Simplicity of the Heart
La Sencillez del Corazón-por J. Krishnamurti
La sencillez del corazón es de mucha mayor importancia y significación que la sencillez de los bienes.
Contentarse con pocas cosas es asunto comparativamente fácil. Renunciar al confort, dejar de fumar u otros
hábitos, no indica sencillez de corazón. Ponerse un taparrabos en un mundo lleno de ropas, comodidades y
distracciones, no es indicio de ser libre. Hubo un hombre que había renunciado al mundo y a sus comodidades,
pero sus deseos y pasiones lo estaban consumiendo; había tomada los hábitos de monje, mas no halló la paz.
Sus ojos buscaban incesantemente, y su mente estaba corroída por sus dudas y esperanzas.
Exteriormente os disciplináis y
renunciáis, trazáis vuestro rumbo, paso a paso, para alcanzar la meta. Medís el progreso de vuestra realización de
acuerdo con el patrón de la virtud: en qué medida habéis dejado esto o aquello, qué control habéis logrado en
vuestra conducta, cuán tolerantes y amables sois, y cosas así. Habéis aprendido el arte de la concentración, y
os retiráis a un bosque, a un monasterio o a un cuarto oscuro para meditar; pasáis vuestros días en súplicas y
desvelos. Exteriormente habéis hecho sencilla vuestra vida, y en base a este meditado y calculado arreglo esperáis
alcanzar el gozo que no es de este mundo.
El deseo de ser es el principio de la complejidad. Impulsados por el deseo siempre creciente de ser, tanto
interna como externamente, acumulamos o renunciamos, cultivamos o negamos. Viendo que el tiempo nos despoja
de todas las cosas, nos aferramos a lo atemporal. Esta lucha por ser, positiva o negativamente, mediante el apego o
el desapego, jamás puede ser resuelta por ninguna acción, disciplina o práctica externa, pero la comprensión de
esta lucha traerá, de forma natural y espontánea, la liberación de la acumulación externa e interna con sus
conflictos. La realidad no se alcanza mediante el desprendimiento, es inalcanzable por ningún medio. Todos los
medios y fines son formas de apego, y deben cesar para que la realidad sea.
Sacado del libro de J. Krishnamurti Comentarios sobre el vivir .
Excerpted from J. Krishnamurti's Commentaries on Living.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that "reality is unattainable through any means"? Can you share a personal story of a time you experienced simplicity of heart beyond all inner and outer desires to be? How do you reconcile the teachings that focus on being with this message that a desire to be is also an attachment that takes us away from the being of reality?
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On Sep 6, 2016 Marc wrote :
This sounds great and in isolation I agree. In the reality I live in, I see people need food, shelter, education, healthcare, transportation for one and one's loved ones. This gets ine into the means and end dynamic bc of spending your time on these needs. So how do you reconcile being forced to have these means and ends with having none?
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On Sep 6, 2016 vic smyth wrote :
I have learned to simply be myself and to let others be themselves.
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On Sep 6, 2016 Kristin Pedemonti wrote :
Reality shifts as we construct and deconstruct it each day through our perceptions and experiences and how we react. Simplicity of the heart happens when we do not try to control it. I've had this experience when allowing myself to fully immerse in the present. Example, yesterday at a dance in a park I felt fully free, alive, happy and filled with joy. There was no attachment to dancing a certain way, it was allowing the rhythms to fully connect internally and just move however my body decided. Liberating!
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On Sep 5, 2016 Sunil wrote :
Beyond my understanding,creating more confusion than resolving it. Let us demystify the mysticism of spirituality. Let us not complicate it further & further.Let us help ourselves the common beings you and me with simple ,straight easy to follow guidance from the enlightened. Love
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On Sep 5, 2016 Saroj wrote :
Recently I have spent a lot of time with a three year old grand daughter, a puppy and a new born. Just watching them go through daily life is a lesson in pure joy that comes from just being and having very simple minds with no agenda, no show and no outward or inward fear. There is pure joy in just being and having the simplicity of heart, I wish I could learn from them and not the other way around.
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On Sep 5, 2016 david doane wrote :
I think in this passage reality is the Ground of Being, and reality is unattainable through goal-directed behavior, whatever that may be. Goal directed behavior is a means to an end, and being attached to goal directed behavior gets in the way of pure being which unites us with the reality of the Ground of Being. Reality is attainable in being purposeless in the moment. I guess the closest I've come to simplicity beyond all inner and outer desires has been in moments of intimacy with nature or with another and in moments of meditation. Attachment to desire is attachment. 'Reality' is attainable by letting go of desire and simply being. As I see it, that is what the teachings that focus on being teach. To attain 'reality' we must purposelessly be what the teachings are about and not be attached to any means.
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On Sep 4, 2016 Abhishek Thakore wrote :
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