Freedom from psychological thinking
This is about freedom from psychological thinking which I think is more important from which to be free due to the chaos and conflicts it creates in society.
There are other aspects of the mind, like education and what you know need to be discussed separately. What you know via knowledge has its disadvantages when it comes to innovation if you always return to what you know for your ideas then the “new” will always be elusive to the mind.
But here perhaps we could see how psychological thinking has fragmented the mind with opinions and biases and hence created conflicts in the mind and hence also with others. When you fragment the mind with thinking then it stops it from working as a whole entity and hence works without its full potential.
It is all the psychological aspects of you that you built up in the years of experiencing and growing up. You have an observation and maybe an unpleasant one and then via mental constructs based on that experience, you create an opinion or a bias in you and then you use that for the rest of your life on others. What you are doing here is creating fragments in your psyche and also conflicts within you. It is these kinds of aspects about you from which you need to be free.
But why?
What it means by being fragmented by these opinions and biases is that it prevents you from being whole and acting as a whole person. That is why you have a dominant personality because one of these fragments takes over and dominates you for the rest of your life.
These fragments are conflicts in you that you created with your own thinking mind. These fragments you treat like they are real and a genuine part of your being and hence do nothing about them or enquire about them. When you have a fragmented mind you live with conflicts in you. You are not whole in your psyche and being. You need to be free of your psychological fragments which is one aspect of being fragmented. What happens when fragmentation in the mind ends and hence conflicts end then what becomes of the person — be automatically becomes whole. A person without conflicts opens up one’s mind to everything. The unconscious mind unfolds into you and you open up to the universe and sense your place in it.
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You can see why when you remove a constraint in the psyche everything opens up in you.
So how do you remove years of conflicts and fragmentation that have built up in you? How do you unlearn them? Impossible to do is it not. It is just too much to ask of you? But I am sure there is a way to get around the psychological known in you in the mind. The mystics and meditation must have shown us something we can use. What I have always suggested is that you go to a state of “being” in you which is in the “now” in you and this automatically removes the fragmentation and conflicts in you and you work off this centre in the mind. In time when you see how the natural mind works without fragmentation and conflicts then those conflicts will drop away and become insignificant to you. Perhaps memories cannot be all forgotten but they can be made insignificant if you see how well the mind works without conflicts and fragmentation in mind. Just like the Buddha did when he realsed it was the mind that created suffering in us.
You centre the mind in the “now” in you and see with “choiceless observation”.
This centre is wholeness in mind without fragmentation and conflicts in mind. When you sense how this centre works then when you come off this centre to think the taste of the unfragmented centre of no conflicts in mind will always be with you and whatever way you spin an idea in you or create an innovation in you, you think with the wholeness that is you as if you are still in the centre in the mind. The fragmentation and centre in the self will soon be insignificant. You will see it in your personality as the dominant conflicts in you would also have disappeared. They were just opinions and “mental constructs” anyway, not based on facts but created by psychological thinking.
If you have the time and would like to hear a chit chat about what I have said above then you can listen to this video below by Cory Fisher. He describes the freedom from psychological thinking very well in his own way and takes you right through the centre of fragmentation and conflicts in the mind which Krishnamurti did talk about. Cory Fisher is the archivist of the Krishnamurti centre in America with access to all of K’s works.
Freedom from the Known: the Krishnamurti perspective | Cory Fisher
I started this video at the end of the talk where a statement was made about fragmentation and conflict in mind, but the whole video is worth a listen to about understanding what it means to be free of psychological thinking and opinions and one’s biases and conditioning.
