[MD] Contradiction

[MarshaV]

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A couple of other quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti follow:

Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there 
is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And you 
cannot abandon everything without deep passion, can you? You cannot 
abandon everything intellectually or emotionally. There is total 
abandonment, surely, only when there is intense passion. Don't be 
alarmed by that word, because a man who is not passionate, who is not 
intense, can never understand or feel the quality of beauty. The mind 
that holds something in reserve, the mind that has a vested interest, 
the mind that clings to position, power, prestige, the mind that is 
respectable, which is a horror - such a mind can never abandon itself.

In the state of passion without a cause there is intensity free of 
all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, 
and attachment is the beginning of sorrow. Most uf us are attached, 
we cling to a person, to a country, to a belief, to an idea, and when 
the object of our attachment is taken away or otherwise loses its 
significance, we find ourselves empty, insufficient. This emptiness 
we try to fill by clinging to something else, which again becomes the 
object of our passion. Examine your own heart and mind. I am merely a 
mirror in which you are looking at yourself. If you don't want to 
look, that is quite all right; but if you do want to look, then look 
at yourself clearly, ruthlessly, with intensity - not in hope of 
dissolving your miseries, your anxieties, your sense of guilt, but in 
order to understand this extraordinary passion which always leads to 
sorrow. When passion has a cause it becomes lust. When there is 
passion for something - for a person, for an idea, for some kind of 
fulfillment - then out of that passion there comes contradiction, 
conflict, effort. You strive to achieve or maintain a particular 
state, or to recapture one that has been and is gone. But the passion 
of which I am speaking does not give rise to contradiction, conflict. 
It is totally unrelated to a cause, and therefore it is not an effect.