Krishnamurti-this Matter of Culture Chapter 25 Part2

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    THIS MATTER OF CULTURE CHAPTER 25 part2

    But, you see, when we hear of effortlessness we want to be like that, we want toachieve a state in which we will have no strife, no conflict; so we make that our goal, our ideal, and strive after it; and the moment we do this, we have lostthe joy of living. We are again caught up in effort, struggle. The object of struggle varies, but all struggle is essentially the same. One may struggle to bring about social reforms, or to find God, or to create a better relationship between oneself and one's wife or husband, or with one's neighbour; one may sit on the banks of Ganga, worship at the feet of some guru, and so on. All this is effort, struggle. So what is important is not the object of struggle, but to understand struggle itself.

    Now, is it possible for the mind to be not just casually aware that for themoment it is not struggling, but completely free of struggle all the time so that it discovers a state of joy in which there is no sense of the superior and the inferior?

    Our difficulty is that the mind feels inferior, and that is why it struggles to be or become something, or to bridge over its various contradictory desires. But don't let us give explanations of why the mind is full of struggle. Everythinking man knows why there is struggle both within and without. Our envy, greed, ambition, our competitiveness leading to ruthless efficiency - these are obviously the factors which cause us to struggle, whether in this world or in the world to come. So we don't have to study psychological books to know why we strugg

    le; and what is important, surely, is to find out if the mind can be totally free of struggle.After all, when we struggle, the conflict is between what we are and what w

    e should be or want to be. Now, without giving explanations, can one understandthis whole process of struggle so that it comes to an end? Like that boat whichwas moving with the wind, can the mind be without struggle? Surely, this is thequestion, and not how to achieve a state in which there is no struggle. The veryeffort to achieve such a state is itself a process of struggle, therefore thatstate is never achieved. But if you observe from moment to moment how the mind gets caught in everlasting struggle - if you just observe the fact without tryingto alter it, without trying to force upon the mind a certain state which you call peace - then you will find that the mind spontaneously ceases to struggle; and in that state it can learn enormously. Learning is then not merely the process

    of gathering information, but a discovery of the extraordinary riches that liebeyond the hope of the mind; and for the mind that makes this discovery there isjoy.

    Watch yourself and you will see how you struggle from morning till night, and how your energy is wasted in this struggle. If you merely explain why you struggle, you get lost in explanations and the struggle continues; whereas, if youobserve your mind very quietly without giving explanations, if you just let themind be aware of its own struggle, you will soon find that there comes a state in which there is no struggle at all, but an astonishing watchfulness. In that state of watchfulness there is no sense of the superior and the inferior, there isno big man or little man, there is no guru. All those absurdities are gone because the mind is fully awake; and the mind that is fully awake is joyous.