J. Krishnamuti was a great Indian philosopher and sage. The excerpt above is from his dialogues with Satish Kumar, as archived in 'You Are, Therefore I Am.'
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the need to go much deeper than religion or politics to arrive at how we participate in our own conditioning? Can you share a personal story of a time you were able to go beyond your own prejudice, no matter how noble it felt, and be in relationship? What helps you see beyond division and arrive at wholeness?
In the aloneness and silence and erasing the ego completely and going deep within to my inner being I am able to be at peace within myself and accept who I am . It is then I understand that I am whole ..
I love what Krisnamurti wrote in this essay. Religion and politics have gotten very caught up in dualistic separatist thinking, so we need to get beyond where they are to get to unitive thinking, to realize that everything is related and we really are cocreators in our own conditioning, and until we realize that the best we’ll get to is to blame religion and politics and paint ourselves to be victims of them. I was full of certitude and arrogance regarding the religion I was born into, and I guess I had enough open mindedness to I hope see what is. Openness and good fortune help me see beyond. Wholeness and truth are satisfying and are their own reward.
This is a beautiful passage. Really resonate with the statement "Meditation is a process of healing the wounds of fragmentation". Indeed, our life's work is to 'stay with' our fragmentation and move beyond it, so that wholeness emerges on it own, unasked.
When the ego is still and silent, eco emerges. Only nature remains. There is nothing else.