The Impossible Question – by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Impossible Question by Jiddu Krishnamurti is a series of public talks and discussions held Saanen in 1970. Among the topics are The mechanical activity of thought,  The act of looking, Freedom, Fear and Pleasure, Religion,  The mechanical Activity of Thought and more.

From the book:

We explain, giving the description of the cause and the effect, saying, for example: man has inherited brutality from the animal. Someone points that out; but if in the very pointing out you act, you cease to be violent, is there not a difference? Action is what is demanded; but will action come about through explanations, through words? Or does this total action come about only when you are sensitive enough to observe, see the whole movement of life, the whole of it? What are we trying to do here? Give explanations of `why’ and the cause of `why’? Or are we trying to live so that our life is not based on words but on the discovery of what actually is – which is not dependent on words. There is a vast difference between the two – even though I point it out. It is like a man who is hungry; you can explain to him the nature and the taste of food, show him the menu, show him through the window the display of food. But what he wants is actual food; and explanations do not give him that. That is the difference.

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