All About Truth

J KRISHNAMURTI





What is truth? Is there such a thing at all? I know what is reality , the complexity of reality in which I have to act -not just talk about it. I have to live there, rationally , sanely , wholly, with order and so on. All that has nothing to do, or may have to do, with truth. So, I have to find out. To find out, there must be no projection of thought. So, thought realises its limitation. When the mind realises the limitation, narrowness, finiteness of thought, then only it can ask the question: what is truth?
Philosophy means love of truth, not love of thought. So there is no authority -Plato, Socrates, Buddha, but Christianity has not gone into that very deeply . They have played with words and symbols, made a parody of suffering and all the rest of it. So, the mind rejects all that, because that is all in the field of reality .Then, what is truth? Has it any relationship with reality?
That is: how can truth be used in the field of reality? Our mind says: what is the good of something if I can't use it?
Our minds are trained to be utilitarian, to be...to work in the field, in market places. If truth cannot have any value in the field of reality , it is not truth. If truth can't help me, what's the good of truth?
So, I must understand clearly that suffering, pleasure, fear and all that is in the world of reality as thought -my suffering, my fears, everything there. Therefore, truth has no relationship to reality .