‘The Observer is the Observed’.
I struggled for years to understand what Krishnamurti meant by this cryptic statement that he repeated often. This is what I think he meant, although I may be missing the essence of it. We are the world, and the world is us, we are not different from what we are ‘seeing’, if we are in fact seeing it at all. I believe his message was to see ‘what is’, not ‘what should be’. When we see ugliness in ourselves our minds immediately escape into ‘what should be…’, what I will do it improve myself… but this (almost instantaneous are largely unconscious) escape prevents us from seeing clearly in the present moment, rather we are escaping into the past or future. It was part of Krishnamurti’s message that only by seeing what is, what actually is, can we can begin to make progress in understanding ourselves, which is the first step in real change.
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