Awakening of Intelligence (J. Krishnamurti Book 1)

by J. Krishnamurti

There is no method. Please do realise this, because when you realise it, you are free of the enormous weight of all authority, and so free of the past. I don’t know if you see this. The past is implicit in our culture, which we think is so wonderful (the tradition, the beliefs, the memories, the obedience to it), and all that is put aside completely, forever, when you realise there is no method of any kind to bring freedom from the “little corner”. But you have to learn all about the little corner. Then you are free of the burden which makes you insensitive. Soldiers are trained to kill, practise day after day, day after day, ruthlessly, so that they have no human feeling left at all. And that is the type of thing which is being done to each one of us every day, all the time, by newspapers, by political leaders, by the gurus, by the Pope, by the bishops, everywhere, all over the world. Now, as there is no method, what is one to do? Method implies practice, dependence, your method, my method, his path and another’s path, my guru who knows a little better, this guru who is phoney, that guru who is not (but all gurus are phoney, you can take that for granted right from the beginning, whether they are Tibetan Lamas or Catholics, or Hindus)—all of them are phoney because they are still functioning in a very small part of a field that has been spat on and trodden upon and destroyed. What is one to do? You understand my question now? The problem is this: we don’t know the depth a...