TRTR: Krishnamurti On Recognition

[Richard Ryan]

Very nice.  Thanks.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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."
>
>



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