More wise words from Krishnamurti, which arrived in my in-tray this morning. "Must" and "must not" are two of the building blocks of our monotheistic religions, emphasising their binary nature: heaven/hell, saved/damned, etc.
"The very first thing to do, if I may suggest it, is to find out why you
are thinking in a certain way, and why you are feeling in a certain
manner. Don’t try to alter it, don’t try to analyze your thoughts and
your emotions; but become conscious of why you are thinking in a
particular groove and from what motive you act. Although you can
discover the motive through analysis, although you may find out
something through analysis, it will not be real; it will be real only
when you are intensely aware at the moment of the functioning of your
thought and emotion; then you will see their extraordinary subtlety,
their fine delicacy. So long as you have a “must” and a “must not,” in
this compulsion you will never discover that swift wandering of thought
and emotion. And I am sure you have been brought up in the school of
“must” and “must not” and hence you have destroyed thought and feeling.
You have been bound and crippled by systems, methods, by your teachers.
So leave all those “must” and “must nots.” This does not mean that there
shall be licentiousness, but become aware of a mind that is ever
saying, “I must,” and “I must not.” Then as a flower blossoms forth of a
morning, so intelligence happens, is there, functioning, creating
comprehension"...
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