I was driving today, coming from a beautiful land, green, with a rough coastline where the sea and sky rival in beauty.And I was listening in the car dialogue number 13th of "The ending of time" between David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti, and a section of this dialogue was something like this:
"K: So you see it is enormously difficult to be free of knowledge.
DB: We could ask, why doesn't knowledge wait until it is needed?
K: That means to be psychologically free of knowledge, but, when the need arises, to act from freedom, not from knowledge.
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K: That is freedom from knowledge. And being free, it is from freedom and not from knowledge that one communicates.
K:....... And if I am going to understand myself, I must be free to look."
And at that moment it flashed in my brain that we have been educated in ideas, in concepts, in opinions. A tremendous importance has been given to that, probably because this is the way our brain works...... I studied history and it was all knowledge, opinions about what had happened, who was "good" or "bad", all a virtual reality...and I realize I continue in my adult life living in a world of ideas, concepts......
Would it be possible to be aware of this and educate not giving so much importance to concepts, ideas....and educate giving importance to something real?
(No idea how, but the clarity about this need is there.....)
(photograph from the actual place described above, made yesterday by S. de Ch.)
This is difficult to realize, other than as a concept (!!!!)
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