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Throughout
Krishnamurti's many years of talking with people throughout the world, again and again he asserted that a
mind that is directly perceiving wholly is not registering
nor
recording.
"So
my question is: is it possible -- please listen -- is it possible not
to register? You understand? Because if I keep on registering all
the time, the brain is always conditioning itself. I wonder if you
understand this! If I am always acting within the field of knowledge
- what I have learnt, what my experiences are and I am always acting
within that limited area, the conditioning becomes stronger and
stronger and stronger, which is what is happening with all of us.
Right? And so one asks: is it possible not to register
psychologically? You understand my question? This is a very, very
serious question. Is there a part of the brain which is capable of
not registering? You understand? If a human being is always
operating within the field of the known, which is his conditioning,
then the very activity of that produces greater volume of
resistance. So we are asking a most
fundamental
question, not an idiosyncratic question, or a neurotic question: is
it possible for a brain not to register at all? Is there a part, or
is there a quality of the brain that understands the need of not
registering?"
"And
then there is the art of learning, accumulating knowledge which means
registering all the things that are necessary for skillful action,
and non- registering any psychological responses, any psychological
reactions so that the brain is employing itself where function,
skill are necessary through knowledge and the brain is free not to
register. Right? I wonder if you understand this. This is very
arduous, this, to be so totally aware so that you only register what
is necessary and not, absolutely not, register anything which is not
necessary".