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Understanding problems, and the art of living | J. Krishnamurti



Is it possible to meet a problem without a brain that is already conditioned to solve problems? From a brain that is conditioned to solve problems, we are always seeking solutions to problems...Now, how can the brain solve problems if it is not free from problems? It's a rather interesting question this, please let us go into this. 
Our brains are conditioned to the resolution of problems, solution of problems, from childhood. And as the brain is conditioned to solve problems it is always seeking a solution. And it is not understanding the problem itself but the solution of the problem, right? Is it possible... to have a brain that is not conditioned to problems? A conditioned brain which is embedded in problems can never solve problems. Is it possible to have a brain that is not conditioned to the solution of problems but to the understanding of problems? 
Isn't there a difference between the solutions of problems and the understandings of the problem? 
In the understanding of the problem, the solution may lie in the problem, not away from the problem... So we are asking, can the brain, recognizing, seeing that it is conditioned to the solution of problems, from childhood, be free of it, and then face problems?"
Will you do it?
That is the question. To be conscious, to be aware, that our brain, that we, as human beings, from the beginning of life, we are always struggling with problems and trying to find the right answer to them. The right answer can only be when we recognize that the brain is conditioned, and as long as that brain is conditioned to solving problems we will never find the right answer. 
So, do I recognize that fact, not the idea but the fact? There is a difference between idea and the fact. I hear this statement, and from that statement, I draw a conclusion... and from that statement, I abstract an idea of it and then pursue the idea, not the fact that my brain is conditioned to solve problems, that's the fact, not that I should be free of this conditioning, that is not a fact. You understand?
So, the brain is conditioned and as long as that condition exists, multiplications of problems will go on, reorganization of the problems will go on...Can you and I be free of the brain that is conditioned? That is, to be aware of it and see the depth of it, the truth of it, the logic of it, the sanity, the reason of it, and not move away from that? Not find some abstract explanations. Is this all right? 
I'm asking if it's all right, perhaps it's all wrong. It's not all wrong. This is a fact.
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