Thursday, September 15, 2011
To me there is only perception- which is to see something as false or
true immediately.This immediate perception of what is false and what is
true is the essential factor- not the intellect, with its reasoning
based upon its cunning, its knowledge, its commitments. It must
sometimes have happened to you that you have seen the truth of something
immediately such as the truth that you cannot belong to anything. That
is perception: seeing the truth of something immediately, without
analysis, without reasoning, without all the things that the intellect
creates in order to postpone perception. It is entirely different from
intuition, which is a word that we use with glibness and ease.To me
there is only this direct perception- not reasoning, not calculation,
not analysis. You must have the capacity to analyze; you must have a
good, sharp mind in order to reason; but a mind that is limited to
reason and analysis is incapable of perceiving what is truth.If you
commune with yourself, you will know why you belong, why you have
committed yourself; and if you push further, you will see the slavery,
the cutting down of freedom, the lack of human dignity which that
commitment entails. When you perceive all this instantaneously, you are
free; you don't have to make an effort to be free. That is why
perception is essential. - J. Krishnamurti
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