Listen now to Krishnamurti’s entire fourth talk in Ommen, the Netherlands — read verbatim by Sam Yogi in this special episode of the Krishnamurti Podcast.
This episode begins with Sam Yogi sharing 22 key points from talks one through three in Ommen, offering helpful context and insights before presenting Krishnamurti’s fourth talk.
1.
Most of us realize consciously or unconsciously that there is an EMPTINESS, an INSUFFICIENCY in our lives, and we try to run away from that insufficiency ‘
a. Through sensation
b. Through forgetfulness
c. Through Work
2.
Where there is an emptiness, there is always a craving and a grasping. We simply try to get away from it through experience, and this attempt to escape, this effort to fill it with experience, with mere knowledge, only creates greater insufficiency.
3. Where there is wanting there can never be discernment. Wanting prevents discernment. Where there is want, there isemptiness.
4. Choice, which is based on want, can never bring about discernment. Choice is the CONFLICT of the opposites.
5. Choice creates the opposites. As long as the mind is caught in this system of opposites there can never be discernment.
6. Because there is INSUFFICIENCY in yourself, you try to fill that emptiness through sensation of various kinds, from thegross forms to the most subtle.
7.
Where there is WANT, action must be INCOMPLETE. That incompleteness further increases the emptiness of mind andheart.
8. In awareness is discernment, in which there is no choice. Choice is a ceaseless struggle, a constant conflict.
9. It is in the fulfilment of s true thought that there can ever be completeness.
10. People struggle to force their mental and emotional lives to fit into the grooves of a set system. Having conformed, theytry to force others to conform to the same system. This they call helping the world, serving mankind, etc.
11. Once you perceive the barriers that surround you, once you break through these patterns and systems, your ACTION becomes spontaneous.
12. In other words, when you free your MIND AND HEART from the many barriers that shut THEM in, then there is the flow of reality.
13. You are conscious of LIFE only when there isconflict, PAIN, SUFFERING, out of which alone comes the true UNDERSTANDING oflife.
14. You have many twisted ideas and perverted judgments of which you are wholly unconscious – they reveal themselves only through conflict and suffering, if you do not ESCAPE from them.
15. When you become mentally and emotionally aware of these BARRIERS, without reshaping yourself after another pattern, the freedom from these LIMITATIONS is a spontaneous and an INTELLIGENT progress without self-imposed discipline and control.
16. To KRISHNAMURTI, discipline is merely destructive; it is a narrowing down of heart and mind.
17. One of the most difficult tasks is to keep the mind and heart from conformity and accumulative knowledge which becomes merely a safeguard against the EVER-CHANGING present or against the future.
18. Between these protective safeguards and the MOVEMENT OF LIFE there must inevitably arise conflict.
19. To ESCAPE from this conflict, the mind creates further security and illusions, getting more and more entangled and limited.
20. To free yourself from the pursuit of security and power, you mentally create its opposite. But in doing this you are merelycreating another set of SECURITIES, only calling it by different names – love, humility, service, following truth.
21. If you find that you really want security, then go into it profoundly, with your whole being, completely. Then you willunderstand that there is no such thing as security.
22. By being FRANK, you can find out your own LIMITATIONS, your own complicated ILLUSIONS. It is only when the mind hasdisentangled itself from ILLUSION that there is the ECSTASY of enduring life.
