Monday, January 23, 2012

J Krishnamurti - On Collective Consciousness and Individuality




J Krishnamurti
["The Only Video You Need To See" at YouTube]


Transcript:
Please... We are looking at it together
Your own consciousness
Which is you

Fear
And with it naturally goes hatred
Where there is fear there must be violence
Aggression
The tremendous urge to succeed
Both in the physical as well as in the psychological world
Fear has many factors, which we’ll go into when we are talking about fear

And the constant pursuit of pleasure
Pleasure of possession
Pleasure of domination
Pleasure of money, which gives power
The pleasure of a philosopher with his immense knowledge
The guru with his circus
Pleasure again has innumerable forms


And, there is also..
Sorrow
Pain
Anxiety
The deep sense of abiding
Endless sense of loneliness
And not only the so-called personal sorrow
But also the enormous sorrow of mankind has brought about through wars

Through neglect


Through this endless sense of conquering one group of people by another


And in that consciousness
There is the racial group
Contest
And ultimately there is death


This is our consciousness
Beliefs
Certainties
And uncertainties
Great sense of anxiety
Loneliness
Sorrow
And endless misery
This is a fact


And we say, this consciousness
Is mine!
Is that so?
Go to the Far East or the other east,
India, American, Europe
Anywhere you go where human beings are
They suffer
They’re anxious
Lonely
Depressed
Melancholy
Struggling conflict
Same like you
Similar like you
So is your consciousness different from the another?
I know it’s very difficult
Maybe to logically accept
Which is intellectual verbally say yes
That is so
Maybe
But to feel this total human sense that there is no humanity except you
You are the rest of mankind
That requires great deal of sensitivity
It’s not a problem to be solved
It isn’t that, ‘I must accept that I’m not an individual
And how am I to feel this - a global human entity?’
Then you’ve made it into a problem
And the brain is ready to solve the problem
Do this
Don’t do that
Go to a guru
You know all the circus that goes on..

But if you really look at it
With your mind
With your heart
With you whole being
Totally aware of this fact
Then you have broken the program
See..
It is naturally broken
But if you say ‘I will break it’
You are getting back in the same
(I wonder if you understand..
Shall I go over it again?)
Is it necessary for the speak to repeat?


But please don’t accept this because the speaker feels this
To him this is utter reality
Not something verbally accepted
Because it’s pleasant
But it is something that is actual
Then if that is so
Which is logically
Reasonably
Sanely examine and you’ll see
It is so
But the brain which has been accustomed to
This program of the individuality is going to revolt
Which you are doing now
Which is the brain is unwilling to learn
Where as the computer is willing to learn
Here we are frightening of losing something

And if you don’t understand this
We’ll go over and over again
But a serious person confronting the world situation
The world catastrophe
The terror
The atom bomb
The endless competition between nations
That is destroying human beings
It’s destroying us
Each one
And the decision comes
When you perceive the truth that you are not an individual…

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