TRTR: Krishnamurti On Recognition

[Jed Kelestron]

"The experiencer is the entity of recognition; and if I am capable of
recognizing that which is truth, then I have already experienced it, I
already know it, therefore it is not truth. That is the beauty of
truth, it remains timelessly the unknown, and a mind that is the
result of the known can never grasp it."
>From "As One Is" by J. Krishnamurti:

"Surely, one of our greatest difficulties is this fact that all our
effort is within the field of recognition. We seem to function only
within the limits of that which we are capable of recognizing, that
is, within the field of memory; and is it possible for the mind to go
beyond that field?"

"Now, if one can really come to that state of saying, `I do not know',
it indicates an extraordinary sense of humility; there is no arrogance
of knowledge, there is no self-assertive answer to make an impression.
When you can actually say, `I do not know', which very few are capable
of saying, then in that state all fear ceases because all sense of
recognition, the search into memory, has come to an end; there is no
longer inquiry into the field of the known. Then comes the
extraordinary thing. If you have so far followed what I am talking
about, not just verbally, but if you are actually experiencing it, you
will find that when you can say, `I do not know', all conditioning has
stopped."

"The moment the recognizing process takes place, you are back in the
field of memory. Do you understand? Say, for instance, you have a
momentary experience of something extraordinary. At that precise
moment there is no thinker who says, `I must remember it; there is
only the state of experiencing. But when that moment goes by, the
process of recognition comes into being. Please follow this. The mind
says, `I have had a marvellous experience and I wish I could have more
of it', so the struggle of the more begins. The acquisitive instinct,
the possessive pursuit of the more comes into being for various
reasons: because it gives you pleasure, prestige, knowledge, you
become an authority, and all the rest of that nonsense."