Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is intelligence innate?

Does thought see the truth of conflict, of division, and all the rest of it?

Or is it the quality of mind that sees the fact and is completely quiet with the fact?

Completely silent.

Not trying to go beyond it, to overcome it or to change it.

but is completely still with the fact.

It is that stillness that is intelligence.

Intelligence is not thought.

Intelligence is this silence and is therefore totally impersonal.

It does not belong to any group, to any person, to any race, to any culture.

So my mind has found that there is a silence, not something put together by thought or discipline or practice, but a seeing that thought cannot possibly go beyond itself because thought is a result of the past.

And where the past is functioning, it must create division and therefore conflicts.

Can one see that and remain still with it?

It is like being completely still with sorrow.

When somebody dies for whom you care, whom you have looked after, cherished, loved and been concerned with, there is the shock of loneliness, of despair,

a sense of isolation.

Everything falls around you.

Can one remain with that sorrow, not seeking explanations and the cause, thinking, why did they go and not I?

to remain completely still with it is intelligence that intelligence can then operate in thought using knowledge and that knowledge and thought will not create division

So the question arises, how is the mind, your mind, which is endlessly chattering, endlessly bourgeois, caught in a trap, struggling,