A Truly Religious Mind Is Free Of Belief
CJ Krishnamurti
Contributed By : Shuvendu Patnaik
A truly religious mind is much more than an ordinary scientific mind. It is a deeply scientific mind that is constantly enquiring and discovering… not ensnared by established theories, formulae, dogmas or beliefs, whether they are scientific or theological in nature. It is a mind that is extraordinarily passionate, constantly questioning. It is a mind that can go beyond thought and discover the truth and after discovering, it moves on to discover more. Such a mind is a truly religious mind. It is a free and passionate mind.
Only a free mind can be a scientific mind and such a mind is also a religious mind. It is free and being free it is incapable of accumulating knowledge and beliefs. It refuses to accumulate knowledge because knowledge belongs to the past and the past is a calcification of the truth and no longer the truth. A calcified truth becomes a belief and therefore false. Truth can only be the living present and this is what many of us fail to see.
How can we develop such a mind? How can we develop a type of mind that is forever young and learning? How can we develop a mind that never cares for beliefs and is able to discover itself new every moment? What are the teachings for developing such a mind?
…Compartments can only contain stagnated air, and J Krishnamurti’s teachings are never stagnant. Let us begin with thinking and thought. Thoughts play an important role in our lives. We are governed by what we think and how we think. Our actions are a result of our thought. Knowledge and experience are also a result of our thought and an accumulation of inferences drawn from our thoughts. Beliefs are created by thought too and they occupy our minds. Living has a lot to do with thinking. To learn the art of living we need to understand the nature of thought and how it influences the mind.
Krishnamurti has dealt extensively with the nature and quality of the human mind and thoughts. There are two things about thought and thinking that we can learn from Krishnamurti. First, the mind is always occupied with thought. Second, thought is constantly wearing away our minds. Do we know this?
“Thought is the response of the past in conjunction with the present; that is, thought is experience responding to challenges, which is reaction. There is no thought if there is no reaction. Response is the past background – you respond as a Buddhist, a Christian, according to the left or right. That is the background and that is the constant response to challenge – and that response of the past to the present is called thinking. There is never a moment when thought is not. Have you noticed that your mind is incessantly occupied with something? It is constantly occupied; and what happens to your mind, what happens to any machinery that is in constant use? It wears away.”
The mind is never idle. It is always preoccupied with some thought and the thought keeps changing… What may perhaps come as a surprise is that thought wears away the mind. Abridged from Part 2 of ‘The Trail to Enlightenment, Life & Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti’ in three volumes – Part 1: The Hidden Side of Life, Part 2: The Great Coming, Part 3: The Key to Super Consciousness (ProLibris Publishing Media)
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Courtesy: The Times of India: The speaking tree: 31th Oct, 2018
A Truly Religious Mind Is Free Of Belief
CJ Krishnamurti
Contributed By : Shuvendu Patnaik
A truly religious mind is much more than an ordinary scientific mind. It is a deeply scientific mind that is constantly enquiring and discovering… not ensnared by established theories, formulae, dogmas or beliefs, whether they are scientific or theological in nature. It is a mind that is extraordinarily passionate, constantly questioning. It is a mind that can go beyond thought and discover the truth and after discovering, it moves on to discover more. Such a mind is a truly religious mind. It is a free and passionate mind.
Only a free mind can be a scientific mind and such a mind is also a religious mind. It is free and being free it is incapable of accumulating knowledge and beliefs. It refuses to accumulate knowledge because knowledge belongs to the past and the past is a calcification of the truth and no longer the truth. A calcified truth becomes a belief and therefore false. Truth can only be the living present and this is what many of us fail to see.
How can we develop such a mind? How can we develop a type of mind that is forever young and learning? How can we develop a mind that never cares for beliefs and is able to discover itself new every moment? What are the teachings for developing such a mind?
…Compartments can only contain stagnated air, and J Krishnamurti’s teachings are never stagnant. Let us begin with thinking and thought. Thoughts play an important role in our lives. We are governed by what we think and how we think. Our actions are a result of our thought. Knowledge and experience are also a result of our thought and an accumulation of inferences drawn from our thoughts. Beliefs are created by thought too and they occupy our minds. Living has a lot to do with thinking. To learn the art of living we need to understand the nature of thought and how it influences the mind.
Krishnamurti has dealt extensively with the nature and quality of the human mind and thoughts. There are two things about thought and thinking that we can learn from Krishnamurti. First, the mind is always occupied with thought. Second, thought is constantly wearing away our minds. Do we know this?
“Thought is the response of the past in conjunction with the present; that is, thought is experience responding to challenges, which is reaction. There is no thought if there is no reaction. Response is the past background – you respond as a Buddhist, a Christian, according to the left or right. That is the background and that is the constant response to challenge – and that response of the past to the present is called thinking. There is never a moment when thought is not. Have you noticed that your mind is incessantly occupied with something? It is constantly occupied; and what happens to your mind, what happens to any machinery that is in constant use? It wears away.”
The mind is never idle. It is always preoccupied with some thought and the thought keeps changing… What may perhaps come as a surprise is that thought wears away the mind. Abridged from Part 2 of ‘The Trail to Enlightenment, Life & Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti’ in three volumes – Part 1: The Hidden Side of Life, Part 2: The Great Coming, Part 3: The Key to Super Consciousness (ProLibris Publishing Media)
DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing."
Courtesy: The Times of India: The speaking tree: 31th Oct, 2018