Kinfonet Quote of the Day: To examine, explore, anything, there must be the quality of freedom from all your prejudices, conditioning and so on, even from your own experience;

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Krishnamurti Quote of the Day

New Delhi, India | 3rd Public Talk, 1967

How do we enquire? What is the state of the mind that enquires? You cannot possibly enquire if you are not free, that is, if you are not free from saying `love is not this or that', or `love should be this and should not be that'. To examine, explore, anything, there must be the quality of freedom from all your prejudices, conditioning and so on, even from your own experience; only then can you begin to explore, to enquire, to find out. Otherwise you are merely examining from your own conditioning and you can't go very far. And the word love is heavily loaded: we say "Love is divine and not profane", "It is sacred", "It is this, it is that", love of God, love of country, love of the flag, "I love my family", "I love my wife, my husband". And we say, when there is love, we must love everybody, and not one, the particular.

To enquire into this is really an immense problem; one must approach it freely - free, not from anything, but free to look, that is, to look without an image.

Tags: experience, freedom

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