe.

Krishnamurti: Of course there is, but unless one has the sensitivity of observation, seeing what is infinitely greater cannot come about.

Questioner: So many people do see with heightened sensitivity. Poets look with intense feeling, yet in all this there doesnā€™t seem to be any breakthrough to that infinitely greater, infinitely more beautiful something which people call the divine. Because I feel that whether one is very sensitive or rather dull, as I am, unless there is a breakthrough to some quite different dimension what we perceive is simply varying shades of grey.

In all this sensitivity which you say comes about through observation it seems to me there is just a quantitative difference, just a small improvement, not something vastly different. Frankly I am not interested in just a little more of the same thing.

Krishnamurti: So what are you asking now? Are you asking how to break through the dull grey monotony of life to some quite different dimension?

Questioner: Yes. Real beauty must be something other than the beauty of the poet, the artist, the young, alert mind, though I am not in any way belittling that beauty.

Krishnamurti: Is this really what you are seeking? Is it really what you want? If you do, there must be the total revolution of your being. Is this what you want? Do you want a revolution that shatters all your concepts, your values, your morality, your respectability, your knowledge - shatters you so that you are reduced to absolute nothingness, so that you no longer have any character, so that you no longer are the seeker, the man who judges, who is agressive or perhaps non-aggressive, so that you are completely empty of everything that is you? This emptiness is beauty with its extreme austerity in which there is not a spark of harshness or agressive assertion. That is what breakthrough means and is that what you are after? There must be astonishing intelligence, not information or learning.

This intelligence operates all the time, whether you are asleep or awake. That is why we said there must be the observation of the inner and the outer which sharpens the brain. And this very sharpness of the brain makes it quiet. And it is this sensitivity and intelligence that make thought operate only when it has to; the rest of the time the brain is not dormant but watchfully quiet. And so the brain with its reactions doesnā€™t bring about conflict. It functions without struggle and therefore without distortion.

Then the doing and the acting are immediate, as when you are in danger. Therefore there is always a freedom from conceptual accumulations. It is this conceptual accumulation which is the observer, the ego, the ā€œmeā€ which divides, resists and builds barriers. When the ā€œmeā€ is not, the breakthrough is not, then there is no breakthrough; then the whole of life is in the beauty of living, the beauty of relationship, without substituting one image for another. Then only the infinitely greater is possible. J. Krishnamurti Meeting Life