LET UNDERSTANDING BE THE LAW

8. Are we to take it that we should not fear to carry the implications of your words to their ultimate conclusions?

KRISHNAMURTI: Why have you fear? What are you afraid of? Afraid that what I say may be the Truth? Afraid to give up those things that you have clung to for so long? How do you think to find anything in life if you are afraid to carry your thoughts and feelings to their ultimate conclusion?

Friend, you acquire Truth by putting away those things which you have gained, and not by clinging to them. That is the only way to find the Truth. If you want money, do you not ruthlessly do things to accumulate your wealth? But you do not want Truth in the same manner. I do not mean that you should have selfishness or ruthlessness because when you walk towards the Truth there can be neither selfishness nor ruthlessness. If you do anything because of fear, at the bidding of another, woe to you, because along that way lies sorrow and pain.

LET UNDERSTANDING BE THE LAW

LET UNDERSTANDING BE THE LAW

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Let Understanding be the Law. The seventh International Camp of the Order of the Star.