You Can Learn Only If You Do Not Know
Can There Be Complete Freedom of Thought
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
About this listen
Does learning require thinking or only awareness?
- To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions.
- Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy.
- You see that you have many opinions and conclusions.
- You don't know why you have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.
- Knowledge is in the past whilst learning is vital, in the present.
- In learning, which is a constant movement, can opinion and conclusion ever be formed?
- Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function of thought, slowing down takes place without control or effort.
- Can the mind empty itself without effort?
- Do LSD and other drugs slow down the mind?
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