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The Core of the Teachings

J KRISHNAMURTI

hen asked in 1974 by his biographer, Mary
WLutyens, to define his teachings Krishnamurti
wrote the following:
The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is con-
tained in the statement he made in 1929 when
he said Truth is a pathless land.
Man cannot come to it through any organi-
zation, through any creed, through any dogma,
priest or ritual, not through any philosophical
knowledge or psychological technique. He has
to find it through the mirror of relationship,
through the understanding of the contents of his
own mind, through observation and not through
intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
Man has built in himself images as a fence of
security—religious, political, personal. These
manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden
of these images dominates man’s thinking, his
relationships, and his daily life. These images are
the causes of our problems for they divide man
from man. His perception of life is shaped by the
concepts already established in his mind. The
content of his consciousness is his entire exis-
tence. The individuality is the name, the form
and superficial culture he acquires from tradi-
tion and environment. The uniqueness of man
does not lie in the superficial but in complete
freedom from the content of his consciousness,
which is common to all humanity. So he is not
an individual.