Feet & Heads

I wonder if I am approaching this exploration with a conditioning. Is this whole approach conditioned, all this interest, all my initiative? If there were conditioning, how does it influence this exploration? Man pulling the Ego by  aungkarns .  openclipart.org I see a great influence that, I speculate, is related to this supposed conditioning: my Ego frequently believes everything he says to himself and, even more so, when he is not aware of himself. My Ego is affected by the influence of believing what he says to himself. And this is key. I only question my own thoughts when I am aware that I have them and what is repeated frequently is that I do not question the thoughts that arise when I am not paying attention. And the thoughts that I have been having, to which I have adhered without questioning, are what they tell me that knowing myself will bring me change and satisfaction and that is why I want to know myself. It is so strange to discover that the intimate repet...

«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...