Questioner: i am a man that is married a few young ones. I have resided instead a dissipated life in search of enjoyment, but a reasonably civilized life too, and I also’ve produced success from it economically.

Nevertheless now i am center aged and am feeling worried, not merely about my loved ones but in addition concerning the method the entire world is certainly going. I am maybe maybe not directed at brutality or feelings that are violent and I also have actually constantly considered that forgiveness and compassion would be the essential things in life. Without these man becomes subhuman. So if i might i will love to ask you to answer just what love is. Can there be actually any such thing? Compassion must certanly be section of it, but i usually believe love is one thing much vaster, and whenever we could explore it together maybe i will then make my entire life into one thing worthwhile before its far too late. We have actually really arrive at ask this 1 thing what exactly is love?

Krishnamurti: we must be very clear that the word is not the thing, the description is not the described, because any amount of explanation, however subtle and clever, will not open the heart to the immensity of love before we begin to go into this. This we should comprehend, and never just adhere to terms: terms are of help for interaction, however in dealing with something which is actually non spoken we ought to establish a communion between us, in order for each of us feel and realize a similar thing at precisely the same time, by having a fullness of head and heart. Otherwise we shall be having fun with words. How can I approach this actually really thing that is subtle may not be moved by the brain? We ought to get rather hesitatingly. Shall we first see just what it isn’t, after which maybe we might have the ability to see just what it is? Through negation we possibly may come upon the good, but quite simply to pursue the leads that are positive presumptions and conclusions which result in unit. You might be asking just what love is. We have been saying we might come upon it once we understand what it’s not. Something that brings of a unit, a separation, just isn’t love, for for the reason that there was conflict, strife and brutality.

Questioner: just just What do you realy suggest by way of a unit, a separation that brings about strife just just what can you suggest because of it?

Krishnamurti: idea with its extremely nature is divisive. It really is believed that seeks pleasure and holds it. It really is believed that cultivates desire. Questioner: Will you are going into desire much more? Krishnamurti: there clearly was the viewing of a property, the feeling it is lovely, then there is certainly the want to bought it also to have pleasure from this, then there clearly was the time and effort to have it. All this work comprises the centre, and this centre may be the reason behind division. This centre could be the sense of a “me”, which can be the reason for unit, because this extremely sense of “me” may be the sense of separation. Individuals have called this the ego and all sorts of forms of other names the “lower self” instead of some notion of a “higher self” but there is however need not be complicated about any of it; it’s very easy. Where there clearly was the centre, which can be the experience of “me”, which with its tasks isolates it self, there is certainly resistance and division. And all sorts of this is actually the procedure for idea. Then when you may well ask what exactly is love, it’s not for this centre. Love is maybe not pleasure and discomfort, nor hate nor violence in every kind.