The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the
statement he made in 1929 when he said: "Truth is a pathless
land".
Man cannot come to it through any organisation,
through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not
through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique.
He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through
the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through
observation and not through intellectual analysis or
introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as
a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These
manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these
images dominates man's thinking, his relationships and his
daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for
they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by
the concepts already established in his mind. The content of
his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is
common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the
form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and
environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the
superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his
consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not
an individual.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.