The
untethered mind.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the
transformation of oneself,
because the self is the product and a part of the total
process of human existence. To
transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential; without
knowing what you are, there is no
basis for right thought, and without knowing yourself there
cannot be transformation.
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be,
which is merely an ideal and
therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that
can be transformed, not that which
you wish to be. To know oneself as one is, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind,
because what is, is
constantly undergoing transformation, change; and to follow it swiftly
the mind must not be tethered to any particular dogma or
belief, to any particular pattern
of action. If you would follow anything, it is no good being
tethered. To know yourself,
there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which
there is freedom from all
beliefs, from all idealization, because beliefs and ideals
only give you a colour, perverting
true perception. If you want to know what you are, you
cannot imagine or have belief in
something which you are not. If I am greedy, envious,
violent, merely having an ideal of
nonviolence, of non-greed, is of little value....The
understanding of what you are,
whatever it be—ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous—the
understanding of what
you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue.
Virtue is essential, for it gives
freedom.Jiddu Krishnamurti-The Book of Life.
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