Chapter 6 possibility of love

Love is possible only when the mind is really quiet, when the mind is no longer expecting, begging, demanding, seeking, possessing, jealous, fearful, anxious, only when the mind is really quiet.Love is possible only when the mind no longer projects itself, seeks out its unique feelings, demands, urges, hidden fears, seeks self-fulfillment or is bound by beliefs. Question: Concepts can separate people, but they can also bring people together.Isn't this a sign of love? Could it possibly generate communication? Krishnamurti: I doubt, when you ask such questions, do you understand that ideas, beliefs, opinions only separate people, that ideologies dissolve human relationships, ideas inevitably interrupt them? Ideas do not Bring people together - though you might try to bring together people who belong to different or opposite ideologies.Ideas cannot bring people together, because ideas always oppose and destroy each other in conflict.In short, ideas are impressions, sensations, words.And do words, feelings and ideas bring people together? Or does someone want to bring people together with something quite different? We see hate, fear and nationalism bringing people together.Fear gathers crowds.A common hatred sometimes brings together people who are originally opposed to each other, just as nationalism also brings together people who are originally opposed.Indeed, these are ideas.And is love an idea? Can you think about love? Can you think about the person you love, or the crowd you love.But is that love? When you think about love, is it love? Is thought love? Of course only love brings people together, not thought – not one group against another.Where there is love, there is no distinction of ethnic group, class, or nationality.Therefore, it is necessary to understand what we mean by love.

We know what ideas, opinions, and beliefs mean.So what does it mean to love? Is it a matter of the heart? When things of the heart exist in the heart, it is a matter of the heart.For most people, that's it.We house many things of the heart: opinions, ideas, feelings, beliefs, and in them we live and love.But is it love? Can we think about love? When you are loving, is thinking functioning? Love and thinking are not two opposite things, don't let us separate them.When one is in love, does loneliness bring people together, or does it dissolve them and push them away from each other? Indeed, this love can only be experienced when operating with thought—that does not mean People can go crazy or become unbalanced.Rather, it requires thought to transcend in its highest form.

So, love is not a matter of the heart.Love is possible only when the mind is really quiet, when the mind is no longer expecting, begging, demanding, seeking, possessing, jealous, fearful, anxious, only when the mind is really quiet.Love is possible only when the mind no longer projects itself, seeks out its unique feelings, demands, urges, hidden fears, seeks self-fulfillment or is bound by beliefs.But we mostly think of love as being accompanied by jealousy, ambition, and the pursuit of personal desires.Indeed, when these things exist, it is not love. So, we must not care about love, let it come naturally, not seek it deliberately, but we must care about what hinders love, what makes the heart self-inflated and forms a barrier.Before we know what love is, it is important to understand the processes of the mind.So why is it important to delve into the question of knowing yourself - not just to say "I must love", or "Love brings people together", or "Belief breaks people", it's just Just repeating what you've heard, so it's completely useless.Text is tangled.But if one can understand the importance of one's thought patterns, the ways of our desires, pursuits and ambitions, then it is possible to understand what love is.However, this requires a great deal of self-knowledge.

When there is self-control, self-forgetfulness -- not deliberately, but naturally, not as a result of training -- there is the possibility of love.Self-control arises when the whole process of self-knowledge, conscious and unconscious, waking and dreaming, occurs.Then the whole process of the mind is understood, whether in human relationships, in every event, in every response to a challenge, and the mind is freed from self-correction, self-limitation, Then there is the possibility of love. Love is not emotion, not romanticism, not dependence; and it is difficult to understand those conditions - because our mind is always hindering, limiting and encroaching on its functioning.Therefore, it is important to first understand the mind and its ways, otherwise, we will be caught up in fantasies, words and feelings that don't matter.For most people, ideas are just a safe haven and an escape; ideas become beliefs that naturally prevent full life, full action, and right thinking.To think rightly, to live freely, and wisely, is only possible when self-knowledge becomes deeper and wider.

Ao Jiayi August 28, 1949