Emptiness

Small Group Discussion 2 in Gstaad, 16 August 1964 To see the fact is one of the most difficult things to do. I know when I am lying - full stop - it is a fact. To see the fact requires a great sense of humility. Only a free mind can see the fact. https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/see-fact-one-most-difficult-things-do-i-know-when-i-am-l https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/series-i-chapter-37-idea-and-fact     The idea is more important to us than the fact; the concept of what one should be has more significance than what one is. The future is always more alluring than the present. The image, the symbol, is of greater worth than the actual; and on the actual we try to superimpose the idea, the pattern. So we create a contradiction between what is and what should be. What should be is the idea, the fiction, and so there is a conflict between the actual and the illusion - not in themselves, but in us. We like the illusion better than the actual; the idea is more appealing, more sa...