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Intelligence Brings Order
The
following is a speech made by
J Krishnamurti on how intelligence can bring about order in humanity.
Intelligence - the link between the known and the
unknown
Intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with
thought. You maybe very clever, very good at arguing, very learned. You may have
experienced, lived a tremendous life, been all over the world, investigating,
searching, looking, accumulating a great deal of knowledge, practised Zen or
Hindu meditation, but all that has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart, and the body are really
harmonious.
Therefore the body must be highly sensitive, not overindulging in eating,
drinking, sex, and all the rest that makes the body dull, heavy. You have to
understand all that. The very seeing the fact of that makes you eat less, gives
the body its own intelligence. If there is an awareness of the body, which is
not being forced, then the body becomes very, very sensitive, like a beautiful
instrument.
The same with the heart (feeling); that is, it is never hurt and never hurt
another. Not to hurt and not to be hurt, that is the 'innocency' of the heart.
One must have a mind which has no fear, which demands no pleasure, this does not
mean that you cannot enjoy the beauty of life, the beauty of trees, or enjoy a
beautiful face, looking at children, at the flow of water, at the mountains and
the green pastures. There is great delight in that. but that delight, when
pursued by thought, becomes 'pleasure'.
The mind/thought has to be 'empty' to see clearly. So the relationship between
the immeasurable, the unknown and the known, is Intelligence. This kind of
Intelligence has nothing whatsoever to tradition, authority, Buddhism, Zen, with
me or with you. Have you got that intelligence? That is the only point that
matters. That intelligence will operate in this world morally. Morality then is
order, which is virtue, not the virtue or the morality of society which is
totally immoral.
Intelligence brings about order, beauty and virtue.
So that intelligence brings about order, which is
virtue, a thing that is living, that is not mechanical (like thought). Therefore
you can never practice being good, you can never practise trying to become
humble. When there is that intelligence, it naturally brings about order and the
beauty of order. This is a religious life, not all the fooling around with it.
Listening to the speaker have you understood this - not verbally or
intellectually, but actually seen the truth of this? If you see the truth of it,
it will act, like you will do, when you see very clearly that arsenic is
poisonous or that a snake is dangerous. Do you see this, or do you still live in
the world of ideas?
What is 'to be myself'?
If you live in the world of ideas, of conclusions,
then that's not truth, that's just a projection of thought. Do you see the truth
of this, and therefore is there that intelligence which operates? not the 'me'
operating. The slogan, the cliche of the modern generation is: 'I must be
myself'. What is myself? ... a lot of words, a lot of conclusions, traditions,
reactions, memories, a bundle of the past (and the identification with
knowledge, experience, the family, the social status, etc) and yet you say, 'I
want to be myself', which is too childish.
So having listened to al this, is there the awakening of that intelligence? And
if there is that awakening of intelligence, then it will operate, then you don't
have to say, 'What am I to do?' If you really understand, you could change the
world. Perhaps there have been a thousand persons here during these three weeks
who have listened.
If they really live that, do you know what is going to happen? We should change
the world. We shall be the salt of the earth.
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