| "Can I observe the fact that my life is dualistic, separative, isolated? However much I might say to my wife, 'I love you'... I live in separation because I am ambitious, greedy, envious, full of antagonism, hatred, and all rest of it boiling in me. And that is the fact. Can I look... can the mind look at that fact non-dualistically? Me as the watcher looking at it as though it were something separate from me. Can I look at it without this separation? Can I look... can the mind look at it, not as an observer, not as an entity that wishes to change it, transform what it observes, but to look at it without the observer? Can I... can my mind look—the mind, who wants to call it my mind—the mind, can that look without any conclusion but observe? Observe the fact only, not what thought says about the fact—the opinions, the conclusions, the prejudices, the judgments, the like and the dislike, the feeling of frustration, despair when you look at that fact—just to observe without thought reacting to what is observed. I think that is real awareness: to observe with such sensitivity in which the whole brain, which is so conditioned, so heavily burdened with its own conclusions, ideas, pleasures, hopes, and all the rest of it, to observe with the brain completely quiet and yet be alive to what it is observing. Am I making myself somewhat clear or is it all rather complicated?"
– J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 1
Brockwood Park, England - 06 September 1969
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