The State of not Knowing AN EXTRACT FROM A DISCUSSION WITH STUDENTS AT HUIZEN, HOLLAND, JUNE 1967 Questioner: Is it not a fact that with intense awareness while you are awake, you can have the experience of watching anger come and go within yourself without it touching your consciousness? KRISHNAMURTI: Oh, sir! Let us be a little careful about this. Is the conscious self different from the anger? I am jealous, let us say. Is the ‘I’ different from the jealousy? Is that jealousy different from the person who is watching the jealousy? I am the experiencer and the thing I experience is jealousy. Is the experiencer different from the experience? It is quite interesting to discuss this from the point of view of what is learning. I am jealous of you, I am envious of you, and I want to learn all about it, because when I learn the whole content of it, it is finished; it no longer has the bite. Now, how do I learn? What is learning? Apart from learning a language—...
The ground - nameless, silence, call it what you like. It is there. And the mind wants to capture "that", to have relationship with it. Sorry, you can't. That's all!