Thinker and the Thought
J KRISHNAMURTI
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In all our experiences, there is always the experiencer, the observer, who is gathering to himself more and more or denying himself. Is that not a wrong process? We can wipe it out completely and put it aside only when I experience, not as a thinker experiences, but when I am aware of the false process and see the state in which the thinker is the thought.So long as I am experiencing, becoming, there must be this dualistic action, the thinker and the thought, two separate processes at work; there is no integration, there is always a centre that is operating through the will of action to be or not to be -collectively, individually , nationally and so on.
So long as effort is divided into the experiencer and the experience, there must be deterioration. Integration is when the thinker is no longer the observer and there are no two different states. Our effort is to bridge the two.
The will of action is always dualistic. How to go beyond this will that is separative and discover a state in which dualistic action is not? That can only be found when we directly experience when the thinker is the thought. The effort of the thinker is to become more or become less; and therefore, in that struggle, in that action of the will, in `becoming', there is always the deteriorating factor; we are pursuing a false process and not a true process.... If I realise that I am greedy , that there is not the observer who is greedy but I am myself greed, our whole response to it is entirely different; then our effort is not destructive....
So long as effort is divided into the experiencer and the experience, there must be deterioration. Integration is when the thinker is no longer the observer and there are no two different states. Our effort is to bridge the two.
The will of action is always dualistic. How to go beyond this will that is separative and discover a state in which dualistic action is not? That can only be found when we directly experience when the thinker is the thought. The effort of the thinker is to become more or become less; and therefore, in that struggle, in that action of the will, in `becoming', there is always the deteriorating factor; we are pursuing a false process and not a true process.... If I realise that I am greedy , that there is not the observer who is greedy but I am myself greed, our whole response to it is entirely different; then our effort is not destructive....
