"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem"
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Krishnamurti, a 20th-century philosopher and spiritual teacher, urged a radical shift in how we approach difficulties. He points to a habit of mind: we confront problems with preformed answers, theories, and techniques, hoping to fix them from the outside. But the quick search for solutions often extends the problem, because the same conditioned thought that created the trouble is now trying to cure it. The key move is to stop fleeing the problem and to look at it completely.
Understanding here means direct, lucid observation without blame, justification, or the compulsion to conclude. When fear, jealousy, or conflict arises, the mind usually names it, compares it, and seeks escape. That activity fragments the issue. If instead one watches the whole movement of the problem as it unfolds in thought, feeling, and bodily tension, the structure of the problem reveals itself. Fear may show its roots in time and projection; jealousy may uncover comparison, possessiveness, and insecurity; conflict may expose clashing images and expectations. Seeing the total pattern is already a transformation, because it ends the illusions that sustained the problem.
The answer is not separate because the problem contains its own logic, causes, and energy. To see that fully is to dissolve the false, and what remains is appropriate action. In a relationship strained by resentment, meticulous attention to every reaction, motive, and memory in the moment can reveal how self-image is colliding with another’s image. That very seeing loosens the knot; one may apologize, clarify, or simply stop repeating a hurtful pattern, not as a technique but as a natural outcome of understanding.
Krishnamurti rejected authority, systems, and methods because they impose external solutions. He trusted the intelligence that awakens when the mind observes itself without division between observer and observed. From that undivided awareness, resolution is not manufactured; it emerges. The problem, fully understood, has already carried you to the threshold of its ending.
Understanding here means direct, lucid observation without blame, justification, or the compulsion to conclude. When fear, jealousy, or conflict arises, the mind usually names it, compares it, and seeks escape. That activity fragments the issue. If instead one watches the whole movement of the problem as it unfolds in thought, feeling, and bodily tension, the structure of the problem reveals itself. Fear may show its roots in time and projection; jealousy may uncover comparison, possessiveness, and insecurity; conflict may expose clashing images and expectations. Seeing the total pattern is already a transformation, because it ends the illusions that sustained the problem.
The answer is not separate because the problem contains its own logic, causes, and energy. To see that fully is to dissolve the false, and what remains is appropriate action. In a relationship strained by resentment, meticulous attention to every reaction, motive, and memory in the moment can reveal how self-image is colliding with another’s image. That very seeing loosens the knot; one may apologize, clarify, or simply stop repeating a hurtful pattern, not as a technique but as a natural outcome of understanding.
Krishnamurti rejected authority, systems, and methods because they impose external solutions. He trusted the intelligence that awakens when the mind observes itself without division between observer and observed. From that undivided awareness, resolution is not manufactured; it emerges. The problem, fully understood, has already carried you to the threshold of its ending.
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