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"What is a chaste mind? The word 'chaste' means pure - I am quoting the dictionary, please don't jump on me - pure, clear, untouched, a mind that has not been through conflict, it is an innocent mind. I am using that word - please bear with me, I am describing what that word 'chaste' means. You may not accept the meaning of that word, but I am using the meaning from the dictionary - clean, a chaste mountain, the snow is fresh, chaste, untouched. I think we ought to talk about that rather than the mind that is caught up in sexual desires and all that.
Chaste also means a mind that is really innocent. The word 'innocent'
means a mind that has not been hurt. The root meaning of the word
'innocent' means not capable of being hurt. Right? Is there such a mind?
Wait, sir. Wait. Is there such a mind that is incapable of being hurt,
and therefore chaste, and therefore clean - in the ordinary sense of
that word?"
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"Don't try. Don't try, don't try to exert will, just - sir, do you know
the art of listening? Just to listen, not interpret or translate what he
is saying - just to listen to the music without the romance, without
the association, without all that, just you listen to that lovely sound.
In the same way, if you can listen, not try, just listen, which doesn't
mean you accept, you deny, you agree, you this, or that. Just the art
of listening, sir, as the art of seeing."
...
" But we never put the question without wanting an answer, but just to see what the question does. You have understood, sir?"
(|)-Krishnamurti on Chastity.
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