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Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. from this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Imagination Builds The Image Of The Self,

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. from this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

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What the art historians had forgotten is that in chinese, japanese, persian, and indian art, they never painted shadows. why did they paint shadows in european art? shadows are because of optics. optics need shadows and strong light. strong light makes the deepest shadows. it took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. there are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

There is no ideal in observation. when you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. the mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. the experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. in that there is no duality. the mind is simply - aware.

The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. she sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with maya, she suffers in pain. she grows old, and her body withers away.

There's a tree that grows in brooklyn. some people call it the tree of heaven. no matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. it grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. it grows up out of cellar gratings. it is the only tree that grows out of cement. it grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. it would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. it grows on bricks. it grows on tree bark and roofing slate. it grows in the arctic circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... it is a resurrection engine. a single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. if you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? remain unconscious.

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