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

Nevertheless now i am center aged and am feeling concerned, not merely about my family but in addition concerning the method the planet goes. I am perhaps not provided to brutality or feelings that are violent and I have actually always considered that forgiveness and compassion would be the most significant things in life. Without these man becomes subhuman. Therefore I should like to ask you what love is if I may. Will there be actually anything? Compassion must certanly be section of it, but I always believe that love is one thing much vaster, and then make my life into something worthwhile before it is too late if we could explore it together perhaps I should. We have really arrived 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 ought to realize, and never simply adhere to terms: terms are of help for interaction, however in speaing frankly about a thing that is truly non spoken we should begin a communion between us, in order that each of us feel and realize exactly the same thing as well, by having a fullness of brain and heart. Otherwise we shall be using terms. How can I approach this actually extremely delicate thing that is not moved because of the head? We should get instead hesitatingly. Shall we first see just what it is really not, after which possibly we may manage to see just what its? Through negation we possibly may come upon the good, but simply to pursue the leads that are positive presumptions and conclusions which produce unit. You’re asking just what love is. We have been saying we might come we know what it is not upon it when. Something that brings in regards to an unit, a separation, is certainly not love, for in that there is certainly conflict, strife and brutality.

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

Krishnamurti: idea in its nature that is very is. It’s thought that seeks pleasure and holds it. It’s thought that cultivates desire. Questioner: Will you are going into desire much more? Krishnamurti: you have the viewing of a residence, the impression it is lovely, then there’s the need to purchased it and also to have pleasure as a result, then there is certainly the time and effort to have it. All of this comprises the centre, and also this centre may be the reason for unit. This centre may be the sense of a “me”, which can be the explanation for unit, since this extremely sense of “me” may be the sense of separation. Folks have called this the ego and all sorts of forms of other names the “lower self” in place of some concept of a “higher self” but there is however no need certainly to be complicated about this; it’s very easy. Where there clearly was the centre, which can be the sensation of “me”, which in its tasks isolates it self, there was unit and opposition. And all sorts of this is actually the means of idea. Then when you may well ask what exactly is love, it’s not with this centre. Love is maybe maybe maybe not pleasure and discomfort, nor hate nor violence in just about any type.