“I lead a certain kind of life; I think in a certain pattern; I have certain beliefs and dogmas and I don’t want these patterns of existence to be disturbed because I have my roots in them. I don’t want them to be disturbed because the disturbance produces a state of unknowing and I dislike that. If I am torn away from everything I know and believe I want to be reasonably certain of the state of things to which I am going. My brain cells have created a pattern and those brain cells refuse to create another pattern which may be uncertain. I experience fear when I need to move from certainty to uncertainty.”
I did not write this. This quotation is from the book “Freedom from the known”, by J. Krishnamurthy. My sister Kala bought me this book from the book shop at Pyramid Valley. Even the little of what I have read of JK’s Philosophy over the years I have always found it intriguingly fascinating.
“One of the major causes of fear is that we do not want to face ourselves as we are. If the mind tries to overcome fear, to suppress it, discipline it, control it, translate it into terms of something else there is friction, there is conflict. Instead recognize it, understand it, accept it; not suppress it, deny it, nor justify it, but look at it and study it and be beyond it.”
I can relate with what he has written. I am aware of this nature of me. It seems to be addressed to me. How does he know me so well? I realize it is not just the truth for me but it is universal.
Today I feel just reading this book and learning to explore and searching for the answers is all I need to understand myself.
http://www.didier-artault.com/05_JK_htm/20-freedom%20from%20the%20known.pdf
