"Psychologically we have created walls around ourselves, walls of resistance, walls of hope, fear, greed, envy, ambition, desire for position, power, prestige. They are created by the thinker. The thinker has created the space around himself in which he lives, and there he is never free. Beauty is not only the thing that you see; that's a very small part. Beauty is not the result of thought, is not put together by thought. Like love, thought has no place where affection is. Where there is jealousy, envy, greed, ambition, and prideâlove is not. We all know that. But, to find out what it means to love, there must surely be freedom from all travail, all jealousy, all envy. Then we will know.
In the same way, to be free implies no psychological walls created by the center. Freedom means space. Freedom also implies an end to time, not abstractly but actually. Freedom means to live completely today because we have understood the whole structure, the nature, and the meaning of the past. The past is the conscious as well as the unconscious. We have understood the whole of that. Because of that understanding, there is the active present, which is living. Can this actually happen in our daily life?"
J. Krishnamurti Talk 5, Paris, 1966
The thinker has created various psychological walls around themselves such as resistance, hope, fear, jealousy, and the desire for power. Krishnamurti says that these come from the self, the thinker, and the limitations of the thinker ultimately hinder one from freedom. Can one discover what love is by using thought? He suggests it is impossible; one must be free first, but what exactly does that mean?
As Krishnamurti says, it could be that freedom is a total understanding of the wholeâa result of comprehending the structure and nature of thought. Can you find out?
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