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The network of thought
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In these talks, given in Saanen, Switseland and Amsterdam during 1981, Krishnamurti likens the conditioning of the human mind to the programming of a computer - 'the brain has been programmed'.
It is the programming of the brain, as a result of family, social environment and education, that makes a person identify with a particular religion, or become an atheist, or adopt one of the devisions of political partisanship. Each things according to the particular programme which dominates him; each is caught in his own particular 'network of thouhgt'.
The 'I', the ego, the personality, is no more than the selfhood of a programmed network of thinking. Thinking is a material process, the funtioning of the brain; it is not in itself intelligent. Observe the divisiveness when thougt asserts: 'I am a Muslim' or 'I am a Christian', or 'I am o sicialist' - each 'I' violently opposed to the other.
Krishnamurti points out that freedom is to be free from the 'programme' which has been imposed upon one's brain. This means pure observation without thougt, a paradox which is resolved by the fact that when there is 'pure observation' there is no thougt to observe. 'Observation is an action in itself', it is intelligence which gives freedom from all illusion and fear.
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