…From
childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school,
we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How
to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully.
Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does
chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with
problems—the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains
are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From
childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in
problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more
problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live
with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that
problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained,
educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in
problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the
free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems.
It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time.
Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we
are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face
problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve
them, the brain must be free.
J. Krishnamurti/That Benediction is Where You Are, pp 18-19
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