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The difference between Being in communication and Being in Communion - J.Krishnamurti
There
is, I think, a great deal of difference between communication and
communion. In communication there is a sharing of ideas through words,
pleasant or unpleasant, through symbols, through gestures; and ideas can
be translated ideologically, or interpreted according to one's own
peculiarities, idiosyncrasies and background. But in communion I think
there is something quite different taking place. In communion there is
no sharing or interpretation of ideas. You may or may not be
communicating through words, but you are directly in relationship with
that which you are observing; and you are communing with your own mind,
with your own heart. One may commune with a tree, for example, or with a
mountain, or a river. I do not know if you have ever sat beneath a
tree and really tried to commune with it. It is not sentimentality, it
is not emotionalism: you are directly in contact with the tree. There
is an extraordinary intimacy of
relationship. In such communion there must be silence, there must be a
deep sense of quietness; your nerves, your body are at rest; the heart
itself almost comes to a stop. There is no interpretation, there is no
communication, no sharing. The tree is not you, nor are you identified
with the tree: there is only this sense of intimacy in a great depth of
silence. I do not know if you have ever tried it. Try it sometime -
when your mind is not chattering, not wandering all over the place, when
you are not soliloquizing, when you are not remembering the things that
have been done or that must be done. Forgetting all that, just try
communing with a mountain, with a stream, with a person, with a tree,
with the very movement of life. That demands an astonishing sense of
stillness, and a peculiar attention - not concentration, but an
attention which comes with ease, with pleasure.K
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