How eager we are to solve our problems! How insistently we search for an answer, a way out, a remedy! We never consider the problem itself, but with agitation and anxiety grope for an answer which is invariably self projected…
To look for an answer is to avoid the problem which is just what most of us want to do. Then the answer becomes all significant, and not the problem. The solution is not separate from the problem; the answer is in the problem, not away from it…
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem… Choiceless awareness of the manner of your approach will bring right relationship with the problem. The problem is self-created, so there must be self-knowledge. You and the problem are one, not two separate processes.
You are the problem…
For the problem, the what is, to unfold and tell its story fully, the mind must be sensitive, quick to follow. If we anaesthetize the mind through escapes, through knowing how to deal with the problem, or through seeking an explanation or a cause for it, which is only a verbal conclusion, then the mind is made dull and cannot swiftly follow the story which the problem, the what is, is unfolding.
—J Krishnamurti, Commentaries On Living Series 1
In the space of unprejudiced awareness, solutions emerge naturally, always fresh, produced by what is rather than by our thinking about what is.
May we be free of answers,
Simeon
Quote of the Week
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Suggested Reading
Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
What happens when we stop seeking answers and face reality without prejudice? In Freedom from the Known, J. Krishnamurti gently guides us toward an unfiltered awareness of life, where solutions arise not from effort but from insight.