It seems like thatâs the starting point of any inquiry. If we canât see whatâs actually there, purely, then how can anything change? We overlook things, we see them as not relevant to ourselves, we accept them as normal, and we canât even see what weâre actually looking at without some voice thatâs been conditioned into our heads telling us itâs something other than what it really is. Isnât that what this statement suggests?
The conditioned brain âcanât see whatâs actually there, purelyâ, but that doeasnât mean it canât inquire into the nature and structure of its condition.
Inquiring is a function of practical thought, and the conditioned brain is capable of practical thought, so the starting point of any inquiry is right now, if thereâs any interest in inquiring. Krishnamurti stressed the importance of self-knowledge, and what is self-knowledge but inquiring?