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The blank wall is the depletion of the intellect

Reading to Krishnamurti (in Tradition and Revolution) I realize the futility of analyzing things psychologically. This conclusion in this regard is not because I have understood the whole movement of what it means to think, analyze, reflect, etc., but it arises from the few and almost null results that I have obtained from analyzing myself. Blind, I realize things by colliding with them and understand "blindness" precisely because of everything that moves around... White brick wall,  piqsels.com . Even with the warning that the analysis would not be adequate to uncover ignorance, many times (if not all) the absence of results (understanding, or whatever) has led me to think that the intellect was again used to reach a point, obtaining a pitiful conclusion and invisibly already predetermined. There are processes, elements and psychic behaviors of mine that are very well seen and reflected, so sometimes it was extremely strange that, knowing their internal mechanism, I...

The blank wall or the Ego exploration

«You can only discover what love is by knowing what it is not. Not knowing intellectually, but living, leaving aside what is not: jealousy, ambition and greed, all the division in life, me and you, us and them, black and white ... ». (Krishnamurti in Stuart Holroyd. Krishnamurti: The Man, the Mystery & the Message, 1991). Exploration by  singhaniket255 .  pixabay.com A person wants to know himself, investigate, discover ("explore" is the most neutral expression I find) and, at first glance, that seems like something that is fine. I remember Socrates in his "Know yourself" and I tell myself that I am in tune. Closer in time, I go back to Krishnamurti with "if one does not know oneself, one cannot go beyond the illusions projected by my own mind "(1) and I tell myself that I am well. I see all my purpose, my vision, my objective in good direction and I say that the approach is absolutely correct. But no. Sorry. I must say that if someone wants t...