Understanding" is not an intellectual, an emotional, or a passing
thing. It is something that comes with action, and therefore it is a
complete understanding and not a partial understanding. In
understanding oneself, one's consciousness and its content--for
there is no consciousness without content--one sees there are two
principal factors: pleasure and fear. They cannot be separated.
Where there is the pursuit of, the insistence on, and the demand for
pleasure, there must be in its wake fear. In understanding fear, one
must not disregard the fact of pleasure.
--J. Krishnamurti
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Understanding, according to Krishnamurti, demands the perception of what is without any interpretation. This understanding refers only to psychological states, where, according to him, there is no becoming; so one cannot say that one has understood or got enlightenment.
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