Krishnamurti: Wanting perverts judgement, true discernment, which is the cause of loneliness. Where there is want, one is conscious of loneliness, emptiness, a void, and immediately one wants something to fill that; so one goes on accumulating more and more, and the emptiness is still there.
As a prelude to this episode, here are the key points to the previous part (read out in Episode 50) of Krishnamurti's talk; what was read out in this episode will be summarized part by part in the next couple of episodes.
1. All illusion must cease before one can penetrate that sanctuary one calls life.
2. Now to me there is a living ecstasy which may be called God, reality, that is a timeless becoming.
3. You cannot think of truth in terms of gains or in terms of success or conquering.
4. A mind and a heart that is caught up in time cannot understand that endless becoming.
5. Where there is an effort there is duality: the thing which you conquer and the conqueror.
6. To overcome suffering, we resort to forgetfulness, because most people are caught up in suffering.
7. With that suffering, with that continual uncertainty and lack of comprehension, which created a void, an emptiness, we are all the time trying to forget it, to run away from it or trying to conquer it through self-discipline.
8. You have set up an end to be conquered, which you consider to be true, an ideal of perfection, of God, of truth, of life; and you are always straining to discipline yourself to conquer it, to train your mind to dwell constantly on that idea and to function in it.
9. You create in your mind a duality, an observer, a controller, and the thing which is observed and controlled.
10. This establishment of an idea, which we call truth or God - which is impossible because you cannot understand it, you cannot picture it as a whole until you are completely free of it.
11. You can have an occasional glimpse (of that ecstasy of life), but if you cling to that glimpse, you are destroying the full comprehension of the present.
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