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"So one asks oneself: Can that emptiness ever be filled by anything, by social activity, good
works, going to a monastery and meditating, training oneself to be aware? - which is such an
absurdity. If one cannot fill it, then what is one to do?...
I discover this emptiness in myself and I cease to escape, for that is obviously an immature activity. I am aware of it, there it is and nothing can fill it. Now I ask myself: How has this come into being? Has all my living, all my daily activities and assumptions, and so on, produced it? Is it that the self, the me, the ego, or whatever word you may use, is isolating itself in all its activity? The very nature of the 'me,' the 'self,' the 'ego,' is isolation; it is separative. All these activities have produced this isolated state, this deep emptiness in myself; so it is a result, a consequence, not something inherent... Is it possible to go beyond this state? Not by escaping from it, not by saying, 'I will not be self-centered.' When one says 'I will not be self-centered,' one is already self-centered. When one exercises will to deny the activity of the self, that very will is the factor of isolation. So I see this emptiness, I see how it has come into being, I am aware that will or any other activity exerted to dispel the creator of this emptiness is only another form of self-centered activity. I see all that very clearly, objectively, and I realize that I cannot do anything about it. Before, I did something about it: I escaped, or I tried to fill it, I tried to understand it, to go into it, but they are all other forms of isolation. So I suddenly realize that I cannot do anything, that the more I try to do something about it, the more I am creating and building walls of isolation... So by very carefully observing, objectively, I see this whole process, and the very seeing of it is enough. See what has happened. Before, I used energy to fill this emptiness, wandered all over the place, and now I see the absurdity of it - the mind sees very clearly how absurd it is. So now I am not dissipating energy. Thought becomes quiet; the mind becomes completely still; it has seen the whole map of this and so there is silence. In that silence there is no loneliness. When there is that silence, that complete silence of the mind, there is beauty and love..." On Love and Loneliness, p.108-110 |
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"The cup is the emptiness held within a form; without that emptiness
there would be no cup nor form..."
Krishnamurti's Notebook, p.53 |
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"The mind must be utterly empty to receive; but the craving to be
empty in order to receive is a deep-seated impediment, and this also
must be understood completely..."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.69 |
