Every morning after meditation, if I have time, I will read two paragraphs of Krishnamurti's Book of Life, which always makes me feel his understanding of all aspects of the objective world from another level. Although I can't fully understand some contents, I will always immerse myself in them and experience them quickly. Tonight, I will watch two of them, "Listen to the Inner Voice" and "Watch with rapt attention", and I can't help but ask myself how I listen and watch! The following are excerpts from these two parts for your reading.

1 7th of the month

Listen to the inner voice

Questioner: I seemed to understand what you said when I was listening to your speech, but once I left here, I couldn't figure it out. I really want to apply your words to my life.

Krishnamurti: You should listen to your inner voice, not the speaker. If you blindly listen to the speaker, he will become your authority, which will affect your understanding-this is the most horrible thing, because in this way, you will certainly establish the worship of authority. So, all you have to do is listen to your own voice. What you see now is an image drawn by the speaker, and this image is your inner world. If this is clarified, you can look inside yourself and say to yourself, "Now I finally see my truth, but I don't want to do anything about it." In this way, the troubles in my heart stopped. But if you say "I finally see my truth and I want to change my present state", then you will try to change this state according to your own understanding. When the speaker is talking, if you can listen to your heart quietly, then clear cognition will emerge from this listening, and your heart will become sound and powerful. It neither obeys nor resists; It will become lively and focused-only such people can create a new world.

1 8/month

Look with rapt attention

Learning seems to be a difficult thing, and listening is not an easy thing. We never really listen to anything, because our hearts are not free: our ears are full of known things, so it is difficult to hear anything. If you can listen all your life, your heart is an element of liberation, but unfortunately, you never really listen, so you can't really understand.

Only by devoting your whole life to one thing can you understand it, but if learning is compulsory, then the process of learning becomes the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is like reading a novel. You must concentrate on reading it to understand the complicated character structure. Even if you want to know the new leaf in spring, you must wholeheartedly observe its symmetrical texture and feel its texture in order to understand the essence of this leaf. In a small leaf, it has amazing vitality and beauty. If you want to know a leaf, a small flower, a cloud in the sky or a sunset, you must look at them wholeheartedly.