We
talk about searching for Truth, Peace or Freedom,
not realizing the contradiction in our words.
We cannot find such things, for they are beyond
us—beyond the ego, that is. Krishnamurti
once said: " … to talk of so-and-so
‘obtaining liberation’ is a misuse
of terms. That which is liberated is always
life, not the individual. Indeed, it is at the
expense of the individual that such liberation
is achieved".
Have you ever
seen a fly caught in a spider’s web? The
more it struggles to become free, the more it
becomes entangled. And so it is with us in our
efforts to find Freedom. It is not that there
is no Freedom, but that our efforts—self-efforts—to
find it can never succeed; it is like trying
to catch an elephant in a butterfly-net; our
approach is wrong.
Many
people enter a spiritual path as upon a competition
with others, trying to be better, playing the
‘holier-than-thou’ game; ashrams
and monasteries are full of them. And when they
finally give up in despair, they often find
themselves worse-off than before they began.
There are risks involved, dangers to beware
of.
Who could say
it better than this?: |
