@j.krishnamurti: What Is Behind the Need to Identify? | Krishnamurti Why do human beings desire passionately to identify themselves with something? Because we just said it is because they feel in themselves insufficient, lonely, unhappy, and they want to identify themselves with something which will give them happiness, which will assure them a kind of ideological safety – which is an illusion. So, without identifying yourself, why are human beings lonely? They may have a house, they may have a property, like in this country, you have extraordinary wealth, prosperity, beauty of this land, and yet one lives such a superficial life. So the superficiality of life increases the deeper inward loneliness – which makes them seek not only amusement, entertainment whether it be the entertainment of the church or the football field – but also makes them feel that they must identify with something much greater than the little family, therefore there is the nation or God. You must see this phenomenon – I mean, this isn’t my invention or my particular quirk – you see this happening. So, is it possible to face this loneliness and not run away through identification? Q: Yes. K: Can I, can you face this extraordinary thing of insufficiency, the sense of loneliness? Not try to fill it – through knowledge, through drink, through drugs, through excitement, sex, entertainment and all the rest of it – not fill it, because you can’t fill the emptiness, you can’t fill this loneliness. Right? So can you face it? Can you become completely acquainted with it, intimately, learn about it? And in learning about it you are finding out the structure of it – you follow? – the nature of it. And therefore the mind, by observing it, becomes more and more intelligent. Right? And it is this intelligence that says: how stupid all this way of living, how destructive. And then you begin to find out that it is only possible to live humanly, with peace, when there is love – not an idea about love. I don’t know if you see a difference. An ideology what love should be and the actual state of love. Q: Well, what is that that prevents us from seeing the actual? K: Because most of us are lazy, most of us are satisfied with things as they are. We don’t want to be disturbed at any price. The established order right through the world says: please, for God’s sake, leave us alone. Carry on with our wars, with our prejudices, with our nationalistic, linguistic differences, with our – you know, leave us alone. And for most of us that’s good enough – leave things as they are. But life will reject what things as they are. And the whole revolt of the younger generation is against it. Q: Does this revolt have any value? K: Obviously it has certain value. Q: I mean, is it of ultimate value? K: I doubt it, because, you see, unless we understand the nature of this – again we come back – the nature and the structure of society which human beings have built – and the human beings are slaves to what they have built, which is the society – if you understand this interrelationship intelligently then there is a revolution, psychological revolution, an inward revolution, which is far more important than the economic or social revolution. So, you see, sir, what is important in all this is not mere revolt but a total psychological revolution so that our minds and our hearts are completely changed – not follow the established order. And that’s why it’s very important to understand ourselves – ourselves being the society, ourselves being the world. The world is not different from you and me, whether you live in this marvellous country or in those villages in India, or in Asia. Because unless we understand ourselves, we divide the world as ourselves as the individual, and the community, the society as something separate from us. And hence the conflict between the individual and the society. J. Krishnamurti Claremont 1968 - Students Discussion - Ideologies divide people #krishnamurti #freedom #love #me #rel

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