Intellect Will Not Solve Our Problems
By: Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti
Most of us are so unconcerned with this extraordinary universe about us; we never even see the waving of the leaf in the wind; we never watch a blade of grass, touch it with our hand and know the quality of its being.
This is not just being poetic, so please do not go off into a speculative, emotional state.
I say it is essential to have that deep feeling for life and not be caught in intellectual ramifications, discussions, passing examinations, quoting and brushing something new aside by saying it has already been said.
Intellect is not the way.
Intellect will not solve our problems; the intellect will not give us that nourishment which is imperishable.
The intellect can reason, discuss, analyze, come to a conclusion from inferences, and so on, but intellect is limited, for intellect is the result of our conditioning. But sensitivity is not. Sensitivity has no conditioning; it takes you right out of the field of fears and anxieties….
We spend our days and years in cultivating the intellect, in arguing, discussing, fighting, struggling to be something, and so on. And yet this extraordinarily wonderful world, this earth that is so rich—not the Bombay earth, the Punjab earth, the Russian earth, or the American earth—this earth is ours, yours and mine, and that is not sentimental nonsense; it is a fact.
But unfortunately we have divided it up through our pettiness, through our provincialism. And we know why we have done it—for our security, for better jobs and more jobs.
That is the political game that is being played throughout the world, and so we forget to be human beings, to live happily on this earth that is ours, and to make something of it.
You can find this passage in — Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
I spent a week with J. Krishnamurti in Switzerland many years ago.
I love your non materialistic, holistic approach.
This poem of mine makes similar points Jiddu?!
What do you think.
True Relation
True relation
Needs no messiah
Just millions of people
Learning together
They’ll build no temples
But they do have a shrine
This beautiful planet Earth
Home to humans kind
Blind ambition
A thing of the past
New community created
Designed to last
There’ll be no popes
There’ll be no kings
With mutual understanding
No need for these things
There will be great teachers
But no need for a throne
The leaders of this movement
Content to work from home
The answers are all around us
They’re just not obvious
The great majority
Kept oblivious
Yet slowly there’s awakening
Slowly all can learn
That life’s great triumphs
Are never what we own
They’re how we raise our families
Connect with our peers
How we treat the weakest souls
Who’ve known little more than tears
Revert to the Stone Age??
I hear the cynics say
To create such utopia
Give everything away!!
Not sure what it would look like
Nothing important needs to go
Just hatred and greed
And untamed ego
Kindness the main mantra
Compassion and empathy
As we let go of the hold
Grief’s had on you and me
We’ll tread easy on the planet
Food and most goods locally
Keep waste to minimum
End consumerist folly
I’m sure it won’t be easy
I’m sure many will resist
Contentment of early responders
An inspiration to the rest
There won’t be other chances
We don’t really have a choice
There is no planet next
So let’s hear your voice
Raised up and overwhelming
A clarion of love
For every living thing
The mighty peace dove
Stephen Treloar May,2023.