Is love the product of thought? Is love in the field of time? Is love pleasure? Is love comething that can be cultivated, practised or put together by thought? In inquiring into this one has to go into the question: Is love pleasure - Sexual or any kind of pleasure?
Our mind is pursuing pleasure all the time: yesterday I had a good meal, the pleasure of that meal is recorded and I want more, a better meal or the same kind of meal tomorrow. I have taken great delight in the sunset or looking at the moon through the leaves. That beauty gives great delight and that is great pleasure. The mind records it and wants it repeated. Thought thinks about sex, thinks, chews over it, wants it repeated; and that you call love. Right? Don't be shy when we talk about sex, that's part of your life. You have made it hideous because you have denied every kind of freedom except that one freedom.
So is love pleasure? Is Love put together by thought, as pleasure is put together by thought? Is love envy? Can anyone love who is envious, who is greedy, ambitious, violent, conforming, obeying totally in disorder? So what is Love? It is not any of these things, obviously. It is not pleasure. Please understand the importance of pleasure. Pleasure is sustained by thought; therefore thought is not love. Thought cannot cultivate love. It can and does cultivate the pursuit of pleasure, as it does fear, but thought cannot create love, or put it together. See the Truth. See it and you will put away your ambition, your greed, altogether. So through negation you come to the most extraordinary thing called love, which is the most positive.
Disorder in relationship means there is no love, and that disorder exists when there is conformity. So a mind that conforms to a pattern of pleasure, or what it thinks is love, can never know what love is. A mind that has understood that whole ripening of disorder comes to an order which is VIRTUE, therefore which is love.
J.Krishnamurti
www.jkrishnamurti.org
Our mind is pursuing pleasure all the time: yesterday I had a good meal, the pleasure of that meal is recorded and I want more, a better meal or the same kind of meal tomorrow. I have taken great delight in the sunset or looking at the moon through the leaves. That beauty gives great delight and that is great pleasure. The mind records it and wants it repeated. Thought thinks about sex, thinks, chews over it, wants it repeated; and that you call love. Right? Don't be shy when we talk about sex, that's part of your life. You have made it hideous because you have denied every kind of freedom except that one freedom.
So is love pleasure? Is Love put together by thought, as pleasure is put together by thought? Is love envy? Can anyone love who is envious, who is greedy, ambitious, violent, conforming, obeying totally in disorder? So what is Love? It is not any of these things, obviously. It is not pleasure. Please understand the importance of pleasure. Pleasure is sustained by thought; therefore thought is not love. Thought cannot cultivate love. It can and does cultivate the pursuit of pleasure, as it does fear, but thought cannot create love, or put it together. See the Truth. See it and you will put away your ambition, your greed, altogether. So through negation you come to the most extraordinary thing called love, which is the most positive.
Disorder in relationship means there is no love, and that disorder exists when there is conformity. So a mind that conforms to a pattern of pleasure, or what it thinks is love, can never know what love is. A mind that has understood that whole ripening of disorder comes to an order which is VIRTUE, therefore which is love.
J.Krishnamurti
www.jkrishnamurti.org