Why is it so difficult to look at ourself, inwardly ? – Krishnamurti Network
Why is it so difficult to look at ourself, inwardly ? – Krishnamurti Network
We generally believe, act and think through external means as organizations, tools, authorities of the state, or of the social, professional or religious hierarchy, our family, or the society itself with its perpetual pattern of acceptance of the world as it is with its competition and conflict between human beings, men, women, groups, communities, nationalities, etc.In this state of constant stimulation by the exernal world, outwardly, there is no freedom and no security at all. I can believe to be secured because I have a certain nationality, or a certain social position, or I’m a respectable professional, but inwardly is there any security at all in this chaos of all sort of wars and incertitudes which is the fragmented planetar society where we live in all together ?
We can be in constant struggle for earning our dailylife, unemployed or not satisfied by what we’re doing, and so we pass our life to solve external problems or to struggle against oneself, and in being caught with these problems, we search a solution through political, religious or organized means, or we search to escape from the related fear in various external or internal activities through what we’ve learned from the society, its psychologists, philosophers, and others managers of the mind, or in reading K works as a mean to stimulate ourselves in this life.
Considering all of this, why does it appear that looking into oneself seems to be so difficult ? Is it that the brain is so conditioned to act by external means, inwardly and outwardly, that it seems to us that there is no other alternative ? Is it that we’re not free to look at ourself without any interferences, without any prejudices whatsoever ? Is it that we don’t know how to have a quality of mind which is clear, objective, sane and rational, but at the same time we feel that such a mind is necessary, bringing conflict in ourself between what is and what it should be ?
How to deal with this whole question of oneself, of being related ?
