By Jiddu Krishnamurti
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So how am I to be rid of it? Questioner: You've often spoken of the need to see that we must change totally. And you've also spoken of the fact that we have to look at ourselves without wanting to change what we see. Isn't there some kind of contradiction there? Krishnamurti: Is there? Questioner: To me there is, I don't fully understand that. Krishnamurti: Can I look at one thing so completely that everything is included in that? Wait Sir, let's go slowly. I am aware that I am neurotic and I know the cause of this imbalance.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of selfknowing. Most of us are burdened with a great many sorrows, and in the ending of that sorrow lies the understanding of oneself. To understand oneself one must observe without any distortion, without any like or dislike, without saying `This is good, I'll keep it', or `This is bad, I'll put it away: observe, so that the mind becomes completely alert, both at the conscious level and in the deeper and hidden parts of the mind. All this, of course, involves much more, but I don't know if we have the time to go into it.
Then what am I to do? Questioner: You have to live in the present, absolutely. Krishnamurti: Madam, how can I live in the present? Please put yourself in that position. I mean, we are all fairly neurotic in one way or another and we may not know it. When I do know that I am slightly, or deeply unbalanced, can I be aware of it? Can I see that I am unbalanced, sexually, physically, emotionally? I believe something and I fight, I resist everybody who questions that belief and so on. Can I become aware?
