How does observation reduce the strength and power of emotions and attachments? | J. Krishnamurti

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Brockwood Park 1979 - Question #4 from Question and Answer Meeting #1
'Emotions are strong. Attachments are strong. How does looking and seeing reduce the strength and power of these emotions?'
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[@ramkij]

First of all, thanks to this great and wonderful teacher, JK. Here's how I've understood his teachings. Thought splits itself into the observer and observed. The one that claims itself to be the observer is the ME, aka EGO. The observed, for example, attachment or anger, is another thought (mixed with some feeling). As long as both observer and observed are NOT recognized as thought that's playing games, the game goes on. The ME doesn't like to die and sustains itself by separating itself from and labeling other thoughts as jealously, anger, greed, attachment etc. and how they shouldn't exist. However, there is a third component and that's AWARENESS. Awareness is the TRUE SELF. Its actually Awareness that passively observes both the observer and the observed which are nothing but thoughts. So, WHEN ONE LOOKS FROM AWARENESS and NOT FROM THE OBSERVER, both the observer and observed are instantly recognized to the just THOUGHTS!! Observing FROM Awareness collapses the observer and observed into simply thoughts. Hence, all thoughts and emotions are now observed objectively FROM AWARENESS. Thus, the energy that was previously dissipated (by assuming that one was the observer) is now stopped. Awareness simply observes everything that arises and its let go. Hence, nothing accumulates in the system (body). Its all released. In that sense, one can say that Awareness dissolves attachment, the emotions and all the rest of it. Ultimately, in great beings (those that have spent enough time in pure observation), only pure observation without any content remains. When action needs to be takes, it arises naturally. When its not, Awareness is at rest just watching the show (of thoughts and emotions) playing on its surface (if one imagines Awareness to be the screen in a movie theater, then, the movie itself is the content that "plays" on the screen). So, in essence, all "problems" are created by thought splitting itself into a ME and the OTHER (anger, jealously etc.) and therefore, the "solution" is to observer THINKING itself FROM AWARENESS and NOT FROM another thought. In other words, where are you observing FROM? That's the key and that's why J. Krishnamurti emphasizes this point so strongly. Hope this explanation helps someone. Thank you!!

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[@clodhopper-dodo]

You have hit the nail on the head. Very few likes despite the clarity you have tried to show. Splitting the thought into observer and the observer is like dog chasing its own tail, till it exhausts and developes illusions of having caught it.

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[@lilafrench]

Emotions and attachments ARE YOU, they aren’t separate from you. They are the “me”. When you realize that you are this attachment or you are this emotion, there is simply observation. And in this clear, conscious observation (without fear of loss of identity for lack of attachment/emotion), with no energy wasted, the attachment or emotion begins to dissolve. “Test it, do it, and you will find out!”

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[@emiliojr.cabandon6257]

I have another angle at seeing this. When you see that you are this attachment, or this emotion, observation still happens, but it is the false-self that observes, the self that is emotionally attached. Meaning to say, if this is what happens to a person, that person is still spiritually blind. He has not yet realized his true-self, his true identity, or his essential nature. It is the real self alone that is capable of observing without emotional attachments, because there is no me in there to do the observing, or no observer there that is easily attached emotionally. If there is no me, or no you in there, who will be attached? Therefore, there is only observation, and in that, one is aligned to reality.

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" it is only the people who do not see the full implication of attachment that are attached "

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Wow, not only an extraordinarily intelligent verbal expression, but there were a couple of times in this that I would wander a bit and right at that moment he would step out of his train of thought to attempt bringing the audience back in to attention; it is as if I were there. Hopefully we can try this level, this state, of self-observation.

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[@advaitamaunitva5363]

If observer is observed it cannot be you. I made the mistake of believing myself to be awareness of perceiving. When I looked for who i was I could throw everything away but awareness. When I found a more subtle beingness than that thru grace and clear understanding it changed everything and I experienced it as a shift in being. Although i intellectually knew I was not the body/mind ego structure I could not realize in experience that I was awareness alone. However when looking even closer I saw that awareness is functioning. Who or what is giving this power to awareness? Life Itself is that which animates awareness. I will not say I am the life power that is the animating power of being but I am in a way that light of life. However this life giving light is aware, it is life that is awarness self-animating thru its nature. This is still in duality however. When we have life we have something. Life is a thing, no matter how subtle, it is known to exist, it has existence. That life would be a masculine nature for it is penetrating and giving. Void would be the opposite of life, the lack of thingness. No subject, no object; void. These two combined create the reality experienced now. Only ever now for time is a concept, a thought. Movement doesn't exist. Stillness percieved to be in different locations moment to moment is called movement. There is only one moment, now. To have movement requires at least one more moment. This cannot be, the reality of one moment existing now is absolute. Therefore it is memory which becomes seen as movement. 2 nows: in one the form was here and in the other the form was there. So one is the stillness of the current moment and the other is the stillness remembered to be in a previous moment. However that moment stored in memory is only a thought. It cannot have reality because the reality has become that changed places but didn't actually because what is seen now is all that exists and so it never moved. Movement is the nature of life. Life moves into.a body and out of a body. No. Life is the vibration in void. Vibration is up and down. There can only be one not two. So if we split up and down we get middle or static stillness in void. Nothing ever happened is still not the entire truth that I thought it was. I can see that life had to be injected into the Void, something such as life cannot come from nowhere. The transcendent One or Logos or God or Brahman or Absolute or Self is the Godhead that conceived void and life by becoming 2, all.and none. This is reality now in my understanding

[@Krishnaeternal]

You said: "I could throw everything away but awareness." What happens to this "awareness" when you are in deep (unconscious) sleep? What then happens to you when you sleep?

[@advaitamaunitva5363]

@@Krishnaeternal in deep sleep there are no objects, therefore there is no body/mind, and there is no sense of time. Awareness is there but consciousness is not. Consciousness is intelligence, a sort of mind. Awareness sees while consciousness knows. Without an "other" to be percieved, there is no self to know in relation to or universe either. Awareness is aware of timeless nothingness in deep sleep. In dreams the mind or consciousness is still somewhat active and so we have a body/mind and universe. It's just that in dreams the laws of physics don't apply as they do here. Time sort of exists in the dream state also. In deep sleep time is irrelevant. You fall asleep and then ur waking up. That is because u are conscious of time in waking but because there is no "other" in deep sleep there is no time. Time is relative to another thing changing /moving. Without any "things " there is no time.

[@advaitamaunitva5363]

@@Krishnaeternal mind creates the thought I Am, this is the first thought that precludes all thoughts even when unconsciously thought we assume that we are. I am is a consequence of consciousness becoming self-conscious. It thinks therefore it is. As soon as the I am was thought, the body and all of "creation" appeared with It. It wasn't created, it is an appearance within consciousness.

[@advaitamaunitva5363]

@@Krishnaeternalan insight I had about movement recently was really pretty cool. Movement doesn't exist! Think of this. There is only the present moment, always, and so past and future don't actually exist. No one ever experienced a past or a future. Even in time travel these places could only be experienced in the state of now. So having only this singular moment something cannot said to move, it is only stillness. Like a flash photograph. Movement is the perception of two nows. One where the thing was in one state of stillness and another where it has seemingly moved to another stillness. Since 2 nows can't possibly exist, one is this moment and the other now is from memory. So movement is seeing stillness now while remembering the object to have been in another place, position. Reality is far more strange than as taken by most. I could expound upon so many things that make reality unreal and yet seemingly real. There are many such occurrences which when truly looked at, aren't as they seem. I can explain karma and how even it isn't real. We make it real by identifying with the doer of action and so we accrue the karma of our doings. If we place our identity ad the seer and knower we are not binding any karma anymore and become liberated from the cycle of rebirth

[@gaitrysharma-bhogal5583]

When you see danger, you move, you act. Problem is the majority see attachment as a healthy way, being attached to a religious group or a family. They don't see the fact that the attachment is the cause of suffering. But you don't de-attach. You simple become aware of it. Beautiful from K.

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Deep

[@German-Guitarist]

But when you're in that state of observation, without any attachments or emotions, of course there's no grief, anxiety, sadness, yet there's also no joy, no happiness, no contentment. It now brings up the question wether you want that, wether you want to experience nothing at all except the observation. I wish he was still alive so i could ask him about that, as that is my main problem about it.

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You take for granted that by observing, you let go of negativity, but also those good things, like joy, pleasure... But all this is what forms the illusion of perception. Since what we are talking about is unknown, it is scary. But he is speaking of the liberation of the mind, of a clear mind without conditioning, thus free. One can only have an understanding of this by practicing the observation of every thought, without identifying with them. This is something that goes against what we usually do, so little by little.

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There is such kindness and strength in his speeches. A willingness to share is understanding. It’s incredible!

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He is one of rarest persons who has such a great observation. He is indeed true that observing oneself completely can truly transform one into true self that one really is. But doing this needs great concentration and practice.

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Such a lovely human being. I love that whenever he talks about observering he smiles subtly .

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The most impactful and clear explanation of Krishnamurti's on the topic of the observer is the observed, finally feel like it makes more sense than just having a crude idea of it. Brilliant...

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Krishnamurti was a great mind observer. He was always engaged in analysing his diverse dimensions and functioning of the mind. He wanted to free himself from all kinds of ignorance and false identities. His approach was new and rational.He invented himself and attracted a new line of followers.

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I love him but I'm strongly aware of this emotion, :)

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Because that´s a very good way of putting somebody off?

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What a wonderful man! Few can understand that power requires fear.

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Very similar conclusion to Sartre's transcendence of the ego... Despite the hyper-intellectualized method of the former.....

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One of the most profound things I’ve ever heard. Possibly my favourite video piece from this great man. Needs to be listened to a few times to get the full implications of it. For me this crystallises the observer is the observed concept. Normally we are guilty of the little me observing our thoughts and making judgements on them, believing these thoughts are separate from us but no they are us. So observing the little me and our thoughts in their entirety is the pure observation JK talks about. This also then leads to choiceless awareness; without this apparent duality between the observer and the observed, the little me and the thoughts that the little me feels separate to there is no need to have this internal dialogue or the feeling that something needs to be changed, because it just is.

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True

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Don't do anything because you will just create conflict and won't solve it, in fact you will make it stronger. Just observe it, no judgement. I'm pretty sure he means that no matter how you feel about whatever you observing, the fact of observing will prevail over sorrow because you have removed all judgements, images and ideas.

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humanity needed 100 yrs almost to grasp his wisdom :)))

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Dont come to the conclusion, see thats happening in you as fact. We have habit to come to conclusion that 'yes, correct, i understand it' but you only understand it intellectually.

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This video explains the concept of non-duality in such a lucid way.. Thank you Sir and the uploader.

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That's an extraordinary difference.

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He is great Ultimate

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HE SHOWN THE WAY TO US WITH HIS LIFETIME SACRIFICE TO IT, THANKS JK,

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Be an Observer of your thoughts.....

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Great!

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Thank you Mr Krishnamurti, after a long time i am starting to understand the deep reason why you talk about all this, the great imperativness of it, the factuality of everything.

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Incredible indeed

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He was the first writer that took me beyond myself as a teen. Now I'm old and he is the most honest person I've met. Vernon Howard is another mystic but tougher. Beyond thought and time in the now love unites all.

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Thanks❤

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Great !!

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Amazing..

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Sir,....after 6 months, I understood Your words "OBSERVER IS THE observent "

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Mindfulness breathing and recognizing the strong emotions and then breathing out embrace this strong emotions.

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Jiddu Krishanmurty sir tries to explain that observation is all we have.

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9:13 If I have no attachment, there is no me. That's the truth.

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