“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
–Lyndon Johnson

it’s rare that i feel moved to comment on the political arena, but with the recent climate being what it is, and the fact that many of my friends have expressed feelings of frustration and even fear about the results of the recent election, i wanted to share some thoughts from krishnamurti that i found very inspiring.

as some may know, my personal transformations over the last few years have led me to examine the inner workings of this thing we call “the mind” with a fervor that hard to express articulately. krishnamurti said “truth is a pathless land”, and as i dig around in the primal soup of my own thoughts, dreams, and fears, the more i recognize the truth in that – that no one outside of me has my answers for me.

each of us has a “truth evaluator”, an inner architect that shapes and guides our lives. like any computer program, we input, process, and output – day in and day out. over the next four years, you might hear language that suggests others can do your processing better than you, that others can evaluate your truth for you. i urge you: do not believe them.

the landscape of language is the new “war on …”, the latest battleground, and your adversaries may come from where you least expect them. do not outsource your mind! please, put their statements and mine through your OWN truth evaluator. it is online for each of us, every moment of every day. all you need do is listen to your self – and trust. do not lose your faith in your SELF.

to humbly paraphrase my esteemed teacher’s philosophy and teaching: “go deep. get still. listen.”

if you are happy with the results of the election, and feel that our president represents you, i am happy for you and hope you find what you seek in his work. but if, like me, you feel misrepresented and unsure about the next four years, i offer this, from Krishnamurti’s Book of Life Daily Meditations:

Reformers, political, social, and religious, will only cause more sorrow for man unless man understands the workings of his own mind. In the understanding of the total process of the mind, there is a radical, inward revolution, and from that inward revolution springs the action of true cooperation, which is not cooperation with a pattern, with authority, with somebody who “knows.” When you know how to co-operate because there is this inward revolution, then you will also know when not to cooperate, which is really very important, perhaps more important. We now cooperate with any person who offers a reform, a change, which only perpetuates conflict and misery, but if we can know what it is to have the spirit of cooperation that comes into being with the understanding of the total process of the mind and in which there is freedom from the self, then there is a possibility of creating a new civilization, a totally different world in which there is no acquisitiveness, no envy, no comparison. This is not a theoretical utopia but the actual state of the mind that is constantly inquiring and pursuing that which is true and blessed.

ever onward.