Awakening of Intelligence (J. Krishnamurti Book 1)

by J. Krishnamurti

KRISHNAMURTI: Oh, Sir. When I say “I don’t know”, I really don’t know. But am I waiting to find out, or waiting for somebody to tell me—right? I am waiting. Therefore when I say “I don’t know”, it isn’t an actual fact that I don’t know, because I hope that somebody is going to tell me, or that I’ll find out. Do you follow this? Right. Then you are waiting, aren’t you? Why are you waiting? Who is going to tell you? Your memory? If your memory is going to tell you, you are back again in the same old rut. So what are you waiting for? So you say “I won’t wait”—you follow, Sir?—there is no waiting. There is no “in the meantime”—you follow this? I wonder if you do. So when you say “I don’t know”, it means nobody knows—right? Because if anybody tells me, he will tell me out of fragmentation—no? So I don’t know, therefore there is no waiting, there is no answer—right? So I don’t know. Then I find out what is the state of the mind that says “I don’t know”—are you following it? It is not waiting, not expecting an answer, not looking to some memory, authority, it ceases—all that has stopped. Right? So the mind—follow it step by step—so the mind is silent in the face of a new challenge. It is silent because it can’t answer the new challenge. I don’t know if you are meeting this; right, Sirs? (No. No. You don’t understand?) You know when you see a marvellous mountain, the beauty, the height of it, the dignity, the purity of it, it forces you to be silent, doesn’t it?—this may last a se...