We do a lot of relating image to image, not person to person. I do believe love is denied when we relate images. I think Krisnamurti is referring to the center as the real self, and I create space around my self by having images of myself and of the other. When images are relating rather than real persons there is neither real love nor beauty. As far as I know, there are times in relating that I am relating how I am and from how I am, and I am relating to the real other and not to an image that I or the other is creating. During those moments there is neither the observer nor what is being observed in that there is simply real to real relating and meeting. That is intimacy that makes life worthwhile. What helps me look without an image is awareness of image creating and having some ability to avoid images and relate real un-imaged me with real un-imaged other. It is an ability that I continue to foster.
On Dec 5, 2021 David Doane wrote :