Daily Quote September 12th 2007, Krishnamurti Foundations
You have to find out for yourself, and not wait for me to tell you, whether the mind can ever be free. Can the mind only think about freedom, as a prisoner does, and so is doomed never to be free but always to be held within the bondage of its conditioning?
Can the mind only think about freedom, as a prisoner does? The Collected Works, Vol. X (166)
What form will a composition take when it is painted by a totally free mind. This is not necessarily an impossibility, if the mind is only for an instant free, when it is completely focused.
When you passionately pursue the Truth, or deep in ‘meditation’, super focused when painting, looking, making, observing, hoping: there are times when the mind is in a state of one-pointedness, that the past is not present, he forgets his conditioned self, and the painter inhabits a space that is pure, and his insight is new and this will show up in his composition. You will know it when you see it. Because it will be somewhat quirky,messy at times as the mistakes are left behind, as the moment follows through quickly, no time for the thinking mind to correct the mistakes, there will be spontaneity, chance findings, building on that chance finding, all happening quickly, and it comes to an end, and the thinking mind looks at what it has done, the mind sits back, ponders on what had just happened, the painter does not remember where he had just been, he was in a state of pure observation, it all happened where time did not exists, and perhaps because of that it was not recorded in his mind and hence not remembered. siri.
Note:Â According to the renowned German scholar Max Mueller, the study of mental states is unique to India. He also opined that ekagrata or one-pointedness that India spoke of was unknown, and to a large extent, incomprehensible to the Western world. And this viewpoint holds true even today.